VR-Zone has posted some pics and info on the new Triplex Millennium Silver GeForce4 MX440 and GeForce4 Ti4600 cards. They are based on a shiny silver printed circuit board (PCB) but this silver is more than just a cool design feature; it is also a part of the products leading-edge technology. Triplex has pioneered advances in cooling and EMI performance with its silver PCBs.

Hercules' european department has released a press info in which they announce the new 3DProphet 4800 - a value placed graphics card based on the KYRO2 SE chipset. New and advanced features include: Optimization for the latest OpenGL and DirectX APIs AGP 4X/2X 200MHz core clock 64MB of RAM TV-Output Note: PowerVR has officially announced the KYRO2 SE chip - details are the same. Read more...

Several websites including MatroxUsers and 3DSpeed.org suggest and call upon unconfirmed information that Matrox Graphics Inc. is working on a GPU code-named Parhelia. Rumour has it that the GPU in question will already be DirectX 9 compliant and will feature a 256bit memory bus resulting in 19.2GB/s bandwidth. Other than that it is said to be clocked at 300/300Mhz core/memory and be equpped with 4 pixel and vertex shader pipelines. Matrox was not available for comment. Furthermore Matrox Graphics Inc. will not take part in CeBIT 2002 held this month in Hannover, Germany.

Just got word from NvMax about some trouble that's brewing, if you got an Epox 8KHA(+) motherboard and are thinking of getting a Visiontek Ti4600...

Prolink Corporations PR queen Grace Tseng was kind enough to provide us with the latest information on their upcoming Ti series of cards. PixelView GeForce4 Ti 4600 series GeForce4 Ti 4600 series are powered by the most advanced graphics processing unit on the world-the GeForce 4 Ti 4600. The core clock speed of 300MHz and memory clock speed of 650, combined with amazing 128MB DDR provide the ultimate graphics experience with revolutionary technologies including, advanced nfinite FX II engine, superior Accuvierw antialiasing techniques, and flexible nView display technology. PixelView GeForce4 Ti 4400 series GeForce4 Ti 4400 series are powered by the GeForce4 Ti 4400 GPU. The core clock speed of 275MHz and memory clock speed of 550, combined with amazing 128MB DDR provide ample performance. And the series also includes advanced nfinite FX engine, superior Accuvierw antialiasing techniques, and flexible nView display technology.

According to sources close to the company Nvidia plans to introduce revision 2 of their integrated multimedia motherboard chipset nForce @ Computex / Taipei in June 2002 (3rd - 7th). Computex is Asia's largest IT event. Last year 1071 exhibitors attended the fair to display their products. The new nForce chipset will again be AMD based and it seems highly likely that it will be upgraded to support DDR333/DDR400 memory modules. The codename Crush 17 is rumoured for the new chipset. Source: Digitimes

In response to customer demands, MSI? (Micro-Star International) is announcing a new full-featured mainboard product based on the Intel® E7500 chipset -E7500 Master-LS.

The E7500 Master-LS is of SSI EEB3.0 form factor and features Intel® Netburst? architecture. The E7500 Master-LS is equipped with Dual Channel Ultra160 SCSI and Dual Intel® Xeon? Processor & Intel® Xeon? Processors w/ 512k L2 Cache up to 2.2GHz and higher. The E7500 Master-LS mainboard provides 5 PCI-X slots, providing the greatest flexibility and expandability for add-on devices. The E7500 Master-LS also comes with 6 DIMM sockets supporting up to 12GB of system memory.

AMD issued a press release today stating that the next-gen 64bit processor technology - code named Hammer - was presented to the public. ''Great architectures are built on strong foundations, and ?Hammer? is rock solid. Based on AMD?s x86-64 technology, the ?Hammer? processor will be the industry?s first and only 64-bit processor for x86 computing, and is designed to offer unparalleled performance on both 32-bit and 64-bit software,'' said Ed Ellett, vice president of Marketing for AMD?s Computation Products Group. ''Beyond performance, ?Hammer? will give users a smooth migration path to the 64-bit software of tomorrow, all the while preserving the billions of dollars of today?s 32-bit software applications.''

Pardon me? Whats that? Were not the official DDR333 specifications discussed a few weeks ago? Anyway all speed freaks might want to warp over to PCStats who have done a review on this new memory. Here is a byte of what they have to say: On the Epox 8KHA+ board, the PC3000 would hit just 175 MHz, and any attempt to go higher would result in a 2B or 26 error on the port 80 card. Perhaps we had hit the limit of the 8KHA+ as we had had two other sticks max out at 175 MHz CL 2.5 before. Nuts to that, I decided to use another board to test the PC3000, and this time our candidate was the brand new MSI KT3 Ultra. Based on the just released VIA KT333 chipset, the MSI KT3 Ultra was able to run the OCZ PC3000 memory at 183 MHz CL2.5, however stability was a problem. Find this interesting article @ PCStats

Today VIA announced the new DDR333 supporting chipset KT333. VIA again extends their leading position in AMD supporting DDR chipsets. The new revision step is not such an evolutionary leap as the introduction of the KT266A chipset was though. Nonetheless the new KT333 chipset will mark the performance bar among DDR333 solutions. Reviews so far: KT333 Review @ AMDMB KT333 Review @ The Tech-Report KT333 Review @ [H]ardOCP KT333 Review @ Anandtech KT333 Review @ ViaHardware Read more...

Just got word from Visionary@vr-zone.com that he's got hold of information on the upcoming SOYO K7V DRAGON Ultra board based on the VIA KT333(CE) chipset! The specs are:

3 184-pin DDR SDRAM up to 3GB (DDR 200/266/333)
5 PCI slots, 1 AGP Pro slot
On board CMI 8738 Audio chip
4 independent channels for eight IDE devices (two for raid)
VCore, DIMM and AGP voltage adjustable
SOYO Wizard On Hand II Function1MHz increment
Supports High-speed USB 2.0 ports (4 ports)

For more information visit VRZone under read more .

I was just surfing a message board and came across this link -- don't know if you guys report on this, or if Savagenews covers more hardware chipset related issues. VIA KT333: Credible Details Here @ Xbit-Labs

Savagenews.com A few hours ago we have received from InnoVISION Multimedia their Inno3D GeForce4 MX 440 video card. First I saw the excellent looking box, this seems to be just the best one made ever by Inno3D. The whole looks more like Inno3D GeForce2 Ti than anything other. I've got a few shots just for you and a quick 3D Mark 2001 SE test... so hit the link above. I expect that the GeForce 4 MX series will not find many friends out there. Lacking DirectX 8 support can not be evened by good performance at least not in the Doom3+ era. You might be able to find a better card in the MX price segment so keep your eyes open.

LOL! I myself report on Planet-XP.de - our german branch - that a german supermarket ring will offer an Elsa Bundle with the following: Elsa Nvidia TNT2 M64 32MB graphics card Elsa 3D Revelator | cable version And all that for the shiny price of ?14.99. Read the full article over there if you live in Germany and want to grab yourself some pretty 3D glasses:
Beware of the run to the supermarket...

These are some features I found while testing the A7V333 - just scroll down & read a post by Naser from Tbreak.

Thermalgoo.com has recently opened it's doors.

They have posted an 'interesting' article on lighting your case WITHOUT having to buy expensive 'neons'.

Click here to view the case mod article

t-break has published a review for the ASUS KT333 motherboard. Rumors say that the new VIA chipset will ship after Cebit 2002 at the latest.

As much as we love our Athlons, we have to agree that the P4 runs cooler and is less likely to burn. When AMD released the Athlon XP, they offered a way for SOME kind of protection through the on-die temperature sensor that could be used to prevent overheating. However, almost all motherboard manufacturers have still not implemented this feature. Now on the A7V333, ASUS offers a feature called C.O.P. or CPU Overheating Protection and although nowhere does ASUS mention about C.O.P. taking the reading from the Athlon XP's on-die temperature sensor, we have a feeling that it does because ASUS clearly states in the manual that it only works with the Athlon XP CPU and we couldn't find any thermal sensor under the CPU socket.

I noticed an interesting article @ TweakTown regarding the unbelievable amount of customers who reported serious data loss errors and frequent fail rates. I myself had fortunately no problems at all with my 75GXP HDD but nervertheless this article might solve a few problems for ya. And you might have already guessed it - it's all about cooling. Read more...

After processors and graphics cards it is now possible to cool your harddisks with water.
The guys over @ Digital-Explosion have an article online how to do just that.
Here's a byte: So how do you cool two hot disks with water? Well, some imspection of my Seagate Barracuda's revealed that there's what appears to be a large aluminium heat-transfer block that runs right through the disk. This is the bit you normally attatch to your case. So, the best option I figured would be to bolt a couple of plates to this and cool them with water. Unfortunately, bolting to the sides only gives you quite a small contact-area so to increase the effectivety of the cooler I decided to sandwich the two drives around another cooled plate. To cool these plates down the easiest thing to do is solder some copper pipes directly to them and connect it up to my existing rig. Head over and read the article if you're interested.

The guys over @ X-bit Labs have the new Asus roadmap for their graphics card lineup online.
Read more to take a look @ the map.