Tech News
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Gainward CoolFX Powerpack! Ultra/2600 @ Hexus
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: DennisThis is the l33+ h4><0r of video cards, check it out.
" So since the introduction of NVIDIA's NV40 GPU over 2 months ago, Gainward have been busy building a water block for it, set to cool both GPU and memory modules, all 256MB of which lies on the same side of the PCB as the GPU. A few tweaks here, new clocks there, supporting hardware prepared and the water block primed and ready, Gainward's water-cooled GeForce 6800 Ultra is ready to rock."
The new coolers on display at Computex had a little window along the edge of the cooler that lights up when the system is on. The default color is red though I’m pretty sure this can be changed with a few minor mods.
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The Computex Taipei 2004 Round Up @ HardwareZoom
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: DennisI still need to post the last two Ninjalane days at Computex, I guess this would be a good reason to get crackin'.
The coverage here is actually pretty good and they went way overboard on the booth babes, it would almost seem like they snuck in a little early and setup a little photo studio. (You'll see what I mean). Excellent photos too, sucks my camera was being a little bitch.
"Computex Taipei 2004 has come to an end; thousands of booths were displaying their latest products during the show. This attracted 26,221 foreign buyers who are mostly from USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore. Combining with local visitors, there were 109,339 visitors in total, 18.67% increases over previous year. Here is the detail report on Computex."
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- HardwareZoom Part 2
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ATi Radeon 9600XT Review @ XYZ Computing
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: DennisHere is a review you don't normally see, an ATI 9600XT vs. an ATI 9600 Pro. We know the XT is supposed to be faster but by how much??
"The card runs stock at a 500mhz core speed. The top speed utilizing the OverDrive function is said to be 527mhz.
Also, all of the XT series card come complete with a coupon for a free copy of Half-Life 2."
Provided that HL2 comes out before Duke Nukem Forever it might be a pretty good deal.
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MSI NX6800 Ultra @ t-break
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: Dennis"The card itself is a monster- pretty much your standard FX6800 Ultra reference design with two power connectors on the back and two DVI connectors along with an S-Video connector on the front. You’ll definitely lose the PCI slot next to your AGP slot due to the mammoth cooling solution."
The 6800 Ultra is prolly the hottest card rumored to be on the market; unfortunately nobody can buy one yet.
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Promise FastTrack S150 SATA @ MadShrimps
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: DennisI've been looking all over for a RAID 5 SATA controller and it looks like I might have found one.
"As you can see, the SX4 (lower card) is much bigger as the TX4 (upper card). Notice the heatsink on the TX4 controller and the absence of any heatsink on the SX4. Also notice the SD-RAM slot on the SX4."
whoa!!
RAID 5 isn't really that fast when compared to a 2-drive stripe but having an extra drive in the loop ensures that your data is safe if one drive happens to fail. -
Mushkin Enhanced PC3200 @ PCStats
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: Dennis"In the following pages, PCstats will be testing out a pair of Mushkin's Enhanced Special PC3200 2-2-2 DIMM's. Each stick is 512MB in size, and when run in dual channel mode that equals a nice whopping 1024MB of system memory. As this Mushkin memory is capable of running with a CAS latency of 2-2-2-5 at 200 MHz (at 2.5V), it means that it will work super-well on both AthlonXP/Athlon64 and Intel Pentium 4 based systems."
I'm not sure if Intel fixed their RAS to CAS issue on the Springdale and Canterwood boards but last I checked anything faster than 3 would cause data corruption. However in the future this won’t be an issue since the new chipsets are moving to DDR2. -
Thermaltake Extreme Giant III @ myWorldHardware
Published: Thursday, June 17, 2004 | By: DennisThere is a few basic ways to decrease system noise. You can allow your systems to run a little hotter, install larger heatsinks that use slower spinning fans, or install an alterative cooling method i.e. water or heatpipes.
In the case of the Giant III heatpipes and a huge heatsink help to keep your GPU cool with minimal noise. myWorldHardware has one on display for all to see. -
Albatron PX875P Pro @ Viper Lair
Published: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 | By: Dennis"The i875P is passively cooled, and not actively cooled as one might expect given Albatron's marketing claim of the PX875P Pro being a 1200MHz capable board. I will say that the heatsink is huge, which makes me more comfortable when compared to boards that use the 1/4" high heatsinks."
By the looks of it the Northbridge heatsink isn't any larger or smaller than ones installed on stock Intel mobos but its good of them to notice.
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Corsair XMS 3200XL Pro @ hi-techreviews
Published: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 | By: Dennis"Are you the type of person that try's to get the very last bit of toothpaste out of the tube? The guy that tries to squeeze that last MHz out of that system you have worked so hard to build? Well if you are - then you're just the guy or gal we're looking for."
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Intel Nocona to bust out in June
Published: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 | By: Dennis"Whether Intel borrowed or not, a licensing agreement means the chip giant does not have to pay royalties to its competitor.
Still, the chips aren't identical. Opteron comes with an integrated memory controller and links to other components through so-called HyperTransport links. Together, these features can boost performance by 10 percent to 15 percent, according to AMD."
This is pretty much what AMD did when they launched the Opteron last year it's just a little something to wet the enthusiast appetite.
