You probably remember the Dual GPU solutions from Asus and Gigabyte. A single board with two GPUs like the 3D1 and 7800GT Dual Card. You probably already know that the GeForce 7950GX2 will be a single board with two G71 GPUs clocked at 500MHz, with memory at 1200MHz.

The new CPUs from AMD support DDR2 and use the new AM2 socket. New chipsets from ATI and Nvidia offer more tweaks than ever, but the real action for most users lies in the new southbridge chips.

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Creative Technology introduces three different headphones for gaming (under Fatal1ty brand) and for audio playback with wireless and in-ears headphones.

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VR-Zone brings you the exclusive review of the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe with that beautiful heatpipe chipset cooler, based on the new and orgasmic Nvidia Nforce 590 SLI chipset.

After the launch of AMD's Socket AM2 yesterday, today Elite Bastards take a look at the technology which will power what is likely to become the new socket's most popular motherboard chipset - NVIDIA's nForce 500 series.

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Along with the launch of AMD's AM2 platform today, NVIDIA is launching the successor to nForce 4 - cunningly name nForce 5. The 500-series has several variants for high-end, mid-range and mainstream. We get down and dirty with the featureset ahead of an AM2 motherboard group test.

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HEXUS has managed to run a complete set of benchmarks for two speed grades of Intel Conroe CPUs in our HEXUS labs - guaranteed free of bias - and we've compared their performance to the Presler Extreme Edition 965 and, uniquely, to today's baby from AMD, its Athlon 64 FX-62. 'Nuff said? Oh, you actually want to know the numbers?

Today AMD is introducing the successor to today's 939-pin Athlon 64 processors, the 940-pin AM2 socket. The new socket brings with a number of changes, most notable of which is DDR2 memory, while CPU's based on the new platform boast such features as lower power consumption and AMD's virtualization technology. But that's not all, as today AMD is also introducing two new processors: the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and the FX-62. See how the new chips perform in comparison to their predecessors with both single-card and SLI configurations in today's article!

The star of that lineup, once it arrives, will be the Woodcrest microprocessor based on Intel's new Core microarchitecture, which promises higher performance and lower power consumption than current Netburst-derived Xeons. I recently attended a reviewer's workshop in Portland, Oregon where I got to spend some quality time with a pair of Woodcrest processors on the Bensley platform, and I came away impressed. More importantly, I came away with some benchmark scores we can compare directly to AMD's Opteron 285.

10 years after 3dfx, Ageia is preparing the release of a new accelerator, the PPU. Behardware.com has taken a first look at this physics accelerator.

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A new AMD socket has been launched, and with it a new mounting bracket, it renders a lot of well known heatsinks useless, Madshrimps compiled an extensive list of those which still fit the new AM2 platform out of the box. Essential read for those looking to upgrade.

Im speachless... Intel 975XBX Motherboard unmodded, no bios mods. Vapochill LS Modded by Chilly1, Memory @ 3-4-3-9 @ 1:1, Vcore @ 1.565v.

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In this roundup the guys from Madshrimps compare seven different video cards which don't cost you an arm and a leg. Using FRAPS and several popular games they test the performance and try to find the best value for your money. Want to play the latest games with a budget friendly graphics card? Read on to find out which one to pick.

ASRock is the first manufacturer to get out a Socket AM2 motherboard geared towards the entry-level community and we've another preview just for you. With the AM2NF4G-SATA2 motherboard, users can look forward to AM2 and DDR2 on the cheap, but for now you can just look.

Thanks to AOpen i975Xa-YDG mainboard we managed to conduct a number of overclocking experiments on our Intel Core Duo T2600 processor. Overclocking proved to have significantly raised the performance of this mobile dual-core processor so that we could place it on the same level with the fastest Intel Pentium Extreme Edition and AMD Athlon 64 FX processors.

Some AMD AM2 motherboards have washed up our shores. Check out the Epox MF570 SLI motherboard based on the NForce 570 SLI MCP here , and the Foxconn C51XEM2AA based on the NForce 590 SLI MCP here.

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Finally the guys from Creative Labs have aknowledged the existing problems with creative x-fi and nf4 chipsets. you can read all about it on the official statement over in the creative forums, one of the systems tested included the diamond plus mobo. read all about the findings, and maybe everyone who has a problem will be able to solve it. good luck guys.

Today we have managed to check out a new build of ForceWare (84.56a) that came from one of Nvidia?s OEMs. We found some interesting new entries in the setup information file (nv4_disp.inf). It seems that Nvidia has added support for the following GPUs: GeForce 7800 Ultra and GeForce 7800SE/XT/LE/LT/ZT series.

An in-depth look on how CPUs based on AMD64 architecture work, like Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX, Turion 64, Opteron and some Sempron models.

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Get a socket change, a new dual-channel DDR2 memory controller, double the processing cores, improved power management and you have a recipe for the new Turion 64 X2 processor. Read on as we take MSI's S271 Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology pre-evaluation notebook for a quick spin.