The production side for the release of the 1.01 patch , which mainly have the following improvements:

According to Taiwan's motherboard industry that, AMD will launch in the fourth quarter of a higher frequency of the frequency of core Phenom X3 processor, will launch three core Black Edition, for parity at the same time, introduced low-power mini-PC processor, X2 Dual-core power consumption can be as low as 22 W.

We had to pinch ourselves and check to see if it was April 1st, because after three years of hearing TiVo fans complain that DirecTV killed off the HD DirecTV TiVo on its move to MPEG4, the satellite company has finally listened.

Geforce GTX 260 has 192 Shaders and it looks that the new one will have 216. The story is quite simpe.

Logitech just announced a trio of keyboards this morning starting with its thinnest keyboard ever, the 9.3-mm thin Illuminated Keyboard  pictured above.

We were surprised to see that officially Bloomfield generation of CPUs will support DDR3 800 or 1066. Even the extreme edition 3.2GHz Core i7 officially only supports DDR3 1066 and not faster. There won't even be an official support for DDR3 1333 not to mention 1600 or faster.

We’ve learned that Intel holds 70+ percent of the chipset market for its own CPUs. That is not that surprising as much as that ATI / AMD still hold about 8 percent of the total market.

German tech site Hardware-Infos says its snooped out what appears to be the primary lineup of the processors (codenamed "Kuma") from a listing on the pricing search engine Geizhalz.at.

Hexus claims that Taiwanese technology company abit, which is associated primarily with high-end and gaming mainboards, will stop producing all mainboards at the end of 2008.

Today, we review a water cooled graphics solution from Zotac: 9800 GTX+ Zone Edition. Since Liquid-cooling system takes up lots of space, a giant case would be required. However its custom cooling system delivers great performance with GPU temperature limited by 50 Celcius under heavy duty. So Zotac 9800GTX+ also gives decent frame rates for current games?

Well, AMD/ATI's highly anticipated and sophisticated graphics card Radeon HD 4870 X2's technical details has been revealed by one of our industry resources. As we already know it's just two RV770 graphics processors having a party together but early reviews proved its much stronger than Nvidia's flagship GeForce GTX 280.

Yes, Nvidia announced GeForec 9500GT and 9800GT quitely in an effort to make AMD/ATI busted but will it achieve? Since GeForce 9800GT is entirely based on 8800GT we can comfortably say "NO!":

Microsoft discussed the details of new gaming API, DirectX 11 at gamefest game technology conference in Seattle. Hopefully, DirectX is going to be supported by Windows Vista before Vienna codenamed Windows 7. The Details on DX 11 are listed below:

AMD/ATI has come up with routin Catalyst drivers update. Catalyst 8.7's release notes tells up to 70% performance gains for Lost Planet in DirectX 9 mode and a new system information tab called "Full Hardware Information" that reveals all details about your graphics card.