Gainward announced their own cooling solution with a fanfare on January 30th, 2003. There press release lead people to believe that their cooling would be revolutionary in terms of noise production. However this is not the case. It simply is more quiet than the Nvidia reference solution. According to Gainward the noise of fan only has 40db, which is less than the fan of Nvidia, which has 52db. Read more. Image included.

Just like CPUs, the graphic processor on the video card can also be over-clocked, a process of adjusting the internal frequency of which the processor runs at. Furthermore, more heat is been generated from the processor die. "An effective cooling unit is critical for today's high performance processors, to ensure the chip will perform efficiently and prolong its life span, especially on an over-clocked processor," commented Bob Chang, Head of Thermaltake R&D.

Crow let's me know that Darkcrow.co.kr have snagged some photo's of Gainward's NV34 video cards and on a sidenote Crow tells me that they have received a GeForce FX 5800 reference design graphics card from Nvidia.

Looking @ the photo's of the FX 5800 Ultra and the FX 5800 they look the same! I can see why peeps are having problems telling the difference? Click read more for the photo.

There's a hidden page on VIA website? Well anyway it's about the VIA PoSavage KM400!

The VIA ProSavage KM400 Chipset is the next generation integrated graphics chipset for the AMD Athlon? XP processor. An ultra fast HyperTransport? link to the CPU, integrated UniChrome? 2D/3D graphics, AGP 8X port, 8X V-Link, Serial ATA, ATA-133 and USB 2.0 combine to make the KM400 a feature rich and scalable chipset for mainstream corporate and consumer desktop systems.

Logitech today announced that its USB Keyboard and Optical Mouse designed for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system are scheduled to arrive on retail shelves in the U.S. and at www.logitech.com later this month. The USB Keyboard has a suggested retail price of $29.95 USD and the Optical Mouse has a suggested retail price of $19.95 USD. Both products are on display at the Logitech booth (#1008) at the Game Developers Conference. Read more...

Just got word from Matt Burris @ 3DGpu.com that he's posted his GeForce FX 5600/5200 Ultra preview. Update: Just got word from Dave Baumann @ Beyond3D that their GeForce FX 5200 & 5600 preview is up as well.

Thanks to Crow @ Darkcrow.co.kr for sending in this photo of Leadtek's beast of a card the WinFast A300 TD ; FX based! For more info click on the photo.

Anyone seen my stereo? LOL.

MSI? Introduces the Best Choice for the Power and Performance Supporting the NVIDIA® GeForce? FX5800 Series Chipset -- "FX5800 Ultra-TD8X" and "FX5800-TD8X" is the first graphics chip in the industry to adopt the 0.13µ manufacturing process, and also the first GPU to use wideband DDR2 memory.

Komplett.co.uk have the MSI GeForce FX 5800 listed £275.73 inc VAT, bought to order 5 days for delivery.

Xbitlabs .com sends word that the have snagged the first ever photo's of Nvidia's GeForce FX 5600 NV31 graphics card. Head on over if you're interested in this mainstream baby.

Rage3d.com reports that it seems like the time is almost here for the new Radeons to appear. Here's a quick (IMHO A SOSO) preview from IGN. Tho, I was hoping that it would have more details than whats mentioned. There are three new ATI products on the horizon that are designed to hit three segments. Each base product has a few iterations of its own. We got:

Radeon 9800 Radeon 9600 Radeon 9200

The ?Big Bang? creation of your virtual world erupts from the RADEON? 9800 ATLANTIS PRO?s SMARTSHADER? 2.1 and SMOOTHVISION? 2.1 technologies. Delivering full acceleration of DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL 2.0, your only limitation is your own imagination!

Crow @ Darkcrow.co.kr lets me know that after a late night boozing session with the local ATI rep they caught her in a comprising position with the Nvidia guy and they blackmailed her in to handing over the ATI RV280 & RV350 Spec & Board design info! Hehe :D

The Stealth LittlePC's are designed for applications that require rugged versatile full featured PC systems to fit in space confined areas. Read more here: StealthComputer Product screenshots under read more...

Xabregamers have updated their and our knowledge on SiS's yet to be announced new DirectX 9 VPU Xabre II: The SiS Xabre II supports both Pixel and Vertex Shaders in hardware (The Xabre 1 supported Vertex Shaders through software - Vertexlizer Engine.

It will be manufactured under the 130nm manufacturing process (like the Xabre 600). It will feature 128-bit DDR2 memory clocked at over 500MHz. The bandwith will be 16.0 GB/s like the GeforceFX. Last but not least, it will support Pixel and Vertex Shaders 2.0 and feature the Frictionless Memory Control III technology to optimize bandwith usage.

Taipei, Taiwan, March 4, 2003, TwinMOS stays one step ahead of the technology curve by launching one of the first PC3700 Unbuffered DIMM Modules. Featuring speeds up to 466Mhz, PC3700 DDR 466 delivers enhanced bandwidth up to 3728MB per second.

By examining the testing result of SiSoft Sandra 2003 Memory Bandwidth Benchmark using Gigabyte GA-8SQ800 Ultra motherboard (using SiS655 chipset) with over-clocked CPU, the TwinMOS PC3700 (CL2.5) performance is 15.4% higher than that of PC3500 (CL2), and even 31% higher than that of PC3200 (CL2). The efficiency of TwinMOS PC3700 (CL2.5) is still 23% higher than PC3200 (CL2)even while using a non-overclocked CPU.

Michael S @ Lost Circuits has posted his preview of AMD's Barton 3200+ processor! Here's a byte.

It follows that AMD has to take the plunge and move on to the next bus interface frequency level which is 400 MHz data rate or more precisely 400 Mbps (Megabit per pin and second). The problem is, that most of the current chipsets already have problems running the memory bus at 400 MHz, not to mention the boards that are not capable of coping with the required FSB frequency either. Realistically, at present, there is only a handful of mainboards that are able to run at a 200/400 MHz FSB but what appeared almost impossible only 2-3 months ago becomes more common as we speak. In addition, pressure from the overclocking community that, once again is setting the pace has forced the manufacturers to improve their boards on the layout as well as on the component quality level.

NVIDIA have supplied Beyond3D with a Reference GeForce FX 5800 Ultra video card to preview!

We go over the gaming performance, Anisotropic and FSAA performance and quality settings, look at Shader Speeds and throw a number of other tests at it to see what this has in store for us. We compare the board against NVIDIA?s GeForce4 Ti 4600 to see how far they?ve come along in a year since their prior generation, and also clock the card to 400/400 speeds to give a rough feel of the performance of the non-Ultra boards.

As you probably already know DDR memory prices have been dropping like flys and a quick search @ komplett.co.uk shows how bad things are for the memory companies! But there's same great deal out there for the consumer like:

TwinMOS PC3200 DDR-DIMM 256MB CL2.5 Memory 184-P (for DDR-PC400MHz) GBP 30.60 inc. VAT

Generic PC3200 DDR-DIMM 256MB DDR CL2.5 Memory 184-P (for DDR-PC400MHz) GBP 28.42 inc. VAT< /i>

So if you're after some fast DDR memory now is your chance to get some great deals! If you find any better deals post in comments.