Tech News
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ADPmods Fireworks LED Fan @ TheCrucible
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"The clip really doesn't do justice to the fan's display. The center LEDs really give off a brilliant show. Placing one of these fans on your heat sink, or in the intake hole of your case's door would add some cool lighting effects to the interior of the case."
This fan reminds me of a fan that that we reviewed not to long ago.
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ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB @ Designtechnica
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"Unless you’re just hearing about the ATI Radeon 9800XT for the first time now, you probably know that this video card is the current reigning champion of graphics processors. However, this is about to change."
It is important to know the winners from the losers. However I'm still waiting to see what the R420 brings.
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Chaintech GeForce FX5500 Review @ ipKonfig
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: DennisWe don't normally feature budget items like this but it isn't every day you see the featured product come in dead last on every performance chart.
"Chaintech's latest FX5500 video card tries to give the consumer a few more of those added features. You won't find bundled software, like games, or a tweaked-out graphics card. Instead, you'll get its Summit line graphics card without bundled extras. You will, however, find 256MB of DDR memory, something not commonly found on such cards." -
Athlon XP 2600+ mobile overclocking @ Iamnotageek
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"Of course I could have gone higher with better cooling, but with how much more heat is produced by increasing the voltages I want to stick with a very cool running chip. Also my whole point behind this article is showing it with "free cooling" since this was a heatsink I never would have used had it not been for this nice and cool running chip."
2.4Ghz, not a bad overclock though our very own Sycorax has done one better. He took a Mobile XP2500+ and overclocked it to 2.7Ghz using water and a little bit of extra voltage. Check out his rig in the Ninjalane Message Forum. -
PMI 3200 LL Memory Review @ Tweak News
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"One thing that caught my attention is the weight of the package. The extra heft came from PMI's use of nickel plated copper heatspreaders usually seen on memory rated much faster than DDR400. Although most people will consider this a little overkill on memory rated at base speed, it will allow a better overclock and keep all modules very cool providing you have sufficient case air flow."
ummm... I will agree heatspreaders do help with high speed stability but I have yet to be convenced that the heat spreader alone will increase your margin of overclock. -
Yeong Yang 5603 Mars Case Review @ PimpRig
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: DennisNice looking case, though something seems to be missing.
"YY wanted us to know the packaging was strictly a “sample only”, box and not the final packaging. I’m sure they’ll come up with some kind of graphic to attract customers and beautify dumpsters. Personally, I think double boxing looks very attractive. Of course I’ve been emotionally scarred at the sight of a mirror finish black WaveMaster with its side panel viscously dented in and may not be the best judge of that."
Its what is inside that counts.
Seriously though we all hate it when things get broken along the way but if you are all hung up on how many ply's the cardboard is you have too much time on your hands. -
No Joy for 98 and ME
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"Intel said it won't have any drivers for future Grantsdale/Alderwood chipsets. I think it's about time to use its commercial names, 925P and 915P for discrete and 915G for the one with integrated graphics."
Those buggers! It would appear that the reasons behind this surprise move are based on Microsoft support, or the lack thereof. Intel figures that since Microsoft has disbanded DOS based OS's they can do the same.
I'm going to venture a guess saying that Linux will also be unsupported since Microsoft has disbanded that OS as well. -
Minor Web Poll Update
Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 | By: DennisSince nobody could decide if they needed/wanted a new NV40 based video card I decided to add a few options to the current web poll.
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Albatron GeForce FX5700P Turbo Review @ 3DXtreme
Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 | By: Dennis"A closer look at the video card itself shows a pretty normal design on a blue PCB. Albatron has provided a nice looking cooler for this GPU and ram sinks to keep things cool. As mentioned in the introduction, this video card is designed around a 6 layer PCB which helps to decrease noise and increase the stability of operation."
Two pages of video card review goodness, how much you wanna bet that the majority of readers only read 3 lines. -
Radeon X800 Pro/XT Pre - Review
Published: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 | By: DennisThe forum thread is in German but I think everyone can read the numbers on the charts. I have no idea if this stuff is real but I have a feeling that someone will come forth with the truth fairly soon.
If what is being shown is true, the NV40 might be dead before its even on the shelves.
If you have comments feel free to send them in.
