After NVIDIA introduced its 7800GTX graphics adapter to the world, perhaps one of the first things that crossed everyone?s minds was the unveiling of NVIDIA?s midrange and low-end cards that would make GeForce 7 series a viable option, economically. Speculations have been floating around for quite a while regarding the specifications and other information surrounding the upcoming 7800GT part.

iPod, iPod, iPod?this has to be the only product that has garnered Apple more attention than anyone would?ve ever predicted. Apple has made millions with the iPod, and it?s an accessory that no one wants to be without these days. Anyone with a slight taste for digital products must have the iPod. It?s amazing how a product that started out as nothing has now started a worldwide epidemic. Throughout these past few weeks, we have taken a preliminary look at quite a few exclusive products that are designed for the iPod. Today, however, we have compiled a list of interesting products that will take you into the world of the iPod?

HEXUS.net gives us an idea of what performance we can expect to get from ATi's CrossFire. From the article: "Using Supertiling, the default mode for Crossfire under Direct3D, shows that 6800 Ultra SLI is faster. However that's just in 3DMark05, not a modern game title, and that's using a beta driver that might not be there in terms of the performance that ATI have today, internally. It'll be interesting to see where performance is when Crossfire is launched using an official driver, along with NVIDIA hardware running any new driver that NVIDIA may or may not have planned for their hardware."

Allthough the desktop graphic cards are just being released, information about the new mobile parts has been floating around the internet. There will be 3 different parts for each price class (value, mainstream & highend), all based on PCIe.

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Nvidia has confirmed a bug in its current driver software that prevents serious overclocking - by shutting down a graphics card not just when it runs too hot, but also too cool, Tom's Hardware Guide has learned.

Philips researchers have made significant progress in developing a new storage technology called near-field optical recording. The technology boosts capacity to 150 gigabytes stored on two layers of an optical media, not very different from today's DVDs.

CDRInfo

Apple?s iPod has been garnering a lot of attention ever since it launched. Not only has it become a cultural accessory, but it also appears to be a great business model for numerous companies. You can also say that Apple?s iPod has literally shaken the entire consumer electronics industry and helped create a completely new product line that solely focuses around the iPod. In fact Logitech has dedicated a product line that caters only to the iPod. What we have today is Logitech?s latest edition to its iPod exclusive line of products ? Logitech Wireless Headphones.

With NVIDIA dominating the Athlon 64 landscape, it's time to take a closer look at seven nForce4 Ultra motherboards.

AnandTech

Will a single core (over) clock better than the dual core in the same process and core design? Of course! That should be the case. Look at the dual core Pentium at 3.2GHz versus a single core at 3.8 GHz, or the 2.4GHz dual core Athlon64 vs its new 2.8 GHz single-core cousin.

TheInquirer

Archos today presented the compact 20GB Gmini XS 202 pocket music player. This model is an upgrade from the Gmini XS 200 which was released last year and will be able to store up to 10,000 tracks. It has a 2-inch LCD screen and measures only 7.35cm x 5.85cm x 1.9cm while weighting 120g.

HKEPC, has successfully to decipher how the whole ATI Crossfire concept actually works. As a result, they are able to run two slaves cards in Crossfire without the need for the Crossfire edition master card.

Sapphire technology is about to release Radeon X550 based video card with standard (active) and passive cooling.

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OCWorkbench tested the ULi M1695 ref board with a newer BIOS that opens up the HTT window up to 400MHz and we managed to reach 400HTT. On top of that, M1695 can be paired with a riser card to achieve DUAL PCI-EX8. How does it compare in performance with existing solutions. Check it out.

I was discussing something with Unwinder today (Rivatuner programmer) as he has had a lot of reports of unusual core clocks for the GeForce 7800 GTX. After investigating it myself it seems that the minute you startup a 3D application, the GPU core frequency jumps towards 468 MHz (should be 430), a ~40 MHz difference is reported with any GeForce 7800 GTX. You can only measure this once you actually follow the clock real-time.

Cowon is yet another manufacturer that has been working on MP3 players for quite sometime. Similar to Samsung and others, Cowon?s goal is to introduce a product that comes in direct competition against Apple?s iPod. As if the market isn?t saturated enough with iPod competitors, here?s another company with a prospective player to sooth your senses. Welcome the iAudio X5?

In the third part of our NetBurst Architecture investigation trilogy we are going to reveal the details of the Replay mechanism Implemented in Intel Pentium 4 processors, which Intel keeps quiet about. This particular mechanism and its working principles explain why Pentium 4 processors perform pretty slowly, despite their high working frequencies.

X-Bitlabs

There were reports about MSI's K8N Diamond and K8N SLI Platinum motherboards being incompatible with the new GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card. We do not think there was an issue in the first place and we have the details here.

HardwareZone

People build HTPC?s out of spare parts all the time. The problem is that you shouldn?t be using spare parts ? a high-end HTPC needs much more power than that. We?re putting a 7800GTX in our HTPC, and showing off the design issues behind building a high-end HTPC with an off-the-air HD tuner. Even if you?re not planning to build an HTPC, this is an important article to read to learn about PC video technology.

FiringSquad

Eight physical processors in a 3U server! Sun takes the 'entry server' to new extremes but proves a design win for AMD.

AnandTech

HEXUS.net has teamed up with ULTRA Products to bring you the MegaMod competition. You'll have work for your prizes with this one, but we've got some neat stuff on offer.