As we know, most GeForce 7800GT cards available right now are reference designed but XFX has something fancy up their sleeves. Today, we take a look this colorful XFX Geforce 7800GT Special Edition!

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Here are two pictures of AMD's working Socket M2 processor. This particular unit is running at 2.4GHz. You will notice the "extra" M2 pin bringing the total pin count up to 940 (from the current 939).

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Today, we provide a preview of Intel's upcoming Pentium and Pentium D processors built on their new 65nm process.

Xtreme Resources is proud to announce a Computer System Benefit Raffle. The site has put a great system together through parts donated by many of our wonderful members. The proceeds from the raffle are going to one of our friends and staff member to assist in defraying medical costs incurred from a complicated back surgery that his wife endured without the assistance of any medical insurance.

OCZ announced the new PC-3200 and PC-3500 Gold GX series modules which will be the first two products to utilize the latest OCZ heatspreader design. The new, patent-pending XTC (Xtreme Thermal Convection) Heatspreaders allow increased ventilation and heat dissipation due to an innovative honeycomb design providing more direct access to the actual memory ICs.. More details over here

If you pay close attention, you will find some stores selling ?Celeron Centrino? notebooks. There is just one detail: Celeron Centrino does not exist.

Hardware Secrets

NVIDIA will release GeForce Go 7300 later this week, but it seems that the guys at ASUS wanted to be first to market with their new products. Details inside.

Bit-Tech

Every once in a while when you are sitting alone, thinking back to all those years you?ve spent on technology, you realize that standards are meant to be updated and consistency isn?t the hardware industry?s strong suit. Intel had Socket 478, LGA 775 and considering the pattern; Intel would most likely change it yet again when it launches the next lineup. AMD, on the other hand, has Socket 754, 939 and 940 in its current generation, which adds to a lot of complication over something as particularly minute as the pin count.

Some of you may doubt our sources, so to clear it up and to prove the reliability of our sources; we decided to post more details about this subject.

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If you cast your mind back to our epic power supply group test, one of the more interesting PSUs we talked about was the FSP Group Epsilon FSP700-80GL, a supply that FSP claimed would make all 700W at over 80% efficiency and have a connector bundle to please the enthusiast. This morning some spy shots of that Epsilon made their way to HEXUS. Read more about the supply and see the spy shots in our exclusive HEXUS.bean, Here.

Not only does this R2-D2 case mod look incredibly like the original, it's bundled with a P4 processor, Radeon GPU, and cooling system that runs R2 at a chilling -38 degrees celcius. Awesome!! R2-D2 Case Mod

What was interesting an ATI presentation that recently got leaked onto the wibbly web was a claim that Nvidia "lies" about Shader Model 3.0 and that its hardware isn't SM3.0 compliant.

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Our friends at HKEPC Hardware have found a way around crossfire. They were able to run two pair's 0f ATi Radeon X700Pro 128MB and X300Se Hyper-Memory 128/256MB GPU's.

After speaking with several AIBs today, we have some confirmation that Foxconn already has design kits for ATI's R580 socket. Pipe and clock information for R580 is still not firm, so we will not comment on that at this moment.

What difference in performance you could get from a x86-based Mac OSX using a cheaper Celeron 2,53 GHz or with the more expensive Pentium 4 3,8GHz. We used 5 different benchmarks compliled for PowerPC processors, meaning that Rosetta PPC "emulation" is being used, to measure the difference. See the benchmark results here.

We learn that NVIDIA?s upcoming product will be named "7800 GS".

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We continue to hear new details about G72 and G73 here in Taiwan, and the latest batch of info from our vendors is that G72 and G73 will be pin compatible with NV40 and NV43. In other words, your next NVIDIA video card might have the same PCB from the 6600GT, but with a different GPU.

AnandTech

Learn how Pentium 4 processor works. Here is a snippet:

In this tutorial we will explain you how Pentium 4 works in an easy to follow language. You will learn exactly how its architecture works so you will be able to compare it more precisely to previous processors from Intel and competitors from AMD. Read on at HardwareSecrets

Bill Gates sat down for an interview with the Daily Princetonian and shared his views on a number of things, including the next-gen optical format battle. The interview covers a number of topics, including the coolness of Microsoft and Apple, but what caught my eye were Gates' comments on Blu-ray versus HD DVD. As you know, Microsoft has backed HD DVD, citing among other things HD DVD's requirement of mandatory managed copy support.

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Well boys and girls it's time again for another insane NGOHQ contest giveaway and we have a couple of surprises for you!! We are proud to announce that we are giving away two Leadtek Winfast PX7800GT Extreme TDH 256MB cards.

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