Before we get to the good news, I’m going to ask you to hold on to something steady as some of you are going to feel a bit dizzy after you hear this. The truth is… Nvidia is now helping us with the project and it seems they are giving us their blessings. It’s very impressive, inspiring and motivating to see Nvidia's view on this. Why they help us? My best guess would be: They probably want to take on Intel with CUDA and to deal with the latest Havok threat from both AMD and Intel.

Some other good news, we are getting a lot of help from cool journalists like Theo Valich to address the HD 4800 access issue. I can confirm that our CUDA Radeon library is almost done and everything is going as planned on this side. There are some issues that need to be addressed, since adding Radeon support in CUDA isn’t a big deal - but it’s not enough! We also need to add CUDA support on AMD’s driver level and its being addressed as we speak.

http://www.ngohq.com/news/14254-phys...on-update.html

After everyone forgot NVIDIA still have some upcoming product, Haier have announced a new PC X6-B060, with the 55nm G92-280 product 9800GT.

The card supports Hybrid Power, clocks at 600/1500/1800 MHz(core/shader/memory), just like a 8800GT. We believe it will be officially announce soon.

http://en.expreview.com/2008/07/03/g...-announcement/

I am not going to lie to you, but I am not the first one to say it -- time sure flies by at an alarming rate. The last time we reviewed a case was back in September 2007 of the popular Antec P182 -- and that's nearly ten months ago already. Prior to that, it was the NZXT Duet in May 2007, and Thermaltake's Aguila in December 2006. Oh boy, it's the second half of 2008 already, and it seems like I haven't really done much this year! Speaking of the Thermaltake Aguila, I've been using it with my ever-changing main computer that's gone though dozens upon dozens of upgrades and revisions since it was first built in November 2006 -- with pretty much no components resembling of the original build. That said, the case was still the same, and I felt that it was time for a change. I wanted something that was a midtower that can fit neatly on my desk, but spacious inside. I wanted a clean, sleek case that suited my tastes with a large window on the side so I can show off my components and well practiced cabling skills. I wanted a high quality case with excellent build quality from a reputable manufacturer. Well, long story short, either I was not looking hard enough, or that it was simply hard to find. Right off the top of my head, there are not many brands that has cases that fit within this category; of which SilverStone and Lian-Li are amongst the few. But it was not until SilverStone themselves brought my attention to their KL-02 case -- and at first glance, it seems that it's the case that fulfills all my requirements. Let's do a closer examination to see how it goes in real life.

http://aphnetworks.com/reviews/silverstone_kl_02

At times it feels like you just can't keep up with the rest of the world. There is always something that creeps up on you when you least expect it, and many times you are not ready for the changes that come along with it. Videocards are no exception to this. I am the type of person that would love to be on the bleeding edge of technology at all times, but my wallet just can't always keep up, so sacrifices are made. I recently got the chance to take a look at the NVIDIA 8800 GS and 8800 GS XXX from XFX. You may be thinking that these cards are old, as we are now in the 9000 and 200 series from NVIDIA, but for those of us who have to take a slower approach to upgrading our PCs, these cards are a great value.

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1295

The HD 4870X2 looks just like HD 3870X2, but color scheme have changed from red to black. Digitime suggest AMD will open its production right to its AIB partners in August, so lots of HD 4870X2 un-reference version will be the second wave.

http://en.expreview.com/2008/07/04/w...70x2/#more-505

MSI European Overclocking Challenge 2008

Who will reach the ultimate performance on MSI P45 with DrMOS?

MSI, the leading mainboard manufacturer, is organizing the first MSI European Overclocking Challenge in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 22, 23 and 24 of August. The MSI event is powered by OCZ Technology (with OCZ Platinum memory). MSI, known for its mainboards, graphic cards and notebooks (with Turbo button to overclock), takes the lead in letting famous and eager overclockers from 20 countries in Europe tweak its latest MSI P45 platform all at the same time. Various National Qualifiers started in May already. The winners of these Qualifiers will be flown in for the MSI European Overclocking Challenge in the ‘Westergasfabriek’ in Amsterdam.
„By organizing this event on European level, we create a wide platform for overclockers. They can meet face to face and test and tweak our mainboards thoroughly. We at the same time get great feedback of these power users,’ says Angelique Berden, Marketing Director at MSI. „Each country will be represented by one Overclocking team, so it will be a heavy battle and a great challenge. The Challenge will be covered and broadcasted by most leading IT media in Europe.MSI P45 mainboards are the main platform for the coming years for the latest Intel Dual and Quad Core CPU. Real performance kings among the crowd with extra hardware and software features like DrMOS for extra energy saving, extra cool temperatures and extra fast performance. Now we can see who will be the true king in tweaking “MSI P45 with DrMOS”.?

One of the partners in this event is OCZ Technology.“OCZ was founded by enthusiasts and has ever since stayed close to the community, delivering ultra-high performance solutions tailored for the enthusiast overclocking market such as the innovative, water-cooled Flex XLC memory series. OCZ and PC Power & Cooling are excited to partner with MSI, organizing the biggest overclocking event in Europe, continuing to show our commitment to the community. The new P45 boards from MSI bundled with OCZ memory, CPU coolers and PC Power & Cooling power supplies will enable the participants to get the most out of their systems” commented Tobias Brinkmann, Director of Marketing at OCZ Technology Group.

For the challenge the following products will be used:
* Mainboard: MSI P45
* Graphic card: MSI N9600GT-T2D512
* Memory: OCZ Memory
* Cooling: OCZTVEND2 - OCZ Vendetta 2 CPU Cooler
* Power supply S75CF: PC Power & Cooling Silencer® 750 Quad
* CPU: Intel E8400
* Benchmarks:
o wPrime
o CinebenchParticipating countries and media in Europe:

Belgium: www.madshrimps.be www.overclex.net
Croatia: www.it-review.net
Czech Republic: www.svethardware.cz
Denmark: www.tweak.dk
Finland: www.muropaketti.com
France: www.syndrome-oc.net
Germany: www.pcgameshardware.de
Greece: www.hwbox.gr
Hungary www.prohardver.hu
Norway www.hardware.no
Poland: www.purepc.pl
Romania: www.xpc.ro
Russia: www.msi-oc.ru
Serbia: www.benchmark.co.yu
Portugal: www.techzonept.com
Spain: www.overclocking.es
Sweden: www.nordichardware.com
The Netherlands: www.tweakers.net
Turkey: www.pclabs.gen.tr
United Kingdom: www.overclock3d.net

ITWire reported that the service ClearMyMail has just released a list of its most spammed clients, with Colin Wells, a British bus company workshop foreman, being the ‘proud’ owner of the first-place position, receiving a whopping 1,338,363 pieces of spam a month, which works out at 16,060,365 junk mails a year.

The second most spammed individual, by ClearMyMail’s tally, also uses Orange as their Internet service provider and gets 13,578 unwelcome lottery winning, Nigerian scam and organ enlarging solicitations a day. Third, fourth and fifth place positions get 12,428, 5,760 and 3,982 junk mails a day respectively.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...ed-man-britain

Crysis is a system hog no doubt about that, so when we come across a fan community made custom config tool which allows you increase the in-game image quality and improve performance, it is definitely worth sharing

http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=850

A 6 gram USB drive not much larger than a fingernail, with room for up to 8Gb of data. Super*Talent has designed a stylish device which claims up to 30Mb/s read speed. Let see what it is made of.

http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=834

Journey Inward with ZEROtherm and Unleash the Creativity Within

Creative Cooler Challenge Encourages Community to Design Next Generation Coolers With $5000 in Cash and Prizes!
July 1st , Daejeon, Korea: In an effort to empower the budding creative minds within the enthusiast community, ZEROtherm is taking an unprecedented measure to help aide the development of THE next generation CPU and VGA coolers. Sponsoring the first ever “Creative Cooler Challenge”, ZEROtherm is determined to tap into the unharnessed dreams of the hardware tweaker and help those dreams become a reality.

ZEROtherm understands that hidden inside the mind of the enthusiast there lays the raw untapped desire to create the next monumental advancement in performance enhancing hardware. A need to push hardware beyond its limits resonates at the core of the hardcore! Amidst the countless mathematical equations processed while attempting to reverse engineer various software and hardware constraints in the pursuit of tweaking ones PC, there erupts a singular passion and solution to break the performance barrier… a thermal solution! The time has come to unleash the creativity within and take a shot at making your mark as a driving contributor to the overclocking community! For a chance to be the winner of the $3000 grand prize, a $1000 2nd place prize or one of three lucky 3rd place winners.

http://www.zerotherm.net/eng/support...wnevent&id=170

Sub-notebooks are revolutionising the way we look at portable connectivity. Gone are the days, it seems, where you paid a pretty penny for a ridiculously small and lightweight piece of hardware. Nowadays £300 will get you a cool mini-notebook in iPod white and still leave you with change to spare.

We've previously looked at Asus' 8.9" Eee PC 900 and the HP 2133 Mini-note, but now MSI is releasing it's first attempt to crack the sub-notebook market. The MSI Wind - make fart jokes at your peril.

Despite the fact that MSI told bit-tech it tried its absolute hardest to get the Wind to reach the £300 mark, what we've ended up with is closer to the £329 mark for the XP model instead. That's not exactly a budget killing sum - it's still cheaper than the HP - but it's still more than Asus' ubiquitous Eee PC 901.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...si-wind-u100/1

We’re taking a break today to celebrate American Independence Day. We hope you have a wonderful and safe 4th of July. If you happen to surf the internets in between eating hamburgers and shooting off fireworks, here’s a few previous articles to check out that will help get you in the 4th of July Spirit:
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<br> How To Fly Old Glory With Respect

<br> Tired of Beer? Become a Soda Connoisseur

<br> What Happened to Wartime Sacrifice?

<br> The Ultimate Man’s Guide To Fireworks

<br> Grilling the Perfect Steak

http://artofmanliness.com/2008/07/04...-of-july-2008/

Fate brought AMD and Intel together and these two companies really like each other when it comes to a multi GPU strategy.


Latest document from Intel are revealing that Tyersburg DT platform that includes Nehalem generation CPU codenamed Bloomflield and X58 chipset will come with 2x 16X PCIe slots.

It will be up to the motherboard manufacturers but some boards might even come with four PCIe 2.0 slots with 8X enabling four Radeon HD 4870 cards work together.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...88&Ite mid=37

Intel plans to launch the second Wolfdale 45nm based dual-core in sub or close to €100 market. It has been happily selling Core 2 Duo E7200 clocked at 2.53GHz with FSB 1066 and 3MB cache for around €90.

Intel plans to bring the new CPU on top of E7200 branded E7300 and this new CPU will work at 2.66GHz. It also comes with 1066MHz FSB support, 3MB cache, two core and two thread support and it stays at 65W TDP.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...89&Ite mid=35

"It's rare occasion to have on test, on the same month, new
generation products from two big rivals (nVIDIA and ATI). This is really
good news because ATI had some serious delays with R600 and that is one of
reasons why it was so indifferently received on market. ATI realized that
now must roll up its sleeves to catch up nVIDIA, because at that point
seemed that nVIDIA unreachably moved away.

http://www.insidehw.com/Reviews/Grap...e-HD-4850.html

Sporting 512MB of blindingly fast GDDR5, the Diamond HD 4870 is taking no prisoners, not stopping for traffic lights, and not busting open savings accounts on its way to deliver extreme performance.

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...diamondhd4870/

Today we are checking out the PNY GTX 260 video card. The GTX 260 is the lower performing of the pair of GTX 200 series GPUs recently announced. The GTX 260 is about $100 cheaper than its GTX 280 brother.

In the end the performance of the PNY GTX 260 was good. The price for the card is a bit high at $449.99 when compared to new offerings from AMD. The card performs well and I suspect over time the price will come down and make it more attractive.

http://www.i4u.com/full-review-450.html

OCZ is by far one of the biggest supporters of overclockers out there; this has been evident by bringing out memory that has a water jacket built into it, allowing extreme cooling users to simply pump some H20 into it and cool it down better than that of ordinary air cooling.

Today we have the newest incarnation of the Flex memory from OCZ with their own built in water jackets. The Flex-II PC2-9200 Kit comprises OCZ’s highest clocked DDR2 memory modules; how will they perform? - Let’s have a bit of a gander and see.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/149...kit/index.html

Sapphire has always offered the most influential ATI graphics products available, and the new Radeon HD 4850 is no different. Although it still uses GDDR3 clocked at 993 (1986 MHz DDR), unlike the 4870 version that is decked out with GDDR5, the Sapphire 100242L model offers 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) on its 625 MHz 800-core RV770 GPU. Benchmark Reviews tests the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 graphics card against the closest competition, and even compare CrossFireX performance in this performance review.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...192&Item id=1

Crucial once again knocks socks off and does it in style. The
Ballistix line of memory has always been known to impress and rightfully
they should. But what this kit of memory has done on the 790i test
motherboard is just above and beyond what our expectations were...and our
expectations were certainly a little bit lofty coming in. Needless to say,
we weren't expecting to be able to benchmark at 1100MHz+ and certainly not
at the little amount of voltage that was required to do so. Simply put,
this memory out ran the motherboard and it wasn't even a close race.

http://www.overclockersonline.net/in...icles&num=1821