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InnoVISION unveils Tornado GeForce FX 5500 graphics card

iomega ships CD-RW/DVD-ROM with card reader



InnoVISION unveils Tornado GeForce FX 5500 graphics card

InnoVISION unveiled its new product on NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 GPU, Tornado GeForce FX 5500, that will be offered with 128MB RAM and 64-bit or 128-bit bus (at its website the company underlines that potential buyers should look carefully at the specs of their purchase).


As for other card specs, they are standard:

  • CineFX engine
  • AGP 8X, 2.1GB/s
  • NVIDIA nView
  • NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control 3.0
  • NVIDIA NVRotate
  • NVIDIA NVKeystone
  • 2 x 350MHz RAMDAC, up to 2048x1536 @ 75Hz
  • 4 pixel/clock rendering pipeline
  • DVI, 1600x1200
  • Int. NTSC and PAL TV coder, up to 1024x768
  • Int. MPEG2 decoder
  • DirectX 9.0, OpenGL 1.5 optimizations

And the brief GPU specs are:

  • 256-bit bus
  • 270MHz core clock
  • 400MHz memory clock
  • 64/128-bit memory interface
  • 1.1 billion texel/s fill rate

iomega ships CD-RW/DVD-ROM with card reader

iomega announced shipments of its CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive combined with 7-in-1 card reader and an external USB 2.0 CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. Both devices support 52x24x52x CD speeds and 16x DVD-ROM read.

As you know, these are not the only such devices. There are also BTC BCO 5216IA, DynaMO 640U2 Photo, Green House DISPY, Apacer DISC STENO CP100, Kanguru FC-RW, Alera Technologies Digital Photo Copy Cruiser. I´m not even speaking of the vast amount of other disk drives combined with readers.

The novelties feature 2MB buffer, 48x DAE for high-speed music CD ripping. The bundles include Automatic Backup, Sonic CinePlayer, MusicMatch Jukebox, Adobe Photoshop Album. The software unambiguously indicates that the devices are designed for digital photo camera owners. The MSRP of both models is about $130.

Other features of these novelties include:

  • CD-RW (8x-32x; up to 650MB/74 min) support
  • Multisession, packet, TAO, DAO
  • Up to 7.8MB/s write, 3.6MB/s rewrite, 7.8MB/s read
  • Up to 120ms average seek

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