Air cooling seems rather old-hat in these days of water and phase-change, but it's still the method of choice for the vast majority of users. 3DVelocity takes a look at a couple of coolers for Intel's Socket 478.

I'm not quite sure if the recent surge in CPU coolers is due to some kind of upsurge in air cooling or if it's just one of those unexplainable coincidences that we have to put down to some strange, latent energy force that circles the universe causing all manner of phenomenon. Phenomenon like buses that arrive in threes or friends offering things for sale at ridiculously cheap prices the day after you paid far too much for the same thing elsewhere.

As we reported recently, ATI and NVIDIA may very well introduce their next generation of GPUs at Computex this year. Along with that, ATI may also unveil their Multi-VPU or "SLI" technology at the world?s largest hardware tradeshow as well. We also discussed pricing with our sources, but unfortunately, we only a got a broad reply. Since R520 will be ATI?s flagship product line, you can expect the high-end graphics adapters to be more expensive than ATI?s X850 XT PE, which retails around $470.00 on Newegg. That being said, we expect the prices to fall down on the X850 series significantly, therefore, keeping the pricing of R520 prices in a reasonable spectrum. No real surprise here.

Fresh from our review and presentation of the 3DXtreme Editor's Choice Award, Aerocool is providing us another Turbine 550 Watt Power Supply (value $105 USD) to give away to one lucky winner.

The contest rules are as usual, one posted reply to this thread is allowed per day, multiple posts in one day will disqualify. Make sure you have 5 valid forum posts elsewhere in the 3DXtreme.net Forums. Contest open to residents of USA and Canada. This contest will run until May 28th, 2005 at 12:00am.

Ever since NVIDIA introduced its SLI to the market, everyone immediately thought about ATI and the company?s possible reply to its rival?s Scalable Link Interface technology. Soon after NVIDIA?s launch, speculations flooded numerous publications, which stated that ATI was also working on its version of "SLI" or Multi-VPU technology.

The World Cyber Games at Cebit included a European Casemodding Exhibition this year. Hypercube creator Gert Swolfs reports on all the modding action.

Bit-Tech

Majority of us knew that ATI and NVIDIA were going to stick with their 9-month product refresh timeframe and launch their next generation of GPUs sometime this year. Earlier speculations revealed that both companies would come out with new products towards the end of the year, but it looks like that won?t be the case, after all.

CoolTechZone

Thus far, we have seen memory makers offer their DDR2 modules with Cas. Latency of 3 at the lowest. In fact, 3 is what is being as labeled as "low-latency" in the DDR2 market these days, but that may change in the near future.

CoolTechZone

Seems as though folks with a pocket full of money are getting the shaft when it comes to using their NVIDIA SLI setup. Users that have recently purchased monitors such at Dell's 2005FPW Widescreen LCD panels are having some major quality issues when it comes to using their SLI setups. The biggest complaint seems to be a "jittery" or "rolling" screen. Also some folks have complained about Vsync being broken as well under SLI with their widescreens.

[H]ardOCP

3D stereo technology has made major strides in the past few years, so we felt it was time to take a look at the state of the industry and several different 3D stereo technologies that are available. We include a discussion of autostereoscopic displays, which allow a viewer to watch 3D images without the need for 3D glasses or other aids.

Toms Hardware Guide

Following on from ATI?s "Technology Demonstration" of a 512MB Radeon X850 XT, only for them to say "we won't actually release this", NVIDIA made their GeForce 6800 Ultra available to their board vendors in 512MB configurations.

Beyond3D

MSX Resource Center have published a review on ObsoNET, an ethernet cartridge for the 8bit home computer system MSX. The cartridge features a Realtek RTL8019AS and Flash BIOS.

ATI's HyperMemory and nVidia's TurboCache cards resurrect the old AGP trick of borrowing system memory. We reveal the better performer and ponder which one has the sillier name. It's a tough call.

TrustedReviews

Cooler Master today announced a new liquid cooling technology primarily aimed at the OEM market. Liquid cooling is a method of heat removal that uses water to cool hot computer parts like processors. The big advantage of liquid cooling is that water has a higher specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity compared to air-cooling. The new liquid cooling system developed by Cooler Master will make liquid cooling easier.

DV Hardware

VR-Zone brings you a preview of the Aopen i915GMm-HFS, a motherboard engineered for the HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer) enthusiast.

The PowerPC G5 out-shoots the Pentium 4 in a battery of tests. But it?s in the rough-and-tumble of real-world performance that the G5 really shines ? shredding the PC?s reputation in the process.

With at least four platforms to choose from, the Athlon 64's PCI Express chipset lineup finally has some depth. But between the latest core logic options from ATI and ULi, NVIDIA, SiS, and VIA, which chipset has the most desirable blend of features and best performance? Join us as we sift through spec sheets and pour over a slew of benchmark results to find out.

The i925XE chipset looked too elite when it was released. Even now it is used in top systems. The only difference between the i925XE and the previously reviewed Intel 925 Express chipset is the support for 1066MHz FSB, but there are almost no processors with such a bus yet (unless you are OK with a thousand-dollar price).

THG held court in Irvine, near its Southern Calif. headquarters this month where 17 vendors took the wraps off their latest electronics gear. See what made us salivate as we got a sneak peak of what to expect from the networking, memory, storage and display channels during the coming weeks.

Dell and Apple arguably have the best 20" LCD monitors available, but who will win when we pit them head to head?

AnandTech

Gaming-on-Demand (GoD) technology vendor G-cluster, service provider Club iT, and Texas Instruments (TI) recently announced that IP-based set-top box manufacturers can now easily turn their products into genuine gaming consoles, using the G-cluster Gaming-on-Demand client to provide end users with access to hundreds of games over IPTV. No actual details are released.

X-Bit Labs