3GHz Pentium 4 due November 14th

INTEL IS SET TAKE take the Pentium 4 to 3GHz in mid November according to Ocworkbench over here. The product launch is likely to affect pricing throughout Intel's P4 lineup in the remaining six weeks of the fourth quarter, which covers the peak holiday selling season, a solution provider, who wished to remain anonymous coughed to the site.

News Intel will talk about includes its new lineup of chipsets introduced today. There are four: the enhanced Intel 850E, which boasts PC1066 support, and the new Intel 845GE, 845PE and 845GV.

Anandtech has a look at three DDR333-supporting 845PE mobos over here.

HotHardware.Com, has a look at two boards, the P4PE from Asus, which sports the i845PE and the Intel D845GEBV2 that's powered by the i845GE. Wibble this way.

Tech wanders through a blizzard of 333 boards to see how the 845PE and 845GE chipsets hold up against some more established configurations over here.

The grumpsters at HardOCP are also on the Intel kick with a look at the Asus P4PE mainboard here.

Elsewhere in moboland we spy a FIC VC19 i845E motherboard over at Hardwarezone here, a Gigabyte GA-8IHXP (850E) ramboboard at Tbreak here. And a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP board at AusPCWorld down under here.

And the Overclockingstore shows off some pix of the first Albatron NV18 boards to tip up in the UK, they say, over here. And pimped on the same page, they add, are some ‘big nudies' of a silver 845E board here. Coo!

X-Bit Labs considers the push towards GDDR-III we mentioned over here. Will Jedec ever catch up, they wonder, here.

Swiftech, in their quest to produce the perfect heatsink, have redesigned the MC462, says Bit-tech. Here's a look at the MCX462-U.

Erik recommends Ars Technica's very interesting article explaining hyperthreading and its prequel superthreading over here.

VIA kicks off its Technology Forum in Taipei tomorrow. The happenings are previewed on Viaarena, funnily enough, over here.

And David recommended his pix of babes and boxes as "well worth a link", you decide over here.

You can nail the Wibbler here.