After a few unplanned delays, Microsoft has finally released its Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The first step into the 64-bit world was made by AMD. AMD has been waiting 3 years for this release while users who have AMD's x86-64 platform were only able up till now to take advantage of the full capabilities with the freeware Linux operating system.

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Although it has been a while since the presentation of the nForce 4 SLI chipset, there wasn't a great choice of nForce 4 SLI motherboards until soon. Fortunately, from 2-3 months some other types of SLI motherboards, different from ASUS A8N-SLI/Deluxe, can be found on the market. Though many of them are good, they had some disadvantages. One of the leaders on the market - MSI International could not tolerate this lapse in its product line any longer and soon after its competitor it introduced K8N Platinum and K8N Diamond. Read on what does MSI K8N Diamond have to offer...

Two months ago the ECS PF88 Extreme motherbard was revealed to the world, boasting the ability to support processors from both Intel and AMD. HEXUS.net now has a full review of the motherboard, comparing benchmarks with Intel and AMD CPUs against similarly specced counterparts.

OCIA.net has posted a review on some OCZ PC-3200 EL Gold 2-2-2-5 DDR.

The OCZ EL PC3200 Gold DDR held it's own against the ever popular Cosair XMS DDR, coming out slightly ahead in our comparisons. The build quality is excellent, the performance is excellent, the warranty is lifetime, the world-class service is direct and toll free, how can you go wrong?

After their recent look at Toshiba's MK1031GAS 100GB 2.5" hard disk, 3DVelocity follow up with a look at it's speedier 5400rpm cousin the MK1032GAX, which also comes with a monster 16MB buffer.

Of course, as prices have fallen and capabilities have climbed, so more and more people, who would in the past have spurned the notebook for its limited usefulness, are suddenly seeing all kinds of possibilities opening up to them. And as more people buy, so prices fall, and we all like falling prices.

Since the end of last year, the Pentium M processor, which until then was only dedicated to laptops, entered the desktop market with DFI and AOpen motherboards. Following the success of these platforms, ASUSTeK has decided to release the CT-479. This adaptor provides an opportunity to use a Pentium M with a Socket 478 motherboard. Behardware.com has tested this solution to find out if this new solution will improve the accessibility to the Pentium M.

Today 3DXtreme is proud to present our latest review, we are taking a look at the newest product from our friends over at Saitek. The Saitek Gaming Keyboard was a huge hit with the gaming community, the only flaw that product had was while it was backlit, it was still impossible to see the actual keys. Saitek went back to the drawing board to right this wrong thus the evolution of the Gaming Keyboard to the new Saitek Eclipse.

Today at XtremeResources our European Reviewer Grace takes AeroCool's newest offering in Power Supply Units, the AeroPower black/silver line 550watt unit, for an evaluation aboard her loaded P4EE test bench.

Just got word that the guy's over at 3DChip have thrown up their SLI reciew of two MSI NX6800GT-T2D256E GPU's!

The cooling system is efficient and above all quiet, it held the GPU under full load between 65° C and max. 70° C, in the 2D enterprise was the map approximately 10 - 15° C under it.

Brian Gray has completed his review of the Mystique 7.1 Sound card.

When the nForce3 chipset was released, I was left with out surround sound gaming as my speaker system only allows for 5.1 input over coax or optical S/PDIF interface. The Soundstorm was over. HDA has returned Dolby Digital Live back to the PC marketplace with the X-Mystique 7.1 Gold and BlueGears will be bringing the C-Media CMI8768+ powered sound card to the US market.

A deep look into the Creative's Zen Micro Mp3 player

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Creative Labs released their Sound Blaster Audigy4 Pro sound card and we couldn?t miss the opportunity to take a closer look at it. Do you think you need to upgrade your Audigy2 now that the new card is out? Read our article before you make the decision. It may save you some money.

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Solo over at Net Forums has thrown up his review of Hitachi's new SATA II 250GB hard drives! Here's a snip.

Hitachi has been quick off the block to introduce their SATA II line up. Not many other manufactures haven't even announced their plans to yet. This is strange seeing as how the boards have been out for months already.

Today XtremeResources turns it's sights to videocard cooling products as our European Reviewer Grace has the opportunity to evaluate two near silent yet effective products, the be quiet! Polar Freezer and Revoltec Graphic Freezer, both manufactured by the sister companies and provided by Listan.de.

Today 3DXtreme is proud to present our latest review, this review comes from a relatively newcomer in the memory field, USModular. In this review we are taking a look at the 1GB Kit of USModular Cold Fusion PC4000 Memory; this memory is rated for use at 250 MHZ or DDR500 with the timings of 3-4-4-8. The Cold Fusion 512MB sticks of memory feature gold heatspreaders and the Cold Fusion insignia under the hood are specially tested, speed binned Hynix ICs.

The launch of the All-In-Wonder X800XT hints at how long it takes to develop these "all in one" cards by the fact that it uses ATI's AGP R420 chipset. Announced last Spring, the R420 has since been superseded by ATI's R430, R480, and R481 (a native AGP version of the R480) graphics cores. It's no longer the fastest of ATI's current 3D graphics card lineup, but with 16 pixel pipelines, a 256-bit memory bus, and 256MB of 1.6ns GDDR3 memory, it's still one of the fastest 3D cards available on the market.

In fact, this dual-core chip, code-named "Smithfield," is actually a pair of Pentium 4 "Prescott" cores situated together on a single piece of silicon. Each core has 1MB of L2 cache onboard, and the two cores share an 800MHz front-side bus. Beyond the Siamese twins action, there's very little to differentiate these chips from the latest Pentium 4 processors like the 600 series. Like those chips, Smithfield features support for Intel's EM64T extensions for 64-bit computing, and it can save on power consumption via the one-two punch of an enhanced halt state and SpeedStep power management.

Today we are taking a look at a Gigabyte graphics card for the still present and active AGP graphics card market. We're looking at an AGP version of the popular nVidia GeForce 6600GT core. Read on as we take a closer look at the graphics card and how Gigabyte went about turning this PCI-Express chipset into an AGP edition and as well as the performance differences between both cards.

Today at XtremeResources we take a look at a myriad of case modding products from Revoltec .Our European Reviewer Grace evaluates colored fans, cold cathode kits, colored and UV reactive round IDE and floppy cables, Bubble lights and Laser led's, fan grilles and thumb screws. There is a bit of something here for every case modder out there.

Today ATI is announcing a 512MB flavor of its Radeon X800 XL. The card packs dual DVI outputs, video in and out capabilities, and twice the memory of the standard X800 XL for only $450. But does the extra graphics memory actually improve performance? We've run the Radeon X800 XL 512MB through its paces in an array of games and benchmarks to find out.