Tech News
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iRiver IMP-400 MP3 CD Player Review @ KEPTech
Published: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 | By: DennisI normally don't list things like MP3 players in the Ninjalane daily news but this one is pretty cool.
"The test I gave the SlimX 400 was taking it to school and back for 2 months.
The ability to display 37 languages (Chinese, Japanese, German, etc.) was useful as I listen to Chinese music and the usual stuff you hear on the radio."
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DFI LanParty Pro875 (Canterwood) Review Posted
Published: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 | By: DennisThose of you familiar with Ninjalane will know that this is the 3rd DFI LanParty motherboard that we have reviewed which now includes the entire LanParty series.
It is pretty safe to say that the new LanParty series from DFI has been a great success on many levels. In the case of the LanParty Pro875 it is rather difficult to find anything wrong. -
Scythe Kamakaze Cooler Review @ Dans Data
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 | By: Dennis"If you've bought yourself a slower P4 with a lot of overclocking headroom, though - like the 2.4C model I talk about here - then you probably won't have one of the nifty top-end retail heat sinks. If you want such a CPU to Be All It Can Be, then a third party cooler like the Kamakaze may be just what the doctor ordered."
Is it just me or does this look like an old Alpha heatsink with a phatty 80mm fan straped to the top.
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Danger Den Maze4 Review @ Hexaplague-Hardware
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 | By: DennisI'm pretty new at this whole water cooling thing and sometimes its hard to know what to buy.
" Danger Den is widely regarded as one of the best manufacturers of water blocks in the market today, and they have certainly earned this reputation. Their blocks have been top performers in their price range, and of considerable quality." -
Secrets to the best passwords
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 | By: Dennis"The idea here is that you use a variety of words associated with an event that other people would not readily guess. Remember that you may also need to mix in uppercase letters and numbers when you create a new password. For instance, "hurry" could become hUrry66 or Hur5ry."
This kind of reminds me of The Ninjalane Leet Dictionary just different.
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Game Makers Not Chasing Women?
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 | By: DennisWe need more chix in gaming, not only in the games but outside of them too.
"One of the key ways such games can exclude women is in the "hyper-sexualized" avatar choices they are offered, with distended Lara Croft-like physiques, Taylor said. The proportion of women playing such games would likely increase if they were given more freedom to choose the way in which they're electronically represented.
"If you talk to women who are EverQuest players, they hate their avatar choices," Taylor said. "It's like they have to wear chain-mail bikinis." " -
Albatron Gigi Geforce FX5600EQ review @ MonkeyReview
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 | By: DennisNvidia did a really good job at confusing the market with their new GeForceFX GPUs since you'd think a card with the 5600 processor would run pretty fast. In all reality the 5600 is nothing more than a MX class processor with support for the new FX features. The way I see it unless the video card has a 5900 and 5900 Ultra GPU I'll be buying ATI.
"As you can see from the above benchmarks, the Albatron Gigi FX5600EQ didn’t really have the steam to deliver the kind of marks we had half expected to see. Something else that was realized during our testing was the lack of overclocking potential. We muscled with it for about an hour and the best that we were able to hit was a mere 331/410." -
KingMAX PC3200 Color Modules Review @ Techseekers
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 | By: DennisThese are some of the only modules created using TinyBGA memory chips. Back in the days of PC133 memory TinyBGA was the way to go with many sticks running past 160Mhz.
" I got to 225MHz FSB (1:1 ratio) with the KingMax, while maintaining close to the original timings. And although I had the DIMM Voltage at 2.7V I have a feeling that 2.65V would be all thats necessary to achieve this overclock. Unfortunately this was the actual limit in terms of FSB. Raising voltage or slackening timings would not yield a higher overclock." -
Soyo KT600 Mobo Specs and Photo @ AMDboard
Published: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 | By: DennisIts so perdy.
For those that don't know the KT600 chipset is the next generation replacement for the KT400A. It still supports single channel DDR but has better support for 200Mhz FSB processors. -
Corsair Announces XMS4000 DDR Modules
Published: Monday, July 14, 2003 | By: DennisHere is a snip from the press release. From a timing standpoint these modules are the same speed as the XMS3700 DDR modules announced last month.
"Fremont, CA, July 14, 2003: Corsair Memory, Inc., a global leader in ultra-performance DDR memory modules for PC gamers and enthusiasts, today announced their first XMS4000 product, the TWINX1024-4000. Corsair’s new XMS4000 part, based on 500MHz DDR technology, delivers extreme memory performance when used with the new breed of overclockable dual channel DDR motherboards.
Corsair designed this new module to support the highest clock speeds possible which translates to optimum performance. To select the fastest available components Corsair’s Compatibility Lab performed exhaustive benchmark tests on a broad range of RAM chips from a multitude of different chip makers.
Moreover, the company developed a stringent battery of tests which every XMS module built must pass at its rated speed before being shipped. XMS4000 modules are tested at 500MHz with 3-4-4-8 latency settings at 2.75V. All XMS4000 modules are tested in an Asus P4C800 dual channel DDR motherboard based on the Intel 875P "Canterwood" chipset. TwinX kits are tested as a matched pair and physically packaged together immediately after passing test, guaranteeing that the customer receives a product that has been verified in the dual channel environment.
All XMS modules are delivered in a stylish aluminum heat spreader that enhances performance by keeping the components cool."
As of this posting the announcement hasn't made it to Corsair's news page yet so you heard it here first, again.
Update: A direct link to the press release is below
