What do you know about DDR RAM? Do you know to differentiate your 2400 from your 3700? Your 2-6-2-2 from your 2-6-3-3 settings? Well for those of you wanting to know the best way to get the most from your RAM, this guide is for you.

The Inquirer.net have posted details of PNY's GeForce FX 5800 Ultra and a photo of the card and this is the final product photo as the prototype GeForce FX pictures showed a yellow fan duct and final version will have a clear fan duct! Here's a snip.

The official card name is Geforce FX 5800 Ultra, as we said just after Nvidia launched it in November, and we were right about the price - that card will be more expensive than usual Nvidia high end cards. At least in Europe. Don't be too disappointed, but the card will be equipped with only 128 MB of Ultra fast but also ultra expensive DDR II memory working at 1000 MHz. I don't want to imagine how much an FX with 256MB would cost.

The German speaking countries will have different retail pack and you should remember that in these territories they cannot show Quake III publicly, so Doom III will be even more forbidden, we suspect.

Just got word from Crow @ Darkcrow.co.kr that he's posted 3 new previews for Gainward's GF4 Ti4800SE, Gigabyte Radeon 9100 and Sapphire's Radeon 9100 graphics cards.

Gainward, GeForce4 Powerpack! Ultra/750-8X XP GS(GF4 Ti4800SE) Preview
Gigabyte, GV-R9100(ATI Radeon 9100) Preview
Sapphire Radeon 9100 Atlantis Preview

Thanks to dzjepp for this: The Phantom In Depth - Infinium Labs is the inventor and manufacturer of the first broadband game console. The Phantom game console provides consumers the ultimate game playing experience with potentially thousands of games offered by the December 2003 launch.

Hopefully it won't flop before coming out. I think it would be nice to see a new contender on the market, which would benefit gamers.

Thilo Bayer, hardware editor at PC Games Germany has received an GeForce FX for testing. The print magazine including the test will be on sale in the first week of February (February 5th, 2003 to be exact). More interestingly he has posted some early findings in the 3DCenter forums. I will try to summarize his findings.

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Just spotted these 2 news items @ Nvnews.net.

GeForce FX Benchmarks Beyond3D's forum has a post, linking to a 3DCenter post, with a very brief FX Benchmark. The fact that all numbers posted thus far consist of low AF levels, combined with low Antialiasing samples, seems like a sign of things to come.

HardOCP have current supplier pricing for the upcoming AMD Barton CPU's. The prices here are shown in Euro/ US Dollers and GBP (converted from US Canadian dollars shown on HardOCP). Click Read More for the prices.

The Inquirer.net's mole has just returned from his Mission @ ATI and here's what it had to say.

ATI's magic goal is to achieve 400MHz/800 MHz for the card and memory while we know that it can easily clock it to 375 MHz, which can be considered as the lowest frequency of R350.

We heard that ATI's R350 will beat Geforce FX in eight out of 10 benchmarks, and we learned that one of benchmarks they will lose will be Quake 3. This could be true since the R350 will have 6Gb/Sec memory bandwidth more than the 9700 Pro.

DOUBLE DATA RATE (DDR) memory prices are crashing through the floor today amidst claims that some of the big memory manufacturers, the Dramurai, are dumping stock like there's no tomorrow.

SilentPCReview contributor Leo Quan tackles the challenge of quieting his SMP machine. He applies PC silencing concepts freely, modifying them to his needs, and goes the whole 9 yards with a slew of mods. He gets very close to his elusive goal and, in the process, comes up with an effective new silencing technique for really noisy hard drives. Full article here

Just spotted this @ Hexus.net.

Well, we have seen pictures from ASUS and AOpen. We have got our secret picture now :)

ABIT Computer Corporation announced the SI7 motherboard featuring the SiS R658 chipset and Samsung Electronics' 1200MHz RDRAM memory. Developed jointly with Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), a leading core logic and graphics chip maker and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the industry-leading memory technology supplier, ABIT's SI7 motherboard is designed for power users seeking PCs with the highest performance and best features. The ABIT SI7 supports up to 4 GB 1200/1066MHz RDRAM memory capacity and fully supports AGP8X interface for powerful graphics chips. In addition, the SiSR658/963 chipsets are also equipped with powerful multimedia functions, including 5.1 Channel AC'97 2.2 Audio, 10/100MB Ethernet, Home PNA2.0 and Dual ATA133/100/66 IDE Channels, six USB 2.0/1.1 ports, and three 1394a ports, which can fully meet the high end PC requirement.

Neues JVC Flat TV-Gerät mit revolutionärer D.I.S.T. Technologie ...

Mydrivers.com have posted the SPEC ViewPref 7 benchmarks for nvidia's new Quadro FX 2000.... Here's the system spec.

Dual 2.8GHz Xeons 1GB (2 X 512MB) Corsair PC2100 ECC Reg 120GB Maxtor 9, 7200 RPM, 2MB Cache. PNY Quadro 2000 FX Results (Driver Release 42.61＋DX 9) PNY Quadro4 980 XGL(Driver 41.04+DX 8.1)

for the benchmarks scores hit the above link. and look @ the Nvidia Detonator drivers there using 42.61＋DX 9

Update Just got word that Nvnews.net have also got the Quadro FX Benchies here

Here's the scoop from AMD Zone...I just recieved confirmation of the launch dates for the Barton. On 2/10, AMD expects to have parts! available for both box and tray. The 3000 speed is expected in limited quantity. The 2600MP is expected to ship the first to second week February.

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