Just got word from YoungCrow @Darkcrow.co.kr that he's just finished his Matrox Parhelia Review! and here he is trying out some Surround Gaming!

I was thinking of buying a Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz with the price drop! you can now pick one up for £210 inc Vat and out pops Motherboards.org with a new review AMD Athlon XP 2600+ vs Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz! Here's a snip.

I hear it almost every time I am out consulting a job, someone will say is that AMD 2100+ a 2.1GHz CPU or a 1.53Ghz CPU with a complete blank stare on their face. This time we see AMD coming at us with a new .13 Micron solution called the 2600+ (actual clock speed 2.13GHz). AMD has slated this chip to be the killer of the Intel 2.53GHz P4, which is the current affordable high end CPU that dominates the market.

Tecchannel.de have posted what they claim to be the real details for AMD's upcoming Hammer CPU! Here's a quick translation.

AMDs respected processor generation "hammer" is to set yardsticks in the 32 and 64-Bit-Welt. Legends and rumors climb around the CCU we present to you the facts to the Interna of the x86-64-Architektur in the detail.

After last night's story!

Come on peeps get signed up for this Bad ass card! we've had 68 peeps sign up and 1,868 views! so now's your chance to sign up ! the more people that we get the cheaper the card? all will be revealed in a day or so. This just in from Crow @Darkcrow.co.kr a screenshot of the Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro!



Don't she look sweet! she could be sitting in your PC.

If I upset anyone for not posting Links to T-break.com! That's were the screenshot come from! I just thought that people would use the links on Darkcrow.co.kr to click on T-break's Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro Preview! anyway my Apologies.

Just remeber that this Preview was done on a sales sample that the local Hercules distributor passed on to T-Break

The inquirer.com reports Microsoft might be getting into PC hardware business with the help of FIC.

Just got word from Crow @Darkcrow.co.kr that ELSA have lunched the GLADIAC 525 Ultra! I bet you thought they were dead? well ELSA Europe are but ELSA Asia are still alive and kicking! This card is based on the Nvidia Geforce4 TI4200 and is using 3.3 ns MBGA Ultra-speed Memory! This is the first 128mb Geforce4 TI4200 card I've seen that use's this type of memory.

This time INpact-Hardware brings us more information about yet to be announced ABIT OTES card. The site is in french so for the translation on what it says, click on Read More.

AMD Announces Technology to Enable Ten-fold Performance Leap in Future Transistors

AMD AMD today announced it has fabricated the smallest double-gate transistors reported to date using industry standard technology. AMD's research breakthrough could foster the placement of a billion transistors on the same size chip that currently holds 100 million transistors, enabling a vastly richer computing experience. Click on Read More for more info.

At the IDF Intel broke their own clock frequency record when they managed to overclock a future P4 to 4.684 GHz - only for a moment though - Windows XP returned a familiar Blue screen of Death shortly after. However @ 4.1GHz the system appeared to be running well.
Pics and more @ www.Tecchannel.de

I saw this @ 3dchipset. Darkcrow has some preliminary results and pictures of ATi's new workstation graphics card FireGL M1.
Check out the pics, specs and more info HERE.

ASE Labs shows you a new peltier power supply in their preview of what is to come. Check it out!

Sparkle have launched a new GeForce4 Ti4600! what so special about this card? I hear you cry. Well first there's the cooling system and second apart from the usual outputs: analogy, digital DVI and TV out. It has a SCART adapter.

Theinquirer.net reports THE MOST RECENT roadmap we saw from the Intel Corporation warns motherboard makers that with the introduction of 3.06GHz the designers are creating a somewhat new die layout for the Northwood process.The roadmaps only show Intel able to reach something like 3.20GHz on Pentium 4s, and AMD might well have an additional lease of life in the constantly changing Megahurts Madness both firms play.

Just got word from Crow @Darkcrow.co.kr that he's snagged some new screenshots of ATi, High-End Graphic Card! ATI FireGL...... R300 VPU....... Using.... BGA Type Infineon DDR SGRAM -3.3ns 128MB.

According to Watch.Impress Gainward have launched a ATi Radeon 9700 Pro but a quick check on their website and there's no sign of a press release but here's a screenshot of the card.

Just saw this @ReactorCritical.com!

ATI's executives do not think that the RADEON 9700 sales are going to be affected by the absence of DirectX 9. Most of games available on the market these days utilise DirectX 7 and some of them certain DirectX 8.1 functions. There are almost no games to support pixel and vertex shaders currently, as a result, most of enthusiasts, who have purchased the most advanced graphics board of today play comparatively old games with maximum quality of rendering. Tuning anisotropic filtration and enabling FSAA is basically the only advantage the RADEON 9700 can provide these days. It is bad? No!

Iexbeta.com reports that while "Freestyle" represents Microsoft's latest attempts to fuse creativity with computing?Microsoft executives called this "life immersion"at its WinHEC conference in March?the PC also represents a chance for HP to bundle in some higher-margin components. Prices will range from between $1,500 to $2,000, the upper echelons of PC pricing.

Pimpedoutcases.net have a strange but useful "how-to" cool down your overclocked graphics adapter or just cool down a hot PCI component.

Just got word from Nvchips-fr about two new products from Zalman!

The Zm80-HP is intended for the most powerful GPUs such as the GeForce4 Ti, while the Zm50-HP is adapted for graphic processors such as the GeForce2 or GeForce4 MX or Radeon 7500 that dissipate less heat.

The Slix barebone will include a stylish aluminium case, a mainboard and a power-supply unit with the special liquid cooling system. The unique design on this PC allows to use only one cooling fan for the whole system, as a result, Creative Slix should be rather quiet. The company emphasise that its novelty provides such new technologies as USB2.0, IEEE1394 FireWire, onboard LAN, 6-channel audio, integrated 3D-accelerator, etc.