Tech News
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Thermaltake Xaser III V1000A Review @ TheTechLounge
Published: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 | By: Dennis"As I said before, this case is a modified Enermax CS-1018S server case. Thermaltake has made the entire front of the case aluminum and included the Thermaltake HardCano 9 in the top drive bay. The case is very sturdy and very high quality, but the weight is probably more than most could bear."
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Chenming 301KE Aluminum Case Review @ PC Abusers
Published: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 | By: Dennis"Installing hardware is this case is easy and very effortless. The light weight of the chassis makes it easy to move around and position all your gear. The motherboard and power supply went in without a hitch, and had a surprising amount of room despite the size of the case."
Having easy access to your stuff is always an important feature with any case; this limits your exposure to the tore up knuckle syndrome.
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Chenming 301KE Aluminum Case Review @ PimpRig
Published: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 | By: DennisI don't normally post news on pre-modded cases but things might be changing a little in the near future. PimpRig has a review posted of the Chenming 301KE Alu Case.
" Probably the most interesting feature on the back side is the hardware container that is attached directly to the right of the card. In this handy-dandy little box you will find all of the screws and standoffs needed for the case, plus a good deal extra. Is it necessary? No. Is it handy? Most definitely."
This is interesting but only if you don't already have a rather large box FULL of screws and other case hardware. -
Seagate Barracuda 7200 Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Wednesday, July 2, 2003 | By: Dennis"Today, we'll look at the flagship model of the series which comes with a large 8MB buffer. The 8MB version of the Barracuda 7200.7 comes with two different offerings, one based on the Ultra ATA-100 interface and the other for the new Serial ATA standard."
As was pointed out in the Soltek SL-86SPE-L Review SerialATA is nice interface but current SerialATA drives aren't as efficient as current Parallel ATA drives. I'd give them another 6-10months to mature.
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Netscape 7.1 Released
Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 | By: DennisAs some of you may already know I have been a fan of Netscape browsers for quite some time now and find them superior to IE in a many ways. Now I'm not going to pull an apple commercial and say that everyone should switch, but I will recommend that you at least give the latest version of Netscape (7.1) a try.
For those of you still holding a grudge against Netscape for selling out to AOL but not switching away from their IE dependency you can get the same basic browser engine with the new Mozilla 1.4 http://www.mozilla.org/
Now go forth and browse in peace. -
More review links
Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 | By: DennisI'm going to have to figure out a better way to post daily review links like this.
- Enermax Xpoint CS-528 Review @ OCModShop
The X has become a really popular case letter these days.
- EKL Radial 80 S478 Heat Sink Review @ ohls-place
Thus far I know of 4 heatsinks that look like the AVC Sunflower and one of them is the stock Intel cooler.
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Shuttle AB60/RS Review @ Extreme Overclocking
Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 | By: Dennis"This section is going to be very short because we encountered a few issues or actually one major issue.
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we tried many other FSB's. All of which never worked so it was totally impossible to overclock this motherboard. We even tried our 3.2 and 3.0 processors and still had no luck."
They are talking about how this board has FSB adjustments up to 233Mhz but when set at 233Mhz it was still running at 200Mhz. Thats what you get for buying a Shuttle. -
Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 SATA Review @ XtremeNews
Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 | By: DennisI've been a fan of Maxtor drives since my very first 540mb beast back in the "olden days". Anyhow for us English speaking peeps you might need a secret translator ring for this one.
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Aero 7+ Review @ PC Abusers
Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 | By: Dennis"It seems new heatsinks never stop coming out. But also it seems processors always get hotter and hotter. Then for those of us who overclcock, well, we always want the best or something at least cool looking that also does a good job at cooling the cpu. Enter the unique Coolermaster Aero 7+ and it's fan. Yes, that fan. What has taken the people who make these fans so long to make one like this:"
Copper heatsink and a big blower, what more could you ask for?
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DFI LanParty NFII Ultra Review Posted
Published: Monday, June 30, 2003 | By: DennisThe LanParty NFII Ultra is the newest addition to the LanParty series from DFI. The board features the nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset, a plethora of onboard and included features, and the ever-popular UV reactive expansion slots.
