Chicago (IL) - A cross-licensing agreement with Nvidia is beginning to kick in for Intel. The company plans to introduce a new high-end version of the 955X chipset which will enable users to run two Nvidia or ATI graphics cards in tandem.

The Copperhead doesn't come cheaply, but it's the first mouse that features 2,000dpi support, a 1,000Hz USB poll rate, and built-in memory for the best gaming performance around.

So specifically on this Galaxy model I can say, the Zalman copper cooler looks and works fantastic, its noise level is low in IDLE though the temperature already is 45 Degrees C. At high-performance the card remains under 60 Degrees C, which is good. The card although based on reference design has it's own touch and feel. The blue PCB, the copper cooling, something I applaud very much. The new Dual BIOS functionality. In retrospect I must say I really do like the idea of the Dual BIOS functionality of this graphics card.

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Today after more than 2 years a new version of NVClock has been released. It contains a lot of new features and should be a huge improvement over previous releases.

New features include:

• GeforceFX/6/7 support (experimental overclocking: Coolbits + low-level)
• Pipeline modding for NV4x cards
• Smartdimmer support for 6200Go based laptops
• Hardware monitoring for LM99/MAX6659/F75375S/W83L785R chipsets
• Support for internal NV43/NV44/NV47 temperature sensor
• Ability to enable disabled temperature sensors used on NV43/NV44/NV47 boards
• Fanspeed adjustment for FX5900/6600GT/6800GT boards and F75375S/W83L785R sensors
• OpenGL options using NV-CONTROL extension
  
• Rewritten GTK2 interface
• Bios parsing (GeforceFX/6/7)
• X86-64 support
• Windows support for debugging purposes

The latest NVClock can be downloaded from http://www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock/nvclock0.8b.tar.gz

A lotus flower as seen through plain, untreated glass (right) and glass treated with a new nanotech coating that reduces fogging and glare (left). Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were inspired by the lotus plant, whose leaves naturally repel water.

Photograph courtesy Rubner Research Group at MIT

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Let me know what you think. If you don't know where to start then head here first: http://www.konfabulator.com

And here is the link to the nV News Forum Feed Widget (right-click, save as)

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• Back to School OCZ Technology Memory Giveaway!!!
  

• NVIDIA 6600LE in SLI at OCWB
  

• Intel Pentium-M 780 Processor Review at GamePC
  
• Foxconn NF4UK8AA-8EKRS Motherboard Review at HTPCNews
  
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• Nextherm ICS 8200 Case Review at Metku
  
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• Logisys Blue Acrylic Yin Yang Case Review at VH
  
• XSPC Passive Aluminium Reservoir Review at Viperlair
  
• Water Cooling Madness - Corsair vs. Thermaltake vs. Gigabyte at Tweaktown
  
• Gigabyte 3D Galaxy Water Cooler Review at Club OC
  
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• Copper Silent 3 (Copper Lite) Socket A Heatsink CPU cooler Review at Techneek
  

• Samsung Yepp YP-MT6Z 1GB MP3 Player Review at PC Stats

EVGA 133-K8-NF41-AX MOTHERBOARD
The motherboard looks to be in the basic configuration and closely follows reference design except for one rather unique feature that I have seen only offered by one other board. This board has an extra PCI-Express (E) full-length slot making a total of 3 available. The two yellow full-length slots are x8 PCI-E for installing cards and activating SLI. The blue full-length slot is x16 PCI-E for use with a single PCI-E card. This method of enabling SLI is unlike most other SLI-capable boards which use jumpers or switching cards.

Continuing with the EVGA theme, Techage reviews a EVGA e_GeForce 7800 GT. They manage 12 pages of benchmarks and a decent overclock and conclude that they do indeed do love their new toy.

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GamePC also checks out retail cards of the GeForce 7800 GT from ASUS and eVGA both in SLI modes too. The important numbers seem to indicate that even at high resolution and with high degree of AA and AF enabled, the GT SLI can certainly keep up with the GTX SLI setup.

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• Keysonic ACK-720E Illuminated Aluminium Keyboard Review at Short-Media
  
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The rising demand is expected to contribute an additional one million graphics card shipments to the industry every month in the second half of this year, Sun said.

MikeC: NVIDIA is currently working on two issues that affect image quality. One is with the application profile system. The driver image setting, which controls the level of texture filtering optimizations, is not functioning properly as the global image setting is overriding the application profile image setting. When working correctly, the application profile should ALWAYS override the global setting.

For example, if the image setting in your Half-Life 2 profile was set to high quality and the global image setting was set to quality, then Half-Life 2 would be running with a quality image setting.

The application profile problem is mentioned in the 77.77 Driver Release Notes along with a workaround.

Note: Anisotropic optimizations are not implemented for OpenGL applications in the current Release 75 driver.

The texture shimmering problem is a separate issue, which we have been investigating and previously reported to NVIDIA. It is possible that the application profile bug could also have an effect on the texture shimmering problem.

As far was we know, NVIDIA still maintains that the high quality image setting contains no texture filtering optimizations. However, with the previously mentioned problems, it would not be prudent to conduct any type of verification at this time.

Moderated discussion here.

To help separate their NX7800GTX from other cards, MSI also bundles a copy of their Dynamic Overclocking Technology Express, also known as D.O.T. Express. As its name implies, D.O.T. can be used to dynamically overclock your NX7800GTX graphics card to one of six predetermined settings depending on temperature. The slowest setting, Private, overclocks your card 2%. The five other settings are Sergeant (4%), Captain (6%), Colonel (8%) General (9%) and Commander (10%).

Currently, there are two revisions of 7800GTX on the market, Rev W and Rev U. You can find the revision number on the sticker on the upper left hand side. We found that in general, Rev W boards have better chances of getting a higher overclocking.

With the release of the GeForce 7800 GT, one shouldn’t even consider a GeForce 6800 GT or Ultra card, as the 7800 GT is so close in terms of price, but performs far better and is much better in the heat / power / noise department as well. Frankly, we would prefer a 7800 GT card compared to anything which ATI has on the market we well - there's just no reason to buy a high-end Radeon card for gaming at this point, considering the 7800 GT has better single card performance and has the ability to run in SLI mode.

PC Perspective checks out the gamer-oriented version, Abit Fatal1ty AN8-SLI.  Noise levels are sacrificed for ultimate performance as the nForce4 chipset is actively cooled with a Vantec-style chipset cooler.  The chipset isn't the only component benefiting from active cooling as Abit adds small fans to draw airflow across the motherboard's power management hoping to increase overclocking capabilities.

Judging by the scores of the X300, the budget level cards such as the GeForce 6200 will benefit from the performance oriented settings far more than cards with larger amounts of on-card memory.

As the latest in ASUS' line of factory overclocked performance edition (hence the TOP name, which means Top Overclocking Performance), the ASUS Extreme N7800 GTX TOP has quite a task to match the standards set by the previous TOP cards. ASUS claims to select only the best performing graphics processing unit (GPUs) capable of handling the stresses of overclocking for these cards. Together with the fastest memory chips and a customized cooling solution, the TOP edition is the fastest graphics card produced by ASUS for any particular GPU. Add that to the solid reputation ASUS has built up over the years with both enthusiasts and mainstream consumers alike and that says a lot of the TOP series. So does the ASUS Extreme N7800 GTX TOP truly lives up to its status? Read on as we reveal to you if this card is as good as its specifications suggest.

We’ve already introduced the 6600GT previously, so for now, we’ll skip the introduction and get straight to the actual product. Although it’s a minor thing in the grand scheme of features, the black PCB color and orange copper actually make this card attractive than standard versions we see from manufacturers these days. The heatsink and fan combination are a needed accessory to dissipate heat off of the modern GPUs. Not too impressively, the combo isn’t the quietest in the market. Even though we have seen slightly better cards noise wise, the difference between the loudest fans and the quietest ones isn’t all that much unless you are comparing a passively cooled heatsink to a bold design such as the ones from HIS. With that said, AOpen does offer something special that other companies tend to ignore on midrange adapters: RAMsinks. Throughout our testing, we’ve found the RAMsinks to be of little help in the overclocking department, but if the company can implement them without adding onto the cost, there’s nothing to complain about. The RAMsinks as well as the heatsink and fan combo performed rather well, as you’ll later find out in the evaluation.

Updates:

• Added support for GeForce 7800 GT GPU
  
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We have isolated the problem and we are working on the fix. We will also be working on a fix for the application profile problems that some users were experiencing. We hope to have a fix soon. --Brian Burke, NVIDIA Corp.

GDHardware then takes two MSI GeForce 7800 GTX cards for an SLI adventure. 7800 GTX SLI is presently the bee knees in terms of high end gaming perhaps limited by CPU but, if you have the money for it, take the plunge and you won't (like me) regret it.

PC perspective has an exclusive of sorts Asus N7800 GTX TOP review. The fist GeForce 7800 GTX based card with a different HSF. The HSF is actually an Artic Cooling NV5 type and because of this, the card comes clocked at 486MHz core and 1.35GHz memory. The only downside is that the cooling solution does take up 2 slots.

Digit-life does some GTX to GT invetigation with a Leadtek 7800 GTX for those that are interested to see the difference.

Last but not least, Extrememtech reviews a XFX GeForce 7800 GT card. A retail card based on a recently released 7800 GT GPU which certainly looks value for money in terms of cost per performance ratio. The GT keeps up with the GTX which has beefier HSF and 1 extra quad block and 1 vertex shading unit.

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I concentrated on the F.E.A.R. demo as it is a very stressful game for even the hefty 7800 GTX. I also give my impressions of the Dungeon Siege II demo.

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• MSI Socket 775 Motherboard Shootout at Tom's
  

• Thermaltake TWV500W 500W Power Supply Review at Insanetek
  
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• SunbeamTech Pro Series Illuminated Keyboard Review at ClubOC
  
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The XFX 7800 GT is a strong performer in all tests and I would be proud to have one in my gaming rig. Looking at the results XFX has made a really good card and it was a wise decision to clock their card to 450/1.05. That factory overclock is going to make even the biggest enthusiast ponder which card to get for his box.

7800GTX works on 24 Pixel Pipeline and 8 Vertex Shader units while the 7800GT works on 20 Pixel Pipeline and 7 Vertex Shader Units. Obviously the card is inferior to 7800GTX but the price difference is worth considering. The 7800GTX currently costs around $542.00 and the 7800GT around $449.99, $100 difference between their prices. The 7800GTX is truly a beast but 7800GT provides great performance/price ratio to those who are neck to neck with their budget.

Palit GeForce 7800 GT 256MB is a very interesting product. The card demonstrated excellent performance results, having outscored even the more expensive RADEON X850 XT PE, to say nothing of the GeForce 6800 Ultra and X850 XT. I guess there is no need in extra dithyrambs, our readers have seen that this card is well worth its price anyway; besides, the price drop is over the horizon.

This tool is designed for advanced users only! NiBiTor (NVIDIA BIOS Editor) is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA cards. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts to have full control over advanced features and functionality found on firmware on supporting graphics cards. Carsten Schürmann author of NiBiTor is actively supporting the application exclusively through MVKTECH.

The What song are you listening to? thread continues to be updated.  We are up to 104 pages, thanks in some part to superkyle's never-ending NiN playlist.  Other songs recently posted have been by artists ranging from Aretha Franklin to Pantera.

OWA posted some Shuttle Launch Pics.  See if you can help to identify the photographer as one shot in particular makes a fantastic desktop wallpaper.

Obviously, MikeC's NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT quick look has been a popular thread for Q&A on the latest GPU from NVIDIA.  Given a little over a day to preview the card, the forum post is the prelude to a full review Mike is working up as soon as he finishes the current project involving a pair of very fast video cards.

As soon as the 7800GTX was announced and, subsequently was available for purchase, the quest for even higher overclocking results began.  ozziegn asks of 7800GTX owners, Have you replaced your stock cooler yet?  The thread includes pics of the 7800GTX with a Zalman ZF-700Cu installed.

macatak started the Win32-Forceware 77.77 (WHQL) support thread.  Some users are still experiencing Gamma and Overlay issues.  Others are still waiting for the fabled Release 80 Forcewares.

One of my favorite forums to click through is the Hardware Rumor Mill.  Could NVIDIA be introducing a Physics Graphics Card with the next generation GPU?  Certainly a possibility.  Are the R520, R520 GL, RV515 XT and RV530 XT ready for production?

There are a few QuakeCon 05 related threads running in the Gaming Central Forum.  DMA started a general catch-all thread here that includes links to event pics, screenshots and movies.  There is also Teh Carmack Speaks!!, a thread related to comments from an AMDZone interview where Carmack makes some pretty interesting comments regarding Physics processors.

• NVIDIA Powers QuakeCon X in Dallas

  NVIDIA is again the official graphics card and premiere sponsor of QuakeCon 2005 (the 10th QuakeCon ever), providing tournament prize money, mini-tournaments, daily contests, and more. On August 12th players will be able to compete head-to-head with id company employees in the “id Challenge”. QuakeCon is also the place to get a first-look at Quake 4, the next highly anticipated sequel in the vastly popular series.

• Does Your GPU Have The Power of 3?

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• NVIDIA Extends Full-Throttle Experience with GeForce 7800 GT

  Boasting support for all of the must-have features of the top-of-the-line GeForce 7800 GTX—including support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting, and NVIDIA SLI technology—the GeForce 7800 GT delivers incredible performance and outstanding image quality for an awesome gaming experience.

• Vote for Your Favorite Power of 3 Character!

  Will it be Nalu showing off the stunning effects made possible by Shader Model 3.0, Luna flaunting her ultra-realistic, high dynamic-range lighting capabilities, or Dawn and Dusk representing the extreme power of NVIDIA SLI technology? Vote for your favorite today and then check back to see the results!

• Future-Proof your PC with NVIDIA nForce Technology

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• NVIDIA Makes a Huge Splash with Immersive Visualization at Siggraph

  Last week, NVIDIA showcased the power of the new Quadro FX 4500 in its Immersive Visualization Dome, a theater demonstrating interactive, real-time content found only in the world’s leading planetariums.

Along comes this Nvidia Forceware Tweak Guide which covers the optimization of the Forceware drivers from start to finish. Everything from correct driver installation and setup and how to clean your machine of older drivers and devices, through to clear descriptions of all the Forceware and nView Control Panel settings, how to enable and use advanced Forceware and RivaTuner tweaks and rounded off with benchmarking, overclocking and troubleshooting advice. All this in one handy reference source for Nvidia graphics card users.

• Support for GeForce 7800 GT
• SLI support for GeForce 6600 and GeForce 6600 LE
• New SLI rendering mode (SLI Antialiasing) for increased antialiasing performance
• Broader SLI optimizations and validation for the latest games
• Resolved SLI Antialiasing issues with some applications and generating screen shots.

Feedback here.

Revenue for the six months ended July 31, 2005 was a record $1.16 billion, compared to revenue of $928.0 million for the six months ended July 25, 2004.

"Our financial performance is a result of the successful execution and delivery of many market-leading products and platform-changing initiatives. Strong year-over-year revenue growth in our desktop GPU, MCP, and workstation product lines, combined with our intense focus on gross margin improvement led to our highest quarterly net income in three years," stated Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at NVIDIA.

"Our continued success underscores the importance of our key long-term growth strategies -- innovate and be the world GPU leader, expand and extend the reach of GPUs beyond the PC, and deliver total innovative market-defining platforms."

• Gross margin improved 710 basis points over the gross margin for the second quarter fiscal 2005.
• The NVIDIA nForce product line revenue increased 128 percent year-over-year and has achieved record revenue for three consecutive quarters.
• The NVIDIA Quadro workstation product line revenue increased almost 40 percent year-over-year and achieved record revenue.
• Introduced and simultaneously delivered two new GeForce (TM)7 graphics processing units (GPUs) -- the GeForce 7800 GTX and the GeForce 7800 GT -- designed for the enthusiast and performance desktop PC segments, respectively.
• NVIDIA nForce4 SLI technology and dual GeForce 7800 GTX GPU are now featured in the new Dell XPS 600 desktop PC.
• The NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT GPU and the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI-based Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard earned the 2005 PC World "World Class" Award as best products of the year in hardware.
• Introduced two new NVIDIA Quadro GPUs -- the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 -- designed for the high-end and mainstream professional segments, respectively. Both GPUs support SLI technology.
• NVIDIA extended share from 70 percent to 73 percent from the first calendar quarter of 2005 to the second calendar quarter of 2005 in the Performance DX9 Desktop GPU segment as reported in the Mercury Research Second Quarter PC Graphics Report 2005.

The test system consists of an Athlon 64 4000+, Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, 1GB of DDR400 RAM, Windows XP SP2, and reference driver 77.77. AA and AF were set to application-controlled and the image setting was set to high quality.

Two games were chosen that are well-known for the demands they place on the graphics sub-system. In-game graphics settings were at their highest level, which includes Ultra water detail in Far Cry.

The reference card arrived on Tuesday.

A bit about the new card as the GeForce 7800 GT is a 5 quad GPU with 7 vertex shading units clocked at 400MHz and paired with 256MB of memory running at 1GHz. It seems with current CPU limitations the GT is every bit as good as the GTX! There is more good news as the GeForce 7800 GT is available as of launch!

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• Graphics card vendors pre-announce Nvidia GeForce 7800GT
  
• SFF Roundup, Socket 939 Systems at Anandtech
  
• Albatron K8SLI Motherboard Review at OC Cafe
  
• ULi M1695 Chipset Preview at Tom's
  
• SunbeamTech Chameleon Review at Phoronix
  
• Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB SATA Hard Drive Review at Big Bruin

• Power of 3?
  
• Chipsets Today and Tomorrow
  

• Gigabyte GV-3D1-68GT Dual 6800 GT Review at HWZ
  
• Gigabyte GV-3D1-68GT Dual 6800 GT Review at Digit-life
  

• CMP vs. SMP on AMD Platform Investigated at Digit-life
  
• VIA C7-M Processor Preview at PC Stats
  
• Abit Fatal1ty AN8-SLI Motherboard Review at T-break
  
• Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal Intel 955X Motherboard Review at PC Stats
  

• Thermaltake ThermalRock Eclipse Case Review at Tweaknews
  
• NorthQ 500W Ultra Silent Power Supply Review at PC modding Malaysia
  
• Koolance Exos 2 Review at Gruntville
  

• 3 Huge HDD Shootout at GD Hardware
  
• SCSI Hard Drive Basics at Big Bruin
  

• Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Channel Speakers Review at hardCOREware
  

Suprising with the release of NVIDIA's new nForce4 SLI X16 chipset, comes a review from Extremetech of a Dell XPS 600 which incorporates nForce4 Intel SLI X16 chipset and 2 GeForce 7800 GTX cards with dual slot cooling solutions.

Anandtech then reviews a eVGA GeForce 7800GTX with eVGA's new AC3 cooling system which they promise will help deliver a better overclocking experience. Anandtech got their card to run at 500 MHz core and 1.35 Ghz!

A Gainward Ultra/3500PCX Golden Sample card falls onto the grubby mitts of the guys over at bit-tech. This card comes factory overclocked at 470MHz for the core and the memory is clocked at 1.3 GHz matching eVGA's GTX KO specs! They employ the newly released single player demo of F.E.A.R along with a host of other games to gauge the performance of this card which, doesn't disappoint.

PC Impact from France on the other has a Gigabyte 3D1 - 68GT dual GeForce 6800 GT GPU card to play around with. The Core and memory clocks are also set a little higher than reference 6800 GT clocks at 370 MHz and 1.1 GHz. Cost aside, this card does manager to give a 7800 GTX a run for its money on most games not suprisingly since,theoretically, the 3D1-68GT has 32 fragment pipelines, and 12 vertex shading units between the pair of the GPUs and this card is probably for collectors as it costs a cool €700!

• NVIDIA nForce(TM)4 SLI(TM) Technology Supercharges Powerful New Dell Desktop PC
  
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• Sony claims Playstation 3 Linux & Tiger capable
  
• Creative unveils Sound Blaster X-Fi boards
  

• Asus A8N-SLI Premium Athlon64 Motherboard Review at PC Stats
  
• AOpen i915GMm-HFS Review at Sudhian
  
• Abit AW8 955X Express Chipset Motherboard Review at Bytesector
  
• Crucial PC2-5300 DDR2-667 Ballistix Memory Review at Motherboards
  

• Quiet PC/Zalman TNN 300 System Case Review at Hexus
  
• Lian-Li PC-767 "Classical Silent" Case Review at OCIA
  
• Thermaltake Tenor VB2000 HTPC Case Review at 3D Velocity
  
• HEC Group 6C28 ATX PC Case Review at Big Bruin
  
• Konvekt-O-Matic PRO and PRO LC - Passive Radiators Review at AMDGamer
  
• Cooler Master Centurion 531 Case Review at Insanetek
  
• Thermaltake Aquabay M1 Review at RBMods
  
• Zalman Reserator 1 Plus Fanless Water Cooler Review at PimpRig
  
• Gigabyte 3D Galaxy Liquid Cooling System GH-WIU01 Review at OCWB
  
• Cooler Master Blue Ice Review at Viperlair
  

• New "Normal Offset Mapping" option, which improves image quality (again) and is a MUST HAVE feature.
• New "Vertex Program Optimization" option, which may improve performance slightly.
• Configuration files for the GeForce FX 5600U, 5800U, 5900U, 5950U and GeForce 6200, 6600, 6800LE, 6800, 6800GT, 6800U and 7800GTX GPUs.

Link to screenshots here. Screenshot of GUI and download location here.

Update: Check out the official 3mood web site here!

The MSI NX7800 GTX video card is a very strong performer in games. We just can’t get over the level of game play the new GeForce 7800 GTX allows. This is how gaming should be. In DOOM 3, even with just a single MSI NX7800 GTX, we were playing smoothly at 1600x1200 with 4X Transparency Multisample Anti-Aliasing. It seems one card does the job just fine, but if you put two cards in for SLI, you’ll get a large performance boost allowing Transparency Supersampling and incredibly high frame rates.

Importantly, there appears to be a bug with FSAA in the FEAR Demo. Firstly, you should make sure that you set the FSAA level in the in-game options, and set Antialiasing in your graphics card's control panel to 'Application Preference'. Secondly, your FSAA setting may not 'stick' after you adjust it and quit - you may need to go back into your options and cycle through the FSAA level (i.e. set it Off then back to your desired level) for it to be actually implemented each time you play.

If you see visible jaggedness on your screen AA is not being implemented - go back into your settings and reset it to your desired level, then go back into the game and it should be implemented. The difference is noticeable (as is the slowdown).

• Alienware S-4m 7700: GeForce Go 6800 power at Hardware-mag
  
• ABIT R9550-256Guru Review at HWZ
  

• DFI Infinity nForce 4 Motherboard Review at Futurelooks
  
• ECS PF88 Extreme Hybrid SiS 656 Motherboard Review at Digit-life
  
• Asus P5WD2 Premium Intel 955X Motherboard Review at PC Per
  
• OCZ PC2-5400 (DDR667) DDR2 Memory Review at Guru3D
  
• OCZ PC3500 Gold GX Review at Neoseeker
  

• AOpen Nouveau Case Review at Trusted Reviews
  
• Gigabyte Aurora Case & WC kit Review at bit-tech
  
• Asetek WaterChill CPU/VGA/Chipset Power kit - KT12AT-L30 Review at HotHardware
  
• Coolermaster Aquagate mini R80 & R120 Review at Technic3D
  
• Spire DiamondCool Review at Insanetek
  

• Western Digital Passport 80GB External USB2.0 HDD Review at 3D Velocity
  

• Steel Sound 5.1 Headphone Review at Tweaknews
  
• JBL Encounter 2.1 Speaker System Review at Tech Lounge
  

Trusted Reviews plays with a pair of Aeolus GeForce 7800 GTX cards for some sweet SLI action! And sweet it is as their benches proved even at resolutions of 1600 by 1200..and even at 2048 by 1536.

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• Samsung SyncMaster 930MP 19-inch LCD Monitor Review at PC Stats
  

• AMD Athlon64 FX-57 Processor Review at GamePC
  
• Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Processor Review at Sharkyextreme
  
• ECS PF88 Extreme Hybrid Intel/AMD Motherboard Review at PC Stats
  
• ECS RS400-A Radeon Xpress 200 Motherboard Review at HWZ
  
• Crucial Ballistix PC2-5300 Memory Review at Viperlair
  

• Akasa Eclipse-62 Case Review at PC Modding Malaysia
  
• Zalman ZF700-Cu GPU Heatsink Review at VH
  
• Antec Phantom 500W Silent Power Supply Review at Ascully
  
• Sunbeamtech Chromatic Windmill Control Panel Review at Big Bruin
  

• Multitasking with Native Command Queuing Investigated at Tech Report

The Company's prepared remarks will be followed by a question and answer period, which will be limited to questions from financial analysts and institutional investors. President and Chief Executive Officer Jen-Hsun Huang and Chief Financial Officer Marvin D. Burkett are usually on-hand to answer the questions.

The following chart shows the share prices of NVIDIA and ATI common stock during the past three months.

Digit-life continues the GTX theme with a review of the Gainward Ultra 3500PCX XP Golden Sample 256MB. They give the card a 4X AA and 16XAF treatment on their benchmarking suite comparing to the previous generation.

Lastly, PCPerspective checks out the XFX GeForce 7800 GTX, which is slightly overclocked at 450MHz core and 1.25GHz memory and the GTX OVERCLOCKED version which ships with a healthy overclocked at 490MHz core and 1.3GHz memory!

• EVGA announces e-GeForce 7800 GTX KO Edition with ACS³ with 490MHz core!
  
• EVGA Announces Lifetime Warranty for Retail Graphics Cards
  
• AMD Q2 market share slips
  
• Toshiba 3D display adds realism to images
  
• Xbox 360 price leaked claim
  
• Physics Processing Unit Explained
  

• Preview Bench of QuadroFX 4500
  
• MSI NX6800TD-128E Geforce 6800 SLI Videocard Review at PC Stats
  
• Chaintech AE6800 Apogee PCIe Review at HWZ
  

• Tyan K8WE Nforce Pro 2200 Motherboard Review at hardcoreware
  
• ABIT AW8-MAX & Gigabyte GA-81955X Motherboard Review at bit-tech
  
• OCZ EL PC3500 Gold GX 2-2-2-5 Memory Review at OCIA
  

• Gigabyte 3D Aurora Case Review at Insanetek
  
• Spire WhisperRock V HSF Review at Thinkcomputers
  
• Cooler Master Blue Ice Chipset Cooler Review at Big Bruin
  
• Antec Phantom 500W Silent Power Supply Review at Ascully
  

• Plextor PX-740A DVD Writer Review at Anandtech
  

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No doubt, Leadtek Winfast PX7800 is one of the fastest graphics card in the market with its higher core and memory clocks. We have managed to overclock the card to 500MHz core and 1440Mhz memory and with a FX-57 running at 2.97GHz, we got a score of 13899!

Tweaktown on the other hand reviews a BFG Tech GeForce 7800 GTX OC. This card also comes pre-overclocked and life time waranty!

The BFG Tech is an absolute weapon of a graphics card. It does what everyone wants; it makes the fastest available graphics card even faster.

• AMD releases budget dual-core Athlon
  
• AMD cuts desktop CPU prices by up to 25%
  

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU Review by Legit Reviews
  
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU Review by Tech Report
  
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU Review by x-bit labs
  
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU Review by Hot Hardware
  
• Dual Core Efficiency Investigation at T-break
  
• GigaByte GA-K8N Ultra-9 Motherboard Review at Bonafide
  
• ECS KN1 Extreme Motherboard Review at Motherboards
  
• ASUS P5WD2 Premium i955 Motherboard Review at Digit-life
  
• Foxconn Intel Dual Core Motherboard Roundup at OC Cafe
  
• OCZ EB DDR2 PC2-5400 Titanium - 1GB Kit Review at Gruntville
  
• OCZ PC2-6400 Gold Series Memory Review at Bytesector
  

• 4KUS DRW-3S167 Internal DVD Writer Review at HWZ
  

• Steel Sound 5H Professional Gaming Headset Review at ClubOC