I'm starting to wonder if I want a PS3 or an Xbox 360.

Finally the game I have been keeping my hopes up for the past 5 years is coming out.  After delay, after delay it is finally going to be released this week and I don't care if it sucks, I'll still buy this crap no matter what the ratings are.

Hmm... I wonder if I should get one when vista rolls around, seems to me microsoft is falling behind macintosh.  Apple has released their own quad cpu and microsoft keeps delaying the release of their operating system, which delays AMD from releasing their new cpu.  ONLY MICROSOFT... , but we will still buy their product no matter how bad the company is.

I just beat Oblivion and it was truly an amazing ride gonna play it agian.

ATI has released its two new top of line graphics cards yesterday and they are somking out nVidia.  Don't mean to diss nVidia, but the ATI has a two month gain over nVidia in technology.  The x1900 xt has a 1450mhz memory clock and a 625 mhz core clock those speeds are a little slower than the x1800 xt, but the x1900 xt still is more powerful in games thanks to the 48 pixel shaders in the R580 gpu, that is double of the nVidia 7800 gtx.  The ATI x1900 xtx has a 1550 mhz memory clock and a 650 mhz core clock.   The speeds will likely increase in games with these cards in the future, after a few more drivers are released from ATI.  Prices are steep at $519 for the x1900 xt and $600 for the x1900 xtx and those are OEM prices.  The nVidia 7900 is scheduled for March to be released and it  will probably put an end to ATI's 2 month lead.

Just when you expect prices for the the soon to be outdated opterons to go down, they take an opposite approach.  DDR2 has also an increase in pricing.  The AMD dual core CPUs are taking a dive in prices in about 30-20 dollars on some on-line retailers.  The new AMD socket is coming out soon and expect prices for 939 to go down, but the new socket type is going to start at 1,000 dollars for CPUs.

On the AGP solution there will be a  ATI x1600 pro and an ATI x1300.  The x1800 will not hit shelves in an AGP version, since the speeds are not supported on a AGP socket.  Who knows if that is a true statement, but it looks that AGP will be gone in a year or two.  No word on the 7300 gs on AGP though.

On Sapphire's website the x1900 and x1900 xtx specs are revealed.  The x1900 xtx will have 48 pixel pipelines a 650 mhz graphics core and a 750 mhz (effective output 1.5 ghz). 512 mb of memory will be in this baby, but price is not revealed on the website.  512 mb of memory will probably be more common on high end cards in the future, but it will be a while until we see it hit mainstream cards on the market.  This card has higher specs than the Xbox 360 gpu so it looks like the 360 is out of date at least if your comparing it to a single card solution on a PC.  I saw it the specs for the x1900 on the website, but they disappeared when I visited it again so it looks like it was accidently released too early.  Who knows if they're hiding somewhere.

Intel has decided to drop the pentium name in their latest processors that they will introduce. Example: instead of Pentium D 930, it would be simply D 930.

Thats Right!  A 7800 gs is scheduled to be released on an AGP socket type (don't get this confused with the 7300 gs).  The 7800 gs is at slower speeds than the 7800 gt and gtx, but will be more powerful than the 6800 ultra.  The current best AGP card is the X850 XT PE by ATI, which has clock speeds well over the 500 mark, compared to the 350 speed in the 7800 gs. This just seems like a marketting scheme by nVidia to profit off of the people with the AGP sockets, by fooling the publc that they will get a next generation card.  Now AGP lovers can rejoice that they are getting a scaled down high end card. Boo!