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http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2578&p=1 The new 65nm parts are looking pretty good so far...... Cedar Mill (single core, stock HSF) overclock...... Presler (dual core, stock HSF) overclock...... Not too shabby eh? :)

The new OpenGL fix is mustard!! http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/quake_4_high-end_performance/default.asp Wow. :eek:

This may be old news but I was very interested to see Leadtek are selling an 'Extreme' version of the 7800GTX featuring NVIDIA's dual-slot heat-pipe cooler. This cooler first featured on the Quadro FX 4500 workstation cards but it seems at least one of the AIB guys has decided it'd be pretty...

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20051007/index.html Looks like Intel have done a great job reducing power consumption with the new core/process. The CM core @ 3.4GHz consumes 34 watts less under load than the Prescott core at the same speed - that's almost 20%. Now I'd love to see what the...

According to VR-Zone anyways......... An impossible story to verify so it may just be a fabrication, keep that in mind kids. ;)

Our good friend Fud (yeah, I know how to spell his name!) over at the Inquirer has reported that, "ATI's R520 has eight Shader units". Ok, thanks for that Fud, now is that pixel shader units or vertex shader units? Do you even know the difference? Whenever I read his articles I always get the...

The Inquirer: Nvidia's NV50 canned Yeah, yeah, I know it's that asshat Fuad who wrote the story but I believe he has industry contacts that none of us have so you can't totally dismiss the story. I don't understand why NV48 and NV50 would be canned, doesn't seem to make much sense. I wonder...

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Njk2 Reading now, thanks for all your [H]ard work guys!! :)

ATI X850 details and pictures revealed ATI's R430, X800 XL/X800 details revealed X850 pricing, availability and performance are here Picture of the X850..... X850 Info. - 130nm TSMC low-k process - Dual-slot cooler - PCIe Only - In 3 'flavours', X850XT-PE (540/1.18 16x1, $549)...

At least according to this story. Launch date is 1st December. The interesting thing about this story is the claim that ATi will stick with their 130nm low-k process for X850 instead of the 110nm process. So (if this story is true) the X850 looks like being nothing more than X800 clocked...

I found a pretty cool document on the NV developer website that gives a little more info on SLi. Here's some of the stuff you may find interesting.......... The driver decides how to run the application and can work in 3 different modes with an SLi configuration. 1. Compatability mode -...

ASUS, nForce4 SLI, GeForce 6800 Ultra Strike 10 000 3DMark05 Stronghold Ok, I don't really give a rat's ass about 3DMark05 but I suppose breaking the 10K barrier is news-worthy. The score translates to a whopping 40.47 fps....wow, it's *almost* smooth! Pretty decent gains over a single 6800U...

Ok, we all know about the Alienware Video Array technology. It does the same thing as NVIDIA's SLi but uses a software instead of hardware solution. Alienware seem to have dumped their own technology in favour of NV's so WTF are they going to do with AVA having spent a ton of cash developing...

Some interesting pieces of information have appeared today to suggest that we may not be waiting months for SLi kit to appear - it may be just a few weeks. At the very least we're close to official launch and hopefully some more benchmarks to show what it's capable of. A chick (Ewle Ebonlore)...

Using the [H] SLi benchmark numbers on the front page I looked at how much of a boost SLi was delivering. I also added in some made-up numbers for a possible 6900U/NV48 card running at 500MHz core just to annoy the fanATicz..... ;) I based the increase in fps for 6900U on twice the boost...

Intel Pentium 4 "LGA775 64-Bit Prescott" 3.4F (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail So, Intel's desktop answer to AMD's 64-bit marketing machine is finally here! I'm not really that bothered but it's interesting news nonetheless. Ok, maybe in a couple of years time I'll be worried about 64-bit...

PS3.0 seems to deliver a decent performance boost over PS2.0 in 3DM05...... 66.70 Drivers, everything in system stock, all opts on PS/VS 2.0 4026 3DMarks GT1 17.0 FPS GT2 11.7 FPS GT3 21.0 FPS PS/VS 3.0 4591 3DMarks (+565 pts) 20.2 FPS (+19%) 12.9 FPS (+10%) 23.6 FPS (+12%)...

Howdy y'all, I'm sure plenty of you have been frustrated by the smaller 2mm holes on the 6800 PCB and the inability to attach the Waterchill VGA block (which uses 3mm screws) to it. I shared that frustration and decided to do something about it. My modding skills are somewhere between 'crazy...

Hello friends! I'm currently running my Waterchill system with deionized water and the Waterchill anti-algae additive only. This mixture is working very well so far but I'm interested in adding some extra 'water-wetting' form of additive to reduce temperatures (and make the water flo mo...

Hi folks! When I first put this rig together a couple of months ago I had great success overclocking my 3.2C. With the stock Intel HSF+TIM I could POST at 3.91GHz and was stable at 3.84GHz (1.60v). Since then I've been running stock speeds and didn't worry too much about overclocking. Recent...

I trashed my PSU today, I was running the following........... P4 3.2C Northwood @ 3.75GHz 1.60v 1GB DDR400 6800GT @ Stock 3 x 7200rpm SATA HDDs DVD-R Drive Waterchill control unit (inc. 2 x 120mm fans) 120mm case fan plus some other bits Prime95 wasn't loading the CPU 100% (damned...

I'm looking around for a new card to replace my beloved 9700Pro and have been checking out the new uber-geepeeyous (as have a few of you other blokes). The high-end models (6800U/UE, X800XTPE) are out of my price range so I've been looking at the next cards down - the 6800GT and X800XT...

I've just had a scary thought. Sooner or later (or never ever?) we're going to see a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (P4EE) based upon the Prescott (PSC) core. What's scary about that you ask? One word - transistors. The original P4EE was based upon the Xeon MP 'Gallatin' 2MB L3 core - basically a...

For anyone thinking about their next P4 purchase, be aware that we're 7 weeks away from some fairly decent price drops across the Prescott and Northwood range. Here's what you can expect...... (1,000 unit quantities) CPU - Price Jun25/Aug22 (Drop %) Northwood 3.06/533 - $218/$178 (-18%)...

I'm going to be buying a new P4 soon and need some advice. The new chip will be either a 3.0C or 3.2C and it'll be watercooled on an Asus P4C800-E with 2 x 512MB PC3200 (the original Corsair TwinX 3200LL stuff) modules. I have noticed that there are some P4s with slightly different (8-layer...