Tech News

• Made It Another Day

  Published: Friday, June 20, 2003 | By: Dennis

  Yesterday was quite exciting over here in the Ninjalane camp, the Soltek Springdale Review was posted, though posted with the wrong board number. For sanity sake the board number is and SL-86SPE-L not an SL-85SPE-L. My bad, sorry. Anyhow some of you may have noticed that the site was having a little trouble yesterday. As it would turn out the server was having a little trouble handling the load and kept restarting IIS. I have been told that the problem has been solved and shouldn’t happen again. We shall see if this is true.

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• Comdex to emerge on smaller scale

  Published: Thursday, June 19, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "The number of attendees and exhibitors at the splashy tech trade show had been falling for two years, and doomsayers wondered if Comdex would go the way of the dot-coms.
  
  Comdex's organizer, Key3Media, insists the annual Las Vegas show will go on -- and so will the company. Key3Media will emerge from bankruptcy today with a new name, Medialive International, and a lot less debt."

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• PantherStream CPU Cooler Review @ 3dXtreme

  Published: Thursday, June 19, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "Speeze has opted to use a 70mm thermally controlled fan for the PantherStream as well as a copper slug on the base of the heatsink itself. From the picture below there is a black thermal sensor which is visible coming out of the side of the fan (near the power cable). This controls the speed of the fan from 3000 RPM to 5500 RPM."
  Depending on where the thermal sensor is placed this can be a good thing or one of the worst design decisions in history. The sad part is many thermally controlled heatsinks fall into the "worst" category.

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• Eumax Multi-Function Transfer Panel Review @ Ohls-Place

  Published: Thursday, June 19, 2003 | By: Dennis

  This is actually a very handy little item. The panel moves your data ports up to the front of the case and even has a spot for a hard drive and cooler fan.
  "Overall I think Eumax has a very solid product. I think with the combination of USB, audio and IEEE connectors being pretty common on front panel unit now, the addition of the 3-position LED temp display is what sets this unit above the rest on the current market."
  The material is kind of flimsy though.

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• Geil PC3200 Dual Channel DDR kit Review @ Big Bruin

  Published: Thursday, June 19, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "Due to limitations with my cpu, or perhaps my overclocking skills, the maximum (stable) forntside bus achieved was 180 MHZ. Not a bad increase over the default 133 MHz, but not nearly high enough to thoroughly test the PC3200 DDR while synchonized with the frontside bus."
  I'm currently quite biased in my memory choices making Corsair my memory provider of choice. I can however be "swayed" away provided that the replacement is better.
  
  Any takers??

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• Slow Server

  Published: Thursday, June 19, 2003 | By: Dennis

  Sorry about the connection problems that some of you are having when connecting to the server. IIS seems to be restarting for some reason. So be patient, if the connection is refused just try clicking again.

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• Icemat Review @ DataFuse

  Published: Thursday, June 19, 2003 | By: Dennis

  " I've neglected something, something important, something that weakened my skills. Right now you're all probably saying: what the hell is up with this guy."
  I know what it is, check the title of the page (located in the titlebar of your browser.)

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• HP Athlon 64 System t182k Specs

  Published: Thursday, June 19, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "t182k, first Athlon 64 system specifications, that where briefly on Hewlett Packard website, are now at AMDboard.com for your viewing pleasure..."
  What is really sad is that I could tell you what department is most likely responsable for "leaking" this info.

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• Soltek SL-86SPE-L (Springdale) Review Posted

  Published: Thursday, June 19, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "Violet Eyes" is the newest series of motherboard from Soltek and features a violet metallic PCB and the Intel i865PE Springdale chipset. As with most Soltek motherboards this one is pretty bare when it comes to features meaning you can mix and match the system the way you want it.

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• FrontX Multimedia Review @ Ohls-Place

  Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "Finally a simple, compact and attractive solution to the never ending reaching to the rear of the computer to attach one accessory after the other. Sometimes it amazes me how the simplest designs can work the best, and this is proof positive of that. My only question about this product, is why did it take so long for someone to come up with this ingenious idea. BRAVO FrontX you did good!"
  This little product comes with each and every DFI LanParty motherboard. Check out the LanParty KT400A Review if you don't believe me.

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