Earlier this week, I toured Abit's factory in Suzhou, China. Read on to see what motherboard production looks like, complete with video of some of Abit's high-speed machines in operation.

gzeasy.com has snagged a couple of box shots from the new Radeon lineup at Gigabyte.
There's pictures of the X800, X600 and X300 boxes.

Since article.php still seems to be missing, i'll post the link here instead.

Check the pictures out here

I't looks like Creative has a line of soundcards up their sleve that is targeted for the more professional enthusiast.
These system comes with a multitude of input/output ports and looks very interresting.

thanks to saweetnesstrev for the heads-up

Apple Computer Inc. announced that the company will release a high-end Mac computer with its liquid cooling technology.

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PCMag have thrown up a roundup of latest Six-megapixel camera's on the market! Here's a snip.

If you thought you couldn't afford a 6 megapixel camera?or wouldn't be able to operate it if you did buy one?think again. No longer the province of $1,000 prosumer cameras aimed at photo enthusiasts, 6MP sensors have now come to user-friendly point-and-shoots?and for as little as $500. Here we test three of the latest.

Just spotted this bit of Info over at [H]ardOCP.

We posted yesterday that socket-775 CPUs are being rumored a bit frail. An anonymous source had this to input on the issue and it sounds like he has had a good amount of hands on and knows what he is talking about. If you are planning on taking the 775 plunge you might want to file this mentally.

CD Freaks.com has made a first preview of 16x DVD recording. Many people wondered if 16x DVD recording would be too fast and data could not be delivered by the hard disk. The first tests show that this is not a real problem. 16x DVD recording means that a DVD disk is written in about 6 minutes . The test drive, a BenQ DW1600 also supports dual layer writing and writing to 16x at 8x media. Read this article for more information.

HTPCnews.com has teamed up with Tigerdave to bring the entire Gaming and HTPC community the ultimate resource on getting your games to run in HD on a HDTV. We've got everything that you'll need to be up and running in no time flat at 1080i resolutions and experience a level of gameplay that no console on earth can possibly touch. Don't believe us? Just check out the images... It's time to show the world another feature of HTPC's and how console's days could be very well numbered in many of our homes. For more information and absolutely JAW DROPPING images.

Thanks to Digitalwanderer for pointing me to this post over at Beyond3D's Forum posted by Ufon.

If you check out his benchies that were run on a Inno3D GeForce 6800 Ultra 400/1100 MHz and a Leadtek A400 TDH (GeForce 6800) 335/700 MHz! It seems that these Cards are runing with 8 pipes and not the 12 Nvidia claimed.

Hardware Pacers is hosting a random giveaway on the Chenbro Hornet (PC-80566) Case.

Kiss technology has launched a new 42 inch HDTV Plasma display which comes with a TV Tuner and a built-in DVD player that supports DivX 3.11, 4 and 5, XviD, Mpeg 4, MP3, Ogg Vorbis reading capabilities and not forgetting the Ethernet Port and PC Card slot for wireless connection (802.11g), enabling it to read Audio/Video/Picture files from a connected PC as well as playing Internet Radio Stations with WebRadio!

AnandTech reports that new processors are coming from all directions and all of these new sockets need a home. We give you the low down on new motherboards featuring Intel 915/925X, VIA PCI Express, nVidia CK8, ALi PCI Express, ATI RS480, and SiS 756 and 656.

This guy got a 6800 Ultra yesterday, and overclocked the memory to 1.3GHz on stock cooling! Default memory clock speed is 1.1GHz And the card is still ready for more. Check it out here:

AnandTech reports that at Computex we saw at least two Intel 9xx based motherboards that featured an AGP slot, contrary to Intel's claims of no AGP support in their 9xx chipset line. Did Intel lie or are motherboard manufacturers guilty of creative engineering? Read on to find out...

Naser @ tbreak forums have posted some pics of the MSI NX6800 Ultra, benchmarks coming soon...
quote:
"I only got time today to actually try it out & my first impression is its NOISY & the drivers on Nvidia site (56.72) does NOT support this card. I am sure it is faster then my 9800XT BUT will the performance diffrence reallly justify its price!? well i doubt it but theres only one way to find out.And im seriously more into games then benching. Farcry was awsome but even on my FX51+1GB Ram & the 9800XT (450/390) still runs like crap."

X800 XT $434 at Gateway NOW and a couple of people have already ordered 'em!

You can read the full story over at Elite Bastards.

Plextor is one of the leading companies in the optical storage market. They have been leading the market with their innovative products for a long time. Plextor specializes in top quality CD-R, CD-RW, DVD Rom, CD Rom, and DVD-RW drives. Plextor produces many external and internal models to suit just about everyone. The company's drives uses specialized software to gain incredible performance gains.

If you hadn't noticed from the vast flurries of Press Releases, Taiwan?s Computex is underway and everyone is keen to show off their latest technology goods. High up in the PR volume stakes was ATI, with their announcements of their PCI Express graphics products from the Desktop, Mobile and Workstation graphics groups. With three new native PCI Express graphics chips, not less than 10 different reference graphics solutions have been announced. In a short article Beyond3D takes a look at these new ATI products and what they offer.

Since the new Intel CPU didn´t prove to be faster then the P4 Northwood clock for clock, maybe it can beat it when it comes down to overclocking? Time to find out, as the Madshrimps push a 3Ghz Prescott to its limits using Air and Phase Change Cooling.

What makes this drive so special to any other current DVD writer on the market is that it can write too dual layer discs as well as single layer discs, what's this I heard you ask; well basically a single layer disc is 4.7GB, a dual layer disc is 8.5GB (also known as DVD+R9), this is a similar idea to the current single layer double sided DVDRs on the market but with out the need to actually flip the disc over to write data on the other side. The writing is done on the underside on the new dual layer (DL) DVD as with normal single layer DVDRs, so still it leaves a protected surface on top.