Xbitlabs reports that there are unofficial claims that Intel will add Pentium 4 processors with 1MB of cache into its product lineup later this year. Because of dramatic problems with 90nm Strained Silicon technology we reported about on Friday, the company presumably plans to strengthen its product lineup with Pentium 4 processors running at 2.80, 3.00 and 3.20GHz core-speeds with 1MB of cache to support sales this year amid Athlon 64 ramp.

3dchips.fr.com have scooped some benchmarks for Elsa's Falcox Radeon 9600 XT graphics card which is clocked at 500/600 MHz! Click here

The guy's over at AnandTech have thrown up their Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup Part 2 - ATI's Radeon 9800 XT article! which includes benchmarks for Nvidia's NV38 (Drivers used 52.14) against ATI's 9800XT (Catalyst 3.7 ) and were run on a AMD Athlon64 FX51 CPU! Here's a rip.

Some of the motivation behind Part 1 was to give everyone an idea how these two cards perform vs. mid/high end cards that are already out. We wanted to give a basis for comparison so that numbers between 9800XT and NV38 had some way to relate back to what we already know. So now we can get on with trying to push these to their limits and beyond. The only other card we will be testing in Part 2 is the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra with both 52.14 and publicly available 45.23 WHQL drivers. We will also be doing a separate article on ATI's Catalyst 3.8 drivers when they are released.

Recently AMD introduced its new Durons. We test the 1.6 ghz version. The most interesting part of this cpu is its core voltage, only 1.5 V. It is begging to be compared with an Athlon XP TbredB, dlt3c (known for reaching speeds up to 2700Mhz!). Is the new Duron an equally good overclocker ? Maybe even better ? Find out in this review at Madshrimps!

The next generation of microprocessors, the semiconductor ?brains? of computers, not only produce higher overall temperatures but also create one or more concentrated hot spots of particularly high heat on the chip. These hot spots, typically found above areas where the most amount of work is performed on the chip, must be kept to within a specified temperature to ensure high-performance and reliability. Traditional means of cooling these chips, such as heat sinks, fan sinks and heat pipes, require a large mass of metal to passively absorb and spread the heat to aircooled fins. These passive technologies cannot effectively cool the hot spots produced in next generation microprocessors..

"If I only had a better video card, then I'd own these punks!" "Man, these graphics suck! I need a better card!" "I just don't have the money to upgrade my video card."

Have you ever had those thoughts? Is your video card putting pain in your game? Then it's time for some relief! TsN and ATI want to provide that relief, by giving you the chance to win one of 6 ATI's RADEON 9800 PRO graphics cards.

Intel Corporation today announced an enhanced Intel® Xeon? processor for dual processor (DP) servers and workstations, featuring the top performance and fastest clock speed in the Intel Xeon processor family DP line, as well as drop-in compatibility for highly valued investment protection. The new Intel Xeon processor at 3.20 GHz features a 1 MB cache and a 533 MHz system bus. It is designed for use in general-purpose servers for Web hosting, data caching, search engines, security, streaming media and high performance computing, and in workstations for digital content creation, mechanical and electrical design, financial analysis, and 3D modeling. System manufacturers are expected to ship systems based on this new Intel Xeon processor this week.

PowerColor today announced their Radeon 9800 XT 256Mb of 256-bit DDR, 415/365 MHz with a 730MHz DDR clock and 9600 XT has 128Mb of 128-bit DDR, 500/300 MHz with a 600MHz DDR clock GPU's which will arrive in retail channels in October! but what was so interesting about the announcement is they will be launching a RADEON 9800 XT 128Mb Version, no info yet on clocks speeds.

and Read more to see what's faster the Radeon 9700 Pro or a Radeon 9600 XT ?

Just got word that Beyond3D have thrown up their ATI Radeon 9100 ICG Reference motherboard preview.

The Radeon 9100 IGP is more or less targeted as a Springdale type platform, with good all round performance, a Dual DDR400 memory bus and, after further behind the scenes dealings and IP trading with Intel, an 800MHz Frontside bus. So, in terms of system performance it should be up there with Intel?s latest entry offerings. However, as our introduction to Radeon 9100 IGP indicates, the key to RS300 is all about addressing the forgotten area of gaming.

3Dchips-fr.com have scooped Asus's ATI GPU roadmap which confirms that R420, R380 and R370 will be launched in the first quarter of 2004! The roadmap which you can view here also shows that there will be an AGP model of R420 based cards.

TweakTown sends word they've snagged roadmaps for SiS Intel and AMD Northbridge chipsets.

The following information is curtsey of Jason Wu direct from SiS in Taiwan. The roadmap we were sent was marked as confidential and NDA required, but we were never told about any NDA?s or asked not to publish any information.

Nothing earth-shattering or anything, but I asked my friend there about if their new cards were only going to do 2xAA as earlier reported and he wrote me back not only telling me that they're going to be doing 4xAA FSAA but he also sent me a chart detailing some more of their specs. :)

Xbitlabs reports that specifications of some actual graphics cards based on NVIDIA?s upcoming NV36 graphics processor for performance-mainstream market transpired in the web this week. The solutions based on the GeForce FX 5700 will feature a little-bit reworked GeForce FX 5600 GPU running at higher speed and DDR-II memory with 128-bit bus. NVIDIA decided not to cope with 256-bit design this year for mainstream solutions probably because it is more efficient from economic point of view to use newer and faster memory on conventional 128-bit channels.

The Firing Squad have posted their sneak peek at Asus's Radeon 9800 XT graphics card! Here's a snip.

As you can see, ASUS has come up with its own unique cooling solution for its RADEON 9800 XT card, which features dual fans and a copper heatsink, this is similar to the cooling setup ASUS implemented on its GeForce FX 5900 Ultra-based V9950 Ultra. We haven?t spent enough time with our card to come to any definite conclusions on its performance, but we can report that noise levels aren?t extraordinary.

Just spotted this bit of Info over at Elitebastards.com.

Anandtech have briefly posted up some unofficial Half-Life 2 numbers, comparing the Radeon 9800XT and GeForceFX 5950 in the forthcoming game benchmark. The numbers are interesting, although of course it's worth bearing in mind that these GeForceFX numbers were almost certainly achieved using the Detonator 50 drivers that Valve stipulated should not be used.

Today OCZ Technology announced the availability of the OCZ Annihilator Water Cooling Kit: available for both Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon XP processors. The OCZ Annihilator water cooling kit is the perfect solution for high performance PC users looking to keep their components cool without the noise that is typically associated with high performance cooling.

The guy's over at AnandTech have thrown up their Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup Part I - ATI's Radeon 9800 XT article! which includes benchmarks for Nvidia's NV38 (Drivers used 52.14) against ATI's 9800XT (Catalyst 3.7 ) and were run on a Intel Prescott 2.8GHz CPU! Here's a rip.

The XT line of Radeon 9x00 cards is specifically targeted at the very high end of the gaming market. With AMD and their Athlon 64 FX, Intel and the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition, it?s not too surprising to see even more companies going this direction. With an ultra-premium part like the Radeon 9800 XT the profit margins are high and more importantly, the PR opportunities are huge ? claiming the title of world?s fastest desktop GPU never hurts.

Sharp announced a new series of IC's, allowing 16x DVD recording. The first samples of the "GA301TXW1MZ" will be available in Japan by the middle of November, at a price of 200 Yen. Mass production is planned by December 26, and the estimated product volume will be 5,000 per month.
The new IC will be formalized under the OPIC (Optical IC) trademark, already registered by Sharp. It offers 16x maximum DVD recording speed for all DVD formats (DVD+R/+RW/-R/-RW), while is also capable of 60x maximum writing for CD-R/RW and 16x DVD-ROM reading. Note that according to the manufacturer of each DVD writer, those specifications can be limited. Source: CDR-Info

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I want to believe ;-) On Monday we reported about a picture we found on Hercules webserver.

We all speculated: It is a double GPU graphics card but it is not.
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