Tech News
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Watercooling your 6800GT @ ModdersHQ
Published: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 | By: DennisWatercooling, the nVidia 6800, and you. For those that don't know where to start be sure to check out this little project article on the subject.
"Here we have the collection of parts needed to get the job done. The MCW-50 waterblock is not a direct fit onto the 6800 chipset, so the NV4045 adapter kit will be is needed. The square piece of metal just fits over the waterblock and attaches using screws provided with the kit. The holes in the plate lined up perfectly with the threaded holes on the block."
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CoolRiver Deluxe Watercooling Kit @ OCTools
Published: Monday, November 29, 2004 | By: DennisI think watercooling is going to be pretty big in the near future though as we've seen some of the companies out there are struggling with getting lots of big stuff to fit into a smaller package and thusly negating one of the primary reasons to watercool in the first place.
Noise...
"As watercooling is fast becoming mainstream, more and more companies are thinking of having a piece of the once small market. With the arrival of faster and hotter processor, the demand for this form of active cooling is getting bigger." -
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum @ t-break
Published: Monday, November 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"We like the layout on the K8N Neo4- MSI does well to place everything where is should be. The first thing we noticed were the size of MOSFETS used on this board. The picture below shows you how big they are and if MSI has used them to provide good stability and better overclocking, then they surely work great. The CPU socket is also mostly free of capacitors allowing you to install a reasonably sized heatsink."
Just so you know what you are looking at here, the MOSFETs are the same size as the ones found on the DFI LanParty boards (very small) they use less power and are of higher quality. The coils used are also similar to the ones used on the new LGA775 boards. Could this be the start of a new power supply trend??
who knows
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Soltek Qbic EQ3801 Review @ Hardware Zone
Published: Monday, November 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"Up till now, there were no high performance SFF systems based on Athlon 64 for Socket-754. Even though AMD is pushing the new Socket-939, Socket-754 is still very much alive. The platform is more matured plus socket 754 Athlon 64s can now be found at reasonable prices. Shuttle is undeniably at the forefront of SFF, but while they have an nForce3 Ultra (socket 939) based SFF, their Socket-754 offering is based on the early and crippled nForce3 150."
Being a Soltek kind of guy I've been watching the Qbic development for quite some time, (actually just since they debuted at Comdex back in 2002.)
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I'm Back!!
Published: Monday, November 29, 2004 | By: DennisHello everyone, I trust that you all had a happy turkey day (or at least took some time to relax if you don't celebrate our American tradition)
I've been sorting through the news and should be getting some posted here pretty soon. -
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Published: Thursday, November 25, 2004 | By: DennisFor those of you in the US, I'd like to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!! aka Turkey Day!
. Be sure to eat lots, drink responsibly, and don't try to get your uncle arrested, (unless he really deserves it)
News postings should resume on Monday (if not sooner) -
Assembling water cooler @ OC-Service
Published: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 | By: DennisThis is a pretty good and somewhat basic guide around the hows and whats involved in watercooling your PC, do check it out of you're interested.
"Standard water cooling set consists of : block, cooler, pump and possibly a reservoir, but let’s put everything in the right order. Some theory first. The usual assemblies cooled with water are processors ( CPU, GPU ), chipsets, HDD and feeders. Each one of the cooling assembly has got a special construction that allows absorbing heat from the cooled surface it is stuck to. This kind of construction is called a water block." -
Info: Epox introduces nForce4-motherboard @ HardwareXL
Published: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 | By: Dennis"Epox has released information about its new motherboard with nForce4 chipset. The EP-9NPA= Ultra is fitted with nVidia's nForce4 chipset and has one PCI Express x16-slot, making SLI impossible and has three PCI Express x1 slots and three PCI slots."
Green PCBs used to be the stable in motherboard design (well, there is also gold but gold sux) though in recent years many companies have been migrating to other colors like black and red. Could it be that Green will make a comeback as one of the "special" colors of 2005?? -
nVidia nForce4 Ultra chipset Stuffs @ The Tech Report
Published: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 | By: Dennis"The nForce4 packs a number of innovative new features, including the aforementioned PCI Express capability, a firewall-fortified Gigabit Ethernet controller with hardware acceleration, and a robust implementation of the latest Serial ATA spec, including Native Command Queuing for SCSI-like disk I/O performance under heavy loads."
I think the nForce4 will be the bomb even if many of the included features are never used during the its lifetime.
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Valve Deletes Steam Accounts
Published: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 | By: Dennis"Yesterday, Valve disabled approximately 20,000 Steam accounts which had been used to try to access Half-Life 2 without purchasing it. The method used was extremely easy for Valve to trace and confirm, and so there is no question that the accounts disabled were used to try and illegally obtain Half-Life 2. "
It would also seem that this was a blanket deletion so if you ever used a bad key to access steam (even if you bought the game afterwards) your account will be killed.
