Tech News
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Chaintech ZNF3-150 ZENITH Review @ OCC
Published: Thursday, March 4, 2004 | By: Dennis"Speaking of odd, did you happen to notice where the north bridge chipset was in the first place? Right next to the PCI slots, this is where you would usually find the south bridge chipset. You can forget using a Zalman or Swiftech north bridge coolers on this motherboard if you make use of PCI slots 1-3, and you can bet that water cooling the north bridge would also be out of the question."
Strange, we came to the same conclusion 4 months ago.
The ZNF3-150 is still an excellent motherboard though at this point I might suggest that you wait for the 250 version, it should be out sometime in the next couple of months. -
Albatron FX5700 Ultra Review @ TechwareLabs
Published: Thursday, March 4, 2004 | By: Dennis"The market for this card is the upper-midrange. With a US$200 price tag, most gamers are willing to shell out the money to upgrade, making the card the mainstream for gamers, though excessive for average email-and-browsing users. The 5700 is an evolution of the 5600 card and is in competition with ATI's 9600 series cards, specifically the 9600XT."
True, true.
The FX5600 was a nice GPU but lacked in any real performance over anything else. The FX5700 picks up where the FX5600 "dropped the ball" and has since ran very hard with it. -
Soyo K8USA Dragon Ultra Review @ The Crucible
Published: Thursday, March 4, 2004 | By: Dennis" Soyo is not a brand that I think of when I am looking for a high performance motherboad. While on paper they always look good, I have been disappointed by them in the past. Soyo is the only company that currently produces a motherboad based on the ALi M1687 north bridge. ALi again is not a company generally spoke of in the same breath with performance, unless there is a 'lack of' in the same sentence."
I could agree with everything that is said in the previous statement. Soyo had a very short-lived moment of fame with the DRAGON series back a few years ago. Since then the products have fallen off the map. Soyo still tries though, most of the new products feature fancy names and come with either black and silver PCBs.
Then again I can say that since nobody at Soyo ever returns my emails. -
eeep!
Published: Wednesday, March 3, 2004 | By: DennisSerious for true, I didn't forget about you all. Let me see about scrounging up some news.
Though on a happy note I did secure some air travel tickets yesterday for a little thing that happens in June.
I'm also working on a little something that will be posted at the end of March. Check back for it, its gonna be supa cool!. -
NL: Review Block - Freaky Review Edition
Published: Monday, March 1, 2004 | By: DennisQuick and dirty, just how y'all like it.
Speaks Not normally news worthy but I folded
- Altec Lansing MX5021 @ NextGen Elec.
- Logitech Z-2200 @ FastLaneHW
Vids
- BFG Tech Asylum FX5950 Ultra @ accelenation
- HIS Excalibur 9600XT @ Envy News
- HIS Excalibur 9600XT @ Overclocker Cafe
Misc
- Kingston HyperX @ AllHardwareZone
- Raptor-2. The return of Raptor @ Digit Life
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Happy Leap Year Day
Published: Sunday, February 29, 2004 | By: DennisIt’s not every day you find a 29th in February or even 5 Sundays in a month but its fun to let others know when it does happen.
Enjoy your extra day of being the same age. -
120mm AcoustiFan Review @ Big Bruin
Published: Saturday, February 28, 2004 | By: DennisYa ya I know, why the heck would you review a fan, well.... I dunno, though when the fan is extra quiet, thermally controlled, and clear you begin to wonder.
Rumor has it there is a 92mm version of this fan in the Ninjalane Labs, we'll let you know how it works out. -
Shuttle SN85G4 XPC Review @ Overclockers Club
Published: Saturday, February 28, 2004 | By: DennisAthlon64 in a SFF bare bones package, not a bad way to satisfy your 64-bit urge.
"Shuttle decked out the SN85G4 in all black. Sporting a black front bezel with a beveled mirror plate insert. The side panel is made of black brushed aluminum with circular holes along the bottom on both sides to help intake cool air for the system."
Doesn't that sound a lot like a Soltek Qbic SFF box? ya thought so too. -
AMD to launch 939-pin Newcastle processor in 2Q
Published: Saturday, February 28, 2004 | By: Dennis"Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) should launch its new 939-pin Athlon 64 processors in the second quarter of this year as expected, said sources at Taiwan’s motherboard makers.
The new Athlon 64 processor, codenamed Newcastle, supports dual channel DDR memory and will boast 512KB of L2 cache. The new processor will be available at speeds ranging from 1.8GHz to 2.4Ghz."
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Fish Aquarium + Watercooling Reservoir + Waterfall Mod @ AllHardwareZone
Published: Saturday, February 28, 2004 | By: DennisThe building of a watercooling reservoir is not a difficult task to accomplish though it is advised to refrain from including live animals as part of your project, its just not right.
"These are the fish which were supposed to be in the final product. Sadly, when I returned back to school from break they were all dead. I even left one of those vacation feeders with them, but I guess it didn't work out (to clarify, they were not in my computer when they died...they were in another container as I realized beforehand that my creation would not be a fish friendly living environment)."
