Tech News
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XFX 6600GT Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Monday, February 21, 2005 | By: DennisXFX is one of those companies that caters to a particular group of computer users but makes their products accessible to everyone.
"Well, we’ve already summed up why this card should be a very solid choice for the gamer on a budget, regardless of whether you are using a PCI-E system or an AGP based system. But can XFX’s entry into the 6600GT market live up to the hype? Read on to find out."
I think I mentioned this before but we've been trying to get a couple of these cards here in the Ninjalane Labs for testing but one of the problems with small(er) companies is that their marketing people are extremely busy and tend to ignore people from time to time. -
Intel 64 Release Day
Published: Monday, February 21, 2005 | By: DennisHere is a clip from Hot Hardware.
"As noted earlier, there are also a few new features that these Prescott 2M cores bring to market for the P4, namely Intel EM64T 64-bit extensions, EIST or Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (6XX sequence CPUs only at the moment), and the Execute Disable Bit, all of which we'll dig into next."
In case you don't remember the disable bit can be hacked to allow you some extra headroom while overclocking
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Chaintech GeForce SA6600G Review @ Overclocker Cafe
Published: Thursday, February 17, 2005 | By: DennisWe don't do to many video card reviews here at Ninjalane but over the years we have come to recognize our favorites. Chaintech just happens to be one of them.
"Today, we have our first look at an AGP version of the GeForce 6600 GT here at the OCC. Thanks to the good folks at Chaintech, let’s take a few minutes to cover this newest midrange VGA burner and see what you get and how it performs." -
Nvidia Forceware Tweak Guide @ TweakGuides
Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 | By: DennisI haven't tried any of these tweaks but they could be worth checking out if you are trying to increase performance or just get a good install.
"Even though the Forceware drivers are quite good, there is plenty of room to customize and tweak them to better suit your needs. Along comes this Nvidia Forceware Tweak Guide which covers the optimization of the Forceware drivers from start to finish." -
DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb Review @ InsaneTek
Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 | By: DennisThat A W is pretty crazy when it comes to overclocking and he loves to pump tons of voltage into his memory modules. Kind of makes you wonder if he does the same stuff with his own equipment.
"The pictures taken are of the 10/15 beta BIOS by Oskar Wu. There isn't much difference between the original BIOS and the beta BIOS, other than the included Memtest option. The beta BIOS provides much better overclocking potential than the official. The official BIOS seems to have a bug that prevents serious overclocking. There are beta BIOSes available that allow VDIMM to go up to 4.0v, but I chose the BIOS most similar to the official." -
Cooler Master Wave Master @ OCIA
Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 | By: DennisCoolermaster has always made some pretty snazzy cases including this one from the Wavemaster series. We saw this case at Computex last year and can attest to how well it is made.
"Cooler Master has gone one step further here and added a fan bracket for an optional top blowhole. So how can you put a blowhole in a case with no opening at the top? Simple, the I/O panel on the top of the case can be removed. This will allow for the fan bracket to be installed. It even has mesh pad for filtering. I never use the extra USB ports or the other stuff, so I opted for the blowhole."
However I didn't see any with the blowhole installed. -
Corsair XMS Xpert memory modules Review @ The Tech Report
Published: Monday, February 14, 2005 | By: DennisGeil had something like this a few years back and while I could have sworn that they lit up I would seem that I was mistaken. But they seemed so cool at the time.
"I FIRST LEARNED THE power of glowing LEDs on memory modules back when I wrote a couple of smart-ass articles about a really horrid pair of DIMMs that I bought from some shady online vendor a number of years ago. The basic gist of the article was that these were really lousy, cheap, unstable memory modules. I showed folks pictures of a single, green, glowing LED on each DIMM, and joked that they were "suckage detectors." "When the DIMM sucks, the LED light comes on," I said. "It's always on."
It didn't matter. I got buried under an avalanche of e-mail from people asking where they could buy the glowy DIMMs. So the things didn't actually work right--big deal. People like the blinkenlights." -
Lian-Li PC 6070 Plus Review @ AMDReview
Published: Monday, February 14, 2005 | By: DennisI used to mod cases great vengeance and furious anger and then something happened....
"One of the biggest complaints about the original version of the PC-6070 was that it occasionally overheated. As such, one of the main things that I was wondering was if they fixed the overheating problem with this plus version of the case. I ran tests with the extra coolers (PCI blower and intake fan directed at CPU) and without."
Lian-Li and has been one of the pioneers in custom alu case design and got quite famous for it, can't say I would actually buy one but you never know what the future may hold. -
News to be Posted Shortly
Published: Monday, February 14, 2005 | By: DennisSorry for the delay in getting news posted, its been a busy week up in here.
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Longtime restaurateurs sell Buster's in Boise
Published: Thursday, February 10, 2005 | By: DennisThis isn't anything related to hardware but I have history tied up with that place.
"Co-owners Lou Pejovich and George Wade have sold their Broadway Avenue restaurant, but the establishment's new owners say they have no intention of making major changes to the popular Boise sports bar whose customer base is largely male."
Think of it as the Hooters of Boise.
