I'm running pretty late again today.  It's a good thing there's not much going on in the news bucket this morning.

Tech Power Up gets things rolling along this morning as they show off the Sapphire HD 3870 Toxic. 

OCIA shows off the Thermaltake M9 Mid-Tower case.

Driver's Heaven has a look at the OCZ Vendetta and Freeze Thermal Paste.  And they manage to do it without the roll-over popup ads.

Tweaktown's got next.  Stop on over and have a closer look at the sweet-fast MSI GeForce N9600GT OC Graphics Card they've got on the bench.

The cooler! I have to talk about the cooler because when I saw it, the thing really did nothing for me. When we tested it though, the thing performed like an absolute champion; not only was it able to cool better than the aftermarket option that Galaxy used, but it also came in with some great noise levels.

Think Computers keeps us rollin.  Check out the Kingston HyperX DDR3 1625 2GB Memory Kit.

If that's not quick enough for ya, ASE Labs has the Crucial Ballistix 2GB PC3-12800 kit up on the block.

The P5E3 that I'm using costs $350 itself. DDR3 is very expensive, but the industry is heading there. I would say wait a month or so and grab these modules when they drop in price. If you absolutely need DDR3, the Crucial Ballistix PC3-12800 should be on the top of your list. I don't envy people that are doing a new build for an Intel computer right now. It is a tough decision to stay with DDR2 or move to DDR3 for future upgradability.

If you decided (like me) to stick with DDR2 until the price comes down a bit on DDR3, have a look at HotHardware and the ASUS Striker II Formula nForce 780i Motherboard.

Bit-Tech also gets to check out the GeForce 9600GT OC -- this one, from BFGTech.

For out-and-out gamers, I have no problem recommending BFGTech’s GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB graphics card – it delivers strong performance at a good price point for those that cannot afford to stretch to £140 for a GeForce 8800 GT. The ten year warranty is also a good peace of mind if you’re planning to use the card as a family (or even a personal) hand-me-down, where it makes its way into older systems as and when you upgrade your main machine.

Moving right on along, Benchmark Reviews checks out the Diamond Viper ATI Radeon HD 3870.

There's a bunch of folks at work that are looking for HDD enclosures, and after checking the review for the Thermaltake Max 4 Active Cooling HDD Enclosure, this looks like a good one.

How about the Auras CTC-868 Heatsink over at Frosty Tech?

The 3d Game Man checks out the CoolIT PURE Liquid CPU Cooler.

I've got a neat one to close things up this morning. Check out Bjorn3d and the WinFast Leadtek PxDTV2300H.

I'm running pretty late again today.  It's a good thing there's not much going on in the news bucket this morning.

First up, we've got Madshrimps as they take a look at an AMD HD3870 512mb Roundup, comparing Club3d and HIS.

For the overclockers among us the extra cooling might come in handy, by overclocking our HIS sample we could gain yet another few percent performance and overall you should be able to get around 10% extra performance compared to the reference clocked ATI samples. This might require a BIOS upgrade; older HD3870's have some kind of bug inside the BIOS which blocks them for being clocked over 850MHz. This still doesn't make the HD3870 as fast as the 8800GT, but every bits help right.

R&B Mods has got next, as they show off the ASUS 8800GS TOP Video Card.

Looking at the results you might wonder why you should get this card? It's simple actually, you get this card for your HTPC or if you can't afford a better one. It performs decent there is no doubt about it even though it performs worse than the GT card, although that was expected early.

Overclock 3d Keeps us rolling along as they show off the ASUS P5E3 Premium X48 DDR3 Motherboard.

Not only does the P5E3 Premium feature a BIOS that allows you to fine tune the most intricate of MCH, NB and CPU settings, but the range of voltage options and the ability to simply key in your desired setting gives the P5E3 Premium possibly the best BIOS that Asus have released to date. This has certainly paid off too, with the P5E3 Premium being able to take our stubborn Intel Q6600 chip all the way up to 3.75ghz and effortlessly hit 520FSB on a QX9650.

Overclocker's Club starts up their last day of Cebit coverage.

Meanwhile, Techware Labs checks out Megacon.

Each year MegaCon draws out the most interesting of individuals. These highly dressed up people are drawn to megaCon like moths to a flame and with the amount of makeup and hairspray at the show thats all it would take to set the entire place instantly on fire.

I guess interesting is a good, politically correct word to use there. :)

Tweaktown takes a look at Quad GPUs.

The HD 3870 X2 is a good card, but it’s nothing more than two HD 3870s. The 9800GX2 will probably be a good card as well, but it looks to be nothing more than a pair of 8800s put together. We’re probably also going to run into the same problems that we generally see with these cards as well. If the game can’t make use of multi-GPU technology it’s going to see no gains.

We love new graphics cards and they keep me in a job, but we need advancements in single GPU technology. If it means we have to wait four months for a new graphics card instead of two, then so be it!