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• NL: Review Block - Temjin

  Published: Monday, December 17, 2007 | By: Dennis

  Be sure to check out our review of this very same case, it is quite possibly the most awesomeist case in the world.
  - SilverStone Temjin TJ10 Premium Enclosure @ Viper Lair
  - SilverStone TJ10 Case Review @ HardwareLogic
  - SilverStone Temjin TJ-10 Review @ HEXUS
  We'll of course have more SilverStone reviews in the future so stay tuned.
  

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• NL: Review Block - Memory

  Published: Monday, December 17, 2007 | By: Dennis

  We gotta have a memory review block every once in awhile, I mean how else would you remember.

  - Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB PC2-9200 DDR2-1150MHz Review @ OCC
  - Buffalo Firestix PC2-8000 2GB Memory Kit Review @ HardwareLogic
  - Patriot Extreme Performance PC3-15000 2GB Kit (DDR3-1866) @ Hardwarezone
  - Patriot Extreme Performance 2GB PC2-9600 DDR2-1200MHz Review @ OCC
  - GeIL Black Dragon DDR2 800 MHz CL4 @ techPowerUp

  So what ones do you like best?
  

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• Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 @ Swemod

  Published: Monday, December 17, 2007 | By: Dennis

  Onboard audio got you down? looking to get more from your computer sound system?  Look no further than to get something better.  Yep its true you don't need that crusty old onboard sound anymore even if it supports 200 audio channels.
  SweMOD has tested the X-Fi Prelude 7.1 from Auzentech. The X-Fi chipincludes a lot of features to enchance your audio experience withingames and movies. It also improves the playback of music and enablesyou to hear things you've never heard before. Check out their site forthe review.
  Talk about a pimpin snib..
  

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• Nvidia 3-way SLI technology finally supported

  Published: Friday, December 14, 2007 | By: Dennis

  Nvidia has extended its SLI technology, which enables theuse of multiple GPUs on a single computer, allowing up to three GeForcegraphics cards to be used in a single machine.
  
  Nvidia'snew 3-way SLI delivers up to a 2.8x performance increase over a singleGPU system, giving high-end gamers 60 frames per second at resolutionsas high as 2560×1600 and with 8x antialiasing, according to the company.
  The article goes on to claim you need a 680 SLI chipset and 3 8800 series cards to have a 3-way.

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• Merriam-Webster's word of '07: 'w00t'

  Published: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | By: Dennis

  This is actually pretty cool, though it should be known that our leet dictionary had that term for several years now.
  Gamers commonly substitute numbers and symbols for the letters they resemble, Morse says, creating what they call "l33t speak" — that's "leet" when spoken, short for "elite" to the rest of the world.
  
  For technophobes, the word also is familiar from the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," in which Julia Roberts startles her date's upper-crust friends with a hearty "Woot, woot, woot!" at a polo match.
  Our dictonary is always growing, so send in your suggestions, if they are good they will make it in.

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• Is Nvidia (NVDA) A Buyer For AMD (AMD)?

  Published: Friday, December 7, 2007 | By: Dennis

  I found this on the news wire today, and even though its an old post the theory is quite interesting.
  Mubadala Development Co, the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government, put $622 million into AMD (AMD) last week to buy 8.1% of the company at $12.70 a share. The market did not like the deal. The stock traded at $12.64 and moved down more after hours. Wall St. understands that all AMD has done is buy a little time. The chip company has $5.1 billion in long term debt and had an operating loss of $226 million in the last quarter. Larger rival Intel (INTC) its pressuring AMD sales and margins.
  There has been a lot of speculation around what each of the "big three" companies is planning to do.  On the AMD side they already acquired ATI which is a big supplier of Crossfire graphic solutions for Intel.  Of course Intel is rumored to have their own dual graphic solution on the market around Christmas which is likely only to run on Intel chipsets, thus negating CrossFire all together.
  
  Then there is nVidia, hands down the graphics leader with an excellent chipset platform for both Intel and AMD.  nVidia also has SLI technology that runs on their chipsets.  So what would nVidia gain from buying AMD? The way I see it, nothing.  nVidia would likely take out the ATI CrossFire solution and consume the AMD processor line.  In doing so they would lose Intel support and thus the strongest performance platform around (Intel Core processor + nVidia SLI). 
  
  So what would be to gain?  Not much, actually I'd classify a move like this to be somewhere between chopped bread and the HP+Compaq merger.  (ya pretty dumb)

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• ASRock plays Frankenstein; creates modern motherboard out of old parts

  Published: Thursday, December 6, 2007 | By: Dennis

  ASRock's latest AliveDual eSATA2 motherboard combines theM1695 chipset, originally designed by ULi, with Nvidia's nForce 3 250,which launched in 2003, to create a modern mash-up that may soundbizarre, but is also strangely compelling.

  Thanks toAMD's commitment to backwards compatibility, the AliveDual eSATA2 willstill be able to rock quad-core Phenom X4 CPUs, if that is what youwant, and ASRock has had the foresight to build in support for up to8GB DDR2 memory.

  Another consequence of ASRock's weirdscience is that the AliveDual eSATA2 sports not only a PCI Expressslot, provided by the M1695, but also retains the nForce 3's AGP slot.

  Althoughthe motherboard's market is not large, the very unique design means itwill still see demand in certain markets, especially in Europe, ASRockbelieves.
  Click on the link below to see a photo of this amazing board.
  

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• Nvidia to launch GeForce 9 series in February

  Published: Saturday, December 1, 2007 | By: Dennis

  Nvidia is ready for its next-generation GPU launch.According to sources at graphics card makers, the company plans tolaunch its GeForce 9 series GPU after the Lunar New Year in February.

  Thefirst chip to rollout of in GeForce 9 family will be the D9E, ahigh-end product that adopts 65nm manufacturing. The new product willalso support DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1, revealed the sources.

  Inaddition to the D9E, Nvidia will roll out a mid-range GeForce 9 familyproduct named D9P in June 2008. The new GPU will adopt 55nm processing,the sources pointed out.

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• Nvidia to launch Intel-based nForce 780i chipset in December

  Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | By: Dennis

  Nvidia is planning to launch its Intel-based nForce 780ichipset in December this year, however mass shipments will not occuruntil January next year, according to sources at motherboard makers.

  ThenForce 780 SLI chipset will be available to two forms, the nForce 780iSLI (C72 XE) supporting Intel and nForce 780a SLI (C72 P) supportingAMD, noted the sources.

  The nForce 780i will targetIntel's X38 chipsets as its major competitor. It will support PCIExpress 2.0 and 3-way SLI technology with three PCI Express x16 slots.Motherboard pricing will be around US$200, noted the sources.

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• Happy Turkey Day

  Published: Thursday, November 22, 2007 | By: Dennis

  For those of you in the US that happen to stumble over to Ninjalane we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.  Eat well and enjoy the day.
  
  BTW if you're of age we find that some good brew tends to help with the trippin fin overload.

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