Theinquirer.net reports that Mitac has inadvertently leaked details of mobile 2800+ processors AMD will release which will have 512K cache.

The cock up was noticed by Norwegian Web site Barbara.

Digit-life.com have posted info about a possible ATI secret that could help you overclock your ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. Check out this pic.



According to Andrew Vorobyev, our video editor, new ATI Radeon 9700 Pro cards have an interesting feature: those who tried to overclock them might have noticed a gap between GPU and heatsink? The match lies on the GPU with heatsink removed. Notice the about 1mm gap between chip walls and the crystal! ATI's thermogasket doesn't add to the overclocking potential. Naturally, if you remove it, you will have a lot of thermal grease... better chip-cooler contact easily raised the ATI R9700 Pro clock up to 400 MHz.

In Week 47 Club-3D will introduce the new Radeon 9500 series in a 64MB DDR memory version, four pipelines, 128-bit memory interface. Through a combination of incredible 3D rendering performance, sophisticated real-time visual effects, unsurpassed image quality and cutting-edge video features, it takes the PC entertainment experience to a totally new level. The Radeon 9500 version will have 275MHz core speed and 550MHz memory speed. The cards must also be connected to the computer's power supply to meet its performance and high-speed memory requirements, like the Radeon 9700 Pro models.

CD Freaks.com reports that Lite-On is about to release a stand alone DVD player with MPEG4 (DivX) support.

The Oki C5100n is Oki's entry level colour and mono printer. It brings fast colour and fast mono printing to a new level of affordability, in a compact size that is easy to install and use. With 12ppm (pages per minute) colour and 20ppm mono, the C5000 Series is ideal for individuals and small workgroups in large organisations as well as small customer facing businesses. In particular individuals that work from home, or small owner manager businesses will find the C5100n and very attractive proposition.

Tyan has posted picture's and details of their new Tachyon G9700 Pro graphics card. The 'report' on Xbitlabs and TheInquirer is spinning the rumour mill as no official announcement regarding the card has been made. It is not officially available yet. Here's a byte about it.

Caseumbau.de sent words that they have finished their christmas casemod.
These guys are really crazy and best is, you can eat the roof of the case.

Click the pic to enter the article.

Supplies of AMD's latest processors seem to be hitting the streets on time to meet the company's latest timetable, according to dealers. OEMs and brokers claim that supplies of the AMD 2600+ and 2700+ should be trickling into shops on or slightly before November 15, the same day as "enthusiast" OEMs like Voodoo PC expect to get their hands on the AMD 2800+ Athlon XP. AMD also seems to be marketing a special version of the AMD 2600+ chip with a faster 333-MHz front-side bus. Read more...

x86-secret.com have posted what I think is the first review of Intel's new Hyperthreading Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz CPU based on a preproduction sample.Here's a quick translation as the site's in French.

We thus got Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz of preproduction to be able to carry out our tests and to propose an article to you which we hope for most complete possible. Let us see a little the plan of this article. Before any things, we will see the configuration of test which was used for the development of our article, so much from the hardware point of view of than software. We will then start the test by a complete summary of all the cores of NetBurst architecture then, we will pass to a complete explanation on the operation of Hyperthreading technology. After having commented on the benchmarks, we are interested in the compatibility of Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz with the existing hardware and software. We will finish by a meeting of overclocking before concluding.

Just got word from Crow that he's put together an article which takes a look at the latest products to hit Japan from Nvidia's range of graphics cards NV28 & NV18, like this card from Gainward TI42008XVIVO-A128D NV28:

Although everyone expects the NV30 to be introduced at the first day of Comdex TheInquirer can confirm that Nvidia will introduce one more interesting gadget. They can not say whether NV30 will be presented at the same time, but the NV28M, its new mobile chip, will be introduced on Monday 18th November at Comdex Fall 2002. Read More...

Xbitlabs.com reports that AMD Athlon XP processors with 2600+ and 2700+ model numbers have started to appear in Japanese retail stores.

HP today is changing the landscape of mobile computing with the introduction of the Compaq Tablet PC TC1000, a versatile, full-function mobile PC that adapts to the way users work. Wireless-enabled and highly portable, the tablet PC combines the power of digital ink with a full-function PC.

Just spotted this @ Theinquirer.net:



Meanwhile our eagle-eyed French friends spotted an adapter card that lets you connect up an AGP card AND a PCI card into a single PCI slot. It's on the Japanese site watch.impress, of course: over here .

Just got word that Rivastation.com have posted details and pic's of Sapphire Tech's Ultimate Edition 9700 Pro which uses a derivate of the Zalman ZM-80HP passive heatpipe cooler. So this card is nothing more than a 'modded' card, You'll probably go cheaper just exchanging the cooler unit ;-).

Sapphire announced the new Ultimate Edition version of their Radeon 9700 PRO card Atlantis Pro. It comes with a special passive cooling that is combined with a heat-pump. The biggest advantage of that solution: No noise at all. The card will be available at end November. The price is still unknown yet. Rancho*: Heat-pump? What's that?

AMD has released a new CPU roadmap which shows AMD's 64bit CPU's scheduled for the first half of 2003. As expected the AMD Opteron based on the SledgeHammer core will go for the server market and the AMD Athlon based on the ClawHammer core is going to be targeted at the desktop market. Click read more to view.

As we reported earlier Elsa returns as Neue Elsa GmbH. Their new consumer lineup has not been announced yet but a german online retailer is already listing some of their new products. And guess what: the former Nvidia close partner uses ATI based cards for the companies relaunch: ELSA Gladiac 9500 Pro ELSA Gladiac 9700 Pro The Elsa Gladiac 9700 Pro specs are exactly running at ATI borders. Hit read more for a first photograph of box and card.

Thats right. TomsHardwareGuide has another mammoth hardware review of no less than six Radeon 9700 Pro graphic cards. Cards tested in the review are ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, Crucial Radeon 9700 Pro, Gigabyte MAYA II GV-R 9700 Pro, Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro, HIS ExCaliber 9700 Pro,Sapphire Radeon 9700 Atlantis Pro. (puff...) Click Tomshardware.com for the full review. THG: "Much to NVIDIA's annoyance, graphics cards with ATI's Radeon 9700 PRO chip have the upper hand right now. We took a closer look at six cards from various manufacturers."

Just saw this over at Osbetas.com. Seems someone made a video of Windows XP Tablet PC in use.

You can download it off their forums here if you are interested.

I was just over @ Anandtech.com and I see they have an Article up called Anand goes West - November 2002 Industry Update!Tthe most interesting bit is the piece about Nvidia's GeForce 4 Ti 4800? They also cover Nvidia's nForce2 and compare it against VIA's KT400! It's well worth a read... For starters we have the GeForce 4 Ti 4800, but don't let the name excite you - the card is nothing more than a GeForce4 Ti 4600 with AGP 8X support. Even more disappointing is that there's talk of a GeForce4 Ti 4800-SE that runs at the same clock speed as the current-gen Ti 4400 but with AGP 8X support. We can't only fault NVIDIA for misleading nomenclature though, the difference between ATI's Radeon 9500 and Radeon 9500 Pro is huge yet the difference in name implies nothing more than clock speed changes.