Casio EXILIM PRO EX-P505: 5 megapixels and advanced video features
ABIT unveils Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard
VIA announces PT880 Pro, PT894 and PT894 Pro chipsets
Tranquil PC T2e.MCE2005s: a Media Center PC on VIA EPIA platform
Casio EXILIM PRO EX-P505: 5 megapixels and advanced video features
Casio UK and EIRE introduced 5-megapixel EXILIM PRO EX-P505 digital camera with a solid 5x optical lens and advanced video recording features.
EXILIM PRO EX-P505 specs:
- 5-megapixel CCD
- 5x optical zoom lens
- 1 cm min. Macro focusing distance
- 2" TFT LCD
- Records 640x480 MPEG-4 @ 30 fps with sound
- 0.01s shutter lag, 0.8s power on
- USB 2.0 interface, PictBridge (Exif 2.2 and PRINT Image Matching III)
ABIT unveils Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard
ABIT introduced a new Fatal1ty-series motherboard — Fatal1ty AN8 for AMD processors.
The novelty offers wide tweaking settings, Dual OTES™ cooling, etc.
Fatal1ty AN8 specs:
| CPUs |
AMD Athlon 64 / 64FX 939-pin K8
2GHz FSB Hyper-Transport Technology
Cool´n´Quiet |
| Memory |
4 x 184-pin sockets for up to 4GB of Dual DDR 400/333/266 MHz |
| Chipset |
NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra |
| NV SATA RAID |
SATA II (3 Gbps), SATA RAID 0/1/0+1, JBOD |
| LAN |
NV Gigabit Ethernet and NV Firewall |
| IEEE1394 |
IEEE 1394 400/200/100 Mbps |
| Audio |
5.1-channel sound, optical S/PDIF In/Out |
| I/O |
1 x IEEE1394
PS/2 keyboard and mouse
4 x USB + 1 x RJ-45 LAN |
| Size |
ATX, 305 x 245 mm |
Source: ABIT
VIA announces PT880 Pro, PT894 and PT894 Pro chipsets
VIA Technologies announced a whole bunch of new chipsets for Intel Pentium 4 — PT880 Pro, PT894, and PT894 Pro — that make it possible to move to PCI-E and DDR2.
PT880 Pro and PT894 are meant for masses, while PT894 Pro is made for high-performance servers and workstations with 1066 MHz FSB.
It´s interesting that VIA´s novelties support both PCI Express and AGP interfaces through the VIA Universal Graphics Interface (UGI) of PT880 Pro.
Speaking of more technologies, there´s VIA DualGFX Express that enables quad-monitor output: with VIA PT894 one can connect monitors to both outputs of both PCI-E cards, while VIA PT880 Pro supports simultaneous AGP and PCI-E connections.
All VIA PT chipsets work with DDR-400 and DDR2-667 memory through VIA StepUp feature. All the PT series is compatible with VIA VT8237 and VIA VT8251 Southbridges (the latter offers SATA II, RAID 5 and High Definition Audio).
Chipset features:
| Northbridge |
VIA PT880 Pro |
| CPU |
Intel® Pentium® 4 |
| Hyper-Threading |
+ |
| Front Side Bus |
1066/800/533 MHz |
| Memory (4GB max.) |
DDR2 667/533/400
DDR 400/33/266 |
| Graphics |
AGP 3.0 (AGP8X)
PCI Express |
| Southbridge |
VIA VT8237 |
| Bridge interconnect |
Ultra V-Link (1066 MB/s) |
| Audio |
VIA Vinyl™ 6ch audio (AC´97)
VIA Vinyl™ Gold 8ch audio (PCI controller) |
| LAN |
VIA Velocity Gigabit Ethernet
VIA 10/100 Fast Ethernet |
| Modem |
MC´97 |
| PCI slots |
6 |
| SATA |
2 x SATA 150, SATALite for 2 more SATA devices |
| V-RAID |
RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, JBOD (SATA) |
| PATA |
4 x ATA133 |
| USB |
8 |
| Northbridge |
VIA PT894 |
| CPU |
Intel® Pentium® 4 |
| Hyper-Threading |
+ |
| Front Side Bus |
1066/800/533 MHz |
| Memory (4GB max.) |
DDR2 667/533/400
DDR 400/33/266 |
| Graphics |
PCI Express x16 |
| Northbridge |
VIA PT894 Pro |
| CPU |
Intel® Pentium® 4 |
| Hyper-Threading |
+ |
| Front Side Bus |
1066/800/533 MHz |
| Memory (4GB max.) |
DDR2 667/533/400
DDR 400/33/266 |
| Graphics |
VIA Dual GFX Express
PCI Express x16
PCI Express x4 |
Besides the chipsets mentioned above, the company is going to release PT800 and PT880 products with more humble features.
Source: VIA
Tranquil PC T2e.MCE2005s: a Media Center PC on VIA EPIA platform
Tranquil, the vendor of SFF systems, together with VIA introduced the Tranquil PC Media Center 2005 (Tranquil PC T2e.MCE2005s) based on VIA EPIA SP13000 Mini-ITX motherboard, 1.3GHz VIA C3 processor and Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 OS.
Of all existing WXP Media Center solutions Tranquil PC T2e.MCE2005s seems to be the one without cooling fan. It´s no surprise actually, because fan-equipped systems are usually based on Intel processors and 915 chipset series. So, according to the company, hard and optical drives are the primary source of noise instead.
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