3DMark03 reveals Nvidia/ATI optimisations, Gainward up in arms

Meanwhile Xbit Labs reckons that Gainward is up in arms over this new patch because it disables the Nvidia GPU Compiler, here.

See also Futuremark releases "objective patch" for 3DMark03.

There's more at Beyond 3D.

An ATI representative said to the INQ. "There are no ATI optimisations. Once again, it's just Nvidia... The patch doesn't affect scores on ATI hardware. The changes in ATI performance are within the margin of error".

How does Windows work with Athlon 64s? German site Tec Channel has some info here.

Lan Addict has a review of the Power Color Radeon 9200 SE 64MB, and you can read that right here.

Flickerdown reckons Tron is the best thing since sliced Hovis.

AMD Zone reviews the FIC K8-800T motherboard which uses the Athlon 64 microprocessor. That's here.

Stone the crows. Liquidluxx reviews a total of 15 CPU blocks in a product roundup at its site. Sheesh! Kebab!.

Dan's Data has a useful little collection of letters in this article. The USB ports should just work.

CooltechZone looks at Zalman's surround sound headphones in this review.

Rojak's Pot has release 4 of its definitive BIOS optimisation guide, and that's just here.