Looks Like the ATI Radeon 9700(?) is very close cause ATI have posted a cool Flash animation with the slogan Experience The World Without Limits!

Just got word from Paul that he's just posted his MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4600 review. I got to say the MSI card looks like one of the best Geforce 4 you can buy.

MSI definitely knew what they were doing when they released the G4Ti4600-VTD. With an extremely crowded market, it is tough to find the card that you're looking for. The G4Ti4600-VTD comes with a good line up of games, exceptional software, good performance, and solid overclockability to keep the gamer worried less about frame-rates and more about fragging. MSI did not only market the G4Ti4600-VTD at the hardcore gamer, it also had the media enthusiast in mind with its release. The card comes packed with all the connections and software one would need to start manipulating video.

Rumour pot The Inquirer says it has gathered information that the upcoming next-gen ATI GPU will be named Radeon 9700 and that a 0.13 micron version will be called Radeon 10000. Read more...

Just saw this @ Xtechnet.net

Ever thought about having a DUAL monitored laptop? Xentex: Dual Monitor AMD-Powered Laptop!

Infineon Technologies today introduced a new 128 Mbit Double Data Rate (DDR) Graphics RAM component for 3D Graphics applications in portable and desktop computers. Designed to operate at clock speeds up to 450 MHz, Infineon?s newest Graphics RAM can handle data bandwidths up to 3.6 Gigabytes per second, making it an ideal device to support advanced graphics acceleration processors used in both professional graphics and computer gaming applications. Read more...

Seems that Rageunderground.com have an ATI R300 to give away!

You've definitely heard of ATI's upcoming R300. The card that will most likely be called the "Radeon 9500" is going to be a monster. Rumors have it running about 20% faster than the current world's fastest! These things are so secret we can't even post a picture of one.

Designed for the Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 processors, and built with the SiS 648 chipset, the SR7-8X comes equipped with the next-generation AGP 8X slot for vastly increased video memory bandwidth. The SR7-8X also comes loaded with the specs and features power users expect from an ABIT motherboard, like USB 2.0 for greater connectivity to today's high-speed digital devices. It also boasts three onboard DDR DIMMS supporting up to 2GB of DDR333 memory or 3GB of DDR200/266 memory. Read more...

ExtremeTech also has an article in which they inform us that nForce2 is set to be introduced officially on July 15th. Funny, ATI's RV250 is due just two days later :D

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ExtremeTech in their latest article suggests that NV30 could be delayed until 2003 - at least according to Hans Mosesmann, a Prudential Securities Wall Street analyst .

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Myhard.com have got their hands on what seems to be an authentic AMD Clawhammer- Opteron CPU RoadMap!

Just got word from Aron that he's got his day one post up from this years PC Expo 2002 being held in New York. Here's a byte from his article:

When I got into the floor, there are two things that striked me as the general theme to this years Expo. Wireless and portable computing (Both I will cover in depth tomorrow) were huge. When I went to the keynote from a Microsoft Group VP, Jeff Raikes, I was impressed (yeah really). The topic that he covered was the new tablet PC!

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

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