We can now confirm ATI's RD600 chipset for Conroe will go ahead. We also have photos of DFI's nForce 590 SLI IE board.

TweakTown

Driven by ATi R580+, ATi Radeon X1950XTX is the next trump card from ATi. Its model code and PCB version are 215BAABKA31FG and 102-A91501-00 respectively. Same as R580, it has 16 Pixel Shader pinelines, 48 Pixel Shader processors, and 8 Vertex Shader engine. Features at GDDR4 memory, it?s equipped with 512MB 2GHz DDR.

If you're looking for an affordable mainstream card, the GeForce 7600GT is probably your best choice. It's performance is comparable if not better than the GeForce 6800GT, particularly if you're running at derault settings without AA and AF. As we promised earlier this month, today we will take a look at four offerings from different manufacturers: the ASUS EN7600GT, Gigabyte GeForce 7600GT (GV-NX76T256D-RH), Leadtek PX7600GT Extreme and MSI NX7600GT (T2D256E).

Aside from gaming, video playing is one of the best uses of a portable device. The problem with this situation has never been playing the video, but rather recording it. That will all be changing with the release of Neuros' MPEG-4 Recorder 2, a "digital VCR for the portable video age". Think of it as a PVR (or TiVo) for your PSP or iPod Video.

Geforce 6 is the soul of the graphic part of MCP61S. It supports DirectX 9 and Shader Model 3.0. Windows Vista Premium logo is also awarded. Standard Definition Pure Video and PCI-E x8 are supported also, but not PCI-Ex16. Functions of the south bridge is similar to nForce 410, with 2 SATAII supporting RAID 0, 1, and JBOD, build-in 10/100 Ethernet, 8 USB 2 interface and 7.1 High Definition Audio.

HKEPC Hardware

ATi scheduled to release Radeon X1950XTX, the new top model, in late Aug. The new chip, codenamed R580+, has no difference with R580 in term of design, production process, and clock speed, but featured at GDDR4 support. It keeps 16 Pixel Shader pinelines, 48 Pixel Shader processors, and 256Bit memory controller; and manufactured by TSMC with 90nm process and clocked at 650MHz. Features at GDDR4 memory, it?s the first card stepped into the era of 2GHz DDR. The price is set at $399. Figure below is the engineering sample of Radeon X1950XTX where the heat sink has improved a lot.

Memory is compared on Core 2 Duo and AM2. There is also a CPU comparison at 2.93GHz & DDR2-1067 for "show-me" readers.

From time to time everyone needs to get some work done. While it is easy to use the same computer for gaming, overclocking, and things like that, it is smart to keep your work computer distinct from your overclocking system, if at all possible. Every few years most people find myself in need of a new work computer; these systems get a lot of use so by the time they are ready for replacement they are generally on their last legs.

PC Magazine set out to find the coolest technologies that are flying under the radar. Read about a new technique for making silicon that can bend and stretch; how nanocrystals will replace OLED displays; and a new biological light sensor for shooting bacterial photography.

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The ATI acquisition has been getting most of our attention this morning, but AMD has also unleashed a barrage of price cuts today as a preemptive response to the upcoming launch of Intel's Core 2 processors. The cuts are massive, with some chips seeing their price tags more than halved and the entire Athlon 64 X2 line sinking to below $301.

The TechReport

Upcoming drivers will add support for NVIDIA PureVideo GPUs to accelerate the playback of HDCP protected content from HD-DVD and Blu-Ray devices. We take a first hand look at what this means at this early stage for high definition content distribution on the PC.

AnandTech

No doubt the ASUS P5WH is faster, having had bad luck with it, and no higher Multiplier available on the DFI 975X Infinity, it was definitely time to pay the Intel Bad Axe D975XBX Motherboard another visit! Both Cross-Fire and SLI were ran! Cross-Fire with Catalyst 6.6, SLI with modded 84.66 Forceware to run SLI on Intel Chipset flawlessly!

VR-Zone

We've already seen the damage that Core 2 can do on a PC. With Apple supposedly announcing new Conroe based Macs at their WWDC, we wre curious on how well they would perform inside a Mac

Many weeks ago Neoseeker started work in a one of a kind collaborative effort with 8 other well known hardware sites to create a Mult-GPU series of articles that would span across 8 sites, cover over 60 benchmarks, and put 3 ATI CrossFire and 3 NVIDIA SLI systems under the microscope. Last week the article series was launched and 4 articles have been published since. This is now part 5 of the Multi-GPU World Tour and we'll be looking at the "Most Played Game Titles".

ATI had its chipset bus licence pulled, or at least not renewed by Intel. I guess that means that AMD won't be making many chipsets for Intel in a year or so.

The Inquirer

Not using any watercooling or LN2. The Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 with our ES X6800 runs at an amazing 466MHz FSB with a multiplier of 6. Imagine your RAM is running in SYNC at 1:1 to your CPU!! That is at default voltages with PCIe fixed at 100MHz. This is just an initial test, I am able to POST up to 6 x 490 but it isn't stable to go into WIN XP.

OCWorkbench

Dell grappled with severe overheating problems in scores of notebooks for at least two years before it announced a recall of 22,000 notebooks last year, according to a source close to the company.

CRN

Microsoft's so-called "iPod killer" could be unveiled as early as late next month, with the company preparing to build momentum towards an October launch, sources close to the situation have told BetaNews.

A 1.8" Hitachi 30GB Travelstar in the Wi Drive, up to 60GB potential in this small a form factor. Definitely qualified to be coined pocket sized.

VR-Zone

ATI plans to make Crossfire and the XTX cards clock at the same speed. Both the upcoming Radeon X1950 XTX and Radeon X1950 Crossfire Edition will end up clocked at 650MHz core and 2.0GHz DDR4 512MB memory. We can now confirm that the cards will be ready for the 23rd of August.

The inquirer