Quote: "The KANA falls in to the middile category, classified by Steelseries as “the middle child” the KANA fills a void often left in the market for high end business users and casuial gamers. Not every office worker needs 7-20 buttons, not every gamer needs buttons everywhere when just a few extra will suffice for the casuial gamer, the KANA with 6 buttons and easy to use UI is poised to fill this gap."

Quote: "On first inspection I notice that they look undeniably like the Dr. Dre’s Monster Beats brand which they do but can they match the sound quality, but having said that lets hope they beat (excuse the pun) the build quality as my own set of beats lasted 2 months before the headband just cracked and broke… "

Quote: "Over the years I have had many CPU coolers go through my hands some good, some not so good, some so flimsy just installing them almost destroyed them, some so bulky and heavy I had to make a prop to prevent one snapping a board."

Quote: "This year’s Gadget Show Live has gotten off to a flying start at the Birmingham NEC with last year’s attendees exceeding 100,000 organisers are anticipating even larger visitor numbers this year, and with over 100 companies exhibiting at this year’s show there is certainly stuff to see."

Quote: " Although laptop technology has improved dramatically over the last decade heat continues to be a problem for many laptops to cope with. Heat build-up in a laptop (as in any device) Can degrade both performance of the device and longevity of its components, and in laptops and notebook form factors can seriously effect battery life and processor and GPU capabilities degrading speed of operation and physically damaging components."

Quote: "Steelseries has a vast array of MMO and Game orientated mice on the market with this latest MMO offering being geared towards players and fans of WoW with a custom UI and paintjob the WoW Legendary edition aims high in terms of features and customization. So let’s see how well this offering from Steelseries performs."

Quote: "Today at XtremeComputing we are reviewing the Evolution Mid-Tower Case, from Cougar. Cougar are a brand I’ve not personally heard of, so let’s find out a bit more about them."

Quote: "Fans may not be the most exciting component in your new PC, however they do make a lot of difference in terms of performance, noise and enjoyability – it’s hard to enjoy a film (or game) if all you can hear is the whirling of wind turbines, when the film (or game) in question has nothing to do with planes"

Quote: "The Simraceway aims to provide the most comprehensive game control experience on the market today, quite the task when you consider the competition includes simple wheels to all in one racing chairs. So let’s have a closer look and see how this pretender to the throne of racing wheels shapes up."

Quote: "Today I’ll be reviewing the BitFenix Raider ATX case. BitFenix has only been around a couple of years now, but has been churning out many great cases (such as the Colossus or Shinobi) at a frequent rate. This case is a mid-tower, in comparison so some of its bigger brothers, however I have high hopes that it will still meet the expectations of the BitFenix name. Let’s see how it fairs in the review"

Quote: " Today I will be reviewing the Arctic Accelero XTREME Plus II. This is a Graphics Card heatsink-cooler designed to cool even the hottest of cards – including my own Inno3D GTX580 OC, whilst remaining reasonably quiet."

Quote: " Today I am taking a look at Xebec Tech’s new wireless keyboard, wireless technology has come a long way in the last couple of years and Xebec Tech want a slice of that market and have released the iTouchPad diamond, a wireless portable keyboard and touch mouse."

Quote: " Here at xtreme we are no strangers of the Steelseries range of keyboards, mice and headphones so when we discovered that they had made a gaming branded 5Hv2 Limited edition headset, we decided we should have a look."

Quote: "Gelid are another name on a list of companies who seemily have come out of no-where, but quickly raised to the top. Gelid have been around for nearly 4 years, and unlike many new companies in this industry, haven’t attempted to enter too many markets at once, rather focusing purely on HSF’s for CPU’s & GPU’s, Fans and Thermal Interface Material (TIM)."

With Driving Simulators and games becoming more and more popular, we at XtremeComputing thought there is no time than the present than to start looking at products relating to the racing world, before we started out this process I thought It would be best to start of looking at these sort of products with a review of a steering wheel support stand.

Well by now you all know who ZOTAC are as they have built up a decent reputation over the last couple of years, most of you know ZOTAC for their graphics cards and mini ITX motherboards, but more recently they have been coming to the market with barebones style systems based on the latest CPU’s from Intel (ION) and now AMD (E350-APU) platform, which brings me to the product we will be reviewing today.

The original Level 10 went down well worldwide (and my editor actually used one in his recent M-Power mod – click here for more info), so the Level 10 GT should hopefully be even better! The only complaint that most users had of the original Level 10, was the lack of space – the GT is here to address that.

Having tested Steelseries Ikari mouse sometime last year, we at xtreme where really interested to receive Steelseries XAI pro laser gaming mouse to see if it lives up to the standards we have come to expect from Steelseries.. 

BitFenix is a fairly new brand when it comes to the world of cases, however already it is well known for gamer/enthusiast focused quality cases such as the BitFenix Colossus which has been highly rated by buyers. Today I will be reviewing the latest mid-tower case; the BitFenix Shinobi.

This all started one day when I spotted the thermaltake level 10 case sitting at show, I thought wow that looks very unique. I had been planning for a little while to do a car themed mod and with the level 10 being designed by one of BMW’s design houses, I thought now was a good a time as any to actually do a BMW 3 series Mpower theme, so the concept was born. Now bear in mind this concept started way back last year.

Thermaltake is a brand that has been around for many years, and one we’re very familiar with at XtremeComputing. Today I will be reviewing the Thermaltake Chaser MK-I, one of Thermaltake’s latest gaming-ATX cases.

Today I will be reviewing the Larkooler KU3-241 ‘Extreme Performance G1/4" Liquid Cooling Kit’. I have never heard of GBU or Larkooler before, so we are in unchartered waters with this new water cooling kit. I have dabbled with water-cooling before, primarily working with Swiftech components, so I know what to expect from the big names – let’s see how this new contender fares.

Today I will be taking a look a product from the AC Ryan brand, The PlayOn HD2 1TB, the updated version of the already popular PlayOn HD. These media devices should play just about every file format that you would use and do it well, so let us get on with the review and find out if it does what it says on the box shall we.

Today I will be reviewing the In Win Dragon Rider, a full tower chassis with the same stylings as the Dragon Slayer case we reviewed recently. In Win is not the most well known brand, at least amongst UK enthusiasts, however with the ambitions and working ethic that In Win have set out, I am looking forward to reviewing their latest PC case.

Quote: "In this review I’ll be taking a look at a really interesting set of Gaming headgear and by this I mean a headset that can be used with across three different gaming platforms called the X-TATIC SP. Sharkoon have came up with this unique headset knowing that the gaming market is ever growing, so they have created a headset that can be used with all the gaming machines out there, PC, Playstation 3 and the XBOX, simple but ingenious."