Tech News
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Kingston HyperX DDR 434MHz Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Monday, July 28, 2003 | By: Dennis"Kingston's HyperX kits are designed and tested to meet dual channel architecture requirements such as those found on chipsets and motherboards like NVidia's Nforce2, and Intel's Canterwood and Springdale. From the Kingston website they state, "HyperX modules are designed for consumers who like to maximize the performance of their systems to allow for the optimization of memory parameters."
Dual channel DDR is the hot ticket these days and to get the most from your DCDDR system you should really invest in paired memory modules like these from Kingston or our personal favorites the Corsair TwinX modules. -
DFI LANParty NFII Ultra Review @ Bjorn3d
Published: Monday, July 28, 2003 | By: Dennis"Strangely, DFI was quite late in introducing its nForce2 LANParty board, but the good thing about their wait was that they were able to release NFII Ultra with the Ultra 400 system platform processor. I'm happy to report that they also chose the MCP-T chip for the southbridge, so audio is brought to you by NVIDIA's SoundStorm solution."
This board is an awesome NF2 solution and be sure to check out our review of the LanParty NFII Ultra for comparison purposes.
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Black Neon Light Review @ radikalmod
Published: Monday, July 28, 2003 | By: DennisHere is a fun review in a foreign language.
Be sure to check out the "action" photos on the second page, damn cool! 
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Sapphire 9800 Pro and 9600 Pro Ultimate Reviews @ Extreme Overclocking
Published: Monday, July 28, 2003 | By: Dennis"The software bundle is perhaps the most appealing aspect of the overall package. What makes this so much better than other bundles is that you get something more than just the drivers and the manual. With the 9800 Pro Ultimate Edition, you receive the Redline overclocking and tweaking utility."
If you are looking for an ATI video card either one of these may be the way to go. The one thing I have always wondered is do people really use the games that come with their new video cards?? I have a rather large stack of included software CD's that have just collected dust with many still in their plastic bags. -
Custom Window Etching Technique @ PimpRig
Published: Monday, July 28, 2003 | By: DennisThere is only a few ways to actually etch something like glass or Plexiglas though all methods involve altering the surface of the material. Acid will eat the top layer of material and your engraver will put small pits into the material giving the illusion of a line or circle. Some companies go as far as to use computer controlled lasers to etch glass and plexiglas. AmberLodge is one of those companies and they do take custom requests, just tell them that Ninjalane sent ya.
Now one of the oldest etching techniques around is to use high-pressure air to blast fine grit sand at whatever you are etching. By masking the areas that you want to protect you can create very detailed images.
"When you have your image, which you wish to apply to a window for etching or paint. You need to lay out your window. The fans, if there are any, drill first. Why? You don’t want to do hours worth of work to finally drill for the fan and have it crack on you. Yes, I talk from experience."
fyi: Sand Blasting also works great for removing old paint and rust from metal and gives you a very clean surface to paint on. -
Hercules Gamesurround Muse 5.1 DVD Review @ Tweaknews
Published: Monday, July 28, 2003 | By: DennisThe Muse series has always been the "budget" soundcard from Hercules but it still packs in enough features for everyone to enjoy.
"The card itself is a deep green color and is average in size. It's nice because it takes up less room then say a beefy video card which is nice. Size matters, and the size of this card is great for someone like me with a window in my computer, making it easier to organize the cables inside."
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News From the Weekend Bl0ck-o-57yl3
Published: Monday, July 28, 2003 | By: DennisTons of news came in over the weekend and to make sure that most of it gets posted i'm going to start off with an ever-popular link style review block.
- Lian Li PC-6070 Review @ Dans Data
- V-Tech VT-XRAY Mid Tower Case Review @ Furioustech
- Antec Sonata Review @ Intelforums
- Speeze Vulturespin and Owlstream Reviews @ Big Bruin
- Antec Sonata Review @ The Tech Lounge
- Nexux NXP-205-SL/BK Fan Control Review @ Furioustech
- Vantec Nexus NXP-301 Controller Review @ PC Abusers
- Vantec UV Cold Cathode Kit Review @ DataFuse
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ABIT's MAX 3: The Rise of Cooling
Published: Friday, July 25, 2003 | By: DennisDon't get me started on the movie reference, T3 is so full of holes it isn't funny
Anyhow mega w00t for Abit, the IC7 Max3 is launched today and features maximum everything! Here is a snip of one of the features.
"Protect your privacy and keep anyone from snooping into your information. Lock down your hard disk, not with a password, but with encryption. A password can be cracked by software in a few hours. ABIT's SecureIDE will keep government supercomputers busy for weeks and will keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa files."
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PNY GeForce FX5900 Ultra Review @ Bleeding Edge
Published: Friday, July 25, 2003 | By: DennisHere is one of the shortest video card reviews that I have seen in recent times and is actually quite nice.
Not much info on the video processor but there are some benchmarks.
" The install CD includes a rather bizarre program called Verto 3D World. A desktop interface powered by 3DNA. A 3 dimensional world where you can explore your PC in a unique way. Browse to your favorite web pages, or just go upstairs to the patio and shoot some hoops." -
Cookie Regulation in Force in Sweden
Published: Friday, July 25, 2003 | By: DennisSomeone in Sweden is a little to paranoid about cookie usage. For those of you that don't know much about cookies here is a short intro. A cookie is a small text file that is created and stored by your browser on instruction from a website and can only be read by the web domain that created them. Ad companies use cookies to track where people go but also use the information to record banner sale information including what site they should give the commissions to.
Now you can stop the creation of cookies but by doing so you also have restricted yourself from using many of the advanced features of the web. For instance when you login to a website (username and password) a cookie is created to help tell the website who you are and how long you have been hanging around. These cookies are what we call "sessions" and are also destroyed after 20min of idle time or when your browser is closed. Now if a user disables cookies in their browser they also disable these and other "basic" web features that have become commonplace over the past few years.
"The user shall be provided with the opportunity to decline the use of cookies during the web site visit ("current session"). The Act does state that the user must accept cookies, provided that so called "normal request routines" are used when the cookie is set and provided that the user may turn off cookies in his web browser. "
This kind of makes me wonder if they even know what they are talking about.
