ABIT announces new Siluro GF4 MX-8X line

CEATEC: Blu-ray Disc product prototypes

Albatron announces new system boards

Photo of the day: Albatron GeForce4 Ti4200P Turbo (Medusa)

AX4GE MAX and AX4PE MAX: new i845GE/PE systemboards from AOpen

P4DPL-M, P4DPL-8GM, P4DPL-iGM: new Dual Xeon server boards from SuperMicro

ABIT announces new Siluro GF4 MX-8X line

In the nearest future ABIT Computer is to ship Siluro GF4 MX-8X family, based on new NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8È GPUs.

The family will feature two models: Siluro GF4 MX-8X and Siluro GF4 MX-8X LP. Both feature 64MB DDR SDRAM, support AGP 8X/4X/2X/1X, feature analog and TV outs. Siluro GF4 MX-8X also features DVI out.

Cards also differ by chip/memory clocks: Siluro GF4 MX-8X features 275 MHz / 500 MHz, Siluro GF4 MX-8X LP — 250 MHz / 400 MHz. Besides, Siluro GF4 MX-8X LP features low-profile design, indicated by its markings.

CEATEC: Blu-ray Disc product prototypes

Blu-ray-enabled devices were presented by Hitachi, Matsushita Electric, Pioneer, Royal Philips, Sharp, Sony. Moreover, there were Blu-ray novelties from companies outside the consortium: Victor Co. of Japan, and TDK.

It´s interesting that Sony presented 3 Blu-ray devices, and others — only one each. Besides, Sony players were shown on the stands of TDK, that presented its Blu-ray discs with special protective cover, and Hitachi.

Matsushita Electric demonstrated its HDTV-quality Blu-ray player. It used single-sided dual-level 50GB Blu-ray disc, meeting Blu-ray 1.0.

And now some photos of Blu-ray Disc products from CEATEC:

Matsushita

Hitachi

Pioneer

Sharp

Sony

Source: Nikkei

Albatron announces new system boards

Photo of the day: Albatron GeForce4 Ti4200P Turbo (Medusa)

The board bases on 250MHz Ti4200, has 128MB of 550MHz 3.3ns BGA DDR. Beisdes, the board is based on 8-layer PCB, usually used for Ti4600 cards.

GeForce4 Ti4200 Turbo (Medusa) has analog, DVI (SiI 164CT64) and TV (Philipon SA7108, NTSC / PAL) outs.

AX4GE MAX and AX4PE MAX: new i845GE/PE systemboards from AOpen

AX4GE MAX

AX4PE MAX

Both support DDR200/266/333, feature have IEEE 1394 Firewire, 4 USB 2.0 ports, Serial ATA (along with ATA-133), integrated 10/100Mbps LAN (Realtek ALC8100BL), 5.1-channel audio (ALC650).

All additional board features — clocks, CPU voltage, etc. are set through BIOS. They also feature . LED / Dr. Voice III functions. AX4GE/PE MAX are supplied with AOpen Bonus Pack CD, including Norton Anti-Virus 2002 and Open Juke Box Player.

AX4GE MAX and AX4PE MAX shipments are planned to mid-October 2002.

P4DPL-M, P4DPL-8GM, P4DPL-iGM: new Dual Xeon server boards from SuperMicro

P4DPL-M supports up to 12GB PC1600 SDRAM, features one 133 MHz and 100 MHz PCI-X slots, three 33 MHz PCI slots, ATI Rage XL (8MB, PCI) integrated graphics, 10/100 Fast Ethernet (Intel 82551).

In the near future the company is also to announce — P4DPL-8GM and P4DPL-iGM, based on P4DPL-M, with additional features. P4DPL-8GM will have dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI controller, supporting Zero channel RAID, Gigabit Ethernet and IPMI 1.5. P4DPL-iGM will differ from P4DPL-M by a Gigabit Ethernet port and IPMI 1.5 support.

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