Tech News
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NL: Review Block - Yadda Ed.
Published: Thursday, December 4, 2003 | By: DennisMore reviews without comments.
- Thermalright ALX-800 Review @ TwistedMods
- Round CCFL @ CyberCPU
- Intel Pentium 4C Vs. AMD Barton @ RojakPot
- ByteCC ME-350U2 Review @ PC Abusers (Our Review Here)
- Active Cool AC4G Review @ Elite Bastards
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Kingston HyperX 4000 Review @ GruntvillE
Published: Thursday, December 4, 2003 | By: DennisI've been trying to get Kingston to send Ninjalane a few HyperX review samples, I'm still waiting for a reply.
In the meantime check out this review at GruntvillE.
"In the last year Kingston has decided to attack the enthusiast market (that has long been dominated by the likes of Corsair, Mushkin, and Geil) with their HyperX line of high speed RAM. Today we are taking a look at the Kingston KHX4000K2/512, better known as HyperX PC4000 512mb Dual Channel Kit which consists of a matched pair of 256mb 184-pin 500mhz DIMM sticks."
Ahhhhh! We are under attack, run for your lives!!
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ABIT IC7-Max3 Review @ OCIA
Published: Thursday, December 4, 2003 | By: Dennis"We also have here ABIT’s new Secure IDE system. This is on the fly encryption for an IDE hard drive. Rumor has it that the next version of this board will have SATA Secure IDE instead. I have not had a chance to use the Secure IDE system, mostly because I would have to reformat and reinstall Windows again, but it is a nice feature that I plan to make use of very soon."
SecureIDE is a pretty cool feature and is basically a hardware data encryption chip that sits between the onboard controller and your HDD. The only thing that bothers me is, what happens if someone steals your HDD and the SecureIDE card? or worse yet just the SecureIDE card?. -
NL: Review Block - sans comments
Published: Thursday, December 4, 2003 | By: DennisReviews from the net, quick and dirty.
- PC Toys SimpleMax 101 Review @ BigBruin
- Maxtop CSX-147KBF Mid Tower Case @ A True Review
- Athenatech A100SC Review @ Tweaknews
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PNY Verto FX 5700 Ultra Review @ Modfathers
Published: Wednesday, December 3, 2003 | By: Dennis"Now I hear you thinking to yourself what the hell has that got to do with a graphics card and the reason is that the beginning quote was for a bike called the Honda CBR600RR. Now all you need to know is that below 130mph this bike could do everything that the 1000cc plus bikes could do, and more. With that in mind as bikes we will return to, I shall start the review."
Nice analogy, the author comes back and says that the FX5700 is the CBR600RR of the video card world. Not sure I would agree but then again I'm a Kawasaki guy. -
HIS Radeon 9800XT 256MB Review @ HardAvenue
Published: Wednesday, December 3, 2003 | By: DennisHis and Her video cards? No not really.
"he days of videocard overclocking being a task only performed by the brave warranty voiding users amongst us are now over, atleast for some ATi users anyway. New with the latest XT series, including the 9800XT and 9600XT, comes a feature called "OverDrive"."
As with many 9800XT video cards out there this one looks to be made by ATI and then rebranded for retail sale, good performance though.
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DFI Lanparty NForce2 Ultra 400 Rev B Review @ DataFuse
Published: Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | By: DennisI will admit that this board is quite amazing and seems to be the missing link between all of the previous NFII400 boards. Look for our review of the same board in the next couple of weeks.
"I started upping the FSB and I toyed around with the vdimm I got presented. After a while I was amazed by the result I got. I upped the AGP and Chipset voltage a bit and I eventually got the system to run stable at 235Mhz FSB."
The NFII Rev. A would run at 250Mhz, but wasn't really what I consider stable.
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Club 3D Ships XGI Volari Duo
Published: Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | By: Dennis"XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra graphics cards will be among very rare consumer graphics cards to be based on a pair of graphics processors. Previously all the plans to use two chips on single graphics card in an attempt to fight with conventional graphics cards with one GPU turned to be failure. The history knows a number of such examples – 3dfx Voodoo 2 SLI, ATI Rage Fury MAXX, Voodoo5 5500, etc. Will XGI Volari Duo prosper, or will it be entered in the list?"
I saw the XDI cards at Computex. The cards are pretty amazing but seem to be a little under powered. -
Playboy names Mac top product 'that changed the world'
Published: Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | By: DennisResident Mac expert, Talon, sent this tidbit of news in.
"In its 50th anniversary issue, Playboy ranked the original Apple Macintosh computer No. 1 in its "Top 50 Products That Changed The World." The Mac isn't the only Apple product on the list, however. The iPod came in at No. 12, and Apple's QuickTake 100 digital camera landed the No. 17 spot."
of course "readers"' of Playboy would have already known this. -
Abit KV8-MAX3 Review @ Legion Hardware
Published: Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | By: DennisHere is the latest Athlon64 system from Abit based on the VIA K8T800 chipset. The board comes with the MAX3 cooling system along with many things we have come to expect from Abit.
"Due to the memory controller now being integrated into the processor, there is less the chipset can offer performance wise. In the past chipsets such as the nFoce2 and KT600 have been alienated by their memory controllers. For this reason I have been seeing very little variance in performance from one K8T800 board to another. If performance has been removed from the scene as a deciding factor on which motherboard a particular user should purchase, what should we base our decision on?"
I have noticed this as well, today’s gaming systems rely on two things with the most important being memory access, with the integrated memory controller it won't really matter what chipset you go with.
Then again the jury just left to deliberate.
