Later today, ATI will officially announce the Xpress 3200 core logic -- a 110nm low-k core logic for AMD Socket 939 and the still unannounced Socket AM2. Xpress 3200 has all of the features found on Xpress 200 (RD480) with a few extra frills from the Southbridge including dual Gigabit Ethernet PHYs, dual 1394 PHYs and eight SATA 3.0Gbps drive support.

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Over the last couple of months I have been repeatedly asked a question from people wanting to upgrade or buy a new PC. The question has been, should I get a dual core AMD Athlon 64 or single core and what speed should I get? This has also been a hot topic not only in our forums but right across the internet. Two distinct camps have developed: die hard dual core fans and die hard single core fans. Truthfully, during the testing of this article and my research I have felt like I have been playing Black and White 2 where you have one guy sitting on one shoulder and another on the other, both arguing their cases to me. Neither one are the devil, but neither one comes out as the undisputed angel either.

Get your free USB memory stick, courtesy of none other than Microsoft! Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.

Where else will you see two Rocking Babies, a Sony underwater digital camcorder, and smiling Panasonic executives? PCMag.com's lead camera analyst, Terry Sullivan, is at the Photo Marketing Association's 2006 exhibition, bringing you exclusive photos.

When the new ATI Dual x16 PCIe chipset launches in a couple of days, you will be able to buy motherboards on launch day from at least one manufacturer. The Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe will be widely available for sale on March 1, and it represents an upgrade of the current A8R-MVP with improved performance and Deluxe features. Asus also continues their use of passive cooling on the A8R32-MVP, with no active cooling fans.

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Well folks, we have a date for both Blu-ray hardware and media. I can?t say I?m overly excited about the initial titles, though they?re an improvement over Charlie?s Angels. Lion?s Gate is listing newer titles at $39.99 a pop and classics (I use that term lightly) at $29.99. Let the format war begin!

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Although details are currently sketchy, we know for a fact that Bose is scheduled to make a major announcement on 2nd March in Taipei, Taiwan. Bose officials are planning an event in Taipei where the presentation is expected to take place.

So in layman?s terms SLI is a method whereby you can throw extra video cards into your system so as to make it run faster whilst using higher quality settings. That is fantastic ? how could any enthusiast not embrace such a feature?

We heard faintly that NVIDIA is going to demonstrate Quad SLI technology using GeForce 7900 GTX cards over at CeBIT. Apparently, NVIDIA will be allowing manufacturers to make cards for Quad SLI too. Last but not least, GeForce 7900 GT scored almost the same 3DMark06 score as the 7800 GTX; ~4K.

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NVIDIA has been quiet about core logic since nForce4 x16 was launched a few months ago, but the company is rapidly approaching on final silicon for the MCP55 family. MCP55, as we reported previously, is the nForce4 successor dedicated to Socket AM2/S1 motherboards.

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Is this the real Video iPod? MacShrine has a picture of what appears to be a full screen iPod. These photos match up pretty well with the drawings from the US Patent and Trademark Office we posted a few weeks ago detailing a touch sensitive GUI for portable devices.

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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.