We have seen manufacturers using desktop Pentium 4 as a mobile CPU to lower cost but it is more interesting to use a mobile Pentium 4 as a desktop CPU.

Vr-zone.com has an article up on how to run a mobile Pentium 4 on a normal desktop board and increase the FSB above 200Mhz on air cooled to achieve 100% overclocked. Other interesting findings on how Speed Step Technology and multipliers are being implemented can be found here

There is a new motherboard roundup published in Metku.net. Four i845PE boards and one P4X400 board flexing their muscles to see who is who.

The Radeon 9500 Pro may be good at stock, but we want to see what it can do overclocked! Get the tools and the steps to do it here.

ATI RADEON 9500, RADEON 9500 PRO, RADEON 9700 vs. NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 and GeForce4 Ti4600 At present there are two players in the today's gaming graphics cards market that determine the situation. They are ATI and NVIDIA, two uncompromising rivals, which have been competing with one another for years. Today we will witness the battle between the newest graphics chips from ATI and their direct competitors from NVIDIA! So come join Xbitlabs to see Who will win?

Also wenn dieses Handy so auf den Markt kommt und hält was es verspricht, dann sag ich mal Nokia, Siemens, etc. - zieht euch warm an ...

Following on from my previous story: 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

Well if you remember the babelfish translation it was like a Jedi mind trick but luckily for us Mariuz from Flickerdown.com has translated the whole article into English for your reading pleasure.

A REPORT ON Nikkei Net said that Furukawa Electric has made a copper/aluminium heatsink with remarkable thermal properties.

The heat sink, it claims, will give up to 80 per cent better cooling than conventional sinks. This design is called crimped fin and the firm expects copper to be at the base of the sink, with aluminium* used for the fins. And the fins will be inserted into holes in the copper base with a fin pitch of 1.9 millimetres.The sinks will be manufactured in China and reach a production capacity of two million a month by September next year. Furukawa has quite a few interesting designs in the heatsink arena that it's patented, either alone or with others.

Watch.Impress have posted details of M-AUDIO's 7.1 192kHz/24bit Audio card based on VIA's Envyc24ht Technologies as the sites in Japanese here's a quick translation.

In addition, multichannel playback is actualized the " SRS TruSurround XT " and, to multichannel converts the stereo or monaural sound source falsely with 2 speakers to also to correspond " SRS Circle Surround II ", the control software belongs. In addition, also the software such as WincDvd 4 Dolby digital EX version

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.