VR-Zone has done a roundup on 6 different brands of DDR333 SDRAM. The contenders are Micron, Kingston, KingMax, Nanya, TwinMOS and Winbond. We have put these memories through a series of high FSB overclocking tests. IWill XP333 was used to test the max FSB these RAMs can go while EPoX 8K3A+ was used to test out the max FSB these RAMs can achieve under most aggressive memory timings. Some of the DDR333 memories are able to attain over 210Mhz and some are able to run over 190Mhz at CAS2!

T-Break has received the Gainward GeForce4 Ti440 Ultra/700XP and have setup a nice gallery in their forums. Benchmarks will follow tommorow.

The PCI-SIG (PCI Special Interest Group) is the industry organization that owns and manages the PCI Local Bus specification as an open industry standard. The organization defines and implements new industry standard I/O (Input/Output) specifications as the industry's local I/O needs evolve. Currently, more than 700 industry-leading companies are active PCI-SIG members. The PCI-SIG's board of directors is composed of the following companies: AMD, Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix Technologies, ServerWorks and TI. Companies involved have now agreed on the next PCI stepping version 2.3. This new standard aimed for migration to low-voltage designs and therefore support for 5 volt-keyed add-in cards has been removed. Read more...

Abbas has posted some pictures of Creative's Upcoming Jukebox 3.0 MP3 player on T-Break.com forums.

Looks like OCZ will have some DDR400 Memory available in April. Also known as PC3300 RAM this memory is bound for serious speed. Ahead of time this is because their press release is from April, 8th 2002. OCZ Source: I Am Not A Geek

You just have to love CeBIT. It seems one of ATI's production partners namely Club-3D has jumped the gun early by revealing the specifications of ATI's successor of the Radeon 8500. If you geeks need to take a closer look, read more.

Now that they've finished the move to their new domain, Envy News has posted thier first new piece - a Northwood P4-2.0 GHz Upgrade column. This witty editorial depicts a true 'field story' on the upgrade and boasts plenty of great picts. Here's a link to this month's latest "Yur Pal Mitch" editorial, titled: Northwood

Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS), a leading core logic and graphics supplier presented a first sample board utilitzing their new SiS336 chipset: Actually there is a new range of 33x chipsets from value to high-performance. Read more for the GPU specs, a pic of the sample board and an overview.

Just got word from Visionary@vr-zone.com about SiS brand new SiS645DX chipset. Here's what he's saying:

SiS645DX chipset is one of the highlights by SiS at CeBIT where this chipset will provide 533Mhz support for Pentium 4 and of course DDR333 support as well. VR-Zone has a chance to take a look at the SIS645DX reference board from SiS and we have evaluated its performance under DDR266, DDR333 and even DDR400 modes. More interestingly, we have tested out the 533Mhz FSB support on this chipset by using a 533Mhz P4 2.4Ghz (18x133) processor.

Abit has announced their new MAX motherboard series at CeBIT 2002, Hannover - Germany. As of now there are two of these new feature packed motherboards that Abit has given information about: the Abit IT7 i845E-chipset for Pentium 4 processors Abit AT7 with VIA KT333-chipset for AMD Athlon CPU's Read more...

We reported earlier about the problems of some users running their Audigy soundcard here. According to ExtremeTech Creative engineers were now able to pinpoint the problem which is not associated with the soundcard itself but rather a specific PCI bridge chip used in at least one motherboard from Soyo Computer Inc. and a PCI glitch in PCs manufactured by Dell Computer Corp. This information was passed along by Steve Erickson, vice-president of audio development at Creative Labs, Fremont, Calif. Read more...

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