And now to tech news, the ATi X--Series processors will feature the new PCI Xpress bus, which is proposed to deliver up to 4GB a second, twice that of AGP 8x.

Also, AMD has realeased a 3 more chips to its AMD64 range, the Athlon64 3800+, 3500+ and the 3700+.

Finally, Symantec discovered the world's first 64-bit Windows virus. Named W64.Rugrat.3344, the virus is a direct-action infector, which infects and portable executable file in the same folder as the virus, except DLLs. However, this is only a proof of concept virus, most likely written by a 'white hat' programmer and passed to Symantec as a demonstration of potential danger. As XP-64 is still in beta, these holes and others will probably be fixed before its offical release.