Friday and the Sidewinder X8

[LPMiller]

Yah, Friday! And no, no one can take that away from you. Looks like it's going to be a hot one for us too.

Me, I don't have major plans. Need to trim a little more, clean my gutters out, do some maintenance stuff, mostly.

My mouse was giving me hassles in gaming, disconnecting for 3-4 seconds during horde rushes, so I picked up the new Microsoft Sidewinder X8. It looks a little weird, but after playing 2 hours of L4D last night, it works really, really well. No lag at all, which is pretty amazing for a wireless mouse. Decent buttons, on the fly DPI adjustments (which came in handy). I still need to break in the main buttons a little bit as they are stiffer than I like, but damn, that's a smooth mouse. Thumbs up.

BCC Hardware starts off our Friday with the Tuniq 1000W Ripper Power Supply

IT Reviewed reports on the HP TouchSmart IQ830

Tweaktown tells us about the ASRock ION 330-BD Nettop

Benchmark Reviews takes on the QNAP TS-119 Gigabit NAS Server

Hardware Secrets juices up with the Topower PowerBird 900 W Power Supply

Motherboards.Org spins up the Western Digital Caviar 2TB Green Drive

Tech Report puts the High-end Socket AM3 chipsets under the microscope

Think Computers excites us all with the Lowepro SlingShot 100 AW Camera Bag

TechwareLabs shows off the Enermax Phoenix Neo Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Finally, because for whatever reason there just isn't a lot out there today, Bjorn3D brings us on home with yet another power supply, the Ikonik Vulcan 850w PSU

We are outtie.

You go have a day, a weekend, and stay cool, daddy.