Holy crap. Simply holy crap. We all know that AMD is particularly late for the next-generation graphics party, but the company's counterparts for NVIDIA's 9800 GTX have finally arrived, and from preliminary launch copies, we hear they're blasting the competition away. Diamond seems to be one of the first companies to let loose its primary ATI Radeon HD 4870 SKU, but is it worth the upgrade? Learn more at the full story.

Yes, we all might've browsed through reviews of the once hinted first 9 series model to roll out of NVIDIA, and now the GeForce 9600 GT has hit the market in all its mini-GT glory. The single slot, cooler encased 8600 GTS successor is being offered at prices that could make enthusiasts itch. Heck, you might do well to head on over to the full story and find out why you might want to scratch that itch.

We all knew that Big Blue would come through some day. As Intel preps it's new Penryn 45nm processors for the personal computer market, IBM also takes a stroll down the same reduced die package lane. And at the recent ISSCC, short of International Solid-State Circuits Conference, IBM made their plans known to roll out a 45nm version of the CELL Broadband Engine whose 90nm, 65nm cousins currently power the various Sony PlayStation 3 SKUs.

Hightech Information System Limited a.k.a. HIS, recently released HIS X1300 512MB HyperMemory PCIe x1 card. If you're asking what is so extraordinarily special about this new contraption, HIS claims that this is the world first PCIe (PCI Express) x1 solution on X1K family product.

PCIe, in case you are not in the know, is an implementation of the PCI computer bus that uses existing PCI programming concepts, but bases it on a completely different and much faster serial physical-layer communications protocol. The physical-layer consists not of a bus, but of a network of serial interconnects much like twisted pair ethernet. A single hub with many pins on the mainboard is used, allowing all kinds of switching and parallelism.

HIS X1300 512MB HyperMemory PCIe x1 brings advanced SM 3.0 and AVIVO under low profile design, promising the best video, the best office and the best multimedia experience to PC users. Combining a radically new and efficient 3D sharder-core architecture and HyperMemory II by ATI, dynamically assigns system memory to achieve the next level performance as 512/256MB configuration. HIS iFan operates as low as 20dB, the company claims that its durable performance is equal to the card’s long service life.

HIS X1300 512MB HyperMemory PCIe x1 delivers exceptional visual performance for all types of PC entertainment and productivity. The HIS X1300 512MB HyperMemory PCIe x1 can integrate your digital home by connecting your PC and consumer electronic devices together. It's available now for the price tag of roughly $119 ($118.99 to be exact).