ATI Radeon 9800 256MB details appear on retail site

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK for the daily wibble around the web, up pops a 256MB ATI Radeon 9800 for pre-order. We have no idea if the company selling it is any good or not so don't take this as a recommendation. It's just interesting that the cards are starting to appear.

For anyone with a penchant for benchmarks, DarkVision Hardware has a link to a video teaser for the new AquaMark3. Very pretty it looks too.

Headphones that add extra vibration into the bass make games more fun to play. At least that's what they think over at 3D Extreme.

The Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 Personal Video Recorder card has impressed Paul at Sudhian. It's like having a TiVo in your PC.

UK Gamer takes a play with an Asus P4G8X Deluxe motherboard. It might not be worth the money.

Renz at SL Central has been testing the rodent quickening properties of a Ratpadz GS. Does your mouse have a bungee and some skates?

Heatsinks just seem to get bigger all the time. 3D Velocity has discovered a relative newcomer in the form of ToCools. The kit looks good.

If you're just about to buy a new graphics card and you want to know how well it will perform in 3DMark03, Xbit Labs has done all of the hard work for you. In a nicely comprehensive roundup, they've tried just about every current graphics card.

Wondering around Cebit with a digital camera hunting for small form factor PCs seems like a fair pass time. You can see the pictures and read all about it at Hexus.

Last up, some pretty graphics courtesy of Stephan over at Cal Tech. No it's not a new hardware review site. Being a bit of a Geforce FX fan, he's taken lossless screenshots of all kinds of programs running on an FX5800 Ultra. If you want to know exactly what kind of graphics you can get from one these cards, take a wonder over to here. µ