Tech News
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Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 Review @ Designtechnica
Published: Tuesday, April 1, 2003 | By: DennisI'll just quote the press release.
""If you are looking for a high-capacity hard drive with the best performance around, Maxtor’s Diamond Plus 9 160GB SATA drive is your final destination. With its Serial ATA interface that offers 150 MB/sec transfer speeds and a large 8MB buffer, this drive easily stands above the rest earning our coveted Editors Choice Award with a perfect 10 score.""
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Shuttle nForce2 XPC Review @ TweakTown
Published: Tuesday, April 1, 2003 | By: DennisIf you are looking for a small form factor "cube" pc Shuttle pretty much made the market.
"Small Form Factor PCs or SFF as its becoming known as of today is making a huge breakthrough in the enthusiast and hobbyist PC markets. Mini PC’s were started by end users who didn’t want to have their PCs in "crappy old" PC cases and avid LAN goers. After all, it hard to lug around tower and Midi tower cases all across the city and even the state."
hehe, they said crappy.
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Soltek SL-75FRN-L Review @ Digital-Daily
Published: Tuesday, April 1, 2003 | By: DennisDigital Daily takes at look at an old favorite the SL-75FRN-L motherboard from Soltek.
"Soltek products have been to our test lab several times. It's no wonder - the company has succeeded in firmly settling on the Russian market and attracting a great number of admirers."
Check out our review of the same board for comparison.
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Soltek SL-75MRN-L Review Posted
Published: Tuesday, April 1, 2003 | By: DennisMost gamers and hardware enthusiasts shy away from motherboards with integrated graphics controllers due to their substandard video and system performance but it would seem that isn't really the case with the nForce2 IGP.
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Albatron Medusa Ti4800SE Review @ TweakTown
Published: Monday, March 31, 2003 | By: DennisKeep in mind this is basically a Ti4400 with AGP 8x support.
"Overclocking on the 4800SE is almost identical to the 4200P Turbo we tested earlier with one exception, memory frequencies were able to go slightly further than the Ti4200P turbo, this is due to the reduced latency of the 4800SE's memory modules."
That would due mostly to the Tiny BGA memory chips used on Ti4400 and above video cards vs. the TSOP memory found on the Ti4200. Still good none the less. -
PC MODS Power Down Protector Review @ Furioustech
Published: Monday, March 31, 2003 | By: DennisEver wanted to keep your fans spinning for a short time after you turn the power off? Well with this small item from PC Mods you can.
"What is the Power Down Protector? Basically what it does is reduce the heat generated by the CPU after the computer is turned off. The great aspect of this device the size, it can be positioned anywhere in your case. The internal time can be set from one to ten minutes you can power up to two fans using the device. So you can still move air across your heatsink and bring cool air into the case of the computer, definitely a good thing. " -
Dan Reviews a Little Pussy
Published: Monday, March 31, 2003 | By: DennisCat that is, no mercy
"While domestic cats are a common feature of many computing environments, IT review sites have proven oddly unwilling to investigate this popular computer room accessory.
I aim to redress the balance with this review, which is almost entirely not just an attempt on my part to troll for more traffic from search engines by using the word "pussy"."
On the other hand I am
and I got to include three instances of the word pussy in this news post, of course only as it would relate to the common household cat.
This review is clean for the workplace. -
Spire Microflow II Review @ myWorldHardware
Published: Monday, March 31, 2003 | By: Dennis"In our today's review, we are going to take a closer look at their new highly recommended heatsink by AMD, the Microflow II."
Not bad It's a myWorld sort of day I suppose.
you might notice that the specs for this heatsink are actually very similar to the ones found in our latest heatsink review. -
SoundStorm In A Cup
Published: Monday, March 31, 2003 | By: DennisThe Rojack Pot has a little editorial posted to help shed a little light on nVidia's SoundStorm, the high-end audio option for the nForce.
"It's time to debunk a myth that I myself was guilty of perpetuating for some time - that SoundStorm is NVIDIA's optional high-end audio I/O card for nForce2 motherboards.
First, let's take a look at why people would be confused about SoundStorm - NVIDIA's own tech docs."
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What a Great Weekend
Published: Monday, March 31, 2003 | By: DennisMan what a great weekend, not only did we have some of the nicest weather in my area but I actually got some stuff done
More on that later.
yes I know I always say that
