With Intel's Montevina Centrino 2 platform just a couple months away, DDR3 SO-DIMM modules are beginning to show up in the market. Walton Chaintech has just released DDR3 1066 SO-DIMM modules which meet DDR3 JEDEC standards and operate with a working voltage of just 1.5V.

This is where DDR3 modules are really fitting for a notebook, as not only do they have a much higher ceiling, but the lower power consumption reflects on overall battery life as well.

As well as gaining DDR3 support and many other refinements, Intel's upcoming Centrino 2 (known as Montevina) will also see some very serious GPU solutions released for it as both AMD and NVIDIA continue to fight it out for supremacy.

NVIDIA has had control of the high-end mobile graphics segment for quite a while, but some details and pictures of a (what looks to be) brutal piece of work from the AMD/ATI crew have shown up on the web and it may just get them right back into the swing of things in this sector.

There is great news for those iPhone users who hesitate about hacking their baby fruit.

What am I on about? Well, the Pwnage Tool is out and according to a Gizmodo article, it seems as if the hacked phones are completely free of bugs worth mentioning. What should also be noted is that the latest Version 2.0 firmware needs to be installed for the applications to be PWNED.

An email from Zotac just arrived in our inbox announcing its newest graphics card, the GeForce 9800 GTX AMP! Edition.

It comes with all the usual 9800 GTX features except of course the AMP! Edition part means that it comes with a boost in performance via some factory overclocking.

A regular 9800 GTX reference cards includes a core clock speed of 675MHz, shader clock speed of 1688MHz and memory speed of 2200MHz DDR.

OCZ continues on its mission to dominate the power supply market with famous PC Power & Cooling recently under its belt.

They have just announced yet another range of power supplies called EliteXStream which will be will be available in 800-watt and 1000-watt versions both with 120mm cooling fan and five year warranty. It claims a high efficiency of 82% and received 80+ certification. OCZ reckons they are the top choice for high-powered gaming systems and workstations.

Super Talent has just announced its newest range of ultra tiny USB pen drives which happen to also offer the smallest design coming in sizes ranging from 1GB to 8GB.

The Pico Series of pen drives are incredibly small and feature up to 30 MB/s (200X) transfer speeds and measures just 1.50"x0.50" and weigh next-door to nothing at 4 - 6 grams.

There are three drives in the Pico Series including PICO-A, PICO-B and PICO-C. Each look fairly familiar however each vary in size slightly one swivels and is water proof, one is rugged and water proof and one is simply retractable.

YIDSUN is back in the news again with its new and improved BlueBoom series Bluetooth speakers.

We reviewed their first version SPK-796 speakers here some months ago and found them to be quite good scoring a rating of 84%.

This should be voted "Coolest News of the Week" by far. SwiftShader 2.0 was recently released by Transgaming Technologies which is a 3D software renderer. In the simplest of terms, it allows the CPU to render 3D applications aka games!

PC Games and Hardware in Germany spent some time with the new 3D software renderer over the past weekend and showed some very interesting details. The results are less than impressive for the CPU vs. GPU with a single GeForce 8500GT graphics card being able to provide seven times better performance than an Intel Core 2 Quad processor clocked at 3.8GHz.

Following recent rumour that AMD are planning to release a lower spec'd version of the popular HD 3870 X2 graphics card, ASUS has become the first partner to confirm this with an official announcement showing off the world's first HD 3850 X2 offering.

Dubbed the "EAH3850X2/HTDI/1G", the card is designed near identically to its bigger brother, but with lower clockrates of 668MHz on the core and 1658MHz on the 1GB of GDDR3 memory. Pricing isn't yet known, but given where the 3870 X2 currently sits it should be an attractive alternative for those looking to go Crossfire on a budget.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been floating around the big bad Internet for some time now but has really only just been released officially by Microsoft and hit mainstream users in the past week or two. SP1 includes a lot of bug fixes, updates and performance increases from the RTM release of Vista.

We all know that we should be running SP1 even if just for its stability fixes but what about performance? Cyril Kowaliski from The Tech Report got on the job and found out what the big deal is all about when it comes to performance numbers over the non-patched Vista operating system.