This week we bring you the latests findings, especially on the graphics scene. Included in this edition, the latest Geforce 7800 GTX cards that have touched down in Singapore as well as some extremely sweet bargins...

VR-Zone

We would like to get out a reminder to the commumity that our "Pimp your Case" contest/Giveaway has only 1 week to go. We invite all in the community to stop by and check it out and enter their most ugly looking offering. Here are the previous details:

The Chinese website Veryol.com have snagged some pitures of Creative's new PC Works TX530 speaker system.

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The difference with G70 is that it is even larger than previous die sizes, which means that it is quite possible that full product yields may be quite small. Could it be that, in order to alleviate this, the defect rate is already built in to the current GeForce 7800 GTX and 24 fragment shaders is not the full number that G70 supports?

Beyond3D

With the release of the GeForce 7800 GTX earlier this week, the focus was understandably concentrated around the launch of this new high-end part. This excitement has, largely speaking, allowed the release of a set of drivers to accompany this new part to go unnoticed.

Versions of Apple's $999 Intel-based Developer Transition Kit began arriving on the doorsteps of several Mac OS X developers earlier this week, offering the first material evidence that the company will adopt the two-way serial interface known as PCI-Express in future Macs.

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NGOHQ.com is giving away to its members a brand new Logitech MX518 mouse. Learn more about the competition Here

Elpida today announced the development of a 2 Gigabit (Gb) DDR2 memory chip, made on a 80nm production process. This advanced process technology will enable volume support of high-speed DDR2 SDRAM, such as DDR2-800 for next-generation, high-performance computing applications.

If the thought of bleeding edge graphics and CPU technology gets you drooling then you'd better get a mop ready because Athlon X2 and GeForce 7800 GTX SLI is here. Oh yes, come to papa...

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Samsung claims that it has developed the industry's fastest memory for graphic chips with a bandwidth of up to 2 Gbit per second. A slightly slower memory generation has entered mass production and will enable the production of 1 GByte graphic cards.

Tom's Hardware Guide

Its no big secret. I have had my cards since Monday the 20th of June. I could not resist the temptation of pairing up these bad boys before the NDA breaks, with that being said, I am not disappointed. In fact, in some aspects, I am a little suprised. I purchased eVGA cards, and the stock clocks on these are 450MHz/1.2GHz. Here is some pictures of the box and the card:

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OPP has some of the first benchmarks up of the 7800GTX's using watercooling. 16k marks in 3DMark03 using a single card! Sli results are also posted which breaks the crossfire's world record using a pair of X850XT's.

Last week we took a look at the Battlefield 2 demo's performance with the latest and greatest high-end cards, today we're evaluating performance with a handful of mainstream cards. We've gathered ATI's RADEON X600 XT, X700 PRO and X800 256MB, as well as GeForce 6800 and GeForce 6600 GT. Our goal? Figure out which cards delivered the best performance and image quality. See the results inside!

The change log for Crytek's 1.32 Far Cry Patch seems to further confirm that ATI's next-gen hardware will support Shader Model 3.0. According to the change long, Crytek has "Fixed a Shader Model 3.0 issue that caused graphics corruption on new ATI hardware."

TechReport

Even though DDR is still a strong choice and isn?t expected to decline much until AMD adopts the DDR2 standard, it looks like DDR3 modules are on the horizon as well. Manufacturers are finally being optimistic about DDR2 sales, and DDR2 has been through various speed steps to actually be a worthwhile standard with Intel platform with 1066MHz system bus. Although the market appears to be optimistic, DDR2 sales aren?t nearly anywhere close to what manufacturers might expect and from what it seems the market is about get crowded a lot more in late 2006.

The Samsung "TCCD" memory chip is reputed to be the best overclocking IC for the AMD platform. Since speculation began about the TCCD reaching End-of-Life (EOL), the enthusiast community has been concerned about its near- and long-term availability. The purpose of this news update from Corsair is to provide a lead on the current status of this very popular IC.

Alan lines up five 19'' monitors in classic FiringSquad style with colorimetry comparisons and in-depth reviews of each panel. NEC, Hyundai, Samsung and LG showcase their 'good stuff'. With the top brands in the 'gaming LCD' segment represented here today, who will end up on top? Only one way to find out

Even though ATI has not yet confirmed the specs of its R520/Fudo and has been successful in silencing everyone in the know with a variety of legally binding documents, the R600 specs appear to have been leaked.

Last week we brought you the exclusive results of the new Boston Limited H8DCE SLI ? NVIDIA nForce Pro 4 mainboard with a Quadro FX 4400 in SLI with Dual Core Opteron 275/250s. The results we presented shook the globe. The review was long and contained many of the professional tests available, having many people literally floored at the performance shown. Today is no difference!

ASUS Computer International (ASUS), a leading provider of high-performance notebook computers, releases its new notebook, the W5A, in Canada, the US, and Europe.