Plextor Ships RoHS Compliant 16x DVD±R Burner

NVIDIA 7900GX2 - First Photos, Clock Rates, Price

ATI Introduces FireGL V7350 Workstation Graphics Card With 1GB GDDR3

Plextor Ships RoHS Compliant 16x DVD±R Burner

Plextor announced the immediate availability of the PX-755SA DVD±R/RW CD-R/RW optical disc drive. The PX-755SA replaces the PX-716SA, completing Plextor's conversion to drive designs that comply with the European Union's Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation.

The multifunction internal PX-755SA drive delivers recording speeds of 16X DVD±R on certified 16X DVD±R media. The drive also supports 8X DVD+RW, 6X DVD-RW Rewriting; 16X max DVD-Reading; 48X CD-R Writing, 24X CD-RW Rewriting, and 48X max CD-Reading.

The PX-755SA has a 2 MB buffer and features Buffer Underrun Proof Technology to prevent buffer underrun errors and allow multi-tasking. The PX-755SA also features AUTOSTRATEGY, a technology that selects the optimized write strategy for every DVD disc and, if necessary, creates a new write strategy for unknown media. PoweRec adjusts laser power and writing speed to optimum levels for a particular disc.

The PX-755SA Series drive comes with PlexTools Professional, Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 software.

The Plextor PX-755SA drive will ship to distributors in North and South America immediately with an MSRP of $129.

Source: Plextor

NVIDIA 7900GX2 - First Photos, Clock Rates, Price

This month brought news that Foxconn would produce graphics cards, and the first samples were even showcased at CeBIT. But now HKEPC.com publishes the first photos of GeForce 7900GX2 cards from this company.

Besides, they also got to know the exact clock rates of such solutions, each of which combines two GeForce 7900GTX via a single-slot adapter. Therefore a SLI machine can have four GeForce 7900GTX GPUs.

So, 7900GX2 core clock is 500MHz, DDR3 clock is 1.2GHz. FYI, the reference GeForce 7900GTX has 650/1500 MHz clock rates.

The GeForce 7900GX2 adapter utilizes 48 PCIe lanes, of which 16 are used to interact with motherboard's PCIe interface, and other 32 lanes are dedicated to 7900GX2 GPUs interaction.

Foxconn's novelties support 32x FSAA and require a 650W PSU for a Quad SLI configuration. A single GeForce 7900GX2 card is expected to cost over $1,000 in retail. Source: HKEPC.com

ATI Introduces FireGL V7350 Workstation Graphics Card With 1GB GDDR3

ATI Technologies announced the industry's first 1GB workstation graphics accelerator, the ATI FireGL V7350, and also a 512 megabyte configuration, the FireGL V7300. Both support Avivo and have GPUs made using 90nm process technology. Other features include: 8 parallel geometry engines and 16 pixel shader processors, full Shader Model 3.0 support, High Dynamic Range (HDR) rendering with 8-bit, 10-bit, and 16-bit per RGB color component support, high-fidelity display engine capable of producing over one trillion colors, two Dual link outputs each capable of ultra-high resolutions up to 3840 x 2400, stereoscopic 3D output, HD Component Video (YPrPb) output.

ATI's FireGL products are supported by a unified driver, which is tested and certified by professional 3D ISV partners, making system administration and upgrades cost effective and simple. All FireGL products come with a three year warranty and direct access to a dedicated workstation technical support team.

The FireGL V7350 and FireGL V7300 are shipping today from Workstation System Integrators - Alienware, Amax, Boxx, Colfax, Monarch Computer Systems, Omnitech, Polywell, Safe Harbor, Systemax, Polywell, Velocity Micro, Xi Computer and 3dshop.com - from distributors - Althon Micro, Armari, Cad2, D&H, Exxact, Ingram Micro, JB&A, Leading Technology, Noesse Daten Technik GmbH, Synnex, Tech Data and Xworks Interactive - and Value Added Resellers at $1,999 USD MSRP and $1,599 USD MSRP respectively.

Source: ATI Technologies

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