Tech News
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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
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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." -
Crucial Ballistix PC3200 Memory Review @ OcPrices
Published: Tuesday, November 9, 2004 | By: Dennis"Crucial has always had a great reputation for making bullet proof, high quality memory, but if the truth be told they have not really been a realistic enthusiast’s choice since the PC133 days, at least until now."
Many long time Ninjalane readers will remember my stance on Crucial, and just to think I used to pimp them pretty good back in the early days. -
EPoX EP-8RDA6+ PRO Review @ PyroPort
Published: Tuesday, November 9, 2004 | By: DennisIn the see of Athlon64 reviews we are quick to forget about the tried and true AthlonXP. (Though many of us would rather forget about cracked cores and fried BIOS's
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"If you want to milk your Athlon XP for all it's worth before taking the plunge into Athlon64 then I would recommend it."
This is pretty much your standard nForce2 board with a ton of onboard extras. -
3Rsystem Poseidon series roundup @ Kande.be
Published: Monday, November 8, 2004 | By: DennisHaving trouble with what Poseidon watercooling kit to buy?? Then you should check out this review at Kande.be.
"The packing of the four watercooling-kits look virtually the same. The only difference is the product number that has been marked. We recieved the WCL02 and a WCL03 kit. Each of these two watercooling kits are also divided in a 90cm radiator and 120cm radiator variant." -
Danger Den Maze4 GPU cooler at MadShrimps
Published: Monday, November 8, 2004 | By: DennisWanna know the best way to screw up your copper waterblocks??
"So my next option was to try the Danger Den GPU water block, unfortunately oxidation took its toll, and through my handling (taking photo's etc.) I'd placed a few striations in the base plate as well. Removing the oxidation alone would require lapping, as this was prior to my having Arctic Silver's ArctiClean which would have saved valuable time.
Being a perfectionist, I immediately broke out an EasyPCKits Premium Lapping Kit and got to work. "
I'm not saying that lapping is all that bad, in most cases the cooling device can benefit from the process. However with how thin the bases are on modern waterblocks you can easily sand completely thru.
