We are pleased to invited to attend the HKEPC Techday 2005 over at Hong Kong over the weekend and we have witnessed an impressive line-up of interesting technologies displayed (Presler, 975X, Yonah, 3DMark06 etc.) by the sponsors and of course HKEPC themselves.

VR-Zone

we wanted to let you know that our latest review article is up. In this article, we put the GeForce 7800GTX and 7800GT with all modes of transparency anti aliasing in our usual games benchmarks. The conclusion: 4x transparent SSAA is definitely not really attaininable even on the 7800GTX.

In October of this year, Intel invited AnandTech to its Jones Farm Campus in Portland Oregon. The purpose of the visit was to get a detailed overview of their roadmap for the next year, and to take a close look at the Bensley platform. Bensley is the code name for Intel's new Xeon platform, which will support both Dempsey and Woodcrest processors and a new chipset, code-named Blackford.

To kick things off in the brand spanking new forums we're giving away a Kingston Datatraveler II+Migo 512MB flash drive to one lucky forum user! The closing date is the 25th Dec, so get moving!

There is a lot more to dual card graphics than the extra frame rates ATI and NVIDIA's respective Crossfire and SLI platforms offer. Besides their overclocking potential, we look at the storage interface performance of ATI Crossfire and the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 platforms. We've also included VIA's new K8T900 dual graphics chipset in our lineup.

Tom's Hardware Guide

Enter Asus with its brand new Extreme GeForce 7800 GT Dual. This monster of a graphics chip sports two 7800 GT chips running in parallel. We'd like to note a few things that are special about this card.

How many products did PC Magazine review in the past year? As of press time, the number was over 1,300 and growing. Here's a list of the best products in 13 categories, including Gaming Software, Notebooks, Home Security, and Entertainment.

iRobot's Scooba Floor Washing Robot, the follow-up to the hugely successful Roomba home vacuum, the Scooba sweeps, scrubs, mops, and even dries the floor. It does all this with very little interaction from you: The Scooba's robot brain lets it map out your room, navigate obstacles, and know when it has cleaned the entire room.

PC Mag

In this round-up I'll be looking at six USB flash drives, some no frills but with a price worthy of consideration and others with all the bells and whistles some out there may find essential. On test are the following drives: Corsair Flash Voyager; Crucial Gizmo; Geil David; Kingston DataTraveler II + Migo; Kingston DataTraveler Elite, and the OCZ Rally.

Scottevest, now known as SeV, continues to refine its much-hyped clothing line. Their first line was famed for its multiple pockets and high durability, and now they're up to version 4.0. Christiaan takes some of the gear for a spin and gives us a verdict. Maybe getting clothes for Christmas won't be so bad anymore?

FiringSquad

This is a friendly reminder of Xtreme Resources 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. Our very generous community through their donations have already helped take care of a major portion of their bills, with one very generous member matching all donations made.

Planning on upgrading this holiday season? If so, you'll definitely want to check out today's article. Inside you'll find nearly 6,000 words on our top choices in CPUs, motherboards, video cards, power supplies, storage, and audio. See who comes out on top inside!

The launch venue is expected to be India. However, we are not able to confirm if there are going to be more simultaneous launches or if this is going to be an exclusive launch. Knowing that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2006) will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada around the same timeframe, it makes sense for Intel to do a simultaneous launch in the U.S. as well.

Well, we?ve been hearing rumors about this for a while, but we finally heard it from the horse?s mouth not too long ago. Recent conversations with insiders at NVIDIA have led us to believe that their top of the line card, the 7800GTX 512MB will be out of production sometime in Q1 next year, most likely somewhere around February ?06.

Today we explore Asus nVidia SLI solution for Intel, we´ll take full advantage of Proactive AI and determine just how smart the board is. Read on for Madshrimps first IQ test designed for a motherboard.

Close partner of ATI said ATI will release a brand new video card to replace X1800XT. X1800 will be a half-year-old king. The card that will be replacing X1800XT is the famous R580. Its internal name is now X1900. It is Pin-to-Pin competiable with the X1800XT PCB. The engineering sample uses the identical cooling as the X1800XT. Its competitor will be nVidia Geforce G71, a new gen 90nm core. Seems like the Q1 of next year will be an interesting year as the war btw ATI & nVidia heats up.

Today Alan Dang looks at the deinterlacing performance of the NVIDIA GeForce 6600, the ATI Radeon X800, and the XGI Volari 8300. Test-taking skills will tell you that FiringSquad wouldn't have bothered talking about the XGI Volari 8300 unless it had something special to offer...

We've spent a couple of months running Intel's ICH7R and NVIDIA's nForce4 Serial ATA RAID controllers through our exhaustive suite of storage tests, and the results are something to behold. We started with a single drive and worked our way up through RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 0+1, and 5 with two, three, and even four hard drives. Read on to see which RAID controller reigns supreme and how the different RAID levels compare in performance.

AMD ups the ante by inviting Intel to step foot into the Ritz-Carlton Millenia in Singapore on December 6th, 2005 for a final dual-core showdown of the year. AMD was there, CEO Dr. Hector Ruiz was there and HardwareZone was there. The only party missing was Intel.

This is just to remind you guys that we are giving away two Leadtek Winfast PX7800GT Extreme TDH 256MB cards. The only thing you have to do is check the following link to get the chance to win one of these cards. Don't miss out on this great opportunity! The competition ends in two weeks.