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AMDWorld has a review of the Leadtek board based on the fine SiS 735 chipset.

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Warp2Search has new leaked drivers for the Radeon. I did try them and noticed a bit of a slow down in some areas of Tribes 2, I reverted back to the good old 3286. Maybe you will have better results.

MaxReboot has a piece of news on a Radeon 8500 Ultra. They say that the clock and Mem will be set at 300/300mhz.

I just finished my Radeon 8500 review. I have all three BIOSes in it to compare to, please let me know if there is any mistakes in there as well.

I should have my article on the Radeon 8500 up by tomorrow the latest. I have numbers for all three types of BIOSes.

The Radeon 8500 and all three BIOSes compared!Next Page »

Her's an interesting article about the potential reincarnation of the floppy drive. The Inquirer

Here's an article over at ExtremeTech giving some of the details of nVidia's new NV25 chip to be launched on Feb. 5th.

Gamepower has an exclusive of a whole pile of screenshots for the new UT2. The article is in both german and english. This game is looking very sweet indeed.

Adrian's site is back up and running on a mirror site here. From what I gather the site went down originally because of a DOS attack. Some folks just have nothing else better to do....

SocketA has a review of the ECS KT266a board. They gave it an 86 overall.

ZDNet has posted an article on the new P4 Northwood core cpu. Worth noting is the core shrink, copper interconnects and addition of 512kb of L2 cache. Somehow I don't think it's going to help *ntel to much in it's performance war with AMD.

GotApex has a good review on the XBox for those of you into console gaming.

There are a few scans of the upcoming UT2 posted at Planet Unreal for your drooling enjoyment! The scans are off of a French magazine article, but there is a link to a translation over at VoodooExtreme. You'll have to scroll down a bit to see it.

Yep, AMD decided to extend thier popular roadshow and online contest until Jan.7, so hurry and sign up online.

tBreak has a review of the MSI MPX board. Sadly, it only scored an 80/100.

LegionHardware has a shootout of these two KT266a boards. The Shuttle wins overall because of its features and performance overall.

Sign up now as today is the last day to win an SV24 PC and a few other prizes from VIA. Contest entry form here.

A fresh update to Chris Hill's famous GF FAQ page has an update today. Linkage

Happy new years everyone! And with the new year brings with it a new contender to the ongoing cpu war between AMD and Intel. AMD brings in the new year with a bang with the introduction of the 2000+ clocked in at 1.67Ghz using the quite capable Palomino core. Review at Game PC

Well, it is a few minutes away from the beginning of a new year if your EST. Let me just say that I want everyone to have a great year. I hope no one gets too drunk tonight .

As you know Napster has been offline now for quite some time due thier court battle. In order to comply with the court order and get along with the music industry giants, they have completely revamped thier software. If you'd like a quick peek at what's been going on and what will be offered with the new 'pay' service have a look here.

Viahardware has a preview of this new MPX board. Keep in mind that the board is in its prepoduction stage and isn't final yet.

I saw this on AMDzone. Check out this interview with Dave Jones. It is a good read and even better if you like linux.

Turtle Beach has released new certified drivers for the Santa Cruz sound card running under both the Win2K and XP OS's. These drivers are supposed to improve the cpu utilization. Linkage--TB SC Drivers

The graphics chipset giants are at it again with new chips on the way in the next few months. These new chips are to be on a new .15 micron die which should produce some very decent numbers on 3DMark. Of note in this article is the mention of ATI shipping samples. Do they mean to 3rd party vendors like nVidia does? It should make things interesting if they do. Linkage--Digitimes

Anandtech has a review of the SV24 from Shuttle. The SV24 is a mini-computer, it is great for the living room or any other place that you can't stick a huge PC.

A new MBM release is out. Among other items in this version is nForce chipset and AMD 768 support has been added to the mix. Linky--MBM