Tech News
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Original 'Star Wars' films coming to DVD
Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | By: DennisI have the original Trilogy (pre-Lucas fiddling) on VHS and have toyed with the idea of ripping them to VCD or DVD. If anyone has any suggestions for video filters to help clean up the video feed drop me a line.
"Lucasfilm and Fox chose the September release date to maximize on holiday gift buying during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment president Mike Dunn said."
BTW: About TIME!!
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PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT Review @ TheTechLounge
Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | By: Dennis"While testing games and benchmarks, the screen resolution is always set at 1024 x 768 x 32. Each game is tested with and without Anti-Aliasing or Anisotropic Filtering unless otherwise noted. In all tests, performance is set to "Quality" to create the best image quality."
Kick back on the couch, grab a drink and listen to the soothing sounds of Industrial metal during this review. It helps to numb the brain down to a dull roar.
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Grantsdale 915 motherboards in 2Q
Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | By: Dennis"Taiwanese makers will begin volume shipments of new Pentium 4 motherboards built on Intel’s Grantsdale 915 chipsets in the second quarter, according to sources at Taiwan’s motherboard makers.
The new motherboards support not only the LGA775 processors like Socket T Prescott but also the Entertainment PC concept that the chip giant unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January."
CES was a little while ago but any Grantsdale news is good news, that is unless you just became a proud owner of a new Canterwood not to long ago. -
DFI aims to ship two million motherboards
Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | By: Dennis"Diamond Flower Electric Instrument Company (DFI), a second-tier motherboard maker in Taiwan, has set a goal of selling two million motherboards in 2004, a rise of 31.6% from 1.52 million last year."
Good times for our friends at DFI.
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Mad Dog Entertainer 7.1 Review @ The Tech Report
Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | By: Dennis"Who's the man now, dog?"
Woof, Meow.
Mad Dog stuff is pretty easy to find at the local ChumpUSA and is pretty much the cheap of the cheap when it comes to cost, for some that is more important.
I picked up a Mad Dog FX5200 the other day for a little side project. Surprisingly enough the card came with an active cooler for the GPU. A nice touch but the cooler wasn't anything special and overclocking was poor at best. -
CasEdge Diabolic Minotaur Review @ A True Review
Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | By: DennisAs far as pre-modded custom cases go the Diabolic case is pretty good.
"Something that will freak you out in the middle of the night, those red glowing eyes. That is a cool effect. A little bit of blue picked up from the cold cathode, along with the curvature of the eyes, makes them look almost real."
Uhh ya.
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Project Y2k-bug - Rebuilt
Published: Monday, February 9, 2004 | By: Dennis"I didn't plan to make any further updates in this worklog but it seems American Airlines almost succeeded with what most contractors failed with 4 years ago - to kill the Y2k-bug...
So this is how the bug looked like when it was taken out of it's sturdy flight case:"
I'm sure that some of you have seen this project; it is a Matrix'esq casemod in the shape of a bug complete with carbon fiber and watercooling. A must see for any hungry casemodder. -
Athlon 64 FX-51 Performance @ Bjorn3D
Published: Monday, February 9, 2004 | By: Dennis"It is something to note since this is a real-world test on my machine. I started the test in the state it what is in and did not reboot once during all the testing. Also this is an install of Windows XP that is 1 week old but does have all my utilities, ICQ, Norton Antivirus and so on loaded. Actually, on average, 48 processes are running during all this testing."
The only thing better than having CPU horsepower is having more than one. SMP Baby!! (or Hyper Threading as the current Pentium 4 case would be) -
Shuttle AN50R nForce3-150 Review @ The Crucible
Published: Monday, February 9, 2004 | By: Dennis"Shuttle, who is mostly know for building top quality small form factor PCs as of late has really turned things around with the AN50R socket 754 motherboard. With overclocking becoming much more mainstream and everyone looking for more and more options integrated into the boards, the AN50R come up big."
You know there was a time when all I could find was shuttle motherboards. Every computer store had at least one shuttle board on the bargain table and for every one I saw there I know of 3 others that were being used. Kind of scary when you think about it but the things would just never die. (Even when you stick the BIOS chip in backwards) -
NL: Review Block - Mothra Attacks
Published: Monday, February 9, 2004 | By: DennisHere are some quick and dirty reviews on various topics.
Mems
- Corsair TWINX1024-3200LLPRO Review @ Bjorn3D (Our Review here
Cooling
- Terratec Mystify H2O 2010 Review @ radikalmod
- Thermalright SLK-947U Review @ OCIA
- Swiftech MCX478-V Review @ ExtremeMhz
Cases
- Antec P160 Review @ WorldOC
- Antec Sonata Review @ The Tech Report
Some may wonder why there is a link at the bottom, but nobody ever asks.
