Tech News
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Hitachi CML175B Monitor Review @ accelenation
Published: Friday, April 25, 2003 | By: DennisI don't normally post monitor reviews but I'll make an exception in this case since I have a TV made by them.
"Hitachi has been making displays for years. My first experience with Hitachi was with my own 19” Hitachi CM751, a 19” CRT with a maximum resolution of 1600x1200 and a .22mm dot pitch. It still has one of the clearest and sharpest pictures that I have encountered on a CRT." -
Chenming X-Pider Case Review @ MonkeyReview
Published: Friday, April 25, 2003 | By: Dennis"We removed the bezel to check things out and found that there were no fan filters present; this was a little discouraging as my previous Antec came with one, to be fair they’re easily made but it would have been nice to see it included."
Well its not your momma's Antec :)
As a casemodder I can honestly say that fan filters do not stop dirt from entering your case, instead they just get clogged up and restrict airflow negating its main purpose in life. -
MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Friday, April 25, 2003 | By: Dennis"The 875P Neo-FIS2R is probably an overclocker's dream come true. From the options available in the BIOS, one can tell that this board is truly designed for the overclocker in mind. We have to say that this is MSI's boldest step yet in motherboard design and it's probably a precursor of more great things from MSI."
This is a Canterwood Pentium 4 mobo from MSI that appears to have a very wide range of overclocking controls.
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Soltek 75FRN Series CPU Voltage Mod
Published: Friday, April 25, 2003 | By: DennisThe garage based overclockers at Maximum OC have posted a mini CPU voltage mod how-to for the Soltek SL-75FRN. The mod will allow you to crank the CPU core voltage up to 2.11 volts equaling that of the Epox EP-8RDA+.
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Bytecc Zippy EL-610 Review @ Comp-Shop
Published: Friday, April 25, 2003 | By: DennisOnce again another review ruined for those of us using Mozilla based browsers; hopefully they will work on that stylesheet. Any event check out our review of the same keyboard here.
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Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Friday, April 25, 2003 | By: DennisI am currently using one of these new Maxtor drives and I am not at all impressed with the performance. For the money I would have much rather gotten a WD Special Edition drive or held out for one of the new Serial ATA drives.
"Although the DiamondMax Plus 9 is Maxtor's biggest and fastest drive in their performance desktop series, it however left us with a couple of mixed feelings. In the tests, it did managed to perform admirably well in Winbench 99, and from the scores, we were pretty convinced that it would fit into most desktops and even low-end workstations very well. However, its poor seek times did not do it much justice as its performance began to taper off at high workloads." -
CoolerMaster Black Alloy Bezel Review Posted
Published: Friday, April 25, 2003 | By: DennisWhat is the number one thing that people notice when looking at your black computer case? The beige drive faces. There is no need to paint them anymore, just cover them up with an anodized aluminum cover plate from Coolermaster.
Aside from the color the AFP-U02 is exactly the same as the AFP-U01 reviewed here. -
Traffic Killer
Published: Thursday, April 24, 2003 | By: DennisNothing kills traffic better than having your hosting provider work on the server. Sheesh, but as you can see Ninjalane.com is back online and with any luck will stay that way for quite awhile.
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Soltek SL-75FRN L Review @ 3dXtreme
Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 | By: Dennis" I would recommend the Soltek SN-75FRN-L motherboard to anyone looking for a reliable, affordable and very overclockable motherboard that supports the latest technology with the exception of Serial ATA. I was very happy to say that my first Soltek motherboard review went so well. From stablilty to overclockability this board surpassed my expectations in every way. This is the best motherboard I have ever used when it comes to ease of overclocking."
I would tend to agree with them. Here is our review of the same board for reference. -
Microsoft Wireless Optical Blue Mouse Review @ RadiativeNZ
Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 | By: DennisPersonally I still have a bad taste in my mouth over wireless mice and keyboards mostly because I hated the lack of battery life and how my across the map rail shots were just fraction of a second slow.
"Some cordless mice have a feeling that they are not as responsive as they should be, and again, I’m glad to see that the Wireless Optical does not suffer from this issue. The mouse is as responsive as a corded mouse while retaining all the freedom offered by the lack of a cord, and let’s be honest here, the cord on a mouse just sucks."
