For the Mac users among us, GameSpot has a new article taking a look at the latest MacWorld convention which is pretty insightful.

Wicked3D has released some matrox-esque drivers for the majority of their products.

Whoa I'm back! Gotta lotta stuff to catch up on, but here's some news that had to be posted ASAP: Remember a while back we heard from those BitBoysOy guys about their 3dfx and nVidia killer tech? We'll they've issued the official press release about their Glaze 3D (Mmm...donuts) and amazing specs to go along with it:

Glaze3D™ 1200 is a PC 99, DirectX® 7.0, OpenGL® 1.2 and Microsoft® Windows® 2000 compatible product with no sacrifices in the feature list. The product delivers a fillrate of 1200 million texels per second and a geometry throughput of 15 million triangles per second. This translates to a real-world performance in, for example, id Software’s Quake III Arena of over 200 frames per second at true color in full monitor resolutions with all details and features enabled.

Yea...and that's just the 1200. In the press release, they mention the 2400 and the 4800- Smokin'! Sounds great, but I'll believe it when I see it. Thanks Extreme Hardware (The Bit Boys Strike Back!).

The new version of GLSetup has finally been released which will detect the 3D accelerator you have and automatically select/download the correct OpenGL driver for your accelerator card. Here is the list of neeto new features:

- Web GLSetup: download a tiny stub program that will detect and only download the drivers you need...no more forced 33MB mega-download.
- Driver Update Registration: GLSetup will email you when new drivers for your 3D hardware are available.
- Finally Full 3dfx Support: GLSetup now supports all the 3dfx chipsets, in addition to the other chipsets from all major 3D hardware vendors, with more added all the time.

Well, it looks like after all that hype the PGC technology is just getting canned. For those of you who need a refresher the PGC technology was a plan to run TNT2 or Voodoo3 cards in a SLI mode of sorts doubling the 3D horsepower. Here's the bit from TheHive:

"PGC will not be released by Alienware. This is due to the fact that the next generation of chipsets is simply weeks away."  In this industry products often become outdated before they are ever released. PGC simply ran out of time. It would not be logical for the gamer to invest in PGC when in about 5 weeks the next generation of video chipsets will be released.

ExtremeHW has posted an interview with Drew Prarie of AMD talking about their upcoming K7 CPU.

A bit more on the NV10 for you guys to read over at CRUS.

FiringSquad has posted a P3 overclocking guide. They recommend the p3-450 (Same thing I have) which can sometimes go as high as 600mhz.

BXBoards and TechZone have been reporting on recent new stickers on Celeron boxes that read "For Uniprocessor Systems Only". There's no definite word on if pin AN15 is disabled or not. I'm sure we'll know soon enough. Here is the nay from BXBoards:

Socket 370 Celerons are now coming pin AN15 disabled so they won't work in dual mode anymore. Here's a picture I thumbnailed from a Japanese site which shows the change in packaging. They are now labelled "for uniprocessor systems only". Off course at this stage this could just be a trick to make people think twice about buying for dual processors, but my sources are telling me that the latest engineering samples are coming SMP disabled.

And the more positive from Moto:

Well, I got two boxed celeron 500's here with that for uniprocessor only label on them. They work just fine in the BP6, and are both currently running at 585Mhz rock solid (78mhz bus) and I will try for an even 600 shortly.

3dfx released information on 2 new products, the Velocity 100 and 200. These are aimed at the business types, and not the hardcore games. OEM is where the money is, look at ATi.

Some pics of the newly arrived Pentium 600 over on Alienware. These should allow the P3 550s and 500s to drop to a more affordable level.

eX3d posts a guide about how to build your gaming rig on a budget of $1500.

3D Spotlight has just posted a review of Aureal's very own Vortex2 sound card, the Aureal Vortex2 Superquad Digital PCI.

Extreme Hardware takes a look at matching (or should I say mis-matching) up different brands of Voodoo2s. Sure it's older stuff but for some people, adding that second Voodoo2 could be the most cost effective upgrade.

Remember the other day I was blabbing about how I needed some more HD space, and that getting a WD 18000 was the way to go according to this round up on Storage Review? Well Review Zone busts out their own ATA HD comparison, but this time with different conclusions. Also, SE has just posted their first hard drive review of the year, focusing on the Quantum Fireball KA (UDMA66).

A pair of reviews on Abit's newest, and UDMA66 supporting, BX based mother boards: TechZone reviews whiz-bang BP6, the dual Celeron board, and FPS3D looks at the BE6 (think BH6+ UDMA66).

3DRage reviews the Detonator cooling fan from Tennmax, which he used to cool the cool Gigabyte card with the OC jumper and sandwich.

I finally jumped on the DVD-ROM bandwagon and picked up a Pioneer 6x slot loading drive, no decoding card though. So I slap it in the system, and now I'm faced with the dilemma of which software DVD decoder to use. So far I've gotten the impression that WinDVD is the best one, but unfortunately their website is down and I've heard that there isn't a trial demo available. Zoran doesn't cut it, so I'm stuck with this ATi player (which is Cinemaster based) that is surprisingly good, close to a set top box. Next up is to get a G400MAX to get that Dual Head action going, and to hunt down a pair of week 21 (or more recent) Celeron 366s.

Now that I have a drive, I really hope Final Fantasy 8 has a DVD version. Having to swap discs sucks, and high quality cinemas would rock.

Extreme Hardware reviews ECS's P6BXT-A+ motherboard. What makes this motherboard special is that it supports both Socket-370 and Slot-1 CPUs.

APC sends word that they have snapped up some pictures from an AMD mobile roadmap slide show, as well as the sub-$600 S730 PC plans for Rise (pshaw!)