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XCLIO 6030 Plus ATX Enclosure Review @ Virtual-Hideout
Published: Monday, November 12, 2007 | By: DennisWe really like the xClio PSU's here at Ninjalane, and makes you wonder how good their cases are. Well here is a rather short review of the 6030 from Virtual Hideout.
In this review I will be going over a newenclosure from XClio called the 6030 Plus. Xclio offers several differentstyles of enclosures along with a line of power supplies. The 6030Plus is anall black enclosure with a large side panel intake fan. How large of a fan youask? How about 360mm big. This large fan should push hot air right of theenclosure and do so with low RPM's which mean lower noise. Also when things areon the cool side a built in fan speed controller is also included.
Our 2 cents? Stick with the PSUs but forget the cases ever existed. -
NL: Review Block - Motherboards
Published: Monday, November 12, 2007 | By: DennisNow we don't normally do a review block for motherboards but there is a first time for everything.
- Foxconn X38A Digital Life @ InsideHW
- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Intel P35 Express @ PCStats
- Gigabyte X38-DQ6 Motherboard @ Pro-Clockers
- Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Review @ Over Clockers Club
- Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 Intel P35 Express @ PCStats
- Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews-
- Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 review and Overclocking @ Hardwareoverclock Austria
- Asus Maximus Formula Special Edition X38 S775 Motherboard @ Overclock3D
- MSI P6N Diamond Motherboard Review at NVNews
- Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H @ Techgage
Stay Tuned, More to come -
nemy Territory Quake Wars Limited @ Gamepyre
Published: Monday, November 12, 2007 | By: DennisOf the multi player "team based" games out there Quake Wars really is the only one that even remotely sparks my interest. Now I know Quake Wars isn't much different than say BF and there might be betters ones on the market but the simple fact you can play as the Strogg is really the only reason I even consider this game playable.
Humm maybe that needs to be the next LAN Party game?
As the second multiplayer-only Quake game, Id Software's Enemy Territory Quake Wars is a great choice. This product easily wins itself and Gold Medal award for being one of the best team-based shooters that I have played since the original Battlefield 1942. Quake Wars easily lives up to the standards set by its spiritual successor, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, and moves beyond those standards set. This game is worth picking up, and any Quake fan won't want to miss these bonus features in the Limited Edition -
Vantec LapCool 5 Laptop Cooler Review @ Mikhailtech
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | By: DennisVantec's LapCool 5 is a decent product. It looks nice, is small, doesprovide a degree of cooling, gives you an extra USB port, and doublesback as a stand. However it does have a lot more potential that couldbe realized if the fans were reversed and had a bit more airflow.
Laptop coolers are a great invention but really they don't do much cept clutter your desk. Sad but true. -
Enable Hidden 'Aurora' Boot Screen in Vista @ OCModShop
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | By: DennisIf you're like most of the world the thought of a new MS OS really sparked some curiosity but really didn't warrant too much investigation. Well knowing what we all know its no wonder that we don't remember the Longhorn boot screen.
The original Vista Bootscreen is very similar to Windows 2000, and is very bland and boring (you know, with the little catepillar bar scrolling from left-to-right). But did you know that Vista comes with a much better highly visual bootscreen? Did you know how easy it is to enable it? No?
Microsoft may not have enabled this by default because of potential hardware issues, but that doesn't make sense because the minimum video card requirements to even run Vista should handle the new bootscreen without any problem. In either case, here is how to make Vista look that much cooler with the "Aurora" bootscreen...
By the looks of it, the steps are really quite easy. -
NL: Review Block - Sound Stuff
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | By: DennisHere are a just a few sound related reviews.
- Logitech G51 Surround Sound Speaker System Review @ OCIA
- Logitech G51 Gaming Surround Speakers @ Techgage
More to come, and check out our latest review of the Edifier e1100 speaker system -
Auzentech X-FI Prelude 7.1 Sound Card @ Overclock3D
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | By: DennisThe Auzentech cards really amaze me, it would seem in a world of nickel and dime sound devices and most every motheboard coming with multichannel sound on board there is a company out there pushing the envelope and proving that you still "should" buy an addon sound device.
Overclock3D gets its hands on the World's first soundcard custom-engineered around the X-Fi chipset . -
Ninjalane Photoshop Contest Sponsored by CoolIT
Published: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 | By: DennisEntering this little contest is easy...
Become a member of the Ninjalane Message Forum,All contest entries have to be received in the forum and posted by you,how else am I supposed to get you your swag. (current members arealready a step ahead)
Photoshop something!, Now notjust anything. You have to photoshop something “hot” and your job is tomake it “cool”. An example might be a fan on a volcano or a landmine inparadise. (you can actually use those if you want, but be creative) Theonly requirement is that you have to have “CoolIT” somewhere in thephoto, big small it don’t matter it just has to be there and you’llneed to supply a link to the original photo so we know its beenproperly “chopped” google images is a good source.
Photoshopping skill will not be a deciding factor here as creativity is the key
The winner will be selected based on points and you can gather points in a variety of ways..
For more information and prize list check out the post in the Ninjalane Message Forum -
Contest Galore
Published: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | By: DennisCoolIT is a popular name in the computer cooling but is looking to get the word out in the form of some contests. We will be posting our own here shortly but in the meantime check these out.
- CoolIT October Contest. USA Only @ Bjorn3D
- CoolIT Systems Contest @ OCIA.net -
Modding in Hungry
Published: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | By: DennisHungarian modding compo is done
It would be an understatement to say that modding isn't a stable in the computer industry and while you can only do "so" much with a computer case and still remain usable that shouldn't stop you from modding a church around it.
