Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Acer TravelMate 8000. Here is a snippet:

Have notebook computers approached desktop performance? In the last year notebook manufactures have been pushing out unit's that are getting closer and closer to the speed of desktops, but does this limit the useability when you are using it as a notebook should be used, on a battery? The Acer TravelMate 8000 redefines notebook performance and packs in the new Intel® Pentium® M Processor 745 Donathan 1.8GHz processor which has 2MB L2 cache and a 400MHz FSB.

We should all be happy as fast panels for 19? LCD screens have arrived. There is the 8ms for the Samsung 913N, a 12 ms for the Philips 190S5FS, and a 16ms for the BenQ FP931 and NEC 92VM. Christmas has come early this year!

You will have probably read about NVIDIA's new dual graphics implementation by the name of SLI . It makes use of the bandwidth provided by PCI-Express and requires that the paired up cards have an "Inter-GPU" link across the top of the cards to coordinate their frame processing efforts. In developing SLI, NVIDIA worked with the "big 3" motherboard manufacturers: MSI, ASUS, and Gigabyte. However, it would seem some of the other motherboard manufacturers have their own ideas about how to implement NVIDIA's dual graphics technology, as HEXUS.net found out at the recently held NVIDIA Editors' day.

While the s754 platform might seem to lose its appeal with cheap s939 based A64 processors around the corner, the s754 platform is still good for a budget friendly overclocking thrill with just a minor performance loss compared to the newer s939 platform. The recent release of the some excellent OC boards have spiced up the s754 world, making the choice between going for s754 board now or to waiting for a good s939 setup even harder.

Club-3D is very proud to announce the first wave of new Volari products. The introduction of the V3XT, V5 and V8 creates a full line of products coming from XGI.

While this may not be anything new for some of you, here's a nice photo of what's under the sticker on professional E-MU sound cards.

What's up guys. Letting you know we've gotten some exclusive pics of the latest, soon to be released Zalman absolutely noiseless PC case.

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We've just gotten an Epox 9NPA+ nForce 4 Ultra mobo. Review soon, in the mean time enjoy the pics @ T-break

I've been thinking of buying Plextors PX-712SA for a couple of months now, just to get rid of the last remaining PATA-cable. They haven't been selling very well so it took me by surprise when I got a match while googling for PX-716SA. So here's the link to what I believe might be the ultimate dvd-burner of all time: Plextor PX-716SA

These days AMD manufactures a lot of models, which differ not only by their frequency, but by the L2 cache capacity and memory controller features, so it's rather difficult to choose a processor by these parameters. Especially if you take into account that the prices of models equal in frequency may differ more than twofold.

NVIDIA are working on a reference design which is low profile, with consumer electronic concept.They are putting the MXM connector on a motherboard, and depending on which GPU they pick it can give low heat and low profile, this could be an ideal Media Centre environment. Source: HEXUS.net

The Sound Blaster Zenith will replace the Audigy in 2005 and will finally support PCI-E. New features could be EAX 5 and Dolby live encoder:

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Evesham, the worlds favourite Worcestershire based PC manufacturer, has informed us that its going to be releasing a new flagship PC system designed to showcase Evesham?s expertise at putting bleeding edge technology together.

What will be going on your Christmas wish list to send to Santa Claus in the North Pole this year - ATI Radeon X700PRO or nVidia GeForce 6600GT? Today TweakTown are comparing both mainstream PCI Express graphics cards to work out which one should find its way into your stocking this year in our usual array of benchmarks. If you're on the market for a new graphics cards and Santa can't afford a high-end card, one of these cards is your next best bet!

Modern graphic cards are becoming quite a challenge to keep cool. Future graphic processors will not change that, as performance and heat production will only increase. We take a look at what to expect from these processors.

Hardware Analysis

For the announced products with x800XT, X700 Pro 256 MB X600XT and various other cards , still available intermixng on price points throughout it?ll be a very confusing Christmas/beginning of year if you?re looking for a video card purchase. Imagine going to Best Buy and asking for a video card? (I?m only focusing on ATI because of the announcement, NV is just as guilty of this.)

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Stuck for a gift idea for that geek in your life? We've put together a collection of fun, silly and innovative gift ideas for the gadgeteer who has everything.

Gift Guide

The winter is almost here, the temperatures are gradually falling, now is the right time for overclock :-) Except the cold weather outside, there are also some interesting new coolers available that deserve our attention. How well will they perform and will they surpass our expectations... well know in a minute.

Now that the NDA's have been lifted off ATi's X850 XTPE graphics card, a bunch of review site have thrown up their articles! Here's a snip from DriverHeaven!

The X850 is an evolution of the R423 (X800) gpu and is a native PCI-Express part. As it is based on the R423 the same feature set such as Shader Model 2, geometry instancing and 3Dc support is present. Where the product differs is in 2 main areas. Firstly the X850 has a new cooling/thermal management design which aims to cool the GPU and memory more efficiently than the X800 Cooler/design.

The Madshrimps compared 5 different Samsung TCCD powered memory modules, discovering some surprising performance differences between them. To give these new TCCD chips a worthy competitor they also included results from Winbond BH-6 running with high VDIMM. How do they fair on an A64 S754 platform? Read on to find out