X-bitlabs reports according to their sources in Taiwan, KT400 is nearly ready and all the leading mainboard manufacturers have almost completed the work on their boards based on it.

VIA KT400 will boast more up-to-date features than all its predecessors, which implies that the solutions based on it will be pretty popular. Besides the support of DDR400 SDRAM, which will be implemented in the new KT400, the chipset will also feature AGP 8x bus and use faster V-Link with 533MB/sec bandwidth. For the South Bridge to be shipped with the new chipset VIA decided on VT8235 supporting new V-Link, ATA/133 and USB 2.0.

Our colleagues in ASUS shared with us a picture of the new VIA KT400 based mainboard aka ASUS A7V8X.

ATI's new professional video card based on Radeon 9700 architecture (R300): ATI FIREGL X1. With revolutionary new architecture and 256MB of memory, FIRE GL? X1 delivers groundbreaking performance to power leading DCC and CAD software applications. With the addition of photo-realistic visualization and 3D asset management tools, FIRE GL? X1, enables the collaborative workflow and accelerates the production pipeline, providing digital content creators, engineers and game developers with the power to generate stunning 3D animation, real-life visual effects and design work in real-time.

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Taiwan-based graphics card maker Leadtek has acquired the exclusive rights to manufacture and sell workstation-use graphics cards based on Nvidia?s Quadro4 chips in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the company, it will start volume production in August and its monthly shipments should reach 5,000 units by year-end.

The NV30 pre-hype has already started, however. Nvidia is already briefing journalists on what they can expect in products based on this technology, under a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), and there's even some info available up on the Nvidia web site in the form of this eleven page PDF.

Creative Technology Ltd. today introduced the Creative 3D Blaster 5 RX9000 Pro, which ships this week at an estimated street price of US$129. Creative 3D Blaster 5 RX9000 Pro drives hours of intensive 3D gaming by coupling ATI's new RADEON 9000 PRO Graphics Processing Unit - featuring 4 parallel rendering pipelines running at 275MHz core clock - with 64MB of ultra-fast 3.3ns DDR memory.

Just got word that Ascully.com have just posted their Thermaltake Geforce 4 Powerbooster Copper VGA Cooler review. Here's a screenshot of the bad boy:

The Jadetec MicroPC is the world's smallest PC, it's the size of a CD-ROM with full working functionality of a desktop computer. Specifications cater for Intel Pentium III CPU, 256 Mb RAM, 30Gb Hard Drive, CD/DVD/ CDRW it features onboard 56k V90 Fax/Modem &,10/100 Base-T Ethernet, 2 USB Ports, Serial & Parallel connections and it's IrDA compliant. It's ready to run Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP or Linux.

Philips has demonstrated the world's first fully functional miniature optical disc drive using blue laser technology. Up to 1 Gbyte of data can be stored on a single-sided optical disc of just 3 cm in diameter, matching the size constraints of portable devices such as digital cameras, mobile phones, PDAs and portable Internet devices. This prototype illustrates Philips' leadership in optical storage technology, which is driven by superb media robustness and the low cost per Mbyte of the storage medium, making it optimally suited for large-scale distribution of pre-recorded content.

Here are some pictures and early first impressions about the EzGo Mini PC, the smallest PC in the world.
You can expect the full review by the end of next week. Hit read more to see the first detailed pictures and first impressions. German translation available at Planet-XP.

I just posted our first impressions on ATI's newly announced special VPU the Radeon 9700. This is just a technology overview to deliver at a glance what the new graphics card is all about. Special Feature: 4 high-res renderings performed on Radeon 9700 (according to ATI in real-time). Radeon 9700 Impressions

Creative Technology Ltd. today introduced the Creative 3D Blaster 5 RX9000 Pro, which ships this week at an estimated street price of US$129.

Creative 3D Blaster 5 RX9000 Pro drives hours of intensive 3D gaming by coupling ATI?s new RADEON 9000 Pro Graphics Processing Unit ? featuring 4 parallel rendering pipelines running at 275MHz core clock ? with 64MB of ultra-fast 3.3ns DDR memory. Beyond speed performance, advanced technologies like SMARTSHADER and SMOOTHVISION enable photo-realistic details and visually-enhanced smooth 3D images for a totally life-like gaming experience.

ATI have released a bunch of new demo movies for the Radeon 9700 card to demonstrate support for new ATI hardware features. These technology demos all require DirectX 9 so there will probably be no download until DX9 is publicly available.

Tomorrow! At least that is what we all expect. The Ontario-based canadian company will unveil the details of the Radeon 9700, a desktop graphics chip based on a new architecture that will provide greater realism when it comes to 3D. The fastest versions of the new chips will offer considerably higher performance than Nvidia's current GeForce4 roster, giving ATI the edge with gamers as well as PC makers, analysts said. And even after Nvidia - which began to chip away at ATI's leading spot in graphics in 1999 - comes out with its GeForce 5 in a few months, the competition between the two will remain close.

Graphics firm Nvidia stood up at the Platform Conference in San Jose yesterday and showed off its Crush 8 mobo for the K8 Hammer, according to a report on PC Watch.

GeekExtreme.com is proud to announce that while everyone else is spouting product specs about nForce2, they're spouting product specs and releasing our EXCLUSIVE video interview with Brian Huynh, Product Manager for nForce2.

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Today I sent an email to both Antec Technical Support, with a copy to ASUS Technical Support, outlining a very serious overheat situation when using an ASUS A7V333 motherboard in an Antec Performance Plus case. The following is the main portion of that text:

With hard drives today, size never seems to be a problem . . . with the agerage computer savvy user using at least a 60GB drive. So what does this leave for IBM and Seagate, two of the top hard drive companies of today? All the details!

IBM has decided to focus their efforts on speed and loudness. The high speed hard drives today reach a max of 10000 RPMs, while IBM is working on methods of boosting this to 15000 RPMs, and at the same time, keeping the annoying whirr to a minimum. Their plans to minimize the audio coming from the hard drive include liquid rotational parts, rather than ball berrings. This will make for a smoother rotation of the physical disk.

DigiTimes is reporting that ATI are launching their Radeon 9000 and Radeon 9000 Pro codenames RV250 and R300 graphics chipsets on July 17.

Althought I don't think this is likely, as I have seen reports of P4s running at 3.8GHz, but I do beleive the article claim about Windows XP. As this OS unlike 2000 on same hardware refuses to install unless I remove virtually every card from my system. Anyway heres the post Sources That Reckon To Know, claim Intel's 2.80GHz Pentium 4 part may not see the light of day because Windows doesn't like it. Reports claimed that the speed of the chip causes Windows 2000 "to crash and burn." While Windows XP doesn't like the speed of the processor, not one little bit. And it's not just Intel chips too, the claim continues. Athlon processors at high speeds are experiencing problems as well. Press read more for continued coverage