Here's a couple of items I found while surfing the net. First up is at TweakTown called GeForce FX 5900 Ultra - GeForce FX 5800 Ultra - Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb photo board comparison. Wow, that's a big sucker.

The second news item is at Entcity.com who have news and a screenshot of Gainward's water cooled GeForce FX 5900 Ultra CoolFX PowerPack.

Astonishingly the gaming website Adrenaline Vault has posted a detailed preview of Nvidia's upcoming flagship graphics processor NV35. The preview covers the details of Detonator drivers v44.03, a whole lot of screenshots of the graphics card itself and most surprisingly a load of benchmarks as well. Nvidia is going to announce NV35 at E3 - the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles starting off this week. NV35 will be produced in 0.13 micron technology and features the long awaited 256bit wide memory bus while operating at 450 MHz / 425 MHz core and memory speed. The FX 5900 Ultra will be equipped with a thermal solution that is similar to the Quadro FX cooler and according to Avault is even more quiet than some Ti 4600 cooling units. Here is a snip from the article:

VR-Zone writes NVIDIA has released their latest NV35 reference card samples to the card manufacturers already and apparently the mass production of the NV35 cards will start rolling in June so there will be no delay this time.

From the sources we have heard, NVIDIA is confident of NV35 this time and a new set of Detonator FX driver will be used to enhance performance. NV35 will be made by both TSMC and IBM but NVIDIA has not decided how many GPUs each foundry will make. The memory clock initially at 425Mhz was improved to 450Mhz on the latest NV35 card samples. From the picture below, it seems like NV35 card is still occupying 2 slots like the NV30 but the retail cards should only occupy a single slot.

The Madshrimps show you what performance increase a 4ghz workstation has over a "slow" 3ghz one! Here's a snip.

We take a brand new Pentium 4 3ghz with a 800Mhz FSB, put it into the ASUS P4C800 and hook it all up to a Prometeia system. How does it perform in everyday applications? Find out in this article on future CPU power

On the 6th of May, at one of the poshest places in town- the Godolphon ballroom at the Emirates Towers, we witnessed the Middle Eastern launch of the world's first x86-64 CPU- the AMD Opteron. The event was organized and conducted by Sky Electronics- the regional distributor of AMD products and because we work closely with them, we got the chance to assemble the dual Opteron system for them that was to be displayed at the launch event. Of course, we jumped at that chance

Here's some more breaking news from your one and only Warp2search.net! :D Thanks to Mr A , we have some Benchmark & Pictures of Nvidia's upcoming NV35!

Update: we have some Updated GeForce FX 5900 Ultra Specs! Thanks to VRZone.com

Just got word that Rage 3D have now posted the specs and boxshot of Sapphire's Ultimate 9800 256MB DDR Pro!

Thanks to jack_mort for the Info!

The French site 3Dchips-fr has released *real* specifications for nVidia's upcoming NV35. Click here to have a look in french or here for the english version.

MILPITAS, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: CREAF), a worldwide leader in digital entertainment solutions for PC users, today announced the Sound Blaster® MP3+ and Sound Blaster Go! portable USB Sound Blaster sound systems. Now it's as simple as connecting to a USB port for any PC user to upgrade from motherboard audio to premium-quality audio for listening to MP3 music or creating MP3 or WMA music from compact discs. The compact, portable Sound Blaster MP3+, slated for availability this month, is priced at only US$59.99 and the Sound Blaster Go! is priced at US$79.99 and is slated for availability in July....... Read More

SYSTEM BUILDERS will be relieved to hear that the Athlon MP 2800+ is with us at last. The Barton based processor has been the subject of much pining as AMD system builders looked on with envy at Intel's higher clocking competing processors. The new processor runs at exactly the same clock speed as the MP 2600+, the previous top of the range. It gets its PR boost by doubling the cache from 256KB to 512KB. That jump in cache size is likely to produce a bigger performance effect than the PR rating implies, most server applications like lots of cache and speed increases should reflect that. Read More

Spotted this over Flexbeta

AMD today announced the AMD Athlon MP processor 2800+, The AMD Athlon MP 2800+ is based on a new core that features more L2 cache than previous AMD Athlon MP processors, and allows additional information to be stored closer to the processor for improved performance. Designed for entry-level servers and workstations.

Asus_voodoo has posted the Scans and the Specs for Nvidia's NV40 from a Russian magazine! Here's a byte ?

I was reading a magazine and found this. i scanned it and i ll translate it for you.

350 million transistors 0.09 microns Core @ 800MHz 16MB DRAM 8 Pixel Rendering Engines 16 Vertex Shader Engines

Just spotted this at Digit-life.com

You can consider it a fake, as these distant rumours can?t be proved for now. However, if you are still interested, you might want to know of probable technological features of next-generation AMD processors - K9.

MicroStar International has silently added the FX5600-TD256 GeForce FX 5600 graphics card to their product portfolio. The card is expected to go on retail sale on May 10th, at least in Japan. Additional features include TV-out (S-Video connector) and a DVI connector while it comes bundled with The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. MSI FX5600-TD256 and FX5600-VTDR128 graphics cards are clocked at 325MHz core and 550MHz memory settings. The FX5600-TD256 will cost about $225. Read more for screenshot.

Creative Europe has announced its new 3D Blaster 5 FX family. The three products in this line-up are based on the Nvidia GeForce FX chipset, which delivers ?cinematic computing for every user? and sets new standards for technical innovation, comprehensive functionality and image quality. At the high end of the Creative 3D Blaster 5 family is the 3D Blaster 5 FX 5600 Ultra. Designed as the company?s most powerful graphics solution for the dedicated gamer, it features a 350MHz core, 128 MB of memory at 700MHz data rate with 128-bit bandwidth and 400MHz RAMDAC. It can process 88 million vertices/sec. at a fill rate of 1.4 billion texels/sec. and up to 16 textures per pixel.

This just in from the TechSpot.com: Creative sent some information on their latest soundcard development, built on the Extigy success. Creative has plans for developing a range of USB Sound Blaster products to target entry level and advanced users.

The Sound Blaster MP3+ is the first product that will make it to the market, we have a couple of product shots as well as some other info on this cigarette packet sized, USB powered soundcard.

Toms Hardware's have been lucky enough to have got their hands on the latest liquid cooling add-on from the next generation of GeForce FX graphics cards from Gainward - called CoolFX. Here's a snip:

Gainward is one of the first graphics card manufacturers to offer a complete watercooling kit in their program - suitable for most of the GeForce FX cards. In this article, we introduce you to the system and find out how it performs in practice.

TweakTown sends word that their April 2003 Gizmos, Gadgets and Goodies guide is out!

Each month here at TweakTown we receive many smaller, cheaper and interesting computer products which we cannot transform into a full blown review on its own. So none of you miss out on any of these funky items, we have initiated our very own monthly Gizmos, Gadgets and Goodies Guide, by Shawn "Toxic" Baker, filled with a range of different computer products from all edges of the globe for your viewing pleasure.

At least The Inquirer thinks so: The RS300 will support front side bus (FSB) 800 and below Pentium 4 CPUs and it will use a dual DDR 400 memory controller just like the recently introduced Canterwood i875P. Unlike the name suggests, the graphics chipset won't use the R300 as a basis, but instead will feature Radeon 9200 architecture which is a pretty decent DirectX 8.1 marchitecture for a motherboard.