Just spotted this bit of Info over at AMDZone.com

raceware sent in word of this apparent roadmap for AMD showing new Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX parts for Q4 and Q1 of 2004. It shows an Athlon 64 FX55 and Athlon 64 3700+ by years end.

Just got word that Matt Burris over at 3dgpu.com has thrown up their NVIDIA nForce3 120 Preview! Here's a snip.

The nForce3 120 will be featured in the new, super-cool, every-geek's-dream-gadget, Ultra Portable Computers (UPC). What's a UPC? I'm glad you ask, here are some UPC, just for you to gawk at:

HTPCNews is featuring a modification of a HTPC case today that includes placing a cheap PlayStation 5inch LCD panel into the front bezel of HTPC Case. There are 19 pictures included of the modification showing each step along the way. If this modification doesn't give people ideas for things to do, we don't know what will. The attention to detail on this modification should make us all proud.

VIA has introduced the VIA Eden-N processor, this combines their Nehemiah core with a new nanoBGA package. Total measures are only 15mm x 15mm, with thermal characteristics of only 7 watts at 1GHz, 6W at 800MHz and 4W at 533MHz. It will be used on for example the upcoming VIA Nano-ITX mainboard form factor, which measures only 12cm x 12cm

Digit-Life reports that a new model from Leadtek that we obtained for our lab tests ? WinFast A350 TDH LX ? excited our keen interest due to its rather nice features at the relatively low price. Priced $100 less than usual FX5900 products, i.e. about $300 just has some slower memory, but the same 5900 GPU! Our tests indicated that overclocking can provide you speed comparable with GeForce FX5900 cards.

HTPcnews.com: We have a new PC on display at HTPCNews.com today! This time is a custom milled case by Danny ?Belgarath? Busch. This thing features some crazy modifications that will make ANY hardcore PC enthusiast prowd. a 7inch TFT Touch Screen in the FACE! Custom buttons and a whole lot more.

Acer who is an official supplier to the Scuderia Ferrari racing team announced the launch of the exclusive Ferrari 3000 notebook. If you take a look at the specifications you will see that this Ferrari style looking laptop is not the top race car in the notebook market, but it does have the Ferrari price tag.

Xbitlabs posted a new Preview called Next-Generation DirectX 9.0 Game Graphics Performance ! were they test Half-Life 2 on ATi's Radeon 9800 Pro and Nvidia's GeForce FX 5900 hardware! Here a rip.

Those, who had managed to lay their hands on one of the most-recent Half-Life 2 builds dated September 27, 2003 said that the game was hardly ready for the release. According to some gamers, who have seen the Half-Life 2 in action, the levels are not fully prepared, but the graphics engine works practically flawlessly on the ATI RADEON 9800 PRO hardware and there is sense in benchmarks published earlier this year by various media using the Half-Life 2 game.

Abit has unveiled the specifications of his KV8-MAX3 motherboard. This Athlon64 motherboard has the same kind of MOSFET cooling like his Canterwood MAX3 brother

SiS has launched the R659 RDRAM chipset which implents their new Advanced HyperStreaming Engine : "As the name implies, AHSE is an advanced version of the Hyperstreaming? Engine. AHSE technology features ?Low Latency with single stream?, ?Pipelining and Concurrent Execution with Multiple streams?, ?Prioritized Channel with Specific stream?, ?Smart flow control and Intelligent arbitration with Smart stream? and ?Advanced stream accelerative technology?, compared to Intel's PAT, provide a remarkable improvement in transfer speeds between the CPU, DRAM and the north-bridge chipset."

Just spotted this bit of Info over at The Tech Report.

AnandTech's review of Gigabyte's K8NNXP-940 suggests that AMD's Athlon FX-51 processor has an unlocked multiplier ripe for overclocking. As far as I've seen, the K8NNXP is the first mainboard to offer users multiplier control without a special BIOS, which is good news for enthusiasts. Unfortunately, the Athlon FX-51's $750 street price is still far from good news, unless you're comparing the chip to a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition.

Xbitlabs reports that there are unofficial claims that Intel will add Pentium 4 processors with 1MB of cache into its product lineup later this year. Because of dramatic problems with 90nm Strained Silicon technology we reported about on Friday, the company presumably plans to strengthen its product lineup with Pentium 4 processors running at 2.80, 3.00 and 3.20GHz core-speeds with 1MB of cache to support sales this year amid Athlon 64 ramp.

3dchips.fr.com have scooped some benchmarks for Elsa's Falcox Radeon 9600 XT graphics card which is clocked at 500/600 MHz! Click here

The guy's over at AnandTech have thrown up their Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup Part 2 - 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 AMD Athlon64 FX51 CPU! Here's a rip.

Some of the motivation behind Part 1 was to give everyone an idea how these two cards perform vs. mid/high end cards that are already out. We wanted to give a basis for comparison so that numbers between 9800XT and NV38 had some way to relate back to what we already know. So now we can get on with trying to push these to their limits and beyond. The only other card we will be testing in Part 2 is the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra with both 52.14 and publicly available 45.23 WHQL drivers. We will also be doing a separate article on ATI's Catalyst 3.8 drivers when they are released.

Recently AMD introduced its new Durons. We test the 1.6 ghz version. The most interesting part of this cpu is its core voltage, only 1.5 V. It is begging to be compared with an Athlon XP TbredB, dlt3c (known for reaching speeds up to 2700Mhz!). Is the new Duron an equally good overclocker ? Maybe even better ? Find out in this review at Madshrimps!

The next generation of microprocessors, the semiconductor ?brains? of computers, not only produce higher overall temperatures but also create one or more concentrated hot spots of particularly high heat on the chip. These hot spots, typically found above areas where the most amount of work is performed on the chip, must be kept to within a specified temperature to ensure high-performance and reliability. Traditional means of cooling these chips, such as heat sinks, fan sinks and heat pipes, require a large mass of metal to passively absorb and spread the heat to aircooled fins. These passive technologies cannot effectively cool the hot spots produced in next generation microprocessors..

"If I only had a better video card, then I'd own these punks!" "Man, these graphics suck! I need a better card!" "I just don't have the money to upgrade my video card."

Have you ever had those thoughts? Is your video card putting pain in your game? Then it's time for some relief! TsN and ATI want to provide that relief, by giving you the chance to win one of 6 ATI's RADEON 9800 PRO graphics cards.

Intel Corporation today announced an enhanced Intel® Xeon? processor for dual processor (DP) servers and workstations, featuring the top performance and fastest clock speed in the Intel Xeon processor family DP line, as well as drop-in compatibility for highly valued investment protection. The new Intel Xeon processor at 3.20 GHz features a 1 MB cache and a 533 MHz system bus. It is designed for use in general-purpose servers for Web hosting, data caching, search engines, security, streaming media and high performance computing, and in workstations for digital content creation, mechanical and electrical design, financial analysis, and 3D modeling. System manufacturers are expected to ship systems based on this new Intel Xeon processor this week.

PowerColor today announced their Radeon 9800 XT 256Mb of 256-bit DDR, 415/365 MHz with a 730MHz DDR clock and 9600 XT has 128Mb of 128-bit DDR, 500/300 MHz with a 600MHz DDR clock GPU's which will arrive in retail channels in October! but what was so interesting about the announcement is they will be launching a RADEON 9800 XT 128Mb Version, no info yet on clocks speeds.

and Read more to see what's faster the Radeon 9700 Pro or a Radeon 9600 XT ?

Just got word that Beyond3D have thrown up their ATI Radeon 9100 ICG Reference motherboard preview.

The Radeon 9100 IGP is more or less targeted as a Springdale type platform, with good all round performance, a Dual DDR400 memory bus and, after further behind the scenes dealings and IP trading with Intel, an 800MHz Frontside bus. So, in terms of system performance it should be up there with Intel?s latest entry offerings. However, as our introduction to Radeon 9100 IGP indicates, the key to RS300 is all about addressing the forgotten area of gaming.