"With more than 80 million transistors, the Xabre 2 will include support for Direct X 9 and offer a 350MHz core clock speed and a 500MHz memory clock speed. The Xabre 600, currently the top of SiS's graphics chip line, supports DirectX 8.1 and has a 300MHz core clock speed and a 300MHz memory clock speed. It will be launched at the Computex exhibition to be held in Taipei in June.......

HotHardware have posted their preview with benchmarks of ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 graphics card. After looking @ the benchmarks the Radeon 9600, it sure does kick the GeForce4 Ti 4200 video card in the nuts and boy does it hurt and comes close to bi** slapping the GeForce FX 1000! Here's a snip.

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Just got word from my good mate Matt Burris @ 3DGpu.com that their GeForce FX 5600/5200 Go preview is up.

You can now pre-order a Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro on ATI's Web Page.

The Price $399.00 plus delivery expected shipment to commence end of March..... thanks to MR A

Just got word from the Guy's @ Nvchips-fr.com that they have snagged a photo of a prototype Geforce FX watercooler from Gainward! Just click on the photo for more info.

and while your there you might want to check out: Triplex's Millennium Silver Ti-4200-8X Wireless graphics card

Antec has released a power supply that offers adjustable voltage control for overclocking, while allowing the user to adjust the fan speed threshold for quiet computing. Antec began manufacturing its TrueControl 550 a few weeks ago, according to company executives. The 550-watt power supply can also be purchased from Antec's online store for just under $160. Overclockers tend to tweak the power supplies themselves, opening up the PC chassis and playing with the regulator itself, Liu said. These controls are now accessible via a front panel with analog knobs covering the 3.3-volt, 5-volt, and 12-volt supply voltages. The supply does not offer digital control over the supply voltages, however; adjustments are made using the control knobs.

EE Times.com have a news article up that should have you laptop fanboy's foaming @ the mouth: Colorgraphic and ATI Technologies form a strategic partnership!

ATI Technologies today announce a strategic relationship to deliver revolutionary VPU performance to a new line of multi-display graphics cards. Colorgraphic's Xentera GT will be based upon ATI's Mobility Radeon 9000 VPU. The Xentera GT will be available in three primary designs: Dual, analog output (PCI and AGP models); Low profile, Quad analog/DVI output (PCI and AGP models); 8-Output analog/4 DVI (PCI). The first Xentera are scheduled for release in May.

Crow @ Darkcrow.co.kr lets me know that their GeForce FX 5800 preview has been posted. On the same page Crow tells me, they have posted links to Brainbox.co.kr, who have posted their Leadtek WinFast 300 Ultra TD preview! You need to scroll down about three articles once on the Darkcrow website.

VIA Technologies Inc., a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the launch of the VIA Apollo KT400A chipset, the fastest single channel DDR chipset for the new AMD Athlon? XP 3000+ processor. Optimized for the needs of gamers, enthusiasts and professionals requiring the fastest system performance and a complete suite of the latest I/O and connectivity features, the VIA Apollo KT400A is the ultimate chipset solution for AMD Athlon? XP processor based systems. Read more.

Intel is fabricating the Prescott on huge 300mm wafers with its cutting edge 90-nanometer (90nm) strained silicon process. The 90nm process enables Intel to pack in more cache into Prescott. Prescott doubles current Pentium 4 cache figures with 16K of L1 and a whopping 1MB of L2 (as a comparison, the current L2 record holder for is AMD's Barton core with only 512K of L2). In order to fit such a large amount of cache into the core, Intel added a 7th copper layer paving the way for >100M transistor counts. Read more @ HW-Extreme

Gainward announced their own cooling solution with a fanfare on January 30th, 2003. There press release lead people to believe that their cooling would be revolutionary in terms of noise production. However this is not the case. It simply is more quiet than the Nvidia reference solution. According to Gainward the noise of fan only has 40db, which is less than the fan of Nvidia, which has 52db. Read more. Image included.

Just like CPUs, the graphic processor on the video card can also be over-clocked, a process of adjusting the internal frequency of which the processor runs at. Furthermore, more heat is been generated from the processor die. "An effective cooling unit is critical for today's high performance processors, to ensure the chip will perform efficiently and prolong its life span, especially on an over-clocked processor," commented Bob Chang, Head of Thermaltake R&D.

Crow let's me know that Darkcrow.co.kr have snagged some photo's of Gainward's NV34 video cards and on a sidenote Crow tells me that they have received a GeForce FX 5800 reference design graphics card from Nvidia.

Looking @ the photo's of the FX 5800 Ultra and the FX 5800 they look the same! I can see why peeps are having problems telling the difference? Click read more for the photo.

There's a hidden page on VIA website? Well anyway it's about the VIA PoSavage KM400!

The VIA ProSavage KM400 Chipset is the next generation integrated graphics chipset for the AMD Athlon? XP processor. An ultra fast HyperTransport? link to the CPU, integrated UniChrome? 2D/3D graphics, AGP 8X port, 8X V-Link, Serial ATA, ATA-133 and USB 2.0 combine to make the KM400 a feature rich and scalable chipset for mainstream corporate and consumer desktop systems.

Logitech today announced that its USB Keyboard and Optical Mouse designed for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system are scheduled to arrive on retail shelves in the U.S. and at www.logitech.com later this month. The USB Keyboard has a suggested retail price of $29.95 USD and the Optical Mouse has a suggested retail price of $19.95 USD. Both products are on display at the Logitech booth (#1008) at the Game Developers Conference. Read more...

Just got word from Matt Burris @ 3DGpu.com that he's posted his GeForce FX 5600/5200 Ultra preview. Update: Just got word from Dave Baumann @ Beyond3D that their GeForce FX 5200 & 5600 preview is up as well.

Thanks to Crow @ Darkcrow.co.kr for sending in this photo of Leadtek's beast of a card the WinFast A300 TD ; FX based! For more info click on the photo.

Anyone seen my stereo? LOL.

MSI? Introduces the Best Choice for the Power and Performance Supporting the NVIDIA® GeForce? FX5800 Series Chipset -- "FX5800 Ultra-TD8X" and "FX5800-TD8X" is the first graphics chip in the industry to adopt the 0.13µ manufacturing process, and also the first GPU to use wideband DDR2 memory.

Komplett.co.uk have the MSI GeForce FX 5800 listed £275.73 inc VAT, bought to order 5 days for delivery.