While the specifications for ATI's latest generation graphics card, the Radeon 9700 Pro, read like extreme Greek to the average user, the bottom line is that this particular PC component is the top-of-the-line.

Enter Altec Lansing's AHS30 Multimedia Stereo Headset, a pair of high quality stereo headphones complete with pivoting, noise-cancelling boom mic.

In a left-handed fistful of control, the Nostromo SpeedPad N50 offers PC gamers a more comfortable grip on the keyboard convention. It provides a contoured palm rest and easy access to a double-stacked splay of 10 keys, each thrice-programmable. It also has a scrolling throttle wheel for the left index finger and an 8-way directional control pad for the thumb. All told, the Nostromo SpeedPad intimates 56 programmable functions.

It's one thing to use a luxurious pair of stereo headphones to enjoy good music at great volume, the audible thrill of an action packed movie or the big kabooms of an explosive videogame all in the privacy of one's tech-wrapped skull; it's quite another to do all that while nipping off to the fridge for a beverage or three without missing a beat; the bathroom too, while you're at it. Such is the liberating case with AW770 Wireless Deluxe Headphones from Advent Wireless.

While there is currently not a great many PlayStation2 games that support keyboard play, InterAct Accessories SharkBoard is still a viable purchase considering the number of other tasks it makes all the easier and more efficient - basic data and/or cheat code entry, for example (on Keyboard supported games, of course, more of which are becoming available).

InterAct's Mobile Monitor One is exactly the type of simpatico peripheral - a backlit LCD display - one would expect for a transportable console.