Maybe NDA's arent what they used to be. Apparently Albatron or one of it's australian distributors have allowed their 8600GTS to be leaked to retailers.
Whirpool.net.au forum user "Bβoy" has posted pics and benchmarks of his shiny new 8600 for all to see. The numbers look really good, and point towards the 8600GTS being a very nice midrange performer.
Intel quad QX6800 coming next week @ The
Inquirer
GPGPU vs. CPU will be the war of 2008-9 @ The
Inquirer
ASUS XG Station exposed @ The
Inquirer
R600's secret weapon revealed @ The
Inquirer
Intel's G965 Express chipset @ Tech Report
AMD 690G/690V: Integrated Chipsets With HDMI Support For AMD64 @ Digit-Life
Does Chipset-to-GPU Matching Matter? @ Toms Hardware
Sapphire Ultimate X1950 Pro 256mb PCI-E @ Overclock3D
ASUS GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB @ TechSpot
Geforce 8800 GTS 320 SLI performance check @ HardwareOC
Dell 2707WFP: Looking for the Middle Ground of Large LCDs @ Anandtech
OCZ Vindicator: Heatpipe Tower Cooling from OCZ @ Anandtech
EVGA GeForce 7600GS 512mb card @ AMDZone
SilverStone CFP51 Bay Converter @ XYZComputing
Lenovo Thinkpad @ XYZComputing
Enermax Uber Chakra Case @ Pro-Clockers
Antec/Veris Fusion HTPC Case @ Techpowerup
Thermaltake Kandalf LCS Case @ Overclockers
Club
New cases by Gigabyte, NZXT en Recom reviewed @ Hardware.info
Seasonic S12-500HM 500W PSU @ Technic3D
FSP Blue Storm 500w PSU @ XSReviews
SunbeamTech UFO Acrylic Cube Case @ Virtual-Hideout
3R System M-Station HT-4000 HTPC Case @ Techpowerup
Thermaltake LANBOX SFF Case @ 3DGameMan
Big Typhoon Squared: Cooler Master GeminII @ XBit Labs
ThermalTake Max Orb @ XSReviews
SUPER TALENT T1000UX2G4 DDR2-1000 (PC2-8000) @ Cooling-Station
AGEIA works out a full line-up @ The
Inquirer
Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse Rev2 @ DragonSteelMods
Lowepro Stealth Reporter D650 AW Camera & Notebook Bag @ ThinkComputers
Saitek X-52 Pro Flight Control System @ Techgage
Logitech G25 Racing Wheel @ CoolTechZone
NEC AD-7170S-01 SATA 18x DVD @ Tekbunker
It's bad enough when we reported earlier in the week that Vista was still vulnerable to an almost 2 year old identified exploit using malformed .ani (cursor) files.
Unfortunately, it seems the fix Microsoft released to patch this exploit breaks Realtek HD Audio and Ethernet drivers/applications. This might seem less serious than you'd think at first. Unfortunately Realtek is pretty dominant in the onboard audio and ethernet markets so this "fix" can break alot of machines.
We found out the hard way patching our Vista x64 Ultimate rig here, but with safe mode and system restore it wasn't too hard to recover from. Let's hope Microsoft and Realtek have the sense to address this now, and not blow it off until the next "Patch Tuesday". Microsoft has at least addressed the issue in a Knowledge Base article here, with a link to a patch for XP SP2 here. We assume a patch for Vista is imminent to work around this problem soon. We hope.
Till more news is evident, if you have Realtek HD Audio or Realtek ethernet and Vista, you might want to steer clear of this "fix" until the fix gets fixed.
ATI Catalyst 7.3 Performance Analysis @ TweakTown
Intel Quad 6600 (Q6600) @ DriverHeaven
Core Micro-Architecture Comes to Celeron Processors: Conroe-L Preview @ XBit Labs
Overclocking the Intel X6800 with Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) @ Madshrimps
EVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Motherboard Review - Cheaper 680i
@ PC Perspective
Intel embeds Clovertown On a motorcycle @ The
Inquirer
SuperTalent 2GB Kit of PC2-8000 @ BCCHardware
G.SKILL F2-6400CL4D @ Neoseeker
30 inch HP LP3065 LCD Display @ i4u
GeCube VS. Sapphire - Radeon X1950 Pro AGP: the must-have upgrade? @ Hexus
XFX GeForce 7600 GT Fatal1ty Graphics Card @ i4u NVidia + Vista = BSOD @ The
Inquirer
Western Digital 320GB USB/FireWire My Book @ OCIA
Corsair Voyager GT 8GB @ Techgage
ReadyBoost on the Run @ XYZComputing
USB.Brando 1 - GIG MP4 Watch @ XtremeComputing
ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner: AMD and Dell Bring CableCARD to PCs @ Anandtech
Toshiba HD-XE1 HD DVD Player @ Trusted Reviews
Western Digital 320GB USB/FireWire My Book @ OCIA
Corsair Voyager GT 8GB @ Techgage
ReadyBoost on the Run @ XYZComputing
Toshiba 2007 Product Showcase @ Trusted Reviews
Razer Tarantula Gaming Mouse @ XSReviews
Antec at Channel Expo @ XSReviews
Toshiba A100-220 - A Low-Budget Model From The Famous Manufacturer @ Digit-Life
Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse @ OverclockersClub
Will Users Pay for DRM-Free Songs? @ CoolTechZone
Would You Pay $1 Million for a Laptop? @ CoolTechZone
Nuke-Z Z8 Mousepad @ Techpowerup
Things are not all rosy in the Land Of Fish & Chips, thanks in part to that big manufacturer from the Land Of The Rising Sun, Sony. Last week we saw record sales numbers reported by Chart Track in the UK launch of the PS3 with Sony pushing an estimated 165,000 PS3's out the door second only to it's initial record launch of the PSP in the UK.
If you ask us, Sony's European market pricing is outrageous. Priced at a massive 425 English Pounds (that's a staggering $834 in U.S. Dollars) I just cant see "average Joe Consumer" buying into the PS3 in the UK with this pricing. We guess people in Great Britain are just not jumping for joy and saying "I love getting screwed because I live in the UK" and thus arent giving the PS3 a second look. Seems pretty obvious to us.
Sony in recent history has seemed to be an industry giant in danger of falling on it's face. Will Sony do something about pricing equity, and talk to a podiatrist about it's "two left feet?". Only time will tell, but some of these "stumbles" are horrifyingly obvious to anyone who has a clue about the consumer market and the retail channel.
Marking the next step in Intel's "tick-tock" product strategy and cadence to deliver a new process technology with an enhanced microarchitecture or entirely new microarchitecture every year, Intel Corporation will begin producing its next-generation Penryn family of processors in the second half of this year. These new processors benefit from enhancements to the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture and also Intel's industry-leading 45nm Hi-k process technology with its hafnium-based high-K + metal gate transistor design, which results in higher performance and more energy-efficient processors.
Intel has more than 15 45nm Hi-k product designs in various stages of development, and will have two 45nm manufacturing fabs in production by the end of the year, with a total of four in production by the second half of 2008 that will deliver tens of millions of these processors. Below are many of the details of the Penryn processor family and a glimpse into some of the key features of Intel's future generation of processors, codenamed Nehalem.
EVGA GeForce 7600GS 512mb card @ 
