Creative Labs recently introduced the Nomad Jukebox Zen a very familiar looking device when thinking of Apple's iPod. It features FireWire and USB support as well as a massive 20Gbyte harddrive. All comes in a nice aluminium casing with a 132 x 64 pixel resolution blue LED backlit display. 268 gram weight including the built-in Li-ion battery makes it an interesting throw at Apple. Suggested retail price is $349. Software included is the PlayCenter 3 for ripping, managing and tranferring files to Zen. The player also features playlist management and a quickscroll function to navigate your media library. Learn more about Creative's Zen.

Just got word that the French website x86-secret.com have got their hands on the PDF for Intel's new Pentium 4 3.06GHz CPU. The part number is BX80532PE3066D and it will have a 533MHz FSB.

The MCX462+T is a fully assembled air-cooled thermoelectric (Peltier) solution designed to manage thermal loads of up to 100 Watts. The product is intended for applications where liquid cooling is not an option.

Nvidia launched a new incarnation of the GeForce 4 Go, namely model 460. We found a first driver set Detonator 36.39 for this GPU here. Now on the announcement. The introduction of the Nvidia GeForce 4 460 Go, most powerful mobile graphics processing unit (GPU) with the best performance per watt metric of all mobile GPUs, went through today. The GeForce4 460 Go is perfectly suited for the mainstream performance and thin and light notebooks?eliminating the consumer dilemma of choosing performance over the convenience of a thin and light form factor. "NVIDIA has been consistent in delivering innovative, quality solutions to the mobile market," said J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., Principal Analyst, MobileTrax. "With the GeForce4 460 Go, NVIDIA has developed a GPU which balances fantastic performance with power conservation concerns - once again proving their technology leadership." Read more...

BigWop over @ HotHardware.com is building a new machine and check out his ATI Radeon 9700 Pro! He's using a ThermalTake Chrome Orb and tin-coated copper BGA ram-sinks to mod his card.

The Hi-Fi PC - a device that completely bridges the PC and CE market space and is the most likely yet to push the PC platform far beyond the traditional home location of the den and into the living room and bedroom. "Vital to extending the PC platform into the home is the development of stylish looks, advanced multimedia capabilities and ease of use typical of consumer electronics, while providing all the functionality of a PC," said Wenchi Chen, President and CEO of VIA Technologies, Inc. "While there are devices on the market that fulfill some of these requirements, the Hi-Fi PC is the first system to offer the best of both worlds, and completely embodies all the expectations of consumers for a living-room based device." Read more...

According to this announcement at the Hercules/Guillemot german online shop, there will be a limited edition of the Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro 128MB with a watercooling heatsink by factory default. WCE stands for water cooled edition. German reports say this version will be limited to 99 cards which are hand made by Guillemit factory personel and therefore have full warranty. The cards are said to feature standard 9700 Pro specifications in terms of core and memory speeds and are stress tested for 24 hours before delivery. Price? 550 Euros...

The Inquirer reports: Sources in the know tell us that 400MHz is what Nvidia is aiming for their NV30 card. I need to clarify things and say we did once hear from a Senior Nvidia executive that, "there is no such thing as this frequency. It's all in the yield," suggesting that chip frequency is being determined after companies have pre-production samples often called A11 silicon.

Xbitlabs.com reports that unfortunately for AMD has reached the point of the maximal frequency the Thoroughbred can achieve. Our friends from OverClockers.ru web-site managed to grab a sample of the mentioned processor and tried to overclock it.

To their great disappointment, they only succeeded in launching the CPU at 172MHz FSB, while the nominal frequency is 166MHz. The resulting core-speed was 2327MHz. They did not test the processor on stability at this clock as there is no sense to overclock so fast a CPU by 77MHz.

Just spotted that Theinquirer.net has posted details of ATI's upcoming Radeon 9500 and 9700! The 9700 is a slower version of the Pro and the 9500 is aimed @ the Geforce4 TI 4200 market! Here's a snip.

The main difference between the cards will be the memory interface. The Radeon 9700 will use a 256-Bit interface and is planned to compete with Nvidia's Geforce 4 TI 4600. The card will feature 128MB of DDR memory working at 550MHz, an AGP 8X interface, Dual 400MHz Ramdac and all the things that you already saw with Radeon 9700 PRO. But you can expect that this card will be a bit slower than the fastest 9700 PRO. Of course, the card will have full support for DirectX 9.0

VR-Zone has done up a review on the Chip-Con Prometeia Cooling System, the latest hit thing in the market for overclockers. With Prometeia, extreme overclocking can be carried at ease and as a result, we have successfully overclocked a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz C1 Stepping to 3.6Ghz. Definitely, with the best cooling system available and the fastest P4 around, we have also carried testing with the current fastest graphics card, the Creative Radeon 9700 Pro and set a nice 3DMark2001SE score of 17490 3dmarks!

Can someone buy me one please? It's only $8.000 dollars! Hehe .

Watch the morning news, download recipes, send and receive e-mail, or leave video messages for your family with a refrigerator? You can if it's the LG Multi-Media Refrigerator. It combines leading-edge refrigerator technology with digital connectivity and control and brings you an unprecedented degree of convenience, quality, and coolness. All enclosed in a fingerprint-proof Titanium finish.

Well from time to time you really spot something new. The japanese company Loas has developed a new ultra thin 10Base-T/100Base-TX compliant LAN cable labeled DSL-BB. The cable sports a 2mm width and 1mm thickness! Three colors (black, blue, white) will be available at different lengths from 1 to 15 meters. The cables are already retailing in Japan and should really come in handy.

Creative Inspire 6.1 6700 speakers with additional rear centre satellite deliver incredible audio realism in PC games, Dolby Digital Surround EX movies and digital music. This outstanding 6.1 PC speaker system, which offers Dolby Digital® Surround EX support when connected to the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card, includes a subwoofer and six satellites. The rear centre speaker ensures incredible audio realism in DirectSound® 3D game titles, Dolby Digital Surround EX DVD movies and digital music. Read more...

TerraTec announced three new soundcards for the consumer market. All three of them should retail in November according to TerraTec and are targeted to compete with Creative's Audigy and Audigy 2 lineup. The Aureon strangely reminds of Audigy and Radeon, probably a publicity stunt to take advantage of already established brand names. Read more for specs and pack shots.

This just in from Crow @ Darkcrow.co.kr! He tells me that he had to return a Matrox Parhelia and was on the RMA page for Matrox and LOOK what he spotted? Listings for Matrox Parhelia 256MB, 64MB version of the card and he managed to grab a screenshot.

With the completion of the fore-mentioned tasks, the processor is primed and ready for your overclocking adventure. Although overclocking is largely a matter of chance and luck!

The efforts made in this article will ensure that there are no controllable constraints working against you. Contrary to popular belief, overclocking is not an inherently dangerous undertaking. Given the proper procedures, overclocking can be an exciting and rewarding endeavor, which can breathe new life into a system for little to no additional cost.

It has been a long time coming. Finally, Intel yesterday released the i845GE and EP chipsets for the Pentium 4 platform with official support for DDR-333 through a new memory controller. This comes at a time where SiS and VIA have had their DDR333 solutions (and faster in the case of VIA with their P4X400) out for several months already. Do you really need to upgrade your motherboard to the latest and greatest? Follow TweakTown as they give us an answer to this question.

Intel is slated to launch the 3GHz version of its Pentium 4 processor on Nov. 14, fulfilling promises made by company executives more than a year ago, according to solution providers informed about the release date.

"Micron Technology, Inc., today announced it is demonstrating multiple internally-developed DDR platforms, including DDR-II, DDR400, and DDR333 systems, at the VIA Technical Forum (VTF). VTF begins today at the Taipei International Convention Center in Taipei, Taiwan. Micron is the only memory supplier to internally develop DDR system-level solutions and provide customers with the tools for high-speed system design."