The News: Unplanned Purchase Edition

Probably I’m not the only one who does this…I’ve got a mental list of several things I want to buy, and while I don’t exactly make a budget, I have at least a general idea of when I might be able to financially handle picking them up. Yesterday, my list went completely out the window, along with paying a bill I really should not have let slide. It seems the monitor on my desktop system was “sputtering and spitting”, according to my mother. She’s been whining about it for a couple of weeks, but I’ve been ignoring her. Well…it finally bit the dust. I did get fairly lucky, though. I found a 20″ HP widescreen LCD on sale, and it’s fabulous. And it opened up a huge amount of real estate on my desk. At least she paid for half of it, since that machine has basically become hers by default since I bought my laptop.

TrustedReviews gets us going with the Panasonic TX-L55WT50

TechRadar spends some time with the Alienware X51

TestFreaks tries on a ROCCAT Kave Solid 5.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset

Modders-Inc. comes back with the TekRepublic TH Pro 7.1 Gaming Headset

NikKTech gets its hands on the SteelSeries KANA Black Gaming Mouse

TweakTown taps away at the Das Keyboard Model S Professional Mechanical Keyboard

KitGuru presents Computex: Gigabyte�s first A85X socket FM2 motherboard

XtremeComputing shares its thoughts on the Inno3D iChill GTX 670 HerculeZ 3000

Legit Reviews examines the Mushkin Chronos MX 120GB SSD

Pro-Clockers tests out the Asrock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional-M Socket 1155 Motherboard

hardCOREware beats the heat with the Noctua NH-L12 Low Profile Silent CPU Cooler

TechwareLabs counters with the Thermaltake Water 2.0 Pro Cooler