During Kirk Skaugen's Digital Enterprise Keynote at IDF in Taipei today, we got a look at what the upcoming Nehalem-based Core i7 processor is capable of when it comes to gaming performance.

A Core i7 running at 3.2GHz with an ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card was compared against a current generation QX9770 also running at 3.2GHz with the same graphics card and hard disk drive.

During Kirk Skaugen's keynote today at IDF in Taipei, Stephen Pawlowski hit the stage briefly to chat about a small little thing called Nehalem.

Intel's upcoming Nehalem-based Core i7 processors are due to go on sale on November 17. Stephen spent a little bit of time, among other things, explaining exactly how Intel's Turbo Boost (or Turbo Mode) technology will work on its new CPU.

Calling all overclockers!

Futuremark have wound up this year's Overclocking Competition which begun a few days ago and runs through till Oct 28th. This should be the perfect excuse for many of you to squeeze the absolute maximum from your systems in an effort to reign supreme with the highest 3DMark Vantage score.

LGA 1160 is no more, apparently.

This article from Fudzilla suggests that the Nehalem supporting socket, which is set to debut with the P55 platform, is now known as LGA 1156.

Bill Calder over at the Technology@Intel blog today revealed that Intel would begin selling its Nehalem-based Core i7 processors in November.

The trouble is, November is a pretty long month and it could fall on any day within. We can confirm that the first Core i7 processors will be on shop shelves November 17th in North America and November 18th in Asia and Australia.

If a report from Expreview.com over in China is to be believed, AMD will finally debut its codenamed Kuma AM2+ parts to the world sometime in Q1 2009.

According to an October 2008 AMD roadmap, Kuma will first come in the form of X2 7000 series dual-core 65nm processors.

Corsair has paved the way for a fresh line of power supplies this week, first introducing an economical 400 watt unit.

Dubbed the Power Series, this new lineup is aimed more so at the mainstream user with good clean and reliable power, at a price point that won't hurt the wallet. the CX400W offering is of course ATX12V v2.2 compliant and has an efficiency level of over 80% with 99% Active PFC and a single 12V dishing out 30A.

Even though Thermaltake's existing range of PC enclosures is plentiful with choices galore, the company has made room for yet another four mid-tower enclosures dubbed the RSI Alpha series; these catering to entry level buyers wanting to save a few quid but still pick up something of quality with tool-less installation and other trinkets.

The new lineup comprises the WingRS 200, WingRS 201, SopranoRS 200 and SopranoRS 201. You have the option of buying one of the select models with or without a 430W power supply and transparent window.

There was some news floating around over the past week or so that Apple may switch from integrated Intel graphics to NVIDIA graphics in its new MacBook Pro 2008 edition and during the launch event being held right now, Jobs confirmed it for us all.

This new notebook from Apple will employ the use of NVIDIA GeForce 9400 M, which Jobs calls "an amazing chip".

Egan Orion over at the INQ is reporting that ASUS shipped 4,500 Eee Box systems into Japan with a malware virus called "recycled.exe". According to ASUS, only systems sold in Japan are affected.

The virus is located on the D drive partition and once the user first starts up the system, it will copy itself to the master boot drive and any attached drives. The malware will slow down the users Eee Box and attempt to download more dangerous bits and bytes from the Internet.