This is old news now, but important enought that I believe its worth a rehash. For a ton of users who prefer downloading their mail directly to Thunderbird, Outlook or a smartphone using the pop3 protocol this is huge news: Google is now supporting the IMAP4 protocol.

Heck, its big news if you use just one device and also check your email on gmail.com you'll appreciate this.

Asus is set to introduce a nmew g35 motherboard with onboard HDMI to provide users another way to showcase their HD media.

 The P5E-V HDMI and P5E-VM HDMI motherboards will handle multidisplay setups, with the VM edition allowing 4 displays. Sources were not clear if the quad display mode would require an add on card but Asus was indicating it would not. Regardless, both mobo's will feature the ability to deliver multichannel audio and uncompressed HD video signals over a single cable to HDMI equipped displays. A bundled HDMI to DVI adapter will allow connections to older HD tv's.

Precision tweaker 2, a ultra sensitive voltage adjustment allows precise control of many motherboard voltage in 0.02v steps.

 See the full feature list below.

Have you ever wondered how to always look like a intelligent netizen? How to catch all the internet scam emails and not ever forward a story about XXXXXXXXX giving away XXXXXXXXXXX to anyone who forwards an email to XX people?

Wonder no more, this savvy netizen is giving away the secret. And the best part is you DON'T have to forward this email to anyone to get the info. Its a secret little website called Snopes .  All you've got to do is use their great site and you can quickly find out that Neiman Marcus isn't giving away their chocolate chip cookie recipe, there is NO danger if killing yourself with a microwave\cellphone\gas pump and no one is giving away their fortune to strangers on the intarweb.

 For my sanity and the sanity of all your friends and family, please go to snopes before you forward another email.

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Dell has the Poweredge SC 1430 on sale right now for $729.  The dual quad core Xeon 5310 (1.6ghz) are a free upgrade.  This by itself makes for a great budget server box.

In case you've missed it, we're supposed to be 30 days from the launch of Nvidia's 9800 graphics card. Why should you care? Well, reports indicate this one will be 3x the card the 8800 ultra is, 1 gigabyte of video ram and an onboard audio chip?!

 Specifications and prices follow, make sure you take a look.

Well, the last couple of weeks have been pretty interesting around here. First, from Artic Cooling we've got a new product they have asked us to review, their mx-2 thermal compound. I'm hoping to get that review up pretty soon. And Koolance got in touch with us and asked us to review their cpu-330 and a couple of other things. I hope to have the Koolance stuff in house pretty soon and I'll get to working on that asap.

 How was your weekend? Hit the forums and tell me about it.