With LED'S taking off in the PC-Mod industry, it was only a matter of time until manufacturers started putting LED's in their other peripherals such as mice. Since LED's are so small, have very low voltage requirements, and put out a considerable amount of light, it is no wonder that we see new products everyday that use LED technology. Today, we'll be looking at a great looking mouse. The pictures of it will not really do it justice, but you'll get the general idea...

Asus has long made motherboards with the enthusiast in mind. No matter the chipset or processor being supported, they have been there. Join TweakTown as they delve into one of their latest offerings; the Asus P4S8X Motherboard. Using the new SiS 648 chipset, we will look at a number of areas to see if this newcomer can stand up to the Asus reputation.

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TomsHardware has previewed AOpen's AK86 Tube Motherboard. This mobo is based on VIA's K8T400 chipset which supports AMD Hammer CPU's. Although this motherboard's will not be launched before this year christmas you will get a good idea what the next gen Hammer chipset has to offer.

Planet 3D Now has posted six pictures of Aopens upcoming AMD Hammer board. The board comes with three tubes for warmer richer sound. Check the pics via the above link.

IBM announced a newly-developed, high-performance PowerPC microprocessor for use in a variety of applications, including desktops, workstations, servers and communications products. The new chip called the IBM PowerPC 970 is derived from IBM's award-winning POWER4 server processor to provide high performance and additional function for users. As the first in a new family of high-end PowerPC processors, the chip is designed for initial speeds of up to 1.8 gigahertz, manipulating data in larger, 64-bit chunks and accelerating compute-intensive workloads like multimedia and graphics through specialized circuitry known as a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit. Read more...

Rage3d.com reports that an ATI representative was on TechTV last night and he brought along a nice new toy out of ATI's labs, a Radeon 9700 with DDR II RAM. I didn't catch it but McTurok from the forums wrote a good summary.

Advanced Micro Devices' chief technical officer tipped the performance of the 64-bit Hammer chip at the Microprocessor Forum on Tuesday. "The Opteron architecture offers industry-leading performance for enterprise-class servers but at the same time it's a sweet little processor for the desktop," said Fred Weber, AMD's vice-president of engineering for the Computational Products Group. Read more...

Renowned german IT magazine Chip has compiled the latest info and assumptions regarding the eagerly awaited launch of NV30 at Comdex Fall, Las Vegas in November. They also have a first benchmark of ATI's Radeon 9500 series which is on par with Nvidia's GeForce 4 Ti 4600. Read more...

Xbitlabs have posted details of upcoming VIA Pentium 4 Chipsets! Here's a byte.

Later this year VIA Technologies will unveil its VIA P4X600 core-logic. The newcomer was already showcased at VTF, so, it should appear just as scheduled without any delays. The P4X600 is intended for the Pentium 4 processors with 400 or 533MHz Quad Pumped Bus and will feature dual-channel memory controller. I wonder if VIA announces this baby a couple of days before Intel announces its Granite Bay, in order to be able to call it ?the first dual-channel DDR SDRAM supporting Pentium 4 chipset?. Keeping in mind VIA?s negative experience with DDR400, the company only declares PC2100 and PC2700 support for their new device. Frankly speaking, dual-channel PC2700 DDR SDRAM delivers about 5.4GB/s of peak system bandwidth what should be enough not only for the current Pentium 4 processors with 533MHz Quad Pumped Bus, but also for the up and coming Pentium 4 ?Prescott? CPUs with 667MHz FSB.

High-speed CD-RW drive, CHECK. DVD drive, CHECK. Two speedy hard drives for unheard of storage space, CHECK. Brand new DVD-RW drive... whoops. More and more people are falling victim to the problem of no more IDE ports for peripherals. Too many new products are hitting the shelves that need these valuable resources, but most motherboards are limited to four devices. Come join TweakTown as they take a look at the New Motion Combo Converter Device. It tackles this very problem by utilizing your system's USB or Firewire ports. Let's see if it can tackle the demanding needs of a Power User!

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.