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New official Radeon drivers have been released for Windows NT4, Win2K and XP. Get'em here.

One of DMIAD's buds sent in this great work of art. That'll be the new logo for the site! I think it looks great.

Yes, it has been released. Grab the download here. I'll run some tests and report any changes also. Update: The only change I see is that they added an 'Advanced Pixel Shader' test. My Score went down 100 points, but that could be caused by my drivers. I will run more test soon.

Radeonator v1.42 is a tweaking utility for....you guessed it the Radeon. Get it over at the http://www.m3dzone.com/\">M3DZone.

M$ and it's new found concern for bugs has unleashed it's army of programmers armed to the teeth with cans of RAID in search of buggy software and lo and behold we now have a new patch for IE 5, 5.5 and 6. For your downloading delight get it here.

John Carmack has come out and flamed nVidia in a way, over the new GeForce4MX video cards. Apparently they aren't to hot if you intend to run Doom.(New version?) He states that support for the Radeon 8500 has been added and that the game will run far better on a GF3 or ATI 8500. Further details at the Inquirer.nVidia-0 ATI-1

Check out AMD's new packaging! Thanks Inquirer.

We are under way to start up a new section of the site determined to give you the latest in software news. DMIAD will be heading this one up, so if you have any questions, just give him an email. I'll be writing the pages this week (I hope) so stay tuned!

I've already gotten a new logo for the site and I was wondering what else people can come up with! Send all your cool logo designs to aronschatz@aselabs.com. I look foward to getting a new logo!

I'll be going to the Toy Fair in NYC. I'll try to get some pics and write something about it also. Should be fun to see the new technology coming in toys.

The Inquirer has another article on the fact that OEMs may overclock the GF4 to improved the speeds in games and stuff (and to improve their profits).

The remaining question is: How many Geforce 4 chips faster than 300 MHz Nvidia will sell, as the yield of fast chips on the 0.15 micron process is likely to be small?

The Inquirer has a story on Nvidia may be Elsa's savior. The question that remains: Why would you want to rescue them when there are other players around?

The Best Buy ad for $129.99 was a mistake and they cancelled ALL pre-orders. Too bad, you almost had a great deal . Link - The Inquirer

The Inquirer also has a story about Elsa not getting the credit that it may need.

The Inquirer has a huge amount of info about Intel's server CPUs and chipset that are coming out soon.

The position for four way symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) systems is rather similar, except that the McKinley is slated for the introduction in the latter half of the second quarter, probably May, running at 1GHz and with both 1.5MB and 3MB level three cache flavours.Both these, and Madison, again in the first half of next year, are supported by the 870 chipset, but Intel will offer the Madison in 3MB and 6MB versions.

Many of you are registered users of the site. If you didn't know, we have forums and private message avaliable on the site. Look to the top left for PMs and click the navbar above for the forums. Hope to see lots of people posting soon!

THG
It doesn't really matter which GeForce4 Ti card you choose. You will always be a winner. If you can only spend $199, then take the GeForce4 Ti4200 and be merry, because it is still faster than the former performance leader GeForce3 Ti500. Speaking of which - I hope that no dealer has still got these cards in stock. GeForce3 Ti500 can now only sell at price points of $149-179. This is a steep drop considering its price as of yesterday, which was $299. Who would pay that when he can get a faster product for $100 less?

Anandtech
For now, the GeForce4 has been the first NVIDIA GPU in recent history to hit the market in such an impressive fashion. The GeForce3 was exciting but it offered limited performance gains; the Ti 500 gave us another performance boost but nothing too impressive. The GeForce4 however is not only improved architecturally but its raw power boost translates into some serious performance gains even today, not to mention all of the feature improvements such as accuview AA and nView multimonitor support.
Thanks AA for this spotting!

Cross platform support is a must for this new standard. EETimes has the scoop.

The new spec uses double-data-rate and quad-data-rate techniques to dramatically increase the PCI bus bandwidth to 2.1 Gigabytes/second or 4.3 Gbytes/sec.

The Inquirer has more news about the new Intel roadmaps. They are flying with news lately, keep up the good work Mike!

Yes, it is true. AMD has its logo on the Ferrari 2002. The link found at The Inquirer.

Intel is refusing to accept or deny the existance of Yammil, the X86-64 bit CPU. Link - The Inquirer

The Inquirer is reporting that the Intel 845G Chipset will be pushed back into May. It is around that time that new 533(133)Mhz P4s will be out.

Well the new and improved *cough* security conscious MS, has rolled out a nice big patch for Win2K users in a BIG 17MB package. Kinda makes you wonder just how many holes there really are with a size patch like this. Have fun downloading! Linky Win2K 'swiss cheese' patch

Well, I only bought my board about 2 months ago and now it is second best again . Here is ATI's page on the 128 MB Radeon 8500.

All I can say is Whoopppsss. It gave me a good laugh.

The Inquirer is reporting that the new 1.3Ghz .13 micron Celeron from Intel is in very short supply. Hey Intel, You need the Celeron line to compete with the Duron!

hardCOREware.net has a shootout of the 2 fastest chips of each company. The Intel Northwood at 2.2 Ghz can finally take the lead, but AMD's 2000+ is running at a scant 1.67 Ghz, and AMD's next CPU will make the gap even less.

TweakTown has posted a review of the new Nanotherm thermal compound, pitting it against AS2. They Nanotherm takes a slight lead over the AS2. To bad it wasn't against the newer AS3 version that came out a few weeks ago.

I spied this little article about a voltage mod over at PC Stats which involves using pencil marks between resistors, to increase the voltage going to the GPU and memory, thereby allowing for higher potential for overclocking your beasty. As always use caution if you intend to try it!!

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