The new Enermax cooler brings several new solutions to the cooling market. But will they work the way they are supposed to and which one of them will be the most useful for the users ?

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<p><span style="font-size: small;">Not every user out there needs a power supply unit capable of handling an overclocked system with a pair of high-end graphics cards inside. A mainstream system will be OK with a 400-500 W PSU, if it is designed correctly and is of quality manufacture. Today we are going to discuss several products like this.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cases/display/psu-400w-520w.html">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>

We will talk about the mainstream and entry-level AMD FX CPU modifications based on Bulldozer microarchitecture and featuring eight-, six- and four-core design.

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<p><span style="font-size: small;">A lot of our case reviews lately have been for enclosures that hover around the $99 price point and then range below. The big, expensive ones are exciting and ultimately many of them are definitely worth your hard earned money, but what about the friend who's on an extreme budget? What if <em>you're</em> on an extreme budget? The case is often one of the easiest and safest places to cut money out of the cost of a custom build, and BitFenix has been diligently serving the cash-strapped for a while now. Today we have on hand the new Outlaw, and we'll show you just how much case you can get for fifty bucks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/5224/bitfenix-outlaw-when-inexpensive-doesnt-mean-cheap">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: small;"> At AMD&rsquo;s Fusion Developer Summit 2011 </span><span style="font-size: small;">AMD announced Graphics Core Next</span><span style="font-size: small;">, their next-generation GPU architecture. GCN would be AMD&rsquo;s Fermi moment, where AMD got serious about GPU computing and finally built an architecture that would serve as both a graphics workhorse and a computing workhorse. With the ever increasing costs of high-end GPU development it&rsquo;s not enough to merely develop graphics GPUs, GPU developers must expand into GPU computing in order to capture the market share they need to live well into the future.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> At the same time, by canceling their 32nm process TSMC has directed a lot of hype about future GPU development onto the 28nm process, where the next generation of GPUs would be developed. In an industry accustomed to rapid change and even more rapid improvement never before have GPU developers and their buyers had to wait a full 2 years for a new fabrication process to come online.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"> All of this has lead to a perfect storm of anticipation for what has become the Radeon HD 7970: not only is it the first video card based on a 28nm GPU, but it&rsquo;s the first member of the Southern Islands and by extension the first video card to implement GCN. As a result the Radeon HD 7970 has a tough job to fill, as a gaming card it not only needs to deliver the next-generation performance gamers expect, but as the first GCN part it needs to prove that AMD&rsquo;s GCN architecture is going to make them a competitor in the GPU computing space. Can the 7970 do all of these things and live up to the anticipation ?<br /> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/5261/amd-radeon-hd-7970-review">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>