Tech News
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Corsair XMS2 - 5400 Review @ OC-Zone
Published: Thursday, September 30, 2004 | By: Dennis"Esta é a fabrica em Fremont - California onde são montadas e testadas as memórias da CORSAIR. Mas como a CORSAIR sempre foi uma marca inovadora veio mais uma vez surpreender o mercado com as suas novas XMS2, o 2 quer dizer que são as novas DDR2 preparadas para as novas plataformas de Pentium4, não contentes com a norma para DDR2 de 533Mhz a CORSAIR enviou-nos um KIT Dual Channel que apresenta velocidades de 675Mhz!"
Yep what he said.
On a serious note, the XMS2 Pro memory from Corsair is pretty sweet and has more LEDs than normal people.
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Alphacool NexXxos XP Review @ GruntvillE
Published: Thursday, September 30, 2004 | By: Dennis"The only drawback to the block is that the barbs that were supplied would not screw all the way into the block, leaving some thread showing. This is a concern only because it makes it imperative that you use Teflon tape, or other sealant, to make sure that the block does not leak. It took me 3 tries to get everything right."
There are plenty of instances where threads will be showing out the top of your high end waterblocks, that’s live time to deal and can be overcome. However when it takes you 3 tries to get a proper seal that is pretty pathetic.
You can decide which party to blame.
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3D Realms buys physics for Duke Nukem Forever
Published: Monday, September 27, 2004 | By: DennisCould this mean they are actually planning to finish the game??
" Meqon is glad to announce that 3DRealms have decided to buy our Meqon Game Dynamics SDK for their upcoming title Duke Nukem Forever.
Meqon’s product strategy has always been to create the most easy to use and flexible physics engine on the market, but without compromising the computational speed. George Broussard, CEO of 3DRealms comments – “We evaluated several physics SDK's and Meqon was really fast, had the cleanest interface and integrated into our game very quickly.”"
Too bad they won't be using the Quake II engine.
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NL: Review Block - b33z phj34r
Published: Monday, September 27, 2004 | By: DennisHere is a fun quote to start of this review block (or block-O if you will)
"Although discussion of Intel hardware lately tends to degenerate into Prescott-bashing, the company's new 900 series chipsets really are the bee's knees."
Mobos
- MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum @ ViperLair
- MSI K8T Neo2-FIR @ ViperLair
- Abit AG8 @ The Tech Report
Cases
- SilverStone Temjin TJ06 @ InsaneTek
- SilverStone Temjin SST-TJ03-B @ Barrys
- Cooler Master TAC-T01EK @ Hexus
- Silverstone SST-ST05 @ Ascully
Check back for more of the l33t beez neez here at... -
Nvidia is making .NET driver
Published: Monday, September 27, 2004 | By: Dennis"We learned that ATI had its concerns that Nvidia might be faster in its .NET development since it wanted to be the first one to bring those new features. It will be in the hall of fame too for new features, but is also likely to be criticised over driver speed."
Video drivers being controlled by managed code, I'm not sure if this is the right way to go but it will tend to level the playing field in terms of driver performance.
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NL: Review Block - Logitech Luv
Published: Monday, September 27, 2004 | By: DennisFor me Logitech mice are a love and hate relationship. I've always liked Logitech mice; they have worked well over the years, and were very comfortable. That is until (and this is just a guess here) their design team was moved to TW or some other Asian country. How do I know this?? Well all of their mice have become too small and uncomfortable for people with large hands.
Ninjalane readers will know that I‘ve ranted about Logitech mice before and will continue to do so for long as people with small hands continue to pump out designs for Logitech.
Now I do understand that there are alternatives to Logitech but in my eyes the grass is still brown on the other side, it’s almost like the designs come from the same region of the world, go figure.
- Logitech MX1000 @ Hardware12v
- Logitech MX510 Performance @ The Crucible
- Logitech MX510 Review @ Core Limits
- Logitech MX1000 Laser @ Hardware Pacers
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Xbox Trojan on Star Wars DVD
Published: Monday, September 27, 2004 | By: Dennis"The 'StarWars Trilogy DVD' (video/movie DVD) has an 'Extra Special Features Disc'. If you try to launch this on your Xbox it will automaticly update your dashboard ... NO confirmation will be asked. The bonus disc has extra features including a documentary on the star wars saga, footage from the making of all three films and a preview demo of the new 'StarWars Battlefront' Xbox game (that's why there's a default.xbe, dashupdate.xbe and update.xbe on the disc)."
Xbox-Scene.com
So it would seem doubly bad to go spend your money on the Star Wars DVD box set. Not only do you get a phatty Xbox Trojan but a set of movies that are different from any of the others previously released.
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VIA K8T890 Chipset Preview @ Hot Hardware
Published: Friday, September 24, 2004 | By: Dennis"As most of you are probably aware, NVIDIA and Alienware have the gaming community buzzing at the prospect of running dual PCI Express graphics cards in a single system for increased performance. Although VIA hasn't made any announcements claiming "SLI-type" support in their S3 DeltaChrome 3D GPUs, they're going to offer support for dual PCI Express video cards with the K8T890 Pro version of the chipset..."
PCIe for the A64 is pretty big news and even though the "SLI" implementation isn't ideal there isn't much use to having it yet anyway.
Besides the VIA law of chipset dynamics states that the more chipsets you design with increasing features approaching infinity will translate into the increased appearance of an attempt to cover cooked books and give you an unlimited supply of annoyed customers and perturbed board mfgs.
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Doom 3 launch pushes demand for AGP8X graphics chips
Published: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 | By: Dennis"The recent launch of Doom 3 has helped increase demand for high-end AGP8X graphics cards in the channel and this has pushed ATI Technologies and Nvidia to ramp up production of AGP8X models, according to sources in the channel."
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AMD to Ship Lots of K8 CPUs... Later
Published: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 | By: Dennis"Current shipments of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 processors to OEM clients and the channel are better than anticipated, and the company expects to ship 600,000 units in the third quarter, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers."
