E-ten launches the Glofiish M800

Lars Göran Nilsson | | Nov 16, 2007 3:00 AM CST

E-ten has been busy over the last couple of weeks as it has just launched a third Windows Mobil 6 device today, the Glofiish M800. Think of it as the X800 with a keyboard and that's the M800. Although it's not quite that simple of course, since there are some other slight differences between the two.

The M800 features the same Samsung S3C2442 500MHz CPU and it has 256MB of Flash ROM as well as 64MB RAM. There's a micro SD card slot for further memory expansion. The touch screen measures 2.8-inches and has VGA resolution at 480x640 which is a feature that we're really keen on when it comes to Windows Mobile devices.

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New gaming keyboard from Everglide

Lars Göran Nilsson | Gaming | Nov 16, 2007 2:34 AM CST

It seems like there's no end of new gaming keyboards this week and the latest one comes from another traditional mouse mat manufacturer, Everglide. Their new gaming keyboard goes under the name of the Everglide DKTboard and it's sold in a bundle with a DKTmat.

Apparently the DKTboard has been designed and engineered with help from Razer. The keyboard features a slim key-cap structure that is meant to deliver faster response and a more tactile comfort. It also comes housed in an aluminium casing to add to the ruggedness.

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Core 2 Duo E8500 benchmarked

Lars Göran Nilsson | | Nov 16, 2007 1:35 AM CST

It's not every day we get news stories for free, but it appears that one of our forum members that goes by the alias of windwithme has posted a review of Intel's upcoming Core 2 Duo E8500 processor and he's even managed to overclock it to an insane 4.7GHz with a standard air cooler.

The test setup consisted of 2GB of Corsair DDR3-1800 memory, a GeForce 8800GT graphics card and an Asus P5K3-Deluxe motherboard. There's a bunch of pictures of all the kit as well as several screen shots of various benchmarks. At default clocks the E8500 managed to do a 32MB Super PI run in 15min 12.828 seconds, at 4.4GHz on a 491MHz this was reduced to 12min 17.86 seconds,

There are also some 3DMark benchmarks and CPUMark numbers. You can read the full forum post here

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Gigabyte launches two new cases

Lars Göran Nilsson | Cases, Cooling & PSU | Nov 15, 2007 2:41 AM CST

Gigabyte has launched two new case ranges, the GZ-X4 and the GZ-X5. These both appear to be targeting the budget minded buyer that wants something a little bit extra for their money, or at least that's the case with the GZ-X4. The GZ-X5 slightly more conservative, although it looks like it still offers a good range of features.

As you can see from the picture below, it looks as if the GZ-X4 will come in two colour schemes, red/black and black/silver. Our only concern here is the matter of finding matching red optical drives, looks like a custom paint job will be in order, unless Gigabyte themselves steps up to the challenge. The GZ-X4 comes with front mounted connectors for two USB ports, a FireWire and two 3.5mm jacks for headphones and a mic.

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Gigabyte launches reference 38x0 cards

Lars Göran Nilsson | | Nov 15, 2007 1:55 AM CST

As just about every other AMD/ATI partner, Gigabyte has announced a pair of Radeon HD 38x0 series cards. The first two products from Gigabyte aren't that much to get excited about, as they're both reference cards at stock clock speeds. Gigabyte hasn't even bothered posting the clock speeds of these cards on its website, that's how different these cards are.

Both cards come with a copy of Neverwinter Nights 2 and that's about how exciting these cards get. However, if you're an avid reader of TweakTown, you know that Gigabyte is already working on its own cards as we told you about here. These blue cards with a Zalman cooler should be available in a few weeks time.

For now, you can find the product pages for the reference cards here and here

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PowerColor launches 5 38x0 series cards

Lars Göran Nilsson | | Nov 15, 2007 1:46 AM CST

PowerColor has launched a range of five 38x0 series cards in total, which isn't bad going considering that there's only two GPU's to choose from. Let's start from the bottom and work our way up, as these cards differ somewhat from the reference cards, which is a good thing by all means. Let's start with the HD 3850 which comes with 256MB GDDR3 memory and a stock cooler. This card has a core speed of 668MHz and a memory speed of 828 or 1,656MHz effectively. Nothing much to write home about here, but it should be quite cheap.

Next up we have the HD 3850 PCS and it has 512MB of GDDR3 memory and a different cooler which comes from Zerotherm as far as we can tell. PCS stands for Professional Cooling System and it applies to all custom models from PowerColor in the 38x0 range. The GPU of this card is clocked at 720MHz with the memory at 900/1,800MHz.

The third and final card using the 3850 GPU is the HD 3850 Xtreme PCS which to every extent is the same card as the HD 3850 PCS with one minor difference, one of the DVI ports have been replaced by an HDMI connector, although there's no picture of the actual card on PowerColor's site as yet of this card. It's odd to call this card Xtreme and we'd rather seen a low noise none overclocked version with HDMI, but never mind.

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Akasa believe size DOES matter!

Steve Dougherty | | Nov 14, 2007 9:27 PM CST

Akasa have gone all out with this latest case fan, they've added a massive 220mm x 30mm offering to their lineup which uses a sleeve bearing design and operates at just 600RPM, yet due to its sheer massive size can still push 95.64CFM; this is particularly nice as its maximum noise output reaches just 23.48dB.

To glamour it up a bit more, Akasa have used a clear plastic for construction and no less than five blue LEDs to give it big bling. Pricing for the 'Big Boy' is said to come in at around 14 euros.

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Downloadable XBOX-1 Games for 360

Steve Dougherty | | Nov 14, 2007 6:09 PM CST

A fall update for the XBOX 360 is expected to arrive on December 2nd and with it will come the ability to download full-version original XBOX titles. Six will be on offer to begin with (and plenty more to follow), this first wave of them including Burnout 3, Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Fable, Halo: Combat Evolved and Indigo Prophecy.

Microsoft will apparently price each of these at 1200 points (roughly $15 US) which isn't tooooo bad. However this may well be the first real reason as to why the 360's 20GB HDD is just not going to cut it if one gets into a habit of downloading these; the average full-size game disc for the original XBOX was in the vicinity of 2 to 3GBs, some creeping up past the 4GB mark.

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Wolfking goes Xxtreme with new Warrior

Lars Göran Nilsson | | Nov 14, 2007 7:26 AM CST

Wolfking has apparently launched its new Warrior Xxtreme keyboard, although we couldn't find it on their website. None the less, a picture of it has made its way online and you can have a look at it below. We're not sure who or why anyone would buy this or any of their other products for that matter, as they just look pants.

Saying that, the Warrior Xxtreme looks somewhat better than previous attempts from Wolfking, but we have no idea how you type on it. The right hand "circle" has a full QWERTY keyboard of sorts, but it's split in and odd way putting the keys that are normally typed by your left hand on top and the rest at the bottom with the cursor keys all the way down.

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SanDisk announces PC Flash accelerator

Lars Göran Nilsson | | Nov 14, 2007 7:21 AM CST

SanDisk has announced what it calls the Vaulter Disk, a PCI Express based module which fits inside your PC or notebook and that is supposed to boost your hard drive performance. Sounds familiar? Yeah, to us too, but this isn't another ReadyBoost or Turbo Memory variant, as SanDisk has realised that 1GB of Flash memory just isn't enough and USB isn't fast enough to make any difference.

The name Vaulter Disk should give it away, this is a go-between as it caches frequently used hard drive data, it will be available in eight or 16GB capacities, which is actually more storage space than the Asus Eee PC has. Sure, it's far from the 1TB of the largest hard drives or even 320GB of a notebook drive, but the idea here is that there's actually enough room to cache the entire OS and just about any application you're using.

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