Australian development studio Cyber Sport Pty. Ltd. recently purchased Flexiglow Hong Kong and its high-performance gaming accessory subsidiary Cyber Snipa. Cyber Snipa produces mice, keyboards, headsets, and webcams for gamers. The focus of this review is the Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1 USB headset, a comfortable surround sound, bus-powered headset with a nine foot (!) cable and a fully-positionable microphone. BIOS LEVEL feels the beats and thumps in this review.
Not every PC case fan was designed to be quiet, nor do most LED fans give have a switch used to turn the LEDs off. Enter the Rheobus controller: giving users the ability to control the speed of PC case fans, and the brightness of the LEDs. Sunbeam recently sent BIOS LEVEL the Rheobus Extreme for review, which promises up to 30W per channel, as well as cool LED lighting.
Typically, I try to avoid integrated chipsets. Integrated chipsets are usually meant for mainstream use and don't feature gaming-class graphics options. Fortunately, ATI recently introduced the new 780G chipset with more than just a beefier integrated graphics solution: Hybrid Crossfire.
The two big players in discrete graphics these days are nVida and ATi. nVidia won the performance crown with the release of the 8800-series in late 2006. ATi, now owned by AMD, released the new HD-series of Radeons. Sapphire was nice enough to send us the Radeon HD3870 TOXIC edition for review.
Razer is the first thing that comes to mind when I think about gaming peripherals. Razer's latest mousepad—the Destructor—was shown at CES 2008. Razer was kind enough to send us one. The Destructor was co-developed with three of the world's top professional gaming teams and promises high-precision gameplay.