E-Ten has announced that it's finally shipping the Glofiish X800 and the company also released its X600 at the same time. The X800 was shown back at Computex earlier this year, but it has taken this long for it to become available. It features a 500MHz Samsung SC3 2442 processor and it has 256MB of flash memory and 64MB of RAM. The screen measures 2.8-inches and has a 640x480 resolution.

It's a 3G handset which HSDPA support and it works on 2100, 1900 and 850MHz for 3G and it also works on all four GSM bands and as a backup to 3G it does GPRS class 10. Of course it also has 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR.

Toshiba Japan has launched a new dynabook Satellite notebook which goes under the WXW moniker. Although it's likely to drop the dynabook branding when it arrives outside of Japan, the name isn't what's important, but rather what's on the inside. This is one of the first notebooks with a pair of GeForce 8600M GT cards in SLI which also features a Core 2 Duo mobile processor and the reasonably new Intel PM965 chipset.

The CPU is a Core 2 Duo T7700 which is clocked at 2.4GHz and this has been paired up with no less than 4GB of DDR2 memory, although it's only 667MHz modules due to some limitations when it come to available modules for notebooks at this size. Each of the graphics cards has 256MB of GDDR3 memory, although they can also use TurboCache if more is needed.

At our visit to Gigabyte yesterday we also got to see something unexpected, Gigabyte's Radeon HD 2950 prototype. The model name on the board was GV-RX295P512, although this will change before the actual launch. The P in the model name suggests Pro and since the card was using GDDR3 memory from Hynix, we presume that this is the Radeon HD 3850, although we weren't specifically told it was.

The card uses a Zalman cooler and as with the 8800 GT, Gigabyte is using their own blue PCB and the power regulation has been upgraded from a two-phase to a three-phase design. The card is quite long, especially compared to the 8800 GT, but the PCB was quite bare. The memory chips apparently don't require any additional cooling, nor should the power regulation.

We also got a picture of Gigabyte's own 8800 GT and by own, we mean full in-house design. This card is quite different to the reference design as it has done away with the large cooler and has been retro fitted with a Zalman cooler. The memory chips apparently doesn't need any cooling and the GDDR3 chips are from Qimonda and are rated at 1ns.

The card uses a Gigabyte blue PCB and it's the same quality as the PCB used in Gigabyte's motherboards. The card is also featuring a three-phase PWM design while the reference cards rely on a two-phase design. Gigabyte is also using all solid capacitors on its graphics cards.

At a visit to Gigabyte's office in Taipei yesterday, we had the chance to take some pictures of Gigabyte's upcoming 780i SLI board and it looks like it's just about ready to enter mass production. The GA-780SLI-DS5 isn't the top of the range version, but it still has a wide range of high-end features.

If you're an avid reader of TweakTown you might remember that we posted a picture that we found online of this board a few days ago and apparently the designs are slightly different between the two which is really odd. You can find the previous news post here. If you compare the two you'll notice that the heatsink is quite different, although, we were told by Gigabyte that the one on the board we saw is likely to change and it is most likely going to extend to the south bridge.

Continue reading: Gigabyte's 780i SLI board pictured (full post)

ISA Hardware (AMD's master distributor of their full processor lineup) have updated the price listing on their website to include that of AMD's upcoming native quad core CPUs, Phenom X4.

Once you look at the pricing below, don't get TOO excited just yet; one must remember that this pricing is the redistribution price, meaning there'll be another increase to these on the shop shelves. Even so, for next-gen native quad core processing these prices are shaping up to be quite reasonable indeed :-

- HD9500WCGDBOX CPU Desktop Phenom X4 9500 (4MB,95W,AM2) box $247.00

Asus has launched two high-end AM2+ boards based on AMD's new 790FX chipset today and both boards has a wide range of features as standard. The two models are the M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-AP and the M3A32-MVP Deluxe. This time around though, there's more than just a Wi-Fi adapter that sets the two apart.

The M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-AP not only has onboard 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, but it also features what Asus calls Cool Mempipe Technology which are heatsinks attached to the heatpipes on the motherboard which apparently will lower the DDR2 memory temperatures by as much as 10 degrees C.

Gigabyte has launched a range of AM2+ boards based on AMD's latest generation of chipsets, the AMD 790FX and 790X, all with CrossFireX support. The first two, the GA-MA790FX-DQ6 and the GA-MA790FX-DS5 as the name suggests feature the AMD 790FX chipset while the GA-MA790X-DS4 is based on the 790X chipset.

Starting with the GA-MA790FX-DQ6 which we've written about several times before and little has changed in terms of specifications. For those that haven't seen our earlier posts, the board features four x16 PCI Express 2.0 slots, although the available lane count is only 32, so the board can either be run as dual x16, x16 and dual x8 or four x8 depending on how many graphics cards you slot in. The board only accept single slot cards if you fit more than two, which is a bit of a bummer.

We've managed to get our hands on a document which contains AMD's plans for Q4 this year and how they position their products against Nvidia's in the graphics card market. There are some interesting information here and one of the main things we spotted was that the Radeon HD 2900 XT is being EOL:ed or in other words, discontinued.

It looks like the Radeon HD 3870 and 3850 are indeed the right names for the new RV670 based cards from AMD, although there's an XT and a P which we presume means Pro on this document which doesn't add up with what we've seen some sites reporting about when it comes to AMD's new naming scheme.

The G3 and G4 refer to GDDR3 or GDDR4 on the cards. We'd guess that this document isn't brand spanking new due to the missing 3DMark 06 scores for the 8800 GT and the fact that it has been placed lower than the 320MB 8800 GTS cards. The Radeon HD 3870 should according to this document score some 12,000 plus points at 1,280x1,024 in 3DMark06, and thus beating the 8800 GTX according to AMD's test results.

Although it hasn't been officially announced as yet, Nvidia's new AMD platform is starting to shape up and it looks like the company is back to using a single chipset solution once again, but this time it will even be used on the SLI platform. The MCP78 as it's known as at the moment is the key component, although it looks like Nvidia is planning to pair it up with its N200 PCI Express 2.0 controller for its upcoming SLI boards.

Looking at things from a cost perspective it all makes complete sense, as it's cheaper to manufacture a slightly more expensive product and only make that one product than having to manufacture three or four different product lines. Adding a small auxiliary chip which can be used on multiple platforms is then a small price to pay.

iXBT has scored a picture of the upcoming Nforce 780a SLI reference board and you can clearly see the DVI and D-sub connectors on it as well as the N200 chipset due to the odd shape of the chipset cooler. The general board layout is very odd and hopefully this is a board that will never make it into production. None the less, it gives us a good idea on what the future holds.