Tech News
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XFX Revo64 Serial ATA RAID card @ Tech Report
Published: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 | By: DennisNot sure what it is about RAID controllers but I sure want to collect them all.
"The market may be brimming with multi-drive goodness, but that doesn't mean that there isn't room for something new. You see, most affordable RAID solutions, be they add-in cards or motherboard implementations, are software-based solutions and lack dedicated onboard memory. Most stick to supporting a mix of RAID levels 0, 1, 10/0+1, and 5, as well. We haven't seen much in the way of RAID 3 or hardware acceleration, and that's where XFX's new Revo64 comes in."
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Case Window How-to Guide @ Pro-Clockers
Published: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 | By: DennisHere is a quick guide for installing a window kit. Tool choices aside they did a pretty good job on this guide. I may be a little biased but I feel that the Ninjalane method for installing windows is 100% better.
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Albatron and XFX debut new SLI-ready GeForce 6800 GS Cards
Published: Tuesday, November 8, 2005 | By: Dennis"Albatron’s new PC6800GS VGA card supports a core clock speed of 425 MHz and contains 12 pipelines. The card features a memory configuration using 256MB of DDR3 memory with a 256-bit memory bus. Albatron says that the card is now available for sale worldwide but declined to give a price range.
XFX introduced its XFX GeForce 6800 GS eXTreme and XXX series today. The eXTreme line has a core clock speed of 450MHz, whereas the high-end XXX series runs at 485MHz, according to the company." -
Mobo makers review launch of AMD Socket-M2 processors
Published: Tuesday, November 8, 2005 | By: Dennis"Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to launch a series of 940-pin Socket M2 CPUs – a dual-core processor codenamed Windsor and the single-core Orleans and Manila processors – in the second quarter of 2006, according to unspecified motherboard makers that have reviewed the chip vendor’s latest roadmap. As a result, AMD’s Socket-939 processors are expected to be phased out one year after the release of the Socket-M2 CPUs, indicated the makers."
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NL: Review Block - Cooling
Published: Tuesday, November 8, 2005 | By: DennisCooling solutions come and go however sadly many of the solutions out there are really not that good (IMO). (cept for the ones posted below)
- Dynatron A41 V-Shaped Skived Athlon64 Heatsink Review @ FrostyTech
- Dynatron A22 V-Shaped Skived Athlon64 Heatsink Review @ FrostyTech
- Dynatron A22 AMD Socket heatsink @ Pro-Clockers
- Cooljag SFO-D(18SC) Skived Copper Opteron Heatsink @ FrostyTech
- Waterchill Xtreme KT12A-12VX @ XtremeResources Umm, ya extreme!
The asetek review is very extreme but only cause it comes with 6x 120mm fans and a triple fan radiator.
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256MB PCIe 6600GT finally reappears
Published: Sunday, November 6, 2005 | By: Dennis"It didn't take long for nVidia to realise that two 256MB 6600GTs in SLI could give the 6800 Ultra a run for its money in Doom 3. And two 256MB 6600GTs cost about 30% less at the time. The solution was simple: kill the 256MB version and only sell a 128MB version. That way the cards were hobbled and couldn't interfere with sales of the top end Ultra."
Now the question is, who is making them, and when will they be available. -
Athlon64 Cores and Id Guides
Published: Saturday, October 29, 2005 | By: DennisNew interactive AMD Athlon 64 product ID guide version 2.0
The interactive product ID guide for the easy identification of all AMD Athlon 64 processors
was completely revised and is now online in the new version 2.0
Athlon 64 Cores @ Hardware Secrets
A quick guide to all Athlon 64 cores released to date: ClawHammer, NewCastle, Winchester, Venice and San Diego. -
Abit NI8 SLI @ InsaneTek
Published: Saturday, October 29, 2005 | By: DennisHere is an SLI ready board for the Intel platform, I can't wait to get my hands on one of these.
Though prolly not from Abit.
"The NI8 comes in Abit's signature orange PCB. It is not one of the enthusiast favorites, but it is still better than the traditional green or sand color. At least that's what I think. The DIMM slots are located in the usual position at the right side of the motherboard. The slots are color coded lime green and orange to distinguish dual channel capability."
Since Soltek has folded Ninjalane will need to up and find another favorite, Suggestions.... Send them in. -
Quake 4 Performance Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Saturday, October 29, 2005 | By: DennisHardwareZone always puts a unique spin on things, here is what they had to say after playing Quake4 on 2x 7800GTX's in SLI mode.
"Just as we iterated, SLI does heaps to improve high-resolution gaming and if you combine it with a CPU boost, you'll get even more for your mileage. However, the single most bang-for-the-buck method to crank up performance in Quake 4 is undoubtedly doubling your graphics rendering power and SLI delivers just that."
Might have to get me some of that.
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F.E.A.R and Quake 4, more performance with DualCore? @ Hardwareoverclock.at
Published: Saturday, October 29, 2005 | By: DennisHere is one of them reviews for those with or looking at Dual core procs in their systems.
"Gerade die in den letzten Wochen erschienenen Games wie F.E.A.R und Quake 4 haben uns Anlass dazu gegeben, den Nutzen unseres Dual Core Prozessors zu überprüfen. Auch wenn dieser Prozessor nicht für Games entwickelt wurde, könnte man Dank der Dual Core Technologie auch in Games seinen Nutzen daraus ziehen. Seit der Release des X2 sind einige Monate vergangen und auch die Softwareoptimierung für den Dual Core Prozessor nehmen langsam zu. Da stellt man sich natürlich die Frage, profitieren die aktuellen Games wie F.E.A.R oder Quake 4 von dieser Technologie?"
Sadly the review is not in English.
