NV30 - maybe in December

AN ARTICLE at Lost Circuits illuminates the mystery surrounding Nvidia's NV30. The article rightly points out that if the design has "taped out" a couple of weeks ago, validation of first silicon and the other necessary things that need to be done would likely mean that Nvidia might just about produce some real working stuff by early December. This is a great article, well worth reading if you're unsure about what chip jargon actually means.

A Sony Ericsson T68 phone is reviewed over at SL Central. We got one of those. It's got Bluetooth support and it's the only device that has such support here at Mageek Central - so that's not much cop, is it?

Here's a review of the Vantec Tornado 80mm case fan.

At 3D Velocity, there's a review of the Nostromo N45 Dual Analogue games controller.

There's a review of the Transcend Jet Flash USB drive here, and Forum OC also looks at memory.

Mikhailtech is giving away Cyber Cooler fans.

Here's a review of the Zalman HSF, the incredibly sexily named CNPS5100-Cu. Here.

Accelenation picks up the Radeon 8500 and Geforce 4 TI and subjects them to grievous bodily benchmarking, here.

There's too many reviews of the new Athlon XP+s for us to list - but AMD Zone is putting a list of reviews together. µ