Tweak3D has gone over the GeForce tweak guide and added all kinds of neeto new tricks for you to try. Stuff on AGP bus info, OpenGL performance tweaks, and a bit of extra cooling tips to boot.

DailyRadar gets into the hardware roundup business with this article doing um.. just that. It's a pretty newbie-ish guide but if you're in the market for picking up a new GeForce it's worth reading. (Thanks loony)

Well, we know one thing for sure now, NVidia will provide the graphics technology in Microsoft's Xbox according to EETimes. It has some quotes from someone from Gigapixel, who were competing with NVidia for the graphics parts. NVidia was selected to minimize the variables and risk factors.

update Jack - Good lord, nVidia's stock is up 20 points on this rumor. Remember folks, it ain't official until GDC.

ChRiS7 pointed us to Reactor Critical which is carrying new 5.08 Detonator drivers for the TNT/2/GeForce cards. This version has the S3TC OpenGL support.

Yahoo has a piece up about NVidia, how they started out, the different markets to reach, the profits and of course the ever existing competition. Not too big an article, so give it a quick read.

Bjorn's 3D World has a comparison of normal OpenGL and S3TC enabled OpenGL GeForce drivers (not out yet). These shots weren't taken on one of those S3TC enhanced levels though, so you get a pretty minimalistic difference.

Some more details on the next-gen NVidia NV11 and NV15 chipset video cards are popping up everywhere. You should have a look at the stuff at TheRegister as well as 3DHarware.net's CeBit report. (Thanks monkbent and j.p.)

Here are the NV15's key features. It will have a 135MHz 3D core, 333MHz memory clock (obviously DDR), transfom and lighting set-up and rendering, a 256-bit rendering engine, a 540 million pixels per second fill rate, and support up to 128MB

Most of the numbers being reported around the web are all just about in that area. Nothing is official from NVidia just yet but the last time specs were leaked early on the GeForce they came out to be fairly accurate. (Just dont believe NVidia about those best case fill rate claims, heh) The big question being when is it coming out? Not for a while, looks like 3dfx will be back on top with the Voodoo4 for at least a little while.

update Jack - Or not. 3dfx made their Q4 earnings report (losing $34 million), and mentioned that they expect a similar loss for fiscal Q1. Reading between the lines, they expect that they won't be selling many V4/5's during fiscal Q1 (ending April for 3dfx).

update Jack again - According to Yahoo Business, 3dfx CEO Dr. Alex Leupp said in his conference call today that "production wafers are in fabrication for the Voodoo(TM) 4 and Voodoo(TM) 5 family of products, and we believe that they are on track for shipment near the end of the FY 2001 first quarter." That would be the end of April. Oh, and check this out for some laughs.

AnandTech got some NV15 and NV11 info (Thanks Ben Thompson) from someone, who supposedly got it from a source close to NVidia. Check this (and take with a grain of salt since it's unofficial):

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NV15 will be 3 times faster than GeForce256 with 400MHz of DDR SDRAM. It has 2 texel/pixel, 4 pixel/clock rendering pipeline structure and supports 720P HDTV. NV15 can be configured with SCA(Scalable Cooperative Architecture) that 1 AGP + 1 Virtual AGP(PCI) can be set. 90 frames / second at 2048 x 1536 x 32bit color is expected, the source said. This chip will be manufactured with 0.18 micron process and will be available in late spring.

High-end version of NV15, NV15GL will be released also. NV15GL card will have 128MB of DDR SDRAM(400MHz) and uses AGP Pro 4x interface.

Here is an article we posted January 12 which talked about possible performance of the NV11/NV15, which of course was also unofficial.

Tweak3D has a new GeForce cooling and tweaking guide online which helps you along with tweaking and cooling your NVidia GeForce boards. Make sure and tweak it before you cool it though.

Maximum PC has Quake3, Unreal Tournament and other benchmarks numbers, perfomed on one of those Dell 64mb GeForce cards. For Q3 it adds about 6-10 fps.

Since a lot of people grabbed and installed Windows2000 today, NVidia was kind enough to release the new Windows2000 GeForce/TNT drivers on their website for download. You can grab them here. Thanks NVNews

Riva3D has word of a new utility for GeForce owners called 'GeTune' which makes a few more options/enhancements available for those of you running the reference drivers.

Looks like NVidia has filed the reports for their 4th quarter earnings. The company came out way ahead, even more than most analyst anticipated.

G3D has a guide on GeForce overclocking for those into that sort of thing.

RIVA 3D has a few benchmarks that show what the enabling of sidebanding on your GeForce can do for your FPS.

Riva 3D has new beta Detonator drivers (version 3.76 now) for Windows 2000.

It looks like NVidia and S3 have settled their differences. In fact they just decided to partner up and enter into a broad cross-license agreement. Those lawyers at NVidia must be some real sweet talkers. They did something like this with SGI not too long ago. In the words of the NVidia CEO "Our license agreements with SGI and S3, combined with NVIDIA's rich technology patent portfolio, gives us a strong technology base on which to build winning products." Thanks Loki.

HardOCP has a great Part4 of Kyle's ongoing investigation of the T&L features on the NVidia GeForce card. I'm hoping to actually do something pretty interesting on a GeForce card later this month as well to show you guys.

The NVNews folks have some new benchmarks they put together on a DDR GeForce card and some cranked memory settings on a p2-450.

HardOCP has put together some real-world T&L benchmarks to make part3 of Kyle's ongoing feature that successfuly got nvidia's attention last week. Have a looksee if that T&L GPU thing is actually worth anything.