Photo of the day: Cooler Master Musketeer at work

Microprocessor Forum: the first photo of a 8-way IBM Power5 chip

Logitech introduces 6 new sound systems

New dual-channel SiS655TX chipset officially announced

Photo of the day: Cooler Master Musketeer at work

Today we introduce you a retro-styled visual PC control system – Musketeer from Ñooler Master – installed into PC of our video section editor Andrew Vorobyev. Retro is always popular, especially in such an original design. For short, Musketeer monitors and indicates cooler voltages, thermal sensors and provides audio accompaniment. Besides, two front controls allow you to adjust fan speeds and volume. For more information you should visit the Ñooler Master website, and we offer you photos of Musketeer at work:

Microprocessor Forum: the first photo of a 8-way IBM Power5 chip

Yesterday at Microprocessor Forum IBM reported about its Power5 family of processors and today we found the first photo of this monster.

We already know that Power5 will feature several modified Power4 cores as well as larger L2 cache and external L3 cache, and integrated memory controller with 1024Gb addressing.

On the photo you can see the 8-way Power5 MCM chip (or its fake) with 144Mb cache. Though it´s already known that Power5 like Power4 will start from 2-way models. Considering the fact that 2-core Power5 will contain 276 million transistors, I don´t date think how many this 8-way wafer will have... :)

Source: The Inquirer

Logitech introduces 6 new sound systems

This Autumn Logitech plans to launch sales of 6 new PC sound systems: three in Z-Series and three in the new X-Series.

Z-Series will be extended with 2.1-channel systens and a gaming 5.1-channel system. All novelties feature stylished front panels of polished aluminium and each bundle includes an adapter for a number of gaming consoles. Along with the Logitech Z-680 the following systems are to arrive in the market:

Z-3 — 2.1-channel system with a remote control. 40W total power, $99.99 MSRP.

Z-2200 — THX-certified 2.1-channel system with a remote control. 200W total power, $149.99 MSRP.

Z-5300 — THX-certified 5.1-channel system with a remote control. 200W total power, $199.99 MSRP.

The X-Series, similar to Z-Series, is shipped with gaming consoles adapters.

X-620 — the top model 6.1-channel system. 70W total power, $99.99 MSRP.

X-220 — 2.1-channel system with 5.25" subwoofer. $49.99 MSRP.

X-120 — inexpensive 2-channel system. $29.99 MSRP.

New dual-channel SiS655TX chipset officially announced

SiS introduced the new SiS655TX chipset for Pentium 4 supporting 800MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR400 and designed for SiS964 Southbridge over MuTIOL 1G.

So what is actually new in SiS655TX? The main difference from SiS655FX is the improved Advanced HyperStreaming Engine (vs. just HyperStreaming Engine in SiS655FX). According to the press release, the new engine improves data exchange between chipset host blocks and memory controller, provides lower latencies and higher performance.

I guess we´ll be able to test all of the above in practice, as, according to the company, SiS655TX is already in volume production, so the motherboards are to arrive in November.

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