Last week, we featured two round up articles ? the Radeon X700 Pro and the GeForce 6600GT round up. Some of you may wonder why we didn't directly compare both cards. This article is the answer. You might be surprise by the outcome: while NVIDIA does have the faster hardware, we still recommend Radeon X700 Pro over the GeForce 6600GT. Now, before you start flaming and shouting 'fanboy', permit us to present our case.

Tech-Hounds.com

Amazing how the parent site, AMD knows hardware sites are under NDA regarding the new X2 chip that will be announced soon. Well AMD has already listed the new X2 chip. The Athlon X2 3800+ is supposed to compete with the Pentium D 820 offering from Intel.

3DChipset

Imagination Technologies has unveiled the PowerVR SGX, a graphics architecture for PDAs and mobile phones that sports many of the features you'd expect from a next-gen graphics card.

The TechReport

We've just completed our investigation of NVIDIA's SLI anti-aliasing technology, which was introduced in their latest Beta ForceWare 77.76 driver set. We've taken a look at performance and image quality, as well as investigating the performance hit suffered by SLI AA modes and why this occurs.

Elite Bastards

NVIDIA announce the launch of 2 new Professional Graphic Cards. In the Ultra high-end series the Quadro FX4500 and in the high end series Quadro FX 3450. We have been told that these cards should be available within the week with suppliers; and that the community can uptake this brand new technology very quickly.

3DProfessor

If a 800GB storage solution with Raid 0 configuration from G-Tech isn?t enough for you, maybe LaCie?s F800 2TB HDD would kindle a desire of owning one of these shockingly huge units (in terms of storage). LaCie?s F800 comes in three storage capacities ? 1TB, 1.6TB and 2TB ? with four disks for the 2TB model to total up to its respected capacity. As it?s the case with all such hard drives of this magnitude, the F800 is designed and targeted at audio/video professionals that would need such a massive amount of storage for raw formats.

The ever-expanding storage on hard drives has taken a new meaning for performance seekers and video professionals, thanks to G-Tech?s G-Raid 800GB External HDD. The company?s latest hard drive features two drives in a Raid 0 configuration for performance with a Firewire 800 (and Firewire 400 for backwards compatibility) connectivity option.

Apple today enhanced its iBook G4 line for consumers and education customers with faster Power PC G4 processors running up to 1.42 GHz, 512MB memory across the line, higher performance graphics and built-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth wireless connectivity.

AppleInsider

Today 3DXtreme has a chance to look at four of Evercool?s newest products that feature the EL bearing. These are the Neon Crab RAM cooler, the HDD System Cooler Lander, the Spider Filter Fan.

What can you expect when AMD launches the Athlon 64 FX-59 by the end of the year? We overclocked AMD's FX-57 to 3 GHz to see what you will get. AMD's Socket M2 should also soon come into the picture.

Toms Hardware Guide

Biostar has released the specs of its upcoming NVIDIA C51-powered iDEQ 330N small form factor system. NVIDIA hasn't released any details on the C51 chipset or its integrated graphics processor.

TechReport

Apple?s iPod is nothing compared to what some of the other companies are introducing to the market. Although iPod holds significant market share, Apple would sooner or later become just another MP3 player maker. Yet another contender to the hard drive based MP3 players is Creative and its Zen Sleek.

Wondering which Athlon 64 CPU runs best with NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX GPU? In this article, we've gathered processors ranging from the 1.8GHz "Venice" Athlon 64 3000+, all the way up to AMD's latest Athlon 64 FX-57 CPU. We've also included the GeForce 6800 GT for comparison. See which processor(s) deliver the most bang for your buck, as well as which clock speeds you may want to shoot for when overclocking inside!

VR-Zone came to know that the future is actually pretty near where NVIDIA G80 design is based on unified shader architecture slated to appear in 2006. ATI has already taken the unified approach for their R500 Xenon within the XBox 360 and has 48 unified pipelines.As we know, in an unified shader architecture, there are no dedicated vertex and pixel shader engines but unified shader engine capable of executing both types of instructions.

Looking for a GeForce 6600 board for your SLI setup? Or maybe you just want a good mainstream card with Shader Model 3.0 support? NVIDIA has taken the by storm with their GeForce 6600 cards, available in AGP and PCI Express flavours. But if you're looking to get some SLI action, PCI Express is the only way to go! We test four cards in this round up: the ASUS EN6600 GT TD 128, the Chaintech SE6600G 128, the Gigabyte 6600GT and the MSI NX6600 VTD128R.

This week, we were very lucky to get our hands on a CrossFire motherboard and a CrossFire master card from Gigabyte

We're currently running two competitions at HEXUS, the first is a modding and slogan competition in which you can win lots of goodies from Ultra, including cases and modular PSUs. The second is a simple question, which if you answer quick enough will secure you an Amacrox Rubber Suspension Kit for keeping your system that little bit quieter. More details can be found in our competition forum.

ATI's CrossFire multi-GPU technology may work with motherboards based on Intel's 955X chipset when compatible graphics cards ship next month.

The Register

We have a few first-hand shots of the new Alienware Star Wars system - the Force is strong with this one... even if it is the Dark Side version.

Bit-Tech

Vr-Zone recently hosted a story about Nvidia having a secret weapon codenamed the G71 to fight ATI's impending R520.