Tech News
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IOSS RD2 Pro PC Geiger Review @ Rojak Pot
Published: Friday, August 22, 2003 | By: DennisHaving your PCI clock be a limiting factor is pretty rare now days though if you just have to know what your computer is doing at all times this product might be something to check out.
"Why is determining the exact PCI bus speed important? Well, some PCI devices are extremely sensitive towards any bus speed changes, like most SCSI cards. In this case, monitoring the exact PCI speed allows you to pin-point the maximum stable PCI speed for sensitive PCI devices." -
Palit Daytona GeForce FX5200 Ultra Review @ Tweaknews
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 | By: Dennis"Seeing that the memory is stock clocked 50Mhz lower than its theoretical maximum, I set off to see if I could push it any farther. Using a utility called Rivatuner, I was able to push the core speed from the stock 250Mhz to 370Mhz and the memory from 650Mhz to 710Mhz. One thing that interested me was the fact that the FX5200 core is supposed to be stock clocked at 325Mhz. I do not know why Palit underclocked it so much. Thankfully, through overclocking, I was able to push it through the 325Mhz barrier and 45Mhz more.
Overall, a fantastic overclock for a budget card."
Nothing wrong with a budget card having good quality hardware.
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Nvidia: DirectX 9 to drive sales
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 | By: Dennis"Nvidia believes that DirectX 9 will be a driving force behind near-term growth in the graphics chip industry, according to company vice president of sales and marketing David Roman."
Now all we need is some sweet games that use DirectX 9.
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DFI LanParty nforce2 Review @ SubZeroTech
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 | By: DennisThe LanParty series of motherboards are actually very good, good performance, tons of included items, and UV reactive expansion and memory slots. Check out but our review of the DFI LanParty NF2Ultra for comparison.
"The DFI LanParty NForce2 board is by far the best motherboard I have ever seen in terms of extras and looks. The UV Reactive look really makes it look sweet, the rounded cables, frontX bay, PC Transpo, as well as the onboard sound and dual on-board LAN ports makes it very attractive." -
Another Block of Reviews @ Ninjalane
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 | By: Dennis- 80mm Panaflo Review @ ModSynergy
- Tweakmonster System Memory Coolers @ TwistedMods
- Criticool Powerplant PCI Relay Review @ crazymodders
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Silicon or Succotash, Memory Conflicts with 875/865 mobos @ MadShrimps
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 | By: Dennis"Succotash is a traditional staple-food among the Pennsylvanian Dutch. Consisting of boiled green corn and lima beans, sautéed onion, bacon, and served in a cream sauce. It's what one makes, when the crop's fail, and one is desperate. What does this have to do with the memory conflicts I'm about to detail? About as much as the memory itself."
Make sure to block out some time for this write-up, we have 8 pages of small text and hardly any photos.
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Palit Daytona GeForceFX 5200 Ultra Review @ OCModShop
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 | By: DennisNow here is something you don't see every day, a FX5200u with a purple PCB and TinyBGA memory. Not a bad combo if you ask me.
"This video card comes with an active heatsink which is nice because normally budget video cards only have a passive heatsink. I slowly overclocked the card little by little so that it would be able to burn in and adjust. After slowly increasing the speed of the card I reached the highest stable speed which was 370MHz core and 670MHz memory." -
Lots of CoolerMaster Stuff @ HardwareZoom
Published: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 | By: DennisLike the title says there is a nice overview of the latest products from CoolerMaster from heatsinks to fan controllers.
"CoolerMaster are well known by their range of high quality aluminium casings. Their cool, futuristic designs and solid builds with full aluminium will put all those plastic and steel casing to shame. CoolerMaster also make heatsink fan for CPU, they were the first to put in heatpipes inside the heatsink to help in conducting the heats away. " -
Albatron Gigi FX5600EQ 256Meg Review @ Tweaknews
Published: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 | By: DennisI was looking at some FX5600 video cards with 256megs of ram and none of them had the higher quality TinyBGA video memory. Most companies opted for the cheaper TOSP style and just put more on there.
"The onboard ram consists of four 64meg 5.0ns ram rated at a speed of 400Mhz. With a stock memory clock of 400Mhz, any possible overclocking headroom will be minimal. But more on that in the overclocking section of this review." -
Albatron KM18G Pro Review @ Furioustech
Published: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 | By: DennisI'm not sure I have ever actually seen a microATX nForce2 motherboard until now and it actually has some potential.
"This is one solid motherboard, nforce2 chipset, overclocking potential, small micro ATX form. This is a perfect board for a LAN party system. It allows you to use a smaller case since it has onboard sound and LAN all you need for a power system is a graphics card, a high end Nivida or ATI video card."
