Computerbase.de have snagged the first Picture of ATi's VGA Radeon X800 XL Video Card!

Well ive been busy this week testing some new unreleased hardware from various companies, and although I cant discuss it in any detail I thought id share a little intentionally blurred picture the messy driverheaven testing rig with some amazingly powerful hardware and a little benchie from 3dmark01.

Ok, everyone is talking about SLI and its advantages... one of which is the scalability of the new technology. To be able to buy one SLI capable videocard now and then add a second one later on (when you've got enough money to buy another one), thus "doubling" your performance is one of the nice features offered by the SLI technology. However there is one big question: How well is the scalability implemented? Everyone is talking how good it is, but they are missing the key points.

The SLI Technology and its Scalablility

It isn't very often you start hearing buzzwords about low-end products from ATI and NVIDIA, but 2005 seems to be the exception to that rule. Today I've taken the first in a two part look at what the fuss is all about, by exploring the thinking behind NVIDIA's TurboCache technology. In part two, I'll be examining ATI's competing HyperMemory technology upon its official launch.

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The goal of this article is to bring out a quick look at what SSE3 brings to the table for Opteron and the future revision E Athlon 64 cores. As desktop parts do not enable coherent HT links at all, the 1GHz support won't matter. Also, the newer A64 parts are already 90nm on organic packages. Other than the usual small tweaks we see between steppings, the only thing that will be new across the board for K8 processors is SSE3.

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I've come accross some interesting new details on the nv50. remember it can be just a rumor or dunno, so take it with a little grain of slat :)))

These are the Specs for Nvidia's NV50

OCIA.net has teamed up with Corsair to give away four 1GB Corsair Flash Voyager Drives.

HEXUS.net have got a sneak peek at Acer's Travelmate 8104 notebook, which runs on ATI's new Mobility Radeon X700 graphics technology. This could shape up to be a very nice gaming laptop. Take a look at it here.

The official release of Windows XP x64 Pro is coming closer and closer and so I've decided to see how good is the SLI technology implemented in the x64 OS. I've downloaded the latest public beta RC1 (ver. 1289) and the latest beta drivers I could find - version 6.34 for the chipset and version 66.96 (dated 29/10/04) for the videocards (2x6800 MSI on a K8N SLI Platinum motherboard). Read on what happeded to my surprise: SLI still not available on XP x64?

Could this be the Specification for ATI's upcoming R520 VPU?

ATI R520...Due out in May 05 24 "Pipelines" 32 Texture Units 96 Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU) 192 Shader Operations per Cycle

ComputerBase has posted up some pic's of Logitech's soon to be released MX518 optical mouse that will replace the MX510!

Motherboard manufacturers have developed 865PE/875P chipsets with Socket T because the performance compared to the 925XE, 925X and 915P/G chipsets doesn't differ much and they can use the older components. The difference between AGP and PCI-Express cards is non-existing but the comparison between DDR and DDR2 at the moment goes to the older DDR memories. That's why the older Springdale or Canterwood chipsets might even sound as a better choice than the newer ones.

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If you are on the lookout for high performance AGP cards, you are in luck. We rounded up seven ATI RADEON X800 PRO cards from ABIT, Connect3D, GeCube, Gigabyte, HIS, PowerColor and Sapphire for a comprehensive shootout.

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As already reported before on Slashdot, OnlyNewZ tested in total 32 different cards in Doom 3. The article is now updated to version 0.2 and it includes more pages and a final conclusion as requested. 19 cards are AGP based and 13 cards are PCI-Express. Have a nice weekend!

HEXUS.net welcomes ex-Gainward manager Andy Davies to the team, and celebrates the occasion with a new competition. The winner will receive either an ATi Radeon X800 128MB, or a nVIDIA GeForce 6600GT - the winner decides! To enter, all you have to do is think up a caption for the photos of Andy in this thread. The funniest entry wins. Best of luck!

In partnership with Sunbeam, we are proud to announce another giveaway to our readers. So, head on over to our forums and enter your name.

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TrustedReviews has a group test up comparing 19 PSUs from a wide range of manufacturers including Akasa, Enermax, FSP, SilverStone, Tagan, Vantec and more. Check it out!

nVIDIA's GeForce 6 series covers just about the whole graphics market now, from top of the range SLI systems through to the lower-end of the scale. The GeForce Go 6200 and 6600 complete the mobile market. They will make use of TurboCache technology to allow reading and writing of system memory by the GPU, meaning the chip itself requires less graphics memory. Couple that with some nice power saving features and you've a very good reason to play Half-Life 2 on the move. HEXUS.net have an analysis of the product launch.