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

PC Perspective have thrown up their preview of ATi's Mobility X800 and X300 GPUs!

ATI is announcing a new mobility GPU based on the X800 technology and one based on the X300 technology. We go over the basics of what has changed in this PCI Express-based mobile chip.

Finaly we've got an official distributor of GeCube's products here in Bulgaria... The name GeCube usually is associated with nice Radeon based videocards that have quite good OC potentian and just a few days after the cards were available the 9550 series turned to be a great budget card with very nice performance/price ratio.

Here's the first tech demo for ATi's Radeon X850 using a modified Farcry engine and PS2.0b.

The official launch of Nvidia's SLI graphics technology is almost upon us. Possibly the biggest event for PC Hardware this year, Nvidia have sparked tremendous interest. Today, Hexus.net have an introduction to the technology, including the two modes in which SLI runs (alternate-frame and split-frame rendering,) how the system is physically setup, including the inter-gpu link and what happens if you remove it mid-game! Benchmarks in Far Cry , Doom III and Half-Life 2 are also included, in what is the first part of Hexus' SLI coverage.

Fido over at The Inquirer has snagged the latest Info on ATi's Radeon X850!

BEFORE ATI briefs the press tomorrow under non disclosure agreement, and in Munich, we'd like to share all we know about the R480.

PC Perspective reports You heard it here first, guys! I just learned that NVIDIA and Intel have inked a deal to allow NVIDIA to develop chipsets for the Intel platforms. Here's what I can tell you so far, based on the info in the press release and other information I was given. First, this is a broad cross-license, which means we will be seeing multiple chipsets from NVIDIA's nForce line for Intel's platforms, probably including the high-end markets as well as the integrated graphics market. *Edit* Here is a statement we got on the subject of segments for this new license:

ExtremeTech takes a look at Creative's Audigy 4 Pro!

Four is the new three. Or at least that's what Creative's model numbering system would have us believe. The company went from the Audigy 2 to the Audigy 2 ZS, and then went straight to its new Audigy 4. We've generally been impressed with the Audigy 2 series of sound cards, and Creative still has the most feature-complete line of consumer sound cards in the business.

We have set our focus on piecing together ? not an unattainable dream machine ? but a believably beefy box perfect for fast-paced gaming and multimedia.

Socket 754 ? 939 ? 130nm and 90nm fabrication process? This test is for those who are lost in AMD?s line of products. Here is a comparative test of 16 processors including 12 Athlon 64s. The P-Rating is sometimes just the tip of the iceberg.