By default ASUS' Eee PC 900/901 netbooks are limited to a maximum of 20GB flash storage with 4GB onboard. However, Buffalo comes to the rescue and today announces two solid state drives designed to replace the lower capacity flash drives in these units.

Available in sizes of 32 and 64GB, this offers quite a bump in storage space to allow for much more flexibility in the way users can operate their Eee PC 900/901 netbook.

Expreview have just given the heads up that NVIDIA has done the same thing with the 9600 GT as they did with the 9800 GTX; that is, shrink the die from 65 to 55nm. However, where the 55nm version of the 9800 GTX gets a '+' tacked onto the end of its name, the 55nm 9600 GT does not.

To find out if it's running a 55nm core, you need to read the markings on the die. The original 65nm one reads G94-300-A1 whilst the newer 55nm reads G94-300-B1. Clock speeds are left the same but it's inevitable overclocking headroom will be somewhat better for add-in partners and users.

As though their current lineup isn't inundated with confusion already, NVIDIA plans to unleash yet another model in its upper desktop segment tomorrow; the 9800 GT. The card is certainly nothing revolutionary either (as is the case across much of the 9 series lineup); it's for the most part a re-branded 8800 GT with its 512MB GDDR3 memory, 112 Stream Processors and identical core/memory clockspeeds.

ASUS has however decided to make their upcoming EN9800GT Ultimate stand out a little more by increasing clockspeeds out of the box to 725MHz on the core, 2000MHz memory and 1750MHz shader clocks. A picture of the card that was spotted by the lads at TechConnect shows a heatsink which looks very much like the one used on the G92 8800 GTS.

The lads over at chilehardware have managed to get a sneek peek into a spy shot of NVIDIA's 2008 driver roadmap. The shot is very difficult to see clearly, but what it appears to show is upcoming features such as Display Port connectivity, Quality improvements, Performance improvements and OpenGL 3.0.

A heads up for buyers down under; Scorptec is feeling green this week. No, not sickly green; energy efficient green!

They have some good deals going on a range of products that get the green tick of approval, including GIGABYTE's new GA-EP45-DS3P Motherboard with DES Advanced energy saving at just $199, Western Digital's "GreenPower" Series 500 and 750GB HDDs at $99 and $159 respectively, and D-Link's 8-Port "Green Ethernet" gigabit switch at only $85.

Even though DirectX 10 is still quite fresh in developers minds, Microsoft are already making a push to bring more advancements in the form of DirectX 11. The company has today announced some initial details about it which Shacknews have shared out here.

One particular and expected highlight of DX11 is tessellation support which as far as I know is already being used in current-gen consoles such as the 360. It blurs the line between super high quality pre-rendered scenes and scenes rendered in real-time, allowing game developers to refine models to be smoother and more attractive when seen up close.

An Israeli start-up company claim to have made a breakthrough in parallel graphics technology which allows for a mixture of any type of graphics card to be used in a system for improved scaling, which completely defies the boundaries of Crossfire and SLI which require two or more of the same model card in order to function.

The technology is called "Hydra"; the beast with many heads. It is essentially a system-on-a-chip (SoC) which uses exclusive software to detect and balance the workload of multiple GPUs/graphics cards found in the system; regardless of the CPU or motherboard chipset.

The lads at PCGamesHardware have become the first to lay eyes on PowerColor's HD 4870 PCS OC, with the interesting aspect of this card not so much being the superior Zerotherm cooling solution and higher clock speeds, but the choice to go with double the memory at 1GB GDDR5.

It will be interesting to see what the extra memory does for the card, though it's pretty much a given we should see some big increases from it at the higher resolutions. Hopefully we can get hold of a sample for review in the near future; we'll do our best!

Although not well known in the mainstream PC cooling and accessories market, a mob by the name of Danamics has suddenly attracted much attention with a new type of CPU cooler that is said to be the first in the world which uses "Liquid-metal" to assist with its cooling abilities.

Liquid-metal has a higher thermal conductivity than other forms of liquid and that alone brings promise, but the particularly interesting thing to note is that the pump sitting atop the cooler is electromagnetic by design; meaning it has no moving parts nor does it emit any noise/vibration whatsoever.

Danamics have made a bold statement on their website that the cooler exceeds most watercooling solutions, but high-end air cooling is often capable of this as well. As cool as the technology behind it sounds, it still raises an eyebrow as to how well this cooler will actually perform.

Expreview have acquired a fresh Intel roadmap which outlines the company's Nehalem launch schedule well into 2009.

The first wave will hit in Q4 of this year with the top-end 3.2GHz Bloomfield part sitting in the Extreme/top-end segment along with 2.93GHz and 2.66GHz models entering the performance and mainstream markets.