Tech News
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Microcool NorthPole Chipset Cooler Review Posted
Published: Thursday, May 6, 2004 | By: DennisGood aftermarket Northbridge coolers are fairly hard to come by especially if you are using the Intel i865PE or i875P chipset. The NorthPole cooler from Microcool solves this problem provided that you can stand a little noise.
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Alpha S-PAL8952 Review @ Hard-h20
Published: Tuesday, May 4, 2004 | By: DennisAn Alpha review at a watercooling site, what is the world coming too.
"In this close photograph we can clearly see the markings that identify the heatsink. The fins density is quite remarkable. They are perfectly squared."
Alphas are designed to have the fan pull air thru the heatsink unlike what you find on many mainstream cooling solutions. This is just something to keep in mind if you check out this review. -
NL: Review Block - X800 Day
Published: Tuesday, May 4, 2004 | By: DennisIt's ATI day here in the friendly Internet, enjoy the linkage.
- Radeon X800 Review @ TechReport
- Radeon X800 Review @ Bjorn3D
- Radeon X800 Review @ Beyond3D
- Radeon X800 XT Review @ Hexus
- Radeon X800 XT Review @ Ascully
- Radeon X800 XT Review @ HardOCP
Old School
- Abit Radeon 9800XT @ Envy News
- PowerColor Radeon 9600XT Ultra @ PCStats
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Twinplex GF 4 Ver. 1.2 GPU Cooler @ 3DChip
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: DennisThis article is in German but the pictures are pretty.
"To test the coolingpower we put the watercooler onto our Leadtek Winfast A350TDH card with the Geforce FX 5900 core and compared it with the Zalman ZM80C-HP and the reference-cooling of Leadtek. The Twinplex keped the GPU very cool and so we managed to get an increase of gigantic 160 MHz"
I'm still surprised that nobody has done anything to watercool the video memory, that strikes me as being fairly important. -
Gigabyte K8NSNXP Review @ T-Break
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: DennisI don't normally post Gigabyte reviews but I figured it was time to change things up again. Check out the slot for the additional power supply, I'm still not convinced that having 6 phases is really all that necessary.
"Today, we take a look at the second board based on this chipset- the Gigabyte K8NSNXP. If you remember correctly, Gigabyte’s nForce2 based 7NNXP was one of the most feature-rich board based on that chipset. That trend continues with the K8NSNXP."
btw, this is a nForce3-250 board supporting 754pin Athlon 64 processors. -
A - No Holds Barred - Interview with MSI
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: Dennis"HWZ : A lot of our readers don’t know how complex it is to design and manufacture a motherboard. Could you briefly describe in detail the process of how a motherboard is designed and manufactured?"
Ya I don't know how to do that either.
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Temporal anti-aliasing on R3x0 @ Elite Bastards
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: DennisThose bastards, they dug up some dirt and exposed it to the world only to find out....
"One thing that is interesting to note here is that looking across these samples, they do not seem to be the optimal patterns you would expect (and certainly not the same as you would see with any of ATi's standard AA modes enabled). This would tend to suggest that moving edges would look worse with Temporal AA then using the normal AA method, " -
Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: Dennis"But some are wondering: What happens when everyone discovers the power of aggregators? Will the Web be able to handle it? In Internet boom-speak, will it scale?
Already, aggregators have swamped some sites, slowing Web servers and eating up expensive bandwidth, according to bloggers and other Web publishers. The end may be near, unless something changes soon, said Gary Lawrence Murphy, whose Linux blog, TeledyN, has been overloaded."
This is one of the primary reasons there is no Ninjalane RSS feed. This may change in the future though will depend on how original our news content becomes.
A call to news posters?, anyone.. anyone. -
Mainboards with 1000MHz HyperTransport
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: Dennis"The first batch of ABIT’s mainboards for future AMD Athlon 64 processors with 1000MHz HyperTransport bus have reached several stores in Tokyo, Japan. The mainboards, however, can work with today’s 64-bit processors too, as they are equipped with Socket 754 that is used with today’s chips."
Only problem is there are no 754 pin processors with 1000Mhz FSB, yet. -
NVIDIA NV40 Preview @ Gamers Depot
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: DennisThe 6800 Ultra is a pretty amazing card though talk of this new GPU has been overtly hush hush since the announcement. Might some of the other hardware sites know something that we don't? Or is the lack of retail samples squashing nVidia enthusiasm?? I'm sure we all will find out in the days to follow.
" NVIDIA needed something to not only reestablish its position as a performance leader, but wanted to make sure that the nails in that coffin would not come un-done with ATI’s soon-to-be-released R420. It appears as if their design team worked tons of overtime to crank out the GeForce 6800 Ultra (code-named NV40)"
