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BCCHardware reviews the Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler and gives it a final rating of 10/10, having nothing negative to say about it. Here’s an excerpt of the conclusion:

At the end of the day this is a great cooler, and not only is it quiet, but it performs spectacularly, and if you’re looking for a new cooler you really need to consider this cooler, you won’t be disappointed. Thanks to the silent performance and great cooling, the Noctua NH-U12P has easily gained our “Top Pick” award.

We don’t hand out a perfect 10.0 score very often at BCCHardware.com, but after using this cooler for a couple weeks I had no other choice, and wasn’t able to come up with anything negative for this review. This is definitely a quiet cooler that can still perform with the best Air-Cooling solutions on the market today, and if you’re looking for something that can cool the hottest CPU’s and not have the it drive you crazy with noise, the Noctua NH-U12P deserves your consideration.

Read the full review of the Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler at BCCHardware.

Neoseeker reviews the ASUS EAH3870 TOP Edition graphics card and writes in the conclusion:

If the 8800 GT did not exist, then the HD 3870 would be rocking every PC gamer’s universe. For around $250, you can get the power previously reserved for video cards in the over-$400 range, not that long ago. For $250 USD, the HD 3870 delivers the performance that generally bests the HD 2900 XT, and is comparable to the 8800 GTX. Not that bad at all! The Asus EAH3870 TOP can deliver a solid gaming experience, for a fair price.

But it’s not all roses, because this card’s primary competition, the 8800 GT, does exist — and herein lies the problem for the HD 3870. While the  HD 3870 did shine in a few of the benchmarks, such as Call of Juarez, both of our 8800 GT’s tested seemed to just out-edge the HD 3870, most of the time. At maximum resolutions with AA, often both 8800 GT cards we tested would have about 10 frames a second advantage over the Asus EAH3870 TOP. Ten frames a second is not a huge deal — but when two cards are priced fairly similarly, this difference can make or break a choice between two closely-matched cards.

Read the full review of the ASUS EAH3870 TOP Edition graphics card here.

Hardwarezone reviews the Leadtek WinFast PX8800GT 256MB graphics card, giving it a final rating of 4/5. Here’s an excerpt of the final thoughts:

As we have seen in our benchmarks, the performance of the 256MB version has some way to go to threaten the 512MB. Higher resolutions like 1600 x 1200 and above and anti-aliasing will leave this card stumbling. At the very least, we found that the 512MB version will have a 5% lead over the 256MB edition, with this margin shooting up to more than 100% in certain more intensive settings and games. Had we tested a stock clocked 256MB edition, this discrepancy should increase further. Unfortunately, this includes one of the best games of the year, Crysis though older games like F.E.A.R should run smoothly at max settings.

Given the roughly US$50 difference between the 256MB and the 512MB variants, we find ourselves leery of recommending the 256MB version. After all, games would only get more demanding and benefit from a larger memory and so would your screen display. If you’re the kind that upgrades only after a couple of years, then the 512MB is definitely the clear winner. If it’s just for the short term, perhaps the 256MB has a case, only if you aren’t inclined to run at the more intensive settings. With the 256MB variant out now, at least you’ll get a choice.

Read the full review of the Leadtek WinFast PX8800GT 256MB graphics card here.

OCWorkbench reviews the DFI LP UT 790FX-M2R motherboard and gives it a final rating of 8.8/10. Here’s an excerpt of the conclusion:

DFI puts out an impressive package with this flagship 790FX product. Performance of this board is pretty impressive with the X2 5000+ CPU. With CrossFire enabled, we can see that the 3D performance shot up to performance levels of a 8600GTS and beyond.

In terms of features, this board has an array of good stuff built onto this board. Basically, what you want from a board is already there. With 3 slots of PCIe, the board is basically ready for CrossFire X. The down side is that it only has 3 slots, so you won’t be able to run Quad Fire on it in the future. Well, it doesn’t really matter at this point of time as we tested 3 2600XT and run them in CrossFire mode, the performance is worse than using 2 cards. The catalyst 7.11 driver is simply not ready for CrossFire X as yet. [...]

The package is superb. So far, i think DFI is the first company to provide an additional heatpipe in the package. The Debug LED and the EZ buttons are also cool stuff that I like.

Read the full review of the DFI LP UT 790FX-M2R motherboard here.

TweakTown reviews the OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 ReaperX HPC 4GB Memory Kit and gives it an overall rating of 90%, writing in the final thoughts:

OCZ Technologies have really pushed their line of overclocking memories, and without a doubt they have really impressed us here. The Reaper series with heatpipe cooling helps cool the modules a lot better than the standard heatsinks, and the XLC series works even better thanks to water cooling. While our modules we tested today don’t utilize water, the heatsink design has done a fantastic job nonetheless; the modules ran rather cool at full speed overclocking.

Overall the OCZ ReaperX PC2-6400 Kit is extremely impressive, and is ideally aimed at users who want lower latencies out of their DDR2-800 kit with the ability to overclock. Also, if you’re wanting to use the EPP feature in conjunction with an NVIDIA chipset, you have that option too.

Read the full review of the OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 ReaperX HPC 4GB Memory Kit here.