Good Monday morning, I hope you all had a good wknd, I certainly did. =)

Legion Hardware takes the Arctic Cooling Acelero X1 videocard heatsink out for a spin and it looks pretty sweet! Here is a nice HTPC case, Virtual Hideout reviews the Zalman HD160 HTPC case. The GeForce 7300GS is a great value card and Beyond3D looks at the Leadtek version.

Prior the NV3x chips, NVIDIA would use an older generation model than their current mainstream desktop product for the budget/low-end market - for example, in early 2002, the GeForce4 Ti topped their products list with the GeForce4 MX bringing up the rear. Although similarly named, the latter was simply an updated GeForce2 chip. NVIDIA changed this approach with the GeForce FX by taking the "main" chip and cutting down on the number of internal components, and then marketing it as their budget offering, such as the FX 5200. This ensured that NVIDIA could successfully market the model as having all of the architectural features, such as SM2.0 support, but the appropriate performance for the intended niche.

If you need something faster, XSReviews takes the Gigabyte GeForce 7800GT out for a spin. GideonTech wraps things up with its look at the Vantec Iceberg 5 VGA cooler.