A bit earlier than Asus, ECS released several new BIOSes on December 31st: P4IBAS P4IBAS2 P4VXASD P4VXAS2 P4VXASD2 K7AMA K7S5A K7VTA3 As usual use caution when flashing your BIOS.

As the holidays are already over in Germany for the working people Asus Germany took over again: Bios P4B 1008 Final (=1008 - 01 Beta) Bios P4B266 1005 Final (=1005 - 04 Beta) Bios P4T-E 1005 Final (=1005 - 03 Beta) As always use caution when flashing your BIOS. You may use the Asus LiveUpdate utility for flashing under Windows.

Cool is the word that comes to my mind first here. Reduced noise is what our friend Dean achieved along the way. Here is a snip: The Thermaltake Volcano 7 [has been altered] with some modding to the thermal sensor on the fan! We've removed the thermal sensor and opened the Volcano7 up by running the 80mm at 53cfm, 5000 rpm and only 39 dB...finally we have decent cooling without all the noise! Read more @ 3DXtreme.

Here's some new bioses files that I found while surfing the net from Abit , Asus , AOpen , ECS Elitegroup , Gigabyte , Iwill , MSI , Shuttle , Soltek!!!!!!!!!!!

Maxreboot INTEL Corp.'s newest microprocessor, the next generation 2.2GHz version of its Pentium 4 chip, went on sale in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district on Thursday afternoon, ahead of its official launch date in January.

ASUS has launched the production of their new A7M266-D mainboard, which incorporates both AMD Athlon XP and Athlon MP in a dual way. And unlike many of the other dual Athlon boards around, this one supports both non-registered and registered memory.

ReactorCritical shows the way to almost fail-safe identification of your Radeon 8500 in terms of clock specs: Look at the back of your card. Identify your card via the P/N Number on the backside sticker: RADEON 8500 (275 MHz): 1028571100 RADEON 8500 LE (250 MHz): 1028571200 RADEON 8500 LELE (230 MHz): 1028571500 The 102 in the PN means ATI. The next three numbers is a modification of PCB, "857" in case of RADEON 8500. The next four figures is technological information. Thanks to RC for the information.

The only review ever of the AMD PCNET Series of cards at Rizenet. Check them out at the following link: AMD PCNET/PCNET+ NIC Cards

I snugged some of the latest firmwares for your DVD & CDRW as well as Combo drives. Use caution when flashing drives. Flashing wrong firmwares can turn your drive inoperable. The firmwares are listed under Read More...

New BIOSes for one of the best boards out there.

Plextor has released a new Firmware for There W2410TA Burner it ìs the Revision 1.03!

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Glurak!

Soltek and Iwill have released some new BIOS files! :D

MSI have just released a new bios for its K7n420 nforce board (MS-6373). This brings it upto Version 2.10. Heres the low down on what they've added: This BIOS fixes the following problems of the previous version: Remove RTC Alarm item in BIOS setup because chipset dont support APM -Added CPU FAN detect item in BIOS setup Support AMD XP 2000+ CPU Added CPU Ratio item in BIOS setup Get it here: MSI Download

Dell have released a new BIOS for the Dell Dimension 4200.

Whats new: 1. Fixed issue where 28bit LBA HDD were getting corrupted under certain circumstances. New Dimension 8200 A03 FlashBIOS:

What's new: 1. Added support for newer CPUs.
2. Modified SMI handler to prevent spurious shutdowns.

X-Bios have got their hands on brand new reference BIOS updates for Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 500 series! :D

3.20.00.20.01
3.20.00.20.02

3DChipset: Well, I had a chance to format the Dell Inspiron 8100 and install a fresh new copy of Windows XP Professional and got rid of the home version and all that preloaded stuff Dell likes to pack on the computer. I managed to install 3DMark2001 and i thought I try out the Evolva rolling benchmark

The Dell Inspiron 8100 Model consists of:

- 1.2Ghz Pentium III-M with 512k L2 cache
- 128Mb
- 20Gb Hard drive
- CDRW Drive
- ATi Mobility 64Mb of DDR
- 1600x1200 LCD Monitor (Totally Clear!!)
- Windows XP Professional

3DChipset preliminary Mobility 7500 results

According to the german site TecChannel VIA's Marketing Manager Shane Dennison admitted that VIA is working on a solution to this known problem. The issue was first discussed by TecChannel in an article about PCI bus transfer rates when ATA133 controllers either onboard or as addon solutions were used. Chipsets based on Intel or SiS performed noticably higher than VIA products (up to 32%). Still unclear is which steps VIA will take to resolve the issue. Maybe a revised 4-in-1 driver will do or a BIOS update might be necessary. TecChannel also took a closer look at the unofficial PCI latency patch. More about that can be read under the read more option.

Yep that's right. Two new ones for your downloading and flashing pleasure. Fortunately tech support is closed till new year so we finally get some rest... :) Bios P4B 1007 Final (=1007 - 02 Beta) Bios CUV4X-C 1008 - 01 Beta Use caution when flashing your BIOS.

Another day, some new bios updates. Today we offer these two "guys":
CUV4X-E without OnBoard Audio (Beta)
CUV4X-E(A) with OnBoard Audio 1006 - 03 (Beta)
Be careful when you flash your bios.

At an expected street price of less than ?300 incl. VAT a GeForce3 Ti-200 GPU in combination with Gainward?s unique ?128MB High-Performance/Wide-Bandwidth? hardware design offers by far today?s best price/performance ratio,? commented Hans-Wolfram Tismer, Gainward?s Managing Director Europe! :D

Hey MR Hans-Wolfram Tismer if you're reading this can I have one to TEST please!? Pretty please...

Gainward Press Release

Order here it's only ?300 incl. VAT for what looks like a great card NVIDIA?s GeForce3 TI-200 and 128MB of super-fast 4.0ns DDR memory