Just got word that Xbitlabs.com have posted a few details of Geil new Golden Dragon Series DDR500 memory modules.

GEiL demonstrated its new products in a system powered by Intel Pentium 4 CPU at 3250MHz on ABIT?s IC7-G mainboard based on Intel?s 875P core-logic with processor bus overclocked to 1000MHz.

Razer proudly announces an exclusive alliance with TerraTec in Europe. With the help of TerraTec they officially announced the new & much improved Mystify/Razer Boomslang 2500. For those of you who are not familiar with TerraTec, they are a relatively small, extremely high quality and aggressive maker of sound cards, video cards, audio components, speakers and more based in Germany.

Back from CeBIT 2003 Ace's Hardware's Brian Neal fed his readers with some small tidbits of news that uncover that Nvidia will probably refresh their nForce series with a FX 5200 installment and that Nvidia assumes that graphics card's eating up to 120W is what enthusiasts will plug into their systems. I would need a new PSU for such a beast. Incorporating a GF4 Ti engine was almost impossible, because it was too big to be economically feasable. Socketed GPU's on the motherboard where also a nice idea, but impossible due to space constraints, trace lenghts for the memory, and fact MB's usually only have 4 layers, as opposed to the 12(?) layers an FX Ultra requires. Expect 120+W (!) GPUs to appear in the near future. Though nVidia was actively researching SOI and Germanium oxide (?) to reduce power requirements, he didnt expect it any time soon, saying the graphics market changes too fast to warrant that sort of investments for now. So nVidia was concentrating on cooling solution to be able to use that sort of power-hogs.

As we seemed to have missed this news here's a round up by Xbitlabs.com and Tecchannel.de.

They have previewed the upcoming Canterwood/Springdale chipsets from Intel and the new 800MHz bus, which are to be introduced within a couple of months and include the first real benchmarks results.

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German web magazine Chip.de has posted details of confidential SiS PR material on their website. According to the papers Xabre II will officially announced by June this year. However Xabre II will target the mainstream and budget markets of the video processor market and that in direct competition to established video processor manufacturers such as ATI and Nvidia. Xabre II will be a fully DirectX 9 compatible adapter with scalable VPU architecture. Quite a surprise is the SiS memory configuration: Xabre II will feature 128/256 Mbyte configurations of DDR-II or even DDR-III memory on a 128bit bus bandwidth. Xabre II will be manufactured on a 0.13 micrometer process.

MSI? MEGA By revolutionizing the application and environment of traditional multimedia PCs, MSI? will announce the MEGA PC series this March at CeBIT 2003 in Hanover, Germany. MEGA PC is a full-function multimedia PC that combines information and entertainment to offer hi-fi stereo, DVD/VCD, MP3, TV and high-performing computer functions in an infortaining component with novel appearance.

Just got word from Dave @ Beyond3D that their CeBIT coverage article has been posted.

Beyond3D had a short time at CeBit and we've detailed a few of our findings in a short article. We catch up on the 3D happenings with 3Dlabs/Creative, ATI, NVIDIA, SiS and also look at what Philips and VIA have to offer. Seeing as both ATI and NVIDIA also launched the new mobile video parts here we preview what Radeon Mobility 9600 and GeForce FX Go5200 & Go5600 have to offer the notebook user.

PEOPLE AT CEBIT reckoned that the AMD 3200+ using the Barton core could launch as early as April. But that's in contradistinction to the latest roadmaps we've seen which have it down for the middle of the year. So either something's gone better than AMD hoped, or possibly Intel's 3.20GHz Pentium 4 is galvanising the roadmaps.

The 3200+ is reckoned to have 512K of level two cache may well work with a 400MHz front side bus, the last stop on the Alpha EV6 station. What will the performance be like? FSB 400 Athlons will be able to compete with a Pentium 4 3.06, but how it will perform against a Prescott at 3.2GHz with 1MB cache is a different matter.

Just spotted this @ Digit-life.com

ABIT decided to set its own record at CeBIT 2003 and announced an Intel Canterwood-based system featuring 3.319GHz Pentium 4 overclocked via the bus: 13х multiplier provided 1021MHz FSB (255.34 х 4)! The memory has also been overclocked to 465MHz.

"With more than 80 million transistors, the Xabre 2 will include support for Direct X 9 and offer a 350MHz core clock speed and a 500MHz memory clock speed. The Xabre 600, currently the top of SiS's graphics chip line, supports DirectX 8.1 and has a 300MHz core clock speed and a 300MHz memory clock speed. It will be launched at the Computex exhibition to be held in Taipei in June.......

HotHardware have posted their preview with benchmarks of ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 M10 graphics card. After looking @ the benchmarks the Radeon 9600, it sure does kick the GeForce4 Ti 4200 video card in the nuts and boy does it hurt and comes close to bi** slapping the GeForce FX 1000! Here's a snip.

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Just got word from my good mate Matt Burris @ 3DGpu.com that their GeForce FX 5600/5200 Go preview is up.

You can now pre-order a Hercules Radeon 9800 Pro on ATI's Web Page.

The Price $399.00 plus delivery expected shipment to commence end of March..... thanks to MR A

Just got word from the Guy's @ Nvchips-fr.com that they have snagged a photo of a prototype Geforce FX watercooler from Gainward! Just click on the photo for more info.

and while your there you might want to check out: Triplex's Millennium Silver Ti-4200-8X Wireless graphics card

Antec has released a power supply that offers adjustable voltage control for overclocking, while allowing the user to adjust the fan speed threshold for quiet computing. Antec began manufacturing its TrueControl 550 a few weeks ago, according to company executives. The 550-watt power supply can also be purchased from Antec's online store for just under $160. Overclockers tend to tweak the power supplies themselves, opening up the PC chassis and playing with the regulator itself, Liu said. These controls are now accessible via a front panel with analog knobs covering the 3.3-volt, 5-volt, and 12-volt supply voltages. The supply does not offer digital control over the supply voltages, however; adjustments are made using the control knobs.

EE Times.com have a news article up that should have you laptop fanboy's foaming @ the mouth: Colorgraphic and ATI Technologies form a strategic partnership!

ATI Technologies today announce a strategic relationship to deliver revolutionary VPU performance to a new line of multi-display graphics cards. Colorgraphic's Xentera GT will be based upon ATI's Mobility Radeon 9000 VPU. The Xentera GT will be available in three primary designs: Dual, analog output (PCI and AGP models); Low profile, Quad analog/DVI output (PCI and AGP models); 8-Output analog/4 DVI (PCI). The first Xentera are scheduled for release in May.

Crow @ Darkcrow.co.kr lets me know that their GeForce FX 5800 preview has been posted. On the same page Crow tells me, they have posted links to Brainbox.co.kr, who have posted their Leadtek WinFast 300 Ultra TD preview! You need to scroll down about three articles once on the Darkcrow website.

VIA Technologies Inc., a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced the launch of the VIA Apollo KT400A chipset, the fastest single channel DDR chipset for the new AMD Athlon? XP 3000+ processor. Optimized for the needs of gamers, enthusiasts and professionals requiring the fastest system performance and a complete suite of the latest I/O and connectivity features, the VIA Apollo KT400A is the ultimate chipset solution for AMD Athlon? XP processor based systems. Read more.

Intel is fabricating the Prescott on huge 300mm wafers with its cutting edge 90-nanometer (90nm) strained silicon process. The 90nm process enables Intel to pack in more cache into Prescott. Prescott doubles current Pentium 4 cache figures with 16K of L1 and a whopping 1MB of L2 (as a comparison, the current L2 record holder for is AMD's Barton core with only 512K of L2). In order to fit such a large amount of cache into the core, Intel added a 7th copper layer paving the way for >100M transistor counts. Read more @ HW-Extreme