Also, AMD announced the Dragon Desktop Platform which includes a Phenom II processor, ATI Radeon 4800 HD Graphics and a 790 series motherboard. This setup saves on power consumption by up to 40 percent compared to previous Phenom processors.

These new processors can be used with the existing motherboards, this is where AMD scores the most and is sure to give some serious competition to Intel in the days ahead.

The retail package includes the software, a TiVo remote, USB IR receiver, HD-compatible USB tuner and a one-year subscription to the service. The package normally costs $199.99, but right now it is selling for $103.99 at amazon.

The Software is same as that of TiVo set-top box with Season Pass and KidZone features, except there are no extras like music and photos.

The LinkTheater supports the MPEG-1/2, WM9, H.264, MPEG-4, XviD, DivX files both in both HD and SD qualities.

With the new LT-H91LAN, users will be able to connect to Internet and access the NHK VOD service or the TSUTAYA TV one in Japan.

The GPU’s supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 applications. Built-in 7.1 surround sound processor takes care of all the HD audio needs.

The GPU’s are equipped with General Purpose GPU technology and ChromotionHD technology, a technology that offloads the video processing from the CPU. There are DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI (with HDCP) connectivity options for connecting external devices such as a big screen HDTV.

Price: 45$

NVIDIA today announced its new GPU-based Supercomputer based on the company’s Tesla C1060 GPU Computing Processor, which is said to deliver the power that we see in a Supercomputer cluster and yet priced very reasonably like a conventional PC.

The Tesla GPU is based on NVIDIA’s CUDA parallel computing architecture, used in Super Computing Environment. The PC itself comes from the leading PC makers like Dell, Lenovo, etc., its just the GPU from NVIDIA that turns a normal computer into a Supercomputer that we are interested in. Starting today, all the manufacturers will start selling NVIDIA Tesla GPU based Computers.

The Sound Card boasts hi-end features such as Hyper-ground technology, EMI Shield design, 24-bit Burr Brown PCM 1792A Digital to Analog converters, AV100 high-definition sound processor, Nichicon Fine Gold capacitors, two pairs of RCA jacks and input/output 6.3mm stereo jacks, and Optical digital output.

The Sound card is a perfect choice for gaming and entertainment PC’s, its integrated headphone amplifier produces less than 0.001% distortion thus accompanying the industry-leading 124-dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). Also, it supports Dolby Digital Live, ASIO 2.0, Headphones, Virtual Speaker, Dolby Digital Pro-Logic II home theater sound and DS3D GX2.5 3D gaming engines.

Price: Just under $600.

The price is not mentioned, but the Japanese giant says it will offer the versions that run at 667 MHz and 800MHz and samples will be delivered to the PC builders this month. Mass production will take place in the Fall.

Soon Samsung will start shipping its world’s first 500GB hard drive Spinpoint M6 that is just 2.5 inch slim and a DVD burner SH-S223 that enables burning of data at 22X speeds. The Spinpoint M6 is a mobile hard drive that consists of three platters, each 167 GB, packed in a 9.5mm case. The hard drive is suitable for high end notebooks and slim PC’s. The hard drive meets the Microsoft’s fast boot design, comes with 8MB cache. It runs at 5400rpm and transfers data at 3.0Gbps.On the other hand SH-S223 is a DVD burner is capable of writing data at high speeds even on a low-speed media, users can write at 22X speeds on a 16X DVD. It takes just 4 minutes(app) to burn a 4.7GB DVD, this is done with the help of over-speed performance feature.

Price:

Spinpoint M6: 300$

SH-S223: Pricing details not available.

Both XPION R10 Series and S10 Series features Intel’s new Turbo Memory Technology, where flash-based memory modules are soldered directly on the motherboard act as an intermediate layer in the memory hierarchy and stores data each time an operation is carried out. This technology is usually used in notebooks for improved battery lifespan. The desktop version of the technology helps in fast boot time, improved performance while accessing programs and writing data to hard drive.

XPION R10 Series comes packs in an Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 (2.66 GHz), 2GB DDR2 (800 MHz), 500 GB SATA II hard drive, GeForce 8500GT with 512MB of built-in GDRAM3 and a Super Multi DVD Writer. The system can be upgraded to 3GB of RAM or Intel P35 Express Chipset.

XPION S10 series is a powerful version with Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 720GB SATA II hard drive, 2GB RAM, Geforce 256MD of GDRAM.

The systems doesn’t come with a monitor.

Price:

R10 Series : 1300000 South Korean won = 1388.4 U.S. dollars

S10 Series : 1200000 South Korean won = 1281.6 U.S. dollars