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.

Click on Read more for more info...

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.

Today modfactor.com has their latest review posted on the 12 inch (pcmods) and 4 inch (zxmods) Blue Cold Cathode Light Kits. These lights from pcmods.com (12inch) and zxmods.com (4inch) can turn any ordinary computer into a great looking machine that will amaze not only you but all your friends and the guys at the next LAN party.

X-bit Labs have posted a short article in which they quickly summarize what we already know about Nvidia'S upcoming NV18 chipset that has appeared in many motherboards @ Computex in various manufacturers booths.

As far as I'm aware so far NV18 has not been officially launched but that doesn't stop rumors and OEM's from showing off their motherboards with that particular chip.

If you missed the pics and specs of various NV18 based motherboards, feel free to look HERE.

Read more for more information on the X-bit Labs news story.

The Inquirer has just posted some more info on ATi's R300 and RV250. Seems so far its ATI rumors day today. Well, I say we were long overdue for some :D

"The ATI 300 will support DirectX 9.0, will have as many as 107 million transistors, and have eight pipes with 16 textures. It will include 4 vertex shader engines, and use 256-bit DDR memory, and use a technology called HyperZ III.

Click on Read More for more on that story.

Anandtech has posted another article from day 3 of Computex. This time they have some cool scoop on ATI's R300 and RV250.

"The RV250 chip will be the mainstream part that will take over once the R300 launches. While we can't disclose the specific specifications of the part, our board manufacturing contacts today informed us that the performance of the RV250 is very close to that of the R200 (Radeon 8500).

Click on Read More for more on that story.

I was just over @ Ocworkbench.com and I spotted their Computex Taipei 2002 coverage. Check out the great looking heatsink pipes from Zalman for your VGA graphics cards.



And not forgetting these decent looking ATI Radeon cards from Gigabyte. Hit read more for the pic and links.

Ibelite.com says this: Check out this MSI flash presentation including a ClawHammer board! And I've spotted a AMD Thoroughbred CPU on sale! AMD Athlon XP 2200+ RETAIL @ $214.90USD! Seems cheap for a new CPU.

Theinquirer.net have snagged some screenshots of AMD's New Hammer Motherboard from SIS , FIC , Gigabyte!

Anandtech has spotted ATI's R300 GPU used @ VIA's booth to show off the AGP 8x capabilities of their upcoming KT400 chipset. According to their report the card only ran 3DMark2001 SE in demo mode with benchmarking beeing out of the question. Read more...

Looks like the site AthlonXP.com has some pictures of Matrox's yet to be released Parhelia video card. I would take those with a grain of salt though...