Thanks to Alive! for the update as we seem to have missed this one! Better late than never.

At CES, Creative is unveiling the Audigy 2 Platinum eX, geared for musicians and enthusiasts with an external breakout box. They are also previewing the upcoming MegaWorks THX 6.1 650 speakers, as well as the recently launched I-Trigue 2.1 3300 speakers. For more Info click on the Audigy 2 Platinum eX Pic.

Xbitlabs takes a look at a very interesting and unusual product, which stands out among other NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600 based cards. I am talking about eVGA e-GeForce4 Ti4600. This solution boasts excellent quality, TV-input and output, good performance in games, a solid software bundle. But the most exciting thing is certainly the 3rd generation Asymmetric Cooling System (ACS3).

The guy's other @ Nvnews.net have posted PNY 's Verto Geforce FX Specifications, price and a release date of Wednesday, February 05, 2003! Also they have news of Exclusive pictures of the Geforce FX card taken by SweClockers from this year Comdex Nordic 2003 in Guthenburg.

BFG Technologies is the first company to reveal specific details on their GeForce FX offering accompanied by a special preorder rebate. This super-high-end 3D graphics accelerator card takes advantage of the latest and most sophisticated 0.13 micron process technology by packing nearly twice the transistors into the same space as the GeForce4 Ti GPU. Combine this sliver of super-powered silicon with radically redesigned boards, special heatsinks and fans and you?ll understand why the Asylum GeForce FX gives hard-core gamers the bragging rights they deserve! Read more...

Zum Einbau in 5-1/4-Zoll-Schächte (Degger, das ist doch die Erfindung für Dich ;-)) ...

I was just over @ Overclockers.com and I see they have posted some details of upcoming barton CPU....Here's a snip.

Higher Numbers Doesn't Mean More Speed AMD will tack on a couple hundred points to the old PR to account for the increased cache Barton will have (and its 166MHz FSB). This is perfectly legitimate, but will create the anamoly of the 2500+ Barton actually running at a lower speed than the 2400+ TBred, leading no doubt to shock and denunciations from the conceptually challenged.

Im November 2002 erneuerte Intel die Xeon Prozessor Serie als auch den bis dahin im Workstationbereich eingesetzten 860er Chipsatz. Die neuen Intel Xeon Prozessoren unterstützen neu einen 533MHz Front-Side Bus. Intel schwört dabei dem bisherigen Speicherstandard RDRAM ab, orientiert sich zudem an Features wie AGP 8x, welche auch im Massenmarkt Verwendung finden. Die neuen Intel Xeon Prozessoren stehen mit Taktfrequenzen von 2.80 GHz, 2.66 GHz, 2.40 GHz und 2.00 GHz zur Verfügung. Wir haben exklusiv den neuen E7505 Chipsatz gegen den bisherigen Standard 860 antreten lassen. Der gesamte Artikel bei 3dChips

Als einer der ersten Seiten konnte Casebau die brandneuen Gehäuse von Thermaltake begutachten.

Die ersten Bilder findet Ihr beim klick auf das Bild, ein ausführliches Review folgt.

Lars over @ Caseumbau send me words that he has some live pictures online about the brand new Thermaltake Xaser III case.
A review comes next with detailed informations and more pictures. For first impressions click on the picture.

3dchipset.com have news of BFG tech's Geforce FX that you can pre-oder from Best Buy's website...

I was as well as some of our viewers were curious to know more about the offering BFG Technologies was offering for pre-order. I emailed them and John Malley sent this to us:

I love my Mac and I love my PC, but what I don't love is having two monitors, two keyboards, and two mouses. Switching back and forth has become a royal pain. And since Jobs and Gates probably won't be releasing a Mac/PC combo box any time soon, I decided to take matters into my own hands. Read More Flexbeta

David @ DriverHeaven has recently posted a kick-ass review of the latest nForce 2 motherboard from ASUS. Its a A7N8X Deluxe board, one of if not the best motherboards on the market right now.

"The A7N8X Deluxe is all we could want from an nForce2 motherboard, and then some. If you can?t see yourself spend this much on a motherboard, try to understand what all this board offers. To begin, you won?t need to purchase an add-on sound card ? nForce2?s APU is already a powerhouse DSP and the board offers 5.1-channels of audio through either analog or digital outputs..."

Make sure you check out this review over @ DriverHeaven.net

The Firingsquad have posted their look @ which sound solution is better Creative Labs Audigy 2 or Nvidia's nForce2 MCP with SoundStorm!

Our dream gaming card would obviously be an Audigy 2 with Dolby Digital Interactive Content Encoding? or would that be an nForce2 with better performance and a flatter frequency response curve?

Tom's Hardware Guide und Driverheaven haben aktuelle Reviews zu dem sehr gefragten Mobo von Asus und dazu passend ueber 34 Kuehler fuer AMD Athlon XP Systeme geschrieben.
Eine interessantes Ergebniss bei dem Kuehlervergleich betreffend Leistung und Laerm, sowie die feinen Unterschiede zwischen der Deluxe- und Normal-Version des Mobos werden verdeutlicht.

Tom's Hardware Guide: The launch of the Thoroughbred B cores means that the demands on processor cooling units have also increased. THG has adapted its measurement methodology to the new conditions and has looked around for an alternative to the conventional boxed cooler. Driverheaven got a review of the Asus A7N8X Mobo.