The graphics chip inside the PS3 is co-designed by Under the cross licensing agreement undertaken by NVIDIA and Sony, we expect NVIDIA's next high-end chip will utilise TurboCache technology in a similar manner to the Playstation 3.

Bit-Tech

In this massive A64 heatsink roundup the Madshrimps compare 17 cooling solutions from different manufactures including Scythe, TTIC, Arctic Cooling, Thermaltake, Titan, Thermalright, Zalman and Coolermaster.

The release of nForce4 SLI Intel Edition motherboards brings up an interesting question. Which platform is the better of the two for high-end gaming? There have been rumors floating around the web for several months that nVidia's nForce4 SLI Intel Edition was not performing up to par compared to the original nForce4 SLI for AMD. We were curious to see if these rumors have any merit to them.

Sometimes, you have to take matter in your own hands. Although Shuttle is releasing a Media Center Version of its XPC, we had other plans on the implementation.

T-Break

NVIDIA have, probably purposefully, been fairly quiet on their next generation of graphic processors, with the high end "G70" product expected to spearhead the new line. Digitimes has recently reported that Taiwanese motherboard vendors have indicated that G70 will be on show at the upcoming Computex computer fair, however according to NVIDI's CEO, speaking in their latest financial results conference call, there may actually be sightings of it even earlier, stating that it may be on show at next weeks E3 event, which is earlier than previous expectations.

Beyond3D

Large scale LCDs are now also affordable! Dell 2405FPW, 24'', VA, 8 ms response time. HP F2304, 23'', IPS, 16 ms response time. ViewSonic VP231wb, 23'', IPS, 16 ms response time. All three cost from US $1,200 to $2,000, they feature impressive ergonomics and native 1920 x 1200 pixels resolution. For games or HD video, you might get blown away!

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Creative prepares to unleash its most ambitious audio processor architecture yet. In an ExtremeTech Exclusive, we bring you the deep dish on the new X-Fi architecture, and what it means for PC Audio.

ATI is now focusing on Multi VPUs as it realised that it desperately need an answer to Nvidia's SLI. Even if ATI launches the R520 next month, Nvidia will still beat it with its two 6800 Ultra cards, so what ATI really needs is that Multi VPU. First release Multi VPU, then move to R520, that?s the current plan.

The Inquirer

After launching their server and workstation-oriented dual-core Opteron processors last month, today AMD is allowing the press to release benchmarks on their dual-core desktop "X2" Athlon 64 processors, which will be available starting in June. See how the new processor stacks up to the latest single and dual-core processors from both AMD and Intel, as well as overclocking results with our Athlon 64 X2 4800+ chip inside!

Both ATI and NVIDIA have released ultra-budget GPUs that utilize the PCI Express bus and system memory to function. Which vendor has the better implementation? We take a look at ATI's offering and compare with pair of PNY GeForce 6200 TC cards.

PC Perspective

According to an industry insider, NVIDIA will add support for large flat panel displays in its next generation of GPUs. Currently, only the NVIDIA 6800 Ultra with 512MB support this feature, but the company will make this characteristic a standard throughout its upcoming product line.

Thanks to our good friends over at www.xoxide.com we are giving away two Thermalright XP-90 CPU Coolers. These are the top of the line air coolers overclocking. Again, we'd like to thank the folks at www.xoxide.com for making this one possible. Be sure to check out their X-Hour every week 9-10pm EST on Sunday nights. Also, they stock some of the latest cooling, case and other assorted products on the market at some of the lowest prices!

In our 512MB Radeon X800 XL review we ran several Doom 3 tests because id Software have long since spoken of Doom 3's "Ultra" mode requiring more than 500MB of video memory to operate effectively. However, our first look at a 512MB board we could see very little performance difference between a 256MB and 512MB board with either our own Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil test or the standard, pre-supplied demo1 test in Doom 3. We've queried this with id, asking how our performance numbers reconciles with their comments on the Ultra mode's memory requirements and id Programmer Brian Harris replied with the following:

Logitech has released the Logitech® V250 Cordless Mouse and Number Pad. The number pad was first only found with the dinovo family of mouse keybaord and pad. But is is now available without the keyboard.

The latest SiS roadmap shows that SiS649FX and SiS656FX chipsets are able to support 1066FSB and DDR2-667. EM64T, XD, EIST Technologies are ready on all of SiS P4 chipsets. Dual core technology currently under validation will be ready on all of SiS P4 chipsets.

VR-Zone

AMD's next generation of processors will be based on the Socket M2, like the current Socket 939 it will be based on the PGA package, but the pin counts will increase to 940. Looking at the picture above, it seems like it will not be able to accommodate the current AMD Athlon64s and Opterons.

VR-Zone

With its arrival on the chipset market with AMD processors in 2001, NVIDIA has slowly made its way to the top of this market, this is due more particularly to the nForce 2 and nForce 4, which have provided better performances and functionalities than the competition. NVIDIA is now attacking the Pentium 4 market with the Intel version of the nForce 4 SLI. What is this chipset worth compared to the i925XE ?

NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition - Preview

Based on information from a number of sources, HEXUS can exclusively reveal details about ATi?s dual-card technology for Multi Video Processing units (MVP).

Previewed earlier this year at CeBIT, ECS's upcoming PF88 motherboard was very much the centre of attention in the motherboard dept due to its ability to support both Intel or AMD CPUs (with the help of their "SIMA - Simply Smart" convertor card technology). The board is natively a well featured Intel LGA775 arrangement with support for EM64T, but simply adding the convertor card allows one to switch to Athlon64 with ease, rather then heading out and picking up a whole new motherboard.

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