The Nforce 5 Chipset will be a highly overclockable chipset. Our sources confirmed that the Nvidia Pentium 4 chipset will go up to FSB 1200MHz, using 300MHz rather than 200MHz multiples.

The Inquirer

Samsung Electronics announced Thursday that from Jan. 1, customers who discover defective pixels on an LCD monitor produced by the company less than six months after its purchase may have the panel replaced free of charge.

According to The Inquirer, Korean company HiTeC Digital Audio told us that it finally has a PCI card. The company called it HDA Digital X Mystique 7.1 gold and this is supposed to be the first PCI based 7.1 Channel Dolby Digital live sound card. Of course it supporst real time content encoding and supports various standards such as Dolby Digital/Dolby Prologic II/DTS and DTS ES.

The Thermalright SI-97, Scythe Kamakiri and Spire VertiCool compared by the Madshrimps using a variety of fans and reference heatsinks. Does the new generation Athlon XP coolers deliver good value for money? Read on to find out

Want the chance to WIN a NVIDIA GeForce 6600, or a AMD 64 3000 939 or 754 CPU?... Even a DFI Lanparty 260UT or Patriot PC3200 2x256 "TCCD"? Perhaps simply Half-Life 2 & Far Cry gamepacks? Make sure you check out our AUSFX NEW YEARS GIVEAWAY thread in the forums for more details on how you could win some stuff!

There is a new trend that recently emerged in the world of power supplies, the wireless trend. Yes, the industry is moving towards reducing the unnecessary wires from the power supplies to better assist in system aesthetics and overall heat dissipation. Personally, this is one of the impressive, long awaited changes that have happened to power supplies in a long time.

SLI - Nvidia's new dual graphics technology, has only one SLI capable chipset for desktops right now. That is the nForce 4 SLI. At least... officially this is case. However, MSI have produced an SLI capable motherboard based on the nForce 4 Ultra. Furthermore, the additional PCB on the motherboard required to change the wiring to the PCI-Express slots is gone. MSI have engineered a way around it. Pictures and analysis can be found at Hexus.net. This solution should be cheaper than the nForce 4 SLI, but the question is how significant will the performance difference be?

I decided to check nvnews forums before i went to bed, and noticed a thread that really stuck out. A Dual GPU 6600GT made by Gigabyte, apprently to be available in January 05. Looks like ATi will be shaking in their little red and white space boots. Here's a link to the THG article.

TrustedReviews has just put up a group test of 7 different 16-speed DVD writers covering the most common brands on the market.

All these DVD writers will burn to DVD+R media at 16x and some of them will even write at 16x to DVD-R discs as well. Unfortunately there?s no 16x DVD-R media available yet, so we couldn?t really test that part of the feature set, although a couple of the drives were able to write at 12x to 8x DVD-R media.

As some of you may know, Extreme Cooling Technology APs (ECT) has recently purchased the assets of nVentiv, aka Chip-con, and is now producing new Prometeia Mach II GTs and accessories. ECT has over 60 years of refrigeration experience and considerable expertise in developing extreme cooling. ECT would like to introduce itself and hear from its customers about what products they'd like to see as well as improvements o­n its existing o­nes. We have been informed that the Intel 775 kit will be out shortly with all distributors and resellers are fully stocked with Mach II and Mach II GT's and accessories for immediate delivery. o­n a last note, warranty service is now the responsiblity of the local distributor and units do NOT have to be shipped back to Denmark. ECT believes that this arrangement will enhance the end user experience and provide a higher level of service that their customers deserve.

OCAU checked out a nifty little gadget from Sitecom. It lets you connect an additional monitor to your PC, using only a USB port. Just the thing for multi-screen goodness on a laptop. Read the review here

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