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.

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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.

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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.

ZD Net

Thanks to the generosity of our friends at Ideazon we are thrilled to announce our latest contest! We have four Zboards - two Call of Duty 2 keysets and two Age of Empires III keysets. The keyset will be designated by the site admin upon being chosen as a winner in the contest.

The top Gaming PCs are the Falcon Northwest X2-4800 SLI, the Voodoo Omen a121, and the Dell XPS M170. These PCs include top-of-the-line components. Read the reviews of these systems and find out how much they cost.

PC-Mag

For those who are currently in the market for dual Opteron boards and are preferring products manufactured by Tyan, be sure to carefully pick power supplies with some research before purchase. We have been advised that certain Antec power supplies are having issues with the following motherboards from Tyan:

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Well, it is that time of the year again. With Halloween done and over with its time for Thanksgiving and, before you know it, the holiday season. Every company realizes this and has made sure the stores are packed with cool new gadgets, gifts, and gizmos. This guide is going to go over a few of the items which appear of the wishlists of a few of the staff members. Nothing too formal, but you can get an idea of some of the cool products to keep an eye out for this season.

In closing, Logitech did provide somewhat of a remedy. The peripherals maker suggested that users who are having problems with surface tracking with either G5 or G7 mice should call Logitech?s technical support team to remedy the problem.

Maxell and InPhase are bringing a revolutionary technology to market - holographic media. With storage capacities achieving 1.6 TeraBytes per disk and data rates as high as 120 MBPs, holographic technology is a true breakthrough in optical media. These features, along with a long archival life, make holographic media a compelling choice for storage and archival requirements.

DV Hardware

When you are forgotten your USB stick at school, work or by a friend, the LG USB xtick alerts you.

Gadget Flash

The MIT Media Lab initiative to develop a $100 laptop?a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. To achieve this goal, a new, non-profit association, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), has been created. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Nicholas Negroponte Unveil $100 Laptop Prototype at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.

Our friends at HKEPC Hardware have thrown up their review of Intel's Pentium XE 955 and Pentium 4 643 65-nano processors.