Happy celebration to those of you for whom today is a holiday! I hope you’ve enjoyed your day off work if you got one, and are looking forward to a shortened workweek with a little less trepidation than normal. For those of you not enjoying a holiday, congratulations! You got through Monday!

Hardware Canucks gets us going with the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB Hard Drive

Motherboards.org checks out the GIGABYTE H55M-USB3 Motherboard

Hardware Secrets goes inside the CM Storm Sniper Black Edition Case

TweakPC tries on the Razer Moray In-Ear-Headset (click on the US flag for translation to English)

TweakTown examines the Vantec USB 3.0 PCI-e Host Card w/ NexStar 3 SuperSpeed Enclosure

eTeknix submits its video review of the HIS Radeon HD 5450 1GB Graphics Card

TweakNews gets into the Sans Digital Tower Raid TR4UT 4-Bay Hard Drive Enclosure

TrustedReviews points and shoots the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS10

Legit Reviews shares its thoughts on the A-DATA 8GB Nobility S805 USB 2.0 Flash Drive

TestFreaks spend some time with the Canon PIXMA MX340 Office All-In-One Printer

Phoronix weighs in on the ECS Elitegroup H55H-M

bit-tech takes a look at the Alienware OptX AW2210 21.5in HD TFT

techPowerUp gives its two cents’ worth on the Intel Core i3 530 and i3 540

Bjorn3D hooks up with the Seasonic X-Series 750W Power Supply

To close out this selection, TechwareLabs tests out the AMD Athlon II X4 635

And thank goodness for that! The cough I’ve had all week has decided to migrate to my chest, and I’m fairly sure I’m dying. With any luck at all the OTC drugs will work, because I surely cannot afford to go to the doctor for quite some time.

ThinkComputers starts us off with the Corsair Obsidian Series 800D Case

TrustedReviews goes mobile with the Sony Ericsson Naite J105

OverClock Intelligence Agency weighs in on the Intel Core i5 661 Processor

RBMods checks out the Mushkin PC3-12800 6GB Kit

High Tech Reviews gets its hands on the Enermax Wireless Aluminum Keyboard

eTeknix submits a video review of the Jetway NC63-330-LF Mini-ITX Motherboard

Hardware Secrets gets into the Athlon II X4 635 and Phenom II X2 555 CPU

BCC Hardware reports Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD – Barefoot Still Going Strong

PureOverclock examines the Kingwin Lazer 850W

Benchmark Reviews spends some time with the LiteOn Strong-Page MLC SSD LA-32M1S

techPowerUp presents its World-Exclusive: Powercolor HD 5870 PCS+

Tech-Reviews shares its thoughts on Ad-Aware Game Edition

TweakTown sits down with the Acer Aspire One 532h-2326 10.1-inch Netbook

TestFreaks hooks up with the Seagate FreeAgent DockStar

bit-tech takes a look at Nvidia Optimus: More Than Meets The Eye

And to close out this selection, Monster Hardware gets under the hood of a Refurbished Dell Latitude D410 laptop

I don’t know what it is…maybe it’s because it’s the best of the best (mostly) amateur athletes in the world, but even the sports I normally cannot stand are interesting when they’re in the Olympics. I’ll quick knock this post out, then it’s time to get dinner started so I can be happily parked in front of my TV in time for opening ceremonies.

LanOC kicks it off with BioShock 2

TrustedReviews rocks the house with the Teufel Theater 200 5.1 Speaker System

Bjorn3D examines the MSI N240GT-MD512 OC/D5

TweakTown checks out the Team Group Xtreem-G1 120GB Solid State Disk

Pro-Clockers gets into the Dynatron Azenx P-Secure Secure HDD Enclosure

TechwareLabs shares its thoughts on the Ultra X4 1050 Watt Power Supply

Verdis Reviews keeps cool with the Noctua NF-P14 FLX Case Fan

Legit Reviews goes inside the Antec Nine Hundred Two Ultimate Gaming Case

Technic3D counters with the NZXT Beta Evo

Motherboards.org sees those and raises the Thermaltake Level 10 VL30001 N1Z Case

TechRadar points and shoots the Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1

bit-tech presents the Art Deco Zenith 5-s-29 Radio Case Mod

Tech-Reviews chills out with the Spire TherMax Pro CPU Cooler

eTeknix wants you to Win an Asus M3A78 PRO Motherboard and M3N78 PRO Motherboard

Last but not least, techPowerUp takes a look at the QNAP NMP-1000 Network Media Player

Wow…who knew when I left the house Sunday to watch the game I wouldn’t return until well after dinnertime on Thursday? Or that the webmail site would be so slooooow when I finally got to it that it took over an hour to get to the first six messages so I finally gave up? I’m really, REALLY sorry about that, but we were having what thankfully turned out to be a relatively minor family crisis. Someday after it all works out I’ll share what’s been going on, but for now we’ll just leave it at that. But what it means is my inbox is scary and I am WAY behind on posts, so I’ll try to do more than normal to try to resolve both of those situations over the next few days.

Futurelooks gets us going with the ASRock ION 330HT NetTop HTPC

TechRadar takes a look at the Asus 24T1E

Motherboards.org examines the Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 Video Card

Bjorn3D counters with the Sapphire HD 5670 1 GB

TweakPC goes inside the NZXT Hades PC Case – acherontic Lord as does Overclockers Online

TrustedReviews takes on Mass Effect 2

PCShopTalk chills out with the Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME 4870X2 VGA Cooler

MBReview checks out the Intel DH55TC

eTeknix submits a video review of the Boogie Bug AimBPad Gaming Surface

PureOverclock presents Phenom II X4 for $99: Unlocking the X2 555 BE

Benchmark Reviews spends some time with the EVGA Geforce GTX275 CO-OP Video Card

ThinkComputers weighs in on the Intel Core i5 661 Dual Core LGA 1156 Processor

bit-tech previews FIFA Online

TweakTown shares its thoughts on the Ultra X4 1600 Watt Full Modular Power Supply

TechReviewSource gets into the HP Pavilion Elite HPE-140f

I’ll close out this selection with a series of reviews of the new Radeon HD5570 1GB DDR3 Video Card:
Hardware Canucks
Rage3D
TweakTown
PureOverclock
Legit Reviews
Elite Bastards
Bjorn3D
TweakNews

My cable company actually told me the current round of problems I’ve been having with my internet connection are a system problem instead of blaming my computer! Usually, they insist it’s something I’ve done, either security software or hardware configuration. Which would make sense, except for the part where I’ve had three laptops, and before my desktop died it was on its fourth build, in the 8+ years I’ve had intermittent connection issues. But this time they admit it’s them, and gave me a local number to call if it doesn’t clear up in a couple of days. I’m not holding my breath, but it is finally a step in the right direction!

Futurelooks gets us started with some HyperMac Mini, Micro, and Nano Portable Batteries

Benchmark Reviews goes inside the NZXT Tempest-EVO Computer Case

TrustedReviews gives a listen to the Bowers and Wilkins Zeppelin Mini

eTeknix shows off its video review of the XFX Radeon HD5850 Black Edition 1GB Graphics Card

Phoronix spends some time with the Tyan S2915 n6650W & S2927 n3600B

TechReviewSource checks out the Epson PictureMate Show

TechwareLabs weighs in on the AMD Phenom II X4 910e CPU

techPowerUp gets into the Vantec NexStar TX NST-210S2-BK

Hardware Canucks shares its thoughts on some Corsair Dominator GTX2 PC3-18000 CL8 Memory

PureOverclock gets its hands on the Mionix Naos 5000 Gaming Mouse

TestFreaks hooks up with the Airlive WL-2000CAM Wireless IP Camera

bit-tech takes on Aliens vs Predator

XSReviews examines the Synology DS210j NAS

TopReviewShop wants you to know about its Free giveaway contest

And to finish us off for now, Hardware Secrets gives its two cents on the Cooler Master GX 750 W Power Supply