3Dchips-fr.com have scooped Asus's ATI GPU roadmap which confirms that R420, R380 and R370 will be launched in the first quarter of 2004! The roadmap which you can view here also shows that there will be an AGP model of R420 based cards.

TweakTown sends word they've snagged roadmaps for SiS Intel and AMD Northbridge chipsets.

The following information is curtsey of Jason Wu direct from SiS in Taiwan. The roadmap we were sent was marked as confidential and NDA required, but we were never told about any NDA?s or asked not to publish any information.

Nothing earth-shattering or anything, but I asked my friend there about if their new cards were only going to do 2xAA as earlier reported and he wrote me back not only telling me that they're going to be doing 4xAA FSAA but he also sent me a chart detailing some more of their specs. :)

Xbitlabs reports that specifications of some actual graphics cards based on NVIDIA?s upcoming NV36 graphics processor for performance-mainstream market transpired in the web this week. The solutions based on the GeForce FX 5700 will feature a little-bit reworked GeForce FX 5600 GPU running at higher speed and DDR-II memory with 128-bit bus. NVIDIA decided not to cope with 256-bit design this year for mainstream solutions probably because it is more efficient from economic point of view to use newer and faster memory on conventional 128-bit channels.

The Firing Squad have posted their sneak peek at Asus's Radeon 9800 XT graphics card! Here's a snip.

As you can see, ASUS has come up with its own unique cooling solution for its RADEON 9800 XT card, which features dual fans and a copper heatsink, this is similar to the cooling setup ASUS implemented on its GeForce FX 5900 Ultra-based V9950 Ultra. We haven?t spent enough time with our card to come to any definite conclusions on its performance, but we can report that noise levels aren?t extraordinary.

Just spotted this bit of Info over at Elitebastards.com.

Anandtech have briefly posted up some unofficial Half-Life 2 numbers, comparing the Radeon 9800XT and GeForceFX 5950 in the forthcoming game benchmark. The numbers are interesting, although of course it's worth bearing in mind that these GeForceFX numbers were almost certainly achieved using the Detonator 50 drivers that Valve stipulated should not be used.

Today OCZ Technology announced the availability of the OCZ Annihilator Water Cooling Kit: available for both Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon XP processors. The OCZ Annihilator water cooling kit is the perfect solution for high performance PC users looking to keep their components cool without the noise that is typically associated with high performance cooling.

The guy's over at AnandTech have thrown up their Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup Part I - ATI's Radeon 9800 XT article! which includes benchmarks for Nvidia's NV38 (Drivers used 52.14) against ATI's 9800XT (Catalyst 3.7 ) and were run on a Intel Prescott 2.8GHz CPU! Here's a rip.

The XT line of Radeon 9x00 cards is specifically targeted at the very high end of the gaming market. With AMD and their Athlon 64 FX, Intel and the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, it?s not too surprising to see even more companies going this direction. With an ultra-premium part like the Radeon 9800 XT the profit margins are high and more importantly, the PR opportunities are huge ? claiming the title of world?s fastest desktop GPU never hurts.

Sharp announced a new series of IC's, allowing 16x DVD recording. The first samples of the "GA301TXW1MZ" will be available in Japan by the middle of November, at a price of 200 Yen. Mass production is planned by December 26, and the estimated product volume will be 5,000 per month.
The new IC will be formalized under the OPIC (Optical IC) trademark, already registered by Sharp. It offers 16x maximum DVD recording speed for all DVD formats (DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW), while is also capable of 60x maximum writing for CD-R/RW and 16x DVD-ROM reading. Note that according to the manufacturer of each DVD writer, those specifications can be limited. Source: CDR-Info

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I want to believe ;-) On Monday we reported about a picture we found on Hercules webserver.

We all speculated: It is a double GPU graphics card but it is not.
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ATI verspricht, dass der Radeon 9800 XT (Codename R360) im Vergleich mit dem Radeon 9800 Pro (R350) eine etwa 10 bis 15 Prozent höhere Leistung bietet. Dafür hat die kanadische Grafikchip-Schmiede u.a. die 256-Bit-Speicherschnittstelle überarbeitet und Chipkomponenten umgeordnet, so dass der Chiptakt auf 412 MHz und der Speichertakt auf 365 MHz (730 MHz DDR) angehoben wurde. Der ebenfalls in 0,15 Mikron gefertigte Radeon 9800 Pro schafft es im Vergleich dazu auf 380 MHz Chiptakt und auf 340 MHz Speichertakt. Dabei sind laut ATI die 412 MHz nicht das erreichbare Maximum, sondern ein auch für hohe Gehäuseinnentemperaturen bis 55 Grad Celsius sicherer Wert. Bei besserer Kühlung sollen sich auch Taktraten bis 430 MHz erreichen lassen. Der ganze Test bei Golem.de

This just in from VR-Zone.com.

We have some nice results from a Japanese overclocker where he has overclocked his Athlon FX-51 (2.2Ghz) to over 3Ghz! The SuperPI 1M calculation scored an impressive 29s.

Just spotted this bit of news over at TheInquirer.net.

A Taiwanese site claims to have benchmarked the 478 Prescott chip, in an article you can find here in Chinese. The site also gives prices for Intel chips, and prints a page from Intel's latest roadmaps which we can verify is authentic, because it is similar to the last one we saw in the Porcupine, a few weeks back. Intel is hoping to fix the Prescott power glitch, sooner rather than later.

Auf der US Seite des Grafikkartenherstellers Hercules ist ein Bild einer abgedeckten Grafikkarte aufgetaucht.
Die Umrisse der Karte deuten auf ein Doppellüftersystem oder eventuell ein Doppel-Prozessoren System hin.
Viel Raum zum spekulieren. Das Bild gibt us unter mehr

Thanks to X-Reaper for this information, he found a little, teasing picture on Hercules homepage.
What Hercules is hidding ? Double FAN graphics card or a card with a double GPU ?

Decide for yourself by clicking read more and take a look.

Cdfreaks reports that JoyTech claims to have launched worlds first ?Tablet Style? Portable DVD Player with Integrated 16:9 Widescreen 7inch TFT Monitor. At only £299.99 from Play.com the truly portable device comes complete with a Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery, and In-Car Adapter for true ?Play Anywhere? entertainment. It also uses Integrated Stereo Speakers, combined with full Dolby Digital and DTS compatibility.

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Looking for an Athlon 64 Chipset but not sure which one to get ? then head this way to AMDZone as they check out the latest chipsets from ALi, Nvidia and VIA! Here's a snip.

I've posted up my comparison of three Athlon 64 chipsets. The ALi M1867, Nvidia nForce 3, and VIA K8T800 chipsets are pitted against each other using the Athlon 64 3200+ with the Opteron 246 thrown in for good measure. We use VIA's HyperTransport analyzer, compare on features, pricing, and availability, and conclude that performance alone is too similar to draw distinctions on speed alone.