First Digitimes.com reports Intels Springdale Chipset samples will be given to mobo manufacturers this months.
There has been enough tug-war between Intel and AMD followers on the subject "which is better, if not best " . So to settle to matter straight Digit-life.com has mouth-watering review of AMD Athlon XP 2600+ vs. Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz.
click on read more for snips and link to the story/reivew

We have snagged some very hot and interesting screenshot´s of the new EzGo Pentium 4 Minipc.
It rumours that this version will be released in 3.quarter 2002. Hit Read More for Specs and more Screenshots. (Take a look at the size of this pc)

To bring down the total production cost of XBOX, Microsoft has moved its manufacturing faclities from hungary to taiwan.
Here is what a report on Times of India says-""REDMOND: Microsoft said on Monday that it entered an agreement with Wistron, the manufacturing arm of Taiwanese computer maker Acer, to make the Xbox video game system. Wistron is the second manufacturing partner for Xbox, joining Flextronics International, which helped launch Xbox.

Yes, This is a real PC at walmart.com.
The config is as follows :- VIA C3 800 MHz processor offers comparable performance to the 800 MHz Celeron processor 133 MHz frontside bus 128 MB SDRAM, expandable to 1 GB 133 MHz memory speed 10 GB Ultra-ATA 100 hard drive, 5400 rpm (total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment) 52x CD-ROM drive Integrated Trident Blade 3D/Pro Media AGP 4x graphics Up to 8 MB shared video memory Integrated AC '97 Audio with 3D enhanced sound Integrated 10/100 Ethernet connection Micro ATX tower case (14"D x 7"W x 14"H) NO MONITOR The link to walmart site is HERE.If you or anyone you know has bought this PC please post the performance/experience.

Geek Extreme has compared the 40.41 Detonators with the previous 30.82 drivers on a Geforce 3 Ti 200 to determine how much (or how little) of an increase in performance there is to offer for those who still own Geforce 3 cards. You can find the comparison here.

This is getting ugly. I have been following this BAPCO AMD SYSMARK fiasco for past couple of weeks and it doesnt look good. Alhough this is not a breaking news i thought it should get covered here. Here is a snippet from Zdnet-"Chipmaker AMD has leveled criticisms against a widely-used benchmarking suite, calling it biased in the favor of its arch-rival Intel. The move steps up AMD's efforts to ensure that its processors compare favorably with Intel's in the public eye, but some observers say both companies' rhetoric should be taken with a large pinch of salt. " for complete lowdown click 2 ZDNET
There even are new stories that the new detonator 40.41 brings... Read More

Just got word from Crow @ Darkcrow.co.kr that he's snagged some screenshots and Info on Creative's 3D Blaster 5 RX9700 Pro and PowerColor's Radeon 9700 Pro and not forgetting Digitaleaders Radeon 9700 Pro!

He also mention that the ATi RADEON 9700 Pro has hit the streets of Japan and is now on sale.Here's a screenshot of Creative's 3D Blaster 5 RX9700 Pro!

According to an article on Internetweek.com, the clawhammer is a 32 bit version of the hammer cpu, whereas the opteron is the 64 bit counterpart.

The 32-bit version of the chip, which will be sold under the Athlon name, is due out in the first quarter. The 64-bit version, targeted for higher-end servers, is due in 2003.

We have found a very interesting picture about a mainboard which has about 4 Opteron (AMD K8) CPUs in use. A lot of memory slots and more.

Seems that Mark Fox is a bit shy in double posting? Hehe Cos he's snagged two screenshots of ABIT's Siluro OTES! OTES stands for Outside Thermal Exhaust System and Boy does this card look Bad!

Hey Mark do you Know any peeps @Abit , would be a Great Card to Kick off the warp2search buyers club with ? what do you think

Microsoft are releasing two new Multimedia Keyboards called the Multimedia Keyboard and Natural Multimedia Keyboard! Well it must of taken them a least 30 seconds to think of those names? unless Billy was pissed @ the time! LOL

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.