Tech News
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Weekends are the Best
Published: Monday, July 14, 2003 | By: DennisI had a pretty productive weekend and got a couple of reviews done and succeeded in staying cool enough to survive.
Breakdown was kind enough to send me his review of the Eumax Multifunction Transfer Panel on Saturday and I finished up the content for the third and final DFI LanParty motherboard. The review is scheduled to go live sometime later tonight.
I'd also like to bring your attention to the new survey/poll along the left hand side of the site. I've been getting some feedback saying Ninjalane should review a wider range of products here at Ninjalane. Well I'd like to know what products you are most interested in seeing. You can vote once every 24 hours.
Lastly I've been making some planning progress into the next revision of Ninjalane which should bring all of the elements of the current site into one cohesive unit instead of two separate pieces. More on that later. -
Eumax Multifunction Transfer Panel Review Posted
Published: Sunday, July 13, 2003 | By: DennisWhat a long name for such a simple product.
The Eumax Multifunction Transfer Panel appears to be designed for older systems without front mounted media ports though adds the ability to monitor things like temperature and fan rotation. -
Chaintech Zenith 9CJS Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Friday, July 11, 2003 | By: Dennis"The Chaintech 9CJS Zenith motherboard comes with more than just the usual set of frills that you would so often find in other motherboards. The 9CJS Zenith is positioned as a really high-end product with very specific usage models in mind, mainly for those who might use the board to set up a high-end multimedia system, or simply for those that requires all the best connectivities built into a single platform."
This is a pretty sweet looking Canterwood board that comes with a DFI LanParty’ish set of features and included goodies like dual onboard LAN connections and included media bay. The unique thing about this motherboard is the proprietary multimedia card and expansion slot called a CMR (Chaintech Multimedia Riser).
Its good to see that Chaintech can turn a worthless expansion slot into something useful. -
Corsair TwinX PC3200 Review @ Tweaknews
Published: Friday, July 11, 2003 | By: Dennis"All TwinX memory modules are lab tested to work perfectly together before they enter the retail channel. Testing consists of match two modules that will both work together at their rated speed on a Nforce2, canterwood and springdale chipsets in dual channel configuration at 2-3-2-6-1T CAS Latency."
PC3200 TwinX modules actually have 2-2-2-6-1T timings and work perfectly on the nForce and Via AMD chipsets at those speeds. If you wish to use the modules on a Springdale or Canterwood board you need to change the tCMD from 2 to 3 otherwise they work perfectly. Here is our review of the same memory for comparison. -
Cooler Master Centurion CAC-T01 Review @ FuriousTech
Published: Friday, July 11, 2003 | By: DennisThis is the kind of case that the casemodding market has been missing for quite some time now. The case interior could use a little work but being made of a higher quality steel you wont' have to worry about vibration noise or bending.
"I would tend to think this is going to be a budget minded case. Granted this is not your typical aluminum case, I have seen a lot of steel cases out in the market and the one down side to most is the front bezel, it is plastic generally. Cooler Master has gone one better with the bezel being completely out of aluminum and stylish too with the front intake screen and the front jacks for all your peripherals." -
Heat Spreaders, The Myth @ ModFathers
Published: Friday, July 11, 2003 | By: Dennis"There is a lot of speculation as to whether or not the heatspreaders actually do anything. Are they merely a way for the manufacturer to put a shiny cover on an otherwise bland looking chip"
I have always been curious about heatspreaders and over the years I have come to the conclusion that yes, heatspreaders do something.
- Do they help overclocking? maybe.
- Do they help stability? yes.
- Do they look cool? yes.
- Do they give you a layer of handling protection of the module? yes.
- Are they really a product of a Rambus marketing stunt? The jury is still out. -
Soltek SL-86SPE-L Review @ HardOCP
Published: Thursday, July 10, 2003 | By: DennisThe HardOCP gang has posted their review of the Violet Eyes Springdale board from Soltek. The general feel for the review is that they liked the board and found it to be very stable and overclockable.
Here is our review of the SL-86SPE-L Violet Eyes board for comparison purposes. -
iPC Mod @ HiTechMods
Published: Thursday, July 10, 2003 | By: DennisTalon is going to get a kick out of this mod.
"I received a dead iMac for free and I could not get it working, could such a nice computer go to waste? no way! I decided to build a PC inside of the iMac case. My goal was to not make any modifications to the outside shell, and keep it looking stock as much as I could. The only hardware from the iMac that I used in the new computer was the 15 GB hard drive, and the cd-rom drive. Everything else I bought or already had. Enough talking, lets get onto the mod!" -
K7 Volcano 11+ Xaser Edition @ ohls-place
Published: Thursday, July 10, 2003 | By: DennisI actually have one of these heatsinks in the Ninjalane Labs fitted with the funky elbow extender thing and a huge 80x80x35mm Delta fan. Clearly an insane heatsink setup, though I question how effective it will be.
"Gives us our first good look at the Volcano 11+. Of note is the attractive die cast aluminum fan guard placed atop the Smart Fan II. You can also see that Thermaltake has even gone so far as to brand the name 'Volcano' onto the side of fan shroud so you don't forget what kind of heat sink you have when you're installing it."
If I didn't know any better I'd think that Ohl is mocking the fan shroud. -
Vantec NXP205 reviewed @ DataFuse
Published: Thursday, July 10, 2003 | By: Dennis"Anyways, there's not a lot of difference between the 5.25" device and it's smaller brother the 3.5". The only real difference is that the smaller device has a larger depth.
Although another thing I "felt" when I was holding it, it didn't really feel as solid as other fanbusses I had looked at."
Can't say I have ever wanted a fanbus but the variable speed aspect might be rather attractive for a modder that went crazy installing case fans.
