According to an italian site a beta tester of a card called Radeon 9500 MAXX has submitted his results to their forum. Take this with a HUGE grain of salt.

John Carmack - lead programmer for ID Software has made this report on the latest offering from Matrox:

"The executive summary is that the Parhelia will run Doom, but it is not performance competitive with Nvidia or ATI. Driver issue remain, so it is not perfect yet, but I am confident that Matrox will resolve them."

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Big thanks to Atul Fatpie! seems that TomsHardware.de have leaked the Matrox Parhelia 512 Benchmarks early!

Todays keyboards, quite frankly, suck. Sure, those girly-man ergo keyboards are comfortable, but the build quality isn't like how they used to make them... Press read more for further info.

ExtremeTech has published an interview with Matrox' Dan Wood, VP of Marketing. This time there are some first facts revealed (clock speeds, features, OpenGL, Fragment Antialiasing support etc.). Head over for the latest information about the soon to be available GPU from Matrox. Here is a snip: Why Parhelia is different: The vision behind the Parhelia was that it was more important to sustain high performance with quality features enabled and to offer innovative new features like Surround Gaming than to focus our engineering investment on making a part that only delivered high (and sometimes meaningless) benchmark numbers with lower quality settings. Other companies are already doing that, and Matrox's goal is to offer different solutions to the market.

X-bitlabs.com have posted a special page for the ATI R300 or Radeon 9000 as they suggest it might be called. Anyway they have posted what they think is the launch date and have added more details spec's and suggested retail prices on ATI's R300. Here's a byte from their article:

At the past Computex show in Taipei a lot of info about the upcoming ATI chips aka RV250 and R300 has penetrated into the on-line and off-line media. However, today the last doubt about the product specification are about to vanish completely. This Chinese page has a couple of slides from ATI?s presentation where both new products are described in great detail. Having studied the presentation and added a couple of things we have already known, I would like to offer you a complete credible picture.

The R300 will become the first graphics accelerator compliant with DirectX9. To commemorate this fact R300 family will be called RADEON 9xxx. As our sources claim, the launch is scheduled for August 10.

Ever wondered where Matrox grabbed this awesome LCD setup? Well it is manufactured by Panoram Technologies and the piece is named PV230 DSK. I gathered the specifications for all you hardware geeks. Read more...

Just saw this @ Nvnews.net.

I'm not sure how long this link is going to last, but it has what appear to be an ATI authored Powerpoint slide presentation on the R300. Here are some of the highlights: R300

350 MHz. clock
400+ MHz. memory clock
8 Pipelines
150 Million Tri/sec (peak)
Increase Multitexturing to 8 textures
Improved Pixel/Vertex Shaders
DX9 Support
MPEG 1/2/4 Encode/Decode

Retail Box Shot of Parhelia 512 Read more...

GeekExtreme has posted a video review of the PC Tachometer, a nifty little "Geek Toy" that shows your processor usage on an actual car tachometer.

Snippet: The PC Tachometer is a geek toy, to be certain, but it does exactly what it''s supposed to. It translates your processor utilization onto a standard car tachometer. This could be a really cool mod, but we'd like to see some "non-mod" options (enclosures, external or internal) for those people who don''t like to cut holes in their boxes. Still, we can''t fault it for that, so we''ve given it our highest rating.

Matt from 3DGPU has posted information that allegedly comes from a Hong Kong's PC Magazine. They have tested ATI's R300 @ Computex last week and found it to be only around 20% faster then Geforce4 Ti4600.

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This Italian site hwupgrade.it has posted what they claim are some RV250 pictures that they managed to get hold of @ Computex I belive. Here's a small preview:



     

Check out all the full pictures over @hwupgrade.it :)

The Inquirer.net has posted an article in which they tell us a little about what's to come from ATI and also Nvidia in the future:

"...the NV30 will have some kind of Quadro card to follow it and then we will see a FireGL card introduced not so long after the official introduction of the Radeon 10000 - R300.

...we also found an even more interesting product from ATI's next generation hardware line.

I am talking about future FireGL cards that should be introduced just after R300..."
Read the full article over @ The Inquirer.

AMD today introduced the AMD Athlon XP processor 2200+ with QuantiSpeed architecture - the first AMD desktop processor based on its 0.13 micron process technology. The new AMD Athlon XP processor 2200+ delivers improved performance, lower power and a smaller die size while maintaining a stable, compatible Socket A infrastructure. "AMD is dedicated to excellence and continuously innovates with the customers' needs in mind. End users are demanding a better computing experience, and providing powerful solutions is our top priority," said Ed Ellett, vice president of marketing for AMD's Computation Products Group. "AMD continues to focus on offering high-performance end user benefits such as faster rendering times, better database performance and smoother video and audio editing. Desktop PCs based on the AMD Athlon XP processor 2200+ are available today from Hewlett-Packard Company in the United States and Fujitsu-Siemens in Europe. Read more... Review Links Included

VR-Zone has published a full report on the Computex Taipei 2002 with many interesting products and happenings.

We have posted all the ClawHammer boards pics based on AMD 8151/8111, VIA K8HT, ALi M1687/M1563 and SiS 755. Other interesting boards showcased are VIA KT400, SiS648 and NVIDIA Crush 18D from motherboard manufacturers like SOYO, EPoX, ABIT, DFI, Shuttle, Gigabyte, ASUS, FIC, ECS and more. As for the graphic cards manufacturers, we have seen the usual NVIDIA GeForce4 series and ATi Radeon series cards. There are some RV250 cards not displayed openly and NV18 cards are nowhere to be seen. As for memory manufacturers, we have some pics of the RIMM 4200 from TwinMOS and Transcend and DDR400 SDRAM from TwinMOS and KingMax.There are many new coolers from Vantec, Globalwin, CoolerMaster, Thermaltake, Thermalright for AMD Athlon XP and Intel Pentium 4 processors. Also we managed to capture some pics on the upcoming coolers for AMD Hammer processors.

BurnOutPc took a closer look at the GSM20 5.1 speaker set. Here's a snip:...This is what's in the box. The center speaker, the 2 front speakers, the 2 rear / surround speakers, the huge subwoofer, PC connection cables, the manual and the normal cables for connecting it to your DVD player and such... Click the pic to read the complete review.

There's a first Quake3-Benchmark with a Pre-Production 800 MHz Clawhammer-CPU. They compared it to a 1600 MHz P4 and a Athlon XP 2000+. Funny thing is that the Clawhammer (183 FPS) beats the P4 (182 FPS). Only the Athlon is faster (210 FPS)!

Just saw this @ Xabregamers!

The Apocalypse line of graphics cards will be very impressive. We actually had to flip the card to where the processors are facing up. This is because of the size of the heatsink & fan combinations. We know graphics cards are not made like this because of heat problems between the card, and the CPU, but we are have a heatsink & fan design that will desperse the heat away from the CPU of most motherboards. The fan will actually be a dual fan (like on the Russian Tu-95 Bear Bomber). The clocks for the Apocalypse cards will be nearly double what the GeForce 4's are. With our new memory architecture you can see at the most 3 - 4 times the fill-rate of a GeForce 4.

3DCenter.de seems to have posted some ATI RV250 and ATI R300 specifications. As ATI hasn't made any official announcements yet these spec's are still only rumors!

What do you think this is?
A portable CD - Player?
No... - it is the smallest PC in the world. Hit Read More for some specifications and pictures.