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  • Soyo Dragon Ultra Platinum Review @ VIAHardware

    Published: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 | By: Dennis

    I wrote to Soyo trying to get a review sample of this board shortly after it was announced but never got a reply. I guess Soyo didn't think I was special enough. Well the board is pretty cool sporting the silver PCB.

  • ZZZ online Issue #136

    Published: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 | By: Dennis

    I don't post much from ZZZ online but its still a fun read. Go check it out.

  • Chipset Designers not Feeling the Love

    Published: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Well the word in Taiwan according to DigiTimes is that motherboard mfgs have started building more boards but the chipset demand hasn't translated into any more work for the chipset designers.

    Basically the tech market still sux angry smile

  • ATI Radeon 9700 - nVidia Killer??

    Published: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 | By: Dennis

    The Inquirer is claiming that the new Radeon 9700 is going to be clocked at 315MHz and is showing 3DMark scores in the 15,000's. Thats uhh, pretty fast. big grin smile

  • Itanium 2 Shipments in India

    Published: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 | By: Dennis

    The new Itanium 2 has been a hot item lately esp. since AMD's 64-bit solution the "Hammer" is almost ready for the production spotlight was well.

    Being that today is kind of slow on the news front be sure to check out the Ninjalane World News section. cool smile

  • More Webmaster Whining

    Published: Monday, July 8, 2002 | By: Dennis

    I posted this once before but it would appear that Kyle dug deep and found out why Matrox opted not to send him a sample for review.

    "Matrox stated that due to the nature of our testing that they were not "comfortable" with sending us a Parhelia card. They seemed to think that we would be a bit too rough on the Parhelia and possibly show some issues that the "enthusiast" might identify as weaknesses."

    Sounds to me that Matrox knew exactly what they where doing. Apply the bandage to your knee and move on.

    This is entirely too much fun big grin smile

  • CyberHawk Dual Athlon & Matching Case

    Published: Monday, July 8, 2002 | By: Dennis

    For us english speaking folk a site like Akiba is all pictures wink smile. Some of you might remember my recent project Shuriken where I went a little overboard on color matching. Well this CyberHawk system follows the same idea but goes even further. The system includes, a modded red case, red PCB, red expansion slots, red memory slots, dual red heatsinks and fans. etc.....

  • Dual CPU

    Published: Monday, July 8, 2002 | By: Dennis

    I still say the 2 processors are better than one. Though you really need to think about how you use your computer before you up and spend the bux on a dually system. Word processing and web surfing do not require the extra horsepower.

    " To summarize, SMP systems are a novelty that are only useful for those that use multithreaded applications on a regular basis, for example; Adobe Photoshop and Premiere as well as 3D-animation suites such as 3D Studio Max, Maya and LightWave. For those that think that SMP is a quick upgrade and yields better performance than a single CPU system we unfortunately have to tell you that this isn’t always the case and you might be better off upgrading your current system with a faster CPU or some other upgrades."

    I would not fully agree with this statement, novelty??.

  • Intel "Northwood" Overclocking Guide

    Published: Monday, July 8, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Don't read to much into this guide but if you where ever curious about overclocking at least give the article a glance.

  • July 5th - Take Inventory

    Published: Friday, July 5, 2002 | By: Dennis

    Ok the 4th has past and now its time to see how well you did.
    Check:
    5 fingers on each hand? - (approve smiledissapprove smile)
    2 hands on each arm? - (approve smiledissapprove smile)
    5 toes on each foot? - (approve smiledissapprove smile)
    2 feet on each leg? - (approve smiledissapprove smile)
    Misc peices depending on sex. - (approve smiledissapprove smile)
    Still can see ok? - (approve smiledissapprove smile)
    Still can hear ok? (a slight ringing should go away) - (approve smiledissapprove smile)

    If everything checks out with a approve smile I think its safe to say this last 4th of July was a success. big grin smile