Tech News
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Asus A8R32-MVP review @ Neoseeker
Published: Monday, April 3, 2006 | By: DennisI have no idea what this really means but I think they are bitch slappin ATI.
"The A8R32-MVP's general motherboard performance is directly on-par with the established top-dogs, including the DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR and ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe, and it has proven itself extremely reliable. While we're on the topic of performance, I'm going to point out that the A8R32-MVP is still only in line with a one-year-old motherboard. The performance records set by the DFI board a year ago have yet to really be beaten by any board we've seen out there. Given all of ATI's design choices in the RD580, and ASUS' design experience, there simply isn't a dramatic leap in performance
over year-old chipsets and hardware."
On a side note I really want to get a few of these Alife boards in the Ninjalane labs. -
Abit AN8 32X motherboard @ The Tech Report
Published: Monday, April 3, 2006 | By: DennisGo Abit!
"The first step in Abit's bid to reclaim the enthusiast market could be the AN8 32X, a Socket 939 Athlon 64 motherboard based on NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI X16 chipset. One of only three X16 motherboards available for sale, the AN8 32X doesn't mess around with cheesy gimmicks or Fatal1ty branding. Instead, it's equipped with useful peripherals, passive chipset cooling, loads of overclocking potential, and best-in-class fan speed control and hardware monitoring." -
Foxconn Winfast NFPIK8AA Motherboard Review Posted
Published: Monday, April 3, 2006 | By: DennisIt's a proven fact that 90% of all enthusiast computer hardware is designed with really one purpose in mind, gaming. However it doesn't always have to be that way, in fact aside from overclocking and various BIOS and/or board level modifications enthusiast hardware can be considered just about anything, including the original high performance system, the workstation.
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BFG nForce 4 Ultra Motherboard @ The Tech Lounge
Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 | By: DennisB-F-G, its Dino-Might.
Is it just me or does the layout of this board look strikingly similar to the Chaintech version? Ya I thought to too, It might be worth a shot to get to the bottom of this and see what really happened.
"Wouldn’t it be nice to buy a BFG motherboard to go along with that BFG video card? But BFG doesn’t make motherboards, do they? Why yes, they do! BFG sells a single motherboard model based on the NVIDIA nForce 4 Ultra series chipset. This single model thing is certainly odd for a company that lists so many different video card options on their product list, but hey, it’s their first shot at this, so give ‘em a break. This board is perfect for BFG to cut its teeth on and get a foot in the door of the motherboard market." -
NL: Review Block - MSI Strikes Back
Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 | By: Dennis"Our review of the latest high-end socket 939 motherboard from MSI, based on nForce 4 SLI X16 chipset and coming with a hi-quality vacuum tube-based on-board audio!"
- MSI K8N Diamond Plus Motherboard Review
"SEEMINGLY CONTENT TO MAKE DO with the original nForce4 SLI, motherboard manufacturers have been slow to adopt NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI X16 chipset. For months, Asus' A8N32-SLI was the only Socket 939 motherboard capable of feeding 16 lanes of PCI Express to each of a pair of graphics cards in SLI, giving enthusiasts seeking gobs of graphics bandwidth few options."
- MSI's K8N Diamond Plus motherboard
Everyone seems to forget that the nVidia Pro Series chipset for the Opteron had been doing dual 16x PCIe from the beginning. (m0re on that soon) -
NL: Review Block - Abit Stuff
Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 | By: DennisFunniness from t-break
"Abit releases a board after a long time and we find out whether their nForce4 x16 based AN8 32x was worth it or not. Here's a bit from it:"
- Abit AN8 X32 @ t-break
- Abit AN8 32X Motherboard @ Pro-Clockers
- Abit AN8 32X PCIE s939 Motherboard Competition @ XSReviews
Abit is still cool in the book of Ninjalane, esp since they've kept with the not brown PCBs -
NL: Review Blocks - Testing the limits of the Memo Field
Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 | By: DennisThese blocks come at you in.. well blocks.
SATA HDD Controllers, The winner?? XFX for RAID 3 Support and onboard memory, downside PCI interface.
- Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 @ TweakTown
- XFX REVO64 NC3000 Gamer's Edition @ Bjorn3D
Memory - The winner here? I guess they all are.
- Corsair 2GB XMS2 PC2-6400 PRO @ Techgage
- OCZ Gold XTC 2GB PC2-4200 @ Techgage
- Corsair XMS 2048-3500LL Pro 2GB Kit @ VelocityReviews
- Corsair TwinX 2048-4000PT review @ DH
- Super Talent DDR2 PC2-6400 Low Latency Memory Review @ 3DGM
- Mushkin 2GB XP2-5300 @ techPowerUp!
Silverstone Cases - They are premodded with windows, down with the TJ06!
- Silverstone TJ06 Review @ Moditory
- SilverStone Temjin TJ-06 ATX Chassis Review @ Virtual-Hideout
Video Cards - Not many video cards make it to Ninjalane so go with the fast one using an nVidia GPU.
- XFX GeForce 7900GTX @ t-break
- XFX 7600 GT XXX Edition Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews
- XFX 7800GT Video Cards in SLI Reviewed @ FutureLooks
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Western Digital Raptor X – Return of the 10,000 RPM King @ TweakTown
Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 | By: DennisIn an attempt to make a bad Lord of the Rings reference TweakTown has released a new review.
"Hard drives are vacuum sealed from the factory to prevent the entry of foreign matter on the drive platters. When you open a drive you allow air, moisture and foreign matter into the drive, which results in bad sectors, data corruption and eventually, rendering the drive totally useless. The Raptor X has a factory built in window allowing you to view the drive platters and heads at work, which is a much safer option than doing the mod yourself."
King of not 10k RPM rox, the only thing better would be 15k RPM for which I would expect 16Meg buffers and full SATA2 support. -
DFI RS482 Infinity Review @ Sudhian
Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 | By: DennisATI has been making chipsets for a while now but they hold a very small segment of market share so its nice to see that a big name like DFI is up to the challenge of releasing an enthusiast ready MicroATX mobo into the world.
"Do-it-yourself mATX small form factor systems are gaining popularity among those that like the size of Shuttle XPC’s but want more expansion capabilities. Aspire’s X-Qpack and Silverstone’s SG01/SG01-E have become quite popular enclosure options. While there is plenty of mATX enclosures available, finding an enthusiast level mATX motherboard to accompany it becomes a harder task. Typically mATX motherboards have limited BIOS adjustments for overclocking and tweaking when compared to your typical enthusiast ATX motherboard. DFI’s new RS482 Infinity hopes to prove otherwise."
Bla blah blahh
Nice board tho. -
HDA X-Plosion 7.1 DTS Connect Sound Card @ A True Review
Published: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 | By: DennisIts true, another review from A True Review.
"With DTS becoming nearly as common in home theatre receivers as Dolby Digital, it was only a matter of time before the DTS equivalent of Dolby Digital Live became available in a sound card. Well, that card is here. It is the HDA X-Plosion 7.1 DTS Connect – the world’s first Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect certified sound card – and the subject of this review."
I still like this card, twill prolly be getting one myself in the coming months.
