While the hybrid motherboard concept is all well and good, ECS is back with another technology that?s worth analyzing.

The OCInside.de Casemod Gallery was developed about 4 years ago and receives constantly new pictures from enthused PC Modder. More than 300 Casemod pictures were added today, so that one can admire momentarily over 1000 pictures with detailed description of most Mods.

AMD's new CTO, Phil Hester, led a brief session about AMD's future technology directions, where he sketched some of the company's microprocessor plans. Afterwards, we had the chance to ask him a few questions, as well.

TechReport

Due to a handful of problems the SoundBlaster X-Fi has been causing nForce4 based motherboard owners, Creative forum representative has anounced a solution.

AMDZone

Out of the the high end grapihcs card from NVIDIA, the GeForce 6800GT has the best bang for the buck. Now selling around US$ 250 to 350, it's the most affordable SM 3.0 graphics card that won't slow to a crawl under high details with AA and AF on. Today, we're looking at three cards: the ASUS EN6800GT, Galaxy Glacier 6800GT and Leadtek PX6800GT THD.

Elite Bastards have taken a look at adaptive anti-aliasing, a feature that's getting a lot of press with ATI's new Radeon X1800 boards, but is also in fact available to Radeon 9500 users and up if you know where to look. They investigate how to get adaptive anti-aliasing to work on your system, and see how it fares with regard to both image quality and performance.

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The configurable IP core is a relatively new phenomenon, but ARC International has been in the business for some seven years now. ARC?s customer base is now at over 100 companies, and for Derek Meyer, SVP of Sales and Marketing, that?s a sure sign that configurability is winning friends and influencing people. Meyer argues that configurable processors can ensure product differentiation among the crowded competition in embedded markets. They can do that, he says, while maintaining proprietary design and confidentiality, and while also minimizing risk. DigiTimes.com spoke with Meyer when he recently visited Taipei. Read on at DigiTimes

DigiTimes reports: Demand for DDR2 is expected to rise phenomenally in the first quarter 2006, when the introduction of Socket M2 processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) kicks off and shipments of the Intel 945-series platform increases, motherboard makers believe.

TrustedReviews has just finished off it's latest PSU group test comparing 12 different PSUs ranging from 400 to 650W. They've also done some Hi-POT or lightning testing and to their amazement some of the Hi-POT labeled PSUs didn't pass!

Palm unveiled two new handhelds today. The first one is the Palm Z22 organizer which retails for only $99. It has a colour display, weighs only 3 ounces and has about the size as a deck of playing cards.

Apple announced two classes of iPods this morning: a 30 GByte model which sells for $299, and a 60 GByte model which sells for $399. Both models come with a 2.5-inch color screen. The new consoles are being billed as "the new iPod," apparently replacing the existing 20 GByte and 60 GByte designs. Video playback is one feature of the new models.

Remember the dual 6600 GT Gigabyte 3D1? Remember the dual 6800 GT and Ultra boards from ASUS that never made it to the market? ASUS is back with a dual-GPU card, but using two 7800 GT cores this time around.

HEXUS

Imagine a world where all graphics cards were made more equal. One in which the latest 7800 used 16 pipelines and 450/1000 clocks and the X1800 used its 16 pipelines at 450/1000 speeds. Which would perform better, and under what circumstances? Well imagine no more as here today we have a 16 pipeline G70 going head to head with a R520 at 450/1000.

DriverHeaven

You have got to see this! Asus has nearly completed their dual-7800 GT card and is nearly ready to ship! This card features not one, but TWO 7800 GT cores on a single card, running at 489 MHz core and 1.358 GHz memory clocks! I have included some more pictures below!

PC Perspective

New peripheral will revolutionize the way you listen to your files.

The Cedar Mill core is months from being released, but Tom's Hardware Guide managed to secure a sample anyway - and it didn't come from Intel. What we discovered was that Intel's next-generation Pentium 4 is capable of bringing Prescott's single-core meltdown to an end.

Now the dust has settled following the launch of ATI's Radeon X1000 series of GPUs earlier this week, we've taken some time to get to grips with the technology behind these boards to see what they have to offer.

EliteBastards

You may wonder why even review the X800XL since the X1K series is (somewhat) out. Well, these cards cost around USD 250 to 350, well below the X1800XL and very near the X1600 series. Experience (and preliminary benchmarks) seem to indicate that the X1600 series has about the same level of performance as the GeForce 6800, only when not doing AA and AF.

Today we took a look into the NVIDIA ForceWare 81.40 which has been leaked by The French website, Station Drivers. I?ve opened the setup information file (NVDISP.INF) and noticed a lot of new Hardware DeviceID entries.

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ATI, [H]ardOCP is not your personal PR bitch, so don't treat us like one again. You're on thin ice and you should be ashamed of your actions this year. We at HardOCP don't want to be a mouthpiece for vaporware in order to keep your stock price up. So from now on, if it is not the real deal, just keep it to yourself.