Clive Webster

Reviews - Only two highlights?

Posted at: 2nd October 2007

I've just finished agonising over which two products are the highlights of the month in Reviews. Naturally, there's a commercial element to this decision. Hopefully, everyone in the newsagents will pick up this mag, flick straight to the page with my photo, avert their eyes in disgust, and then notice that there's a review of a £180 network card and the UK's first look at the new Intel X38 enthusiast chipset (which overclocks the bejesus out of a Core 2 Duo). This will be followed by a rush to the tills. At least, that's the plan. Of course, the Highlights are also there to guide all you loyal readers to the reviews I think you'll want to read first.

The highlights were a tough choice this month, with so much good kit from which to choose (he says modestly). Should I have highlighted the Zalman Reserator XT Titanium water-cooling kit (p63) - the third in the series and easily the most technically advanced? Or maybe I should have pushed the review of the Gigabyte 3D Mercury case (p51), which is ready-built for water-cooling and includes some genuinely useful design elements. Or should I have emphasised the MSI P35 Platinum Combo (p36) and Asus P5KC (p39) motherboards that support both DDR2 and DDR3 memory? Or maybe I have should have tried to summarise what a bubble-pump CPU cooler is in 30 words and highlighted the Akasa Revo - the first product of its kind - on p58.

Perhaps only time and the sales figures will tell, but I'd quite happily put any increase in sales of Custom PC down to the Dream PCs Labs. Some of these machines are incredible - even more so when you consider that human beings built them, rather than cyborgs or aliens from the future.

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