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."

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.