Nvidia is developing a standalone games physics processing card, motherboard maker Asus has let slip. Announcing a new mobo equipped with three PCI Express x16 slots, the Taiwanese firm said the third connector was specifically for "Nvidia's upcoming Physics card".

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To celebrate the opening of our new forum, we're giving away an Asus P5WDH Deluxe motherboard! all you have to do is make the highest entry in the Intel Orthos league table by Midnight GMT on October 31, 2006.. By highest entry we mean the highest speed dual Orthos stable overclock.

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The prospect of a Core 2 system build can seem a bit daunting for enthusiasts who have spent years focused solely on the Athlon 64. Core 2 processors need new motherboards for those switching from the Athlon 64, and that requires navigating a whole new world of core logic chipsets. Since the Core 2 processor relies on the chipset for its memory controller, one's chipset choice can also have a much more profound impact on performance.

Some very very nice looking Ultra high-end CPU and GPU Coolers, Silent to boot, from German Company Noctua and Korean Company ZeroTherm, are undergoing testing... here's a sneak preview!

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Our friends have gotten some information of the upcoming NVIDIA G80 and it appears that G80 gonna be unified shader after all.

A chat with AMD's CTO about the upcoming K8L Quad Core AMD processor gives us some new insight as to just how AMD is looking to handle the newly competitive market served up by Intel's Core 2 Duo and beyond.

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According to the latest roadmap for server processors, Intel upgraded its series naming to be more clear and easy to read. The new naming will also include the power class such that users are clearer in mind that what kind of chassis is suitable to their need. The new series naming will begin in the next quad-core Clovertown based Xeon coming in November.

Intel is expected by the end of this month to officially name its Kentsfield quad-core desktop processor as the "Core 2 Quadro," with the first model to be an Extreme version, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, which will be available starting in mid-November, according to sources at leading Taiwan motherboard makers.

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We recently upgraded our VGA test system from an Athlon X2 to Core 2 Duo. We discuss performance between the platforms.

We learned that ATI's highly anticipated next GPU will consume up to an incredible 250 W to work. No wonder we reported on many occasions that the chip will be one of the hottest ever.

TheInquirer

We got a mixture of MSI and DFI nForce 500 series Socket AM2 boards. We put them together to find out the differences.

TweakTown

How much impact is there to SLI and CrossFire performance when the cards communicate over PCIe rather than dedicated links? We have some fun with high-end dongle-less and bridgeless multi-GPU rendering in an effort to find out. Our discoveries are quite interesting.

Our bro's over at HardwareOC have just got back from the hungarian mod-tech Hall 2006 exhibition ! you got to check out the Star wars TIE fighter Mod? and one of the overclockers Hit 4,0 GHz with Intel's Core Duo E6300.

Interested in a graphics upgrade for Battlefield 2142 but you have less than $200 to spend? If so, you may want to check out this article. We've got both single-card and SLI benchmarks for NVIDIA's mainstream offerings ranging from the GeForce 6600 GT up to the recently released 7900 GS. See how the various cards perform in today's article!

Available this holiday season in the United States, Zune includes a 30GB digital media player, the Zune Marketplace music service and a foundation for an online community that will enable music fans to discover new music. The Zune device features wireless technology, a built-in FM tuner and a bright, 3-inch screen that allows users to not only show off music, pictures and video, but also to customize the experience with personal pictures or themes to truly make the device their own. Zune comes in three colors: black, brown and white.

NVIDIA's fall refresh continues with the GeForce 7950 GT. The card features 24 pixel shaders and 8 vertex shaders, as well as 512MB of memory.

ATI and NVIDIA no longer only accelerate games as video is now also one of their objectives. And if that wasn?t enough, they decided to improve the quality of the images. The last generation of graphic cards now compensates one of the major downside of these monitors: the twinkling effect in movies!

We run our benchmark suite across the entire line of Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD AM2 CPUs, from the budget priced products to the ultra-high end. Which CPU is right for you? Check out our massive roundup and find out.

ExtremeTech

Ok, so we heard the Intel C19 Board from DFI has been cancelled while we have just finished our preview of it, based on a beta BIOS. I liked the board in comparison to the rest of the C19 boards, but the raw BIOS is headache for me.

Kinc of Nordic Hardware has put up a benchmark monster setup, consisting of a Cascade Cooled Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 running at 4.7GHz, and an ATi X1950XTX Master Card bundled with a X1900XTX running in CrossFire mode. The most impressive thing is that both cards are running different clockspeeds and the X1950XTX Master Card was just watercooled.

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