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AMD today announced the AMD Athlon MP processor 2800+, The AMD Athlon MP 2800+ is based on a new core that features more L2 cache than previous AMD Athlon MP processors, and allows additional information to be stored closer to the processor for improved performance. Designed for entry-level servers and workstations.

Asus_voodoo has posted the Scans and the Specs for Nvidia's NV40 from a Russian magazine! Here's a byte ?

I was reading a magazine and found this. i scanned it and i ll translate it for you.

350 million transistors 0.09 microns Core @ 800MHz 16MB DRAM 8 Pixel Rendering Engines 16 Vertex Shader Engines

Just spotted this at Digit-life.com

You can consider it a fake, as these distant rumours can?t be proved for now. However, if you are still interested, you might want to know of probable technological features of next-generation AMD processors - K9.

MicroStar International has silently added the FX5600-TD256 GeForce FX 5600 graphics card to their product portfolio. The card is expected to go on retail sale on May 10th, at least in Japan. Additional features include TV-out (S-Video connector) and a DVI connector while it comes bundled with The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. MSI FX5600-TD256 and FX5600-VTDR128 graphics cards are clocked at 325MHz core and 550MHz memory settings. The FX5600-TD256 will cost about $225. Read more for screenshot.

Creative Europe has announced its new 3D Blaster 5 FX family. The three products in this line-up are based on the Nvidia GeForce FX chipset, which delivers ?cinematic computing for every user? and sets new standards for technical innovation, comprehensive functionality and image quality. At the high end of the Creative 3D Blaster 5 family is the 3D Blaster 5 FX 5600 Ultra. Designed as the company?s most powerful graphics solution for the dedicated gamer, it features a 350MHz core, 128 MB of memory at 700MHz data rate with 128-bit bandwidth and 400MHz RAMDAC. It can process 88 million vertices/sec. at a fill rate of 1.4 billion texels/sec. and up to 16 textures per pixel.

This just in from the TechSpot.com: Creative sent some information on their latest soundcard development, built on the Extigy success. Creative has plans for developing a range of USB Sound Blaster products to target entry level and advanced users.

The Sound Blaster MP3+ is the first product that will make it to the market, we have a couple of product shots as well as some other info on this cigarette packet sized, USB powered soundcard.

Toms Hardware's have been lucky enough to have got their hands on the latest liquid cooling add-on from the next generation of GeForce FX graphics cards from Gainward - called CoolFX. Here's a snip:

Gainward is one of the first graphics card manufacturers to offer a complete watercooling kit in their program - suitable for most of the GeForce FX cards. In this article, we introduce you to the system and find out how it performs in practice.

TweakTown sends word that their April 2003 Gizmos, Gadgets and Goodies guide is out!

Each month here at TweakTown we receive many smaller, cheaper and interesting computer products which we cannot transform into a full blown review on its own. So none of you miss out on any of these funky items, we have initiated our very own monthly Gizmos, Gadgets and Goodies Guide, by Shawn "Toxic" Baker, filled with a range of different computer products from all edges of the globe for your viewing pleasure.

At least The Inquirer thinks so: The RS300 will support front side bus (FSB) 800 and below Pentium 4 CPUs and it will use a dual DDR 400 memory controller just like the recently introduced Canterwood i875P. Unlike the name suggests, the graphics chipset won't use the R300 as a basis, but instead will feature Radeon 9200 architecture which is a pretty decent DirectX 8.1 marchitecture for a motherboard.

Xbitlabs Anton Shilov has posted details of upcoming nForce2 mainboards from Soltek, the nForce2 400 and nForce2 Ultra 400! Here's a snip:

The company will launch six new mainboards powered by NVIDIA?s new Socket A chipsets shortly and I expect more mainboard makers to adopt new core-logic products from the number one graphics company as well.

A few weeks ago we reported that Xbitlabs had spotted information about upcoming AMD Thorton processors. Today Xbitlabs reveals more details.

Nearly a month ago we reported that AMD plans to roll-out another core for its Athlon XP processors, the Thorton with 256KB of L2 cache (See March 24, 2003 news-story). At that time nothing was known about the newcomer, but we supposed that this is just the same Barton, but with 256KB of L2 instead of 512KB. Well, today we found that ABIT?s NF7-S BIOS already supports AMD Thorton processors and even detects the right model-number for the parts.

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled four new special edition hardware products: Wireless Optical Desktop Special Edition, Wireless Optical Mouse Special Edition, Optical Mouse Special Edition and MultiMedia Keyboard Special Edition. Dressed in icicle white and matte black, these mice and keyboards defy the old computing fashion style guidelines and deliver more individualized desktop options. Wireless Optical Desktop Special Edition delivers six feet worth of wireless freedom with a gleaming white and chrome-accented mouse, keyboard and shared receiver. The sleek keyboard features a multimedia center and Hot Keys, which enable users to launch music playlists, surf the Internet or control streaming video -- all at the touch of a button. The ambidextrous mouse uses precise Microsoft® Optical Technology and offers a wider scroll wheel. These stylish white devices operate on both PC and Macintosh platforms.

Professional users require stable and reliable high-performance platforms that meet the needs of their demanding applications. With the introduction of the Nvidia nForce 3 professional platform processors, the company revolutionizes professional motherboard designs, delivering a single-chip motherboard solution designed specifically for the 64-bit AMD Opteron processor.

Matrox brings decades of experience in designing, manufacturing and supporting high-quality graphics solutions to deliver the most comprehensive productivity tools on the market with the new Millennium P-Series graphics boards -consisting of the Millennium P650 and the Millennium P750 boards. Complementing the professional Matrox Parhelia Series and mainstream Millennium G-Series product lines, the Millennium P-Series offers unparalleled image quality, excellent reliability and the most complete multi-display support in the industry, including versatile dual-DVI output. Multiply your productivity with Matrox's newest addition to the family.

On top of its efforts dedicated to the new 400MHz FSB (front-side bus) Athlon XP processors, VIA Technologies on April 22 introduced its first K8 chipset, the K8T400M, hoping to defend its dominant position in the high-end Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)-platform market. Read More

Tech-report's Scott Wasson has posted an editorial that looks at what the Athlon 64 needs to do to succeed! Here's a byte.

Now that we've seen AMD's next-generation Hammer chip (now known as AMD64) up close, with real benchmarks, we have a much clearer sense of how the new AMD chips stack up against the competition from Intel. Judging by the benchmarks, Hammer has loads of potential, and it's easy to see why AMD elected to go ahead and release a server version of the chip. The architecture, with an integrated memory controller on each CPU and high-speed HyperTransport links between system devices, is brilliant for a server platform.

Professional users require stable and reliable high-performance platforms that meet the needs of their demanding applications. With the introduction of the NVIDIA nForce?3 Professional platform processors, NVIDIA revolutionizes professional motherboard designs, delivering a single-chip motherboard solution designed specifically for the 64-bit AMD Opteron? processor.

Tom's Hardware have managed to get the hands on the latest toy's from AMD an Opteron 64-bit Processor and pitted the Opteron against Intel's Xeon Processor! Here's a snip.

The mood in our labs was thick with excitement - there was barely a week to perform detailed tests on a total of four platforms. AMD had sent in a server with Dual Opteron processors for testing with little time to spare before launch. And it quickly became clear who its rival would be: an Intel Dual Xeon, the 3 GHz version. This article describes the results from our duelling test systems.

AMD today introduced the AMD Opteron processor, the world?s first 64-bit processor compatible with the industry-standard x86 architecture and the highest performing 2-way and 4-way processor for servers. IBM joined AMD at a New York City launch event to announce its plans to offer a server product for high-performance computing based on the AMD Opteron processor. At the same event, Microsoft reiterated its commitment to developing a 64-bit operating system for the processor, with a beta version available in mid-2003. The AMD Opteron processor for servers and workstations, which extends the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) to 64-bit computing for the first time, is also the first processor in a new class of computing called AMD64. AMD64 directly follows the evolutionary path of the industry-standard x86 ISA, allowing development of a unified 64-bit computing infrastructure fully compatible with the pervasive x86 architecture. The AMD Opteron processor helps eliminate barriers to 64-bit computing by simplifying the transition between current and future generations of software.

Juts spotted this at Digit-life.com:

Despite the launch of new server Opteron CPU series with new 64-bit x86-64 architecture is scheduled for tomorrow by AMD, the Web already offers comprehensive information about them, so we couldn?t fail to make use of it. Perhaps, tomorrow will bring some more specs or architectural details, but such a major event needs additions anyway.

Opteron chips introduce several key features: 64-bit core, 64Kb associative duplex instruction cache + 64Kb associative duplex data cache (L1); 1Mb 16-channel L2 cache; integrated DDR controller supporting DDR200 and DDR266 SDRAM; HyperTransport module supporting up to 3 buses with 19.2Gbps total throughput.