TheInq: AS WE WON'T SIGN NDAs (non disclosure agreements) and therefore Intel has not given us a Prescott Pentium 4 to test, we've found a way to get some scores before everyone else's NDAs expire on the 2nd of February next.

Just got word that the guy's at 3DCenter have snagged some Info on Nvidia's upcoming range of grahics cards NV40, NV41, NV45! as the the sites in German, I've added a Babel fish translation.

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NvNews reports that I was pointed to perhaps the first real benchmarks of PCI Express cards. The cards in question are a PCI express version of a GeForce FX 5200 card from NVIDIA and a PCI express version card of a 9600XT from ATI.

Digital-Daily have thrown up their Pentium 4 Coolers Roundup with Coolers from FSP ,Spire , Glacialtech ,Titan and Intel.

The emergence of first Prescott processors once again revealed that the problem of heat emission is increasingly hampering the rise of clock speeds. To put it right, the major problem is the increased of leakage currents, and the increased heat emission is the consequence of this phenomenon. However, that does not change the fact of the matter: everyone who buys computers in 2004 will face the need for effective cooling.

Just got word from Dave Baumann over at Beyond3D that their chat with Dany Lepage of Ubisoft is out!

Ubisoft developer, Dany Lepage (Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell X) has dropped in some thoughts on Shader Model 3.0 and how he feel PCI-Express will alter life for games developers.

We have put together the first in a series of Tech Papers which outline some of the terminology and technology behind the brands. Find out a bit more about Nvidia's graphics chipsets by clicking Here and find out more about ATI's chipsets by clicking Here.

To complement those, we've also put together a Group Test of mid-range and high-end graphics boards, taking reference boards based on the 9800XT, FX5950, 9800Pro, FX5900XT, 9600XT and FX5700 chipsets. We've tested them, overclocked them and come out with conclusions as to which chipsets we think are the best for their target markets. Read the article by clicking Here

Hardware Zone have thrown up their 46 page Athlon 64 motherboard shootout with boards from Abit, Albatron, AOpen, Asus, Biostar, Chaintech, Epox, Gigabyte, Leadtek, MSI, Shuttle & Soltek.

When AMD launched the desktop processor based on the new AMD64 technology in September during the annual Computex show in Taipei, users all around the world heralded the dawn of 64-bit computing. The Athlon 64 managed to get a lot of users' attention mainly because of its flexible architecture which allows one to use the processor even in current 32-bit environments. That in itself could help move the industry into the 64-bit space as it allows users to run current legacy codes while they wait for new operating systems and applications to be made available.

Just a recap of the earlier news on the pics released. You can check out a comparision of the FX53 with the FX51 in similar test.

We are lucky enough to have the AMD 64bit FX51 in our hands to compare them and run a few simple test. It puts a few things in perspective, the AMD FX51 runs at 2.225MHz vs 2.673MHz

The Inquirer reports that GZEASY has a picture of what it claims is a sample of an Athlon FX53 on its web site, together with a snap of an AMI BIOS screen and a CPU ID capture.

Just got word that AMD3D have thrown up their Soundcard Roundup with cards from Creative , Hercules and Nvidia's soundstorm.

In this review I'm going to be looking at a range of cards from the onboard NVIDIA SoundStorm on the ABIT AN7, the Hercules Fortissimo GameSurround III, the Creative SB Audigy and the Creative SB Audigy 2.

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

What's Wrong With Prescott? Going to a thirty-stage pipeline at the last minute, and delaying Tejas for six months indicate that there is something seriously, fundamentally wrong with how Intel makes them.

The Inquirer reports that a Taiwanese site has benchmarks that compare a Prescott 2.8GHz against a Northwood 2.8GHz using a number of benchmarks.

Those benchmarks include a bunch of SiSoftware Sandra, CPUBench2003, and PCMark measurements. The table giving these is right at the bottom of the page, here.

Volari Gamers reports that there is a mistake in the article written by The Inquirer about the XG45 :

The tapeout won't take place in March, the XG45 won't be taped out until Q3

It isn't just an upgrade of the V8 architecture with only Pixel/Vertex Shaders 3.0 thrown in it, it will be a "brand new architecture" with Duo GPU feature in it.

Here's a couple of articles that are well worth checking out! first up is this 15 PSU Roundup over at Toms Hardware Guide!

It happens more often than many users realize. An old graphics card or a slow processor runs smoothly and without a peep for weeks, and then suddenly, after a system upgrade, system failures start occurring with nasty regularity. Frequently users blame problems like this on sloppily programmed drivers or hardware mined with errors. But often it turns out that the power supply unit is simply no longer enough for the upgrade and the associated power requirements.

Rainer Teschke hat wieder zugeschlagen und diesmal folgende Produkte unter die Lupe genommen: Card Reader ICY Box 3,5? Extern Gehäuse MSI 865PE Neo2 Platinum Motherboard Die Reviews gibt es hier, inkl ein 2 Weltpremieren, lasst Euch überraschen.

The "Remo" is a lightweight, Quad-band, GSM/GPRS, sliding smart phone with a 1.3-mega-pixel resolution camera and built-in flash and many additional features that shall be announced in the near future. "It shall be perfect for people who want more features in a smaller and lighter handset...

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

Intel ought to have two product introductions within the next three months. They'll introduce Prescott in February, then they'll introduce Prescott in April.

No, unfortunately, I'm not repeating myself.

AanandTech have thrown up their updated Intel 2004 CPU/Chipset Roadmap!

Just recently we brought you a quick guide to AMD's 2004 CPU roadmap, citing that Intel's was already known and easier to understand in the first place thus necessitating the guide to AMD's roadmap.

Llik-Sang.com have posted a new article entitled Sony PSP Info & Rumors round-up: release date, price point, 3rd party publishers, ram upgrade! it's well worth checking out.

console launch year is a year full of rumors, announces, and mounting excitation. The Playstation Portable (now famous under its abbreviation PSP), is expected to be released in 2004 which means everybody is already speaking about this topic on a daily basis in our video games microcosm. Here below is the summary of the confirmed facts and most realistic speculations about the Sony PSP so far.

It's called the "Nintendo DS," and it's a next-generation handheld with some big surprises. For one thing, it'll have dual flat-panel display screens. And it'll boast multiple processors, one for each screen and a gigabit of memory.