SanDisk unveils SPA digital album

Photo of the day: i915-based motherboard with AGP/PCI-E slots

Info-Tek introduces GECUBE RADEON 9800 eXTreme

Addition to our news regarding GeForce 6800 pipeline management

Seagate ships 100 GB Momentus 5400.2 drives

SD20-512M: High-Speed Secure Digital card from I-O Data

SanDisk unveils SPA digital album

At Photokina SanDisk unveiled its new digital album, SanDisk Photo Album, that can show JPEG images or play Motion JPEG (MPEG-1) movies on a TV screen using flash media as a source.

Photo taken from http://www.imaging-resource.com

According to the press release, the device supports CompactFlash Type I/II, SD/MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick/Memory Stick PRO, SmartMedia/xD cards in 4 slots as well as USB dongles. The device has two USB ports in the back — one for connecting SPA to PC, another — for USB dongles.

Besides, there´s the second CF slot in the back that can be used as backup. SanDisk Photo Album is sized 187x66x20 mm. Its MSRP is about $50.

Photo of the day: i915-based motherboard with AGP/PCI-E slots

We are currently testing a really unique motherboard from ECS (EliteGroup) — 915P-A.

This novelty has both AGP and PCI-Express 16x slots.

As you know, i915/925 do not support AGP, so it´s impossible to implement fully-fledged AGP8x into them. Therefore the given variant was called AGP Express:

The company keeps silence about realization, but a certain bridge is rumoured to be onboard. We think the company decided to replace one PCI slot with an AGP one, having decreased its performance to PCI 33MHz. Our tests will show if it´s so.

Still it´s good that for some time users will be able to use older graphics card with a newer PCI-E board.

The company says that AGP Express and PCI-E cards can work simultaneously in this novelty.

Info-Tek introduces GECUBE RADEON 9800 eXTreme

Info-Tek, the vendor of GECUBE graphics cards, introduced GECUBE RADEON 9800 eXTreme model based on RADEON 9800(R360).

The card will have 128 or 256 MB, 128-bit bus, 8-pipeline GPU. GECUBE RADEON 9800 eXTreme has VGA, DVI, TV interfaces and will be shipped with a number of adapters (DVI-VGA, S-Video, AV-cable).

Addition to our news regarding GeForce 6800 pipeline management

Yesterday we wrote about a new feature of RivaTuner allowing to unlock GeForce 6800 disabled pipelines.

Statistics were far from good at that moment, so no new versions were planned.

However, as we expanded our beta testing this changed dramatically. Today about 70-80% of unlocked cards work fine without any artefacts.

Therefore we decided to release RivaTuner 15.2 that is already at pre-release stage scheduled for release next week.

Seagate ships 100 GB Momentus 5400.2 drives

Seagate launched shipments of its 2.5" 100 GB Momentus 5400.2 HDD. If you remember, the G-Force Protection technology allows this solution to withstand shocks up to 900g when idle.

• Designed for notebooks, MP3 players, printers/copiers, tablet PCs, external hard drives
• 60, 80, 100 GB capacities
• ATA100 interface
• 5400 rpm
• 2, 8 MB cache
• 12.5 ms read, 14.5 ms write
• 743 KBPI linear density
• 2 plates, 4 heads (100 GB)
• 2.0W read, 2.1W write, 0.92W standby power
• 250g operation shock

SD20-512M: High-Speed Secure Digital card from I-O Data

Following announcement from Panasonic, I-O Data unveiled its new High-Speed Secure Digital card — SD20-512M.

This 512 MB card will go on sale early in October for ¥12,800 ($115). It supports 20 MB/s read/write and SDMI data protection.

Source: PC Watch

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