The Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB hard drive is the industry’s first drive to support the new SATA 3.0 specification, which supports speeds up to 6Gb/s. We also have the SATA 6Gb/s ready, ASUS P7P55D-E Premium motherboard for benchmarking. Read on to see LR's first look at SATA 6Gb/s to see what it is all about!

Earlier this year ASRock surprised us with their M3A780GXH/128M motherboard. Today we look at that boards successor, the ASRock M3A785GXH/128M motherboard. The new board features an integrated Radeon HD 4200 with 128mb of DDR3 onboard. Is it enough to run FarCry 2? Hit the link to find out.

MAINGEAR recently launched the Shift computer series with the goal of bucking the trend of plastic, bloated, commodity PCs. Shift’s aluminum skin provides clean, elegant lines while housing a tank-like steel skeleton. Will Shift be enough to change things in the industry? Read on as we talk with the CTO of Maingear to see what they are up to!

Futuremark Games Studio will later today release their first ever PC game called Shattered Horizon. Shattered Horizon is a multiplayer first-person shooter that immerses you in the cold reality of zero-gravity combat in near-Earth space. The game uses FutureMark's very own DirectX 10 graphics engine with NVIDIA PhysX technology for a more realistic look and feel.

Sapphire has added their Vapor-X vapor chamber cooling technology to the Radeon HD 5870 series and has launched a doozy of a card today. Read on to see how this factory overclocked Radeon HD 5870 does with a superior cooling solution in place to keep the RV870 core nice and cool. You might just be surprised to see how well this card does!

The WD TV HD Media Player turns your NAS or external storage drive into an HD media player. Connect your USB hard drive to this device and you can instantly play crisp HD movies, listen to high-quality digital music, and watch slideshows of your family photos on your TV. No need to figure out complicated home networking or reconnect AV and power cables. What could be simpler?

The 4th generation Premium Wireless HTPC Media Center Keyboard with Laser Trackball from VidaBox comes with all the features of its previous models, and more! The most significant new addition is the 2000 dpi laser trackball that has been included for more precise, accurate control. Read on to see how this wireless HTPC media keyboard performs!

Last week on October 22, Unigine Corp. announced the release of the World's first true DirectX 11 benchmark "Heaven" that is based on its proprietary Unigine engine. This is fairly big news as we can finally get to see how DirectX 11 will look and run on the latest DirectX 11 graphics cards from AMD. Read on to see how the Radeon HD 5870, 5850, 5770 and 5750 do on this tough DX11 benchmark!

nMediaPC recently introduced the first retail Wooden HTPC Case! The classic looking HTPC 8000 case not only will meet your HTPC needs, with its smart internal design, it can easily meet most any gamer's expectations. It supports full ATX motherboard, ATX PSU and all full length video cards to boot.