I don’t know who makes some of these “holidays” up, but some of them are worthwhile. Since it’s a thing, why not take a few minutes to make sure your security programs are up-to-date, and run them all? I’m sure most of you make a habit of doing so on a regular schedule, but there are probably those (myself included at times) that need a gentle reminder.

Futurelooks starts the week off with the Patriot Box Office All-In-One HD Media Player

Bjorn3D checks out the Sapphire HD 5970 OC

bit-tech takes on Serious Sam HD

TechRadar hooks up with the Onkyo ND-S1

OverClock Intelligence Agency goes inside the NZXT Gamma Mid-Tower Case

TrustedReviews sits down with the Sony VAIO CW Series (VPC-CW1S1E/P) – 14.1in Laptop

iXBT Labs gets into the CS A785GM-M Motherboard

TweakTown shares its thoughts on the Buffalo DriveStation HD-HXU3 USB 3.0 External Hard Disk

Metku examines the Fractal Design – Refine R2 system Enclosure

Phoronix presents FreeBSD 8.0 Benchmarked Against Linux, OpenSolaris

Benchmark Reviews gives you its AVIVO PureVideo HD DXVA GPU Acceleration Guide

And to finish us off for now, Club Overclocker weighs in on the Enermax Revolution 950W PSU

This should be an adventure! Today my niece is having a birthday party for her two foster daughters, whose birthdays are only a couple of weeks apart. The interesting part comes in when they and their brother realize I’m on crutches and cannot play the way I normally do. Hopefully we’ll all come out of this day alive and no more broken than we went in!

Hardware Bistro takes us on a Windows 7 Consumer Tour

MBReview checks out the Intel DP55KB P55 Motherboard

TweakTown takes an Early look at USB 3.0 X25-M SSD performance versus USB 2.0, eSATA and more

bit-tech takes on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 PC

TrustedReviews goes mobile with the Acer beTouch E200 Smartphone

PureOverclock chills out with the Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme

Benchmark Reviews goes inside the Xigmatek Midgard-W Computer Case

Technic3D spends some time with the XFX Radeon HD5870

Legit Reviews hooks up with the Leadtek PxVC1100 MPEG-2/H.264 Transcoding Card

TechRadar sits down with the MSI X600-055UK

Hardware Secrets gets its hands on the CM Storm Sentinel Advance Mouse

DragonSteelMods gets into the Qnap TS-419P Turbo NAS

Club Overclocker shares its thoughts on the NZXT Sentry 2

To finish us off for now, BigBruin beats the heat with the NZXT Cryo S Aluminum Notebook Cooler

I’ve been home for a whole day, and I have already completely run out of things to do. I would make more jewelry, but my beads are all in the basement and I’m on crutches. I would cook, but I can’t stand up for very long. Basically, I’m whiny and annoying and should probably just keep to myself, so here are the reviews!

Virtual-Hideout kicks it off with the OCZ Eclipse Double Laser Gaming Mouse

Technic3D gets its hands on the Corsair Voyager GT 128GB

Club Overclocker gets into the Ultra X4 850 Watt Modular Power Supply

Motherboards.org checks out the ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO Motherboard

TrustedReviews goes mobile with the HTC HD2 Windows Phone Smartphone

TestFreaks hooks up with the PowerMat Wireless Charging Unit

Bjorn3D takes on Darkest Of Days Physx

Bona Fide Reviews shares its thoughts on the NZXT SENTRY 2 5.25″ Touch Screen Fan Controller

Verdis Reviews chills out with the Choiix Mini Air-Through Notebook Cooling Pad

OverClock Intelligence Agency tries on the Gameskulls GS-1 Tactical Gaming Helmet

Last but not least, CCE Reviews examines the Logitech Harmony 1100 Remote Control

Today promises to be long, grueling, and brutal. It’s anybody’s guess when or if I’ll be home, so I’ll make this one a bit longer just in case. If you go in expecting the worst, sometimes you’re pleasantly surprised when it’s not quite that bad…

To start us off, here are a few reviews of the Athlon II X3 435 Triple Core Processor
TechwareLabs
bit-tech
PCSTATS

Club Overclocker goes inside the NZXT Panzerbox Case

PureOverclock gets into the Enermax Galaxy EVO 1250W

Legit Reviews spends some time with the ASRock M3A785GXH/128M Motherboard

bit-tech takes on Borderlands PC

OverClock Intelligence Agency wants you to know about its Ultra X4 750 Watt Power Supply Giveaway

TrustedReviews sits down with the Apple Mac mini (Late 2009)

Benchmark Reviews rocks the house with some Eagle Arion ET-AR504LR-BK 2.1 Soundstage Speakers

OverClocked Inside tests out some Crucial 4GB Kit DDR3-1333/PC3-10600 CT2KIT25664BA1339 Memory

Bjorn3D checks out the Phenom 2 X4 965 (125w TDP)

TechReviewSource presents its 2009 Holiday Gift Guide (and Win a Copy of Windows 7!)

TweakTown examines the Seagate Savvio 15K.2 SAS 2.0 6Gb/s 146GB 2.5-inch Hard Disk

TestFreaks reviews the SanDisk Extreme Pro 32gb Compact Flash Card

TechRadar takes a look at the Lexmark Interact S605

To finish us off for now, XSReviews gets its hands on the Roccat Kova

It doesn’t rain, it pours. Periodically, I am forcibly reminded how grounded in fact some cliches actually are. You know how this works by now, I’ll just get to it.

Legit Reviews – XFX Radeon HD 4890 1GB, ATI Radeon HD 5870 + 5850 CrossFire – Mixing Video Cards
Elite Bastards – HIS Radeon HD 5770 1GB and CrossFire performance review
Phoronix – NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 On Linux
eTeknix – Win a HIS Radeon HD 4830 Graphics Card
bit-tech – Asus Radeon HD 5870 Voltage Tweak
Club Overclocker – Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB
Benchmark Reviews – XFX Radeon HD5750