Thomas Pabst

Only hours after my review of VIA's Apollo KX133 chipset had been published, NVIDIA sent me new GeForce drivers for this new chipset. My complaints about Athlon's mediocre OpenGL-performance were heard! Have a look at the new results!

VIA's long delayed Apollo KX133 Chipset for Athlon-processors is finally shipping. Will this chipset live up to VIA's hype? Will it breathe some more life into AMD's Athlon CPU?

So you want to have Coppermine and you decided to spend big bucks on RDRAM. Then don't make the mistake and buy i820-platforms! i840 is what Coppermine plus RDRAM needs!

Forget the soldering action we published in the first Athlon overclocking-article. With a bit of electronic knowledge you can make your own Athlon-overclock card that connects to the internal connector of the Athlon-CPU.

Intel has been hurting badly, once AMD pushed them from the CPU-performance throne. Now Intel enters the battle with a new product, famous for its code name Coppermine. Will it be able to beat Athlon?

Now that we know how GeForce performs with today's games, let's have a look at its performance with an actual T&L-title. Dragon Moor Zoological Gardens throws boat loads of polygons at our new 3D-hero and its contestants. Will the integrated T&L-engine make the difference?

Get the scoop on NVIDIA's new monster chip with integrated transform and lighting engine and all those nifty new DirectX 7 features. We tested the SDRAM as well as the DDR SDRAM version of GeForce. Comment about CPU-scaling added on Oct. 13, 1999

You wanted it, so you got it. If you really like risking the life of your Athlon, please go ahead and find the first and most foolproof Athlon Overclocking Guide.

In this performance-comparison between AMD's Athlon at 500, 550, 600, 650, 700, 750 and 800 MHz and Intel's Pentium III at 500, 550, 600 and 650 MHz it becomes pretty obvious why Athlon's future looks very bright from a performance stand point. Let's hope that this excellent muscle-processor won't become a sacrifice of big-company policy.

Kryotech's new highend-system makes it the currently fastest PC in the whole wide world. For $2,200 you get a box with an amazing overall performance, regardless if you're a professional workstation user or a gamer.

Athlon's superior architecture makes sure that Intel's flagship Pentium III is beat in almost any benchmark.

There's still 2 1/2 months to go until Intel will launch the new i820-chipset, also known as 'Camino'. However, the early days in the life of Camino are long over

Read all about 'Camino', 'Carmel', 'Solona' and Rambus. Look forward with me to the upcoming notebook CPUs.

A detailed explanation and estimation of Intel's CPUs for the next 12 months

Coppermine goes Socket370, Notebook PIII's shipping soon and more ...

It's time for a new Slot1-platform. Intel's BX-chipset is out for about a year now, and whilst nobody is really complaining about its performance, the technology has to step ahead to create new business in the chipset and motherboard area

We take a close look at today's 3D-technology and lists all the features you should expect from a state-of-the art 3D-card

Kryotech is nowadays a name that is known to most of my readers and particularly the power users amongst you have certainly already contemplated running your system with one of the super cooling devices from this company based in the deep and hot South of the US.

It's not too long ago that Tom's Hardware Guide introduced 3Dfx's upcoming Voodoo3 chip to you, and many of you may have thought that this new chip will ensure 3Dfx's role as supplier of the world's fastest 3D accelerators for the future

We are almost there, the wait for the new microprocessors from AMD and Intel is finally close to an end. Intel's upcoming Pentium III is an upgrade of the well known Pentium II-core with the new 'streaming SIMD extension, and AMD's new K6-3 is nothing but the latest K6-2-core with 256 kB on-die L2-cache running at core-clock. Before we start looking at the scores of those new CPUs, let's first consider what we should expect.

Banshee, the last chip that 3Dfx released, could not really impress any of us when it was released last year and since Comdex 1998 we are highly anticipating the Voodoo3, a chip that's supposed to prove 3Dfx's leadership in the world of 3D-acceleration

Straight after I read about Intel's new plans to ensure higher data security over the Internet for e-commerce by implementing a identification number into their upcoming CPUs starting with Pentium III

I spoke to Dana Krelle, AMD's vice president of marketing, and he gave me the latest scoop on AMD's plans

On the beginning of January 1999 Intel launched two new Celeron CPUs, each for the well known Slot1 as well as for the new Socket370.

The RIVA TNT is out for several months now and most people agree that it is currently the best 2D/3D solution available.