CHANNEL PARDNERS -- dealers and distributors – are being told this is the last quarter when the AMD Duron, its answer to the Celeron, will be available.
Further, sources tell us, the D1300 processor in a box will be the last of these products available, while even that chip is experiencing a two week lag on supply.

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The VT8237 South Bridge chip samples in Q1 of next year, has eight USB 2.0 ports, supports ATA 33-66-100-133, and has two S-ATA (serial ATA) ports as well as options for two additional S-ATA ports. It will support six PCI slots, has integrated 10/100 Ethernet, six channel enhanced audio and uses the 8X V-Link interconnect.

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Connect3D’s Radeon 9700 Pro is of course based on ATI’s Radeon 9700 chip, also called R300. ATI’s Radeon9700 is a high-end product, primarily made as a competitor to the GeForce4 Ti series. The Radeon9700 chip is a 0,15 micron chip. It fully supports DirectX 9, which means that its pipeline only deals with non-whole numbers. The chip has 8 rendering pipelines and they each have a texture unit. This means that we are dealing with a rather big chip. As a matter of fact it contains 110mill. Transistors, which are far, far more then any other graphics chip on the market. It also has extra 1000 pins, compared to AMD’s upcoming Clawhammer processor.

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Basically, LED Beamers are small led spotlights that run off a 12V supply. The version I have for review is designed for in-car use although a new version intended specifically for PC modding is due out soon. The package consists of two Beamers wired to a power plug. (In this case a car cigar lighter plug). The Beamers are fitted with adjustable self adhesive bases for easy mounting just about anywhere.

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Due to the shortage of Ti4400 based cards, the Ti4200 line got a much needed kick in the rear from certain manufacturers and with Christmas coming up and a large number of games coming out, you might be considering an upgrade. In this article we look at two cards which are based on Geforce 4 Ti4200 units but think they are so much more. The Albatron Ti4200 P Turbo and Asus V8420.

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The result? ~2.0MBytes/sec for the new 802.11a, and ~0.5MBytes/sec for the ol' 802.11b. Yes, this is nowhere near either's theoretical limit, but wireless has a lot more overhead than wired (like I talked about in the Wireless-Ready Gateway review). Now, 2.0MBytes/sec sounds about right for 48 Mbit/sec (which is about 4 times 11 Mbits/sec), which it normally connected at, but what about the 54Mbit/sec and 72Mbit/sec rates that these items advertise? Well, I was rarely able to get a solid 54Mbit/sec connection, and I couldn't get 72Mbit/sec to work, period. In other words: Expect performance similar to (or a bit above) a 10Base-T wired connection... not 100TX.

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Upon first glance, the Volcano 9 appears very much like the Volcano 7. Ok, let's be frank, it is a Volcano 7, except it isn't blue. The Volcano 9 has 23 aluminum fins, just like the Volcano 7, and it has the same copper insert as its older brother. Personally, I think they should have stuck with the same all-copper design as the Volcano 7+.

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After the ThumbDrive is installed a few Found New Hardware windows will come up on the screen and eventually go away. Once those windows go away, your ThumbDrive is ready for use. Since this is a SMART Thumbdrive, you do NOT have to install any drivers to make it work, unless you are using any version of Windows 98. In which case you will need the CD that came with the ThumbDrive to get it to work for the first time. After the drivers are loaded you should not have to load the drivers again. Also note that this ThumbDrive is compatible with Mac OS 8.6, 9.x and 10.x

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After looking all over the place for coolers that don't cost a fortune, we have managed to find a company that deals in cheap HSF units. But we need more than just a low price. Come join TweakTown as they take a look at the Neng Tyi Nexus NC02 HSF. While the entry price is one of the best available, we'll be taking a closer look at the performance of this little thing. If we can match performance with a low price, we'll have a definite winner on our hands!

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"The ABIT IT7-MAX2 Motherboard is without a doubt is one of the best motherboards on the planet for the Intel P4 CPU. With onboard HTP374 RAID, 5.1 Audio, 10 USB 2 ports, 2 Firewire ports, LAN port, etc. and is unbelievable at overclocking with stability to boot! Watch the Video to find out more..." ~3dGameMan.com

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While computer hardware manufacturers do not normally bundle products together Leadtek have decided to with their Twinforce 2 bundle. Combining their WinFast K7N415DA Nforce415 motherboard and WinFast A250 LE TD 64MB Geforce 4 Ti4200 graphics card they have created a bundle at a price that should appeal to the upgrader looking for performance on a budget.

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The MCW50™ water-block is an extreme duty liquid cooling solution for high-end graphics processors. It is designed to be used either in straight liquid cooling configuration, or in conjunction with a thermoelectric cooling element (Peltier module - specs to be published 10-29-2002).

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More and more folks are upgrading their power supply units to deal with the added power demands from any number of case mods or power hungry components. The good old 300 watt PSU just doesn't cut the mustard anymore. With this recent demand for higher wattage PSUs, has come competition. This is a good thing for you and me. What this means is that prices decrease and features increase as different companies battle for market dominance.

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