XPS 730 H2C revs up

HOTHARDWARE HAS A MASSIVE gaming machine that’ll make most gamers drool over - the Dell XPS 730 H2C. It’s an oh-so-powerful machine with dual-dual graphics cards under its bonnet and an extremely expensive CPU to power it all. Sure, you might be disappointed with “just” 2GB of DDR3 RAM, but that’s about the weakest link in the whole setup. Lest we forget, the XPS 730 ships with an integrated watercooling system. Its godlike features did leave an impression on the review crew (and wallet). Catch it here.

The Lenovo M57p Eco ultra small computer has some nifty entrails, but is lacking in the “looks” department. The Eco in the name purports to its EPEAT Gold and GreenGuard Air Emissions Quality certifications. The fact that its running an E8400 and drawing just 74W at load is simply jawdropping. Although Lenovo has cut the umbilical cord with the original IBM designs, here’s an article to prove that they Big Red has something up its sleeve.

Sparkle is very much alive and kicking – and they’ve just launched a new 9600GT that InsideHW was nice enough to review for everyone to read. The Sparkle Calibre 9600GT comes factory OC’d at 700MHz (a popular choice with this GeForce chip), and performs as you’d expect. The price doesn’t seem too steep for an OC’d 9600GT, although Nebojsa does think so. Read about it here.

OCC is testing ThermalTake’s new VH6000BWS Armor+ case. This big box is targeting quad-core graphics and extreme cooling requirements, although the latt er is mostly a DIY job - you can pull out the HDD cages to install additional cooling, for example, but you'll have to setup your own coolers. Apart from the biggie 230mm fan, Thermaltake has left a lot of fan mounting points free for you to do as you will –keep the price lower in the process. Solid stuff, it seems. Read it here.

Hilbert is laying his hands on BFG’s latest PSU, the ES Series 800watter. It’s a sensible PSU if there is such a thing – throwing LEDs and modularity out the window – and sticking to the basics: power and performance. By the end of the review, Hilbert is really raving about how good a thing BFG has. It takes quite a bit to achieve this... clicketh here, my son.

If you’re into heavy Torrenting this review is for you. Custom PC is testing the Emprex NSD-100 P2P Download Engine. At a paltry £45.81, this little engine can manage up to 20 torrents while you get your beauty sleep. It’s downside is really not having an integrated HD or NAS feature, but you can plug an external HD to it. Simple enough, it seems, but there’s better out there, thinks Kevin. Read on.