I'm sure many of you are aware of Gainward's new ?goes like hell? cards which can only be described as their ?Golden Sample? brand on steroids. Allegedly a 7800 GTX 512MB ?Goes like hell? is in the works. This is not a suped up 256MB GTX, this is a suped up GTX 512MB, and is rumoured to be clocked somewhere around 600-650 MHz on the core and a mind blowing 2.2 GHz on the memory

With the release of ATI's Radeon X1900-series video cards, ATI's Radeon X1800-series has received a significant price drop. Along with the Radeon X1900XTX, X1900XT and X1900 CrossFire Edition cards, Bit-Tech.net

As with all consumer electronics, the computer gets smaller and faster every day. The same applies to those gigantic rack servers that take up entire rooms. While the large companies may rely on these massive servers, the small businesses don't have to. At least not anymore.... Club Overclocker

Elite Bastards have taken a look at ATI's Radeon X1900 XT and XTX parts, to see if the performance difference between the two is really worth $100.

Today we have quick details on the first ATI based card to fully support HDMI-HDCP. The card itself is a PCI Express video card with a low profile design. It does not come with a DVI connector but instead has a fully functional HDMI connector that is capable of delivering a full HDCP encoded signal.

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The 23rd of February marks a very important birthday in history. No I?m not talking about Dakota Fanning, but rather NGOHQ. That?s right everybody, NGOHQ is one year old today. In celebration we want to go against tradition and GIVE presents away rather than receive them. Set yourself for another great NGOHQ giveaway! The prizes in the contest consist of the following:

OCIA.net has posted their Mainstream System Building Guide, the second of three in a monthly series of system building articles.

OCZ's Platinum 2GB memory kit made our list for two reasons. First, 2GB of memory is fast becoming the new standard. Ask anyone who has taken the jump from 1GB to 2GB and they will confirm this. The added memory increases overall system performance, especially in some of the newer graphic-intensive games.

We met with a few friends of ours at AMD and tried to weasel out the exact launch date for the company's AM2 socket. Although the replies were mostly mysterious, we were told that the socket was up and running. AMD also confirmed that samples have been delivered to their partners and motherboard production is well underway. If true, this should definitely enable AMD to have a massive hard launch.

In their first roundup of the year the Madshrimps compare 21 popular heatsinks from different manufactures. Heat pipes, Fan-less, Copper and Aluminum, close to 12kg of heatsink put through extensive tests and compared to the new AMD stock cooling.

Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of graphics solutions for professionals, announces Extio? F1400, the world's first remote graphics unit. With this solution, the user interface of the computer -- the keyboard, mouse, monitors, audio peripherals, and graphics hardware -- are separated from the rest of the computer by up to 250 meters (820 feet) of fiber-optic cable. Designed for professional applications, this product supports up to 4 digital or analog monitors at a time, and has passive (fanless) cooling.

Internal ATI memos and roadmaps have revealed to us that the next generation 80nm RV570 and RV560 GPUs will not require a master card to operate in Crossfire mode. Both GPUs have on-board Crossfire support, meaning they are both effectively "masters."

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Nvidia?s code-named G80 graphics processing unit (GPU) will incorporate 48 pixel shader processors and an unknown number of vertex shader processors, some unofficial sources said. The chip is still expected to support feature-set of DirectX 10 along with Shader Model 4.0, even though it will not take advantage of the unified processors that can compute both pixel and vertex shaders.

X-Bit Labs

We've uncovered some details about NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 7900GT! Surprise, surprise ? here is NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 7900GT. NVIDIA?s newest GPU, dubbed G71, will debut at CeBit 2006 in Hannover in a few weeks.

Dual core processors have been the subject of so much hype that perceptions about the technology seem to have trumped some of the realities

I've written an article detailing what we know so far on Nvidia's GeForce 7900 GTX, due out March 9th from Nvidia. It's a one page article but it's not one of those one paragraph per page articles, and is a good summary of all that is out there on the card. Check it out.

AMD Zone

What's better than one PC? Two of course! The Madshrimps decided to build a dual CPU system taking a rather unique approach. Rather than strapping 2 CPU's to one motherboard or using one of the latest Dual Core offerings from AMD/Intel they have been working on a case which can house 2 systems nicely, with good cooling and easy functionality through one keyboard/mouse and monitor.

Out of the blue we received a small box containing a new kind of chipset cooler. The company that send it to us goes by the name ?Jing Ting?. I must say I have never heard of them before, but when I took a peek at the content in the box it looked very impressive. If you have a noisy chipset cooler you might want to check out this cooler. HardwareXL

Sennheiser refreshed their high-end and mid-range consumer headphones that would be available for the first quarter of 2006. This showcase article gets right down to what the new refresh has in store for you and perhaps even help you nail down the ideal headphone pair you were looking for.

Hardware Zone

Hasta la Vista? A good monitor is supposed to last for years, but Hollywood is going to shake things up with mandatory HDCP support for high-definition video in Windows Vista.

In a conference call on February 16, NVIDIA said that it was planning to acquire other companies in 2006. Which companies? Alan takes on the role of market analyst and makes his best guess.

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