Just spotted this bit of Info over at OC Forums posted by c627627! For those of you that haven't heard, new Bartons, Thoroughbreds and Durons are factory multiplier locked, (not even wire tricks work with them.)

It's finally official: ""...we now have a policy to lock down the frequency of all the products so there?s one product that will continue to be open and it?s the FX product line." Henri Richard, AMD Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing

Madshrimps goes in search of the best aircooling solution money has to offer, taking into account those who like their systems silent and those seeking to achieve the highest overclock!


Exotic heatsinks. Some people buy them for the looks, others buy them for the performance. Which one suits your needs ? We reviewed the Scythe Kamakaze, Swiftech MCX478-V, Speeze EE429B0 CopperSnake and the Thermalright SLK947-U

The Intel 875P Chipset Motherboards is being reviewed at Xbitlabs.com. DFI has came a long way from being a budget VIA motherboard supplier to On-The-Edge enthusiast motherboard manufacture. I used to use DFI VIA KT133 with Duron 800 some long time ago. The DFI LANPARTY PRO875B with fluorescent Glowing colored PCI / AGP slots looks targetted at the MODDERs (Lan-Party-Gamers) who build their boxes with see-thru window to see whats inside. You can read the review here Xbitlabs.com

This just in from our bro's over at VR-Zone

We have first gotten our hands on the LGA 775 Prescott/Tejas back in June and many people are curious how it looks like inside when the IHS is removed. The procedure of removing the IHS is similar to the current Pentium 4 as you would need a thin blade to slice through the rubber padding nicely and slowly.

GeekExtreme's Tyberius just finished this article on a memory latency fluke found on Nvidia Nforce2 motherboards. Perhaps lower latencies may not always be best. "The general idea of memory performance is that higher speed and lower latencies means more bandwidth and better performance. However there seems to be a fluke in this concept when it comes to Nvidia's Nforce2 motherboards. Raising a certain latency with these boards may actually improve your bandwidth and, from what I found, your stability." He found some interesting results when testing all the different tRAS latencies on my board. For all you Nforce2 fans out there, you might want to check this tweak out, it could get you a few more mhz out of your system.

WE PREVIEWED S3's new DeltaChrome graphics chip exactly three months ago. At the time, the DeltaChrome looked like it could become a competent alternative to ATI and NVIDIA's two-fisted stranglehold on the DirectX 9 graphics market. Instead of looking to challenge for the high-end graphics crown, S3 was preparing a line of mid-range and low-end DeltaChrome products that would balance 3D performance and DirectX 9 compatibility with a suite of new video features and high-definition video output.

Gigabyte announced a cool looking new CPU cooler today. Their new 3D Cooler has a copper base, and weights 430g. It must be associated with both performance, and silence they say.

For More Info Warp2 ...... DV Hardware.net

Lost Circuits have thrown up their latest article which investigates Nvidia's nForce3 and does the said board have a locked PCI bus?

ONE OF THE DIFFERENCES between the two main contenders in the Athlon64 arena, namely the nForce3-150 and the VIA K8T800 is that the VIA chipset derives its PCI bus by means of a 1/6 divider of the external CPU clock whereas rumor has it that the nForce3 chipset, similar to the nForce2 chipset has a frequency locked PCI bus. In turn, this is often used as an argument to explain the better overclockability of the nForce3 chipset.

Intel will begin mass-producing its long-awaited 802.11g wireless networking module at the end of this month, a senior Intel Asia Pacific executive has said.

The Pro Wireless 2200BG unit will be offered alongside Intel's existing 802.11b and 802.11a/b products, all components of the chip giant's Centrino platform. The new unit is based on the second generation of 'Calexico', Intel's wireless chipset architecture. Calexico 2 comprises two chips rather than the previous generation's four.

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Is PC4200 (DDR533) memory still too slow for you? For most people this will be more than enough, so it is very questionable if there really is a need for faster memory at the moment. Anyway real die hard overclockers will be happy to hear that Corsair launched a few new PC4400 memory sticks today. These memory sticks are able to run at an amazing speed of 550MHz DDR and are all tested with the Asus P4C800E Canterwood motherboards. XMS4400 modules are tested at 550MHz with 3-4-4-8 latency settings at 2.75V. The two new parts, TwinX1024-4400 and CMX512-4400, will begin shipping immediately.

Johan De Gelas of Aceshardware.com has a nice review comparing performance between a quad Opteron 848, dual Opteron 248, and dual 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 Xeon DP (1 MB L3). Some of the apps used were Java application server benchmarks, MySQL datamining benchmarks, 3D max 5.1, Cinebench 2003 and much more. AMD opteron Quad Opteron 848 (4 thread) wins hands down. The performance of Quad Opteron 848 is so good that Johan De Gelas says the 3.2 Xeon DP with 2 MB L3-cache, coming early next year will have a hard time dethroning Quad Opteron 848. How did Opteron 848 win? To see the complete results read the detailed review here: www.aceshardware.com.

Intel his upcoming Grantsdale chipset will probably feature a new RAID form named Matrix RAID, a combination of RAID 0 en RAID 1 bringing you the best of both worlds.

For More info Warp2 .... DV Hardware.net

Xbitlabs reports that following the Wednesday?s claims from ATI Technologies President and COO, Mr. Dave Orton, Advanced Micro Devices uncovered some of ATI?s plans concerning chipsets for AMD?s 64-bit microprocessors during AMD Reseller Seminar in Korea yesterday.

Apparently, ATI Technologies has two core-logic products in the works for AMD64 platform ? the RS480 with DirectX 9.0 integrated graphics as well as discrete RX480.

Extreme Tech have posted their Dual CPU Shootout: Opteron versus Xeon!

We've been covering AMD's 64-bit x86-64 "Hammer" architecture for quite some time now and are intrigued by its combination of 32-bit compatibility and performance, as well as the promise of a 64-bit future for desktop PCs. AMD divides up their 64-bit world into the Opteron and Athlon64 lines.

Thanks to Mackey D for pointing me in the direction of this article at Overclockers.com:

As we mentioned the other day, AMD appears to have come out with a new placement strategy for its processors. Essentially, AMD will make socket 939 their mainstream and better solution, and socket 754 their value solution. While it still looks like one socket too many, putting the two sockets into very different markets is acceptable and should reduce the confusion down to reasonable levels.

XGI said that its dual graphics processor Volari architecture will be available on December 8th. The firm, which previewed its architecture at last September's Computex, claims that its Volari Duo systems will nearly double the performance of what it describes as "traditional" GPU technology. It also said that it is collaborating with Intel, Microsoft, AMD and games and software developers to bring fast graphics applications to the marketplace. Presence PC benchmarked the "Volari duo" video card here.
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Club3D is the first firm to announce their XGI V8 Volari Duo card. The card has two V8 Volari cores which are running at 350MHz with 256MB DDR II RAM running at 400MHz. The card is DirectX9 compliant and features XGI's TruShader 2.1 engine.
More information here.

AMD has given us mainstream 64-bit processing and now we have a bunch of chipsets to join the joy ride. Today TweakTown pit's all the newest chipsets from VIA, SIS, nVidia and ALI and find out who our best choice is for our Athlon 64 powered motherboard!

Ob Windows-Handy, die neue Nummer eins von Sony Ericsson oder Nokias Multimedia-Knüller: Die neuen Modelle im Dezember machen das Schenken einfach. Hier erfahren Sie, welche Handys, PDAs und Digicams sich besonders gut unterm Baum machen. Das Siemens SX1 gibt's erst im nächsten Jahr? Macht nix. Schenken Sie doch Sony Ericsson P900 oder Nokias 6600, die aktuellen Spitzenmodelle im Xonio-Ranking. Natürlich kommen rechtzeitig zum Weihnachtsgeschäft noch zahlreiche weitere Highlights in die Shops - darunter das Kamera-Handy LG G7050 und das Windows-Smartphone MPx200 von Motorola.

asetek is very proud to introduce the new DYO [Do-Your-Own] WaterChill? components product line. With a little handy work any end-user can now get his hands on the high performance & quality water cooling components in the world - at the market?s LOWEST prices!

The WaterChill? DYO series, based primarily on the existing high-end WaterChill? components, represent dramatic price reductions up to 50% - when compared to the existing factory assembled WaterChill components.