Tech News

  • GlacialTech Igloo 4310 Heatsink Review Posted

    Published: Wednesday, December 4, 2002 | By: Dennis

    If you are looking for a quiet alternative to the stock Intel cooler that actually works look no further than the GlacialTech Igloo 4310.

  • 10 Reasons not to Play FPS Games

    Published: Tuesday, December 3, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Perish the thought.
    "2. Media says it'll turn me into a killing machine and the wife keeps telling me "no killing machines in the house"."

  • Soltek SL-85DR3 Motherboard Review @ 3dXtreme

    Published: Tuesday, December 3, 2002 | By: Dennis

    The i845PE enabled motherboard from Soltek is under review at 3dXtreme and they seem to like the offering.
    "I didn't have any problems with placement of the two DIMM sockets. I was a bit disappointed that this motherboard only supported 1 GB or ram. I have four sticks of PC3200 but have not had need to have more than two sticks in each rig at this point"
    k...
    Charge your popup blocker before you head over, you'll need it.

  • Matrox Parhelia Review @ Beyond3D

    Published: Monday, December 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Matrox, now there is a name you don't hear every day though I'd imagine it is spoken quite often in some markets.
    "Naturally, where Matrox scores big is their usual haunt, which is of their display output. The 2D quality is very good on Parhelia, among the best I've personally seen. Also, if multi-monitor support is something that's important for you then Matrox has both the most flexibility in the display output options and exceptionally good multi-monitor configurations and software tools."
    I have always been a fan of the Matrox display quality but I play games a little to often to put one of their cards in my system full time, regardless I would still buy one.

    Of course after I get a GeForceFX big grin smile

  • Gigabyte GA-8INXP Review @ HardwareZone

    Published: Monday, December 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Here is another look into funky colored, i7205 enabled board from Gigabyte. Overall the HardwareZone guys seem to like it.
    "However, the only gripe we had with the board is that it is a little too heavy on the storage side as it comes with support for up to 10 ATA devices. We would have preferred a little bit more balance and a FireWire controller would have been more appropriate."
    Firewire would be a nice addition but only if you are a mac lova! tongue smile

  • Lian Li PC-9300 Aluminum Review @ Anandtech

    Published: Monday, December 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

    This case would be perfect for that holiday entertainment center mod for the living room. All it needs is a nice LCD display and some plexiglass. big grin smile

  • ABIT NF7-S nForce2 Motherboard @ Hexus

    Published: Monday, December 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

    There was a lot of hype around the original nForce chipset release and after it was all said and done the release barely made a wave. Now with the pending release of the newly upgraded nForce2 (creative name huh?) I think we might have something to look forward to.
    "Why have I chosen dual-channel DDR266 over dual-channel DDR333 at 133FSB ?. The answer lies in the fact that we actually lose performance by running dual-channel DDR333 at 133FSB. The asynchronous memory speed provides more bandwidth than dual-channel DDR266, but latency is increased by having to account for the asynchronous memory and CPU FSB clocks. "
    I wonder if the Intel solutions will have similar problems.

  • Chipset Shipments Grew in November

    Published: Monday, December 2, 2002 | By: Dennis

    "While Taiwanese chipset designer VIA Technologies suffered a drop in November shipments from the previous month, both Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and ALi Corporation (formerly Acer Laboratories) preliminarily estimated increases."
    w00t big grin smile

  • I'm Back!

    Published: Sunday, December 1, 2002 | By: Dennis

    I trust that everyone had a great Holiday weekend. It would appear that I have a little house cleaning to do before I start with my site updates.

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Well everyone I am just about off for my Thanksgiving vacation. The place that I'm traveling to may or may not have internet access (most likely dependant on if I want to fix their computers or not big grin smile) so there may or may not be news this weekend.

    Have a great turkey day. wink smile