Tech News
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Holiday PC Gaming Season
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | By: WillKeeping the PC gamer informed about new games for this season is just part of the Ninja life for us. Today I'm just going to spotlight one game and that is the COD World at War. Have not played it, but hoping to see it soon to give a better idea about this great looking title.
"Built on the CoD4 engine, Treyarch has had the opportunity to focus on the gameplay. CoD 4 was a journey into the modern world. For WaW, Treyarch went back to World War II but instead of focusing on the European Theater, the dev team expanded that to play the game - through scenarios - on two fronts. Players will be immersed in the Pacific Theater in the war against the Japanese Imperial Army, and will be part of the Russian push toward Berlin."
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 @ InsideHW
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | By: WillI know many of us geeks out there love to play with photos and what not with Photoshop everyday. For the most part a new release of Photoshop is not very hardware news worthy, but this time around CS4 is using some sweet new technology. This is the first time that Adobe is using a video card to do the work load for Photoshop.
"New edition of one of the best, if not the best, application for processing raster graphics attended for photographers but also for graphic and web designers, is finally tested on InsideHW. One of most important technical novelties is that Photoshop CS4 will be delivered only as 64-bit version. Adobe made this decision after preliminary tests that showed that performances of 64-bit applications are better for 8% to 12% comparing to 32-bit version. True power and advantages of 64-bit version are hidden in fact that it can use large amounts of memory..."
This is good stuff here. Very Cool!
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NL: Review Block - Daily Roundup 11-25-2008
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 | By: WillNinjaLane Hardware Review Block for Nov. 25, 2008.
Motherboards & Processors
- Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Motherboard @ Viper Lair
- AMD 790GX comparison of 6 mainboards with benchmarks @ TweakPC
- MSI X58 Eclipse Motherboard Review @ NeoseekerVideo Cards
- HIS IceQ4 HD4850 TurboX & Club3d HD4850 OC edition Review @ DriverHeaven
- MSI R4870 T21G ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB Review @ Gamepyre
- PowerColor PCS+ 4850 HD4850 512MB GDDR3 @ HexusMemory
- Patriot 64GB Xporter Magnum USB Flash Drive Reviewed @ TestFreaks
- Patriot Extreme Performance PC3-14400 2x1GB DDR3 RAM @ APH NetworksCases, Cooling, & PSUs
- Thermaltake Armor+ LCS @ TechwareLabs
- SilverStone FT01 Midtower Chassis Review @ OCIA
- OCZ Gladiator Max CPU Cooler Review @ Overclockers OnlineMisc.
- HP TS-22W7H Debranded 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor Review @ ThinkComputers
- QNAP TS-409U Turbo NAS @ TechwareLabs
- Intel X25-M 80GB 2.5-inch Solid State Disk @ Tweaktown -
Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks @ Phoronix
Published: Monday, November 24, 2008 | By: WillThis is for all of you guys that like to tinker with something out of the normal. The guys at Phoronix are comparing a couple different versions of Linux to give the alternative OS guys something to look at.
"Over the past few weeks we have been providing several in-depth articles looking at the performance of Ubuntu Linux. We had begun by providing Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 benchmarks and had found the performance of this popular Linux distribution to become slower with time and that article was followed up with Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 benchmarks and other articles looking at the state of Ubuntu's performance. In this article, we are now comparing the 64-bit performance of Ubuntu 8.10 against the latest test releases of OpenSolaris 2008.11 and FreeBSD 7.1."
Vista Rules Them All!
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The Sunbeamtech Contest has a Winner!
Published: Monday, November 24, 2008 | By: WillThe winner to the Sunbeamtech Contest has been picked. To see who won hit the link, and give the person a congrats while your there.
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Holiday PC Gaming Season
Published: Monday, November 24, 2008 | By: WillThe shopping season is here and so is many great games for the PC this year. Let's take a look at a couple more games to interest your buying power. The first game is a classic that never seems to grow old, and neither does the hotties that play as here either. It is Tomb Raider Underground. With the graphics getting better it just makes Lara get hotter.
Next is the game that I think is just down right awesome, and had to put it up one more time for you guys to check out. Fallout 3.Tomb Raider Underworld Review @ GamngHeaven
"Lara Croft is undoubtedly one of the most well known game icons across the globe and Eidos have released the latest installment Underworld to capitalise on the success of Legend ... which was a great title. The question we aim to answer today, is this another archaeologist journey worth paying for?"
Fallout 3 PC Review @ TestFreaks
"Fallout3 is set in the far future after the world has basically ended due to the usual things, greed, power, and nuclear war, eventually I'm sure it will end this way, so it might be a peek into our own futures... Seriously though Fallout3 is a magnificent game in visuals, actual gameplay and storyline, it's a bloody, gory romp through the post-apocalyptic wastelands that will keep you coming back for more."
Oh yeah, let the gaming begin.
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NL: Review Block - Daily Roundup 11-24-2008
Published: Monday, November 24, 2008 | By: WillNinjaLane Hardware Review Block for Nov. 24, 2008.
Motherboards & Processors
- ECS G45T-M2 Motherboard Review @ HardwareLogic
- Intel Core i7 Memory Analysis Can Dual Channel Cut it? @ TweakTown
- Asus P5Q Pro Review @ OCCVideo Cards
- MSI Radeon HD R4670 512MB @ Viper Lair
- LeadTek WinFast GTX 260 Extreme+ @ Bjorn3D
- ATI HD 4870 1GB vs. NVIDIA GTX 260/216 896MB @ TechgageMemory
- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB DDR3-1333 Memory Review @ Virtual-Hideout
- Muskin DDR3 1600 Memory @ Bjorn3DCases, Cooling, & PSUs
- Silverstone NT06 Evolution Heatpipe CPU Cooler Review @ Tweaknews
- Corsair TX750W Review @ OCCMisc.
- ASUS DSL-N13 wireless ADSL 2/2+ router review @ Elite Bastards
- Intel's X25-E Extreme solid-state drive @ Tech Report
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Welcome to the *new* Ninjalane
Published: Sunday, November 23, 2008 | By: DennisWell not really new but the server migration went without a hitch. There was a little downtime on saturday due to a server mis-configuration but I won't count that since the DNS changes were still being populated around the world.
The new hardware should keep this site up and running for at least another year but if we keep growing at a steady pace who knows what will happen.
Enjoy!
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NinjaLane Exclusive pics from Foxconn's X58 BloodRage
Published: Friday, November 21, 2008 | By: WillNinjalane just got ahold of some great pictures of the new X58 Chipset board from Foxconn. The BLOODRAGE pics are here and enjoy them for they are just wicked cool.
"FOXCONN announce the latest and most powerful motherboard to date in the Quantum Force range; BLOODRAGE delivers outrageous computing power for enthusiasts and hardcore gamers. Features include powerful, flexible graphics support for ATI CrossFireXTM or NVIDIA 3-way SLITM, Quantum Power - the most complete and robust power system yet, optimized sound for gaming with Creative X-Fi technologies, and SAS - the fastest desktop storage solution available today.
Based on the Intel® X58 chipset, it supports the new Intel® CoreTM i7 and i7 Extreme processor families and 3 channel DDR3 memory.
With support for Intel® socket 1366 CoreTM i7 processors, BLOODRAGE unleashes the latest 8-threaded CPU technology for outstanding multi-threaded application performance. Thanks to Intel® Turbo Boost Technology single-threaded applications can enjoy boosted performance as the processor automatically increases frequency when at least 1 core is not being used.
Thanks to the integrated memory controller on the processor, lower latency and higher bandwidth is supported right through to the processor cores, removing the FSB bottleneck which can limit memory performance. BLOODRAGE features support for the latest 3 channel DDR3 memory up to 1800(oc)MHz, with a total of 12GB installed support across 3 DIMM sockets."Well it looks like I gotta get the RPG out and take down Santa this year. I've been naughty.
So, I gotta get him to my house some way to get all of these cool new toys. -
NL: Review Block - Daily Roundup 11-20-2008
Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008 | By: WillNinjaLane Hardware Review Block for Nov. 20, 2008.
Motherboards & Processors
- Asus Rampage II Extreme @ t-break
- Gigabyte EP45-DS3R Motherboard Review @ DriverheavenVideo Cards
- Sapphire HD 4850 X2 Review @ Overclockers Online
- ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GT 512MB AMP Video Card @ TheTechLounge
- GeForce GTX 260 with 216 cores Video Card Review @ Hardware SecretsMemory
- Kingston HyperX 3GB DDR3 2GHz Triple-Channel Memory Kit Review @ Legit Reviews
- OCZ SLI Edition DDR3 2000MHz @ Pro-Clockers
- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2x2GB DDR3 10666 Review @ OCCCases, Cooling, & PSUs
- Lian Li Maxima Force 750 Watt Power Supply @ Modders-Inc
- Silverstone Decathlon 1000W Power Supply (SST-DA1000) @ Bjorn3D
- Antec Skeleton Review @ DriverHeavenMisc.
- Thermaltake BlacX SE Hard Drive Dock Review @ Bigbruin
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 Terabyte Review @ OCC
- OCZ Dominatrix Gaming Mouse Review @ OCIA
