Vr-Zone.com have posted some details about Nvidia's Geforce FX aka NV30.

The initial cost of NV30 is expected to be high due to the cost of 10 layers PCB and use of 500Mhz GDDR-II but its performance is expected to be much better than current R300. The high core clock of 500Mhz is attained due to new process technology (0.13 micron using copper wiring) as well as using new package technology (Flip chip package) ....Click on the above link for more Info.

Just got word that GZeasy.com and OC.com.tw have post the first details and Benchmarks for AMD's upcoming Barton CPU 2500+ with 512K L2 Cache! Here's a quick translation

Facing the Intel Pentium4 HT attack, looks like AMD also really was sits without stopping, finally emitted Barton which we anticipated. In the only then entire test process, Barton relies on 512k L2 the Cacheand supports 333mHz FSB. Although Barton only has 2500 +, but the AMD MHz myth without doubt could continue by Barton writes.

Just got word from Crow @Darkcrow.co.kr that he's Interviewed ATI's Business Development Manager Toshi Okumura! Here's a snip.

Darkcrow why does the Radeon 9500 Pro have a different PCB layout than other R300 families ?

Toshi Okumura The R9500 PRO PCB was redesigned due to the reduce cost of the PCB. As you will notice the size of the RADEON 9500PRO PCB is smaller than the RADEON 9700 family. The R9500PRO is targeted at a lower end then the RADEON 9700 PRO so reducing cost is very important. Also, the RADEON 9500PRO is 128bit memory versus the 256bit memory of the 9700 family of products. This fact also required a PCB re-design.

VR-Zone has done up a review on the Gigabyte 8INXP based on the E7205 Granite Bay chipset that has caused quite a stir recently due to its Dual Power System (DPS) that offers 6 phase power for future higher powered processors. Other nice board features include Gigabit LAN, S-ATA RAID, Dual BIOS etc. The performance and overclockability of this board is great and we managed to overclock the P4 3.06Ghz HT to over 3.5Ghz (155Mhz) and P4 2.4BGhz to over 3Ghz (168Mhz) air cooled.

Overclockersclub.com, has reviewed the Aquarius II from Thermaltake. This company has great products let's see if their Liquid Cooling solution keeps the quality at a high level! Check it out.....

Just got word from Watch.Impress that Maxtor have started selling their DiamondMax Plus 9 Serial ATA HDD in Japan! and here's the mother of all Fans the Fanless Socket 478 super high heat sink NCU-1000.

Ocworkbench.com reports that today we received a powerpoint slide from ECS. To my surprise, it is the benchmark data of the ECS's Gameunion 746 board based on SiS 746 chipset with integrated VGA chipset Xabre 200. It is compared to the nForce2+IGP. The following table list the components used to test both boards. Do take special notice that it is 128M vs 256M (dual channel). The following pages will be the extracts from the powerpoint slides.

Xbitlabs have posted their round up of 7 new mainboards based on Intel's i845PE chipset for the Pentium 4 processors supporting DDR333 memory. they tested the following products from ABIT, ASUS, Gigabyte, EPoX, MSI, Intel and Albatron. Find out more about their features and performance! Hit read More......

Got some money to burn then get your ass over to Evans & Sutherland and check out their simFUSION 6000 which comes with 4x Radeon 9700 Pro chips on one board.

simFUSION 6000 offers unbeatable PC-IG performance and image quality, with 2-to-24-sample full-scene antialiasing at screen resolutions up to 2048x1536 and fill rates up to 9.6Gpix/sec. OGL 1.3, D3D 9.0, and Linux compatible, simFUSION configurations include two or four ATI RADEON 9700 graphics chips, one or three DVI-I outputs, a DVI input, and Chanlock® channel synchronization. Genlock to internal or external video and 256MB of unified memory are standard in all configurations. The DVI input allows multiple chassis to be cascaded for higher performance or additional AA samples. Optional sensor postprocessor and distortion correction/edge blending cards are available.

I am shocked just like you by this new, but the world will not stop suprising us. S3/Graphics as well :) S3 Graphics semi-Announced a new graphics chip with the name DeltaChrome9 which will carry Directx9 support... Head over to Savagenews.com for the full info and white papers!

TC reports that Asus have Launched a new Nvidia graphichs card the Asus V9280S.......Graphics performance just got better with the ASUS V9280S SuperFast 600MHz, supporting NVIDIA's enhanced GeForce4 Ti4200-8X chip. With the newest AGP 8X standard, the card enables the new peak AGP bandwidth of 2.1GB/s to offer excellent graphics quality. The latest "ASUS Smart Cooling" technology ensures a quiet computing environment

With processors continuing to gain in speed and power, heat issues are requiring more consideration whether you choose Intel or AMD. To maintain an acceptable level of cooling, many people have turned to alternative cooling methods. Come join TweakTown as they take a look at one such method, the fully enclosed TherMagic CPU Cooling System; or CCS for short. Let's see if it has what it takes to handle the load!

The VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX Mainboard is a revolutionary, ultra-compact x86 platform optimized for today's killer digital applications. At just 17cm x 17cm, Mini-ITX is the world's smallest native x86 mainboard platform, and is fully compatible with Microsoft and Linux Operating Systems.

Well, it looks as if NVIDIA has got a really serious cause for concern: ATI RADEON 9700 Pro proved capable of beating NVIDIA's brand new highly praised GeForceFX solution. Are you curious to find out how come? Sure! So come join Xbitlabs and learn how your RADEON 9700 Pro graphics card can get up to 35% faster!

OCZ Technology Group would like to announce the availability of Dual Channel Optimized EL DDR PC-3500 Modules. OCZ Technology Dual Channel EL DDR modules are intended for use in Dual Channel platforms to increase memory bus efficiency. OCZ Releases Dual Channel Optimized EL DDR PC-3500 Modules

OCZ Technology Group announced the availability of 466MHz and 500MHz OCZ EL (enhanced latency) DDR SDRAM memory chips. OCZ Technology plans to use these chips in their ?PC3700? and ?PC4000? EL DDR modules, as they gain mainboard support for enhanced latency DDR SDRAM memory devices.

Watch.Impress have detailes of Nvidia's launch of the Geforce FX in Japan and did you know that FX stands for FXFlow? Here's a quick translation as the sites in Japanese and I think that's right this Time LOL....

According to the Higashi person, as for immediate line-up the core clock 500MHz, the memory clock 1gHz (DDR II) you call only 1 type. Concerning price, assuming, " the board manufacturer decides ", you avoided declaration.