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• Demonic XTC Waterblock Review Posted

  Published: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Watercooling is going to be a hot topic this year and Demonic Water Cooling is making an excellent introduction with the Demonic XTC (Extreme Turbulence Cooling) waterblock.

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• AMD Processor Roadmap Explained @ Anandtech

  Published: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | By: Dennis

  I think this will reaffirm what I mentioned in the x-bit labs news post below.
  "What's also worth mentioning is that the 3700+ will be the last 1MB L2 cache Athlon 64 to hit the market, every other Athlon 64 will feature a 512KB L2 cache. The smaller cache size brings us to the difference between the two Athlon 64 3400+ processors listed in the chart above; the current 2.2GHz 3400+, as you know, features a 1MB L2 cache. In the next quarter, AMD will bump the clock speed of the 3400+ to 2.4GHz and cut the cache in half in order to maintain the performance rating."

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• AMD Socket 939 in Late March

  Published: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | By: Dennis

  At least according to x-bit labs.
  "The new platform, as revealed earlier, will feature Socket 939 for appropriate processors with dual-channel memory controller and up to 1000MHz HyperTransport bus. Currently partners of AMD are evaluating samples of 939-pin CPUs in order to get ready to start mainboard production in mid-February 2004 and initiate shipping actual products in mid-March 2004."
  I have also heard that all of the new 754pin processors will no longer have 1 meg of L2 cache. Instead they will feature a smaller and cheaper 512k L2 cache which will begin to put a little distance between the a64 and aFX processors both in price and performance.

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• Nvidia NV 40 tapes out

  Published: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | By: Dennis

  The Inquirer has confirmed that NV40 has been taped out and is in the process of becoming a real GPU.
  "It takes around 120 days from tape out to final shipping products so it seems that we might see cards based on NV40 shipping in April or May."
  Good times for nVidia, they seem to be getting back into the 6-month product cycle once again.

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• CES 2004 Coverage

  Published: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Sadly Ninjalane wasn’t on the ball to attend CES this year but other sites went and here is their story.
  
  - TechBits CES Coverage
  - NextGen Electronics CES Coverage Day 4
  
  I think many sites that went didn't bother to do any write-ups.

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• Small percentage of spam complies with new law

  Published: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "The new law hasn't had an effect on the amount of spam being sent, either. "There's been no reduction in the volume of spam," said Scott Chasin, MX Logic's chief technology officer. "In fact, the exact opposite -- our spam rates are actually going up.""
  The email that Ninjalane sends out is not intended to be spam and is always sent from a valid email address. The list I have compiled is not opt in but is based on personally harvested addresses published on the respective websites.
  
  To help protect our inboxes the spam filtering software has been enabled on the email server. The filter works on a point scale and if your message scores 6 points or more it will be bounced back to the sender claiming that it is spam. Strange thing is some of the hardware news that is sent is actually caught by this filter and sadly I still get spam.
  
  If your message does get bounced, be sure that the message was sent to the proper address and try reworking the message to remove the "spamish" content.
  
  Thank you for your support.

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• Mirror Finish, Laser Cut Fan Grills @ Big Bruin

  Published: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "My first impression of these grills was that they were well made and nicely finished, not cheap, bendable things with chrome flaking off."
  The laser cut grills are pretty dang sweet though 90% of them restrict airflow and actually make your system noisier. I have first hand experience with this being one of the early adopters of the laser cut style. Check it out!

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• Thanks for Stopping By

  Published: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Hello Everyone,
  
  I'd like to thank the couple of sites that recently listed our Epox EP-8RDA+ Motherboard Review in their news recently, This is a nice gesture but rather unexpected since the review was posted back in March 2003.
  
  Thanks for stopping by, come back again later this week I might have a surprise fer ya.

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• Swiftech H20-8501 Review @ Envy News

  Published: Monday, January 12, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "As it is with many computer users, the thought of using water (of all things) inside your computer case, with your precious electronics components possibly in harms way, has keep me away from such a pairing."
  Even though watercooling isn't really needed for everyday cooling there is just something really cool about the entire process. Be sure to check out the crazy dual radiator setup in the test system, this guy has hoses everywhere.

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• NL: Review Block - Cable Internet Down Ed.

  Published: Monday, January 12, 2004 | By: Dennis

  On the good side, even though I had no Internet over the weekend, (thanks CableOne) the new movie Paycheck was pretty dang cool.
  
  Cooling and Mods
  - Thermaltake X-Blower Review @ Creative Mods
  - Thermaltake Hardcano 12 Review @ Overclocker Cafe
  - Xoxide Aluminum LED Fan @ A True Review
  - Cooler Master Aerogate II
  
  Memory
  - Kingston PC3200 HyperX 2x256MB Review @ OC-Ware
  
  Cases
  - Lian-Li PC6010 Case Review @ RipNet-UK
  - Diabolic Minotaur Case Review @ OCIA
  - Cooler Master Centurion Case Review @ Tweakerzone
  
  More news than ever...

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