Last week Sydney's Darling Harbor played host to CeBIT Australia 2004 trade show at the Exhibition Centre. TweakTown were at the event and saw products from Samsung, VR Solutions, Cooler Master, ThermalTake, Global Win, Flexi Glow and Altech Computers. Who knows what happened to AMD, Intel and others.

Thanks to Andrey Vorobiev for the following information.

This is based on a presentation done the last month which seems to be recently translated, and it's related to the ATI R420 Video Cards unveiling. Even with that, it still shows some very interesting videos of upcoming games, performance enhancements over previous hardware and the competition and some interesting PR information....lots of images....worth a look.

Part 1 Includes the presentation and demos.
Part 2 includes a short interview.

3DCenter have posted an in-depth look at what benefits pixelshader 3.0 Chip have today? Here's a snip.

Contrary to nVidia, ATi has resolved as regards their new flagship, the R420 to do without a pixelshader 3.0. The effects of this decision are naturally limited predictable. As it will take some time until the official presentation of both adversaries, we want to bridge the time until the launches take place with a little mental tug and war on the effects of the technical (not featurewise) differences between pixelshader 2.0 and 3.0.

The Madshrimps take a closer look at the possible problems motherboard makers could face when using Prescott CPU's with the current crop of motherboards out there. Quote: "All of the motherboards we have used with Prescott's run hotter than we are used to. It is not uncommon to see components on the motherboard at 250F/120C degrees"

Along with the Recent price cuts AMD has now discontinued The Athlon MP 2200 , The Athlon 2400, 2600 and 2800 will continue to be marketed.

3DChipset.com sends word that Arctic-Cooling will be launching a new range of Cooper based Video Coolers from mid June! Click Here for more Info.

Why did Intel stop their Tejas plans, what's behind it all? What will come instead?

Datafuse takes a look at the past from Intel's Pentium 4 4th generation CPU and see where things went wrong.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) finally launched its low-powered mobile Athlon processors today, as expected earlier. CoolTechZone caught a leaked document on AMD's website few weeks ago, which outlined the new mobile Athlon64 processors.

The Crucible has uncovered some information concerning a new AthllonXP chipset from Nvidia. Named nForce2 Ultra 400Gb the chipset incorporates pretty much all the same features as the nForce3 250Gb. Head on over to The Crucible for full details!

Techseekers.net has looked at 5 K8T800 based boards for Athlon 64, the Gigabyte GA8VNXP, MSI K8T Neo FISR2, Asus K8V Deluxe, Epox 8HDA3+ and the Biostar K8VHA Pro. These boards are compared to the Abit KV8 Max3 previously reviewed. While not based on the latest K8T800 Pro chipset, the boards still pack some cool features.

It is pretty evident from the performance tests, that the K8T800 performs equally well no matter what board its on. Since performance is not a deciding factor we must turn to the features."

Want to run ATi's latest Demo Ruby for the Radeon X800 on your 9700 Pro or 9800 series card! then head this way to Beyond3D's Forum! Thanks to Colourless.

It's not quite right (shader on her face is too dark among other things) yet, but it kind of works. It's also 'really' slow for me. Mostly caused by oh so much ram paging... ow, this thing likes a LOT of memory (especially since I have to make it use the Managed pool for textures instead of the Default pool).

Just spotted this bit of Info over at the TechReport.

Nvidia has confirmed that efforts to optimize the nForce system platform for GeForce graphics will only improve performance with nForce3 and newer chipsets in combination with GeForce FX and newer graphics products. We've already documented the performance advantage associated with pairing a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra with an nForce3 250Gb, and new GeForce 6800 series graphics cards should see a performance boost, as well. However, older nForce2 and GeForce4 products won't benefit from NVIDIA's platform-dependent graphics optimizations.

It seems Intel might run a little late on the release of their Pentium M Centrino codenamed Dothan

The release is set to the 10th of May and the Dothan core (with 90nm) process will come in 3 flavors: 2.0Ghz, 1.8Ghz and 1.7Ghz.

Witness the features and capabilities of RADEON? X800 in ATI's new real time demos

In there latest article TweakTown takes a look at gaming with the Infocus ScreenPlay 4800 DLP projector. Hooked into a PC via VGA connection they document Big Screen Gaming - The Way Its Really Meant to be Played - using "NFS: Underground, Battlefield Vietnam and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic."

TechBits reports that following on the introduction of the 'Glory' Personal Gaming Platform, VIA Technologies is set to introduce a new handheld device at E3. The handheld should have advanced network capabilities, and being based on x86 architecture it is anticipated that it will be able to play PC titles.

Seems there's a leak at Tom's Hardware Guide as the first benchmarks have leaked for ATI's R420.

Update: Sorry about that guy's, I've fixed the link.

AMD may be busy planning the forthcoming launch of its Socket 939 but Socket A is still going strong. The first Motherboards using VIA's KT880 chipset for Athlon XP are starting to emerge.

CoolTechZone

TweakTown flew up to Sydney last weekend for the Shuttle XPC Ultimate Power LAN by CLGA. There they saw a water-cooled XPC, Shuttle's new line of LCD monitors and probably enough XPC systems to go close to sinking the Titanic!

Since I wrote the Kyro 3 story. I've received quite some input on the matter.

It now seems Nvidia is the owner of tile-based rendering, and that would mean that we might one day see a GeForce model with a tremendous performance boost, if Nvidia manages to integrate the technology into their GPU's.