Tech News
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Soltek EQ3901-300P SFF @ ViperLair
Published: Friday, January 7, 2005 | By: DennisI still think these things look like an old radio.
"Soltek have been building SFFs for quite some time and had good success with their QBic line of barebone PCs. Recently they've redesigned their line and included a new series dubbed the Mania. Sporting the latest chipsets, if you're grown tired of the same old "cube" SFFs we're used to seeing, the new Soltek EQ3901-300P may be to your liking." -
MatrixRAID Examined @ OCAU
Published: Friday, January 7, 2005 | By: Dennis"HOW DOES MATRIX RAID WORK AND WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
With the ICH6-R (the R denotes RAID capability) it is now possible to run RAID 0 and RAID 1 with only two physical hard disks. It’s up to the individual user how to take advantage of these arrays."
RAID is good for a number of reasons, Increased data storage, Increased data protection (from hardware failure, not integrity), and Increased speed. The only drawback is that you can only pick 2. -
ABIT AA8 DuraMAX i925X Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Friday, January 7, 2005 | By: Dennis"While considered old school, ABIT remains as one of the top motherboard manufacturers and is still a household name for enthusiast oriented motherboards. Their recent endorsement of Fatal1ty, the world's top gamer is a testament that ABIT intends to stay in the race. "
So far we have only reviewed one Abit board here at Ninjalane and while I wished that wasn't the case the lack of support from Abit really squashed our ongoing support of their stuffs.
This may change in the coming future so stay tuned.
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Evercool Mini Watercooler WC-301 @ PC Review
Published: Friday, January 7, 2005 | By: DennisHere is another all-in-one watercooling unit from Evercool.
"The unit fitted neatly into place and was secured with the supplied fixing bolts through the four case holes that formerly held the 80mm fan. It has a variety of fixing holes to allow for most case configurations.
There are two fan settings, selected with a front-mounted switch, and the Evercool logo on the front of the main unit glows a different colour for each fan setting and a third colour coupled with an audible warning should the water level fall too low. "
Evercool has quite a history here at Ninjalane. The very first project published here used Evercool fans and was actually quite a success.
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Napoleon Dynamite DVD Review @ Ascully
Published: Friday, January 7, 2005 | By: DennisI normally wouldn't post anything like this but being that I have seen the film and found it to be one of the funniest movies of all time I just had to give it some net time.
"I can imagine people describing this movie by using words and phrases like "quirky, interesting, different, underdog story, tale about outcasts, indie film, etc." They'd be right. They would also be overstating the obvious. Of course this movie is different. It would be obnoxious to say it's innovative and fresh, but it's tempting."
Of course many of you may not understand why the movie is funny unless you grew up in the 80's and actually lived in a "small" town.
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Epox 9NPA+ nForce4 Review @ t-break
Published: Friday, January 7, 2005 | By: Dennis"With their AMD CPU based boards, Epox hasn’t normally target the mainstream user. Instead, they focus on the enthusiasts by generally providing better options for overclocking. With that philosophy in mind, they’re releasing their nForce4 based 9NPA+ motherboard and we test drive it today and find out how fast this baby goes."
I really like how the MCP cooler is positioned above the video card making for easy cooler changes in the future. -
CES Starts Today
Published: Thursday, January 6, 2005 | By: Dennisit's kind of strange how I can afford to fly overseas to Taiwan and attend Computex but can't ever seem to get things together enough to attend CES in Las Vegas (about 750 miles away from here).
I do have a good excuses though.
see below. -
NL: Review Block - Weekend Catch-up (again)
Published: Tuesday, January 4, 2005 | By: DennisI was pretty busy getting things for the Intervew setup which limited the amount of time left for news updates. To make up for it here comes a big ass review block.
Mods
- X800 Pro VIVO to XT PE Bios Mod @ techPowerUp
Cooling
- asetek WaterChill KT03A-L30 CPU Power Kit @ OCTools
- Swiftech H20-120 Rev.3 Liquid Cooling Kit @ mcktech
- Thermaltake Liquid Cooling Component @ techniz
Cases
- Lian Li PC-V1200B Tower Case @ BRnR
- MGE Quantum Case Review @ InsaneTek
- Raidmax Samurai 908 @ OCIA (See Ours Here)
- SilverStone LC03V Case Review @ OCModShop
- Cooler Master Centurion ATX Case @ Legit Reviews
Case Stuffs
- Matrix Orbital MX421 LCD Kit @ Bjorn3D
- mCubed T-Balancer Fan Controller @ BigBruin
- Sunbeam Lightbus @ LAN Addict
Storage
- Corsair Flash Voyager @ ExtremeOverclocking
For more review antics click the link below. -
Ninjalane Radio Changed to On-Demand
Published: Tuesday, January 4, 2005 | By: DennisSince many of you have no patience to wait and hear the Interview at the scheduled time I'll be changing the stream to on-demand (meaning you can stream the Interview directly) here in the next hour. Please check back for the update.
*Update* On-Demand stream set and appears to be working properly. -
Ninjalane Radio 1st Installment
Published: Monday, January 3, 2005 | By: DennisThe 1st installment of Ninjalane Radio has been posted! In this installment we feature an interview between myself and Vivian Lien from DFI where we discuss the new LANParty motherboards using the nForce4 Ultra and nForce4 SLI chipsets.
Ninjalane Radio is an Internet radio stream broadcast via SHOUTcast so you will need to break out that copy of Winamp to listen.
Questions and comments can be directed to the Ninjalane Message Forum. Thanks and happy listening.
