According to the X-bit crew, Intel's getting ready to ship 64-bit processors for the masses. The Pentium 4 500-series will include EM64T, & will be priced similarly to the current 500-series generation of chips.

"Intel’s lineup of EM64T- and EDB-enabled Intel Pentium 4 processors 500-series will consist of models 571, 561, 551, 541, 531 and 521, which are clocked at 3.80GHz, 3.60GHz, 3.40GHz, 3.20GHz, 3.00GHz and 2.80GHz respectively."

PCPOP's got the goods. Smaller... interesting.

Yet more CTZ with yet more good info. This time about ATi's upcoming release, the R520, code-named Fudo.

"A source close to ATI’s board partners revealed that R520 based graphics adapters will start appearing on shelves sometime in Q3 or between July – September timeframe. This would mean that if ATI introduces their R520 at Computex, which will take place in Taipei, Taiwan from May 31st – June 4th, there’s a minimum of one-month delay before actual products appear on retail shelves."

Put a 4GB drive in a Palm device, & you've certainly got something that'd give an iPod a run for its money. With drives getting easier to build in smaller sizes, I think we'll see more & more PDA's go this route.

" The No. 1 handheld maker will introduce LifeDrive Mobile Manager on May 18, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. The $499 device will come with a 4GB Hitachi Microdrive and two flavors of wireless networking--Bluetooth and 802.11b Wi-Fi."

Tha Pimp-Masta's send along word that Fu3lman's updated his Overclockulator software. Version's now up to 1.3.6b. Grab it if you use it.

"This new version includes bug fixes and code cleanup as well as some new PSU wattage calculations for SLI systems. The download is completely free; no site registration required!"

Hexus has come through once again with some big-time info on ATi's upcoming Multi-VPU technology; ie. SLi, ATi style. Seems there might be a bit more to it than just plopping a couple of video cards into your favorite motherboard:

"The system will run with a master card and slave card. The slave card can be ANY ATI card on the market, which is just about as cool as absolute zero, but (and it’s a big BUT).. the master card, which will control the frame buffer, has to support MVP."

Cooling

Thermaltake Silent 939 CPU Cooler @ Techniz

Etc.

FrozenCPU DIY PSU Modularization Kit @ PimpRig

Spire DigiPanel Multifunction Panel @ BigBruin

Cold Fear @ NewsTechInfo

The BoxGods crew lead this article off with a photo of a custom-painted setup that'll certainly make you want to read the rest of the article. Very slick.

"Today were going to cover the basics of painting on a full set of awesome products, Logitech’s MX1000, Saitek’s lighted gaming keyboard with command pad, Hercules's ProphetView 920 flat panel, and Sennheiser's headset."

The emerging media venues, especially blog sites, have certainly changed the way that information is released to the world. The DT crew examine the CNET / Engadget strife, & what it means for the future of NDA's & the technology industry.

"Her point was that the Internet has changed the rules surrounding how information is actually released and NDAs now only seem to hurt the traditional publications along with the customers of those publications and should be rethought. After watching Apple take some bloggers to court for doing what any news organization can do, I certainly agree we need to rethink a lot of the rules here."

Steve over at AWorldofHelp has gone to WinHEC & conquered the masses. Um... ok, maybe not, but he's certainly posted a very comprehensive overview of the upcoming MS OS release, codenamed "Longhorn."

"I've been using the Longhorn Build released at WinHEC for a little while now, and I'll get to my thoughts on it at the end of the article. For now, I want to cover the basics of Longhorn, and bring you up to speed on its key features and the hardware you'll need to run it."

This is too funny. All those classified documents with the "blacked-out" parts that you're not allowed to see? Yeah, I hope they're not in .pdf format anywhere. Hah.

"Portions of the document had been "blacked out" by electronic means. But apparently, it was possible for outsiders to copy and paste the blacked-out sections into another file--and see the text that had been hidden."

The [H] gang also put up a very revealing article yesterday regarding gaming on the 64bit Windows OS, WinXP64. I'll go ahead & ruin this one for ya, too: unless you've got a game written for a 64bit OS, it don't make a damn bit o' difference. They did, however find out that driver support is not going to be too much of a hiccup.

"That said, it looks as though many gamers wanting to put those seasoned Athlon AMD 64 processors to use on a new Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, can do so without much fear."

In case you live under a rock, ATi launched their 512MB X800XL card yesterday. This card's got one huge difference between it & the NVIDIA 512MB competition: ~$500. A ton of sites reviewed it. Here they are, in no particular order:

Hexus
The TechReport
PCPerspective
DriverHeaven
Guru3D
Beyond3D
Bit-Tech

If you want the gory details, in a nutshell, the extra RAM didn't do much to help the benchies. There. I ruined it for ya ;)