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• Reducing Case Vibration

  Published: Friday, November 8, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Case vibration is one of the main causes of noise in home-built PC's and the solution to the problem isn't that hard to solve.
  
  a) Buy a real case that uses good quality sheet metal. recommended
  b) Spend the money you saved buying that cheap ass case to buy some sound deadening material (i.e. Dynamat)
  
  Dynamat's main purpose in life is to change the resonating frequency of material, in this sheet metal. The stuff is made out of a tar like substance that is easily shaped by heat and has a glued backing so it will adhere to just about anything. Not only does it stink up a storm but it will also make your case very heavy.
  
  I will be addressing sound deadeners in my forth-coming case-modding how-tos.

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• nForce2 vs. KT400: Gaming Performance

  Published: Thursday, November 7, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Instead of going a complete comparison between the two chipsets the amdmb guys opted to concentrate on gaming performance between two unknown motherboards using these chipsets.
  
  The whole article just to say this.
  "we discovered that the problem was restricted to only OpenGL or Quake III engine-based games and that the bottleneck was in the way those software components interacted with the 8x AGP bus. "

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• DevEdge Interview With Douglas Bowman

  Published: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  "One of the Web's oldest news sites, Wired News draws between 20 and 25 million page views every month. On October 11, 2002, Wired launched a brand-new site design that uses validating XHTML for its structure and a small collection of CSS files for its layout. The new design clearly shows what some experts have been saying: that standards-based design can be visually compelling and preserve the interface conventions we've come to expect from Web pages. "
  The new layout uses 13 stylesheets and not a single formatting table. I considered building Ninjalane v2.0 as a standards compliant website but to many of the visitors here still use non-standards compliant browsers.
  
  Maybe that will be the next poll question. hummm

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• Good Comics Today

  Published: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Today is a great day for online comics. The "Tube" saga continues at Penny Arcade, and looks to be in vain for Tycho.

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• AMD Could Extend 333MHz FSB to Athlon XP 2600+

  Published: Wednesday, November 6, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Could this be a gift from AMD or just a feeble attempt to keep an aging processor line alive for just a few months more? I think the jury will be out on this one for a while.
  "Despite its launch of the new 333MHz FSB Athlon XP 2700+ and 2800+ on October 1 and continuing production transfer to the 0.13-micron process, AMD has been facing tough sales, as its latest processors attract mainly top-end users with their relatively higher prices and its progress in transferring processes has still been slower than that of archrival Intel."

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• Albatron PX845E Silver Edition Review @ accelenation

  Published: Tuesday, November 5, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I always get a kick out of accelenation reviews since there is usually something pretty wacky contained within.
  "Like always, before I get to the benchmarks I like to check the FSB to make sure the manufacturer isn’t cheating in benchmarks, which some manufacturers are known to do. Here the PX845E’s FSB is clocked only a tad higher then the Intel Desktop boards, which shouldn’t make that much of a difference in benchmarks."
  I think this is pretty much standard practice.

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• Nvidia Mania's Day

  Published: Tuesday, November 5, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Not much to report here since the page is really just a bunch of pictures. Check out the NV30 fun facts.
  "More floating point power than a Cray SV-1 Supercomputer"
  Thats alot

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• CP-100 Pentium 4 Liquid Heatsink

  Published: Monday, November 4, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is actually a pretty neat idea, phj34r the babblephish.
  " As for the mechanism of the cooling " CP-100 ", those which heat are sent to the fin top from the heat sink by the fact that it circulates the liquid of the tank which is attached to both sides. The tank of the liquid entering is utilized in place of the heat pipe, perhaps it is easy to understand, you say. Furthermore, this liquid being the water, or being special ones, details are unclear. "
  Here is a (also found at AKIBA.)

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• Doom ]|[ Leaked Over the Weekend

  Published: Monday, November 4, 2002 | By: Dennis

  As you can guess John Carmak is pissed and after further investigation it would appear that ATI is to blame (or someone at ATI).I have also heard reports that the Alpha of Doom ]|[ is only playable on an ATI 9700 and pretty much runs like cr4p on the Ti4600, go figure.

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• Be Sure to Load Everything

  Published: Friday, November 1, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I have gotten some reports of the new site looking funny with links being green and some text being black.
  
  The reason for that can be attributed to the new stylesheet not being loaded properly. To solve the problem do the following.
  
  press [shift] + your browsers reload/refresh button. This should reload everything from the site instead of the browser cache.

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