Rumours and lies and stories they made up

LES FRENCHIES at x86-Secret have been showing off a CPU-Z screenshot for the future Intel Xeon Nocoma. Le Nocona, they say, is a Xeon Socket 604 with a 200 MHz FSB (800 QDR). With 1 Mb of L2 cache and SSE3 instructions. The most interesting innovation is its use of EM64T, ex-IA32E, which they say is an Intel implementation of AMD64 technology, over here.

Toms Hardware has apparently dug up a PDF which seems to reveal AMD plans for a Mobile Athlon 64 2700+, scheduled to appear in April 2004. We could find no mention of any such chip in the document, which Tom's boys reckon was posted by accident. Either our eyesight's failing or the document has been purged. Have a squint at the pdf for yourself here.

AMD Zone casts a an eye over three 802.11b wireless USB adapters, two of which also include flash memory storage. The items under discussion include the Airlink EZ-555 and AirDrive Pro EZ-552 from Ezonics, and the Gigabyte WLBZ201, over here.

ATI has what you want, it reckons, but not yet, over here. Wonder what that could conceivably be. As a further hint here's some of the HTML that has disappearded from the page since yesterday: "input type="hidden" name="hidType" id="hidType" value="R420-Launch"" .

While Hardware Analysis says the more it learns about Nvidia's NV40, the more it reminds them of 3Dfx's shelved Rampage, over here. Here's a Googly English version.

Bit-Tech has as a fiddle with a wee Matrix Orbital MX212 LCD that keeps an eye on your system over here.

Techware Labs mucks about with a StarTech 480 Watt 'Silent' PSU over here.

One Techreporter's missus likes a wireless laptop keeping her company while she's chained to the kitchen sink, over here.

HardwareHell has a fiddle with an- Albatron GeforceFX 5900 XTV over here.

DataFuse has a bang about with a "spectacular anodized aluminium" Antec Super Lanboy case over here.

OCAU entertains a Bitspower RAM LED Mod kit that'll make your Ram glow, over here.

Bjorn3D has a fiddle with a SanDisk 1GB Extreme CompactFlash Type I Memory card over here. It's not cheap but it sure is smart, they reckon.

And some Overclockers stumbled across a 3.8Lb Prescott heatsink a few days ago (hint!). This mighty hunk of copper would feed Steptoe, Son and Hercules for a week or two, we reckon, over here. µ