Welcome!

I agree about staying up to date... It's hard (lol). Check out MADSHRIMPS - Hardware Reviews ,Crazy Projects, Modding Tutorials and Overclocking - I subscribe to their e-mail newsletter/RSS feed. It helps quite a bit. They get reviews, previews and benchmarks plus rumours too from various web sites. They then e-mail this stuff to you and each email has a description and link to read more.

They send about 4 each week. I know that might fill up your inbox, but hey, thats how quickly technology advances! I set up a filter in Gmail, perhaps you could do the same if you have Gmail or if you have another email service, just have it go to a folder so you can read them later.

OK, thats too long for a "hi and welcome" post ~_~