For those of you in the US, today should be the last day of your work week before the holiday, so enjoy it! In fact, today would be a great day to slack off instead of working at all, so when your boss asks why you’re surfing the internet rather than working, you can say you’re researching new products that may make the comapny more efficient and technologically advanced. Hey, if you can get them to buy it, more power to you!

bit-tech starts us off with Left 4 Dead

Hexus presents Pacify Your PC – Part 4 : Quieter cooling for your GFX cards

DigitalTrends thinks they know The Best Free Software Programs

The Tech Report reports AMD overclocks 45nm Phenoms to 4GHz and beyond

Legit Reviews lets us know AMD Phenom II X4 Processor Breaks 6GHz on LN2

Hardware Zone brings you their SITEX 2008 Preview

Motherboards.org examines the XFX GeForce GTX 260/216 Black Edition

Virtual-Hideout spends some time with Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB DDR3-1333 Memory

GamePyre takes up some bandwidth with the MSI R4870 T21G ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB

XtremeComputing puts on the Sennheiser PC350 Gaming headphones

Hartware shares its thoughts on the Radeon HD 4670 and 4670 CrossFire

iXBT Labs checks out the Intel Pentium E5200 Processor

CaseCritics pokes around under the hood of the Sunbeamtech Acrylic HTPC

And finally, X-bit Labs presents Reinforcing the Line: ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 (216 SP) 896MB