Just spotted this bit of Info over at TechReport.

We've been in something of a news lull in the lead-up to CeBit. The big European trade show starts today, though, and we're already starting to see bits of news seep out. The folks at MSI have let slip with some info about new motherboards that gives us some idea what to expect from this year's show.

The Dreamcast was a true enthusiast system? it?s a pity Sega stopped making them. But, that doesn?t mean you can?t join in the fun! If you like RPGs, G3D is going to hook you up! We?re giving away a Dreamcast system (used? but hey? beggars can?t be choosers) with two controllers, 3 Memory cards (for all those RPG save games? one of them being a VMU), and the following RPGs: Grandia II, Skies of Arcadia, and Shenmue. We?re also throwing in a copy of NFL Blitz and Virtua Fighter 3tb for times when you want to play a friend.

CoolerMaster is about to present a lot of new interesting looking cases at the upcoming CeBit exhibition in Hannover, Germany. Including some BTX cases! For More information, features and pictures Warp2 .... DV Hardware

Fido over at The Inquirer is reporting that Nvidia's and ATI's upcoming R420 and NV40 chips will sport 16 pipelines for the NV40 and 12 pipelines for the R420.

PROLINK Microsystems Corporation today announces its " PixelView GeForce FX5900XT Golden Limited". With the technology of World's NO.1 Graphics card chipsets manufacturer-NVIDIA's latest chipset- GeForce FX5900XT and PROLINK's strong R&D team, PROLINK is now ready to present its revolutionary GeForce FX5900XT along with 2nd generation Plasma Display Fan ( PDF II?)-The Super Cooling System with Blue Icy Crystal Display.

Just seen this at Volari Gamers.com

Riding on the next generation PCI Express interface; XGI offers top-to-bottom PCI Express Graphics products and quadruple the bandwidth to 8GB/s. Combined with latest DirectX9 programmability via XGI's vertex and pixel shading engine - TruShaderTM 2.1 Engine - allowing 3D environment to come alive with cinematic realism and movie-studio caliber graphics. In addition, the broadened speeds up video stream editing and allows your work to be processed seamlessly.

Fido over at The Inquirer has snagged himself a photo of AMD's Athlon 64 2800 CPU clocked at 1.8GHz with 512K cache.

Digital-Daily have thrown up their VGA Roundup with Twenty video cards, 13 benchmarks. The purpose of the tests is to show the performance difference between the latest solutions presented by NVIDIA and ATI for the first quarter of 2004.

PenStar Systems have fired off a few questions to Brian Burke and friends at NVIDIA: regarding GDDR-3! Here's a snip.

Last year ATI announced that it was working with memory manufacturers to develop GDDR-3. DDR-2 had already been used in products from both NVIDIA and ATI (GeForce FX 5800 series and the Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB respectively). The problem with DDR-2 for graphics is that even though it runs at a slightly lower voltage, the first examples ran very, very hot.

Today Xbitlabs will review 5 new monitors from Samsung, which have either recently appeared in shops or haven?t yet become available at all. One of them boasts pixel response time of 12msec. You will also see three monitors with an integrated TV-tuner, and more!

Fido over at The Inquirer reports we can now confirm that Nvidia will have two versions of the NV40 chip once it is ready to show it to the world.

As is now traditional, Nvidia will have one extremely expensive card that will cost about ?/$499. This card is expected to be faster clocked and it will have faster memory as well.

AnandTech's never-ending quest for more (and useful) benchmarks has led them down an often overlooked path; they are adding PlayStaion emulation to their benchmark suite. This article will serve to introduce the technology and give a preview of the types of benchmarks that we can expect to see.

Xbitlabs reports that according to a recent roadmap, AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 clocked at 2.40GHz processors will come out this month, while the Athlon 64 FX-55 chip with 2.60GHz frequency will show up as early as in May. The latter microprocessor was originally scheduled for Q4 2004, but is reported to be unleashed in the late Q2 2004.

Legit Reviews thave thrown up a new article which examines the Core Temperatures of Prescott CPU! Here's a snip.

After posting our recent Prescott Overclocking article the sharp eyes of many review sites, online retailers, and enthusiasts noted some large temperature differences between our articles. If you have not been following our Prescott coverage let me give you a quick run down. The initial Prescott review was written by me (Nathan Kirsch) using the ABIT IC7-MAX 3 and the overclocking article was written by Jason Petermann on his ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe board.

Clubic have thrown up some leaked specs for Nvidia's upcoming nForce3 250 Athlon 64-based motherboard chipset. As the sites in French here's a google translation.

TweakTown reports that we've just recieved an exclusive image of ATi's upcoming 9600XT All-In-Wonder series of graphics cards to feast your eyes on, the source of which chooses to remain anon at this point in time. Nonetheless, exciting news for potential mid-range buyers looking for an All-In-Wonder based card.

When it comes to distinguishing the real overclocking websites out there, ClubOC tries hard to stay in touch with the latest and greatest hardware roaming the internet. Whether if its rev 1.2 motherboards, or the newest line of modules and where to get them, you can count on us to try our hardest to procure the latest rage. On a more personal level being a hardware reviewer has its merits and sometimes its just nice to get an email from one of our viewers. About two weeks ago I got an email from a friend I've known for at least three years or more, stating that he knew where to get unlocked AMD CPU's for next to nothing that would do incredible speeds. He backed this up with a few screenshots of his own AMD hitting over 2.6Ghz using nothing more than a good air-cooling arrangement, and lots of voltage adjustments.

Digit-Life have posted part 13 of their SPEC CPU2000 High End Processors article which looks at the performance between the most powerful processors from leading companies. These include Intel's Pentium 4 and Pentium 4 EE (Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology Extreme Edition) as well as the AMD's latest Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX products.

Ace's Hardware reports that according to this message by Jun Nakajima on the Linux-Kernel mailing list, there are a few notable differences between AMD64 and IA-32e aside from microarchitectural differences (Hyperthreading, etc.)

Fido over at The Inquirer reports that the DDR 1 version of ATI cards with R420 chip is codenamed Skateboard, and now it's the right time to reveal what the Olympic Snowboard codename means.

This is the most detailed batch of information that we've manage to get since this card is getting close to its announcement.