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Slowly but surely the new top end PCI Express Professional application cards are hitting the shelf?s now from the major manufacturers. Today we see an exclusive sneak preview of the ATI Fire GL V7100. This is a very new card to cover and summarise and we have to clearly state a pre-release unit. So what has the card got to offer then as we move swiftly onwards to brief specifications and a few pictures!

TrustedReviews has managed to get hold of a M28 and a GeForce Go 6800 laptop and has thrown up some comparative numbers! Although the M28 is yet to be officially announced, ATI is more than happy to show off the benchmark numbers, as long as no mention about the technology in the chipset is mentioned.

Cheaper 939-pin Athlon 64 CPUs are hitting the market and Newegg sent us a sample to try out. It looks as though the Athlon 64 just got an enthusiast shot in the arm.

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Half Life 2 is nearly here (well, some people have jumped the gun a little) and Alienware have announced a killer system for your HL2 gaming pleasure. Check it out here.

There's been some confusion over whether Abit's CPU Accelerator is merely a fancy name for support for a 1066MHz front-side bus or Abit has found a way to change the Pentium 4's otherwise-locked multiplier. According to Abit, multiplier trickery is involved, but only for Pentium 4 540 3.4GHz and 560 3.6GHz processors.

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Ever fancied having a close up look at a supercomputer? Hexus.net got the rare opportunity to do this, with a tour of Armari Systems Integrator's offices. You need to see it for yourself to appreciate the giant gold T90, and the mass of wires that is the T3D.

After getting whipped by AMD Opteron's performance specs during the past few months, a crop of Intel Xeon mobos offers possibilities that AMD doesn't. Will seven Socket 604 motherboards with features like SATA-II, PCI Express and DDR2 help Intel get its Xeon off the ropes?

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According to GamesIndustry ATi's R500 parts headed for development kits, just in time for public unveiling on January 5th? The R500 is similar in many ways to the R520 graphics part which will power ATI's next generation PC graphics boards, and while exactly specifications aren't currently available for the part, it's known to be based on Shader Model 3.0, like NVIDIA's current high-end GeForce 6800 cards.

OCIA.net has teamed up with CoolerMaster.com to bring you guys some really cool prizes.

Abit launches a 1066 FSB 925XE board designed for gaming. Is it "Built to Kill" as Abit claims?

I started a series on industry roadmap updates back in February, covering product launches from a bunch of companies in the four quarters they like to split the year into. While the Q1 and Q2 articles went down really well, I struggled to beg borrow and steal roadmaps for Q3 so that article slipped into the ether. Q4 is a similar story and with the year fast approaching its end. However, a juicy morsel of information from the mighty Intel quietly slipped into my topsecretro@dmaps.com mailbox a couple of weeks ago and I've got an excuse for a quick article today on Intel's future plans.

The Sound Blaster Audigy 4 pro is available at the US Creative website. There seems to be enough space next to it on the site for a possible (cheaper) Audigy 4 platinum and normal Audigy 4.

Today NVIDIA have released their 6800Go product, this is the first part to be launched using their new 6 Series GPU.

While it's nice to just look at the finished product itself, sometimes it's useful to go back and look at how it's made. Especially today in the silicon industry, where both major players in the x86 desktop market are having issues with their top end products.

The Crazy Madshrimps are giving away a 1gb kit of those new Samsung powered memory modules from PDP Patriot. All you need to do is answer one question and send of an email. The winner will be picked near the end of the month!

If you've been paying attention over the last few months, you've no doubt noticed that AMD's latest Athlon 64s trounce Intel's newest Pentium 4s almost across the board. That's a real shame considering that Intel's 900-series chipsets bring so much to the table, including PCI Express, advanced Serial ATA and RAID features, and high-definition audio. There could be hope for Intel fanboys, though. Since the Pentium 4 500 line stretches from 2.8 to 3.6GHz, lower speed grades may have considerable overclocking headroom just waiting to be exploited.

VolariGamers has posted benchmark results of Lian Guan's new V3T128 graphics board based on the Volari V3 128-bit card. The core is clocked at 250 Mhz and the memory is 500 Mhz (250 Mhz DDR).

3DXtreme is giving away an Albatron K8X800 Pro II Version 2.0 Motherboard. Based on the VIA K8T800 chipset this board is packed with extras. It supports the AMD socket 754 CPUs extras include Gigabit Lan, 1394 Firewire and onboard 8 channel sound. This board is valued at $130 - this is the newest revision. Get in the game now to win! The Giveaway ends tomorrow.

Creative Japan has officially announced the Audigy 4 pro. There is is now news about a cheaper internal PCI version.