Tech News
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Demonic XTC Waterblock (P4) Review Posted
Published: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 | By: DennisDemonic Water Cooling has been busy finishing parts for the XTC waterblock and was nice enough to send over the updated components for review. These include an upgraded mounting kit, anodized hose barbs and Pentium 4 poly top.
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Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 Serial ATA @ The Tech Report
Published: Monday, March 15, 2004 | By: Dennis"Unlike my old 60GXPs, the 7K250 is available with a Serial ATA interface. The drive also comes with standard Serial ATA and four-pin Molex power connectors, though Hitachi cautions against using both power connectors at the same time; doing so will apparently result in drive failure."
I use one of these drives for all of the motherboard reviews and its blazingly fast. The sad part, the first drive I bought was DOA.
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NL: Review Block - Spring Fever Ed.
Published: Monday, March 15, 2004 | By: DennisSifting and sorting, taxing and waxing. Not normally what you do when looking for hardware reviews, but it sure takes the edge off.
- Kingston HyperX PC4000 @ Tweaknews
- Corsair TwinX1024-4000PRO @ LAN Addict
- Thermaltake XaserV Damier @ A True Review - (Thermaltake of course never sent us a case, bastards)
- MSI GeForce FX 5950 Ultra-VTD @ Hexus - (and now we rock, according to Hexus
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phj34r the di554p0in+m3n7.
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DangerDen RBX Athlon64 Review @ TheCrucible
Published: Monday, March 15, 2004 | By: DennisWe have the Pentium 4 version of this block reviewed here.
"The DangerDen RBX bests the Venus12 by four degrees. While this may not seem like much, it is a great improvement. The fans used on our radiator are barely above a whisper. This shows the effective heat transfer capabilities of the RBX. "
Our heatsink and waterblock testing doesn't really follow conventional methods but does provide a real world look into what the average Joe would expect to see had they installed the heatsink or waterblock into their system. The numbers used may not be "accurate" to the degree but are accurate in relation to whatever else is being tested. -
High-Speed CDROMs - The Hidden Dangers
Published: Monday, March 15, 2004 | By: DennisI've never actually had a cdrom disk explode on me before, but they do make some pretty lights if you "nuke" them for a few seconds.
(Perform at your own risk)
"So can your CDROM cause your CD to explode? You bet! But first, we have to understand how this is possible. CD Drives are getting faster by the day so the possibility of this actually happening to you is quite high. For example, a 52x CDROM can have a spindle rotational speed in excess of 10,500RPM's. " -
Spring Fever: Yet too much work
Published: Monday, March 15, 2004 | By: DennisSpring is right over the horizon and it shows. Good reviews and hardware news is becoming harder to find, Hardware mfgs are busy working on their new product lines, and hardly anybody viewed the Chaintech Apogee AA5700U review. Its almost like everyone is taking a nap waiting for something interesting to happen.
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Unused space on hard drives recovered?
Published: Thursday, March 11, 2004 | By: DennisAllHardwareZone dives into the theory based on some information contained in this Inquirer article. The article goes on to talk about how you can recover empty unused space from your HDD, and also claims that they won't be trying it out for themselves.
"I would also doubt that it would have any tangable affects on any other hard drives, since it appears that Ghost merely creates another partition overlapping the original partition on the drive. The best way to go about recovering lost space, should there be any, would be a firmware hack."
Hax are fun!
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Intel offers 2.4GHz Prescott processor to motherboard makers
Published: Thursday, March 11, 2004 | By: DennisAside from the bigger cache I don't see much use in having a Prescott 2.4"A". Then again the proc might have some huge headroom for overclocking.
"Intel has informed Taiwan’s motherboard makers that it will add a 2.4GHz model to its desktop-use 90nm Prescott lineup at the end of March, according to sources at local board makers. The availability of the 2.4GHz processor was first reported by several websites in the fourth week of February.
The 2.4GHz Prescott was not included in Intel’s original roadmap and comes after the chip giant launched its 2.8GHz Prescott in early February. The new processor runs on a 533MHz front-side bus (FSB)." -
ABIT KV8-MAX3 Review @ Extreme Overclocking
Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 | By: Dennis"The last complaint we have about the layout of the board is the AGP slot with respect to the DIMM slots. They are to close together to be able to remove memory without also removing the video card. Our 9700 was just shy of the first DIMM slot but a longer card such as the NVIDIA 5900 will cover a few of the DIMMs. This is a common mistake to many motherboards but can be easily avoided."
Memory and video card conflicts have been a common problem with motherboards for quite some time now. Though I think the KV8 board layout could have used a little more work. -
NL: Review Block - Video Cards. again...
Published: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 | By: DennisVideo cards are what enable you to see stuff on screen but they do so much more than that..
- Soltek SL-5900-FD @ EnvyNews This isn't a card you see reviewed very often but see pictures of all the time.
- PowerColor 9800XT @ MadShrips
- HIS Excalibur 9600XT Turbo @ HardwareHell
- HIS Excalibur 9600 XT Turbo @ ViperLair
Blah de blah ba.
