AMD officially intros Radeon HD 4890

Right on cue, as rumored, expected and predicted, AMD has now launched its most powerful single-GPU card yet, the Radeon HD 4890. Powered by the 55nm RV790 GPU, the card brags with 1.36 TeraFLOPs of powa' and features DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.0 and CrossFireX support, ATI Stream technology and the v2.0 Unified Video Decoder. The new card packs 800 Stream Processors, a core clock of 850 MHz, 1GB of GDDR5 memory @ 3900 MHz, a dual-lost cooler and two 6-pin PCIe connectors.

"The ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics card represents the AMD sweet spot strategy reloaded," said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Products Group, AMD. "With last year's launch of the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and ATI Radeon HD 4870 products, we gave gamers great performance and an incredible value proposition. Today, we're doing it again. ATI Radeon HD 4890 graphics cards are incredible performers, priced to sell in all major markets worldwide."

Coming with a recommended price tag of $249, the Radeon HD 4890 is offered by board partners like Asus, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, Gecube, Gigabyte, HIS, Jetway, MSI, Palit Multimedia, PowerColor, Sapphire, VisionTek and XFX.

To get a pretty good idea of what the new card can do check out the reviews posted:

@ Guru3D
@ TweakTown
@ techPowerUp - Powercolor and Sapphire

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Novell has announced the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server 11: "Novell today announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, the operating system designed for the next-generation data center. The platform contains major enhancements to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop and delivers two new extensions - SUSE Linux Enterprise Mono Extension, the only product that enables customers to run fully supported Microsoft .NET-based applications on Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, a clustering product that ensures uptime for mission-critical applications while slashing the cost of ownership for high availability." Here is the full press release. For detailed information about new features and enhancements please consult the release notes, prepared separately for SLED 11 and SLES 11. Evaluation editions of both products are available from Novell's download page (registration required).

Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R2.20

The ALC882 series 7.1+2 Channel High Definition Audio codecs with UAA (Universal Audio Architecture), featuring five 24-bit stereo DACs and three 20-bit stereo ADCs, are designed for high performance multimedia PC systems.
The ALC882 series incorporates proprietary converter technology to achieve over 100dB Signal-to-Noise ratio playback quality; easily meeting PC2001 requirements and also bringing PC sound quality closer to consumer electronic devices.

The ALC882 series provide 10 channels of DAC that simultaneously support 7.1 sound playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the Front-Out-Left and Front-Out-Right channels. Flexible mixing, mute, and fine gain control functions provide a complete integrated audio solution for next generation multimedia PCs.

Changes in Driver Package R2.20:
Realtek HD Audio Driver support all of Realtek HD Audio Codec .
1. Vista WHQL Supporting: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC260, ALC262,ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC887
2. Windows 2000/XP WHQL Supporting: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267,ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC887
3. HDMI Device WHQL Support: ATI HDMI Devices
4. OS Supporting: Microsoft WindowsXP, Widnows2000, Windows Server 2003, Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows7 - x86/x64
5. Pack with Microsoft High Definition Audio UAAV1.0a(5013)
6. Add/Fix
1.) Driver :
1. Customizations.

Download : Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R2.20