Fido over at The Inquirer has snagged a picture of MSI's Nforce 4 motherboard!

You will notice that board has only one chip covered with active cooler, PCIe 16X slot and two PCIe 1X slots, four PCI slots where one is possibly 266 MB/s fast, four memory slots, marvels eight SATA ports four of them controlled or helped by silicon image chip. The board still has two IDE channels and a floppy connector. A Via chip in front of PCIe 16X slot was one of the things that created a nice smile on my face. What an irony.

New GeForce 6200 Graphics Processor First to Deliver DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, NVIDIA UltraShadow II Technology, and High Definition Video Playback at Value Prices Here are the specs: GPU: NV43 Architecture: - 4 pipelines with 3 vertex units core: 300Mhz memory: 275 (550) 128 bit DDR1 memory (128 MB or 256MB) Shader Model 3 Ultrashadow II video enhancements 100% PCIe compliant no SLI capability Price: $129 for 128MB version - $149 for 256MB version GeForce 6200 GPUs are shipping now and GeForce 6200-based graphics boards will be available from leading add-in card manufacturers in November. Read More for some screenshots about this graphics card.

Creative has launched the first Sound Blaster card in a PCMCIA format for notebooks. It features EAX 4.0 ADVANCED HD, Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES built-in decoding, ASIO 2.0 recording, 7.1 surround sound, and DVD-Audio 24-bit/192kHz playback. Check it out here.

Laut MyDrivers.com soll Samsung demnächst GDDR3-RAM mit 1.25ns Zugriffszeit auf den Markt bringen. In der folgenden Tabelle kann man sehen was der Sprung auf 1.25ns bringt. 2.000 ns = 500MHz
1.667 ns = 600MHz
1.429 ns = 700MHz
1.250 ns = 800MHz
Außerdem könnte dieser neue Speicher auf dem kommenden Grafikkarte von ATi mit der R480-GPU zum Einsatz kommen.

I'VE Extolled the virtues of quality power supplies so many times that saying they're the most often overlooked PC component feels like a cliche. But it's true. In my experience, poor quality generic-brand power supplies are often the root of PC stability problems. Also, as new processors and graphics cards demand more power than ever before, quality power supplies are becoming more important.

Clubic seems to know about the upcoming Logitech dinovo 2! Logitech will soon reveal two new models of the ultra expensive dinovo. Here they have a photo of the mediaplay mouse with what seems like the old dinovo keyboard. But if you look closely, the old dinovo had a dark gery color, while the one in this picture: has a light grey color. Probaly logitech will bring a dinovo bundled with the bluetooth version of the MX1000 and one with mediaplay mouse. The mediapad is expected to have a colorscreen and more capabilities.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Professional Headphone and Audio Accessory Roundup.

While many people in the world find wearing headphones a 'Necessary Evil' that comes with portable music listening, HeadRoom Corporation knows about and caters to the large segment of the population that enjoy listening to music through the wonderful world of headphones. Some unsavvy consumers will find 15 dollar headphones that come with portable music players acceptable, however, many music connoisseurs have found listening to music using traditional means is lacking in quality. HeadRoom has an extensive product line that will accommodate any music buff that desires increased performance from personal audio equipment. Whether the consumer wishes to own the most extravagant audio headphones and accessories, or simply wants quality audio with a small budget, HeadRoom has the product line to meet the needs of the customer.

ATI'S NEXT FASTEST graphic thing will be based on 0.11µ (micron) architecture. This is the natural direction for ATI to migrate from 0.13µ low K marchitecture to pure 0.11µ without low K. When you make things smaller you can possibly clock a chip even higher, but we don't have any idea what frequency ATI is aiming for. That's exactly where its R480 chip is at this time. More at The Inq

Just spotted this bit of Info over at OCWorkbench

According to our sources, nForce4 will be officially announced on 20 Oct 2004. There will be 4 editions and they might be changes until the final specs are release.

Hexus have thrown up their Preview of ATi's Theater 550 PRO video processor! Here's a snip.

A week or so ago, as I was in London to test ATI's Radeon X700 XT, I had the chance to spend some time with a few guys from ATI's Multimedia group. The Multimedia group are the guys and gals responsible for products such as Radeon All-In-Wonder and TV Wonder. With Theater 550 PRO, the latest iteration of their class-leading video processing ASICs, making its debut recently, the Multimedia guys were in town as part of their world tour, showing off the 550 PRO to journalists, OEMs, systems integrators and anyone with a vested technological or sales and marketing interest in the hardware that'd listen.

TrustedReviews is giving away a 19in ViewSonic VX910 monitor wtih 16ms repsonse time and DVI input to one lucky European winner! by simply answering a multiple choice question.

Auf MyDrivers.com findet man eine Auflistung von 17 Grafikkarten (ATi und NVIDIA) und deren 3DMark05-Benchmarkwerte. Die folgenden Werte sind weder bestätigt, noch ist die Grundkonfiguration (CPU, RAM, Mainboard) bekannt. Klickt auf 'mehr', um die Liste (+ Update) zu sehen.

Nach den positiven Erfolgen mit den Sondermodellen ?Deutschland PC I? und ?Deutschland PC II? bringt Fujitsu-Siemens in der ersten Oktoberwoche die dritte Auflage, den ?Deutschland PC III?. Der Scaleo T hat einen AMD Athlon 64 3400+ unter der Haube und bietet 1024 MB (PC333) Arbeitsspeicher.

A comparison of 19 mousepads and accessories. Featured in this article are products from Allsop, Everglide, GlideTapes, Icemat, Kryptec, RatzPadz, Razer, Steel and X-Trac. Read the article at ZombieNexus.com

Iwill has the smallest Workstation in the world, although there´s a beast hidden inside with two Opteron in a a small cube (21x21x28cm) with nVidia nForce3 MCP, 10/100 LAN, Gigabit LAN, Wireless LAN, Access Point Wireless, 7in1 Flash memory reader-writer or supports for 2 DDR400/DDR333 modules (PC3200, PC2700) ECC (2Gb max.) in Dual Channel mode.

The NVIDIA® GoForce 3D 4500 WMP enables a whole new level of interactive content not previously possible on cell phones, PDAs, or other handheld devices. For the first time, mobile content developers can harness a powerful 3D medium to create rich, dynamic, lifelike worlds and characters. Additionally, mobile devices powered by the new 3D WMP will be able to synthesize amazingly realistic environments with objects that behave according to complex physics and intelligent characters with true-to-life personalities.

It's been a long time in the works but we are finally ready with our DDR-2 533MHz Memory Royal Rumble of September 2004. We check out and compare the performance of memory modules from Kingmax, Crucial, TwinMOS, Mushkin, Corsair and Kingston. If you are on the market for a new set of DDR-2 memory, you cannot miss this article.

Owing to the production technology devlopment the DDR2 SDRAM begins its conquering journey slowly, but don?t forget all about conventional DDR memories. In our actual test we pick out RAMs from the all segments of the market to find out to whom which is the best choice.

Most, if not all, of you have read or been in heated debates over why or why not higher clocked microprocessors are better than their "comparable" competition. Just why is it that so many people stand behind their arguments about a 2.4GHz processor outperforming a 3.4GHz processor overall? Also, why do benchmarks sometimes show lower clocked processors beating higher clocked processors in some tests?

At the italian IT site Hardware Setup some photos of Club-3D DeltaChrome S8-256Mb graphic adapter have been pubblished. This video card is shipped with latest S3 graphic processor unit, clock at 300Mhz and 256Mb of DDR memory at 300Mhz.