• AMD says March/April is release date for Hammer chips
• Nvidia quietly adds two more NV28 chips
• New Lagal worm deletes files
• Islamic fundamentalist hackers launch 100+Web attacks
• DRAM prices head for fresh collapse
• Microsoft vows more cash for Xbox

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Today We are going to look at the A7N8X Deluxe from ASUS. It is based on the nVIDIA nForce2 SPP Socket A chipset for AMD Athlon processors. As with most high-end motherboards nowadays, they are packed full of extra goodies. The A7N8X Deluxe is no different. With 8X AGP, DDR400 support, SATA Raid, Firewire, USB2.0, Dolby Digital Sound, and 2x onboard LAN ports, the A7N8X has to be one of the most feature rich boards for Socket A at present.

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"The AMS G-Mono Mid Tower Case has to be the coolest looking case on the planet in its very affordable price range. With a Firewire, USB2 and audio connections at the front, and an amazing high gloss paint job it has buy and mod me written all over it. Watch the Video to find out more..." ~3dGameMan.com

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Unfortunately, enthusiast-oriented motherboards are starting to look more and more alike as competitors copy each others' features and ideas. Doing something truly original with a motherboard has become a challenging task, but exceptionally good ideas and features really stand out nowadays as a result.

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Unfortunately, enthusiast-oriented motherboards are starting to look more and more alike as competitors copy each others' features and ideas. Doing something truly original with a motherboard has become a challenging task, but exceptionally good ideas and features really stand out nowadays as a result.

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The Intel Celeron was started quite a long time ago and everyone should remember the Celeron 300a easily overclocked to 450MHZ or higher. It outperformed the Pentium II at the moment and was the CPU of choice for overclockers. After that, however, the Celeron seemed to fall into obscurity. The socket 370 Celerons' performance were not great, losing to the AMD's budget Duron. Since the Pentium 4 has had huge success with their socket 478 Northwood processors, Intel migrated the Celeron over to the socket 478. Will they be able to redeem the Celeron? Only numbers will tell.

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While this article is to focus on fragment level anti-aliasing algorithms, it is important for us to understand multi-sampling implementations as well. With such systems becoming standard on all NVIDIA hardware, and ATI now using it in their high-end RADEON 9500 and RADEON 9700 boards, it is quickly becoming the choice anti-aliasing technique of the graphics industry. Understanding this approach will allow comparisons to be made with fragment level approaches, and thus the determination of what implementation is most desired.

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Today we're taking a look at a roundup of six motherboards based on NVIDIA's latest chipset, the nForce2. With the original nForce already established as a solid and speedy solution among enthusiasts and OEMs alike, NVIDIA is merely trying to improve upon their first generation chipset with nForce2.

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Now that you have a nice case for your hardware you would think that that was enough wouldn't you? Well in my case (get the pun?), nothing is ever enough, and there is always something extra that you can do to your case to personalise it. The aim is to make it different from the thousands of others that come off of the assembly line each year... One of the must haves this year for your case is a nice 4 x 20 LCD. Anything smaller is just a bit to tiny to be seen clearly, and anything bigger doesn't really fit well into 1 drive bay.

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Some months back, Trident made much ado about its new DX9-class GPU that would take the mobile computing world by storm. The XP4, a 30-million transistor tile-based architecture with hardware pixel shaders, was supposed to mop up the floor with ATI and nVidia. At least, that's what Trident's overly exuberant marketing spin claimed.

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We are at a point in time where both Intel and AMD are taking new steps in technology. Intel's next big thing is the Hyper-Threading technology of the new Pentium 4 3.06Ghz CPU and AMD's next big thing will be the Hammer series. However, Hammer is not here yet. Until Hammer arrives AMD has given us something new: CPU's ranging from the XP2400+ to the XP2800+.

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