It is no secret that Microsoft's second generation gaming console, the Xbox 360, has had more than its fair share of thermal issues since it became available, nearly 3 years ago.

Esteemed chassis purveyor, Lian Li, has come to the rescue though with its enamouring, PC-XB01 chassis, allowing end-users everywhere to indulge in not only form, but function too.

AMD displayed some jaw dropping photorealistic characters at a press conference in New York yesterday, using the power of a Radeon HD 4800 series GPU with their latest Cinema 2.0 technology.

The folks at PCGamesHardware have since posted up a bunch of exclusive screenshots as well as a video showing off AMD's latest tech demo in action. The video shows Ruby having it out with a nasty big Robot on a mission.

The IDF red carpet is to be rolled out for USB 3.0, next week, claims this report from TG Daily.

'SuperSpeed USB' is the glittering moniker used to refer to the USB 3.0 architecture in Intel's announcement that, revision 0.9 of its Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification, has been given the seal of approval. This revelation follows earlier claims that Intel was being less than forthcoming with sharing, yet it appears that the chip giant is, actually, in a sharing and caring mood.

The first of Intel's Nehalem microarchitecure derived, Bloomfield CPUs, are to hit shores in September or October, according to this article from DIGITIMES.

Three Intel Core i7 SKUs, being a 3.2 GHz 'Extreme' part, a 2.93 GHz 'Performance' part and a 2.66 GHz 'Mainstream' part, priced in 1000-unit tray quantities at $999, $562 and $284, respectively, will usher in Intel's new Core i7 vision.

PowerColor's SuperRV770-esque Radeon HD 4870 SKU, has been pixellated courtesy of, Expreview.

The part, which appears to be heading into Super RV770 domain, features a rather intricate and elaborate cooling solution, evidently to keep the factory overclocked GPU, running at a sprightly 800 MHz, with the GDDR5 memory modules, running at 950 MHz (QDR).

NVIDIA has officially enabled PhysX support on all GeForce 8 and beyond graphics cards today by means of its first Power Pack.

By making your way over to NVIDIA's Force Within web portal, you are given a full selection of free demos and applications with which to make use of PhysX processing via your card. Of course, you'll first need to download and install the new PhysX enabled 177.83 driver, also made available at the above location.

We recently reported on NVIDIA's ongoing defective mobile GPU woes, yet this report from The Inquirer, alleges that the state of play is markedly more serious than is being let on.

Unnamed sources are indicating that four NVIDIA AIBs are experiencing high failure rates on G92 and G94 chips. The G92 GPU powers such solutions as the NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT, 8800GTS, and 8800GS members of the GeForce 8 family, including a number of mobile variants. Alarmingly, the G92 also powers many GeForce 9800 family SKUs, plus a few GeForce 9600 parts too. Not of any less importance, the G94 powers GeForce 9600GT solutions.

Dell is making a concerted effort to attack ASUS' Eee Portfolio, according to this report from Engadget.

Citing this article from DIGITIMES, it is claimed that Compal Electronics, the beneficiary of Dell outsourcing the production of over two million notebooks in Q3, will also be working with a 10" netbook, expected to launch in October.

Western Digital bringing its fierce VelociRaptor hard drives, backplane and all, to a 3.5" drive bay near you, is the subject of this report from TechConnect Magazine.

Breaking speed limits at 10,000 RPM, the VelociRaptor utilises a SATA 3.0 GBps interface and boasts capacities of either 150 or 300 GB.

Not sure how many of you saw this coming, but word's come in that VIA have pulled the plug on making motherboard chipsets for third-party CPUs, at least for the foreseeable future.

VIA's vice president of marketing Richard Brown says 'Intel provides the vast majority of chipsets for its processors and, following its purchase of ATI, AMD is also moving very quickly in the same direction.