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.

The Inquirer

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.

Bit-Tech

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.

Bit-Tech

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.

XG47 is an upcoming 3D Graphics Solution from XGI.

CeBIT ranks as the world's number one event for the IT sector. It is the only trade fair where representatives of business, science, politics and media can see all the latest trends in a single location.

Pictures include Creative Labs, Gigabyte, SiS, Club3D, FIC and XGI booth

On the first day of CeBIT we reported on XFX?s TV series titled ?Extreme PC Garage?. If your PC is considered sad enough, XFX would fly you and your machine to LA, tear the guts out of it, fill it back up with bleeding egde hardware and then mod the box until it begs for mercy? At the end of all that, you?ll be presented with an uber-stomping rig and all at XFX?s expense.

CeBIT, the biggest IT exhibit that takes place in Europe every year. Roughly two million visitors and well over 8000 exhibitors are present on that CeBIT. CeBIT is focusing on the professional visitor, rather than the end-user. The majority of exhibitors were IT/Enterprise oriented, and only handfuls in attendance were for the consumer level. Guru3D.com wrote up a 21 page overview loaded with some nice photos, exclusives and their experiences.

Here at CeBIT 2005, you see innovation galore, but at the ECS stand they have something truly special that stands out as being one of the hottest products of the show. Hexus brings you the ECS PF88, the first mainboard to support both Intel P4 AND AMD Athlon 64 processors.

We managed to sneak a quick NFS: Underground 2 manual run through on the 'Scenic Ride' track - which proved quite an interesting experience. Unfortunately, we did not have the ability to force a resolution above 1024x768 on the monitor we used, but we maxxed out the settings - maximum in-game AA was selected, along with 16x Anisotropic Filtering.

Bit-Tech

VolariGamers has posted the complete specs of the upcoming XGI native PCI-Express card, the Volari 8300, also known under its codename XG47.

Back in August at HEXUS.net we reviewed Zalman's first silent PC, the TNN 500. While very bulky and not exactly pretty, it was indeed silent, posessing only two moving parts - the hard drive and optical drive. At Zalman's CeBIT stand they have a new, smaller version of the TNN on show, the TNN 300. It remains a silent solution, but has had a bit of a makeover and is described as a 'petite' variation of the TNN enclosure. I still wouldn't drop it on my foot though...

This will make you droool two CoolFX GeForce 6800 Ultra's in SLI mode with 1 GB of memory!

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