Thanks Julien of Activewin for this one. he has noticed WHQL 27.00 Detonators listed on Windows Update Catalog, so for the people who did not dare or manage to get hold of the leaked 27.10's then these are for you!

New NVIDIA WHQL Certified drivers have just appeared on Windows XP's Windows Update Catalog. Windows Update now offers brand new NVIDIA Detonator 27.00 WHQL Certified for download. Those drivers were published on January 23th 2002, WHQL certified on January 16th 2002 and are dated December 19th 2001. These new drivers support every NVIDIA cards released to date, including the forthcoming NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX440/460, Quadro 4 200/400NVS and Quadro 4 500XGL. In addition, Windows Update also contains the latest WHQL certified NVIDIA Media Driver 1.0.8 that is aimed to be used with the Personal Cinema.

To download, go to Windows Update > Click (in the bottom set of links) Windows Update Catalog > Find driver updates for hardware devices > Video > Select "NVIDIA Corporation" then your XP version > Search. Scroll to the bottom to find the WHQL 27.00 DetonatorXP driver.

View: Windows Update (this news applies to XP)
News source: Activewin

These appear to only include the .inf for GeForce 4 cards. Unlike ALL earlier releases this misses the additional information for all previous nvidia chipsets.



It seems Intel is about to run out of steam very quickly.

My place of work (name being with-held for obvious reasons), which deals in service and wholesale/retail sales, acquired a chip from AMD, as they were one of many picked to test the chip. Along with the chip came a specially designed XP motherboard, exclusively produced for the XP 3000+ Prototype.

There is something to be said for the color blue; dark, futuristic... if you want to go there, sexy even. AMD makes no mistake with this one, as soon as you look at the chip; you know you're gazing at pure processing power.

Clearly labelled on the core are, of course, "AMD Athlon™", and at the bottom, the "Palomino 3000+ PROTOTYPE" marking. Great thing about AMD is this; each time you buy a new processor, you generally don't have to buy a new motherboard. While normally that'd be the case, because this chip is so new, current motherboards do not have the BIOS updates to handle such a powerful specimen. AMD was nice enough to drop in a specially designed prototype motherboard for us to try it out. However, they didn't remember to send us a fan. No worries, we used one that we had in stock, the ThermalTake DragonOrb 1 running at 7000RPM. Applied some Arctic Silver II, popped the chip in, put the fan on, and booted up the machine.

Special thanks to Stu and his digital camera for grabbing this picture of the POST.



Pretty impressive stuff, as you can see. Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ brought a tear to my eye... just so beautiful.... 2666MHz is friggin' incredible (Doing the math, 133x20 is only 2660. The exact number is around 20.045). Intel, eat your heart out. Note the "XP-266/A AMD Chipset" at the top, denoting the exclusive AMD motherboard used for beta testing.

Thanks to M3DZone for these pictures.


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