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It seems the wave of DDR500 announcements is getting weaker. By the moment PC4000 products have already been announced by GeIL, OCZ Technologies, Kingston. And CORSAIR has put an end to this with the announcement of its TWINX1024-4000 kits (2x64Mx64, two DDR500 CMX512-4000 modules). New modules feature 3-4-4-8-T1 timings at 2.75V. According to the company, they’ve been tested on 875P ("Canterwood") and 865PE/G ("Springdale") motherboards.

As usual, novelties are offered with black and silvery aluminium heat-sinks.

Albatron Gigi Geforce FX5600EQ review @ MonkeyReview

“As you can see from the benchmark results, the Albatron Gigi FX5600EQ didn’t really have the steam to deliver the kind of marks we had half expected to see. Something else that was realized during our testing was the lack of overclocking potential. We muscled with it for about an hour and the best that we were able to hit was a mere 331/410.”

Read more at OverClockers Portugal.

Triplex Mohoch GeForce FX 5900: being friendly with both ATI, and NVIDIA

Taiwanese Triplex, known by its silvery boards and ability to simultaneously release products on both ATI, and NVIDIA GPUs (for example, RedAI 9600 Pro VIVO and Wireless in June), released its GeForce FX5900-based solution, Mohoch GeForce FX5900.

The novelty repeats NVIDIA´s reference board and cooler design and is strangely not silvery this time. The card has 128Mb of Hynix’s 2.2ns DDR SDRAM, analog DVI-I connectors, VIVO. Of all Triplex´s original ideas this product seems to have a nice suitcase-like package. Pricing and shipments information is unavailable.

Source: 3D Chips-fr

Matsushita introduces DMR-E100H and DMR-E200H DVD recorders

Matsushita Electric Industrial introduced two new DVD recorders with integrated hard drives, DMR-E100H and DMR-E200H. The first will be presented in the Japanese market in August and will get worldwide in the Fall. New models feature SD Memory Card and PCMCIA slots, so one can naturally use other media with an adapter as well.

DMR-E100H features 120Gb hard disk, DMR-E200H — 160Gb one. The former doesn’t have a satellite TV tuner and EPG support. Models support MPEG2/MPEG4 recording and playback and allow to record MPEG4 while writing MPEG2 video to the hard drive.

Another difference of DMR-E200H is the 100BASE-TX/10BASE-T interface enabling Internet access. Models support DVD-RAM/DVD-R formats at 12x/24õ recording speeds, respectively. Both support DVD-Audio playback, but only DMR-E200H features a fully-featured 5.1 output.

In all devices support DVD-Video, DVD-audio, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, VCD, CD-DA, CD-R, CD-RW media. Sized 430x79x296 mm, DMR-E100H weighs 5.6kg. DMR-E200H is sized 430x105x296 mm and weighs 6.1kg.

KingMAX PC3200 256MB modules Reviewed @ Techseekers.net

"Although these modules are not the absolute fastest performing modules around, they are damn close to it. They actually performed well above my expectations suprisingly close to the Corsair PC3200LL despite the loose memory timings, which goes to show that at high FSB these settings amount to only a little improvement. The system itself remained extremely stable at all speeds up to 225MHz"