Shortly after WinHEC 2005, IWill (the maker of some great motherboards and sweet sff products) generously allowed me to touch their highest performing Opteron system. This was not your everyday dual or quad opteron system - it was an 8-way Dual Core Opteron System (16 Cores!) with 128gb of RAM! Now, a server with all this horsepower is extreme overkill to be your company's file server, and you'll probably get better FPS in Doom 3 on an Athlon64 PC. Instead, this server is focused on the most cpu and memory intensive applications, and this can easily be viewed as a server geared towards the HPC sector.

When it comes to the aging Accelerated Graphics Port we're almost at an end of an era in the computing industry. Although the AGP port isn't quite dead yet and ATI as well as nVidia still recognize there is a market for users who are not yet ready to upgrade to PCI Express based systems. Today TweakTown compared all eight of the current AGP graphics from ATI and nVidia including the Radeon X700PRO, X800XL, X850XT, X850XT PE and GeForce 6600GT, 6800, 6800GT and 6800 Ultra. Which one will it be for your AGP gaming machine? Read on for some answers

I?ve just been told from a very, very reliable source that the G70, Nvidia?s next generation card will officially be called the 7800 (we all new that, didn?t we?). It will initially be available in three versions , the 7800 GTX, 7800 GT and 7800 and they will be launched on the 22nd of June.

PureOverclock

Notebooks with 15.4" widescreen displays aren't exclusively designed for watching DVDs. As the latest crop we tested from Acer, Dell and Gateway shows, wider screens can also afford notebooks with latent capabilities for office applications. But that doesn't mean that every OEM gets the screen technology exactly right, either.

Toms Hardware Guide

Iwill impressed everybody with their dual Opteron small form factor PC last year, but this year they have something even more remarkable. They've taken the idea of small but ridiculously powerful system one step further by adding an SLI chipset into the mix, resulting in a very small PC with both dual processors and dual graphics. HEXUS.net has details and pictures of this system, dubbed the ZMAXd2.

With Episode III achieving popular and critical acclaim, we talk to AMD and Lucasfilm about the computer technology that has enabled the animatics for Revenge of the Sith to be taken to the next level.

Bit-Tech

Last week some of the first good looking information on the G70 from NVIDIA was leaked. Now, this info pointed towards the G70 being a 110 nm part clocked at 430 MHz and it featured 24 pixel pipelines (six quads), and gave some other pertinent information. The materials leaked with the specs also made it look like it was legitimate. Now, I am just not so sure.

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AGEIA is attempting to break the mold of the PC gamer's box by adding a completely new card into the mix: a physics processor. With promises of fully interactive worlds and fluid dynamics unseen before, how can you go wrong?

PC Perspective

I just finished testing with Vapochill LS and Athlon 64 X2 4800+.

Since the A8N-SLI Deluxe with Dual Core support didn't have any options to raise the Vcore or change the multiplier, I had to run the tests with default voltage (1,49V measured from motherboard).

XtremeSystems

DDR2 is becoming more and more a factor in the memory industry. Despite the fact that it is currently limited to the Intel Pentium4 platform, the market share has increased not only in the OEM market but we also see some higher acceptance in the enthusiast community. We have taken a number of samples from manufacturers such as Corsair, GeIL, Mushkin, Kingston and PDP and ran it through the different paces with synthetic benchmarks and real world applications.

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I'm looking for a Wireless 108MBPS 802.11g Router? believe it or not but there seems to be a lack of good reviews out there? Any suggestion?

Updated: Thanks to everyone for their input? I've picked up a Belkin F5D7231uk4 High-Speed Mode Wireless G Router! If I get some spare time? I'll thrown up a review.

ATI is believed to unveil its dual graphics card technology "Multi Video Processing" (MVP) at the Computex trade show later this month. According to sources, tier 1 motherboard manufacturers will offer products that will be priced about 5 percent below an Nvidia-based SLI board and hit the market late in July 2005.

Toms Hardware Guide

According to information gathered, some early information about the CrossFire is that it will only be available on X850 and X800 series first. Current cards can only be used as secondary (slave) cards and the primary card will only be available from ATi.

We look at how far SLI is limited by your CPU speed. We match up a pair of 6800GTs with bleeding-edge, mid-range and low-end processors to see how real-world gaming performance scales.

Bit-Tech

Just spotted this bit of Info Posted over at GFX News.

There will be a GTX version in place of the regular Ultra model. Early tests yield a 3DMark'05 score of 7800. However this may change as Nvidia might change the final clock speed of the GPU and tweak it further. The card is SLI ready and an AGP version is planned using Nvidia's HSI bridge. Marketing material suggests the Nvidia going with the 7xxx naming scheme. There is no confirmation on the single slot design yet. We will have more information as we get it.

VR-Zone has a sneak peek at the upcoming ASUS EN6800Ultra Dual card that is going to be launched at Computex later this month. This card features two 6800Ultra GPUs on a single card and comes with 512MB GDDR3 memory onboard. Check it out!

ATI was demonstrating Remedy's upcoming title Alan Wake on R520 silicon.

AnandTech

The product that has been leaked is the GeForce 7800 GTX. It is a 24 pixel pipeline design with 10 vertex shaders made on TSMC's 110 nm process. I had originally thought that the clockspeed would be around 450 MHz to 500 MHz, but for this SKU the clock is at 430 MHz. Now, note that this is the GTX, and not an Ultra branded product.

Flexbeta.net is hosting a contest in which participants are eligable to win a ATI X850 Platinum Edition video card. To enter the contest, users must submit an article. Other contest giveaways include:

Intel said it will launch a new platform, just like the Centrino, for businesses. Intel's Professional Business Platform will feature a Pentium 4 processor with active management, enhanced security features and SpeedStep to decrease power consumption.

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