Check out this case mod that hails from Brazil! There's some incredibly detailed window work, outrageous orange UV paint, old-school analogue gauges and great attention to detail.

Bit-Tech

While most people are happy with a working-out-of-the-box Dell, some just don't rest until they have squeezed every last bit of performance out of their rig. When you're disassembling your refrigerator to use the compressor to cool your videocard, or when you catch yourself stealing liquid nitrogen at the lab, you might be one of them. Today we interview the current world record holder of the popular benchmark application 3dmark01 and 3dmark03, micutzu of crazypc.ro. For those who are wondering, he scored 76144 ('01) and 53069 marks ('03), that's more than twice the speed any prebuilt computer can offer you!

Lexar has identified a potential issue in JumpDrive FireFly products sold between April 1 and May 31, 2006 in the U.S. in the following capacities: 256MB, 512MB, 1GB and 2GB and JumpDrive Secure II 1GB products sold at Fry's in the U.S. between May 16 and May 31, 2006. We are recalling these products in cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and following the consumer safety guidelines.

AMD released an updated schedule for 65nm production, where AMD Athlon 64 FX, AMD Athlon X2 (Brisbane) and AMD Sempron (BHrisbane) are the only left. Single-core Athlon 64 is going to fade out soon, and therefore AMD would only provide dual core processor for mainstream and performance needs.

Sources indicate that AMD plans to release Athlon 64 X2 3600+ earlier from Q4 to Q3, probably few weeks after the price-cut on July 24. Targeting on Intel Pentium D 945 (3.4GHz/2MB x2 L2/800MHz FSB/No VT), Pentium D 915 (2.8GHz/2MB x2 L2/800MHz FSB/No VT), and the upcoming Core 2 Duo E4200 (1.6GHz/2MB/800MHz) and Pentium D 925(3.0GHz/2MB x2 L2/800MHz FSB), X2 3600+ is expected to priced in $130~149.

In part 1 of our nForce 570/590 SLI roundup, we take a look at four different nForce SLI motherboards for AMD's brand new AM2 socket. Inside you'll find motherboards from ASUS, EPoX, Foxconn, and Gigabyte.

Xpentor has an article over AMD's 4x4 Platform speculative performance against Intel's Flagship Core 2 Extreme!

Xpentor

The Speedlink Thebe2 SL-8736 Headset is a multimedia headset, compliant with franchises such as MSN, Skype, as well as the WCG (World Cyber Games), which is the e-sports equivalent to the Olympics.

Read the Full review at: LucidLAN

Intel hints that Conroe is going to release at B-2 Stepping as Intel Core 2 Duo processor. As for the previous version, a problem was found to make the system full loaded. It?s only solved in the new stepping. We don?t encourage anyone to buy the engineering sample from the web. The retail version is going to release in the end of this month, and it?s much stable.

ATi has just made a very cool decision regarding their AIB partners. They have chosen to stop adding their stock coolers to some of their regular shipments to AIB?s. They will still provide them if AIB?s choose to use them, but default shipments will not contain coolers. This could very well be a win-win scenario for everyone

AMD has released details of its next-generation desktop CPU interface, Socket AM3, to its OEM partners. In a mildly surprising move, AMD has revealed that AM2 will accept AM2 or AM3 CPU packages.

DailyTech

Do you own one of the early Upgrade series of board. If you own the K8Upgrade-1689 Socket 754, you are in luck. Thanks to ASRock, they have released a new BIOS upgrade which allows you to upgrade the S754 board to Socket 939 (already available since 2004) and now to Socket AM2 !

OcworkBench

Samsung has begun shipping GDDR 4 memory chips in volume, the company said today, more than eight months after it began sampling the parts.

RegHardware

It turns that the fancy Nvidia G80 chip taped out, and in working silicon stage it will have 32 pixel Shaders and, as predicted, have 16 vertex and geometry Shaders.

The Inquirer

We test three different retail computer systems sporting the "Windows Vista Capable" badges and tell you if it's a gimmick to move systems or if you can really expect an acceptable user experience. We even throw in a bit of a preview of Vista's features as well.

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There are some Quake 4 screenshots at 3dfxzone.it italian forum. Quake 4 was runned on Microsoft Windows XP using a Vooodoo5 5500 PCI video card. 3dfx software configuration was based on SFFT Alpha driver.

Replacing old weapons, ATi is going to finalize the specification and designation of RV560/570 in the coming weeks. RV570 is to replace X1900GT with the same performance but a lower cost. RV570XT is probably designated to X1900GT, same with R580GT, or a new X1950 family.

Without any doubt, the upcoming Conroe provides lots of performance improvement and is expected to be the favorite of high-end users. To advance in high-end market, instead of AMD based chipset, both ATi and nVidia are going to provide another Intel based chipset.

Netburst is dead, and long live Core ! This is something Intel announced a little over a year ago. The Netburst architecture introduced with the Pentium 4 in November 2000 is now replaced by a new architecture called Core, available for desktop, mobile and server platforms.

Nvidia will launch upgraded versions of the GeForce 7900 GTX and GeForce 7900 GT graphics cards that support HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) between July and the middle of August, with the cards continuing to be manufactured by Flextronics, according to sources at Taiwan graphics card makers.

DigiTimes