HardOCP founder Kyle Bennett told an audience at Quakecon over the weekend that it will be the 2800+ Athlon XP that supports a 333MHz front side bus (FSB).

Just a quick note, to let you Peeps know that you can now pre-order your Pentium® 4 2.8GHz 533MHz FSB 512K Cache - Northwood B P4 - Socket 478 CPU for $579! ETA 08/26/02.

Jen Hsun was proud to say that Nvidia has the highest performance and feature DDR 400 chipset with the first industry support for 333 FSBs.

Investec analyst Eric Ross thinks that NV30, the next graphics processor from Nvidia, is likely to arrive in time for the Christmas selling season.

Just saw this @ 3dgpu.com

It seems that the GeForce4 Ti graphics cards are no longer the top scorers using the 3dMark2001 SE benchmark. This score is from the new ATI Radeon 9700 series. What is really impressive is that this card's drivers have not even been optimized yet.

A SHOCKED SILENCE greeted the INQUIRER this morning when we asked AMD UK to either confirm or deny it was introducing its 2400+ and 2600+ Athlon XPs on the 21st of August next.

Ah, the computer case. The barometer of the computer enthusiast. Is he/she a geek, a "l33t" user?, or a normal user with a flare for the different? Well, today I have a great looking case that would be a great upgrade for the normal computer user. Adequate cooling, internal temperature probe, lots of expansion space, stylish looks, and internal drive bay covers make this a great deal!!"

Rage3d.com reports acording to a couple of posters in our 9700 forum, the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro is now being sold in the famous Akiba market.

Gamersdepot.com we've scored some exclusive shots of the Radeon 9700 Pro. This card uses the R300 chip from ATI, and will soon bury the competition with performance that is unmatched.

The situation in the chipset market is changing fast nowadays. New chipsets used to become available to mainboard makers a few times a year, but now I have to review them monthly. And not just one but several products are often to be reviewed. So what's happening to the market? Why are the manufacturers trying to smother the market in their new wares?

I guess there is a simple answer. Competition. Competition among both: chipset makers and processor manufacturers, the latter promoting further innovations for their platforms to get more customers. Added the several constantly improving alternative memory technologies available and the present transition to the use of advanced standards: AGP 8x, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, ATA/133, SerialATA and so on, there're wide possibilities to produce chipsets supporting various sets of various innovations. Rivaling chipset makers are racing to implement new technologies and announce new products. All to be in the lead. As only lazy one doesn't make chipsets nowadays, no wonder so many alternative variants are available.

Do you want an ATi RADEON 9700 Pro that comes in a Limited Edition box and how about if I throw in a ATI REMOTE WONDER! still not enough I hear you say? ok how about a copy of Doom III (when available) and just for good measure I am going too giving you some Branded swag also and all for the low price of $449.

Theinquirer.net reports following their yesterday story about the projected clock speed of the early AMD Hammer, that some of the guys who were at the Helsinki gig have been posting more stuff gathered from the knees-up. Sampsa Kurri, is the name of the guy who's posted his pix of the talk by AMDer Joakim Stenberg.

DFI is proud to announce the launch of the latest VIA KT400 motherboards - The AD77 INFINITY and AD77 PRO. Packed with features, these motherboards offer the latest state-of-art technology such as DDR400, Serial ATA / IDE RAID, AGP 8X, and Firewire (IEEE1394) capability. DFI is the first motherboard vendor to launch the KT400 chipset based motherboards, offering DDR400 support for both current and future AMD K7 CPU platforms.

The AD77 series motherboard comes with four DDR400 memory sockets that are also capable of supporting the current DDR333 and DDR266 memory modules.

Just got word that Tech-Report.com have posted an editorial called ATI's Radeon 9700 versus NVIDIA's NV30 - Understanding the next generation of graphics chips. Here's a byte from their article:

We've talked about NV30's potential leg up on ATI's R300. ATI's advantage right now is much simpler: they have a great chip ready to roll immediately. The Radeon 9700 should simply outclass anything else on the market by miles when it hits store shelves. I've seen the Radeon 9700 demonstrate in real time many of the capabilities discussed above, and I can tell you: it's for real.

NVIDIA's challenge is a little more complex. NVIDIA is banking on making the NV30 superior to the competition by harnessing a pair of new technologies: TSMC's 0.13-micron chip fabrication process and some kind of DDR-II-like memory. ATI played it safe and went with 0.15-micron fab technology for manufacturing the R300. NVIDIA's use of 0.13-micron tech could give NV30 lower costs, less heat, and higher clock speeds, but TSMC's ability to produce 0.13-micron chips in volume is unproven. The same goes for DDR-II memory, which holds promise, but could prove difficult and costly to implement or manufacture. NVIDIA risks delaying NV30 significantly by employing bleeding-edge tech.

Just saw this @ The DDRZone.com

With the help of a forum member's scanner and a new brochure sent out with a new unreleased Aopen motherboard comes the announcement of Aopen's use of the P4X400 chipset in their dual XEON motherboards.

IBM, Sony, and Toshiba have wrapped up the design for the inner workings of a mysterious new chip called "Cell."

The new multimedia processor called "Cell," touted as a "supercomputer on a chip," is well on the way to completion, IBM says. As previously reported, the chip could end up inside the PlayStation 3, and elements of its design are expected in future server chips from IBM.

The processor's design is still under wraps, but the companies say Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver one trillion calculations per second (teraflop) or more of floating-point calculations. With integer math, it will have the ability to do more than 1 teraflop, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz.

OVER AT TEC CHANNEL the very nice Nico Ernst has rummaged his way through a bunch of obscure videos posted from the annual Assembly in Helsinki and uncovered a pair of obscured nuggets about AMD?s forthcoming Hammer bag of tricks.

Asked about the clock frequency Hammer might appear at, Stenberg, said Hammer would appear sporting a PR rating of 3400+.

Darkcrow.co.kr have snagged a screenshot of ATI's new professional video card! The FireGL X1.

With the latest batch of GeForce4 Ti4200 based cards still selling like hotcakes, how is a poor working stiff supposed to know which one to choose? Come join TweakTown as they try to help you in this decision by taking a look at four GeForce4 Ti4200 video cards. All have their good points, but some showed a bit more promise. Let's see if we can help you choose a winner the first time!

ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today announced the addition of the RADEON? 9700 PRO graphics board, featuring the RADEON? 9700 PRO visual processing unit (VPU), to its successful retail lineup. Based on the RADEON 9700 series VPUs introduced in July, the RADEON 9700 PRO board will deliver breakneck performance to the gaming and enthusiast market.

ATI's feature-rich RADEON 9700 PRO retail offering includes: