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.

It's no secret that Creative Labs is the trendsetter in the "audio for PC" field. Not so long ago the company announced a new generation sound card aka Audigy2, which brought about a real storm in the Web community! So come join Xbitlabs as we take a close look at this solution.

Nvidia the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that upcoming retail and OEM versions of NVIDIA Personal Cinema? products will feature DVD MovieFactory 2 and VideoStudio 6, DVD creation and video editing software from Ulead® Systems Inc., a leading developer of video editing, image editing, and DVD authoring software. The robust software package provides consumers with the industry's most complete digital entertainment solution for desktop PCs, and an easy way to create and turn home videos into DVD movies.

Thanks to Darkcrow.co.kr for the heads up!

Well that Card sitting under that cooler is a Matrox Parhelia 128MB Bulk Version and it's whizzing along @ 272MHz / 680MHz! want to know more click on the link below

Voltmodding Matrox Parhelia 128MB Bulk Version

Hexus have posted their 12 card Nvidia Geforce4 TI4200 video card Shootout from 10 different manufactures! Here's a snip.

We have a number of Ti 4200s in for a comparative review today. What's evident is that all of the Ti 4200s boasting the newer, faster 8x AGP standard, ship with 128MB of on-board memory. Further, to distinguish themselves from pre-8x cards with 128MB RAM, these cards have seen a bump in memory speed. We'll see just how each manufacturer approaches this most lucrative GPU, what they bundle with their efforts, how they attempt to outdo each other, and see just how far we can push them. All this on 2 leading platforms. Hang on for the benchmark ride.

Bitsmodding introduced couple of very interesing new products; UV-reactive fans and Cold Cathodes without the inner white wire. Metku.net has a review about these new items so head over there and check them out!

NVIDIA has extended its mobile graphics leadership into the Apple market by providing the graphics processing solutions for two new versions of the Apple® PowerBook?, announced on January 7. Apple?s new PowerBook notebooks will feature either the GeForce4 440 Go with 64MB of dedicated graphics memory or the GeForce4 420 Go with 32MB of memory.

GameSpy have posted their look @ the technology behind Sony's Playstation 3, which is scheduled for a 2004/5 release.

stories surround the PS3 pointing toward the incorporation of a complex microprocessor, a supercomputer-on-a-chip bearing the moniker "Cell." Being championed by the hardware triumvirate of IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, these companies have pledged $400 million to the project.

Cell, scheduled to hit the market in late 2004 or early 05, differs notably from current processors. This finely crafted chunk of silicon will contain multiple chips within a single unit, and will be able to perform in excess of one trillion mathematical calculations a second. Put into perspective, that makes it approximately 100 times more powerful than a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 CPU!

Today Xbitlabs.com takes a look at small form-factor PCs from Shuttle. They do break all our presuppositions about small and noiseless computers having proven really impressive. For this review, Shuttle provided us with two top-end configurations: for AMD Athlon XP and for Intel Pentium 4 CPUs. All your questions about SFF systems from Shuttle will be answered here!