Yeah, NV18 will certainly be shown @ Computex but I guess everyone knew that anyway from the rumors right? :D

Motherboards based on NV18 chipset might not be too far away and it is expected that a few manufactures will show samples of their NV18 based boards @ Computex next week.

The rumors also suggest that NVIDIA will showcase its NV28 chip but there's no word on whether NV30 will be shown, even if behind closed doors.

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Finally it seems the rumours have come to an end. Gigabyte is the first manufacturer to officially announce a Radeon 8500 XT. Though the company offers no detailed information on what the XT stands for we believe that this is just a higher clocked version of standard Radeon 8500 GPUs similiar to Nvidia's ultra variants of chips. In this case previous reports let us conclude that the Gigabyte AP128D-H3 will be clocked at 300/300Mhz. Read more for specs and a picture of the card!

Just got word from Crow that he's posted 4 Demo videos that showcase the Surround Gaming capabilities of the Matrox Parhelia-512!

After Intel lowered their CPU prices on Monday now AMD has followed the path to more convenient prices. All CPU prices are per 1000 units in US$. Read more for the complete listing.

Just got this email from Aron! He just got a press release from Soyo. They will be expand their line of motherboards with 10 new designs at Computex 2002 in Taipei, Taiwan. Utilizing the new chipset technology from Intel, VIA and SiS, these 10 new motherboards will maximize Intel and AMD CPU performance with more exciting features.

SOYO, with worldwide headquarter in Taiwan, will introduce several new additions to its popular DRAGON motherboard series for Intel and AMD, and preview other new designs utilizing Rambus memory and serial ATA hard drive support.

Just saw this @ X-bitlabs.com...

According to the info coming from our unofficial sources, AMD is going to release a server Athlon MP 2100+ in the end of June-beginning of July. It is even more interesting that the new processor will support faster system bus, and the core logic ? faster memory type. The use of 166MHz FSB grants a pretty tangible performance increase by Athlon XP processors (see our article called AMD Athlon XP and 166MHz FSB: Why Not?), however there are no chipsets in the market yet, which could work at this frequency officially and be certified for server usage.

Is the new Thermalright SLK-600. Looks like the SK6's big brother. This sink makes a 60mm fan look small - it's that big. This sink is for the Socket 370/462 motherboards . Also a 80mm version is coming in June called "SLK-800". Plus a new P4 sink, 80mm also, SLK-478 coming in July. Read more for info and link. Just found a review also. The temps are looking good!

Iwill have the first board with Serial ATA. Even that there's no serial ATA hard drives out yet, they are the first to make the move. The board still comes with the normal IDE Ultra ATA/133/100/66/33. As they say "IWILL P4G Guarantees All You Need for Now and Future". Read more for link and info.

Just saw this @ Theinquirer.net.

While it's common knowledge that ATI and Nvidia dominate the 3D Graphics hardware market right now, there are several new release on the horizon that could threaten that dominance. However, the old masters aren't sitting on their laurels, and both have next-generation products of their own in development.

In a strange twist, it's OS vendor Microsoft that is driving the market in 3D graphics hardware. Whilst previous versions of DirectX have been driven by hardware advances from companies like Nvidia, this time, with DirectX9.0 Microsoft is setting the bar higher than many of the hardware vendors might have imagined.

Just saw this @ Amdzone.com. According to their statement Nvidia will head right for nForce 2...

In our meeting today with Nvidia we learned that the 615 and 620 nForce chipsets will no longer come to market. These chipsets were to add DDR333 support as a feature. nForce 2 will become the focus for Nvidia's next Athlon chipset. Nvidia will provide us with an official statement soon.

Just saw this @ Digital-Silence.com.

Samsung announced that it will demonstrate the world's first 40-inch TFT-LCD panel for use in high-performance, wide-screen digital TVs at the Society of Information Display (SID) 2002 Conference, May 21-23 in Boston, Mass. This is the largest TFT-LCD panel ever produced.

I saw this @ nVNews and this is what they said: This is based on a 2 hour meeting with SiS this morning. We covered quite a few more subjects that I won't go into here. Note I have NOT installed the Xabre 400 yet. Click on Read More... to see the details on the upcoming SiS Xabre products.

VR-Zone has put up a list of SOYO boards that are going to be showcased at Computex Taipei. Interestingly, SOYO will be showcasing the P4S 648 DRAGON Ultra based on SiS648 chipset supporting DDR400/AGP 8x, P4X333 DRAGON Ultra based on VIA P4X333 chipset supporting DDR333/AGP8x and KT400 DRAGON Ultra based on VIA KT400 chipset supporting DDR400/AGP8x.

It can be expected that other motherboard manufacturers will be showcasing new boards based on these chipsets as well. VIA and SiS will of course be showcasing their reference boards based on K8HTA/B and SiS755 chipsets for AMD Hammer processors.

One drawback of harddrives are moving parts. Well, bitmicro is bringing us closer to solid state harddrives.

I was going to build a new PC using a AMD CPU and Abit motherboard but with this news I am going to wait a bit longer.

SYSTEM BUILDERS attending a Gartner summit in Monaco earlier this week went to a VIA presentation where they were told the firm would introduce three chipsets for AMD's Hammer microprocessors.

A system builder said VIA told him and a group of other integrators that one of these, called the K8UMA, would use integrated Zoetrope graphics with 800MHz Hypertransport links, while another VIA K8 chipset would provide similar functionality but without the integrated graphics. Source: TheInquirer

Just saw this @ TheInquirer.net:

Mark Tellez, AMD's server and workstation manager, also showed me a picture of the Opteron ? unfortunately this one was more than a little out of focus but it's worth noting that although you can't see it on the photograph, it's got the word Opteron printed on top of the CPU.

Just looking around and saw this over at Driver Heaven within the overclocking forum. Someone has got hold of a new Celeron and bumped the bus up a bit , not much, but not bad. :) Read more for more info.

Intel Corporation today announced two new Intel Celeron processors targeted for value PCs. These desktop processors represent Intel's fastest offering for the price-sensitive desktop value PC market segment. The Intel Celeron processor at 1.7 GHz is based on the 0.18-micron process technology and features a 400 MHz front side bus. The Intel Celeron processor at 1.4 GHz is based on the 0.13-micron process technology and features a 100 MHz front side bus.

Microsoft fired the second shot in the video game industry's growing price war, dropping its Xbox system from $299 to $199 in the United States, effective Wednesday (today actually). The drop was announced after Sony lowered the Playstation 2 retail price to the same value. Source: ZDNet

Here's a few sites that have done a preview of Matrox's new Parhelia 512 card. Unfortunately Matrox has not yet provided any test samples for reviewers so all info is based on Matrox in-house PR!

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