NV40 benchmarks posted - possibly

WELL, OF ALL YOU happy wibblers, only Jens - he knows who he is - has his eyes open. At least he's the only one who mailed us to say there seem to be NV40 benchmarks on that naughty Korean site over here, Bablefish stylee.

Over on Hothardware, the boys got their hands on an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra reference card that is equipped with Samsung GDDR3 memory. They snapped it naked, over here.

Epiacenter has snaps too, this time of some new nano-itx cases, over here.

Aside from straddling Afghanistan, any idea what a pipeline is or does? Datafuse is concise but very helpful over here. A GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) has several parallel pipelines, they say, each pipeline can deliver 1 pixel. Inside this pipeline you can have plural texture units. Some pipeline structures are capable of sending two structures with one pixel. If you're working with a single texture pipeline, the pixel will have to pass twice through the pipeline. So now you know.

Over at Spode's Abode, Peter Barnard takes a look at the Silverstone Eudemon fan controller here.

Neoseeker takes a look at Gigabyte's 3DCooler ULTRA over here.

OCIA.net checks out the NZXT Guardian case over here.

ipKonfig shows hoe best to dispose of dead Athlons, over here.

Sharky Extreme tips up with a gander at Intel's Pentium 4-3.4E Prescott, over here.

Vantec NexStar 2.5" USB 2.0 external enclosure gest a going-over on ExtensionTech over here.

The Hardware Pacers have a fiddle with an X-micro WLAN 11g PCMCIA card over Review Link: here.

And, just how safe is your Email address on the Internet, wonder the boys from Bit Tech, over here. µ