ABIT Computer Corp will soon introduce a new graphics card powered by Geforce4 Ti4200 GPU. Although the card has 3.6ns memory on board, its revolutionary cooling system will ensure this will be one of if not the fastest Geforce4 Ti4200 yet. Read More for more info.

UPDATE: We now have first exclusive pictures of the new card. To see them - Read More...

ALTHOUGH SAPPHIRE told the INQUIRER that it had shedloads of ATI-based 9700 Pros available at the beginning of this week, other sources claimed that demand might cause supplies to dry up in September.

ATi Radeon 9000 Goes Mobile!

ATi have sent us the press releases for the laptop version of there Radeon 9000 chip...

Nearly missed this story! According to some Taiwanese sources, AMD will officially reveal its Athlon XP 2700+ processor on the 7th of October. This CPU is the first to implement 333MHz system bus on Athlon platform. It is expected that the novelty will be based on the latest Thoroughbred core stepping 1, just like the current Athlon XP 2400+ and 2600+, and will work at 2.17GHz.

Just got word that Xbitlabs.com have posted a AMD Hammer Processors and x86-64 Technology Preview! here's a snip.

Some time ago we got to know that AMD was preparing the launch of a new processor core, then called K8 (K7 - Athlon). Few people knew anything about the core then. Time brought about the details, one of which was quite shocking: K8 would be a 64-bit processor. The shock was due to the fact that the only 64-bit processor then was Intel Itanium. And that monster was made of a huge amount of transistors, had a non-x86 architecture and cost a fantastic sum. So, we asked if AMD was working on something like that?

Just got word from crow @Darkcrow.co.kr that he's snagged some screenshots of a Trident, XP4 T2 Video Card and also they have some benchmark results for the XP4 T2 against Nvidia's Geforce4 TI4200 and ATi's Radeon 9000 Pro.

MANUFACTURERS OF kit which uses the Intel Pentium 4 processor have been told of recent changes in the microcode to address errata, or bugs in the silicon.

But Intel has not yet made the changes public, with details still being held under an NDA cloak.

Enthusiasts have always tried to cool their system as much as possible. But cooling usually came with a cost; it was hard to maintain a quiet system while keeping your system extremely cool. With the coming of water cooling, though, users can have extremely cool computers system that doesn't sound like a jet engine. Today TweakTown checks out one water cooling solution from Ahanix namely in the Ice Berg 1 water cooling kit!

Y.T.G Have Done a review on the Zalman CNPS 6500B-AlCu P4 Socket 478 Cooler! Also i would like to mention there site is fully working again now.

I wanted to show how affective this heatsink is by comparing it to the standard Intel cooler that you get when you purchase a new cpu. I am going to run a few benchmarks to see how affective the coolers are while they are being worked to the bones by the programs. I will show what temperature the cpu is when its idle, and when its being worked by certain programs.

THE JAPANESE EMBARGO on Intel's Pentium 4 2.80GHz chip appears to have expired because stores have started selling chips in Akihabara early, and so an enterprising journo bought parts and got his review up on the Web.

Just got word from Crow @Darkcrow.co.kr that he's snagged 5 ATi RADEON 9700 Pro boxshots from ATi , Club , Gigabyte and Hercules! Like this one.

RivaStation tried some extreme overclocking tests with the new ATI Radeon 9700 PRO. How far can you get with an extremely overclocked system?

Today I tried some extreme overclocking test with the new ATI Radeon 9700 PRO. How far can you get in an extrem overclocked system? I ran the Radeon 9700 PRO at 400MHz core and 340MHz memoryclock in a Pentium 4 system overclocked to 3624 MHz (ASUS P4T533-C). RIVA Station / THG is currently #1 (I think this will not last too long) 1000 points ahead the old number 1 :-)

Just got word that Anandtech.com have posted their Gigabyte Radeon 9700 Pro review, this beast can reach the dizzy heights of nearly 400MHz!! Here's a snip.

Powerstrip reported the core clock speed properly at 325MHz and reported the actual operating frequency of the memory at 310MHz (remember that the memory actually runs at 310MHz even though it transfers data twice per clock, which is why it is sometimes called 620MHz memory).

We played around with the settings and managed to overclock the R300 to an incredible 400MHz, an increase of 23%. The memory was only able to hit 337MHz DDR (effectively 674MHz), an increase of 8% but the core overclock was by far the most impressive of the two numbers.

SOURCES SAID that AMD's next speed step, after today's announcement of the 2400+ and 2600+ Athlon XPs, will be a 2700+ which will use a 333MHz front side bus (FSB).

VR-Zone has posted 2 previews on the new IWILL KK400 and Gigabyte 7VAXP based on the VIA KT400 chipset. IWILL KK400 supports 166Mhz FSB Athlon XP, DDR333/400, AGP8X, RAID, FI Panel and Serial ATA while Gigabyte 7VAXP supports 166Mhz FSB Athlon XP, DDR333/400, AGP8X, RAID LAN and IEEE 1394.

Be one of the first ones to own the fastest 3D gaming performance graphics card in the world. With 128MB DDR RAM, 8X AGP support and complete Microsoft® DirectX® 9 support, this board rocks.

Buy the ATI GAMER PACKAGE today! The ATI GAMER PACKAGE, comprising of the RADEON? 9700 PRO and the REMOTE WONDER?, is now available exclusively at ATI.com for $449 USD .

Just saw this @ Amdzone.com.

cat-barf discovered this Opteron HyperTransport presentation at the HyperTransport site. It has a lot of technical details about Opteron that I have not seen before

Just got this in my email box from Aron @Aselabs.com!

ASE Labs is having another giveaway, this time for something bigger than we've done before. We have an AquaStealth watercooling system up for grabs!



Brian at BeCooling has provided us with an AquaStealth water cooling kit with the winners choice of 3/8" or 1/2", black ice pro, delta fan, pvc tubing. This kit is similar to the one I posted an article for on May 24th, AquaStealth Extreme II.

X-bitlabs reports that According to our sources, VIA KT400 can support DDR400, but only with two banks, as a result, mainboards with DDR400 support enabled, cannot function with more than two DDR400 modules. Furthermore, the problem may be even worse and these devices are even not able to work with more than one DDR SDRAM DIMM module running at 400MHz. The reason of such strange KT400 behaviour is a bug in the VT8368 north-bridge that VIA has not yet managed to rectify.

Seems that PC POP have got hold of Nvidia's NV30 cos they have some benchmarks up! Hehe