Intel Corporation, world's largest chip maker, has announced two low-powered Pentium M processors. These processors use Intel's 90nm fabrication process on a Dothan core..... Read the full news here

Munich, Germany ? June 22, 2004 ? Computers that don?t loose their data, even when the power supply fails; laptops with batteries that supply power for days without the need for recharging; handheld computers and cell phones with huge amounts of memory; and personal computers that, at the touch of a button, pick up again at the exact spot where you left off the day before - In just a few years, this vision of the future of computing could become reality.

When I was working on my PCI Express review, I shot off a question to NVIDIA about whether the GeForce 6800GT PCI-E card I'd received was bridged or native PCI Express, and I didn't receive an answer. So naturally, I pulled off the heatsink to get a look for myself. Here's what I saw. On the left is an AGP NV40 chip, and on the right is the NV45 package, with GPU plus bridge chip.

Tom's Hardware Guide reports that Intel's new chipset 915/925 platforms do not offer much of a FSB overclocking margin, have been circulating for some time. As THG was able to confirm, Intel went one step further: The chip giant adjusted its hardware to prevent any overclocking.

Last weekend Intel introduced a brand new range of products to the world for its Pentium 4 platform. With it comes a bunch of changes including the new LGA775 socket, DDR-II memory and PCI Express support along with two new chipsets and two new processors. TweakTown's got the lot covered in this article which investigates the changes from Socket 478 and what type of performance can we expect from the new designs right now.

Every once in a blue moon there comes about a breathtakingly original and innovative product that makes you stop and appreciate how far we?ve come. This innovation can make our lives easier, entertain us in whole new ways, or can just be eye-catching and esthetically beautiful. What?s even more remarkable is when that product conquers all these sectors and, in doing so, creates a totally new market.

Gamespot reports that Alienware have moved to clear up consumer confusion; by releasing their Dual-GeForce 6800 benchmark results.

The document released to press lists 3DMark03 benchmark results comparing an Alienware 3.4GHz Intel Xeon test system running two GeForce 6800 video cards against the same system with only a single GeForce 6800 video card.

The NDAs were lifted yesterday for Intel's new Grantsdale (i915) and Alderwood(i925) chipsets! which come with a new CPU socket 775 called Socket T, a new bus Technology called PCI Express, a new Graphics Card slot called x16 PCIe, and a new memory technology called DDR2.

i925X/i915G Chipset with PCI Express GeForce 6800 Ultra @ Anandtech i925 Chipset with PCI Express x600 XT @ Bit-tech

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Thanks to Mertsch for pointing me in the direction of this article posted over at AnandTech!

As it is no secret, Athlon XP officially dies Q2, 2005. This time next year there will be no more Bartons or Thoroughbreds to whet your Socket A palette. However; Socket A looks to be here to stay for quite some time. In the US, Europe and parts of Asia we are constantly spoiled with the newest of the new CPUs, memory and motherboards. But the most prolific processors in the ROW market (Rest of World) remains the discontinued Duron! South American markets are just beginning to adopt Athlon XP.

OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high-reliability memory, today announced the release of the DDR Booster, a power-filtering and voltage boost diagnostic device.

The DDR Booster uses OCZ Technology Group?s patent pending Powerclean? technology to supply cleaner power to the memory module, thereby increasing memory stability and optimizing performance. A digital VDIMM readout and voltage adjustment control dial enables the user to adjust the VDIMM (VDD and VDDQ) voltage to a maximum of 3.9 volts .

The website boycottsapphire.com alleges graphics card maker Sapphire is selling ?Radeon 9800pro? video cards that are crippled. These cards have a 128-bit memory interface and lower core and memory speeds than other ?normal? 9800pro video cards. Many people have fallen victim to this marketing trick, believing they are receiving a real Radeon 9800pro video card. In reality, they receive a card that performs like the much cheaper Radeon 9800SE.

Just spotted this bit of Info over at Nvnews.net

Our sponsors, Galaxy have furnished us with some pictures of their soon to be available GeForce PCX 5750 card and GeForce PCX 5300. They are nice and compact sporting Galaxy's own HSF deisgn. Below the HSF you will see the HSI bridge chip with passive heat sink.

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AnandTech have the early hints on specs from a die shot released today for AMD's first dual core Opterons! Here's a snip.

Continuing to ride the train of success that AMD has had in 2004, AMD is announcing today the completion of design work on their first dual-core Opteron processor and the beginning of the tape-out process for that core. While the first dual core CPUs won't be available until the middle of next year at the earliest, AMD sees the beginning of the first dual core tapeout as a pretty monumental step in their microprocessor evolution.

In Shane's latest article, he compares the performance of a GeCube based ATI Radeon X800 Pro against the reference nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra. While taking a quick look at both cards, we benchmark with our usual array of benchmarks as well as with AA and AF enabled and with the addition of Far Cry.

NVnews have thrown up the first look at Nvidia's GeForce 6800 Graphics Card! The reference GeForce 6800 comes with 128MB of memory and has 12 pixel pipelines and operates at a core frequency of 325MHz and an effective memory frequency of 700MHz.

Just spotted this bit of Info posted over at AMDZone! :D

Earlier this week we received a Prescott Survival Kit from AMD. We decided to investigate the kit, and see whether or not it would allow us to survive our Prescott.

Hardware Zone have posted a eight-way Shootout of Nvidia's FX 5900XT from manufacturers like Albatron, AOpen, Chaintech, Gainward, Gigabyte, Leadtek, MSI and PixelView! Here's a snip.

In our previous graphics card shootout, Albatron used to be one of the very few or the only one sporting a turquoise blue PCB, but in this GeForce FX 5900XT shootout, half the graphics cards were found having the same color! Looks like this a much favored color but that didn't stop Albatron's FX5900XT stand out from the competition with its superb overclocking edge. However, the price you have to pay for this X-factor is the cooler's high operating noise.

ALPHA is back with an improved AMD XP heatsink, the S-PAL8055F, does bigger mean better?
Does it stand a chance against the SP-97´s heatpipes? Time to find out