Available since the end of last year (the AGP version was first released and the PCI Express followed several months later), sales of the GeForce 6600 GT have exploded. If you are interested in buying a GeForce 6600 GT, you might first want to take a look at the survey of eleven 6600 GT graphic cards, 4 of them AGP and 7 PCI Express by Behardware.com.

NGO Competition will take place at the 31st this month. Exactly at 16:00 GMT. I will edit one of my latest posts in the forums. And I will add: ?password = xxxxxxxx?. The first person to find the password has to login into http://www.ngohq.com/competition/ and he or she suppose to find an email in there. The first person to email me with his details would win this High-end Card + Shipping + Customs refund.

At least some partners of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices have received AMD Athlon 64 4200+ microprocessor which is made using 90nm process technology and sports numerous enhancements over currently available Athlon 64 4000+ and FX-55 models.

X-Bitlabs

From the HEXUS.review : 'Intel will argue that it's not just about the heat, that it enables smaller x86 PCs due to the thermal reorganisation. Tell that to SFF PC makers, the guys pushing picoATX, VIA and their EPIA platform and many others. PCs will get smaller without BTX and ATX chassis engineers are getting smart and sorting out the thermal issues even with current "put your components anywhere you like" ATX mainboard designs. And where's BTX for larger mainboards?'

A month has now passed since we posted a few pictures below of the actual beast so as to dispel a few false rumours. There were many opinions that flew around the internet stating that the card didn?t exist!

3DProfessor

Gamers Depot's wrap-up of this Spring's IDF noteable technologies is up:

Every Spring and Fall, Intel hosts its own mini-trade show called the ?Intel Developer Forum? ? it?s essentially a twice a year event that gives them the chance to flex their muscle with new product announcements and a time in which they have direct access to media, industry analysts and varying hardware manufacturers. Additionally, they provide many sessions in which someone from Intel ? or a guest speaker ? will give the audience an overview of new technologies and industry initiatives etc.

XtremeSystems have snagged the first Picture of AMD's Turion 64 2800+ - 1.6 GHz - 1M L2 - Core 90nm Rev 'E' - TDP 25W Socket754 CPU!

XFX have informed us that a 512MB PCIe 6800 Ultra will be exhibited at CeBIT, with cards available to buy at the end of the month.

Hexus

The FiringSquad article has been updated with ATI's performance numbers for the X850 XT 512MB, X850 XT 256, and X850 XT PE in DOOM 3 Ultra quality mode, Half-Life 2, and Far Cry.

With its 6xx-series Pentium 4 processors, Intel has finally jumped on the desktop 64-bit bandwagon. Intel's EM64T architecture can implement Windows' x86-64 mode, and is also compatible with the AMD64 architecture. This means that you don't need different Windows operating systems to take advantage of 64-bit processing.

The Texas Gaming festival is a successful LAN event that has been taking place in Dallas, Texas for the past few years. Over the years, it has become one of the top most visited and sponsored LAN events in the nation with attendance easily surpassing the 500-attendee attendance. This year was no different. In fact, this was perhaps the most successful attempt at a LAN event especially when ATI decided to launch its X850 XT PE 512MB graphics card officially.

Want to know everything that's been made available on Intel's first dual core mobile CPU? We've got Yonah uncovered.

AnandTech

We have just come across some pictures of the latest 512MB GeForce 6800 Ultra that we talked about at the end of last week.

Bit-Tech

In this review, a few different portable hard drives were rounded up to be compared head to head... a Transcend StoreJet 1.8 (TS20GSJ18), a Kanguru Quicksilver (U2-HD2-20) and a ME-910 enclosure with a Fujitsu laptop drive. All three drives boast a 20GB capacity, and incorporate slightly different features and specifications into somewhat similar products.

BigBruin

Corsair - A leading hi-performance memory storage solution provider and MVKTech - The world's largest graphic card BIOS resource center, has joined forces to give our readers and members a chance to win 4-Gigs of some of the fastest DDR modules on the planet: Corsair XMS TWINX1024-3200XLPRO.
MVKTech - Corsair 4-Gigs Memory Giveaway!

In TweakTown's latest article they are comparing the performance of some of the top brands in DDR-2 memory modules. We've got modules on the test bench from OCZ (PC-5400 Performance series), Corsair (XMS2 Pro series) and Kingston (HyperX series). After taking a close look at each set of Dual Channel modules, we tested them at their default speeds and as far as we could overclock them.

HEXUS.net, reporting from the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, have snagged a spy shot of a NVIDIA reference board for the Pentium 4 that features two 16x PCIe lanes - ready for SLI. Only one graphics card is seen sitting in the motherboard, so perhaps it isn't fully functional yet.

part two of their P4 HSF roundup the Madshrimps compare 11 different P4 heatsinks made by Thermalright, Spire, Primecooler, Zalman, Evercool, Vantec and Titan. Using different fans at low and high speed we try to find the best bang for the buck, best performer and most silent HSF combo out there.

Today at GamePC, we'll be comparing the four main Athlon64 chipsets on the market with PCI Express support, along with looking at the boards which run them. We have motherboards based on nVidia's nForce4 Ultra and nForce4 SLI, along with new boards based on ATI's Radeon XPress 200 and VIA's K8T890 chipsets. Which platform is the best solution for running your new Athlon64 processor? Let's take a closer look.

Some months ago the FireGL V7100 pre production model landed on the door and we promised as time progressed that we would show an update on just the card and its drivers have advanced since launch to now. This has to be one of the biggest uptakes we have seen in some time as we found out below.

3D Professor