The motherboard integrates Socket 479 Pentium M (Dothan) CPU, Intel?s 915G desktop chipset, and ICH6 I/O controller to become the world?s first hybrid model with combined features of powerful chipset performance and energy-saving CPU, which generates less heat and noise than desktop CPUs.

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For months NVIDIAs SLI technology has been the only game in town for users looking to combine two cards together for more performance. But soon that will change, as today ATI is unveiling their SLI equivalent: CrossFire! ATI is taking image quality to the next level with CrossFire, supporting AA levels up to 14x and a new rendering mode used in advanced simulation systems dubbed supertiling.

Rumours are circulating that a Daughter Card will be soon available that will convert a 16X PCI-E Slot into 2 * 8X PCI-E Slots for SLI ability. More news on this as it comes in.

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We?ll have to give it to ATI for keeping our gaze fixed upon their new product for so long, whilst being fed all sorts of incomplete information about prospective performance and features. Now that the curtain has dropped on ATI?s multi graphics processor solution we can only wonder what they?ve been doing for the past six months.

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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 we've 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 at TweakTown!

As Computex Taipei draws near, the Hardware Zone team here is hard at work bringing you the latest news and happenings right in the heart of all the excitement itself. Today, we'll whet your appetite with pictures of the latest NVIDIA G70 graphics card. Yes guys, it's here and it's coming! Time to throw out the old and prepare for greater and a more fluid graphics experience.

It's Time to talk about some numbers referred to ATI crossfire Multi VPU systems. We can only used ATI own reference performance numbers seen in a document that it got in its labs.

Now that dual core processors from both AMD and Intel are shipping we take a step back and look at the bigger picture, why are these processors such a hard sell?

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VIA today launched the VIA C7 processor, a new competitor to Intel's popular mobile Pentium M processor. The C7 is based on the Esther core, it VIA claims it is the world's smallest, lowest power and most secure native x86 processor. The VIA C7 is produced on a 90nm SOI process from IBM and the 2.0GHz version uses only 20W at peak levels while idle power consumption is as low as 0.1W.

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Siemens posted a press photo on its web site's media area showing the "Remote Expert Center for Power Plants in Karlsruhe, Germany." The purpose was to brag aout how these experts "use state-of-the-art communications to monitor, maintain and optimize a large number of machines and facilities." I say: Forget the communications -- look at that friggin' monitor! I want one.

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If even two graphics cards in your PC are not enough, what about four? SLI typically is limited to two cards within one system, but sources told Tom's Hardware Guide that Gigabyte will soon offer a "Quad" motherboard with slots for up to four Nvidia-based SLI cards.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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