The HardOCP actually comes from a gaming background, but that's all history now.  Kyle and the gang are now fully dedicated to squeezing every last bit of performance out of their rigs.

AnandTech

AnandTech is one of the first and best hardware sites on the next.  They have a very large database of reviews, and are usually quite fair. Their motherboard reviews are especially tasty.

Tom's Hardware Guide

Anand and Tom consistently put out the most recognized hardware reviews in the business.  Their updates are infrequent at best, but everything they put up there is worth reading.  If you're into hardware, you should check both of these guys out at least once a week...

BXBoards

BXBoards is a site where its usefulness surpasses its original purpose.  Well worth reading.  And hey, all you dedicated speed freaks should already have a BX chipset motherboard anyway!  :-)

Storage Review

The hard drive is often ignored as an item worth paying attention to for the speed freak.  Check out this site to find out why bigger isn't necessarily better.  And their comparable hard drive database can't be beat!

ReviewFinder

This specialized search engine collects links to reviews of all sorts of products, not just hardware.  Want to hear what a dozen sites have to say about the latest video card?  Then this is your place!

Freak!

A hardware site with an excellent attitude.   They give their reviews from the perspective of an end user.  Plus, they have been known to post on our forum!  :-)

Ace's Hardware

These guys obviously know their stuff, and their stuff includes the X86 architecture, Sparcs, and Alphas.  Recommended reading.

Hardware One

Review Zone

AbsolutePC.net

iXBT Hardware

The High-Performance PC Guide

TargetPC

AGN Hardware

BiosFear

CPU Review

Gaming

sCary's Shugashack

Speaking of gaming and hardware news, check out the gaming news site with the most entertaining perspective and the best true-deathmatcher's FPS evaluations and info.  From the Quakeholio to today, the 'Shack is a classic.  Be sure not to miss the Reasons to Live and Words of Wisdom.

Voodoo Extreme

Its title to the contrary, Voodoo Extreme goes beyond coverage of the 3Dfx chipset and its associated games, and branches into lots of related areas.  One of the best 3D news sites out there for sheer quantity.

Blue's News

Primarily a gaming site, but with frequent mention of issues important to the gaming community (i.e. hardware), even a non-gamer can still glean some good stuff from here.  But hey, we're all gamers anyway, right?   :-)

Fragtastic

Software

BetaNews

A wonderful resource and an early friend of Ars Technica, BetaNews keeps you up to date on what the latest releases are for an ungodly number of programs.

freshmeat

For the technical side of Linux news, pop on over to freshmeat.  There, you can catch up on the latest releases for almost every Linux app known to man!  For us multiplatform geeks, it makes a good companion to BetaNews.

Tweak Files

DemoNews

News

slashdot.org

The Linux-centric news site, slashdot also covers "News for Nerds" like Star Wars happenings and Lego Mindstorm.  Plus, if you like flame wars, every single news post can be commented upon by any visitor.  Very high traffic.

Dimension X

Geeknews.org

The Register

"Biting the hand that feeds IT."   Hmmm..  Must be a British thing.  :-)  Seriously, though, what you've got here is a great place for tell-it-like-it-is industry news and opinions.

Others

UGeek.com

A wide-ranging computer site, they have everything from product reviews to an advice column to a weekly "Geektoon."  Be sure to check out their excellently thorough Processor specs.  And I don't know about you, but I'm impressed by anyone who had the foresight to snag the ultra-cool geek.com URL!