In fact, you'd have had more chance of finding out about the location of the Queen's (Elizabeth II) crown jewels than scooping any info on nVIDIA's next-generation chipset. Despite this press blackout, there were a few claims and leaks that went out unfounded. As a result the general consensus throughout the industry was that the TNT2 was going to be nothing more than a solid 2D/3D card, which wouldn't touch the frame rates of the 3Dfx's Voodoo3. The hard truth is this: utter codswallop. The TNT2 is an immense improvement over its predecessor the TNT. nVIDIA has quietly and secretly delivered the most complete 2D/3D chipset to date- bar NONE. How do we know?

The Date: March 9-12th
The Time: 8:30am sharp we meet up with two Diamond representative's at Los Angeles' LAX airport
The Mission: To test out a Diamond Viper V770 based upon nVIDIA's Ultra TNT2 chipset

Last month Sharky Extreme unveiled Metabyte's Parallel Graphics Connection (or Parallel Graphic Processing technology), which will soon be applied to nVIDIA's current and next-generation chip set. And speaking of the next generation chipset, it just so happens that Diamond Multimedia dropped by our office earlier this week with said next generation technology. nVIDIA will be issuing official Press Releases on Monday next week to announce their next generation TNT2 chipset but we've been given the green light to start our engines a little early and race around the track with an Ultra TNT2 based Diamond Viper V770 (sounds like a Formula 1 car eh?).