INTEL'S NEXT top-of-the-range Core 2 Duo E8000-series will come clocked at clocked at 3.33GHz (10x333MHz), Here an engineering sample is overclocked to 4.57GHz.

The Toshiba A300D-125, dazzles you with good looks and keeps you from thinking about the specs. InsideHW has the scoop. The A300D-125 is the first lappie we’ve seen with an HD 3470, and for that alone you should give it a read.

Guru3D has had a go at OCZ’s Core SSD, which seems to be bringing down the pricing on the SSD market. Hilbert has a SSD-drives-101 part to introduce SSDs to his followers and then proceeds to thrashing the drive dramatically. Small writes seem to be the drive’s only Achilles’ Heel, but it’s a cheap drive ... for an SSD, that is. Get your review, right here.

Up-and-comer Gelid Solutions is challenging the CPU cooling heavyweights with a load of the GC-1 Thermal Compound. Mike at TweakTown got a syringe full of the new goop for testing and he did check out its virtues. No cure time, non-electricity conductive, apply and crank up the CPU. For an unknown brand, it made quite an impression at the lab. Availability is limited right now, tho’. Check it out, here.

The Socket Mobile (SoMo) 640 semi-rugged PDA is on test at Trusted Reviews here in Blighty. The PDA is offered as a rubberized, err... sorry.. *ruggedized* kit, targeted at that odd bunch that has to muck about with PDAs, in and out, on the job... But it isn’t fully rugged. It does have a decent feature set, and it’s zippy, but Stuart is finding it hard to recommend a device that runs you almost £400 *coff*... HP beware, here.

Driverheaven is having an encounter with the latest Alienware lappie, the M15x. Alienware is pretty much the gamer’s grail laptop-wise, but you always pay a premium for that kind of stuff. The M15x in particular isn’t *that* insanely price (but still expensive) but you get a X9000 Intel CPU with an 8800M GTX CPU/GPU combo which will let you run pretty much everything on the market. The test unit also came with a new “Ripley” cover design instead of the old “Skullcap” – an improvement if you ask us. Get your daily dose of gaming hardware, right there.

If you play FPSs then you’re likely to want to get some of these for your team. I4U gave the WolfkinTrooper MVP gaming mouse high praise on its 2400dpi laser specs. The mouse has a particular “Rapid Fire” switch (uncommon, these days) that will fire away and reload your weapon once your ammo is depleted – if you can master the technique. µ