Tech News
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Swiftech H20-8500 Kit Review @ The Tech Lounge
Published: Wednesday, September 3, 2003 | By: DennisHere is a review of a watercooling kit from Swifttech and looks to have everything that you will need to get started.
" The kit is built around the ever popular and extremely successful MCW5000 CPU water block. The water block uses Swiftech's patent pending Diamond-Pin Matrix© technology. The CPU block comes with the necessary hardware for mounting on AMD and P4 boards. The GPU water block is mountable on ATI and NVidia's latest cards. The MCR80-F radiator uses two 80mm fans, and only requires a single 80mm opening in your case to be mounted on."
The pump moves quite a bit of water though the radiator seems to be a little undersized. -
Corsair HydroCool 200 Review @ PimpRig
Published: Wednesday, September 3, 2003 | By: DennisThis is that new external watercooling system from Corsair. Koolance has a similar product, the Exos, though if my memory serves doesn't quite have the same feature set.
"The front of the unit has several product identifiers, including the Corsair corporate logo. There is a large LCD display, which during operation will display the temperature in red characters. Also on the front panel are the Celsius and Fahrenheit switches which toggle between display modes. These buttons also serve as data entry points when configuring alarms." -
Asus nForce3 w/ AMD Opteron 240 Review @ hardwarezoom
Published: Wednesday, September 3, 2003 | By: Dennis"At the back of the CPU, you will find that the Opteron is completely filled up with pins. In fact, there are 940 of them! It is very important to take note of the CPU's orientation to avoid bending or breaking any of the fine pins.
Both Pentium 4-3.0Ghz and Opteron 240 comes with a copper based aluminium heatsink fan. Opteron heatsink fan is still using the traditional 2 clips design, we prefer Pentium 4 heatsink because no screw driver is required during installation."
The photos of the Opteron haven't changed much over the past year or so. I think the first time I ever saw one was over at that Anandtech site.
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PolarFLO Water Block Review @ Techware Labs
Published: Wednesday, September 3, 2003 | By: DennisThis waterblock look pretty dang sweet and used the three water port approach to circulation. One inlet and 2 Outlets.
"It should be mentioned that the PolarFLO is one of the very few blocks on the market that is universal. This means that the holes you see in the block are drilled for both an AMD and anIntel interface. This forethought by Horse of Iron means that you don't have to buy two separate blocks, and that if you decide to change processor types your water block should fit your new board." -
OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Wednesday, September 3, 2003 | By: Dennis"The "EL" stands for Enhanced Latency, which has carried over from some of their other memory products."
Is it just me or does "Enhanced Latency" just seem like going backwards in terms of memory performance.
Regardless the timings are the same as the Corsair XMS4000 Twinx Modules that we reviewed not to long ago. -
Cooler Master Aero 7+ Review @ Overclockers Club
Published: Wednesday, September 3, 2003 | By: DennisI rather enjoyed this heatsink though the silence was almost deafening.
"The base of the heat sink is very similar (if not identical) to that of the X-Dream SE heat sink, and as with the various models of the X-Dream, the Aero 7+ includes a much shorter mounting clip. CoolerMaster doesn't have the best lapping process that I've ever seen, however they still do a good job."
Check out our review of the Cooler Master Aero 7+ for comparison. -
NL: Review Block
Published: Tuesday, September 2, 2003 | By: Dennis- True Silent 450w @ OCModShop
- Speeze 5F286B @ FastLaneHW
- Seasonic Super Silencer 400W @ BigBruin
- Speeze UV CCFL Fan and Red CCFL Ring @ A True Review
- Cooler Master Aerogate II Review @ HardwareZoom
More news to come, stay tuned too... -
Major Suppliers to Show Off High-End GPUs @ Computex
Published: Tuesday, September 2, 2003 | By: Dennis"Nvidia plans to introduce two graphics processors – the NV38 for the high-end market and NV36 for the mid-range and high-end markets – at Computex 2003, according to sources.
It is unclear whether ATI Technologies will display its new R360 chips during the show, but many industry observers say the company should not miss the opportunity in the competition between the world’s two largest graphics solution providers."
I think Computex will have quite a few introductions this year. -
Gainward Ultra 1600XP Video Card Review Posted
Published: Tuesday, September 2, 2003 | By: DennisWelcome to the Video Card debut here at Ninjalane. In an attempt to hit the ground running the first card to be posted is the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra offering from Gainward.
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Eight new Glacialtech coolers @ radikalmod
Published: Monday, September 1, 2003 | By: DennisI had the opportunity to meet Glacialtech at Comdex last year and plan to meet with them again at Computex later this month.
"An interesting solution: the center part of the heat sink is thicker than the external areas. A higher amount of heat coming from below will leave the heat sink on the dominant outer fins."
