As suggested by us here Intel has officially launched four new chipsets.

Intel press release says "Intel Corporation today delivered four new desktop chipsets that bring advanced levels of performance, reliability and flexibility to PC users who demand a richer digital media, gaming and broadband experience. ....."

MSI is always leading in bring computer users the latest technology. MSI is proud to announce its KT3 Ultra2 and KT4 Ultra are the first two motherboards supporting AMD's Athlon XP 2800+ with 333MHz FSB. "The AMD Athlon XP 2800+ [2700+] with its new advanced 333MHz FSB and MSI?'s KT3 Ultra2 and KT4 Ultra deliver new levels of performance for gamers demanding the ultimate in graphics experience."

Xbitlabs.com reports that today Intel will officially announce its i845PE and i845GE chipsets with PC2700 memory and the Hyper-Threading technology support. As always, the land of the Rising Sun is ahead of the whole world: already yesterday a lot of Japanese companies started to sell mainboards from different vendors in retail. The prices on the novelties vary greatly: from affordable $100 to expensive $175.



Here is the list of the i845PE and i845GE powered mainboards with brief specifications that made their appearance this weekend in Japan:

According to sources ATI Technologies Inc. said it has worked with DRAM vendors to define GDDR-3, an alternative to DDR-2 that should hit the market next year with speeds starting at 500-MHz to strenghten their position as performance leader and to have more influence on special tachnology demands.

The simputer has been talked around various sites as breakthrough solution for rural areas and third world countries where Computer pentration is very less if not none amid great enthusiasm.

Warp2Search would definitely love to review it; meanwhile visit link to homepage of Simputer. www.ncoretech.com/simputer/index.html

French site PDAFrance.com have posted exclusive photos and specs of oh-so-cute Clemente, PDA from Dell. Click Clemente1.jpg for a detailed look. News source: Digit-life.com.

JEDEC have only just approved the PC2700 memory standard, and we are already seeing a lot of memory manufacturers coming out with their DDR400 modules even though JEDEC are still in the works of approving it. TweakTown takes a look at one such PC3200 module from up and coming Taiwanese company, TwinMOS. Does it have what it takes to compete with the well known memory brands in overclocking tests? Read on and find out!

Since the release of the ALL-in-Wonder line of cards from ATI, the introduction of the remote wonder being bundled with already a great package has spurred ATI to release the Remote Wonder as a product all on its own. Has this gamble by ATI's marketing department paid off feature wise, well stay tuned and decide for yourself...

Xbitlabs.com reports that in early September some of their friends, who are familiar with Nvidia's plans told them that the highly-anticipated NV30 graphics processor will be unveiled at Comdex Fall show in Las Vegas late November. Now Nvidia's Derek Perez confirmed it at ExtremeTech.

SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. has developed the high density recording technology HD (High Density) -BURN which doubles the recording capacity and data density (1.4GB) of a conventional CD-R media (700MB). This technology enables inexpensive large volume data recording. Read more...

I Can't say too much @ this stage! but it looks like we might be able to get a kick ass deal on ATi's new Radeon 9700 Pro, all I can say is that the card was Launched Yesterday.

128MB high performance quad-channel DDR memory
325MHz core frequency/2.8ns memory
Full hardware support for DirectX® 9

Just spotted this @ Theinquirer.net.

A SITE IN POLAND has reviewed the Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra motherboard ? that's based on the 845PE chipset Intel is expected to unveil on October the 7th or thereabouts.

Just spotted this @ our good friends WinOsCentral.com.

There's a review of the latest generation of Xbox modchip over at xbox hacker- no solder, flashable BIOS, 15 min. install, etc. Stuff like this should make it easier for the average Xbox user to run emulators, Linux, and such. No word if it does or does not work in the latest iteration of Xbox though.

OK Peeps! Here's another review of AMD's new Athlon XP 2800+ CPU but this time using Nvidia's new nForce 2 chipset @ Aceshardware.com! Here's a snip.

While the introduction comes today, the Athlon XP 2700+ will only be available to OEMs in November, with the Athlon XP 2800+ available in small quantities in Q4. Volume is estimated to ramp up by the first quarter of next year. So, how does the Athlon XP 2800+ fare against the 2.8 GHz Pentium 4? To answer this question, we've benchmarked a number of different games and applications, including: Read more...

Ok folk's seems that Hardware-testdk.com are the first peeps that have got their hands on AMD's new XP2800+ FSB of 166/333MHz the XP2800 processor runs at 2.25GHz! Here's a snip:

It has finally arrived. The processor a lot of people have been waiting for, since AMD needs to get into the game again. In the beginning when AMD introduced their Athlon CPU, Intel started to get serious problems keeping up with the 133MHz FSB on the Athlon. But Intel has made their alterations. They started this by impressing everyone with extremely overclocking-friendly "Northwood" CPU, which is now also available in a 533MHz version. When the 2.53GHz was released it was clear that more and more people converted back to Intel. Another reason for this was that AMD wasn't developing any new processors. Instead they slowly increased the speeds of their XP processors. Now AMD has finally introduced the XP2800 CPU with a 166MHz FSB. There is a lot of expectations for this processor so let's see if it can live up to it.

VR-Zone.com has posted some pics and information on the Triplex NV28 GeForce4 Ti4200-8x Cards: Here's a screenshot, courtesy of VR-Zone.

Thanks to Techspot.com for this piece of News.

ATI Technologies recently revealed that it will launch a new R350 chip and later a more simplified RV350 to brace for the competition from Nvidia?s NV30 in the fourth quarter!

Still having no Luck with Shuttle after several emails and telephone calls to Shuttle Germany and their UK distributors! I am founding it difficult to find it in stock, or get a release Date for that matter.! Has anyone seen this board on Sale, in the UK.

I've even found a new bios for the board! So I do know @ least the Board does exist! LOL

So If anyone from Shuttle is reading this! what's happening? where is the AS45GTR Board are you releasing it in the UK and what's the point of having distributors if they don't sell your products and how about replying to your emails or aren't you bothered with selling your products!

Just got word that AnandTech and The Tech-Report have both posted Previews of ATi's upcoming All-in-Wonder Radeon 9700 Pro video cards! Here's a snip from The Tech-Report!

Today, ATI unveils the AIW Radeon 9700 Pro, adding to the AIW's impressive lineage in the process. The All-In-Wonder dates all the way back to the Rage 128, so there's a lot of history there. The experience gained over years of making AIW products has no doubt contributed to the success of ATI's current cards, which have the most complete AV/PVR feature set in consumer graphics.

Just got word from Dave @Beyond3D! that he has just put up a review of Gainward?s GeForce 4 PowerPack! Ultra/650 TV Golden Sample! Here's a snip.

Gainward?s philosophy towards board making is to, where appropriate, discard the reference board design and get their own engineers to design a new board platform. The primary aim of this redesign is to be more optimal than the reference designs. As a product of this, and careful selection of their graphics cores and memory, Gainward feel that in some cases they can supply boards clocked higher than the nominally suggested by the IHV for a particular chip shipped. Alongside their normally clocked board, Gainward also produce the ?Golden Sample?s with increased performance