Welcoming the new year, I’m having a look at a calendar that was purchased by one of my co-workers for this new year. Happy holidays everyone!!

Cooler Master has been perennial contender for the “top dawg” award in CPU heatsinks for as long as I can remember. The V8 is another “by request” unboxing, and I have to confess I know nothing about its performance, but I’m very impressed by the overall fit & finish of this unit, as well as the appearance. Cooler Master really put those finishing touches on it to set it apart from the crowd.

Today I have a look at a bit of an unusual product from Razer. Normally they go for more of a claw-grip style of mouse with an ambidextrous design, but we’re seeing a bit more of a deviation from that tried and true formula with products like the Mamba and now the Imperator. This is a palm style, right handed ergonomic mouse that feels very comfortable even when compared to the Ikari Laser (imo the king of ergo mice).

This fan is silent AND deadly. It’s a 140mm fan that fits into a 120mm mounting spot. That means that you get to spin at even lower RPM than traditional 120mm fans, move a ton of air, and you don’t have to get a new case that supports 140mm fans!

Today I do a quick unboxing of the Corsair Flash Voyager USB thumb drive. It falls somewhere in the middle of the pack in terms of read and write speeds, but the main marketing bullet point is that it’s extremely rugged and durable. Obviously it’s not quite as indestructible as the Survivor but it still holds its own.

The X6 has some pretty unique features including the way it handles macros, the way you can detach the number pad and put it on the right if you’re a south paw, and the way it lights up the WASD keys (oh wait, that one’s not that unique). But seriously this keyboard looks really good, and for the price it’s a unique value in the market.

Much like the other Indilinx based SSDs out there, the G.Skill Falcon II series drives are top performers and a great value compared to the other solutions on the market.

Today I have a look at another part of ASUS’ new P55 lineup featuring USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s. This is a fully featured board including 16+3 phase power (which somehow equals 24 phase power) as well as support for SLI and Crossfire.

Here it is! As requested, I’ve finally started unboxing some of the new AMD boards that feature USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s. This is Gigabyte’s flagship AM3 board right now and it comes with all of the bells and whistles. Sorry the video is a bit long, but there’s a lot to cover.

This product comes along at kinda a weird time given that it works based on the USB 2.0 standard rather than the newer, faster, better USB 3.0 standard, but that doesn’t make it any less interesting. I’ve always found it very frustrating that you can’t simply plug your laptop into your desktop via USB and just drag and drop files between them, but now you can! You can also share an optical drive which could be a HUGE boon for netbook users who only use an optical drive to install software once in a blue moon.