Russians uncover uncharted GeForce FX 5200SE, it seems

DRIVERHEAVEN has checked out what difference new drivers make to the performance of XGI's Volari V8 Duo over here.

They've also had a fiddle with a couple of Geforce FXs, with a 5900XT meeting a Sapphire 9600XT, round about here.

Meanwhile, Russian site, Guide3D, serves up links to upcoming Nvidious offerings named "GeForce FX 5200SE", they say, after fiddling with a pre-release ForceWare 56.57 driver. We Babelfished the site here, but found the Russian original equally incomprehensible.

UPDATE: An INQUIRER reader serves up a fine translation here.

Maddmaxx spent six months farting about with his case. The results, he reckons, were worth it.

Remember Diamond Multimedia? ask the HotHardwarers. Well, they're back, they proclaim, with an entry-level Stealth S80, based on a Radeon 9200 GPU. Their fiddlings are exposed here.

SimHQ takes a technical look at Naval Combat with Destroyer Command over here. Donaldo'd love it, but I bet he's digging holes.

Bjorn3d tries to fill up a Maxtor 120GB DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA HDD. Prolly pron or bust really, innit guys? Still those turned on by PATA, SATA or RAID can go here.

Soltek comes up with an "enthusiast-oriented" motherboard based on VIA's new PT880 say the TechReporters. Here's their squint at an SL-PT880Pro-FGR .

Adrian's Rojak Pot mucks about with a Wacom Volito Tablet here.

There's an ASUS SK8V VIA K8T800 mainboard on Digit-Life here.

HardwareHell offers some distractions for the weekend, culled, it seems, from GamersHell, over here.

And, um, finally, here's something to amuse and delight you. Scroll down a bit. It's all lies, damn lies. µ