This article on Flexbeta covers the MAC switch to x86 processors and what the switch will mean for the end user. Will more games be available for the MAC now that it will run on the x86 architecture? Will the new Intel based MAC's be more affordable? Imagine the next Mac desktop tower being under $1500 initially or the price of the Mac Mini dropping to $399.

I was just over at 3DGamers, checking out what's new? when I noticed a new upgrade for EARTH 2160 v1.1 and guess what it lists ATI's R520 with Pixel Shader 3.0a in the Read Me!

The Radeon X550 GPU is the RV370 and uses the same PCBs as previous RV370 boards (X300). However, AIBs are also allowed to perform their own modifications, for example reduce the PCB layer count.

techPowerUp

You've likely heard and read a lot about dual core processors from AMD and Intel. We tested similarly equipped AMD's Athlon 64 X2 4800+ against Intel's Pentium 840 EE with SLI graphics cards and ran both systems under heavy loads. The results were...

Toms Hardware Guide

We learned that R520 might be quite hot as it is the biggest chip ever with its 300+ millions transistors. Since its 90 nanometre its kind of logical that you can place quite a lot of pipelines under its hood and it turns out that ATI has managed to pack in 32 pipes.

The Inquirer

The board is based on the Micro-BTX form factor and features NVIDIA's upcoming C51 chipset, which we reported a few weeks ago. The chipset features integrated graphics and is based on the NForce 4 MCP.

Bit-Tech

The company said Yonah notebooks will use up to 31 percent less power than current Pentium M notebooks. By 2008 Intel's goal is to reduce notebook power consumption to a point where machines can run for eight hours on a single battery charge. A thing which Yonah won't feature is 64-bit, because it would mean a big difference in battery life.. The company says it will release a 64-bit Pentium M when the market 'requires' it.

DV Hardware

The show stealer for Albatron was clearly the ?ATOP? AGP to PCI-E converter cards. ATOP allows a user to plug an NVIDIA AGP video card into a PCI-E riser ? allowing a user to upgrade to an nForce4 board without getting rid of their old card. While the implications are nice, the practicality of the card is still being tested and there are also issues of clearance that have not been addressed yet.

Gigabyte is showing off its new IRam PCI add-in card with four memory slots at Computex. The solid-state device is designed to act as a fast hard drive with Serial ATA interface and it supports up to 4GB DDR memory. Extremely high access times are the main advantage over normal HDDs.

DV Hardware

ATi has revealed today in their launch party at Computex that their Crossfire platform has beaten our 3DMark05 record of 14623 set by Shamino reaching an impressive score of 15498. The world record is set by macci, one of the top overclocker from Finland using probably FX-55 and Dual Radeon X850 XT PE clocked at 904Mhz.

VR-Zone

To enter simply post a FUNNY slogan in some way related to AMD and you could be the lucky winner of this extremely fast (and expensive) CPU.

DriverHeaven

VolariGamers has the first info on XGI's Volari 8300 (XG47) and Volari 8600 (XG45). The Volari 8600 will support native PCIE and Shader Model 3.0, whereas the Volari 8300 is an entry level PCIE card with Shader Model 2.0 support. In addition, XGI has implemented video playback enhancements such as 3:2 pull-down, HDTV output and Smooth Edge, which are similar to nVidia's PureVideo.

In this article we've got more pictures of NVIDIA's G70, pictures of all of the CrossFire motherboards from manufacturers at the show, a look at cooling at Computex, benchmarks of ULi's new Socket-939 chipset and much more.

NVIDIA's G70 graphics processor, likely to be bound up in a range of products carrying GeForce 7 branding, may have an Ultra version waiting in the wings, to counter any ATI high-end product launch.

Hexus

Hardinfo.dk has the first benchmarks of ATi's CrossFire vs Nvidia SLi on Doom 3.

The SN26P features a Socket 939, err, socket and a 350W power supply. That's a pair of Leadtek GeForce 6800 GT graphics cards in the picture. Shuttle has the SN26P running 3DMark05 in its demo system, and it all seems to work as advertised.

TechReport

Its been a long time coming but ATI have finally answered the call of Nvidia's SLI with the release of their dual card technology codenamed "Crossfire". Right now we dont have a suitable test rig to bring you figures or results but rest assured when samples are made available we will be bringing you the full rundown. For now Ill go over the information presented to me at a recent meeting and how you should expect Crossfire to improve your gaming experience. At the end of the article ill include an ATI Q&A session which will answer a good selection of questions and act as a reference.

DriverHeaven

As you'll no doubt already have noticed, today the NDA was lifted on ATI's answer to SLI - CrossFire. We've taken some time out to take a look at the technology and put together our thoughts on it at EliteBastards.

Today marked the start of Computex, the world's largest Information Technology trade show. We had the opportunity to exclusively test DFI's Crossfire motherboard as well as take a closer look at the Pentium 4 and AMD Crossfire offerings from ECS. Both Cooler Master and Thermaltake introduced new case designs, and AMD showed off it's Formula 1 racing car.

After our initial testing this morning we managed to perform some further tests. Specifically, we were able to benchmark a Crossfire system using an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ processor and two Radeon X850XT Platinum Edition graphics cards. These results were particularly interesting, because our initial testing this morning was conducted using two X850XTs (non-PE version).