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ASUS Unveils SK8N:

O.K., so we have all seen this board pop up everywhere for the last few months now, but ASUS has now officially announced the SK8N nForce3 board made for the Opteron. Sweet.

One of the world’s first motherboards built on the Opteron processor series 100 architecture, the SK8N brings native 32- and 64-bit computing to mainstream users. The AMD Opteron processor is based on AMD’s 64 architecture, the industry’s first x86-64 technology

CeBIT America 2003:

Guru3D has some coverage from the CeBIT America 2003 show. This was the first time we have seen the CeBIT show here in the U.S. and there were a lot of vendors missing from the show….but still a few things of interest.

For the first time, CeBIT graces the north-American shores, and gives this side of the world what Hanover and other places have been getting. But unlike CeBIT Germany, CeBIT America focused on the professional aspects, rather than the end-user. The majority of exhibitors were IT/Enterprise oriented, and only handfuls in attendance were for the consumer level. Not to be seen were video card (with the exception of Matrox) manufacturers and mother board manufacturers, as well as Intel and AMD.

WinXP Tweak Guide:

A step by step guide to tweaking your WinXP experience from Tweak Hound. This is a collection of popular tweaks put into one handy article, take a look.

In an effort to present a better guide I have put together a collection of tweaks in a step-by-step guide. The registry tweaks come with a downloadable file if you desire. These tweaks are scattered around the web. What I have done is simply try to collect as many useful ones as I could and organize them.