Tech News
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Are Solid State Hard Drives Worth the Extra Cash? @ Digital Trends
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisOur opinion on the subject varies. On the surface anything solid state is better than something with moving parts that's just the nature of the beast. However right now they are not very fast, they have limited capacity and they are expensive. Granted in the right situation they are the best choice. ie industrial systems, small form factor stuff, limited power situations, etc..
but for the average Joe (or Jane) spend a 3rd of the cash and get 9 times the storage space and when it dies go get another one.
The looming arrival of solid-state hard drives (SSD) for notebooks seems like a rather exciting development at first blush. Unlike their mechanical counterparts, which have spindle motors, rotating platters and read/write heads, solid-state drives typically consist of flash memory chips and have no moving parts whatsoever. The benefits that these drivers offer compared to a mechanical drive are numerous, and include lower power consumption, improved performance, increased durability, less chance of data loss (no heads to crash into the platters), no noise and no heat output.
Nuff said
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E-Power EP-2KW 2000 Watt PSU Review @ OCC
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisI think I can say what most people will be saying when they read this.
"2000 Watts!! holy fuck stickers batman, thats alot of power!"
and it is, not to mention the thing is friggin HUGE
Getting inside the main power supply we are greeted with two 1000W power supplies that are run in parallel to achieve the 2000W rating. The power supply internals are industrial grade and built to last. The dual capacitors, coupled with the thick copper wound inductors on each board on the primary side, the transformer sitting between the large black heatsinks, and heavy gauge wire on the secondary side make for a winning combination.
Check out the review at your own risk.
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Asustek launches workstation motherboard with dual CPUs
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisCompact and Powerful.
Asustek has released the Z7S WS workstation motherboard, equipped with dual 771 sockets. The board utilizes the latest Intel 5400 chipset and also supports fully buffered DDR2 800MHz dual-channel memory, dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots; and comes in the compact CEB form factor.
The Z7S's particular heat-pipe design is made to increase durability, life spans and enhance thermal capacity. It also provides highly efficient operation with less heat than traditional heat sink designs, according to the company.This system still requires that you use FB-DIMM modules so its not going to be an overclocker but 8 cores of power cannot be argued with.
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Foxconn slaps waterblock on NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI board
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisDr00l!
Kind of like the BLACKOPS, this will be one expensive, expensive motherboard. Want to know what all the fuss is about?
When it comes right down to it I've been waiting for this board to come out and now its on display. Funny thing though, Foxconn had the X48 edition at CES, and the 790i at CeBit. Maybe they will have them for sale by Computex??
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale CPU @ HotHardware
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisWe’re writing to let you all know that we have just posted a new article at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and performance of Intel’s recently released, Wolfdale-based Core 2 Duo E8500 processor. The E8500 uses Intel’s 45nm Penryn derived Wolfdale core, with a 3.16GHz clock speed, 6MB of L2 cache, and support for SSEE4.1. Overall, even in its stock configuration this processor was a strong performer, while consuming less power than Intel’s 65nm processors. But while overclocked to over 4GHz on air-cooling alone, it put up some truly impressive benchmark scores. Head on over to the site and take a look.
Some good stuff here,
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Review @ OCC
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisThe E8500 processors are the new Wolfdale cores running at 1333Mhz FSB. The E8400 is available for around 300 bones.
Overclocking this chip has been a pure pleasure. When paired with the X38 chipset, the potential could be far out there with the correct cooling setup. I started at 400 x 9 and 1.35v and the system booted so flawlessly that I knew that it was thirsty for more. So I jumped the multiplier to 9.5 and kept raising the FSB by 15MHz while keeping the voltage the same until it would not boot.
Sounds like fun.
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100% Passively cooled case build @ Metku
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisI have wanted to build a fully passively cooled computer case since I had my first Athlon Thunderbird 800 MHz. That time the fan noise was amazingly high, and manufacturers didn´t much care about the noise levels, and didn't offer products for building a quiet PC. Nowadays a quiet PC is not much of a challenge to build, but totally silent?
Think it can be done? I think so, it's "that" hard to do
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Logo Shop Back in Business!
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisThe Ninjalane LogoShop is back in business!
This time around in addition to the normal Ninjalane logo gear you can get a new shirt exclusive to Ninjalane that we are calling "Skull and Cross Cables" Its a variation on the Skull and Cross Bones but with a modern twist.
The shirts are printed on quality dark fabric in both Mens and Womens fashion.
Click on the banner above or the link below, either way
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NL: Review Block - A CrapLoad of Video Card Reviews
Published: Friday, February 29, 2008 | By: DennisAs the subject says there are a crapload of 9600GT reviews hitting the interweb this week, its almost like it got released or something.
Personally I would have liked to see a new nVidia chipset but that might have to wait. I'm thinking it might be around the Computex timeframe.
- Club3D NVIDIA 9600GT Review on Technic3D
- Biostar GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB V9603GT52 @ techPowerUp
- Nvidia's GeForce 9600 GT graphics processor reviewed at TR <- (ya they have the weirdest headlines)
- EVGA e-GeForce 9600GT SSC Edition Review @ Gamepyre
- Palit 9600GT Sonic 512MB Geforce 9600GT Videocard Review @ PCSTATS
- Galaxy 9600 GT 512MB OC Video Card Review @ Madshrimps
- ECS Elitegroup GeForce 9600 GT @ TweakPC
- Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 512MB Geforce 9600GT Videocard Review @ PCSTATS
- Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic Graphics Card @ TweakTownWhile we're at it why not post some 8800 stuff?
- Overclock3D Content: XFX Triple SLI - 8800 Ultra's in 3 Way SLI
- XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB Alpha Dog XXX Edition review @ Elite Bastards
- Asus EN8800GTS (NVIDIA 8800GTS) TOP 512MB @ APH Networks
- Palit GeForce 8800GT Super+1GB @ Techgage
- XFX 8800GTS vs. Gainward 8800GT 1024MB Review @ Metku
- XFX GeForce 8800GTS 512MB @ InsideHW
- Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GT Review @ OCCThat should be enough for today.
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LANParty LT X48-T3R, a real monster empowered by ThermalRight
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | By: DennisWe have actual product photos posted in the Ninjalane Message Forum, Roll on over there to see what this beast will end up looking like.
Forum registration is required to see the photos, but its free so what are you waiting for!
Although the Chinese New Year festival was important to DFI's headquarters, the R&D team of DFI hasn't slowed down at all, in order to launch the new product of X48 motherboard well ahead of the preset schedule. DFI's LANParty LT X48-T3R is now just around the corner, ready to greet our enthusiasts throughout the world. This motherboard, based on Intel LGA775 socket CPU, will fully support the latest Intel 45nm process Quad-core CPU. Our LANParty UT X48-T3R features the highest end of Intel X48 + ICH9R chipset. It provides enthusiasts with a powerful strength that supports the latest CrossFire technology and the fastest FSB1600MHz, DDR3 1333 memory. Besides this, a server grade model, LP UT X48-T3R provides even more goodies such as the utmost Volterra 8-phase Digital PWM, full solid state aluminum capacitors, and Marvell's dual gigabit LAN chip which surely enhances the overall teaming function. Users kept telling DFI that the BIOS design is the "soul" of a motherboard; we listened and now we are coming up with the most elaborated version of BIOS for every finished board that rolls out from our factory. For enthusiasts, this means the ability to tweak their monster gear with unlimited choices of BIOS environment. The combination of Genie BIOS and CMOS Reload is the ultimate weapon to help every knight of our enthusiasts to beat the beast, over again and again.
You will also be happy to notice an eye-catching feature on our LANParty UT X48-T3R board, a powerful heat pipe cooler, we called "heat freezer". It is a first-in-industry invention that resulted from our cooperation with The ThermalRight Company, a world renowned, professional manufacturer in the computer cooler industry. ThermalRight is highly regarded by the computer world for its creativity and expertise in the heat dissipation process. It has been with great honor that DFI involves ThermalRight in developing a supreme quality cooler such as our "heat freezer" for servers. Every LANParty UT series motherboard is now equipped with the exclusive sub-assembly. For this, DFI has just pushed the motherboard standard a step farther. While you are serious in the game world, you would not want to miss a board with the utmost, state-of-the-art heat freezer feature.
