The highly anticipated AMD 4x4 platform will be announced on Nov 30 according to sources we heard from. NVIDIA is one of the partners readying their chipsets for the Dual Socket F, chipset is nForce 680a SLI.

Clovertown will initially be released in four bins: 2.66 and 2.33GHz with a 1.33GT/s front side bus and two lower end models at 1.86 and 1.6GHz with a 1.06GT/s bus. The highest bin has a 120W TDP, while all other models are at 80W. The 2.33GHz device will be priced at parity with the existing 3GHz Woodcrest, while the 2.66GHz part will be marketed as a higher bin and priced accordingly.

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Dell updates its XPS system with an Intel quad-core CPU and ATI CrossFire graphics. Underneath the striking red exterior of the massive red chassis beats the heart of a very average system.

Intel Chose to Debut its first quad-core processor on the desktop with the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, but quad-core's most immediate potential lies with Xeon processors built for servers and workstations. There is no shortage of multithreaded code in the enterprise world, and plenty of applications?running either natively or on virtual machines?are ready to take advantage of additional processor cores. More is at stake in the enterprise world, too. There, higher performance does more than smooth out in-game frame rates and lower media encoding times; it can increase productivity, yield a competitive advantage, or reduce the time it takes to answer important scientific questions.

Intel Core2 Duo E4300, the next Core 2 Duo processor to be released is now scheduled on 21 Jan 2007. Its market is set to value, such that it has 800 MHz FSB only, though, according to the report from manufacturers, most of their mother board could able to overclock the processor to 1066 MHz FSB without any change to voltage.

BeHardware.com has published an in-depth study of the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX & GTS. Architecture, quality of filtering, texture accesses, dynamic branching, SLI, performances?everything has been thoroughly tested.

Based around the nForce 680i chipset, ASUS' Striker Extreme motherboard is loaded with features. Its got heat pipe cooling, 3 PCI Express graphics slots, a built-in diagnostic LED panel on the back of the motherboard, and offers bus speed options up to 3.0GHz. Read our first impressions of this motherboard inside this article!

Madshrimps tests 4 after market VGA coolers from Thermalright, Zalman, Sytrin and Arctic Cooling on a hot running Powercolor ATI X1900 GT. Which one keeps the card the coolest and how quiet can it be done? Find out in this group test.

Shamino is toying around with some EVGA 8800GTX ACS3 cards and the latest test run on a single card left with with an amazing score of 17,597 3DMark06! Core clock is running at 842MHz and memory at 1240MHz with a QX6700 @ 4.5GHz.

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A re-design for R600 card and cooling is currently underway to make it shorter and better cooled. The original R600 card design is 12 inches long and ATi is probably trying to shorten it to at least 8800GTX length.

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The launch of Nvidia's GeForce 8 series graphics cards is one of the more exciting events in PC graphics in years, but those high-end 8800 GTX cards sure are pricey. Fortunately, the GTS is affordable.

Nvidia has already taken steps to reduce the amount of data leaks from their software. But, apparently they forgot about a leaked version of ForceWare 96.94. Nvidia provided this driver to the G80 reviewers and it seems that someone leaked it out.

When new meets old. What kind of chemistry will they create ? GeForce 8800GTX on ASRock 939Dual-VSTA.

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Too much hardware has been recently launched for Legit Reviews to benchmark in such a short period of time, so we took all the products and built one killer test machine with a price tag pushing north of $4,000. The hardware is the best money can by and this is one of the only articles on the web showing a pair of XFX GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards running in SLI.

Today we visited ABIT and they showed us their upcoming IN9 32X-MAX motherboard based on the nForce 680i SLI chipset.

We confront Intel newest server based on the Xeon MP 7130M with the HP DL585, the popular and well-regarded ProLiant Quad Opteron server that gave HP a major edge over the competition. The old, power hungry Xeon MP 7000 "Paxville" drove the enterprise people right into the arms of HP and AMD...Can the newest Xeon MP reverse that trend?

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First review of this great gaming mouse jointly developed by Microsoft and Razer. It is not your typical gaming mouse as it brings many new innovations to the table that are sure to change what we expect from these input devices in the future.

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NVIDIA GeForce® 8 series graphics processing units (GPUs) redefine the PC gaming experience. With a revolutionary unified architecture and full support for Microsoft® DirectX® 10 games, GeForce 8 series GPUs deliver unprecedented performance, extraordinarily detailed environments, and film quality game effects.

Now that the overclocking of the i9400 and go7900GS has been sorted, it was time to try other things. Some guys over at NotebookForums then BIOS flashed the go7900GTX BIOS into their go7900GS video cards. This actually made for a fully working machine.

The GeForce 8800 GTX GPU implements a massively parallel, unified shader design. Each stream processor is capable of being dynamically allocated to vertex, pixel, geometry, or physics operations. NVIDIA?s GigaThreadTM technology implemented in GeForce 8 Series GPUs supports thousands of independent, simultaneously executing threads, maximizing GPU utilization.