Tech News
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DFI LANParty UT RDX200 CD-DR Review @ The Tech Report
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisIt would seem that the "me-to" push behind the ATI crossfire also created a somewhat limited chipset. I think we all remember that even the might nForce was once the underdog in the Athlon64 arena.
"To help make up for the SB450's mediocre RAID support, DFI equips the RDX200 with an auxiliary Serial ATA RAID chip from Silicon Image. The Sil 3114 serves up an additional four Serial ATA ports and can handle RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 5 arrays, but you won't find support for 300MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates or NCQ here, either. You will find a pokey PCI interface, forcing the Sil 3114 to compete for bus bandwidth with the RDX200's Firewire chip and its PCI-based Gigabit Ethernet controller." -
Logitech Z-5450 Digital 5.1 Review @ The TechZone
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisI haven't been following the computer speaker market but based on this review Logitech has finally started moving their wireless quest to their speaker line.
"Leave it to Logitech to once again raise the bar for computer speaker systems. The Logitech Z-5450 provides high performance sound with the innovation of wireless rear surround satellite speakers. The introduction of dual wireless rear speakers finally solves the common headache of having to run those long unsightly wires that run to your rear surround speakers." -
Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Review @ The Tech Report
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisI like the color but the layout could use some serious work.
"The Fatal1ty AN8 SLI is mainly red, though black is used to differentiate the OTES cooler, floppy drive port, PCI-E slots, CPU cooler bracket, and one set of DIMM slots. The USB 2.0 headers and IDE ports are blue for no apparent reason, though it does give the board a bit of additional color contrast without overwhelming the eye." -
DFI Infinity NF4 Ultra Review @ Overclockers Online
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisWe recently reviewed this board and found it to be a very capable mainstream motherboard offering, actually the only bad thing was the PCB color.
"The DFI Infinity nF4 Ultra is a very solid motherboard. The build quality is great and the components that are used are top notch and seem to be almost the same as the LanParty Ultra-D. I have basically compared these two motherboards throughout the review and have come to the conclusion that the Infinity nF4 Ultra is almost the same model but without the options or accessory package. Call it the base model if you will with the LanParty Ultra-D being the GT or Type-R version that has slightly better performance and more buttons." -
Corsair Twinx2048 4000 DDR500 Memory Review Posted
Published: Sunday, December 4, 2005 | By: DennisSecret weapons come in all shapes in sizes; some consist of throwing stars to the head while others are simpler more effective alternatives. In the case of the Corsair TwinX2048-4000 we get two times the normal memory, enhanced bandwidth for overclocking and no messy cuts that cause you to bleed profusely. In short the best of both worlds.
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DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR Expert @ techPowerUp!
Published: Sunday, November 27, 2005 | By: DennisHere is a board that I wouldn't mind taking a look at..
"The DFI LanParty NF4 Series is legendary among overclockers. The boards are well known for their excellent performance and overclocking features.
When I first heard that DFI is coming up with a new "Expert" version of this board, I was wondering if they could really improve things so much that it warrants a new product. Yes they did!
Like the non-expert boards the DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR Expert is based on NVIDIA's nForce 4 chipset. At the moment DFI offers only the SLI-DR Expert, but there may be cheaper versions without SLI or the additional SATA chip." -
Championing 64-bit & Dual-Core
Published: Sunday, November 27, 2005 | By: DennisA good read.
"We recently met up with Henri Richard, the Executive Vice President, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of AMD, and spoke with him about several developments taking place in the microprocessor space, particularly the company’s roadmap and views of the competition." -
NL: Review Block 7800 Reviews
Published: Sunday, November 27, 2005 | By: DennisA quick check at Pricewatch and you'll find that 7800 GT is priced about 80bux (give or take) higher than the 6800 GT. Given the price difference it makes sense to go with the better card, or does it...
- NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS Mini Review @ NGOHQ
- XFX GeForce 7800 GTX 512 XXX Edition Review @ Bjorn3D
- NVIDIA 7800GTX 512MB Review @ CoolTechZone
- XFX GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB DDR3 XXX Edition
- EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX BlackPearl 512MB
As for what card is better?? 6800 GT would be my vote unless you like being on the edge. -
Western Digital Raptor WD740GD review @ Techwarelabs
Published: Sunday, November 27, 2005 | By: DennisHere is a review of what might be the coolest HDD around, the Western Digital Raptor. I have two of these babies (36GH editions) in my personal system as I write this and cannot be more pleased.
"Just like you, we've read all about this drive and it no doubt sounds good. So good in-fact, arguably it is the fastest desktop hard drive available on the market short of SCSI, and even then it apparently competes with some of the best SCSI drives out there as well. Well of course we had to eventually get our dirty paws on this drive and give it a round of benchmarks ourselves. So since almost all of you should know everything there is to know about this drive then we will simply give you some specifications and get straight to the benchmarks." -
MIPS RAM Freezer @ techPowerUp!
Published: Sunday, November 27, 2005 | By: DennisWe all know that system memory can get quite hot given proper voltage and frequency or can naturally be this way like the Crucial Ballistix line. In either case proper cooling can be the difference between stability and a long wait at the BSOD.
"The MIPS RAM Freezer fits on every motherboard with a distance of 25 mm between the two DIMM slots used. On single channel mainboards with only one module, it should always fit. But today most enthusiast users have dual channel. (Socket939, LGA775)"
If you haven't guessed by now these are waterblocks and special heat spreaders for DDR system memory. I had a similar design on the drawing board but never got around to making it a reality.
