AMD today announced availability of Ubisoft?s impressive Far Cry PC game with the purchase of any AMD Athlon? 64 FX or AMD Athlon 64 processor-based system from participating system builders worldwide through June 2004 or while supplies last.

The ASUS A8V mainboard is likely to be the first platform available for AMD’s 939 pin processors.
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Today nVidia and the world's leading notebook manufactures in Taiwan will unveil MXM - a new technology to easily upgrade the graphics inside future notebooks. Read on as TweakTown dissect the marketing material and give you the complete run down on MXM and how it intends on revolutionizing the mobile graphics market.

There seems to be quite a fuss about the way ATI forces bilinear/trilinear filtering on their new range of Radeon x800 series of cards following an article posted over at Computerbase.de.

Dave Baumann over at Beyond3D has done a screen grab of compressonator images for Ati's X800 XT, 9800 XT and a Geforce 5950 for comparison.

My friend Azrael did a small research about Mid end and low end history. Funny thing that these 2 have the biggest chunk of the video card sales, yet people seem to forget about them. It's interesting to see how new High End parts make the old counterparts the new budget solutions.

Intel had set the prices for its Pentium 4 processors with enabled Extended Memory 64 Technology, X-bit labs has learnt. Apparently, the chips will not be more expensive compared to the products with no 64-bit capability.

Just got word from my mate Sean Pelletier over at PC Perspective that his NVIDIA and ATI: Image Quality and CPU Scaling Performance article is out! Here's a snip.

Over the course of the last year, we have witnessed a heated debate over optimisations, image quality, and performance. As architectures began to show their age, questionable tactics began to emerge on every front. Fortunately, those days are now largely a thing of the past as NVIDIA and ATI have emerged with new architectures that raise the bar on all fronts. Both the GeForce 6 and Radeon X800 architectures fail to be mere iterative steps forward in terms of speed and features. Rather, these new products manage to answer nearly all our complaints regarding previous architectures.

The new processor will use 1066Mhz Front Side Bus and will be based on the next generation desktop architecture. The chips will initially operate on a 800Mhz Front Side Bus. Intel also plans to launch the company's highly awaited 915 series of chipsets.

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Chinese web site PC Pop have some images and information regarding the GeForce6800 Non-Ultra. You can take a look here:

For an English translation of the specs and projected retail dates provided by the sites editor, take a look here:

Gamespy have thrown up their hands-on experience with Nintendo DS handheld console!

Before I get into how and why the DS nudged its way into my heart, lets go over the specs. The prototypes I saw were approximately 7x4x1-inches large. This is probably the only thing I didn't like about the DS: it's definitely not a system that you can easily slip into your pocket, unless you name is Shaquille O'Neil.

The Register has scoop the first Picture for Nintendo DS handheld console.

DS is largely viewed as Nintendo's response to Sony's PlayStation Portable, or PSP, a new system that will play both movies and video games stored on mini DVD discs. Sony has announced plans to release PSP in Japan later this year and in the USA in 2005.

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!