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SocketA has its first look at a FIC made (They have exclusive rights) ATI IGP 320 chipset.

Initial results from the ATI A3 based FIC AT31 Fusion are mixed. While 2D and 3D quality and DVD playback are excellent, 3D performance definitely lags behind the 420 chipset. Overall performance is greater than in the 3D realm comparatively, but it is certain that at this stage memory bandwidth needs to be increased. I'm sure a BIOS update and some fresh drivers will help.

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The website for the famous spyware-free version of Kazaa, Kazaa Lite's official website has just come back online after over a week of being down. See for yourself (link to Kazaa Lite site).

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New hPaqs are coming out that increase the cpu speed and features.

Battery life has been a key issue in previous generations of devices using Pocket PC 2002, according to Kevin Burden, an analyst with research firm IDC. The new iPaqs will use Intel's 400MHz XScale PXA250 processors, which should improve power management.

Active-Hardware review Asus i850E action.

As is the case with most Asus boards, the P4T533-C was no disappointment. Quite the contrary -- the P4T533-C demonstrated excellent performance, and solid support for PC1066 memory and the benefits it brings. All our tests ran without any problems, with the P4T533-C never flinching or breaking a sweat. In our opinion, the P4T533-C is well-equipped to sit at the center of a high-performance PC -- preferably in the company of a 533MHz FSB 2.53GHz Pentium 4, and loads of PC1066 memory. And why not? After all, the 4.2GB/sec transfer rate of the 533MHz FSB P4 is well matched with the 4.2GB/sec of bandwidth of PC1066 memory. In short, we're proud to award the Asus P4T533-C motherboard our highest distinction, and warmest recommendations.

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Gigabeat will cost about $405 (50,000 yen) in Japan, including a 5GB hard drive. Drives will also be available separately in 2GB and 5GB models, costing $162 and $324. Toshiba said the device would eventually be sold in the United States and Europe, but representatives were unaware of a European launch schedule.

SocketA has a review of the ECS KT333.

The ECS K7VTA3 revision 3.1 packs a lot of punch for a budget KT333 board. For around $70 you get RAID, LAN, and USB 2.0 along with excellent performance. For someone looking for a powerful system on a budget it would make an excellent choice. Overclockers will be left wanting more than ECS has provided, but those one a budget will definitely take notice.

ATI will be making price cuts to make way for the RV250.

According to sources, the upcoming RV250 is an updated version of the Radeon 8500 chip. However, given that it integrates the TV-out decoding function, the chip is smaller in size, thus reducing the production costs of both chip and graphics card manufacturers. Other features like the four-pipeline architecture and AGP 4x support remain unchanged. The difference between AGP 2x and 4x isn't that much because the CPU needs to do less work than before (with all the added features of the GPUs). Therefor, less bandwith is needed, but more is always better .

OcPrices reviews a X-micro Ti 4200.

The Geforce 4 Ti4200 is a fantastic chip and if you have the money to spend on the more expensive variants you should still give it consideration. X-Micro's Impact T4200 is what many people have been looking for in a GeForce4-based board. Great stock performance, video in/out capabilities, 128MB of memory, and a decent price tag to match. Truly, these Ti4200 cards are what the GeForce4 MX should have been. And I fully agree.

Anandtech has the next installment of the webserver analysis using the fastest CPUs.

As we've mentioned before, there's not much to get you excited when talking about the Athlon MP 2100+; it's a 66MHz clock speed increase that we've had on the desktop side for three months now. The performance boost that you get in dual processor environments over the "old" 2000+ is around 4% in some of the best case scenarios, which were illustrated by our database server tests. It's not the Athlon MP 2100+ that we should be focusing on however, it is AMD's strategy going into 2003 that requires our attention. (By the way, the Xeon 2.4Ghz won in all tests except the forum database test)

got apex? (no) reviews a Ti 4200.

It is easily said that the performance of this card sits exactly where it should be. Taking up position in between that of it’s big brother the Ti 4400 and the previous generation champ, the GF3 Ti 500, this card will provide all but the most fanatical of hardcore gamers exactly what they need to play their way through whatever games they desire. And, not only will it run games at excellent frame rates, it will do so with it’s battery of image quality enhancing features enabled. As I have previously stated, once you play for a while with AA and AF enabled you simply will not be able to go back to the blurred textures and jaggy polygon edges of old.

I'm up so early today due to the fact of a bad fire alarm. The unit has malfunctioned due to steam from the shower (that my Mom was taking). It has done this in the past as well. Needless to say we ripped the thing out of the ceiling. I can't get back to sleep so I'll post some news...

Legion Hardware reviews the KT333 offering from Asus.

What really astounded me about this board was not just the performance, it was not the extensive features, but it was more the value this KT333 solution offered. For just $130 US this board can be purchased online, which is a pretty damn good price compared to other KT333 boards. You may have seen this coming, but we at Legion Hardware have decided to give the ASUS A7V333 our Performance Award. It has clearly been earned and we think that ASUS have really found their hole with this one!

Active-Hardware reviews the legacy free IT7 using i845E action.

In other words, it's difficult to find anything wrong with the IT7 Max -- especially since it flew through all our tests. As a result, we can do nothing less than give the Abit IT7 Max our highest honors, and our heated recommendations.

That's correct, no Yammil comming out.

Otellini said Intel is not planning chips that can handle both 32-bit and 64-bit code. Bilingual chips, such as rival AMD's forthcoming Opteron, could be cheaper and easier for corporations to adopt, analysts have said, because much existing software will work on them.

INQ has seen the Spirits Within rendered in realtime!

I was able to finally see that demo running on an Athlon 2100+ with 256Mb of system Ram even though its recommended to have at least 512Mb and of course we used Nvidia George 4 TI 4600. Since we like to try different things we tried the same demo on a Gainward George 4 TI 4200 power pack and we were amazed.

AMDmb has their results of the magical 2123Mhz overclock and the proof.

And now we are left with the same very basic problem that I was going to attempt to unravel at the start of this article. With the three processors I’ve seen and tested based on the new Thoroughbred core, I have overclocked one by 117 MHz, one by 200 MHz and another by over 300 MHz. What is our statistical norm then? What would consumers see when purchasing their own Thoroughbred processor? In order to know with degree of credibility, we would have to do a lot more testing on hundreds, if not thousands, of processors. That is obviously not something we can just sit down and do here at Amdmb.com. It will take months, probably, for enough product (based on the Thoroughbred core) to get out into the hands of the users so we can begin to see results from that many processors. It looks like we will have to wait until then to get a good consensus on the power of the initial release of the Thoroughbred processor.