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.

Linksys has released a new Firmware Upgrade for their 4-Port Router. Many new features have been added including a fix for MSN Messenger file transfer. Please read the Version.txt for all the features and changed added... Version: 1.42.3
Dated: January 30, 2002 Linksys From: Candyman

The Problem described as an "lockup combined with an ongoing squeal" the Audigy series seems to be a problematic product when used with Windows 2000 or XP. I myself fortunately do not have this problem, but Creative has now enlisted this "severe" problem in their knowledge base. What is troubling is that Creative has not been able to isolate the problem yet whether it's a driver bug or possibly worse - defect hardware itself. The problem occurs randomly and is not pinpointable to gaming or music listening.
"We have not been able to really isolate what is really causing the problem," said Mala Sharma, a representative of Creative's brand management team in Milpitas, Calif. Sharma said that Steve Erickson, Creative's vice-president in charge of consumer audio products, had been notified of the problem. "I'm sure since the vice-president has been notified, that the engineering team will have all the resources they need to solve the problem," she said. Source: ExtremeTech

Woohoo a german site is kicking in! Planet3DNow has a prototype board of the Asus A7V333 board taken through their testing circuit making up 6 pages of fun to read: Center of the A7V333 is the new VIA KT333 northbridge. It is leading the socket A into the DDR333 age und officially supports 166 mhz memory clock. The user can drive his memory either synchronously to the frontsidebus at 133 mhz, or with 5/4 asynchronously with 166 mhz. Therefore of course you'll need the new pc2700 modules, which at the moment are distributed very rarely. Even Asus was not able to help us out with a pc2700. Read the full preview

Just had this interesting email from Matt@OverclockersClub.com describing a thing called a battlechair. Hey matt can I get one for free!

Here's what he's saying about the battlechair

This is "THE" ultimate gaming chair! It comes loaded with 3D Surround Sound Speakers, 8" Subwoofer Built-in, 4 channel DSP amp, extra thick luxurious cushion's and two 360° turnable trays which are perfect for your joystick, throttle, mouse, trackball, remote control, sandwich, and drink. Or you could even velcro your keyboard to one tray!

3dchipset have got hold of some photos of the GeForce4 MX card!!

here's what their saying

Remember those results we posted earlier with that person who compared the GeForce 3 to the GeForce 4 MX he received from Apple on his Dual 1Ghz G4? Well here are the photos of his card he took

Just got word from maxreboot that they got info on the upcoming range of Leadtek Geforce4 MX Cards.

Leadtek GeForce4 MX460. This is the fastest model in the family based on GeForce4 MX460 chip working at 300MHz. There will be two card versions coming: one with 64MB DDR SDRAM and the other one with 128MB DDR SDRAM working at 550MHz.

Hercules just two week after announcing they will manufacturer ATI based cards. you can now buy these cards starting with the Guillemot / Hercules Prophet (ATI) All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV, 64MB DDR, DVI, TV-out, TV-Tuner, 2x Firewire, AGP, Retail card!

and I got too say they look cheap@ only ?438 euros , if u want to order one hit read more.

ReactorCritical.com have got hold of some more info about GeFore4 pricing and clock frequencies that will be use in Nvidia's Geforce4 cards.

AMD, Inc. sent out the FIRST of its Palomino 3000+ Prototypes to various resellers across North America, recently, and being the tactful being I am, yours truly managed to take a peak (and scan the CPU at my workstation when no one was looking) at the new, excessively powerful chip that is every hardcore gamer's wildest dream, and from the looks of things, Intel's worst nightmare. A MUST READ! Sounds too good to be true though...