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.

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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.

Fido over at The Inquirer reports look at this picture below, and note well that the memory banks, even running at 1120MHz are not covered at all while Nvidia cools its memory with passive heatsinks. Nvidia memory is clocked at 1100MHz so is very close to ATI.

Computerbase.de have a slide that shows Nvidia will launch a third card , just below the GeForce 6800 Ultra called the GeForce 6800 GT.

PCStats have thrown up an introduction to DDR-2 memory! Here's byte.

Spring is here and things are happening in the computer world. Already there are several technologies waiting for their promised turn in the spotlight, such as PCI-Express, the BTX form factor, and Intel's next set of chipsets for the Pentium 4. To these you can add DDR-2, an evolutionary upgrade to the current memory standard, DDR-SDRAM.

If your looking for a cheap nforce2 board? then look no further than this deal at Overclockers.co.uk

This Week Only we have the Sparkle mainboard featuring nForce2 400 chipset, which is a fantastic DDR400 single channel solution reduced to just £22.95 +VAT.

Their second exhibition - A bunch of pictures of casemod hardware.

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Hexus.net takes a look at three Maxtor and one Freecom external hard disks in their latest roundup!

For a long time, external hard disks were more of a curiosity than something you could realistically add to your PC. If you've been in need of high performance from an external disk or disk array, you've had to spend a fortune on external SCSI, Fibre Channel or some other enterprise-level connection medium. High capacity has gone along with that high price requirement. So for realistic money, in the home or single user price range, you've been stuck with, erm, nothing really.

TBreak have a new article out that looks at the performance difference between the 32 and 64-bit version of Windows! Here's a snip.

One of the biggest advantages of the Athlon64 is, well, 64-bit computing. It will be quite a while until we see a complete shift to a 64-bit Operating System/Applications environment, however the process has started. Microsoft has already made a freely downloadable beta version of Windows XP-64 Bit Edition while drivers have also started appearing from the likes of nVidia, Creative, VIA and Silicon Image.

Few weeks ago Nvidia, one of the top two graphics card makers, announced its GeForce 6800 Ultra video card. It currently stands as the undefeated champion in the video card market with beating its previous predecessor GeForce FX5950 and ATi Radeon 9800XT cards.

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The Firing Squad have posted part 2 of their 3D Performance with Far Cry article! using Nvidia's Flagship GPU the GeForce 6800 Ultra.

After further analysis with Far Cry, it turns out the game isn?t quite the technological tour de force we suggested in part 1 of our 3D Performance with Far Cry article. In that article, we highlighted the game?s use of 2.0 shaders, and while these shaders are used in the game, it turns out that they?re not used as extensively as we suggested. In fact, from what we can tell, Far Cry mainly uses 1.1 shaders to achieve the jaw-dropping visuals we discussed in the intro.