In addition to demonstrating a unique cooling solution, we wanted to make a bold statement that a Pentium M computer can make a great gaming machine. Why is that important? When you're serious about making your computer quiet, heat becomes a very real issue, and the low heat output of a Pentium M comes in very handy! But how does it perform?

ULi M1697 is the next generation chipset supporting the Athlon 64, X2, FX processors. This single chipset enhances the functionalities of M1695 by introducing SATA II with NCQ and RAID 5 support. It also support HD-Audio. With a single chipset, manufacturers can cut down costs yet deliver performance on par with competitor's chipsets.

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ATI calls it Crossfire. NVIDIA calls it SLI. In Part I of our comparative look at dual-card graphics, we detail the two graphic giants' chipsets and what you get by investing in an Asus Crossfire or SLI motherboard.

Tom's Hardware Guide

Our friends at HKEPC Hardware have thrown up their review of Nvidia's GeForce Go 7300 mobile GPU, clocked at 350MHz core and 700MHz memory.

You may recall a few months back when AMD took out full-page newspaper ads to challenge Intel to a dual-core server duel. Intel declined to take up AMD on its offer, but the challenge got us thinking?

The holidays are creeping up and to ensure your preferred geek is appropriately gifted with only the most fitting of gadgets, widgets and thingamabobs, TechSpot is here to assist.

Here is something of interest for lovers of music and technology. Intel®, in partnership with Fender, have designed and produced an amazing one-off instrument, known as the Intel/Fender Telecaster Concept Guitar.

Our very own overclocking guru Robert "Crotale" Kilhberg has as usual spent a lot of his time at DreamHack in NordicHardware's booth doing some extreme overclocking attempts.

For those of you who watch the Athlon 64 market very closely, you may have noticed the sudden dry up of lower clocked E3 Venice CPUs. According to industry insiders, AMD appears to have discontinued shipping the Athlon 64 3000+ to major retailers, although AMD roadmaps predicted this far in advanced. However, sources have now indicated that AMD has also stopped shipping the Athlon 64 E3 Venice 3200+ and 3500+ Socket 939 processors too. Higher clocked Athlon 64 chips, like the 3800+, are in allocation.

AnandTech

Have you ever wondered how chips such as microprocessors, video processors, memories, chipsets etc are created and manufactured? In this tutorial we will explain everything you need to know about chip manufacturing process.

HardwareSecrets

ATI has sent out an official advisory called "Overclocking Configuration Support" to its board partners which allow a select number of partners to overclock boards based on Radeon X1800 XT chips. This represents a major milestone in ATI's history, which until now has been very strict concerning overclocking. Not only was ATI against users overclocking boards but ATI refused to support similar activities by its board partners.

AnandTech

What exactly is the purpose of releasing a new card when most games perform the same (after a certain threshold) and whatever increase in speed you get is only noticeable in "smart" applications that are designed to measure frames for the sole purpose of crowning the next champion. Does it stop us from producing faster cards? No. Do we wait for the games to catch up with the actual hardware? No. But yet, both NVIDIA and ATI continue to unleash their overpriced beasts to the enthusiast community.

After the Cyber Athlete Professional League (CPL) finales Intel made an official statement in which Clubic.com learns that Intel have optimized the following games for their Dual-Core Pentium D CPU's.

Thanks to VR-Zone for the Heads Up!

ATi Radeon X1800 XT PE will be coming next week according to a German site, K-Hardware. This card is clocked higher at 700MHz core and 1600MHz memory to be better positioned against NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512. It is yet to be determine what kind of memories will be used on the X1800 XT PE so it could probably still be the Samsung 1.26ns GDDR3 or even the faster 1.1ns memories. However, we have no problems hitting 750MHz core and 1700MHz for the X1800 XT card in an overclocking test so it wouldn't be surprise if the X1800 XT PE is essentially a X1800 XT card.

Cooler Master has launched the Real Power 550W, a new, high-performance and compact power supply for real enthusiasts and power users looking to get the ultimate in graphics performance from their PCs.

We have heard of SLI for notebooks half a year back with two GeForce 6800Ultra Go on a Dell notebook and we are pretty sure NVIDIA is going do it again for their recently launched 7800 GTX Go. The only problem is that your battery power is going to drain real fast with that setup and is only viable if AC power is connected.

VR-Zone

Razer, best known for its Diamondback and Copperhead high-end gaming mice, is to manufacture a mouse aimed at... female Mac users?

Bad Comedown

Semiconductor giant VIA have today announced their latest chipset: the K8T900 for AMD Athlon 64. Can it hold a candle to the current champ, NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI?

Bit-Tech

After we published our interviews with Logitech and Razer and our thoughts on the matter, we invited readers to send us questions that they wanted to ask the aforementioned companies in regards to laser technology. Much to our surprise, especially after Logitech said the number of users who were experiencing problems with laser technology had declined substantially over the past few weeks, we received hundreds (if not thousands) of e-mails from readers who had comments on our articles.

Intel had stated that hyperthreading's performance advantages would show once threaded software became available, but it appears that in some cases the opposite is true.

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