T-Break seems to have a premiere here. They review MSI's VIA KT333 solution. This board is feature packed as one can get: USB 2.0, Onboard ATA133 as per VIA VT8233A southbridge, Promise 20276 ATA-133 RAID controller supporting four additional hard drives and Realtek ALC650 6-channel audio. Here is a snip from the review: VIA's KT333 is the third chipset for the Athlon platform that is aiming to bring PC-2700 or DDR-333 into mainstream. We looked at the first two chipsets supporting this faster type of memory- the ALi Magik in the form of Iwill's XP-333 and SiS 745 in the form of ECS K7S6A. Unfortunately, both the chipsets disappointed as far as DDR-333 performance was concerned. Would VIA be able to succeed where ALi and SiS failed? We'll find it out today with the MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU motherboard, based on the highly anticipated KT333 chipset. Read the full hardware scoop here.

Suma have released a GF3 Ti 200 64MB SE overclockable BIOS. This BIOS will enable you to improve the memory frequency.

Please be cautious that the system may be scrambled or damaged when you overclock it excessively!

Adek from M3DZone reviews the nForce 420D chipset based board, which supports the latest AMD Athlon, Athlon XP and Duron processor series. Well if you're looking for an all-in-one solution you can find the review here.

NVIDIA have updated their list of Device ID's to include the new line of GeForce4 Ti/Mx based graphics cards. This is handy to verify that the graphics card you purchased is legit.

According to this Chinese source, ATI will announce a new RADEON 8500XT graphics card and a new RV250 chip in March, at the CeBIT show. The official name, which will be assigned to RV250 is said to be RADEON 8800. Although this name of RV250 implies that this chip will have some architectural differences distinguishing it from RADEON 8500, we still know nothing about it. Maybe these differences will lie with the improved T&L unit, however, we don?t have any evidence proving this information. The cards built on RADEON 8500XT and RADEON 8800 will be equipped with 128MB high-speed DDR SDRAM, and the chips will be made with 0.15micron manufacturing technology. The chip and memory frequency of RADEON 8500XT cards will equal 300MHz, and of RADEON 8800 cards ? 350MHz. Thanks to X-bit Labs for the pointer.

X-bit Labs has a review of IBM's new 120GXP HDD online. This drive features 80GB storage capacity as well as 7200 RPM on an ATA100 interface. According to X-bit Labs the harddisk is also a top performer: The disk drives were connected as Master-units to a separate IDE-channel. DMA support in Windows was enabled. We used FAT32 and NTFS file systems to format each of them as one logical drive of the maximum size with the default cluster. All the tests were run 4 times and then the average results were taken for the diagrams. The HDDs didn't rest for cooling down between the tests. Check out the full review here.

Taiwanese company GlobalWin comes with a nifty surprise for all hardware geeks. They announced two new cooler systems namely the TAK58 & TAK68! The TAK58 is designed for CPU's up to 1.7Ghz while the TAK68 is capable of keeping a 2.1Ghz CPU cool. The goal was to provide customers with a silent but efficient cooling solution. Innovative about the new products is that two fans are mounted vertical to a cooling base and simply snapped onto the socket with a 6 point clam using a simple thumb screw. Neat!

ReactorCritical seems to have some scoop on Gigabyte's latest offering "powered by ATI": Apparently, Gigabyte has changed the layout of their RADEON 8500 board. The reason? Better cooling or funky look,the board will be equipped with 64 MB of 3.6 ns DDR and clocked at 275/275 MHz core/memory; VGA, DVI and TV-Out connectors are maintained onboard. As the previous "versions", this very board has hardware monitoring functions and advanced cooling system. who really cares? Here we go with the pictures:

NeoSeeker has some monitors reviewed for you. Thought this might me quite interesting cause I'm on the lookout for a new monitor myself. I'm probably going for the Eizo 21" F931 soon. Here are the ones Neoseeker has given a treat: 17": LG 795FT Plus, NEC FE750, Viewsonic PF775, Samsung 700NF. 19": LG 915FT Plus, NEC FE950+, Viewsonic PF790, Samsung 900NF Check out this informative review @ Neoseeker.

Looks like we have a new winner redarding CD burning speeds. LitOn has now revealed the specs for their upcoming 40x burner. LiteOn is a pretty popular brand because of high speed drives at a reasonable price. Of interest is also that almost only LitOn drives were able to defeat the latest Safe Disc version 2.51.xx which shipped with Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Read more for the cool specs.

Yesterday was Nvidia's greatest I imagine. Loads of GeForce 4 information was given and previews and reviews appeared like magic mushrooms in wonderland. Some sites did test the new cards against "old" GeForce 3 and ATI Radeon 8500 cards. When I browsed through those I made an interesting discovery though. Compared against Nvidia and especially in context of the test systems used the Radeon 8500 performed pretty bad. Well here on my working PC the situation is better than the benchmarks on other sites make you believe... Note: To avoid confusion this article is about ATI Radeon 8500 performance ONLY.

Prolink Corporations PR queen Grace Tseng was kind enough to provide us with the latest information on their upcoming GeForce 4 MX cards. It seems the new GeForce 4 MX will be a sweet deal to value emphasized PC's.

At 3DChipset they found 17 (P)reviews of the GeForce 4.
I found 5 more @ MadOnion.
Few of them are already posted on Warp2Search but maybe it's handy if all previews are listed in one post. So if there is another preview comment on it. This post is gonna be changed then. Click on Read More... for direct links to the previews.

Just got an interesting email from Bob D about Leadtek new WinFast A250 Ultra GeForce4 Ti.

what's so special about this card is it's new cooling method called the Bi-Turbo Cooling system. The heatsink looks real cool with 2 fans; one fan cooling the GPU while the other fan cooling the memory!

want to see the cooling sytem then hit read more.

I saw this @ X-Bit Labs.
This is what they said:
Well, finally happened the thing, which have all know about since the end of 2000: Socket423 (for Pentium 4 CPUs) left this sinful earth having hardly lasted for a year and a half (the first mPGA423 processor was launched on November 20, 2000, and active life of Socket423 was over about 6 months ago). Click on Read More... for more information.

I found this @ MadOnion.
This is what they said:
A Finnish tech-site called Muropaketti had got the following stuff directly from Epox. It seems that the VIA KT333 chipset has a serious flaw.. Click on Read More... if you want to read what Epox reported.

OverclockersClub.com have just completed a review on the Kingwin Hard drive Mobile Rack.

I have one of these in my work computer and one in my home computer. This makes it very easy for me to take my work home with me. When I get thru at the end of the day, I pull the drive out, take it home, and push the drive in my mobile rack at home. This would be great for video editors, because they work with very large files, and there is no way they can put all of their work on CD and take it home with them. Kingwin Hard drive Mobile Rack review

And Hit Read More For The OverclockersClub.com Giveaway! :)

Rivastation.com have the first pictures of the new Hercules 3D Prophet FDX 8500LE 64MB card. The letters FDX stand for Full Direct X.

Intel Corp. gave a bit of information away on their upcoming processor on the International Solid State Circuits Conference last weekend. Compared to the current Itanium CPU McKinley based processors will feature an additional L3 cache on die as well as faster bus speeds.
McKinley will be a 64bit processor set to overcome the current Itanium build. More technical details...

You need some extra storage space? You don't want to touch a screw driver? Well ok, here comes Maxtor with a solution you'll probably favor then. The Personal Storage series might just be what you've been waiting for. How does 160GB Firewire or 120GB USB 2.0 HDD capacity sound?
The 3000XT 160GB HDD is already for sale @ a suggested retail price of $399.95 and features Up to 32 MBPS sustained throughput or up to 400 Mb/sec data transfer rate.
The 3000LE 120GB USB 2.0 HDD supports up to 480 Mbps transfer data rate, is hot swappable and available for preorder @ a suggested retail price of $299.95. Check it out @ MaxtorDirect.