We've reviewed quite a few Noctua products here in our time, and they're one of my favorite companies actually, and for good reason, they make quality products that perform very well. I'm running a Cooler Master Black Label PC case, and I've swapped all of the fans out for Noctua fans, the reason being is that they're quiet and they perform well.

Today for review I've got another 120mm fan entry from Noctua, it's called the NF-S12B FLX, the FLX meaning flex, or that it can be run at variable speeds. I've put the NF-S12B FLX up against several other fans I've got on hand, including Noctua ones, and it performs admirably well.

Kingston recently introduced the HyperX Fan to compliment their HyperX line of ram, but it can be purchased separately for use with any ram, and they were kind enough to send one over for review. Normally this kind of thing is not very useful really, in my experience with ram coolers they tend not to work very well, but the HyperX Fan is truly an exception. The HyperX Fan works, and works very well, it's easy to install and the bright blue LEDs will add a bit of color to your case. So read on to check it out and learn just how well it performs...

Today I figured why not take a look at another Thermaltake product, this time it's a fan, while it might not be as exciting as the BlacX I looked at yesterday, it's still a good product. The fan is a new design by Thermaltake, they took cues from other companies and basically re-designed this fan from the ground up. It's called the ISGC 12, and it features a unique fan blade design to keep things quiet but yet promotes good airflow, it also features an in-line speed controller and comes with silicone fasteners to further keep things quiet. I've put the ISGC up against three other fans I've got on hand for comparison, so read on to see how the Thermaltake stacks up...

Last week I took a look at the Kingwin EZ-Dock2, and I found it to be a decent product overall but it had one fault where it didn't support to the hard drives very well, other than that it's a good little product. Today for review I've got another HDD dock, the BlacX from Thermaltake. The BlacX supports both 2.5” and 3.5” SATA drives and features both USB and eSATA interfaces, in my time with I found it to be a great choice if you're in the market for an HDD dock. So read on to learn more...

Today for review I've got a product that I'm not so sure about... It's of The Core Cord Organizer from CableOrganizer.com, and while it might be a useful little gadget, I still think it's a relatively pointless one. On the other hand, there might be people out there who have a use for it and think that it's a great product. For what it is it works as it should, but meh, I don't know, it's one of those products that is just there, one of those ones that I really don't think we need...

Does your PC sounds like a Boeing Jet? Then today’s review item should definitely pique your interest. NZXT, one of the best PC case designers around were kind enough to provide Dragonsteelmods with three of their premier PC cases. Previously I reviewed the Zero 2, today I will be looking at case number two – the NZXT Whisper. This full tower steel case is designed with silence in mind. It features 10mm noise dampening foam pads, rubber grommets for the hard drives and a padded PSU holder. Obviously, all this is done with silence in mind.

Besides being very quiet, the Whisper case also provides maximum room for expansion. In addition it has room for nine hard drives and six 5.25” bays. Silent operation and roominess are not the only features of the Whisper; NZXT also threw in plenty of cooling with four fans. Two 120 mm and two 80 mm fans will help keep the system running cool and quiet.

So lets listen and see if the NZXT Whisper lives up to its name.

There's a plethora of choices when I comes to bluetooth headsets, with more being added on a monthly basis to those choices. The new laws in many areas that have been enacted have forced consumers to go handsfree and that means big money for headset makers so it seems everyone is jumping on the bandwagon for their piece of the pie. Is this a good or bad thing though? That depends on how you look at it, in some it's good for the consumer as it brings rise to competition and therefore lower prices in the long run, but th bad part about it is with so many of them, not all of them are good and worth your money.

Today for review I've got the BlueAnt X3 Micro Bluetooth headset, and it's from our friends at The Wireless Boys. The X3 micro has a few nice features, including and most importantly, it is lightweight, for me that's a very important factor. It also has a 7 hour talk time, along with a 180 hour standby time and it includes both an AC adapter and a car charger. Being lightweight and looking good are not much if the headset doesn't perform though, so continue on to learn more...

Hard drive docking bays have become relatively popular because they are a simple and useful product, but with so many out there, companies need a way to make theirs stand out from the rest.

Late last year I took a look at the Kingwin EZ-Dock, it was one of the first HDD docking stations on the market and Kingwin has since come out with a new model the EZ-Dock2 that they've sent over for review. The EZ-Dock2 is a dual bay dock, meaning you can use two SATA hard drives with it, 2.5” or 3.5” or a mixture of both. It also has the ability to let the user configure RAID for the drives in the dock, either JBOD or Big/Spanned, all done via the USB connection. So read on to learn more...

As a user of both PCs and Macs on a daily basis I have found each platform’s OS to have certain advantages over one another. One area where OS X Tiger beats Windows XP and Vista is in the backup software department. Apple’s Time Machine has become the gold standard against which all other backup solutions are measured. The true beauty of Time Machine is that a neophyte Mac user can plug in a USB external hard drive, click one button and now their entire system will be backed up. Restoring files is just as simple. In the past Windows solutions were designed more for the experienced or power PC user than the average Windows user such as Mom, Dad and the kids.

This last statement was true until now. A company called Rebit has released a slew of products that perform similar plug and backup capabilities found in OS X Tiger’s Time Machine. In fact Rebit touts via their promotional material that Rebit PC Backup solutions have been called Time Machine for Windows, Time Machine for XP, and Time Machine for Vista.

Today I will be looking at the Rebit Muli-PC software package. The Multi-PC version allows the user to back up to six PCs. If you only need to back up a single machine, they do offer a Single-PC version. Rebit also offers “appliances” which are either 2.5” or 3.5” hard drives with the software preinstalled. With the software package, you need to install it onto your own external hard drive, but in principal it functions the same as the appliance.

So let’s get started!

Videocards are something that have always kind of annoyed me, it seems they're always releasing a new one, technology that was hot a few months ago is now obsolete. Then again, that's the way it is with most technology so I'm not sure why it surprises me, but it, the upgrades, just seems to go much faster with video cards.

Today for review I've got the Diamond ATI Radeon 4870 1gig video card. As you can see be the name it features 1 gig of ram, so I figured why not make this more of a comparison review as in how much performance do you gain when going from 512mb to 1gig of ram. So I put my Sapphire 4870 512mb card up against the Diamond, both are running the same core and memory speeds, so they're pretty much the same cards except for the on board ram they have. So read one to find out if it's worth it to grab the 1gig over the 512mb version card...

One of the first products that I ever reviewed for Dragonsteelmods was a laptop stand. For today’s review I have come full circle as I am going to discuss a novel product from a company called lightlaptopstands.com called the Latosta Portable Laptop Stand. It is designed to passive cool your machine while providing an ergonomic angle to work at in a truly portable form. This is a simple product that falls under the “why didn’t I think of that” category.

Basically the product is comprised of two simple metal brackets that slide onto each side of the laptop and elevates the back of the machine off the work surface. Imagine the flip down tabs on the back of desktop keyboards; that is the mechanism at work with this product.

According to its creator – Alan Starner his impetus for designing this product was the lack of truly portability in portable laptop stands. Well the Latosta Portable Laptop Stand couldn’t be any more portable! Let’s take a closer look.

Today for review I've got a good looking and rather large CPU cooler, the Thermaltake Duo Orb. Having such a large cooler in your system is nice as it works well, but being so large I had to remove my 120mm exhaust fan for it to fit in my case. The temps I got though are very good, read to see how it compared to several others I've got on hand...