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NL: Review Block - Plus Rant
Published: Monday, December 1, 2003 | By: DennisReview blocks, the spice of life. Feel free to send your site news to us, if the item passes the first cut you might just find it here or, better yet, a review post with comments. See the Contact section for the approved news address.
In light of recent events I find it necessary to publish a few rules about how I post news. (as if I needed to tell anyone)
- 1) If your news didn't get posted; 99.999999 times out of 100 it falls into one of the following categories.
-- a) you never sent it
-- b) it didn't make the cut
-- c) your email was caught by our spam filter and returned
-- d) you sent it to the wrong address.
Though if you have a question please feel free to ask.
- 2) Comments are always welcome though complaining about comments that I write in relation to your news is a sure fire way of getting the current and future news postings deleted. (I'm not gonna name names, you all know who you are.)
- 3) Everyone sees this whole "I own a hardware site" thing a little different, so different in fact it has started to become rather funny to watch. Regardless of how you think things should be don't expect everyone to have the same views.
Apology:
At this time I would like to apologize to the loyal Ninjalane readers that had to see this, I am very sorry to have to rant like this in the daily news section but sometimes this is the only way to reach the people that actually need to read it.
Now for the review block.
- Antec Overture Case Review @ Ascully
- SilverStone SST-LC01 Case Review @ Short-Media
- Cooler Master Aero 4 @ Viper Lair
- Thermaltake Volcano 11+ Xaser Review @ 3dXtreme
- SuperFlower SF-561T2 Review @ Madshrimps
- Lian Li PC-6077 Review @ Overclockers AU
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SIS Flexible Dual Channel @ accelenation
Published: Monday, December 1, 2003 | By: Dennis"To market the flexible dual channel feature, SIS has created a little comic featuring their very own “Dr. Gadget” talking to someone who bought a competing Dual Channel board. The comic, though a bit childish and written in Engrish, proves a point. Most end users who walk into stores such as PC Club or Fry’s can be easily misinformed or uninformed on Dual Channel."
Matched DIMMs are seriously the way to go with any dual channel system since by default the memory controller will choose the lowest SPD setting when it encounters mis-matched sets. For more info see our Corsair TwinX Review, the benchmarks reflect what happens when mis-matched pairs of memory are installed. -
ATI Video Card Reviews
Published: Friday, November 28, 2003 | By: Dennis- Sapphire AIW Radeon 9800 Pro Review @ Digit-Life
"Frankly speaking I was surprised seeing such a small box, especially compared to the package of the All-In-Wonder RADEON 9700 PRO."
This review is all pictures, light content, and no benchmarks. They also seem to have confidence issues as well.
- ATI Radeon 9600 XT @ Viper Lair
"400$ framerate monsters too much for you? The Radeon 9600 XT takes dead aim at the mainstream market, in other words, what the general Joe out there can afford." -
Browser Review @ IceTeks
Published: Friday, November 28, 2003 | By: DennisI really like the "Capture stuff from your clipboard" exploit that was such a problem back in the early days. It was quite amazing to see the stuff that people had copied to memory.
"Notice how IE messes up on the borders of one of the articles. One thing you must realize is that this is dynamic code. It's a php script that uses the same code for each entry, the same way as a forum works. So it's obviously not a fault in the code, since if it was, it would do it on every one."
The editor posted screenshots of rendering errors in IE though failed to mention what browser version he captured the screenshots from or even post the code that made them. Chances are the error is related to a standards based rendering method that older versions of IE do not support. (how much you wanna bet he never upgraded is browser?
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Here are my Browser picks
[begin pics]
Mozilla (inlcuding Netscape 6+ (7.1 is the b0mb)
Firebird (sw33t features)
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Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Review @ PCStats
Published: Friday, November 28, 2003 | By: Dennis" The GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 features a concise set of capabilities, but in this way Gigabyte saves you money and allows you to select what devices you want in your PC instead of integrating them. For instance, if you're not going to use RAID why spend the money on that feature?"
I dunno if that is the point we all want to make but I can say that Soltek has been building high quality boards like this for quite some time now. -
NL: Review Block - After Turkey Day Ed.
Published: Friday, November 28, 2003 | By: Dennis- FrontX-front panel computer port review @ Creative Mods
- Aspire X-SuperAlien Aluminum Case Review @ 3dXtreme
- ATI Radeon 9100IGP Review @ Short-Media
- Bytecc ME-350US Review @ PCStats :: (Ours Here
Still searching for more good news, send it in if you have any. -
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Published: Thursday, November 27, 2003 | By: DennisFor those of us in the US, Happy Thanksgiving! Eat well don't drink and drive (or drink if you are underage
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News updates will resume on Friday. -
Extreme Laptops
Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 | By: Dennis"November-25-2003 - Los Angeles, California based high-end computer and technology manufacturer (Liebermann Inc.), is pleased to announce its new series of extreme performance laptop computers featuring Intel's new Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology Extreme Edition."
The laptops come in 3 different versions with the largest being a 17" widescreen display similar to the ones found on the Ti Apple Powerbook. -
Albatron FX5600P Turbo Review @ ViperLair
Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 | By: Dennis"I was able to achieve a maximum of 360MHz core clock and a whopping 715MHz on the memory. That works out to a 230MHz over clock on the memory when you take into account that it is DDR. The 3.3ns Samsung ram really paid off in this case. Going any higher than these speeds would cause image degradation and system lockups."
Pretty good overclock for an FX5600 though for a few extra bux I'd suggest buying a FX 5600 Ultra or FX5700 for better overall performance. -
Soltek SL-865-GR Review @ PC Guide
Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 | By: Dennis" We easily managed to get the CPU up to 220FSB, making the 3.0GHz to almost 3.4GHz without any problems and this gave a nice extra boost of grunt behind the system. With more time I'm sure you could push it little higher with Voltage increases, although please be aware that when over clocking can potential damage your hardware and you do so at your own risk."
For some that is part of the fun.
We just reviewed the Soltek SL-865-GR as well and came to a similar conclusion.
