Content and news by Rob Williams

“Performance wise, there’s one thing that stands out from the analysis and observation of P-M’s scaling with nothing more than its base frequency: it’s crying out for core logic to let it breathe and perform to its fullest; there’s definitely plenty of extra performance to be had by pairing P-M with Alviso core logic. There’s also extra performance to be had just by upping the CPU’s bus clock, so the upcoming 200MHz Pentium-Ms, using Alviso, should give very fine performance, comparatively.”

Check out the article at Hexus.

“ARP was recently invited to the launch of the palmOne Treo 650 smartphone. Our rookie reporter, phr3ak, immediately signed up to the task and checked it out.

The Treo was quite successful when it was still a Handspring. In this report, phr3ak explores if palmOne still have what it takes to keep up with the Treo’s legacy.”

Check it out at Rojak Pot.

“Gigabit LAN, Serial ATA and RAID are the main feature additions to this new chipset, allowing the Athlon XP platform to be on par with the latest A64 and P4 motherboards. MSI’s implementation carries the name “Platinum”, it is their top of the line motherboard series which is feature rich, comes with a black PCB and offers a 3-year warranty!”

Check it out at MadShrimps.

“Zalman CNPS7700 series CPU cooler has many great success stories behind it as it has high performance and low noise at the same time. Today, we’ll look at Zalman latest VGA cooler; VF700-Cu where the design is similar to the CNPS7700 CPU cooler using flower heat sink. However this times it is for graphic card rather than processor. Stay with us, you’ll surprise with this VGA cooler performance.”

Check it out at PCModdingMy.

“This product is overflowing with super features, looks fantastic & is all aluminum. There are 11 drive bays which can be organized to hold both 5.25″ & 3.5″ drives. Six internal 3.5″ drive bays allow lots of HDD storage. It’s a very large case & has plenty of room to work. There are also 2 90mm & 2 120mm fans to provide excellent case ventilation. Watch the Video to find out more…”

Check it out at 3D Gameman.

“We have been following the story of pricing and availability of the latest ATI cards for some time now. We have recently learned that the cost to resellers of Radeon X800 and X800 XL cards via distribution is higher than ATI’s suggested retail price. In some cases, this information changes the math on which video card we’d recommend, the ATI or the NVIDIA.”

Check out the article at Tech Report.

“We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates!

Here are the updates:-

– Added the ATI Radeon X700 LE and 740 XL cards.
– Added the ATI AIW Radeon 9600 and AIW Radeon X800 XT cards.
– Added the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GTO card.
– Added the S3 DeltaChrome S8 ULP card.
– Corrected the Architecture specifications for ATI Radeon X850 Pro, Radeon X850 XT & Radeon X850 XT PE.
– Added the Architecture specifications for S3 DeltaChrome S3, S4, S4 Pro, S8, S8 Nitro, F1 & OmniChrome S4.
– Added the Manufacturing Process, Vertex Pipelines & Pixel Pipelines specifications for S3 OmniChrome S4.
– Total cards : 217″

Check it out at Rojak Pot.

“ABIT FIRST INTRODUCED its Fatal1ty-branded motherboard line with the Intel 925XE-based Fatal1ty AA8XE. Given the Pentium 4 platform’s comparably poor gaming performance, that probably wasn’t the greatest idea. After all, the Fatal1ty brand squarely targets gamers and enthusiasts who know better than to covet Pentium 4 motherboards.

It seems that Abit now knows better, too. They’ve bolstered the Fatal1ty lineup with the Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard for Athlon 64 processors. With a 939-pin socket, nForce4 Ultra chipset, temperature-controlled OTES cooling, and a loaded uGuru-powered BIOS, the Fatal1ty AN8 could be the ultimate Athlon 64 platform for gamers, overclockers, and enthusiasts. Read on to see if it was worth the wait.”

Check it out at Tech Report.

Check out the drivers at the NGOHQ.com.

“ABIT FIRST INTRODUCED its Fatal1ty-branded motherboard line with the Intel 925XE-based Fatal1ty AA8XE. Given the Pentium 4 platform’s comparably poor gaming performance, that probably wasn’t the greatest idea. After all, the Fatal1ty brand squarely targets gamers and enthusiasts who know better than to covet Pentium 4 motherboards.

It seems that Abit now knows better, too. They’ve bolstered the Fatal1ty lineup with the Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard for Athlon 64 processors. With a 939-pin socket, nForce4 Ultra chipset, temperature-controlled OTES cooling, and a loaded uGuru-powered BIOS, the Fatal1ty AN8 could be the ultimate Athlon 64 platform for gamers, overclockers, and enthusiasts. Read on to see if it was worth the wait.”

Check out the full review at Tech Report.

“Performance from the X800XL was fantastic, quite happily keeping pace with our X850XT PE in many tests, although the highest resolutions and heavy AntiAliasing/Anisotropic filtering did slow it down slightly in comparison.”

Check out this review of an awesome card at Viper Lair.

“After walking for miles around CeBIT, the comfy sofas were very attractive, but they were just a ploy to draw you into ABIT’s web where they could show off one of their latest gadgets, the RM-11 remote control.”

Check it out at Hexus. Also for your reading pleasure, you can check out FSP power supplies also at Hexus.

“As case fans go, Cooler Master’s Dual Storm certainly has something different to offer – The dual fan capabilities of the part give both the ability to move a lot of air and redundancy in the case of one of the fans failing. Add in to that the fancy styling and blue LED, and this may be something that will tickle the fancy of some users.”

Check it out at Hexus!

“Team ARP is proud to announce a new giveaway contest, in collaboration with Corsair! Let’s take a look at what’s at stake!”

Woot, chance to win some nice RAM. Check it out at Rojak Pot.

“Today, we will take a look at the Razer Diamondback professional gaming mouse with its incredible 1600 DPI resolution and 16-bits data resolution! This could be the mouse that will make you the Fragmeister!

Here are the updates:-

– Added the Preliminary Opinions section.
– Added the lowest PriceGrabber price links. “

Check it out at Rojak Pot.

“Although computer enthusiasts spend countless hours attempting to improve their CPU cooling performance, much less time is spent on cooling our ever so important hard drives. One of the newest devices attempting to silence and cool our 10,000 RPM hard drives is the Silent Box from Scythe.”

Check it out at Phoronix!

“So there you have it, a really stunning computer case. We hope you appreciate why we said to start off that this is the best computer case we have ever reviewed. How often can one say that.”

Impressive. I have never seen a case look quite like this.. Definitely a great read, so check it out at A1 Electronics.

“A good quality TV-tuner seems to be hard to find these days. With so many options on the market it is hard to pick a winner as it were. ATI seem to have released a very solid TV-tuner card with the TV Wonder Elite. Video quality was excellent. The high quality comb filters and noise reduction built into the Theater 550 Pro definitely shine in the screenshots.”

Purple PCB! I haven’t seen Purple PCB since my first Soltek board! Check out this great review at Viper Lair.

“Swiftech has been one of the most respected names for years. They have expanded from offering only blocks to complete setups. Today, we are concentrating on one piece of that system: the Northbridge cooler. In most cases, the Northbridge cooler would be an optional component. Instead of sitting on an i875, nForce3, or some other chipset, we’re going to place it on top of an Intel Pentium M processor. If this block can handle the output from a full processor, imagine the cooling it would achieve for your motherboard chipset.”

Check it out at InsaneTek!

“Irvine, Calif. – March 17, 2005 – Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that World of Warcraft®, its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has surpassed the 1.5 million subscriber mark*, underscoring the game’s continued success around the world. Building on its record-breaking debuts in North America, Korea, and Europe, World of Warcraft has Comment (0) -->