Fido over at The Inquirer reports that US sources close to Nvidia have confirmed that their next generation GPU will feature a full sixteen pipelines ? not as previously speculated an 8x2 arrangement - and this is reflected in the increased transistor count of circa 205-210 million, up from a previously speculated 175 million.

Just got word that AnandTech have thrown up a new article which has extended coverage of DDR2 Performance.

DDR2 gets the majority of its punch from the 4 bit prefetch. DDR2 can effectively write/read four times the amount of data per clock cycle to/from the memory array. This effectively doubles the data bus speed while keeping the internal bus speed the same from DDR1. Both DDR1 and DDR2 use a 64-bit interface.

Legit Reviews have thrown up their Prescott Overclocking article! They managed to get their Prescott 2.8GHz CPU hitting 3.75Ghz! Here's a snip.

Going into this review we had high hopes of our retail processor. We reached 3.75GHz, which is just shy of a 1GHz overclock. Not only is this a very nice overclock on an early production core, but it was also done with air cooling.

X86-Secret are reporting that DDR II is a dud as the old DDR is out performing DDR II as the same speeds! Here's a Google translation as the sites in French.

Our Russian friends having received for now several weeks of the platforms Alderwood (i925), we have been able to examine the performances offered. At present, force is to note that platforms GDR-II 533 are approximately 5% to 10% less powerful than the old good i875P coupled to Dual GDR-I 400.

Want to overclock your Radeon 9800SE AIW, Yes then Head this way to Akiba-pc.com! Click Here for Macci's insane 540MHz GPU speed overclock! and Here for the Radeon 9800SE AIW Vgpu Vmem Guide.

I've had this Connect3D Radeon9800SE AIW card for several month now. Its able to run with 8-pipelines (default for SE-version is 4) via driver modification. Default clocks are at 380/338MHz so its just as fast as a 9800Pro card + it has all the AIW features. In 100% stock form the card would run benchmarks at around 435-440MHz GPU. Removing the 'shim' around the GPU and installing P4 Retail cooler on GPU made it clock up to like 450-460MHz.!

Fido over at The Inquirer is reporting that ATI has production silicon for its flagship R420 chip. This is, apparently, a closely held secret and the card design is close to its final phase.

This information might get Nvidia concerned since its samples are just out but Nvidia won't start production before April as we reported before.

Today 3DXtreme has the pleasure of reviewing three new Intel Pentium 4 (Socket 478) Heatsinks. We opted to present this in a round-up pitting the three newcomers against one another. Featuring heatsinks provided by Evercool, Spire and Titan - let?s take a look at the competitors.

[H]ardOCP reports that one of the Big 5 mainboard makers have thrown their hands in the air when it comes to pushing up voltages on the new Intel Pentium 4 Prescott CPUs. If you are looking at becoming a Prescott enthusiast, this might make you reconsider.

The Inquirer reports that we hear, Fido was hanging around the hallowed halls of Intel's Developers Forum in San Francisco this week, hawking a 64-bit chip called the Athlon FX-53 in a bid to steal some of Chipzilla's thunder.

"Software and the portability of files is becoming a very important item for most computer users today. We are seeing an increase in the use of USB Thumb Drives, Compact Media for digital cameras and PDAs to external hard drives and CD-ROMs that connect via USB. It?s with this philosophy that we have the EH-350D external hard drive enclosure from Enermax to review today. With a piece of hardware like this the user has the ability to tailor their portability needs to the amount of space they require. Let?s head in and take a look at this unit and how it performs in the real world. Read on... "

The Intel Prescott processors will soon get a new stepping. Starting at the beginning of May newly produced Prescott processors from Intel will feature a new improved D-0 stepping with improved thermal characteristics. Currently Prescott CPUs have a C-0 stepping.
Read more over at DV Hardware

Games Radar reports that With Sony having just finished work on the very first prototype of the PSP, new information is emerging today regarding the handheld's capabilities.

Just spotted this article posted over at Tom's Hardware Guide!

There is nothing finer than raising the hackles of delusional AMD lovers. However, today I do so with a heavy heart. This is no time to take aim at the pompous, self-righteous head-in-the-sand-ostriches of the alternative chip lifestyle. One must embrace them, hug them and wipe away their tears.

The TecChannel recently had a chance to hang out with Brent Kerby, product manager for AMD's microprocessor Business unit! They had a look at a working 64-Bit-version of the 3D-FPS Far Cry running on a Athlon 64 FX-53 CPU which has an average 30 per cent higher Frame rate according to AMD! Click on the AMD Logo for the full article translated by Google or click Here for a Screenshot

Beyond3D reports that ATI demonstrated a demo of the upcoming, DirectX9 heavy title, Colin McRae Rally 4 on R420, which was quoted as running at 2 - 3 time faster than present DirectX9 capable hardware. We contacted ATI to verify if this was R420 and they stated?

"Home Theater PC cases come in all sizes and colors... well black and silver. Come take a look at a case designed with smaller size in mind, the Accent HT101S. This case features support for mATX motherboards and ATX PSU's, a sleek silver aluminum finish, VFD Display, and a remote control pack to finish it with style. If you are in the market for something that will blend in with your current gear this just may be what you have been looking for."

OCIA.net checks out the Eagle Touch Wireless Power Office Keyboard XP in their latest review. Below is a direct quote from the review:

"As you can see it comes with the keyboard and the wrist rest, which is seperate from the keyboard. If you're like me you probably won't find much use for it. I found the wrist rest to be a little bit too big. It put my wrists at an awkward angle. Also pictured is the nice mouse, receiver, installation CD, and the batteries for the mouse and keyboard. There was an instruction manual included, but I didn't photograph it. Why you ask? I'll get to that."

This just in from Veridian3 over at DriverHeaven a short article some of you may be interested in.

Kyle Felstein from AAC Computers recently built one of the fastest computers out there for the Vegas CyberXGames event. This computer was built to the highest specification possible and really it is just quite drool drippingly sexy. Everything is overclocked to the max with the kind of hardware we all have wet dreams about.

I just thought I would give you the heads up on the latest developments in the so called "obsolete" Athlon XP line of CPU's... The Mobile Athlon XP-M 2500+ seems to be AMD's latest overclocking king, news is strarting to spread through the various enthusiast forums now, and the resulst are amazing! Some people are getting 2.7GHz and MORE!

Just spotted this bit of Info over at TechReport

TecChannel has uncovered presentations that reveal juicy details on Intel's upcoming "CT" 64-bit extensions. Based on the leaked presentation slides, it looks like CT may be limited to Intel's Xeon processors. The presentation slides promise transparent 32/64-bit compatibility and claim that NVIDIA already has Forceware drivers available for the platform.