OCIA.net and NZXT have teamed up to bring you a chance to win an NZXT Sword! You can learn more about it and enter the contest by visiting the OCIA.net forums.

Just got word from X-bitlabs that part 3 of their Hard Disk Drive Roundup is out in which they take a closer look at the performance and features of 21 hard disk drives from such well-known storage device manufacturers as Western Digital, Samsung, Seagate, Maxtor and Hitachi. They test solutions with 160GB storage capacity to find out which one is the today?s best, fastest and most attractive choice.

The Sempron?s front side bus will have a 25 percent increase as compared to the lower end Athlon XP processors that operate at 133 front side bus. The above Sempron chips will be replacing the Athlon XP 1700+ to 2400+ chips.

While Corsair, Crucial and Samsung are already starting to deliver DDR2-667, Intel is also getting ready to ship the 925XE this quarter, which offers 266 MHz FSB and will be the basis for the Pentium 4 720 with 3.73 GHz. We already took a look at what benefits the FSB clock increase will bring. Also, we benchmarked with 280 MHz FSB and DDR2-730. Read the Full article at THG

Apple Computer, Inc. has launched the fourth-generation of its highly popular iPod portable audio player today. One of the biggest upgrades that the new iPod features is the extended battery life. The battery life has been increased to 12 hours. Click here to read the full news report.

WindowsForDevices has received exclusive advance information on a new dual mode Smartphone to be introduced initially in the Korean market this fall. The prototype device, codenamed "Flint," features dual network CDMA/WiFi support with a built-in 802.11b module, and full-motion video from its integrated 2 megapixel camera. Our source, speaking on condition of anonymity, asked that the vendor of the device not be revealed at this time.

The chinese site D-Cross.com have snagged the first picture of Nvidia's NV43 chip .... Click Here

The asetek lab team shows that the VapoChill LightSpeed with sub-zero temperatures is the exact right cooling unit when it comes to overclocking Intel?s top processor (3,6GHz). In the pre-benchmarking the core speed showed 4584 MHz - a 28 percent performance boost! The PC platform was based on state-of-the art hardware from ABIT, Kingston, ATI and Intel.

More than 10 months ago, S3 began its PC graphics comeback with DeltaChrome. Decked out with DirectX 9 support, 24-bit pixel shaders, and component HDTV output, DeltaChrome looked pretty sweet. Unfortunately, immature drivers and stiff competition conspired to ruin the eight-pipe S8's coming out party. S3 had difficulty attracting board makers to sell cards based on its GPU, especially in North America. Over time, S3 improved its drivers and released the DeltaChrome S8 Nitro with higher clock speeds and more competitive performance, but the card still couldn't keep up with ATI and NVIDIA's updated mid-range lineups.

There are GOBS of home theater subs out there now, and I know many of you out there are turning your computers into the center of your home theater (I sure have!). How much are you people willing to spend? Okay, so who's under the microscope today? That would be Klipsch and HSU Research. Both are known for neither uber-high-end, nor utter-crap, so the competition amongst them should prove interesting.

OCIA.net and TweakMonster.com have teamed up to bring you a chance to win an 80mm Dual Fan Bracket Kit and a 120mm Fan Bracket Kit! You can learn more about it and enter the contest by visiting the OCIA.net forums.

If you have a PC laying around that you were looking to get rid of, you'll be delighted to hear that Office Depot is taking free dropoffs of old PCs, monitors, TVs, fax machines, cell phones, and similar products. Only one product is allowed to be dropped off per visit per customer. But for free, hell, saving the earth never felt so good. The program is going on at all nationwide Office Depot locations.

EXCLUSIVE to The NGO Group!
ECS (EliteGroup),PCChips,Syntax are tricking millions around the world ?

these 3 companies are selling all-in-one boards with CPU bulit-in under product codes as "Proxxxx+" one of our mate obtained "L7VMM3" board by ECS. the banner on the box says "Pro3100A+"

Our own Brian Cochran has a new article up that covers overall gaming impressions on an NVIDIA 6800 video card. This is not your traditional uber-analysis filled review. Rather, this is the 10,000' view that you will find to be a concise change of pace. Brian even went a bit old-school and included his impressions of playing Morrowind on the 6800.

Tom's Hardware Guide have thrown up their latest article which compares the performance of Intel's previous line of 865/875 chipsets for socket 478 to the current line of 915/925 chipsets for socket LGA 775! Here's snip.

Last month, Intel introduced the new platform generation for DDR2 memory, PCI Express and the new LGA 775 socket. Technologically, this generation breaks with everything that has been seen before. The new chipsets are superior to all competing products on the market feature-wise. The question is, however, do we need all that right now?

BBC News reports electronics giant Sony is planning to show off the console at the annual E3 video games trade show in Los Angeles. But the chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment, Ken Kutaragi, did not say when the machine would go on sale to the public.

Want a new Asus i915 chipset, but rather keep your old Socket 478 Pentium 4 and Celeron processors than upgrade to Intel's new LGA775 Socket?

Xtreme Systems.org have posted information on AMD's 90 nanometer Athlon 64 processors with Benchmarks:

The 90nm A64 is not a simple die shrink but features several enhancements, such as:

Just spotted this bit of Info over at OCWorkbench

I am currently testing the ASUS A8V (PCB ver 1.2) with official BIOS 1006 and it does not include PCI/AGP Fix and multiplier control. 1006.004 beta does include a multiplier control but missing PCI/AGP FIX.

Today Digit-Life checks out Realtek's all new ALC880 high definition audio sound solution found on Intel's latest motherboards the 915 and 925 chipsets! Here's a snip.

Comparing the audio quality of HD Audio Realtek ALC880 with that of Live!5.1, the superiority of Realtek ALC880 is obvious: better-balanced and smoother playback without the abrupt, rough tones. Note that the difference between ALC880 and Live!5.1 is much more pronounced than with Audigy. While Audigy and Realtek ALC880 sound almost alike, the Live!5.1 playback differs even in tembre of some instruments.