So shortly before my desktop died, my ancient Logitech mouse died (and I do mean ancient…it still had a ball). Not feeling like going to the store, I started using my Logitech wireless mouse (also with a ball) that went with my laptop. Then that died. So I bought a Microsoft optical laptop mouse…but mom can’t quite figure out that simply unplugging the transmitter from the laptop doesn’t turn it off, so we were going through batteries at the speed of light. Tuesday I bought a Logitech WIRED laser mouse, and now we’re cooking with gas. It doesn’t take much to make me happy, really…just a $17 mouse.

LanOC kicks it off with the Microsoft Sidewinder X4

Benchmark Reviews chills out with the ProlimaTech Armageddon CPU Cooler

TweakTown takes a look at the HIS Radeon HD 5770 1GB Video Card

TrustedReviews focuses on the Casio Exilim EX-Z2000

Legit Reviews keeps it chilly with the Coolink Corator DS Gapless Direct Touch CPU Cooler

bit-tech takes on Command & Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight

TechRadar spends some time with the PC Specialist Fusion HDX 965

Hardware Secrets tries on a pair of Arctic Cooling E361-WM Earphones

Top Review Shop counters with a pair of Ankit Stay True Headphones

HardwareHeaven sits down with the Novatech X1 CA Gaming Notebook

PureOverclock goes inside the Thermaltake V3 Mid-Tower

Guru3D examines the ECS AMD 890GX motherboard

Bjorn3D gets into the G.SKILL PIS Series 4GB Kit 2000MHz (F3-16000CL6D-4GBPIS)

Modders-Inc. hooks up with the Seagate Barracuda ES.2 750GB Hard Drive

Last but not least, BigBruin wants you to know about its Spring Give Away – Win a NZXT Prize Pack

What’s left of it, anyway. To those of you celebrating in the American manner…have a great time, but remember taxis are your friend! To those of you celebrating in another manner…have a great time! For those of you who, like myself, have discovered that you have gotten entirely too old to deal with a bunch of drunken idiots and so are staying home after having a nice dinner with family…there are worse things!

Hardware Canucks gets us going with the Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler

TweakTown goes inside the Antec Two Hundred Mid Tower Chassis

TechRadar just can’t get all that excited about the ATI Radeon HD 5830

bit-tech shares its thoughts on the G.Skill Falcon 2 128GB SSD

iXBT Labs weighs in on the ATI Radeon HD 5850/5870/5970 Graphics Cards

RBMods pokes around in the NZXT Hades Case

Overclockers Online chills out with the Zaward Vapor 120 CPU Cooler

TrustedReviews takes a look at the Asus MS236H – 23in Ultra-Slim Monitor

Tech-Reviews examines the OCZ ModXStream Pro 600 Watt

TechwareLabs checks out the LITE-ON iHOS104-08 Blu-Ray Drive

ASE Labs rocks out with the SanDisk slotRadio Player

PCShopTalk tries on a pair of Arctic Cooling Arctic Sound E352 Earphones

DigitalTrends sits down with the Asus G51J 3D Laptop

Verdis Reviews spends some time with the Overclockers UK Titan Goliath Core i7 Full Gamer System

And to close out this selection, Hardware Secrets gets its hands on the Mionix Naos 5000 Mouse

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 reached the end of the internet earlier, but then I remembered I wanted to look some things up. A good friend of mine is becoming Catholic soon, and the other day asked me my opinion of three different confirmation names. So since I had the time, I looked them up. And now I truly cannot decide, as all of them would work very well. But for someone not anything at all like Catholic, it was a definite learning experience.

Hardware Canucks gets us going with a ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 890FX Motherboard Sneak Peak

techPowerUp goes inside the NZXT Hades

TechRadar sits down with the Toshiba Portégé R600-13Z

TechwareLabs gets its hands on the Razer Imperator Gaming Mouse

DigitalTrends goes mobile with the Motorola Devour

iXBT Labs examines the MSI 770-C35 Motherboard

Hardware Secrets takes a look at the HIS Radeon HD 5570 Fan Video Card

PureOverclock checks out the Kingston V+ SNVP325-S2 128GB

Benchmark Reviews presents Radeon HD5830 DirectX-11 Gaming Performance

TweakTown shares its thoughts on the A-DATA PC3-17600 (2200MHz) Gaming Series 4GB Kit

TechReviewSource spends some time with the Epson WorkForce 610

bit-tech takes on Heavy Rain

Technic3D gets its hands on the Logitech Wireless K350

Hi Tech Legion gets into the Vantec NexStar Vault

Finally, RBMods beats the heat with the Noctua NF-P14 FLX 140mm Fan

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