Tech News
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Go Vote Already !!
Published: Tuesday, November 2, 2004 | By: DennisFor those of us in the United States in case you didn't know today is Election Day. Many people died to ensure that we have the ability to choose who will run our country. So put aside the fact that the candidate with the most money or "friends" usually has the upper hand, and put aside that our individual votes only control the vote of the Electoral College, and go vote already!
This message brought to you by the Ninjalane foundation for lack of news posting motivation.
*Edit:* The polls have closed, for those that voted, pat yourself on the back! Good Job. -
ABIT AV8 (K8T800 Pro socket 939) Review @ 3DXtreme
Published: Monday, November 1, 2004 | By: Dennis"The ABIT AV8 performed very well, battling with the Soltek K8T800 Pro board for much of this review. The stock performance of the K8T800 Pro chipset seems to be consistent across the motherboards we used thus showing no clear winner."
This goes to show how evenly matched all A64 systems are due to their integrated memory controller. It also shows a need for more diverse testing methods for modern day motherboards. -
Mushkin PC2-4200 DDR-2 Review @ PCStats
Published: Monday, November 1, 2004 | By: Dennis"Changing the memory timings back to 4-4-4-12, we started onward with the overclocking tests. Mushkins PC2-4200 easily passed the old 216 MHz mark the Socket 775 motherboard used to limit us to, and climbed to 223 MHz. At that speed a voltage increase to 2V was necessary. Continuing to 228 MHz, we again ran into memory related issues, and again a slightly higher voltage was the fix."
This is a typical issue with DDR2 though as the speed of DDR2 increases this will become less and less of a problem. We here at Ninjalane tend to migrate towards Corsair Memory for our performance memory needs. -
NL: Review Block - Jealous Intel Stuffs
Published: Monday, November 1, 2004 | By: DennisIt would seem that today is release day for the Intel 1066Mhz FSB Pentium 4 EE @ 3.46Ghz
- Intel 925XE chipset and 3.46GHz EE @ Beyond3D
- Intel 925XE chipset and 3.46GHz EE @ Hexus
- Intel 925XE chipset and 3.46GHz EE @ Legit Reviews
- Intel 925XE chipset and 3.46GHz EE @ ViperLair
- Intel 925XE chipset and 3.46GHz EE @ The Tech Report
- Intel 925XE chipset and 3.46GHz EE @ Tweaknews
Of course there is no Intel love here at Ninjalane but I'm hopful for the future.
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Thx for the Votes
Published: Monday, November 1, 2004 | By: DennisI would like to thank the 4 people that voted for me in the Abit Media Fragfest. The event went off without a hitch but I got eliminated in the first round.
(had a very hard timing finding anyone (3 on 3 so as you can guess 2 people would frag each other while the 3rd is running around going where the hell is everyone.)
Anyhow the Abit peeps claim that this could become a regular thing so there could be a rematch in the near future. -
Raidmax Samurai @ Big Bruin
Published: Friday, October 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"Raidmax bills the paint finish on the case as “Show Car Quality”... All I can say is that if this was a custom car in a car show it would win on the quality of the paint alone. It is simply stunning."
Fortunately this is the real world and not a custom car show.
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Abit AA8 Duramax 925X Review @ TweakNews
Published: Friday, October 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"What Matrix RAID allows you to do is install a RAID 1 (Mirror) array and a RAID 0 (stripe) array on two hard drives. Some people might ask "Why do I want to do that?" Well, for one, you will have the best of both worlds."
DFI had similar technology included with early LanParty motherboards, made possible by an advanced Silicon Image controller. -
DFI LANParty 925X-T2 and UT 915P-T12 @ The TechReport
Published: Friday, October 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"Since it just wouldn't be showing off without the latest hardware, DFI has updated its LANParty family over time. The latest additions to the line are the LANParty 925X-T2 and UT 915P-T12. Based on Intel's 900-series chipsets and LGA775 socket, these new LANPartys take aesthetics and extras to a whole new level."
The boards are great, you can see our review of the 915P for comparison purposes, though I will admit they took a better UV photo.
If you like things running at 4Ghz, check out this thread in the Ninjalane Message Forum. There you can see our very own LanPartyUT 915P using an Intel 530 cranked up to 268Mhz FSB.
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MSI launches nForce 4-based K8N
Published: Friday, October 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"Micro-Star International (MSI) has launched two Nvidia nForce4-based motherboards, the K8N Diamond and K8N Neo 4 Platinum, for the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 processor platform, according to a company press release.
The K8N Diamond features the Nvidia nForce4 SLI MCP (media and communication processor), and the graphics interface can be set to a single PCI Express x16 or dual PCI Express x8. According to MSI, the K8N Diamond can accelerate 3D performance by over 180% when using two SLI-ready graphics cards." -
XBox Owner Sues Microsoft
Published: Friday, October 29, 2004 | By: DennisThey have no idea how many people this affects, I suppose they could look at the RMA record but that doesn't include the people like me that just went out and bought another Xbox to replace the broken one.
""Reuters is reporting that Sean Burke has filed suit against Microsoft because his XBox system stopped reading discs (games or otherwise) after less than one year of use."
