The chinese site GZeasy have scooped some details and photo's for ATi's RV380 from MSI and Intel's Prescott 2.8G (LGA775) Processor running on a GigaByte i915G mortherboard.

Elite Bastards have the scoop on a new player that's entering the graphics market

As I am able to talk of this after the NDA has lifted (partially), here's some juicy tidbits of information that are likely to get everyone's bowels moving. I've been in contact with the leader of a gang of experienced tech wizards and this is what I've been able to put together for all of you.

Adrian's Rojak Pot have scooped themselves a NV40! Thanks Mr A.

An NVIDIA employee who naturally wishes to remain anonymous secretly slipped us a final revision engineering sample of the NV40 when he dropped by Malaysia on the way back to the States. Unfortunately, because the employee has to deliver this very sample back to NVIDIA headquarters, we did not have much time to test it.

NVIDIA has posted some cool video clips from their SDK 7.0!

Just noticed that over at VolariGamers there are quite a number of photos taken at the Game Developper Conference (GDC) expo with lots pictures from various IHV stands : ATI, nVidia, S3
Graphics, XGI, AMD, Intel as well as Nokia and Sony.

Sudhian Media have thrown up their preview of Turtle Beach's all new Catalina and Riviera sound Cards

After nearly three years, Turtle Beach has finally announced two new cards dubbed the Catalina and Riviera. The Riviera is the low end, sitting below the Santa Cruz while the Catalina is a 24/96 KHz part that is priced above the Santa Cruz. Turtle Beach fans who haven?t upgraded to an Audigy 2 or Envy 24HT card should jump for joy and get out their credit cards right? This is where the fun begins and we further dive into Turtle Beach?s new cards?.

It seems DFI hasn't announced any releases for almost 6 months now, what's going on ...

DFI has made quite an upcome during 2003, Im sure you all remember there Lanparty and Infinity boards. Introducing CMOS reloaded to the masses and high overclocking potentional. Their NForce 2 Ultra 400 Revision B Board was a pure winner! Read the full story at DataFus.net

Tech News World have thrown up a new article called Xbox v. PlayStation: Microsoft Throws Down the Gauntlet ! Here's a snip.

My best guess, given the timing of the product and the new PlayStation 3, is that it will be based on the AMD 64-bit core that IBM helped develop. It will have a hard drive because it needs the performance. And it will continue to have a DVD drive. A burner would compete with the PC and add unneeded cost; a media bay is a remote possibility.

It's time for a little something different today. Julian at TweakTown has checked out the services of a US based company called ColorWare who specialize in the art of coloring your electronic devices such as Apple iPod's and Microsoft Xbox's. Put on your artist hat and read on!

TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday that Guinness World Records had certified its stamp-sized hard disk drives (HDDs) as the smallest in the world.

The electronics conglomerate's 0.85-inch HDDs, unveiled in January, have storage capacity of up to four gigabytes and will be used in products such as cell phones and digital camcorders.

Toshiba, whose 1.8-inch HDDs are used in Apple Computer Inc's hot-selling iPod digital music players, for example, aims to start producing the 0.85-inch HDDs by the end of 2004

Gamespot has thrown up 2 movies of Sony's PSP in action.

This footage, shot at GDC 2004, shows off some of the graphical capabilities of the Sony PSP.

Don't know how true this is? but this was posted over at Beyond 3D's Forum by SpellSinger.

When visiting Epics meeting room at GDC I got the chance to see their new engine on NV40 and R420.

It looked like they were showing NV40 at 640x480 and it was very choppy with very low detail.

The chinese site GZeasy have scooped some details for ATi's mid range card the soon to be released Radeon 9550 based on the RV360 Core.

Update: XBit Labs have posted a bit more info on the card ..... ATI Technologies Unwraps RADEON 9550

Just noticed that VolariGamers has posted an article with pictures of ABIT's presentations at CeBIT as well as XGI's booth.
What I find most interesting is the fact they also managed to snag some pictures of the next generation PCI Express Volari graphics cards.

Fido over at The Inquirer has some more info on Nvidia's NV40 infamous pipelines!

What Nvidia said more then once to its loyal NDA (non disclosure agreement) press is that its chip uses 16x1, 32x0 approach. This is why all of them have the general feeling that Nvidia will win this round of the graphics wars. This means that Nvidia can officially claim that its NV40 chip has 16 pipelines that can process one texture per clock which would pretty much mean that it will beat the R420 12x1 design.

ALTHOUGH motherboards and core logic chips with PCI Express support aren't due out for weeks, ATI and NVIDIA have already announced plans to make current generation Radeon and GeForce FX parts compatible with the new interconnect technology. ATI and NVIDIA agree that PCI Express is the next big interface for graphics, but the two companies are initially supporting PCI Express in very different ways: ATI will provide PCI Express compatibility with a new line of GPUs that offer native PCI-E support, while NVIDIA's first PCI Express efforts will use a bridge chip to graft AGP GPUs to the PCI-E interface.

Although we have had some strong evidence that AMD will not adopt DDR2 soon, today we received official word that AMD will not adopt DDR2 in 2004, and certainly not well into 2005.

Turtle Beach today announced two new multi-channel sound cards?Catalina? and Riviera?-?rounding out the product line started with its wildly successful Santa Cruz?. Click here to read the full press release.

The chinese site GZeasy have scooped some spec's for Creative's Sound Blaster Audigy 3 sound card!

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