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.

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.

NGO HQ

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!

ZDnet Blogs

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.

HEXUS

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.

Elite Bastards

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