Wow. We went everywhere today! And actually accomplished some good things. Umbrella strollers, shoes, spring jackets, umbrellas, and a couple of new bags for the kids for vacation, and I got a couple of new pairs of pants and a new mouse among other things. Plus between last night and tonight we’ve got our tickets booked for the aquarium and museum, as well as afternoon tea at the American Girl cafe. Yes, in case you were wondering, I have completely lost my mind. I’m going on vacation with my niece and her family to Chicago for four days. Three adults and three children, the oldest of whom is four, and me on crutches. It’ll be an adventure!

Futurelooks appropriately starts us off with A Guide To Going Green for Saint Patrick’s Day

Modders-Inc. goes inside the Silverstone Fortress FT02 Case

BCC Hardware counters with the Thermaltake Element Q ITX Case

PureOverclock chills out with the Thermaltake Contac 29 CPU Cooler

TrustedReviews checks out the Epson Stylus Office BX610FW – Inkjet All-in-One

Guru3D presents its MSI R5870 Lightning review – Graphics cards on Steroids

bit-tech takes on Flotilla

Bjorn3D examines the MSI R5770 HAWK

LanOC beats the heat with the Cooler Master Excalibur

TweakTown takes A Deep Dive Into QNAP NAS Software

Legit Reviews has a go at the Kingston 128GB SSDNow V Series SNV425-S2 Gen 2 SSD

TechRadar takes a look at the Viewsonic VG2427wm

InsideHW gets into some Kingston & Mushkin: High-speed DDR3 memory kits

techPowerUp gives a listen to some Sennheiser HD800

ThinkComputers shares its thoughts on the Antec CP-850 850W Power Supply

MadShrimps shows some creativity with Not Yet Another Core i7 980X Review – Overclocking With LN2

Finally, BigBruin gets its hands on the Seagate BlackArmor PS110 500GB USB 3.0 Portable Drive

Don’t you hate when you do that? The show was interesting the first couple of times, but then I got sick of having to pay attention and wrote a little program to loop the graphics I need to run instead of having to do them manually. Which is great, but now I’m bored. Never happy, huh? But at least I have work! On the whole, I have to say this one goes in the “win” column. There are worse things to have to watch for the weekend…for instance, I could’ve been stuck with basketball!

Xtreme Computing kicks it off with the akasa NeroS heatpipe CPU cooler

techPowerUp takes a look at the MSI HD 5870 Lightning

Top Review Shop goes inside the AZZA Helios 910R Case

TweakTown gets its hands on the Razer Imperator Gaming Mouse and Vespula Mouse Mat in a video review

Bjorn3D examines the Asus Maximus 3 Extreme

TechRadar weighs in on the Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition

OverClock Intelligence Agency sits down with the Logitech Speaker Lapdesk N700

iXBT Labs presents its 59 CPU Roundup

TweakPC takes on Assassin’s Creed II (PC) (please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation)

Hardware Secrets shares its thoughts on the OCZ Z Series 850 W Power Supply

Bona Fide Reviews hooks up with the Unitek USB 3.0 SATA HDD Docking Station (Y-1071)

Overclockers Online gets into the Axle GeForce G210 512MB

TrustedReviews focuses on the Samsung WB1000

Tech-Reviews beats the heat with the Coolink Lapchilla Laptop Cooler

And to finish us off, Motherboards.org sends us to its YouTube channel for the Intel Gulftown i7 980X Overclocked to 4.02GHz

I shan’t name any names to protect the ignorant, but I frequent this particular site which has message boards. This week, they “updated”. Mind you, they “updated” two years ago and there are still things that were broken then that have yet to be fixed by their IT team. The site is run by a corporation most of you have heard of…they have several websites as well as cable TV channels. Their IT department is probably the most incompetent I’ve yet run across, which is saying something. Anyway, they “updated”. Now, the only way to view the site is to log in. Every time you navigate away from the site you are automatically logged out. A login lasts approximately six clicks, and then you have to log in again. The only way to “fix” the problem is to log out, delete all cookies, clear the cache, then go back to log in, but instead of doing so, click on the “forgot your password” link so it is reset via email. Then you can stay logged in for sometimes as many as a dozen clicks without having to go through the whole process again. Ah…improvements. If only they were….

Futurelooks starts us off with the Intel Core i7-980XE Gulftown 6-Core 32nm Processor

Let’s see who else has reviewed the newest Intel creation:
Guru3D
Benchmark Reviews
Hardware Canucks
HardwareHeaven
hardCOREware
HotHardware
MBReview
TweakTown
Motherboards.org (via YouTube)
Motherboards.org (via its own site)
Hi Tech Legion
Hardware Secrets
Au-Ja
TweakNews
Bjorn3D
bit-tech
Legit Reviews

Whew! Now on to some other stuff…
bit-tech checks out the ASRock H55M Pro LGA1156 Motherboard

TechRadar pans the Chumby Classic

ThinkComputers weighs in on the Kingston SSDNow V-Series 30GB Solid State Boot Drive

TweakTown goes inside the Raidmax Skyline Windowed Mid-Tower Chassis

TweakPC examines some G.Skill PI 2200 CL7 F3-17600CL7D-4GBPIS Memory (please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation)

Pro-Clockers gets into the NZXT Hades Crafted Series Tower

Top Review Shop tries on a pair of Arctic Sound E361 Earphones

Hardware Secrets chills out with the Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler

PureOverclock takes a look at the PowerColor Radeon PCS+ 5830 1GB

And to close out this selection, TrustedReviews sits down with the Acer Aspire One 532h-2Dr – 10.1in Netbook

Just got my call this morning, and apparently I’m doing a show this weekend. Four performances in three days, doing what I normally do for hockey games for a monster truck thing. Should be interesting. Now to fill in the next couple of days with something other than sitting in front of the TV!

LanOC gets us going with the Gelid Solutions Tranquillo

DragonSteelMods goes inside the NZXT LEXA S Crafted Series PC Case

TweakTown checks out the Sapphire Radeon HD 5830 Video Card in CrossFire

High Tech Reviews gets into the Coolermaster USP100 Case

PureOverclock examines the ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 890GX

TrustedReviews sits down with the Acer Aspire 5942G-524G64Bn – 15.6in Laptop

bit-tech feeds your zombie needs with Necrovision: The Lost Company

Elite Bastards weighs in on the ASUS Maximus III Formula motherboard

Bjorn3D gets its hands on the Gigabyte KM7580: Keyboard and Mouse Combo

TechReviewSource goes in-depth with some 2009 Tax Preparation Software

CCE Reviews spends some time with the Brother HL-3070CW LED Printer

Pro-Clockers tests out the Coolermaster GX 750 Power Supply

XSReviews points and clicks the Steelseries Xai

TechwareLabs rocks the house with the EOS wireless loudspeaker system

And to close out this selection, Hardware Logic hooks up with the Kingston SSDNow V Series 30GB Boot Drive

I’ve pulled yet another disappearing act, sorry. There is family stuff going on that requires my presence out of town periodically for a few days at a time, but it should be getting better soon. My niece and her husband found out yesterday the three children they’ve been fostering since last April are officially going to be their adopted children, most likely by the end of the month! I couldn’t be more excited, since my niece is more like my little sister…she and I are closer in age than her mother and I. So while I apologize for my absence (again), I must say I was very happy to have been present for that particular phone call from the case worker!

Futurelooks starts us off with the MSI H55-GD65 Gamer Series LGA1156 ATX Motherboard

TweakTown spends some time with the Kingston HyperX PC3-17066 (2133MHz) 4GB Kit

Guru3D goes inside the VidaBox vCase3 Premium mATX HTPC chassis

Bjorn3D checks out the ASUS TUF SaberTooth 55i

TechRadar takes a look at the Philips BDP7500

bit-tech takes on Napoleon: Total War

Motherboards.org sits down with the Kingston 128GB V Series Notebook Upgrade Kit

OverClock Intelligence Agency gets into the Thermaltake V3 Black Edition Mid Tower Chassis

Legit Reviews chills out with the Thermaltake Contac 29 Direct Touch CPU Cooler

TrustedReviews tries on a pair of Sennheiser RS 170 Wireless Headphones

TechReviewSource shares its thoughts on the Sony VAIO EB12FX/T

RBMods gives a listen to some Arctic Cooling E361-WM Headphones

TestFreaks gets its hands on an ASUS U3S6 USB 3.0/SATA 3 6Gbps PCIE Card

Hardware Canucks presents its NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Roundup (EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI & Sparkle)

And to finish us off for now, Legion Hardware shares its Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire CPU Scaling Performance Part 1