[H]ardNews 2nd Edition

D925XECV2 and P4EE 3.46GHz:

HEXUS.net has a review on the 925EX and Extreme Edition 3.46Ghz Processor from Intel.

Intel has countered AMD's bludgeoning FX-series of CPUs with souped-up versions of its Northwood-based Pentium 4s. Taken from a server background and sporting no less than 2MB of L3 cache, Extreme Edition processors have added meaningful performance gains in cache-dependant applications; most notably games.

ATI Shader 3.0 and Multi-GPU:

X-bit labs has a write up on when ATI will implement some of the new technologies that are expected in the next generations of Video Cards. Me I am waiting for at least two more generations before I upgrade.

ATI Technologies, the world's top supplier of discrete graphics processing units, said it would adopt technologies that its arch-rival NVIDIA Corp. has been promoting for a while in future.

41 BIOS Updates:

Get over to Tech Connect Magazine and see if what you need.

We have the latest bios updates listed by brand.

More Space News:

NASA is saying that the next shuttle launch will be likly scheduled for May 2005. The shuttle program has been grounded since the loss of the Shuttle Columbia in Febuary of 2003. NASA is going forward with its commitment to 15 nations to complete some of the 28 more required flights to the International Space Station.

NASA's Space Flight Leadership Council met Oct. 29, 2004, to consider a recommendation from the Space Shuttle Program to revise the Return to Flight target launch window to May 2005.