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NL: Review Block
Published: Thursday, October 30, 2003 | By: DennisHere is part of today's daily review list.
- Icemax Fan Controller @ crazymodders
- Thermaltake Volcano 12 @ myWorld
- Vantec Nexus NXP-301 @ FastLaneHW
- Boogiebug UV Fans @ Hard-h2o
- ACRyan SATA Controller @ MadShrimps
- NEXUS PHT-3600 Heatsink Review @ GruntvillE
- ioCombo CoolEngine T6C Review @ 3dXtreme - Our Review
- Aopen ACP4LC Review @ FrostyTech
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Taiwan vendors gain ground in P4 chipset market
Published: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 | By: Dennis"Unfazed by Intel’s dominance of the market, several local chipset vendors said that they have received orders from major motherboard companies for their 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) chipsets supporting the Pentium 4 platform.
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) yesterday said that its 648FX chip, supporting single-channel DDR memory, has been selected by Fujitsu-Siemens, Legend, NEC Computer International (NEC CI) and Samsung Electronics. The chip vendor is positive that these deals will help boost future orders of its 655FX chip, which supports dual-channel memory." -
ATI All in Wonder 9600 Pro Review @ accelenation
Published: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 | By: DennisSometimes it is hard to remember that lower-end cards do exist and actually come with a decent set of features. The ATI AIW is one solution though if you look hard enough you can even find some very decent nVidia solutions like the Chaintech A-FM6P/N Personal Cinema (FX5600).
"The original AIW sported the Rage II+ chipset, 4MB EDO memory, and a PCI interface. While the 3D performance on it was no match for the Voodoo, the well rounded package is what attracted customers. As the years past, the AIW was upgraded with the latest and greatest graphics chipset from ATI. While ATI’s graphics chipsets have usually fallen behind in performance compared to NVIDIA and 3dfx, the introduction of the Radeon changed things." -
EPoX 8HDA3+ Review @ Extreme Overclocking
Published: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 | By: DennisThe 8HDA3+ is a K8 enabled motherboard using the VIA K8T800 chipset. Unlike the nVidia solution the K8T800 uses 2 chips in the chipset, which in the long run may or may not be more cost, time will tell.
"As most of you already know, the K8T800 does not support dual on-die 64-bit memory controllers but instead one 64-bit controller or a single channel configuration. Athlon 64 has one HyperTransport bus, which supports 16-bit/1.6GHz data transfer rate totaling 6.4GB/s of bandwidth." -
Kingston HyperX PC3500 Review @ MetkuMods
Published: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 | By: Dennis"PC3500 modules are rated for 217MHz, which is somewhat less than for example PC4200 (267MHz) modules from OCZ. But as we know memory speed isn't everything and low latencies combined to quite high memory speed can catch even big speed difference measured just in megahertz. In this review I'm going to find out how much low latencies really make difference."
Slightly?? I see a huge difference in rated speed but like they say its not really speed that matters most, but the memory timings and stability at a given speed are what is important. -
DFI 875 Infinity Review @ t-break
Published: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 | By: DennisThe Infinity series strikes again.
"Along with the floppy connector, DFI places the additional RAID connectors as well as the Serial-ATA connectors powered by the ICH5R Southbridge. DFI also places two USB headers here along with the clearing CMOS jumper for easy access. Lastly, DFI places a reset and power switch onboard which certainly makes our job of evaluating stuff a little easier."
I wouldn't be too surprised if you don't find any power and reset switches on the retail Infinity boards, but you never know. Check out our review of he DFI Infinity 865 (Springdale) for comparison. -
Memory Review Two-way
Published: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 | By: DennisOCZ DDR PC-4200 Dual Channel @ Madshrimps
"I've been running OCZ PC4200 at a constant 285FSB for six days now. Since were using DDR (Double Data Rate) memory, this infers our bus speed to be 570MHz. Ergo 8 x 570 = PC4560. Since I paid for PC4200, and been running the memory completely stable at PC4560 speed, I'd say things are good. Yet when we look at the screenshot below one becomes befuddled."
Mushkin 1GB PC4000 Dual Pack Review @ Legit Reviews
"The Mushkin PC4000 memory modules came with flat black Aluminum Heat spreaders that covered Mushkin’s black painted PCB's. Under the heat spreaders Mushkin uses Revision B Hynix IC's on both 256mb and 512mb memory modules in their PC4000 series."
I suppose the only thing better than a two would be three but that will happen later.
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NL: Review Block
Published: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 | By: DennisHere are just a few of todays reviews.
- XPCs Compared! @ Dans Data
- Chieftec Dragon Alu Case Review @ BitBenders
- VGA Silencer Review @ Nordichardware
- Thermaltake X-View Review @ Hardware Lab
- Thermalright SLK947U Review @ PCAbusers
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Auras T6C Golden Heatsink Review Posted
Published: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 | By: DennisHeat pipes are not a new technology but in the past have been reserved for laptops and small form factor applications due to space restrictions. So what do you get when you take the heat pipe concept and combine it with hint of industrial style?
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Corsair TwinX1024-4000 Pro Series Memory Review @ ExtremeMhz
Published: Monday, October 27, 2003 | By: Dennis"Here at ExtremeMHz, we highly praise Corsair memory for their high performance and reliability that allowed us to take our systems to new levels. They have earned a good reputation among PC enthusiasts and overclockers with the introduction of the XMS series. Today, we not only look at one of their new XMS Pro series modules, but their current flagship product, the TwinX1024-4000PRO."
For those of you that do not know the new XMS Pro memory from Corsair features the same hand picked memory chips as before with the addition of a LED memory activity meter that lights up when your computer is processing data.
