Tech News

• Mad Dog Entertainer 7.1 Review @ The Tech Report

  Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Who's the man now, dog?"
  Woof, Meow.
  
  Mad Dog stuff is pretty easy to find at the local ChumpUSA and is pretty much the cheap of the cheap when it comes to cost, for some that is more important.
  
  I picked up a Mad Dog FX5200 the other day for a little side project. Surprisingly enough the card came with an active cooler for the GPU. A nice touch but the cooler wasn't anything special and overclocking was poor at best.

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• CasEdge Diabolic Minotaur Review @ A True Review

  Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | By: Dennis

  As far as pre-modded custom cases go the Diabolic case is pretty good.
  "Something that will freak you out in the middle of the night, those red glowing eyes. That is a cool effect. A little bit of blue picked up from the cold cathode, along with the curvature of the eyes, makes them look almost real."
  Uhh ya.

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• Project Y2k-bug - Rebuilt

  Published: Monday, February 9, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "I didn't plan to make any further updates in this worklog but it seems American Airlines almost succeeded with what most contractors failed with 4 years ago - to kill the Y2k-bug...
  
  So this is how the bug looked like when it was taken out of it's sturdy flight case:"
  I'm sure that some of you have seen this project; it is a Matrix'esq casemod in the shape of a bug complete with carbon fiber and watercooling. A must see for any hungry casemodder.

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• Athlon 64 FX-51 Performance @ Bjorn3D

  Published: Monday, February 9, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "It is something to note since this is a real-world test on my machine. I started the test in the state it what is in and did not reboot once during all the testing. Also this is an install of Windows XP that is 1 week old but does have all my utilities, ICQ, Norton Antivirus and so on loaded. Actually, on average, 48 processes are running during all this testing."
  The only thing better than having CPU horsepower is having more than one. SMP Baby!! (or Hyper Threading as the current Pentium 4 case would be)

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• Shuttle AN50R nForce3-150 Review @ The Crucible

  Published: Monday, February 9, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Shuttle, who is mostly know for building top quality small form factor PCs as of late has really turned things around with the AN50R socket 754 motherboard. With overclocking becoming much more mainstream and everyone looking for more and more options integrated into the boards, the AN50R come up big."
  You know there was a time when all I could find was shuttle motherboards. Every computer store had at least one shuttle board on the bargain table and for every one I saw there I know of 3 others that were being used. Kind of scary when you think about it but the things would just never die. (Even when you stick the BIOS chip in backwards)

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• NL: Review Block - Mothra Attacks

  Published: Monday, February 9, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Here are some quick and dirty reviews on various topics.
  
  Mems
  - Corsair TWINX1024-3200LLPRO Review @ Bjorn3D (Our Review here
  
  Cooling
  - Terratec Mystify H2O 2010 Review @ radikalmod
  - Thermalright SLK-947U Review @ OCIA
  - Swiftech MCX478-V Review @ ExtremeMhz
  
  Cases
  - Antec P160 Review @ WorldOC
  - Antec Sonata Review @ The Tech Report
  
  Some may wonder why there is a link at the bottom, but nobody ever asks.

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• DDR-II Speculation Article @ Tech-PC

  Published: Monday, February 9, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "The DDR-II is coming! Not really as menacing as 'The English are coming!' but sure to strike confusion into the minds and panic into the wallets of computing enthusiasts everywhere."
  This is a good read and I suggest that everyone at least give it a once over.

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• New asetek WaterChill Waterblock

  Published: Saturday, February 7, 2004 | By: Dennis

  asetek has just released an upgraded high performance waterblock for the WaterChill system called the Antarctica. According to the pictures the block looks to be a micro channel waterblock with 3 barbs. (That sounds a little familiar, hummm)
  
  Photos of the new block can been seen on the asetek website, check them out! (IE required)

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• Intel vs. AMD the Next Battle

  Published: Friday, February 6, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Not exactly the title but x-bit labs has begun to talk about the future of the Intel Pentium 4 and the Athlon64 processors.
  "The next big competition between arch-rivals Intel and AMD is likely to happen this April, when Intel Pentium 4 3.60GHz and AMD Athlon 64 2.40GHz microprocessors are released. In addition to new chips, both firms will offer new platforms with new sockets for CPUs as well as PCI Express bus for next-generation add-in cards."
  And don't forget about 4Ghz being reached before the end of the year, or last year if you’re into the VapoChill sort of thing.

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• DangerDen Maze4 Athlon64 Review @ ipKonfig

  Published: Friday, February 6, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "If you'll notice, DangerDen has been keeping its Maze4 series water blocks in the cooling marathon for quite some time and rightfully so. The Maze4 water block line has greatly shown its performance time and time again, and it's no wonder they're selling like hot cakes (cool-cakes if you prefer) on the market."
  The DangerDen Maxe 4, Simple and effective cooling.

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