Tech News
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Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 nForce4 Ultra Review @ PCStats
Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 | By: Dennis"Of course there's more to the nForce4 Ultra than just PCI Express. One of the most exciting new features is the integration of four Serial ATA II channels. With compatible hard drives, SATA II can burst transfer up to 300MB/s, twice that of standard SATA drives. Sustained transfer rates will be substantially lower than that, but I'm willing to wager they will still be comfortably higher than today's fastest SATA hard drives can muster."
You may also notice that most nForce4 boards have a "I am afraid of change" layout situation going on with the 16x PCIe slot. Instead of it being close to the processor its down more in the middle of the board. I suspect this has something to do with saving money since an SLI version is likely to use the same basic PCB. -
4 Days Without News
Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 | By: DennisSorry for the lack of news postings over the past 4'ish days things have been crazy around here, so crazy in fact that I haven't had much time to do anything productive with Ninjalane. I would love to say that this will change in short order but to be honest I'm really not sure when things will turn around for the better.
On a happy(er) note I've updated the web gallery related to my house construction with some new photos. The project is coming along quite nicely and the house looks great. Unfortunately is also behind schedule and over budget so despite having the best looking house in the subdivision I might not be able to move in. -
12 oClock Hour Past
Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 | By: DennisWell the 12 oClock hour has come and gone and for all of you that pre-ordered HL2 you can buckle down and start fragging. Now the sad part of the whole deal is that being that it’s midnight on a Monday/Tuesday most of use have to either go to work or school in the morning. Not that this would bother most hardcore gamers it does make the launch day about as useful as a door greeter at Best Buy to the average joe.
To all of you out there with HL2, good luck and let the frag be with you. For those without HL2, thanks for visiting, and sorry for the lack of news posting. I take the blame though to my credit I’ve been hella busy lately. -
The AnandTech Linux XBOX PC Experiment
Published: Thursday, November 11, 2004 | By: Dennis"A few weeks ago, we started investigating the possibility of putting Linux on an XBOX. We played with some ideas in our heads, a render farm, a cheap office computer or a distributed crypto platform, just to start. The idea required a little bit of elbow grease, a mod chip, Linux and a bunch of free time. "
This isn't the first time we've seen an Xbox cluster. Though to my knowledge is the first time one has been published on a major hardware site, with some direct modchip pimpin. -
Crucial Ballistix PC4000 @ Xtreme Resources
Published: Thursday, November 11, 2004 | By: Dennis"The RAM module market is growing larger and more complex with each passing minute. Some years ago there was almost no difference between the RAM modules from different manufactures. Today however, the market is filled with many different RAM modules designed for different purposes."
I should really include some Crucial bashing here but my soapbox seems to have worn out or something.
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Corsair DDR2 running 802MHz @ Legit Reviews
Published: Thursday, November 11, 2004 | By: DennisGO Corsair!!
"Results: As you can tell the benchmarks still come in below some of the low latency DDR1 test systems even with our memory running 802MHz, our processor at 3.9GHz and our FSB at 1200MHz! I'll let you think about that for a bit and come to your own conclusions!" -
NL: Review Block - Uber Muskin
Published: Thursday, November 11, 2004 | By: DennisMuskin is one of those small mountain companies that just loves to send stuff to the east coast and Canada. I can only speculate that this is an attempt to help make the company look bigger than it really is, (I mean just look at their website) but who really knows.
However I'd love to prove my theory wrong but like Crucial they seem to not trust the l33t hardware ninjas here in the Lab.
- Mushkin PC3200 L2V2 @ Viper Lair
- Mushkin L2V2 Dual Pack @ Steamed Turtle
For more memory company bashing click the link below. -
RaidMax Samurai Case @ Overclocker Cafe
Published: Thursday, November 11, 2004 | By: DennisI've been trying to get RaidMax to send us one of these cases for the past two years though they seem to keep forgetting to drop one in the mail. I guess its time to kick my email client into annoyance mode.
"On first taking the Samurai out of the box, the quality of the paint job is almost breathtaking. Raidmax bills the painting as "show car" quality which is a perfect description. Throughout the review, you will notice that in many of the pics, the mirror quality of the paint job actually made taking pictures difficult. " -
nVidia Kicks off SLI certification program @ The Tech Report
Published: Thursday, November 11, 2004 | By: Dennis"Although NVIDIA has said SLI will work transparently with a wide variety of 3D games and other applications, NVIDIA wants the app-level certification to ensure that developers are using all the right tricks and techniques to best take advantage of SLI's additional graphics power. I'd expect lots of cross-pollination here with NVIDIA's "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" program. The system-level certification is aimed at OEMs, and will include participants like Alienware, Falcon Northwest, Polywell, and VoodooPC, among others."
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Abit AV8 Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Tuesday, November 9, 2004 | By: DennisOur first 939 enabled motherboard review should be going live a little later this week so stay tuned.
"Today, we have another socket 939 motherboard to look at; this time the offering is from Abit. We have looked at many Abit products in the past, and have always been satisfied with the quality and the performance we have seen from them."
