The Register is reporting ATI has completed its design for the upcoming R5xx series of graphics chips. The chips will be the company's first to support Shader Model 3.0, and may be the company's first 90nm parts.

Madshrimps tests a new batch of PC3200 and PC4400 rated memory from known and lesser known manufacteres on their Intel P4 test setup. With the introduction of Samsung´s TCCD revision F memory chips we might get performance only seen in the days of Winbond BH-5!

The biggest gaming event of the year is only two weeks away and many people are fretting. Half-Life 2 promises to be as good as the original, at least if the many early reviews are to be trusted, and just about everyone wants to play it. But what if you're stuck with old hardware and not a lot of money?

Corsair and CoolTechZone proudly partners together to bring you one of the largest appreciation contests in the industry. We, Corsair and CoolTechZone, would like to take a moment and thank our consumership and readership that has supported us throughout the. "It is truly an honor to start a contest for individuals for supporting our work," implied Gundeep Hora, Editor-in-Chief and CEO, CoolTechZone.

We took the 8 fastest and most capable burners and put them head to head in our Fall 2004 DVD recordable roundup.

Beyond3D has a report on some details on ATI's next generation R5xx architecture following an analyst meeting held by ATI last week.

This Italian site hwupgrade.it has info on the upcoming Audigy 4 pro and the rest of Creative products to be released this november:
New features are better performance, better dacs (113db), but no PCI-EX.

New Abit Fatal1ty pictures available on the HardwareOC site's.

AnandTech have thrown up their Performance Preview for Nvidia's nForce4 SLI MCPs using a pair of GeForce 6800GTs and 6600GTs! Here's a snip.

NVIDIA is less than a month away from sending final shipping nForce4 SLI boards out to reviewers, but we managed to get some quality benchmarking time with a pre-release nForce4 SLI board from MSI. The important thing to note here is that it was pre-release and we had a very limited amount of time with it - not to mention that I'm about halfway around the world from my testing equipment and benchmarks, so forgive me if the number of tests or benchmarks is not as complete as you're used to seeing on AnandTech.

This isn?t what I intended to write or publish tonight. Originally, tonight was supposed to be a review of Mushkin?s DDR500 on both AMD and Intel platforms. Instead, a simple RAM review turned into an in-depth exploration into why MSI?s K8N Neo2 Platinum performs the way it does.

Sudhian Media

In this roundup Madshrimps compares 13 different P4 heatsinks made by Thermalright, Coolermaster, Scythe, Speeze, Swiftech, Evercool, Aerocool and TTIC. Using different fans at low and high speed we try to find the best bang for the buck, best performer and most silent heatsink out there.

Is there a new budget FX5900-based GPU that nVidia didn't announce officially? Today @ HWspirit we've got a Manli FX5900ZT videocard, and strangely its GPU was also marked as FX5900ZT... Take a look at the pictures here

AMD has released an updated Athlon 64 Processor Power and Thermal Data Sheet that details the recently-released Athlon 64 FX-55 and 90-nanometer 3000+, 3200+, and 3500+. The new 90-nano chips carry a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of only 67W?22W less than their 130-nano counterparts. With Cool'n'Quiet throttling the 90-nano chips at idle, TDP drops to as low as 20W, but that's only a couple of watts lower than a fully throttled 130-nano chip.

The GeForce 6800 series and the RADEON X800 series represent the best of gaming cards available, but which of those models is the better option? You'll find that out in this shootout as we present over 40 results covering 17 different tests on six power-packed cards that are spread across three major price points of US$499, US$399 and US$299

Been hearing conflicting dual core information lately? Here's a compilation of everything we have and know about Intel's dual core plans for the next two years.

sxs112 over at XtremeSystems Forum has snagged pictures for the following nForce4 mortherboards .... ABIT, Chaintech, ASUS, MSI, EPOX, DFI, ECS, Biostar, just to name a few!

Ein neuer 3DMark05 - Rekord wurde am 7.10. in München aufgestellt. Grund für den hohen Wert von 10.118 Marks ist das neue nForce4 SLi von NVIDIA. Zwei NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra im SLi - Betrieb dienten hierbei zur Grafikausgabe.
Wenn man sich den zur Zeit höchsten Wert im ORB von FutureMark anschaut, sieht man 8476 Marks (Compare-URL). Alleine ein neues Mainboard bringt einen Schub von fast 2000 Marks? Man wird sehen, wenn das Mainboard auf die Endkunden trifft. Bisher kann man auch nur Prognosen aufstellen, da man nicht viel über die Konfiguration der Testsystems weiß. UPDATE: Asus hat in einer Pressemitteilung den Namen des Mainboards, sowie den verwendeten Prozessor herausgegeben. Es handelt sich um das Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe, sowie einen AMD Athlon FX-55.
IM Mainboard vergleich liegt das nForce4 weit vor dem LGA775 - Systemen von Intel. Hier erbringen zwei GeForce 6800 Ultra im SLi - Betrieb "nur" ca. 7200 Marks. Screenshot Quelle: MyDrivers

Details about the upcoming Dual Core CPU (SmithField) from Intel, the core is based on 90nm. The NetBurst cores have each 1MB L2 cache and in total 2MB of cache, the front side bus speed is at 800MHz. This CPU will also support Extended Memory 64 Technology, this technology allows the Dual Core CPU to use a larger amount of memory. You can also turn on or off Hyper-Threading.

Accelenation has conducted a interview with XGI Technology:

XGI is a relatively new player in the graphics industry. We chat with Danny Lee, XGI's Marketing Manager, about the company's products, vision, and future.

CoolTechZone have been discussing quite a bit about low-latency modules and the future of DDR I in our freshly published memory evaluations. According to our recently confirmed reports, DDR I is here to stay for sometime and memory manufacturers will continue to develop DDR I memory products to better fit the market segment. In this analysis, we will not start our discussion on Intel?s immature platform and the future of DDR2, as we have already presented our thoughts on these subjects previously.