Today AVM Germany introduced the new internal PCI card DSL modem FRITZCard! DSL SL the successor to the famous FRITZCard! DSL. The SL version is nearly identical though stripped of ISDN support and featuring new signal enhancing IC's. The new product is directly connected to the signal splitter of your phone line and can also convince by its very low power consumption of 3 watt when in operational state. Truly innovative though is the new Traffic Shaping technology implemented in the latest versions of the modems drivers and FRITZDSL! software suite. Traffic Shaping is an algorithm that allows full up-and download speeds when a bi-directional transfer (e.G. downloading a file and sending Email) is taking place simultaneously. Traffic Shaping can also be activated on older FRITZCard! DSL versions by downloading and installing the new software releases. Read more... or the german version of this article over here.

VR-Zone has some information about the upcoming ABIT BH7 board made for the overclockers. Bh7 is based on the Intel 845PE chipset equipped with 4 Phase Power for overclocking. With 4 Phase Power, the BH7 is capable of overclocking to beyond an 800FSB and also of using DDR400. The board include features such as 6 channel sound with S/PDIF in/out, LAN onboard and 3 + 1 Serial ATA.

Die FRITZ!Card DSL-Produkte integrieren als einzige DSL-Endgeräte die Funktion DSL Traffic Shaping, die den gleichzeitigen Up- und Download mit voller DSL-Geschwindigkeit ermöglicht.
Bei der FRITZ!Card DSL SL handelt es sich um eine reine DSL-Karte, die anders als die FRITZ!Card DSL und FRITZ!Card DSL USB keinen ISDN-Support bietet. Die Karte wird in einen PCI-Slot gesteckt und verbindet PC und DSL-Splitter miteinander. Sie ist laut AVM für alle DSL-Anschlüsse nach U-R2-Standard geeignet.

ohne Traffic-Shaping mit Traffic-Shaping Mehr Infos unter Mehr

Even though Nvidia's DustBuster GeForce FX isn't quite a complete DirectX 9.0 part? Nvidia will be launching a nForce2 board with DirectX 9.0 support. Xbitlabs.com reports that VIDILab, a Croatian magazine, writes in the issue available this weekend, that in the course of this year Nvidia plans to unveil both Socket A and Socket 754 intended products with the GeForce FX architecture derivative graphics cores inside.

Reportedly, the company has plans for another nForce family of chipsets for AMD Socket A processors. Being AMD?s closest chipset partner, Nvidia is able to get the information about faster chips from the Sunnyvale-based semiconductor firm and to offer the fastest product among all competitors. Nvidia is looking forward to bring another nForce series of core-logic products with its integrated graphics core with DirectX 9.0 support (maybe it is all about the code-name NV34 core?) and other cool features.

Tweakpc.de have post detailed spec's and photo's of Abit's Siluro FX5800 DTH graphics card.

The NVIDIA® GeForce? FX5800 GPU with AGP 8X takes graphics experiences to a whole new level. Not only delivers unprecedented 3D graphics performance, the revolutionary new NVIDIA CineFX? engine also introduces cinematic-quality special effects and studio-quality color to the PC for the first time. When combined with NVIDIA?s rock-solid drivers, wide developer support and unique software features, you have a GPU that has redefined the limits of graphics engineering, performance, and visual quality.

Intel today officially announced it's 'Wireless-Internet-On-A-Chip' for cell phones during a press realease. Carrying the name Intel® PXA800F cellular processor, Intel promises that the chip will deliver all in one functionality. Intel says the new Manitoba chip can enhance games, handle integrated cameras and and color screens. Read More @ FlexBeta

Total Video Games.com reports that speaking to the French national newspaper lesechos.fr, Bill Gates revealed a few insightful details regarding the Xbox2.

"The next-generation Xbox will feature digital media capabilities such as video and photo editing in addition to games," claimed Gates; prompting many to further the links between PC and Xbox.

The CRW-F1 is the first drive to offer the revolutionary DiscT@2 Laser Labeling System. Yamaha's industry-leading Full CAV technology and precise control of the key elements of recording, (specifically: tracking, rotation, and laser inten-sity and positioning) allows text and graphic data to be tattooed to the media's data surface after the writing stage is complete.

More @ MSFN.org

Already big in Japan, DVD machines that record television are going to get a bit faster thanks to a deal between Pioneer and TDK. Pioneer has already captured 40% of the market for domestic DVD recorders.

The recorders feature a built in hard drive to store television programs, much like the Tivo. The major difference is that you can then save a program using the built-in rewriteable DVD drive. The current Pioneer machine uses a double speed drive.

More at Techzonez.com.

Just spotted this @ Amdboard.com:

On the 10th of February 03 the world discovered the long awaited Athlon XP featuring Barton core but little did we know about an incredible detail Slovakian scientists Gunov Bombirakovj and his scanning tunneling microscope (SCM) have found. It was called the Barton's Mystery and it is now, thanks to unbelievable magnifying of million times, SOLVED! For More Info click on the above link.

This is the possibly the strangest mod yet, post your strange mods in the comments. Log Cabin Case Mod

DATARAM HAS ACHIEVED A FIRST after its 1GB low profile DIMM passed Intel Advanced Qualification Testing. The memory module shows another step on the road to miniaturisation, being only 1.2 inches high and .15 inches deep. Read the full story at The Inquirer.

INTEL SPOKE AT the International Solid State Conference in California last week and did more than that, it seems. The company also posted pictures of the die and other details which some enterprising Japanese journalist has managed to get into print. Read more here

NVIDIA Corporation today announced that its NVIDIA nForce2 platform processors, which have been lauded by major industry publications and Web sites as ?the best core-logic chipset? for the AMD AthlonXP processor family, are designed to support the full power of the new AMD Athlon XP processors 3000+ and 2800+ CPUs announced earlier today.
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Athlon XP 3000+ soll Pentium 4 einholen ...

IXBT have brought us some pictures from Chaintech's FX launch event on the mediterranean island Tenerife. The presentation was lead by Geert van Dijk, director of Chaintech Europe. Now this is what I call an innovative cooling solution. Oh and the card also has some light mod included. Read More...

just got word from Crow @Darkcrow.co.kr that he's posted his ABIT SILURO FX5800 DTH Paper Preview? I got to say that card Looks a bit flat? LOL

I managed to dig up some information that Intel is already sampling its Prescott processor. The chips are not final yet, but in the second quarter Intel will start to send its new 90nm CPUs to its partners. Since the chips that are sent to design partners should be made on more or less mature fabrication process, the information fully corresponds to the fact that the 90nm manufacturing technology is to be finalised by the middle of the year.

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Gaspy's Raymond M. Padilla has posted his 3 page Preview of Nokia N-Gage! a device that will change the way you look @ portable gaming.... and don't forget to check out the Nokia N-Gage Commercial's on page 3.

The device itself looks very similar to a Game Boy Advance, albeit with a slimmer form factor. The length and the width are a bit shorter than the GBA, while its thickness is noticeably trimmer, allowing it to fit in your pocket with room to spare. Its svelte dimensions and internal battery causes it to weigh less than the GBA as well. Though it lacks shoulder buttons, the unit has 21 buttons and a rocker pad for ample control.

Powering the system is a 104 MHz StrongARM processor. The amount of RAM N-Gage will have is unannounced; when cornered, a Nokia representative told me that only its development partners know about the RAM specs. One noticeable drawback is its 176 x 208 pixel screen, although it has backlighting and is quite luminous, it's only a bit more than half the size of the GBA's display and is only capable of 4,096 colors. The tradeoff was made to increase the unit's battery life; the smaller size and lower resolution allows the battery to last up to six hours for gaming, four hours for talking, and 200 hours of standby. The battery life is inline with other mobile phones, but is a bit short for gamers' needs. Hopefully an extended-battery option will be offered.

Looking for a new AMD processor? Well then maybe get your little legs over to Accubyte.com as the have some AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.16GHz 333FSB CPU's In Stock @ $629.99. Now that's cheap. Hehe thanks to Nvnews.net.