Thanks to Mackey D for pointing me in the direction of this German website that is listing AMD's Athlon64 3200+ Clawhammer with 128K of level one cache, and 1024K of level two cache! MMX, SSE, SSE2, AMD64 and supports memory modules at the following speeds DDR200, DDR266 , DDR333 and comes clocked at 2 Ghz and costs 499.00 EUROS

YOU'RE NOT GONNA believe this. I mean, really, you're not, because I wouldn't have either, had I not seen it with my own eyes. S3 Graphics is back with a new chip, dubbed DeltaChrome, which looks like it might just be strong enough to become a player in the mid-range consumer graphics market. I've seen the A0 silicon, first spin of the chip, running games like Unreal Tournament 2003 and the Chrome demo well enough to convince me the thing has potential. Real potential.

Just got word that Beyond3D have scoop a photo of ATi's PCI Express card!

The graphics board in question is a native PCI-Express chip, without a bridge chip of any kind. Although ATI are stating that this is "a demonstration of a future unannounced part" the board configuration and size of the heatsink would tend to indicate that this is a chip derived from an RV350 class chip.

Hold on to your expense accounts. We've rounded up the latest workstation CPUs and motherboards for an all-out workstation platform brawl. The Xeons are paired up, ready to take on the Opterons in tag-team action. Also on the card is NVIDIA's brawny nForce3 Pro, which is eyeing its upstart competition, VIA's ripped K8T800, with curious suspicion. What's more, the Athlon XP 3200+ and Pentium 4 3.2GHz have agreed to join us for some inter-conference action, giving the our contenders a shot at the unified world title belt. Will the young Opterons upstage the mighty Xeons? Can the mysterious K8T800 really take a punch? Will this metaphor fail completely before I get to the end of this paragraph? Keep reading to find out.

HardwareZone have thrown up a 26 page Athlon XP vs. Pentium 4 : The Ultimate 32-bit CPU Showdown.

There were a total of 19 different benchmarks conducted in this review and all of these tests were ran on 11 different processor speeds. The processors tested were :-

Intel yesterday announced a new CPU, developed especially for gamers and the answer to AMD´s Athlon FX.
German magazine Golem reports that the processor will be available by the end of october or beginning of november 2003. Burns demonstrated consumer products that are available today or will be in the near future. This included a high-definition video stream running on a previously unannounced desktop processor, the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor Extreme Edition 3.20 GHz supporting Hyper-Threading Technology1, with an additional 2 Megabytes of cache. This new processor will be targeted at high-end gamers and computing power users. More informations available at Intel press release or at The Inquirer

Intel wird allem Anschein nach Ende Oktober - Anfang November- einen neuen Prozessor speziell für Spieler auf den Markt werfen, der den von AMD entwickelten Athlon FX das fürchten lehren soll.

Das berichtet der Onlinedienst Golem.

Bei dem Pentium 4 HT Extreme Edition soll es sich laut Intel um einen Pentium 4 mit 3,2 GHz, 800-MHz-Systembus und Hyperthreading handeln. Neben den 512 KByte Level-2-Cache, die standardmäßig im normalen 3,2-GHz-Modell des Pentium 4 stecken, kommen beim Athlon-FX-Gegner jedoch noch 2 MByte Level-3-Cache hinzu, so dass der Prozessor-Kern dem des Xeon entsprechen dürfte. Louis Burns, Vizepräsident und Co-General Manager von Intels Desktop-Plattform-Abteilung, nannte zwar keine weiteren Details und verzichtete auf Benchmark-Werte, erklärte aber während der kurzen Vorstellung des Produkts, dass der Leistungsschub großartig sei. Mehr Infos darüber gibt es bei Golem.

Rainer Teschke hat sich mal wieder 2 Schmuckstücke zum testen besorgt, diesmal sorgt er mit einer Weltpremiere des Adaptec 7 fach USB 2.0 Hub für Aufsehen, desweitern hat der den Deltatonic PC getestet.

Adaptec 7 fach USB 2.0 Hub: Der vorher verwendete Hub (Angabe des Herstellers USB 2.0 getestet!) bremste unsere Festplatte völlig aus und auch das Netzteil gab ein sehr leises Netzbrummen von sich. Die Mehrkosten von nur ca. 30,- Euro gegenüber einem einfachen Standard HUB sind sind auf jedenfalls gerechtfertigt und man sollte hier nicht an der falschen Ecke sparen und sich mit Leistungseinbrüchen und Netzbrummen herumärgern. Der Test Deltatonic PC: Ebenso wurde die GPU Heatpipe verstärkt und jetzt wird diese auch um 90 Grad abgewinkelt und zeigt nach oben, was die Kühlleistung alleine Aufgrund der veränderten Einbauweise erheblich verbessert. Zum Test

XGI, found in May 2003 today announced the Volari serie which contains seven new graphic cards. Three of them are for the mobile market, and four are for the desktop market. The aim of these new DirectX9 graphics cards is to compete with ATi's Radeon and Nvidia's FX.

DangerDen is no newbie when it comes to watercooling, they're globally known, and well respected. The maze4 waterblock has been reviewed over at a couple of hardware sites, but for some reason I can't seem to find a review on a full setup containing the maze4, let's change that.

Watercooling will probably be the next step in cooling, aircooling just doesn't cut it anymore. Intel's newest CPU: Prescott, will dissipate over 100W (103W to be precise), normal cooling just can't handle that amount. Some GPU's (Graphics Proceesing Units) already have a watercooling setup, look at the high-end Gainward cards.

Just spotted this bit of info over at Xbitlabs.com.

Just a couple of days ago a reader very close to Austin, Texas laboratory told me that the code-named K9 CPU has been in development for just about six month. The project K9 hit the drawing board, but no silicon has been touched at all, he added. Despite of these facts, a Japanese web-site PC Watch issued some preliminary information about the next-generation CPUs from AMD.

Just spotted this bit of Info at 3DChipset.

Microsoft DirectX 9 is the issues here with Half-Life 2. Nividia from the start presented Microsoft with its new code for their NV3x. When Microsoft publicly annouced the final DirectX 9 API Nvidia started shouting foul because it didnt get its way and put them at a disadvantage because they wanted they're code to be the standard.

Today Xbitlabs are going to compare the performance of Nvidia's GeForce FX 5900 and 5900 Ultra based graphics cards with their rivals from the ATI the Radeon 9800 and 9800 Pro. They include a full set of benchmarks, absolutely new gaming tests, impressive overclocking results and more!

I have just received some more information about Corsair's new line of memory. The XMS ProSeries memory is basically the same as their XMS series memory, with a better heatsink and an integrated memory activity meter.

Just spotted this bit of Info at Xbitlabs.com

In the latest Detonator FX 45.33 drivers that address flickering issues of the GeForce FX 5900-series there are identification strings for NVIDIA soon-to-be-released code-named NV38 GPU. Apparently, the official brand name for the part will be the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra.

TeamXbox have thrown up the first details for Microsofts Xbox 2.

We?re proud to bring you today the very first info on the Xbox 2 GPU. Our highly placed source within the industry informed us that the graphic technology powering the Xbox successor is a derivative of the R500, the successor of the R420 to be unveiled later this year at Comdex.

Liquid3D has written a very informative guide on how to remove the IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) from a Pentium 4 processor I used a simple thread of high tinsel nylon, found the place on the chip where the epoxy seal was les then perfect (luckily it was on a corner), and began sawing away. I definitely recommend placing the CPU in a socket, and locking it down. Truth be known there were a few moments when I became impatient and actually lifted the CPU out from a locked socket. Not advisable. Read the howto: here

QuadDamage over at T-Break forums has posted several Athlon 64 benchmarks with 3DMark 2001 and 2003 at speeds of 2GHz, 2.1GHz and 2.4GHz.

Should Intel be worried? what you think.

Over at Anandtech.com there is the first review of AMD's 64 bit processor on a Nforce3 mobo. The results are very impressive with the Athlon64 beating out Intel's P4 best processor soundly in their gaming benchmarks. And this was only in 32-bit mode.

Hexus.net have thrown up a new article! which looks at the overclocking ability of AMD's Barton XP2500+ processor! Here's a snip.

All those with even a passing interest with respect to consumer-level processors will know that AMD, the champion of the tight of pocket, is about to launch a new breed of processor; one that will come under the heading of Athlon64.