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GrowUp Japan Artisan Mousepads

A replacement mouse pad is one of the cheapest ways to improve your gameplay experience in any game that makes use of the little rodent. Additionally, since the bar to entry for this market is so low, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different companies competing for your money. Today, we'll be looking at a range of offerings from a company that's relatively unknown outside of their home country, GrowUp Japan.

AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition

AMD is wringing every last drop of performance out of the current AM3 architecture, offering frequent speed bumps and price drops as they introduce CPUs that grow ever closer to the theoretical ideal of the Thuban design. Their latest shot across Intel's bow is the Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition. This six core monster aims at the high performance and gaming crowd. Is the Phenom 1100T worth a place at the center of your gaming rig? Read our review to find out.

Mvix Ultio Pro Media Center

Set-top media boxes are an area of hot competition right now, with dozens of companies competing to provide you the best the web has to offer at a relatively cheap price. Certainly not one to be left out of this game, Mvix has provided us with their current top-of-the-line HD Media Center box, the Ultio Pro 880-HD.

Seagate Momentus 640GB 2.5 Inch Hard Drive

For those who choose a laptop as their primary computer, storage space is an eternal problem. Between games, music, movies and pictures, the gigabytes can disappear before you know it. While this is true of any PC, notebooks have it doubly rough: they usually only have space for one drive, and that one has to fit the 2.5" form factor. Today, we'll be looking at one of Seagate's answers to this challenge, the Momentus 640GB.

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD

Today we will be looking at a most unusual beast, the Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD. The Sound Blaster name instantly brings up thoughts of gaming audio, and the X-Fi chip certainly provides the muscle for that. Take a look at the card itself though, and you could be forgiven for thinking that the designers could not have cared less about gaming. The box prominently features talk of SNR, THD, ASIO drivers and interchangeable op-amps—all the hallmarks of a music-oriented card. The designers at Creative have taken on an apparently impossible task: try to make a card that pleases gamers and audiophiles alike. The goal is a lofty one, and the price certainly reflects those sought-for heights. So, nothing for it but to hop off the cliff and see if this card rises to the heights, or plummets to the ground.

Sparkle Gold Class 850W PSU

Sparkle is mainly known for their video cards, and as we have seen, they tend to deliver. Power supplies might seem to be an odd place to branch off into at first, but it makes sense given that the graphics card is becoming one of the largest single power draws in a modern gaming system. Today, we'll be taking a look at a power supply that aims to be as far away from substandard as possible: Sparkle's Gold Class SCC-850AF. Let's see if that sparkle comes from the luster of the finish, or the fizzling sparks of dying circuitry.