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Johan Jonasson writes "There's an excellent review of the ATI Rage Fury MAXX over at Tom's Hardware. For those unfamiliar with the product it's a monster graphics board with two Rage 128 PRO chips, each with isolated 32MBs of memory per chip which adds up to 64MB on one board. There's another review of the same board at Sharky Extreme. I've got to get me one of these. "

An anonymous reader says "This article on the Intel Pentium III "Flip Chip" 500/550E shows some great overclocking potential for this CPU. " Its a fairly technical article, but a nice one.

Cooper writes "Saw a piece on Sharky Extreme about a new ATI chip dubbed the Rage 6, which they say is going to be used on Microsoft's x-box as well as for PCs. It's got an on-board geometry processor like the NVIDIA GeForce. " Wow. 2 gigapixels per second? Wow. The graphics market is starting to really heat up - check the earlier story about the Voodoo 4 &5.

A reader wrote to us with Sharky's review of the ATi Rage Fury MAXX. Besides simply being a mouthful of words to say whenever you want to refer to your video card, it's also being setup to go head-to-head with the nVidia GeForce 256. According to benchmarks in the review, it's a really good match.

The Hulkster pointed us at an article at sharkyextreme that talks about microsoft's rumored X Box, their x86/WinCE gaming box designed to compete with the Playstation/Dreamcast home gaming console market. The most interesting tidbits are the rumors that will use a .18 micron K6-2+ and possibly a GeForce 256. Its all speculation, but its still interesting.

webslacker writes "That's what it looks like, according to the private eyes over at Sharky Extreme. The Athlon Select series, as it will be called, will be aimed at the low end and will use a new ZIF standard called Socket 423 (the number of pins). Oh, and get this... plans are being laid to integrate an 8MB L2 cache. "

AnandTech and Sharky Extreme have published the first K6-3 evaluations with alpha-silicon... and the K6-3 screams at around 10% faster than the equivalent frequency Pentium II. It includes an on-board 256 Kb L2 cache while making the L2 on your motherboard become an L3 cache running at 100Mhz (improving performance by an additional 5%). An additional CXT write combination mode should also increase performance. With a total of 64+256+512 = 832Kb of cache, I expect kernel compilations will fly. Looks like Intel will find it difficult to knock AMD out of the sub-$1000 market, although the pricing pressure should keep buyers happy. Nevertheless initial K6-3 prices are rumoured to be around $350.

AnandTech and Sharky Extreme have published the first K6-3 evaluations with alpha-silicon... and the K6-3 screams at around 10% faster than the equivalent frequency Pentium II. It includes an on-board 256 Kb L2 cache while making the L2 on your motherboard become an L3 cache running at 100Mhz (improving performance by an additional 5%). An additional CXT write combination mode should also increase performance. With a total of 64+256+512 = 832Kb of cache, I expect kernel compilations will fly. Looks like Intel will find it difficult to knock AMD out of the sub-$1000 market, although the pricing pressure should keep buyers happy. Nevertheless initial K6-3 prices are rumoured to be around $350.

AnandTech and Sharky Extreme have published the first K6-3 evaluations with alpha-silicon... and the K6-3 screams at around 10% faster than the equivalent frequency Pentium II. It includes an on-board 256 Kb L2 cache while making the L2 on your motherboard become an L3 cache running at 100Mhz (improving performance by an additional 5%). An additional CXT write combination mode should also increase performance. With a total of 64+256+512 = 832Kb of cache, I expect kernel compilations will fly. Looks like Intel will find it difficult to knock AMD out of the sub-$1000 market, although the pricing pressure should keep buyers happy. Nevertheless initial K6-3 prices are rumoured to be around $350.