VolariGamers has posted a preview of XGI's upcoming graphics card, the Volari 8300, also known under its codename XG47. The Volari 8300 is XGI's PCI-Express solution for the value market and boasts a number of attractive features going beyond competing solutions, such as HDTV 1080i output, 420Mhz RAMDAC, low power consumption, etc.

There is a new notebook buyer's guide at aworldofhelp.com. Learn what you need to have and what you can do without inside your next laptop.

The release of the nForce 4 has overshadowed the release of another chipset for the Athlon 64, the VIA K8T890, which also supports PCI Express. Final versions of motherboards based on this chipset are now available. A full test of this chipsets functions and a comparison with the nForce 4 is called for!

BeHardware

HEXUS.net has pictures of a new mobile workstation from SavRow. This 'laptop' supports a Pentium 4 3.8Ghz and over 2GB of RAM, along with nVidia's Quadro Go1400 - some immense hardware for a mobile system.

Creative has unleashed the latest 3Dlabs creation on the world: the two GPU Wildcat Realizm 800.

AnandTech

Listen to the hype about 64-bit computing, and you could get the idea that the move to 64 bits will make all of your games run twice as fast, replace blocky 3D models with smooth, photorealistic replicas of the human form, and transform the average PC into a wonder-box that can resequence your dog's genome in its spare cycles so he won't pee on the rug anymore. On the other hand, listen to the anti-hype about 64-bit computing, and you could be forgiven for wondering why anyone even bothered?probably just a conspiracy to get us to buy new stuff we don't need.

This Viewsonic TPCV1250S may not seem all that impressive at first, but when you read its description on Amazon, you?ll discover that this demure Tablet PC holds inside a 10GHz Athlon and a 30,000GB hard disk. Amazing!

Gizmodo

A new driver from NVIDIA has improved SLI support and brought new features to the table. Inside we not only test this latest driver, focusing on SLI support and performance, but we also comment on what we would like to see in future iterations of NVIDIA?s SLI.

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Intel's recent release of their 64-bit supporting Pentium 4 6xx series processors has been a long time coming. With these processors, we've seen the desktop launch of Intel's EM64T Technology. MBReview has posted up an article detailing some of the core architecture modifications that have been made by Intel, ranging from registers to instructions. If you're interested in what's going on at the architecture level with these new 64-bit capable processors, be sure take a look!

The Arctic Spider sets a new standard for GPU cooling. Wintsch Labs has designed this product with the extreme overclocker in mind. Made for the GeForce 6800 ultra graphics card, the unit utilizes an amazingly powerful 437watt Qmax peltier device that is capable of delivering load temperatures below 0 degrees celsius.

In this round of DDR2 competition we take a look at some of the contenders who did not make the last roundup like, Crucial, Corsair and OCZ. I think you will be very surprised at the results.

Motherboards

Speaker manufacturers are enticing more and more consumers to go with small, mini-, or micro-speakers for even the front and center channels. Although these speakers might look great, they just can't do what the large speakers can do.

Ecoustics

In the market for a high-end video card? Thinking about a 6800 GT? You might want to think again. The ATI Radeon X800 XL is on our test bench today, with cards from Club3D, Sapphire and MSI. We test them against the 6800 GT in real-world gaming scenarios, and find that the XL is one heck of a card.

Bit-Tech

Fujifilm is the first manufacturer to bring a portable printer that prints credit card sized images directly from a certain group of cell phones via infrared technology (wirelessly). According to Fujifilm, the printer weighs in at mere seven ounces (without batteries). The MP-70 requires two CRT2 lithium batteries to operate and prints about 130 images with fully charged batteries. In addition, Fujifilm?s Image Intelligence technology allows the portable MP-70 to print images at 256dpi resolution.

Here's a couple of snippets from TechPowerUp regarding ATI's latest Hardware! First up is some interesting info on ATi's R520 GPU.

We have confirmed the 24 pipelines rumors from several independant sources. However, these 24 pipelines are not comparable to 24 of today's pipelines - multiply by 1.3. So the 24 pipelines will have the performance of 32 "normal" pipelines. The result of this is that the R520 will be two times as fast as the currently fastest X850s.

As you know, we have been following the story of pricing and availability of the latest ATI cards for some time now. The story started with the introduction of the Radeon X800 series of graphics cards last spring and the subsequent availability problems with certain models, especially the Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition. High-end cards from both NVIDIA and ATI were scarce for a good portion of 2004, especially in consumer retail and "e-tail" channels, causing consternation among would-be buyers.

The world?s largest trade show is about to end, but it does not mean that X-bit labs has nothing new to tell about. In today?s reporting we explore Blu-ray disc recorders from Hitachi and Panasonic and also glance at BD player from Sony; reveal some details about ServerWorks? HT2000 chipset for AMD64 server processors; discover some new products from Sapphire Technologies, including an ultra high-performance mainboard and a bunch of TV-tuners; see how OCZ takes DDR1 memory to 667MHz without much problems; and even watch AMD Athlon 64 processor being plugged into a mainboard for Intel Pentium 4 chips.

AMD shared their plans for the upcoming dual core processors with us. We wrap up the information and present it to you here.

PC Perspective

Well, I have officially finished off the first portion of the "Ultimate Motherboard" artcile that I've been working on as of late. This first portion covers various areas of what I would consider to be the "Ultimate Motherboard", ranging from aesthetics, to layout, to the feature set that I would like to see the board equipped with. Sound interesting? Why not check out the article! Thanks!

HEXUS has exclusively obtained the following benchmark results of a Pentium 4 nForce 4 system running ID Software's Doom 3, and perhaps in some comparisons, the platform as a whole is not looking too healthy.