It was five months ago now when we first got a look at an Intel P35 based motherboard from ASUS, which was the P5K Deluxe (WiFi-AP). Priced at $240 US this motherboard was far from affordable, but then it was never meant to be affordable.

Rather it was meant to be the ultimate Core 2 Duo motherboard and many considered it to be just that. With its extensive list of features, impressive performance and amazing overclocking abilities the P5K Deluxe quickly established itself as a top contender.

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The Geforce 8400GS is NVIDIA's latest entry level video card meant for people who mainly concentrate on office use and besides that still want to benefit from extra 3D performance in case they've the opportunity to play a video game. By adding advanced video playback support this card can also be a candidate for your HTPC's or other media playing computer systems.

Common price tag for those cards is around €50/$50, you won't find anything lower priced, still we like to find if this card is of much use, because after all, nobody just wants to throw away their hard earned cash!

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Being the inquisitive individuals we are here at bit-tech, we decided to try and provide our awesome readers with an answer to the ageing question about PCI-Express bandwidth.

Actually, it was between one of our many congregations around someone's PC at work, watching the latest amusing Internet video and stuffing our faces with tea and confectionery, that the idea shot out into the open and was promptly skewered to the calender, like the donkey getting its tail back from a six year old.

Our office shenanigans aside, I'm sure you've read the latest rumours about RV670 making their way around our beloved Internet. They suggest that RV670 might be the hottest thing since sliced bread, and you are therefore contemplating your next upgrade.

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In December, 2006, XFX launched the first card in their new Fatal1ty Professional Series, the 7600 GT which was endorsed by the worlds #1 gamer, Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel. XFX stated the following in their press release of this product: “This card proves that teaming XFX technology with the hardcore gamer’s demands results in performance that buyers literally haven’t seen before”.

In July, 2007, XFX released the second card in their Fatal1ty Professional series which was based on the the NVIDIA® 8600GT GPU/VPU, which we had the pleasure of reviewing. These two cards followed XFX's Fatl1ty Mission of: "Providing a performance overclocked product that features an affordable price that will appeal to all players". Each of these cards diverted from the norm in that they both were passively cooled with XFX's renowned "Silent But Deadly" (SBD) cooling solution.

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Mach2 high performance memory modules takeMS International AG, Breisach, a leading manufacturer of memory products in Germany increases the number of cycles and launches the DDR2 1066 high performance memory module series Mach2, certified by NVIDIA®. The new Mach2 memory modules are manufactured JEDEC compliant and in the standard version of 800 MHz with a cycle of 5-5-5-15. Therefore they can be operated on any mainboard. The user can activate the better settings of 3-3-3-8 at 800 MHz and 5-5-5-18 at 1066 MHz easily on any mainboard.

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Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of memory and storage solutions, captured the Best of Show award at the DISKCON USA 2007. Super Talent’s new 128GB Serial ATA drive, offered in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors, won the coveted award over scores of other new products from the industry’s leading storage vendors. 
 
Super Talent’s Solid State Disk (SSD) Drives are based on flash chips rather than rotating magnetic platters as the storage medium. SSDs are completely interchangeable with industry standard hard disk drives; they conform to the same physical dimensions as hard drives, and use the same SATA interface as hard drives, making them functionally identical.

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Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is releasing microSD High-Capacity (SDHC™) Flash memory cards, starting with a 4GB microSDHC card in a Class 4 speed rating. Providing speed and capacity increases in the smallest footprint available, Kingston® microSDHC cards are perfect to meet the rising communication and multimedia demands of mobile phones and digital devices able to take advantage of the advanced expansion memory platform.

“As next-generation mobile phones promise cutting edge functionality in ever-smaller form factors, demands increase on hardware to deliver these features, particularly in the area of expansion memory where storage and read/write performance becomes greater,” said Jim Selby, Product Marketing Manager EMEA, Kingston Technology. “Kingston is following the natural progression of mobile technology and we timed our microSDHC roll-out to be in step as the need materializes,” added Selby.

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Advanced Micro Devices may not be in position to release its new dual-processor enthusiast-class platform this year, however, it may be thinking about a different product, according to some unofficial information. Apparently, the company may be mulling about a triple-core microprocessor for desktops.

According to a news-story at Hard Tecs 4U web-site, AMD is working on a processor that would have three processing engines. The company reportedly told its partners about the AMD Phenom X3 chip at a closed meeting, explaining that the chipmaker plans to release such a product because of “market demand”.

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Microsoft has been caught updating files on both Windows XP and Windows Vista without displaying the usual notification or permission dialog box – even if the user had previously disabled automatic updates. Microsoft, however, calls it built-in behavior and no cause for alarm.

Scott Dunn of “Windows Secrets”, reports nine files in XP and Vista have been altered by Windows Update in what he calls a stealth move by Microsoft. The updates are upgrades to the Windows Update service itself, and are not harmful to the system. However, the tactics used by Microsoft to perform them are comparable to those used by spyware companies, thus raising some concerns among the privacy minded.

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In an attempt to offer the best platforms for new processors from Advanced Micro Devices, its long-term partner Nvidia Corp. plans to release a series of PCI Express 2.0 supporting chipsets this fall. It is highly likely that by fall the world’s No. 1 supplier of discrete graphics processors unveils its graphics chips compatible with PCIe 2.0.

 The new code-named MCP72 core-logic series will fully support new AMD Phenom processors based on AMD’s new micro-architecture that belong to the “Stars” family of chips. All versions of the MCP72 will support HyperTransport 3.0 processor bus as well as PCI Express 2.0 interconnection, which will be the key-features of the new array of chipsets.

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