Tech News
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Five south-bridge chips for Smithfield
Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 | By: Dennis"Intel plans to introduce five versions of its ICH7 south-bridge chip for its Smithfield dual-core platform, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
In addition to the ICH7 for standard PCs, there will be an ICH7 DH for entertainment PCs, an ICH7 DO for digital-office devices, an ICH7 DE for digital-enterprise applications and an ICH7 R for RAID storage applications, the sources noted." -
asetek HDD Coolers @ Bjorn3D
Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 | By: Dennis"today I am reviewing the Asetek HD Cooler. Yes, you read right. Asetek has released a cooling block for hard drives, allowing you to lower the temperature of your hot running drives."
The cooler the better I always say, your drives last longer that way.
Then again maybe that is why I have so many 40gig drives laying around. -
NL: Review Block - i915x Stuffs
Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 | By: DennisWe recently tested the LanPartyUT 915P from DFI and walked away with some really impressive overclocking scores. Were these editors able to so the same?
- Tyan Tomcat i915 S5120 @ Phoronix (This is a Tyan board so don't expect to much in the way of overclocking, however the system should be hella stable)
- Albatron's PX915P-AGPe @ The Tech Report (Leave it to the kings of "lets put the floppy connector in the worse place possible" to start including an AGPe slot on their 915P boards
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NL: Review Block - Video Ed.
Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 | By: DennisHigh-end video cards are still only available in AGP form but as time progresses this will slowly change over. AGP won't be going away any time soon but the availability of certain models may diminish.
With that being said here are a few not quite high-end AGP and PCIe reviews.
- Club3D GeForce6800 128Mb @ XtremeNews (Maybe a little too "low-end" for most of us, oh and not in English either)
- NVidia GeForce 6800 @ OC-Serwis (straight up review of the chip here)
- GALAXY GeForce 6600 @ Hexus (We spoke with Galaxy at Computex this past year and while they were really nice they made it very clear that they focus on the European market and could care less about the US.)
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Nvidia aims to lead the K8 chipset market with nForce 4 MCP
Published: Monday, October 25, 2004 | By: Dennis"With its recent introduction of the PCIe-enabled Nvidia nForce4 media and communication processors (MCP) for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) processors, Nvidia expects to extend its lead against other chipmakers for the world’s K8 chipset market, said Drew Henry, general manager of platform business at Nvidia, in Taipei recently.
The company is now shipping Nvidia nForce MCPs for all lines of the AMD processor family, and Nvidia currently holds about 45% of the K8 chipset market, Henry said." -
600-series CPUs to include EM64T
Published: Monday, October 25, 2004 | By: Dennis"Intel also affirmed that its Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (EE) 3.73GHz and 600-series desktop CPUs, which will also be launched in the first quarter of next year, will feature Intel’s Extended Memory 64 Technology, or Intel EM64T, the sources noted."
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DangerDen TDX @ InsaneTek
Published: Monday, October 25, 2004 | By: Dennis"It's no surprise that I would be more than impressed with DangerDen's latest CPU block. Everything about it is attractive, from its awesome looks to its amazing performance. What's more impressive is that the tops can be purchased for different setups. Even an alternative all brass top can be purchased for those people who would like extra protection against leaks."
I like the poly tops myself, though sadly even though you can see thru the poly once everything is installed all you see is hoses. -
NL: Review Block - Cases and Mems
Published: Monday, October 25, 2004 | By: DennisHere is the latest edition of review news without my incisive blabbing.
Mems
- Ballistix vs. HyperX @ CoolTechZone
- Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 @ PCStats
- OCZ Gold V3 / Platinum Rev2 @ Madshrimps
- Kingston Hyper-X DDR2 @ Buddhas LAN Room
- Mushkin PC2-4200 (DDR2) @ hi-techreviews
Cases
- Thermaltake Tsunami @ Envy News
- Cooler Master Centurion 5 Review @ Hwhell
- Cooler Master Stacker @ OCModShop
- RaidMax Virgo @ Overclocker Cafe
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A Long Weekend:
Published: Monday, October 25, 2004 | By: DennisSorry for the lack of news postings but its been a very long and busy weekend. Things started on Friday when the first box of parts showed for a new project that I've been working on. I can't give out any details yet but I can tell you that the project is related to watercooling and should take the industry by storm.
Friday night was filled with picking up after the framers. For those of you that don't know I'm in the process of building a house and to save a couple bux I get to go out and pick up the site after the crew is done. Its kind of a crappy job but a clean construction site not only saves me money but makes things look nice.
Saturday and Sunday were spent working on my house, We are doing the electrcial ourselves so all of the rooms need to have boxes and wires installed. Sadly getting things installed properly is a very time consuming process that took the entire weekend. From the outside there isn't much happening but the interior will be buzzing with peeps all week.
Then of course after 8 hours of labor the beer drinking started and all else was forgotton.
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SilverStone TJ04 Review @ OCModShop
Published: Thursday, October 21, 2004 | By: DennisWe should be getting one of these cases in the Ninjalane Labs here pretty soon.
"The front of the case is protected by a piece of plastic to prevent scratches or damage to it. Once the plastic is removed the black brushed aluminum is exposed and looks very professional. Thankfully the adhesive used to keep the plastic in place did not leave any stickiness on the bezel. The buttons and LED are laid out very nicely and are very aesthetically pleasing while the corners curve to assist in overall appearance."
Classic styling.
