Asus has posted a banner on its website claiming to have broken the 3DMark Vantage record. Although a P5Q Premium is pictured, X58 tech would have likely been used.

Microsoft has announced that it will unveil Windows 7 at its Professional Developers Conference, where all developers and attendees will be the first to receive a pre-beta build.

Nvidia has rolled-out its Forceware 178.13 graphics drivers, which support products from the 6-series and onwards. XP and Vista flavors can be downloaded here.

Diamond has responded to recent allegations stating that thousands of its OEM bound graphics cards were defective. It turns out that only 188 units were faulty.

Troubled intellectual-property firm Transmeta has put itself up for sale, and has forged two patent deals with Intel, both of which being worth $91 million in total.

According to TG Daily, Nvidia will re-name all of its 55nm 9-series GPU's in an effort to further "simplify" its naming scheme. Meet and greet the G100-series.

Although its 10th birthday was a little while ago now, Google is celebrating its first decade by launching a new site, one where a timeline is the center of attention.

S3 Graphics has rather quietly taken the wraps off three new mobile GPU's, namely the Chrome 440 ULP, 435 ULP and 430 ULP. Specifications are currently unknown.

The final piece of the Sonic puzzle has landed in the form of the Palit HD 4870 Sonic Dual Edition, which features a dual-fan cooler. 1GB of memory is also on the agenda.

Our colleagues over at TweakTown have got up close and personal with Gigabyte's X58 Extreme motherboard, the retail version that is. Cover your eyes children...