Arctic Cooling has today unveiled a product which all Northern Hemisphere based folks probably shouldn't do without now that the summer heat is starting to well and truly kick in.

ARCTIC Breeze allows you to ride with the wind (oops, that is MSI's line) play with the wind. This simple yet genius device takes one of Arctic Cooling's 92mm cooling fans and essentially puts it on a stick with some USB cabling to power it. You can switch the fan speed between 1200 and 2000 RPM and it is supposedly quiet at both speeds.

It will be on sale from next month and set you back around $16 USD - please send one to me, Taipei humidity is shocking.

Leadtek has today announced the launch of its WinFast PX9600 GSO Extreme 384MB graphics card which comes factory overclocked as well as with its own exclusive S-FANPIPE cooling setup.

Its core clock speed comes set at 600MHz while and memory clock pumps away hard at 1800MHz DDR. A standard clocked and default GeForce 9600 GSO from NVIDIA gets a core clock speed of 550MHz and memory clock speed of 1600MHz DDR - so, as you can see, the folks over at Leadtek have managed to push the card quite far over stock settings.

Anand Lal Shimpi has managed to get his hands all over an upcoming ASUS Eee Box system sample, which ASUS is hoping will take the world by storm, as its Eee PC low-cost notebook computer did when it was launched last year.

In this quick preview of the system over at AnandTech, we get our first independent close-up look at Intel's Atom processor compared in size to Intel's desktop E7200 processor along with the Intel 945GMCH chipset.

VIA has officially launched its lineup of Nano of power efficient processors based on the "Isaiah" architecture designed for optimized performance for mainstream PC markets and new device types such as Netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices.

Based on 65nm process technology, the processor idle power can go as low as 100mW and up to half a watt at 1.8GHz. Each processor has an FSB of 800MHz and clock speeds range from 1GHz up to 1.8GHz using a package size Compact VIA NanoBGA2 which measures 21mm x 21mm.

GIGABYTE will soon run front page advertisements in the biggest Taiwanese newspapers apologizing to ASUS for using a misleading picture in its presentation of DES vs. EPU at a motherboard event it held for international press at its HQ.

ASUS announced that it would sue GIGABYTE and some of its staff last week as the power saving battle waged on for young and old in Taiwan. ASUS is suing GIGABYTE for the use of a misleading picture of blown capacitors.

Paramount Home Entertainment U.S. have announced full details for the Blu-ray edition of Transformers. The 2 disc release, which hits US stores on September 2nd, will be a mirror of the previously released HD-DVD disc, but adds on an uncompressed PCM audio track (instead of the lossy Dolby Digital soundtrack on the HD-DVD) and a new video encode, supervised by Michael Bay himself, which takes full advantage of the higher bitrates available on Blu-ray. The disc will also utilise BD Live!, but without specifics.

Paramount Home Entertainment Australia have yet to make a similar announcement, but they would be crazy to miss the Christmas window.

So, are you one of those people who still love Walt Disney's classic Mickey Mouse? Thankfully, if you are, you'll be overjoyed to discovered that A-DATA has a licensing agreement with Disney that allows them to produce all sorts of weird and whacky Disney based USB memory products.

The newest product from the Taiwanese memory maker A-DATA that will see its debut at Computex next week is the oddly named "Theme T703" pen drive - and Mickey Mouse fans will love it to bits!

Fudzilla managed to meet up with Albatron here in Taiwan and got a look at a couple new PCI graphics cards (yes - you read correctly, not PCI Express x16).

There are some companies out there who are making Radeon HD 3850 PCI cards but not so many that are producing GeForce based PCI products. Albatron intends to announce 8600GT, 8500GT and 8400GS PCI cards at Computex next week and they will all get HDMI output.

Following on from our extreme close up look at the MSI WIND notebook, now we check out the WIND PC desktop in as much detail or more. MSI wants you to "Ride with the Wind!" Shall we?

As far as specifications go, we can tell you that models we saw on display in Taipei this afternoon were using a new Intel CPU, 1GB DDR2-533 memory, 160GB SATA hard disk drive, Gigabit Ethernet, DVD combo drive and 65-watt power adapter.

Hot off the press, Digitimes is reporting that ABIT may begin phasing out its motherboard business after evaluating the success of its forthcoming Intel 4 series lineup of motherboard products. ABIT shipped three million motherboards in 2007 and while that may sound like a large number, it's a mere fraction of what the likes of ASUS and GIGABYTE ship. It had a goal of shipping six million motherboards this year but has since reduced its forecast.

While the report does mention that ABIT is maintaining it does not know anything about the speculation and will continue to develop motherboard products, it wouldn't be a surprise. ABIT's current batch of new motherboards haven't been that exciting and we even saw a motherboard released recently which didn't even include solid capacitors. ABIT used to be the one setting the trends in motherboard technology but now it is clear they are falling behind the eight ball.