NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI chipset is put to the test in three varying offerings from Asus, Albatron, and Foxconn.

AnandTech

Between the alphabet soup of the different standards and the disparity between vendors' claims and true speeds, choosing the right DVD writer is not much fun. To spare you the headache, we detail the latest DVD writers available from NEC ND-3540A, Pioneer DVR-110D, Plextor PX-740A, Sony DRU-810A and Toshiba SDR-5472 and gauge their true speeds.

Tom's Hardware Guide

Here is the new Quad processor from the PowerMac G5. Note the dual cooling pumps and massive heat exchanger. Even the Voltage regulator has a huge heatsink. Keeps my room warm at night. :)

Arstechnica

The Asus P5WD2-E Premium is the successor of the popular PW5D2 Premium mainboard. Based on the latest Glenwood 975X chipset coupled with Intel's very successful ICH7R Southbridge featuring Intel Matrix Storage Technology, the Asus P5WD2-E Premium is here to take the enthusiast market by storm.

VR-Zone

SUN's Ultrasparc T1, formerly known as Niagara, is much more than just a new UltraSparc. It is the harbinger of a new generation of CPUs, which focus almost solely on Thread Level Parallelism. No less than 32 independent parts of a different program (threads) can be "in flight" on the chip.

AnandTech

This article is actually meant more as an addendum to the first part (which you can read here), where we talk mostly about transparency antialiasing performance from NVIDIA's GeForce 7 series cards. For the most part, transparency antialiasing is only really usable on old games (that does use lots of transparent textures). Newer games tend to be too much of a burden, even for the fastest GeForce 7800GTX, especially if we were to use 4x AA.

WowWee's second attempt at the Robosapien is a pricey one, at $250. Still, the Robosapien V2 is nearly double the size of its predecessor and is capable of head turns, arm and shoulder bends, grasping with large robotic fingers, and bending at the waist. By entering program mode via the remote, you can program him to move in any position you like. He can also hear, see, feel, and interact. But, if there's one thing that he doesn?t excel at, it's bowling!

PCMag.com

Just yesterday we could report about how Crotale reached a new milestone with 4Ghz with a Celeron M 1.4GHz. We didn't think he would stop there and he didn't. He kept pushing that poor processor even further and has now reported in 4159 MHz!

NordicHardware

Our friends over at HKEPC has got hold of a X1900XTX card already and the R580 die size is noticeably larger than the R520. If the process technology remains at 90nm for the R580, the estimated number of transistors stand at 350M or more compared to 321M for the R520.

You can see a number of reviews around the web today of Intel's newest CPU and chipset combination, the Pentium Extreme Edition 955 processor and 975X core-logic chipset. The 955 Extreme Edition is the processor code-named "Presler," Intel's new 65nm dual-core CPU that has two chips situated together on a single package.

NVIDIA?s SLI is "passé", as we are now moving towards quad-GPUs with the future looking dramatically exciting. What ASUS and others have been trying to do is integrate two GPUs on a single card, and thus far, ASUS seems to be the king of the hill with this concept.

At the transition to a 90nm manufacturing process, something that would be a long down period for Intel started and the cause - heat. For several years it struggled with refining its manufacturing process to be able to increase the frequencies of the Prescott core. The goal was to release a processor at 4GHz, but this turned out to be too much. Intel has for the last year been working on setting their factories to use 65nm technology and it has according to information we've received already reached a productivity equal to the already refined 90nm process.

Today we are going to compare the performance of dual-processor workstations built on single-core and dual-core processors from AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processor families.

X-Bit Labs

The Madshrimps are proud to present you with their last heatsink roundup of 2005. Featuring the latest offerings from Arctic, Scythe, Silverstone, Sharkoon and newcomer Noctua. They compare them to the best out there in 3 different test configurations.

Earlier this month, NVIDIA bought chipset manufacturer ULi Electronics for $52 million USD. In today's interview we speak with NVIDIA's Drew Henry on the acquisition. See what NVIDIA has in store for ULi in our latest article!

FiringSquad

ATI secretly released its Silver Bullets material to AIBs this week and the picture of R580 is slowly coming together. R580, or Radeon X1900 as it is called internally, is expected to "launch" in January according to ATI documentation.

AnandTech

Western Digital will soon introduce two new Raptor HDDs. Both SATA2 drives will feature 150GB storage capacity, one will be aimed at servers and the other one at gamers.

DV Hardware

Speculation over the arrival of ATI?s next high end chip, to replace the tardy R520, has been rife over the past few months, with the popular theorists pinning towards a late January 2006 timeframe.

Beyond3D

Ah, back to the seemingly age old topic. If it wasn?t for ATI, I doubt we would be talking about this stagnant, yet important, topic anymore. The fact of the matter is people, including the editors and readers, are tired of repeating ourselves and demanding (our requests clearly did nothing) products right when they are launched.

Despite the shortcomings of the initial article, we did manage to get a good look at the performance we could expect from Yonah. Mainly, that it was a fairly strong successor to the single core Pentium M and even more impressive was that it offered performance equal to that of AMD?s Athlon 64 X2 without an on-die memory controller.