We don?t need to discuss the state of DDR any further, as we have already published an informative CES 2005 Special Report that details the standard and its future directly from the manufacturers.

T-Break have a preview of A new VIA K8T890 PCI-E AMD64 based Soltek mobo. I think no one else has reviewed such a thing yet.

VIA had their K8T890 chipset announced for the Athlon64 platform quite some time back. If we remember right, it was announced before nVidia?s nForce4 as the first PCI Express solution for the AMD platform. However, boards based on this chipset are yet to make an appearance on store shelves. Today, we have recieved the first motherboard based on the K8T890 chipset and its an Engineering sample from Soltek modelled the K8T890.

I wrote an article on my blog about building the ultimate PC at www.kmaximo.blogspot.com

This being an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe system.

I have some of the first shots of a finished DFI NF4 SLI-DR motherboard that was sent to me yesterday. As I'll be out of town during the weekend and most of next week, I won't get a chance to review it until I get back, but I thought I'd share some pictures of the board with you before I head out and just scroll down the page for the Abit WN-2S dual Opteron NF4 SLI Maniboard.

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According to NVIDIA?s marketing, NVIDIA?s Scalable Link Interface (SLI) "can deliver as much as 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences." What NVIDIA fails to make clear, however, is that SLI currently requires NVIDIA to write driver profiles for each game to support SLI. Are all the games you want to play supported?

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Today ATi have launched their Mobility Radeon X700. Claiming twice the performance of the Mobility Radeon 9700, it looks set to be a popular choice for laptops where graphics performance is an important factor. ATi have issued a press release and HEXUS.net have an analysis.

In conjunction with the launch of the Intel Sonoma mobile platform, Team ARP is proud to present to you a look at, not one, but TWO Sonoma-based notebooks! Today, we take a close look at the new Sonoma mobile platform as well as the spanking new Techdos and Fujitsu Sonoma notebooks! Be the first to read about Sonoma and why it will change mobile computing as we know it

Socket 939 has established itself as THE gaming platform. To extract the utmost in performance from a 939 platform, some very good memory is needed. Today the Madshrimps are looking at 8 sets of memory modules which are based on Samsung´s TCCD chips. As many know, the TCCD chips are fast becoming legendary for their ability to clock to crazy levels with modest or even low voltages. Let's take a peak at how our provided samples behave in our test bed shall we!

Dual-Layered (DL) DVD writers are still a bit expensive, but the question of concern is the media prices. The price per DL media averages out to $10.00, which is shockingly high. We talked to manufacturers at this year?s CES about prices and what they thought about DL media in general. The replies we received were far from positive and disappointing. According to a few blank media providers, DL standard may not have a bright future ahead of it. The reason is the upcoming Blu-Ray and HD DVD standards that are supported by world?s top most corporations.

With the introduction of the Pentium 4 570J Intel introduces what could be the last member of the NetBurst architecture. Will it be enough to once again secure the performance crown? Or is it just one last speed bump for Intel's Pentium 4?

Recently, Hp has finally released their LightScribe technology to the market. Why is this important? This new technology removes the need to write on the CD or DVD. You can now actually burn an image on the label side of the CD/DVD, including image and text.

Looking for gadgets for your PC to spend your holiday cash on? In this article, we take a look at six different products from ATI, D-Link, OCZ, Seagate, Shuttle, and X-Micro, ranging from external TV tuner solutions, to portable storage, and even a little MP3 action as well. Perhaps you'll see something that catches your eye inside!

Case lighting has grown hugely popular over recent years, and Corsair have just taken it to the next level with their XMS Xpert memory modules - they feature a 10-digit alphanumeric display! seeing is believing. HEXUS.net have a preview.

Apple boss Steve Jobs has unveiled the company's vision for 2005 at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.

The SoftPear Project aims to create compatibility software between the IBM PC and the Apple Macintosh architecture.

With Mac OS X, an excellent operating system is available, unfortunately it runs only on Macintosh hardware. Therefore this project seeks to create compatibility layers to run Mac OS X on IBM PC hardware.

Doom 3 is a very good first person action game based on the OpenGL engine and like everyone else we are interested in the performance results from the latest NVIDIA and ATI graphic cards. We selected in total 32 different cards , 14 NVIDIA cards and 18 ATI cards. 23 cards are AGP and 9 cards are PCI-Express.

Welcome back! We continue our coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show 2005 with Shuttle this time. Shuttle had a noteworthy presence at the show floor with their numerous products on display. Shuttle launched their sleek LCD displays a while back and now they are back with much improved specifications. Shuttle has plans to introduce a newer 19" LCD monitor with 8ms response time.

Hey Everyone,
We've posted a new review on 3DXtreme.net - ASUS A8V Deluxe 939 Motherboard.

"Today 3DXtreme has the great pleasure of reviewing one of Asus? offering to the AMD Athlon64 socket 939 line, the A8V Deluxe. Historically it has been shown that performance from one motherboard to another on the Athlon64 platform has been very close across all manufacturers. We really don?t expect things to change much with the A8V. We then shift to finding the motherboard that offers the most features for the enthusiast who is looking to overclock the Athlon64 to it?s maximum potential. Can the A8V prove to be the one that we have been looking for? Let?s find out..."

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OCIA.net has posted an article on Unlocking / Overclocking the NVIDIA GeForce 6800. Below is a direct quote from the article:

"As you may know, one of the main differences between the 6800 base model and the GT version is the fact that the GT version comes with a total of 16 pixel pipelines, whereas the 6800 only has 12. I began reading on various message boards that some people were actually able to unlock the remaining four pixel pipelines on their 6800 cards for a total of 16, matching that of the GT model. This seemed completely reasonable, as the 6800 is more or less a watered-down version of its GT counterpart. My mind began to roam, wondering if it would be possible to unlock / overclock this base model XFX 6800 to the GT level, a card that cost nearly $130 more. And so my quest began..."

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Although it wasn't heavily advertised, Intel had a 925XE system running the new Pentium 4 600 series with a 2MB L2 cache in their booth. As you undoubtedly know by now, the Pentium 4 600 series is still a 90nm Prescott but with twice the L2 cache, EMT64 (x86-64) support as well as all of the features available in the current 500 series.