New Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T2

The Sony DSC-T2 features an eight megapixel sensor which is coupled to a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar branded 3x optical zoom lens and a 2.7" touch panel LCD display. The DSC-T2's 38 - 114mm equivalent lens incorporates Sony's Super Steady Shot optical image stabilization to minimize blur caused by camera shake at slow shutter speeds. The lens is protected by a sliding cover which nicely retracts flush with the surface of the camera body when closed, making the T2 more pocket friendly. Other T2 features include ISO sensitivity to a maximum of ISO 3200, a Memory Stick Duo / PRO Duo card slot plus a truly whopping 4GB of built in memory, and power from a proprietary NP-BD1 InfoLithium rechargeable battery.

The Sony T2 also offers USB 2.0 high-speed connectivity for connection to a personal computer, and high definition component video connectivity for viewing on the latest HD televisions. The Sony Cybershot T2 also includes Sony's face detection technology, which is linked not only to the camera's autoexposure and autofocus systems as in most similar systems, but also to white balance and flash metering as well - allowing the camera to ensure proper flash exposure and pleasing flesh tones. Also included is Sony's "Smile Shutter", which detects when a subject is smiling and automatically captures the photo without pressing the shutter button.

The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T2 ships from December 2007 priced at US$350, and will be available in blue, green, pink, white or black with matching case colors available separately.

Nvidia: AMD can use PhysX via CUDA, too

At their Editor's Day, Nvidia again pointed out the free availability of Physx. Developers, who want to use the physic calculation, just have to do this via Nvidia's CUDA.

With CUDA integrated into the driver, AMD could use PhysX with their more recent graphics cards. At first sight the integration of the technology doesn't have many drawbacks. Since Nvidia is supposed to add PhysX support to the "The way it's meant to be played” program, there should be a lot of games supporting the physic architecture in the future.But AMD could also, in addition to their Californian rival's solution, use Intel's Havok, to make all the options available to their own customers - but even then it would be the question if game developers would integrate two physic engines into their games.
(Kristoffer Keipp)

AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2

AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 "Spartan"

In addition to the already know details, like 2 GiByte GDDR5 VRAM and 2x 800 stream processors, there are interesting things to be read. The memory transfer rate is given with 230 GiB/sec. - exactly twice the size of the HD 4870. Therefore the clock speed of the memory has to be as high as with the HD 4870: 900/1,800 MHz. Furthermore the HD 4870 X2 is said to have an energy efficiency of 8.8 FLOPS per Watt - the also given performance of 2.4 TFLOPS would therefore indicate a power consumption of 272 Watt.

Nvidia Geforce 9500 GT

The card is based on the G96 GPU, technical data is similar to the 8600 GT. The most obvious difference is the production in 55 nanometers. The number of ALUs and ROPs - 32 respectively 8 - are the same. Of course DX 10, SLI and PCI-E 2.0 are supported and Pure Video 3 isn't missing either. The clock speed of all four models will be set to 550 Megahertz and the memory interface is 128 Bit wide.The GDDR2 versions use 1,024 Mibyte at 667 MHz or 512 Mibyte at 800 Megahertz and thus are slower than their GDDR5 siblings - but offer a CRT port. The GDDR3 9500 GT are set to 1,600 megahertz and have two DVI ports. All versions have a HDTV port.

!!!New low-cost GPU within this month!!!

Gigabyte 790GX

Gigabyte Introduces the First 790GX Mainboard

Via press release Gigabyte introduced the MA790GP-DS4H with the 790GX chipset for AM2(+) processors. According to Gigabyte it offers more power relating to integrated graphics performance and overclocking potential.

The integrated graphics unit Radeon HD 3300 is said to have a dedicated Sideport memory sized to 129 MiByte. The DDR3 chip is clocked to 1,333 MHz and is said to increase the graphics performance by about 15 percent. The predecessor 780G with the Radeon HD 3200 supports Sideport, too, but up to now no one released a 780G board with additional memory. Furthermore Gigabyte says that the onboard graphics chip of the 790GX can be overclocked to more than 1.000 MHz and thus can reach more than 2,800 points in 3DMark 06.

Due to Hybrid Crossfire support, the integrated Radeon HD 3300 can be combined with a discrete graphics card. Furthermore the board is said to dupport Crossfire X with two units of eight PCI-E lanes. While some 780G boards had problems with 124 watt CPUs, Gigabyte guarantees that the MA790GP-DS4H supports even 140 watt CPUs.

Acer Aspire 6920 NoteBook

Specifications:

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 (2.0GHz, 667MHz FSB, 2MB Level 2 cache)
• Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium
• Memory: 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300)
• Hard drive: 250GB (5400rpm)
• Screen: 16" HD Acer CineCrystal (glossy) display (1366 x 768)
• Graphics: Intel X3100 integrated graphics
• Optical drive: DVD SuperMulti DL
• Ports: Ethernet, modem, VGA, microphone in, two audio out jacks, four USB ports, 5-in-1 card reader, ExpressCard slot
• Wireless: 802.11a/g/n, Bluetooth 2.0
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 15.1" 1.7" (HxWxD)
• Weight: 7.3 lbs.