AOpen announces DUW1608 DVD+R9 drive

MSI unveils boards and server barebones on E7520 and E7320 chipsets

Plextor updates optical drive series with PX-708UF2

Gigabyte introduces PCU22-VG: 3D Rocket Cooler

Found a software way to manage the amount of GeForce 6800 pixel pipelines

AOpen announces DUW1608 DVD+R9 drive

AOpen joined dual-layer DVD drive vendors with its new DUW1608 that is expected to go on sale this month with MSRP of ¥13,000 ($120) in Japan.

The drive supports 16x DVD+R write, 8x DVD-R write, 4x DVD±RW write, 2.4x DVD+R9 write, 48x CD-R and 32x CD-RW write.

The bundle includes Nero Burning ROM and Nero Express, NeroVision Express 2, Nero BackItUp, InCD 4 and CyberLink Power DVD.

Source: PC Watch

MSI unveils boards and server barebones on E7520 and E7320 chipsets

MSI also released novelties on Intel E7520 and E7320 chipsets: E7520 Master-S2M and two server barebones, X2-201 (2U) and X2-102 (1U). E7320 novelties include E7320 Master board and X2-103 1U barebone.

E7520 Master-S2M	E7320 Master

E7520 Master-S2M supports up to 8 x registered DDR 333/266 SDRAM DIMM modules with ECC (up to 32GB), has 1 x PCI-X 133, 2 x PCI-X 100 and 1 x PCI slots; 2 x Gigabit Ethernet, dual-channel Ultra 320 SCSI (Adaptec 7902W).

E7320 Master supports up to 6 x registered DDR 333/266 SDRAM DIMM modules with ECC (up to 24GB), has 2 x PCI-X 66, 1 x PCI slots, 2 x Gigabit Ethernet on PCI-Express and PCI, single-channel Ultra 320 SCSI and 2 x SATA.

X2-102

X2-103

Plextor updates optical drive series with PX-708UF2

Plextor announced its new 8x DVD±R drive, PX-708UF2, that reads DVD-ROM media at 16x. It´s an external device with USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interfaces.

Brief specs:

• <100ms CD and 150ms DVD access time
• 8MB buffer
• PoweRec error reduction
• Supports:
  • CD-DA, CD-Extra, CD-ROM Mode-1, CD-ROM Mode-2, CD-ROM XA, Photo-CD, Video-CD, Multisession, CD TEXT, CD-I, CD+G, Mixed CD
  • DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, Multiborder, Multisession, DVD+VR, DVD-VR
• Writing:
  • CD-R/RW: Track at Once, Disc at Once, Packet Write (variable and fixed), Session at Once, CD-MRW (Mt. Rainier)
  • DVD+R/RW: Sequential Write, Random Access Write DVD+MRW
  • DVD-R/RW: Disc at Once, Incremental recording, Multiborder recording, Restricted Overwriting, DRT-DM
• Errors: <10^-12bit in Mode 1, <10^-9bit in Mode 2
• 60,000 hours MTBF
• 184x52x265mm size
• 1.7kg weight
• Performance:

Gigabyte introduces PCU22-VG: 3D Rocket Cooler

Gigabyte officially introduced new 3D Rocket Cooler PCU22-VG low-noise coolers with LED lights.

The rotation speed varies from 2500 to 4000 rpm. The bundle includes latches for Intel Pentium 4 LGA775/mPGA478, AMD K8 and K7 processors.

Gigabyte also informed that its AMD Socket A and Socket 754 boards will also support Sempron processors.

Found a software way to manage the amount of GeForce 6800 pixel pipelines

Alexey Nikolaychuk, the author of RivaTuner, found the mechanism which NVIDIA cards use to set 12 or 16 pipelines on GeForce 6800 and 6800GT/Ultra, respectively.

As you can see, there are 12 (12x1) pipelines (also indicated by RivaTuner).

And here´s the tab to change the amount of pipelines.

Voila! After reboot we get 16x1, i.e. 16 pipelines. Of course, if a card has 4 offline pipelines defective, it will produce artefacts and we can´t guarantee that any GeForce 6800 can be remade into a 6800GT.

Rather timely, RivaTuner indicated that recently tested MSI GeForce 6800 has 16 working pipelines! Therefore we are now correcting the article. We can´t guarantee that all newer MSI cards will have 16 working pipelines though.

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