Just got word from Crow at Darkcrow.co.kr that their 3 page preview of Nvidia's GeForce FX 5900 Ultra video card is out and he also tells me that he's put together a 1 min 14 second video of the card! So you can get a better look at it.

Beyond 3D's Dave Baumann sent me an email about rumours or speculation if you prefer of an Radeon 9800 XT graphics card ... ATI will have another product available in a few months or so, and there are some clues as to what that product is. DDR-II RAM on the 256MB 9800 PRO, which is currently running at 350MHz, is actually rated for 450MHz operation.

When ATI went out to find some RAM for this product they couldn't get much in the way of DDR-II rated at 350MHz, but strangely Samsung had a fair amount of 400MHz+ DDR-II stockpiled but, now, unused so they sold it to ATI at a very attractive rate. Radeon 9800 PRO 256MB's may have a reasonable memory overclock because of this, but by the looks out the layout and the length of some of the traces I'll wager that this will not get up to these levels. The new product that will come out is probably likely still to be a Radeon 9800 classed product, but with a newer suffix - "XT".

Digit-life have posted their investigation into nForce2 performance when run in either single-channel mode or dual-channel mode. Here's a snip:

Some time ago we published the review on the NVIDIA's chipset where we touched upon some prejudices, but when the nForce2 hit the stores the number of rumors rose sharply. That is why we decided to carry out a certain investigation to clear the things up, but attentive readers will find nothing new here. Moreover, the article is written in a very simple language, ignoring such terms as memory banks...

Just got word from crow at Darkcrow that he's snagged a few photo's of MSI's GeForce FX 5900 video card.

Here is a card and boxshot photo of Gainwards GeForce FX 5900 Ultra graphics board. Interesting changes to the card are, that it is a 'single slot' solution and appears to have less capacitors than the reference model.

They're drowning in videocards at NordicHardware right now. First up in the latest batch is Radeon 9600 Pro. ATI recently sent a reference sample of their latest mid end card and since its gotten a great acception in the press as of yet find out what makes this product tick.

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Just got word from the guy's at Tweakhound that they have found a fix for Delayed Write Errors on ATi's Radeon 9500 Pro with the help of ATI's Terry Makedon & Raymond Skarratt.

I recently purchased a ATI 9500 Pro video card. Upon installation of the card I immediately began getting Delayed Write Errors. I have narrowed down the problem to this section of tweaks.

Logitech today announced the new Cordless MX Duo performance keyboard and mouse combination that heads up the Logitech cordless desktop offering. The Cordless MX Duo combines the award-winning MX 700 rechargeable cordless optical mouse with the company's top-selling Cordless Elite Keyboard. Based on Fast RF technology, the MX700 performance mouse ensures the highest level of precision and accuracy available today, while the highly successful keyboard design puts advanced Internet navigation and expert media center controls within easy fingertip reach. The Logitech Cordless MX Duo is now available worldwide in retail outlets and online at www.logitech.com for $99.95 USD. Read more...

At the end of May Nvidia plans to release and start shipments of the GeForce FX 5600 revision "B" with clock speed of 400MHz vs. previous 350MHz! Darkcrow has a comparison photo of the new NV31 chip against the old one.

Here's a couple of items I found while surfing the net. First up is at TweakTown called GeForce FX 5900 Ultra - GeForce FX 5800 Ultra - Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb photo board comparison. Wow, that's a big sucker.

The second news item is at Entcity.com who have news and a screenshot of Gainward's water cooled GeForce FX 5900 Ultra CoolFX PowerPack.

Astonishingly the gaming website Adrenaline Vault has posted a detailed preview of Nvidia's upcoming flagship graphics processor NV35. The preview covers the details of Detonator drivers v44.03, a whole lot of screenshots of the graphics card itself and most surprisingly a load of benchmarks as well. Nvidia is going to announce NV35 at E3 - the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles starting off this week. NV35 will be produced in 0.13 micron technology and features the long awaited 256bit wide memory bus while operating at 450 MHz / 425 MHz core and memory speed. The FX 5900 Ultra will be equipped with a thermal solution that is similar to the Quadro FX cooler and according to Avault is even more quiet than some Ti 4600 cooling units. Here is a snip from the article:

VR-Zone writes NVIDIA has released their latest NV35 reference card samples to the card manufacturers already and apparently the mass production of the NV35 cards will start rolling in June so there will be no delay this time.

From the sources we have heard, NVIDIA is confident of NV35 this time and a new set of Detonator FX driver will be used to enhance performance. NV35 will be made by both TSMC and IBM but NVIDIA has not decided how many GPUs each foundry will make. The memory clock initially at 425Mhz was improved to 450Mhz on the latest NV35 card samples. From the picture below, it seems like NV35 card is still occupying 2 slots like the NV30 but the retail cards should only occupy a single slot.

The Madshrimps show you what performance increase a 4ghz workstation has over a "slow" 3ghz one! Here's a snip.

We take a brand new Pentium 4 3ghz with a 800Mhz FSB, put it into the ASUS P4C800 and hook it all up to a Prometeia system. How does it perform in everyday applications? Find out in this article on future CPU power

On the 6th of May, at one of the poshest places in town- the Godolphon ballroom at the Emirates Towers, we witnessed the Middle Eastern launch of the world's first x86-64 CPU- the AMD Opteron. The event was organized and conducted by Sky Electronics- the regional distributor of AMD products and because we work closely with them, we got the chance to assemble the dual Opteron system for them that was to be displayed at the launch event. Of course, we jumped at that chance

Here's some more breaking news from your one and only Warp2search.net! :D Thanks to Mr A , we have some Benchmark & Pictures of Nvidia's upcoming NV35!

Update: we have some Updated GeForce FX 5900 Ultra Specs! Thanks to VRZone.com

Just got word that Rage 3D have now posted the specs and boxshot of Sapphire's Ultimate 9800 256MB DDR Pro!

Thanks to jack_mort for the Info!

The French site 3Dchips-fr has released *real* specifications for nVidia's upcoming NV35. Click here to have a look in french or here for the english version.

MILPITAS, Calif., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: CREAF), a worldwide leader in digital entertainment solutions for PC users, today announced the Sound Blaster® MP3+ and Sound Blaster Go! portable USB Sound Blaster sound systems. Now it's as simple as connecting to a USB port for any PC user to upgrade from motherboard audio to premium-quality audio for listening to MP3 music or creating MP3 or WMA music from compact discs. The compact, portable Sound Blaster MP3+, slated for availability this month, is priced at only US$59.99 and the Sound Blaster Go! is priced at US$79.99 and is slated for availability in July....... Read More

SYSTEM BUILDERS will be relieved to hear that the Athlon MP 2800+ is with us at last. The Barton based processor has been the subject of much pining as AMD system builders looked on with envy at Intel's higher clocking competing processors. The new processor runs at exactly the same clock speed as the MP 2600+, the previous top of the range. It gets its PR boost by doubling the cache from 256KB to 512KB. That jump in cache size is likely to produce a bigger performance effect than the PR rating implies, most server applications like lots of cache and speed increases should reflect that. Read More