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Thermaltake Silent Boost Heatsink Review @ Furioustech
Published: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 | By: Dennis" Multi-directional air intake increases airflow while keeping the relative noise at minimal.
High performing “Hydro Wave Bearing” fan. Decreases bearing wear and extends the MTBF (Mean Time between Failures)"
The fan bearing also makes a loud clunking noise when you push on it, it would seem “Hydro Wave” means supported by magnets.
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Albatron K8X800 ProII Review @ PCStats
Published: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 | By: Dennis" The layout of the Albatron K8X800 Pro II is pretty nice, and I especially like the positioning of the ATX power, and IDE headers. If you're using a longer videocard you'll have to remove it when installing system memory, but that's a small price to pay for the luxury of six PCI slots."
You will also notice that the floppy connector is still under the last PCI slot, but the PCB is blue so I guess it is ok. -
Crucial DDR Memory Review @ BigBruin
Published: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 | By: DennisI have always been a fan of Crucial memory and even though I don't use it in any of my personal systems I use Crucial memory when building computers for friends and family. It is great stuff and super stable. Free 2-day Shipping at Crucial.com
"One thing that Crucial makes very clear is that they don’t support overclocking! An excerpt from the interview conducted at BigBruin.Com further emphasizes that point: “Crucial memory is designed to JEDEC standards to meet the needs of the majority of the market--the mainstream computer user. Though our high-quality memory is certainly used by the “performance” market, we do not support overclocking. Running Crucial memory outside of the specification will void the Crucial warranty.”
Even if they don’t support overclocking, I feel obliged to try, and will hope for the best!"
They may not support it but the memory clocks pretty well.
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Serial ATA Things @ Tweaknews
Published: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 | By: Dennis"Sweet.
Like I said, I would have liked a longer length to play with, however even this one adds a nice touch to a modded box."
This is in response to the EL lighted SerialATA cable from AC Ryan. it is kind of a neat little product though could be easily taken out of context.
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DDR Memory Threesome
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | By: DennisSometimes it just makes sense to group similar news items and in this case the grouping is DDR memory from Corsair and KingMax. For comparison check out our Corsair reviews Here (TwinX DDR500) and Here (TwinX DDR400).
- Corsair TwinX XMS4000 Pro Series Review @ Club Overclocker
- Corsair's TWINX512-3700 Review @ AllHardwareZone
- KingMAX SuperRAM PC3500 Review @ PCStats
This fun threesome brought to you by... -
Asetek WaterChill Two-Way
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | By: DennisAsetek WaterChill Kit @ OCModShop
"This is what most of you want to see, the blocks! This kit comes with all three - a CPU block, a GPU block, and a Chipset block for the Northbridge, or from here on out abbreviated to NB. In some pictures I used very high light and very low exposure to bring out the detailing in the machining process, so if some pics look dark that's why."
Asetek WaterChill Kit @ Extreme Overclocking
"The radiator pictured above is nothing more than a Black Ice Pro from Hardware Labs. This radiator has been modified with the quick connects and supports a 120mm fan. Attaching the Sunon 120mm fan to the radiator requires nothing more than screwing in four screws. The fan uses a 3-pin connector and will connect to the Control Unit."
Rumor has it that Misr Corps is now selling all of the Asetek products including VapoChill and WaterChill, check them out.
This two-way brought to you by, yep you guess it.. -
Interview XGI Technologie @ VTR-Hardware
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | By: DennisI met briefly with XGI at Computex and was actually quite impressed with that they had on display.
"Why did XGI choose to develop dual chip cards?
XGI has adopted the dual architecture because it is an approach to position two market segments simultaneously with only one processor design. Also, because customers could position two segments with one single processor, that cuts down the inventory risk both on the customer site and XGI." -
NL: Review Block
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | By: DennisIf I ever say "phj34r my lack of n3ws" again feel free to smack me up side the head.
- Cooler Master Musketeer Review @ The Tech Lounge
- Antec Minuet Review @ Bjorn3D
- Cooligy's Active Microchannel Cooling System @ FrostyTech
- Creative SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS Review @ NordicHardware
- CoolerMaster Musketeer Review @ TwistedMods
- Thermaltake X-Blower @ Modding-Station
- Kingwin Liquid Thunder CCFL Review @ Furioustech
Today's news block brought to you by.. -
Soltek Qbic EQ3401M Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Monday, October 20, 2003 | By: DennisHere is a Soltek Springdale board in a SFF case.
"An important design change over the older Qbic series was that you no longer have to forego the mirror-front drive bay covers when fixing optical drives. On the EQ3401M, when you have an optical drive installed and you eject the tray, the drive bay cover swings open. This preserves the uniform look of the entire SFF and relieves the user from spray-painting their drives to match the system color."
Yep thats right, the drives are hidden behind some movable door panels. Check out the Ninjalane Computex Coverage for more interior photos of the new Qbic. Yes, I'm still pimping the trip. -
Danger Den Watercooling Kit @ OCModShop
Published: Monday, October 20, 2003 | By: DennisI have been paying closer attention to the whole watercooling side of things and it's interesting how many of the new kits all use the same parts with most of the design ideas coming from Danger Den.
"This kit includes a 4-pass Black Ice Pro radiator specifically developed for PC watercooling. This radiator has a lot of cool features such as: a built-in plenum chamber for increased performance and noise reduction, 1/2" pre-angled inlet/outlet barbed hose connectors, and high-density copper fin configuration for enhanced heat dissipation. This radiator is designed to accomidate a 120mm fan which is the standard for watercooling."
The Black Ice radiator is the same style as what you would find in any car, truck or motorcycle, just smaller.
