The fifth day of CeBIT exhibition has passed and X-bit labs has managed to catch up with some unseen products, including a prototype mainboard based on NVIDIA?s first chipset with integrated graphics core for AMD64 processors; the first mainboards for the Athlon 64 processor in BTX form-factor; Leadtek?s dual-chip graphics card; and also about CoolerMaster?s, Thermaltake?s and Zalman?s plans to get into the living rooms.

XGI the Asian graphic cards manufacturer is going to release their new high-end Graphic Card XG45 somewhere around May. The XG45 will be similar in performance and features to the existing ATI Radeon X700 based on the PCI Express interface.

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Hackers no longer need to passively wait for legitimate packets on a wireless LAN because they can actively inject packets into a wireless LAN to ensure a speedy packet collection session. The end result is, any WEP based network with or without Dynamic WEP keys can now be cracked in minutes!

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If you wander over to Prolink's stand at CeBit, you'll not only see NVIDIA's nForce4 for Pentium 4 on their stand, using EPoX's 5NVA+ SLI mainboard, but you'll also see the board running SLI using two 6800 GTs with different BIOS revisions. Check out this picture.

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Beyond 3D attended This years CeBit to catch up with the graphics vendors, in order to find out what new happening there are with ATI and NVIDIA and to also catch up with S3 and XGI, who we don?t hear quite as much of, to find out what their outlook on thing is.

With the Game Developers Conference behind us and CeBit all but over, we find ourselves in mid-March with a somewhat clearer picture than previously about certain sectors of the hardware industry, nowhere more so than at ATI. Thus, Elite Bastards have sat down and taken a look at the products we can expect to see come through the Canadian firms doors during the remainder of 2005 together with what (if anything) we know about said products.

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It's CeBIT time again und like the last years pzycho from barebones.de was at the exhibition to bring you some nice pics from the show. So enjoy the CeBIT 2005 picture gallery.

At technewsworld.com, Susan B. Shore writes "The adaptor is a box into which both a computer and a mouse are plugged. The device filters out shakes using technology similar to that used in camera lenses to calm the effects of unsteady hands. It can be used with any operating system or computer type without additional software. ". Read here for more.

this story submitted by MrIcee XtremeResources takes a look at Thermaltakes newest enthusiast offering in the case segment, the Thermaltake Soprano VB1000BWS. Our European reviewer Grace takes a look in, out and all around this case to determine if it's a worthy follow-up to their previous offerings. Read the full review here

We confirmed that G70 is the real thing and we learned that Nvidia has one more chip down the road codenamed the G80. We expect it to be based on 90 nanometre and have more pipes than NV40. We don't think that it will be dual graphics core stuff but you never know, you kow.

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X-bit labs continues to bring you the creams of the show in Hannover and today we have some updates from ABIT, who is showcasing its concept remote controller to control the PC and an array of home appliances; Foxconn?s e-Bot barebone PC for AMD64 processors; 512MB graphics cards from Gainward and XFX; as well as Shuttle?s barebone that supports multi-GPU and is based on the nForce4 SLI chipset.

Over three nights, and in -10C temperatures... we overclock three Intel 915 motherboards and see what happens. The results may surprise you!

PC Perspective

With its 3D comb filter and enhanced 5-line 2D filter (among other improvements), ATI's THEATER 550 PRO chip boasts improved image quality over previous ATI offerings. In addition, the chip no longer requires a pass-through cable, supports both PCI and PCI-E interfaces, features a new remote control unit, and most importantly of all, has a built-in MPEG-2 encoder. But what separates ATI's TV WONDER ELITE from other THEATER 550 PRO-based cards? In this article, we've rounded up THEATER 550 PRO boards from ATI, Sapphire, and TUL. See how THEATER 550 PRO looks in comparison to THEATER 200 when capturing TV programming as well as how the cards fare against one another in this article!

As a good end for 2004, AMD have all their CPUs benefiting from the 90nm Technology, except for the Low-end Sempron Processors. We saw a move in the desktop 939 socket market from Northwood Core to Winchester one.

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HEXUS.net has managed to get a look at a new GPU waterblock for the X8-series of graphics cards. Koolance have been very innovative with this design.

On the opposite side you can see Koolance's new innovation for this new series of GPU coolers. Dubbed HydraPak, it's a pierce and puncture proof container for the other side of the waterchannel. The material doesn't conduct any electricty whatsoever and cools the back side of the board with direct contact. On a flip-chip design like the X8-series, you can transfer heat away from the bottom of the GPU and to the PCB. Especially with X850 XT, that's a fearsome amount of heat to get rid of and while the X850 XT's cooler does a good job in getting direct heat away from the GPU, there's still plenty radiated from the rear.

AMD is demonstrating its dual core technology. We had a quick pictorial overview of one of their first dual core platforms that is up and running, as well as some information on the Turion 64 - AMD's new mobile GPU that was released earlier this week.

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In Part 2, we will investigate the advantages and disadvantages of the new market trend: multi-core CPUs. Will dual core enhance your gaming experience? Tim Sweeney, the leading developer behind the Unreal 3 engine, was so kind to answer our questions about multi-threaded development with concise answers. There is more - in the third part of this series, we will investigate what future multi-core and single core architectures will bring. We examine if the stories about "the new era of multi-threaded multi-core CPUs" are true and whether or not this will really benefit the consumer.

We have exclusive information on MSI's new 'jumperless' SLI bridge, an SLI solution that controls the PCI-Express lane configuration without the need for jumpers or a card switch.

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Just spotted this bit of Info posted over at TechReport!

The folks at Hardware Upgrade in Italy claim they have benchmarks from a dual-core Athlon 64 from CeBit. The chip is apparently an engineering sample running at 2.4GHz, and it manages to outperform slightly a pair of Opteron 250s running at the same clock speed. Not too shabby, if it's real.

ATi graphics card owners will have probably heard of Sapphire. In fact, there's a good chance they have an ATi card with a Sapphire badge on it. At CeBIT however, Sapphire are displaying not a new ATi graphics card, but rather a new 'enthusiast motherboard' based on an ATi chipset. Performance of the board, codenamed 'Grouper' is claimed to equal or better that of NVIDIA's nForce 4 chipset. The sample on display is also in a very unique, yet attractive colour scheme. HEXUS.net have details from CeBIT.