Tech News
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Changes at Ninjalane.com
Published: Wednesday, June 6, 2001 | By: DennisWelcome to the new and improved Ninjalane.com! You may or may not notice what has changed so here is the low down.
The website is on a totally new server with a faster connection to the internet. I have also gotten a new email address so please update your address books. -
Processor Gender
Published: Monday, June 4, 2001 | By: DennisNever thought my processors would have a gender other than male but it looks like I'm wrong. So what do you suppose you would get if you crossed a Pentium3 and a Pentium3 EB??
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Nvidia nForce Chipset at Computex
Published: Monday, June 4, 2001 | By: DennisNvidia has been releasing/showing new products left and right lately. First it was the GeForce3 and now the nForce chipset. The nForce is made up of 2 chips, IGP, and MCP (Northbridge and Southbridge), contains integrated everything including a GeForce2 From the initial specs this chipset looks to be very interesting. You can read more about it at the strangely non-Netscape 6 compliant website [H]ard|OCP. Lucky Kyle got to travel to Taiwan for the Computex computer show.
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Copper Inserted ORB
Published: Saturday, June 2, 2001 | By: DennisRecenlty this heatsink was featured in the HardOCP heatsink Roundup. Though it isn't posted on their website there is another version that has a 7k rpm fan, That one did quite well in the roundup.
One thing I'm starting to like about the ORBs is how quiet they are compaired to anything with a Delta. -
Copper Core "ThermoEngine"
Published: Saturday, June 2, 2001 | By: DennisI think it all started with the Alpha line of heatsinks. The concept was this, you have a large mass of copper that is in contact with your heat source, in this instance your processor. By nature copper conducts heat better than aluminum so the heat is removed from the source very quickly. You then wrap aluminum around the copper to transfer the heat into the air.
So what we have here is an efficient heatsink design similar to the ThermoEngine with a copper core. -
More on TruForm
Published: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 | By: DennisTruForm is starting to become a hot item. I haven't really read this article yet, but from the quick glance it looks to be saying the same stuff that GameSpot did.
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New Business Direction for ATI
Published: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 | By: DennisIt looks like ATI will now be following in the footsteps of Nvidia and the late 3Dfx by allowing board Mfg. to produce products based on their video processor chips. The entire press release is on the ATI website.
I can see it now "Hercules Radeon 2 Prophet 6400". -
Mis-configured proxy
Published: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 | By: DennisA mis-configured proxy server on the Excite@home network allowed anyone with internet access and a little know how to access the internal network. Not a good thing considering that I'm a part of that network, The problem has since been resolved. Read more at The Register.
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ATI TruForm
Published: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 | By: DennisATI did say that they would have a card out later this year to compete with the GeForce3. It looks like TruForm is the DirectX 8 Technology behind that card.
GameSpot has more on the subject of polygons and TruForm. -
Gigabyte 7DXR Review @ FullOn3D
Published: Sunday, May 27, 2001 | By: DennisThis looks to be a really good board it has DDR memory support, onboard RAID, and doesn't use the sissy ALI chipset. Look for this board to be included into the gaming section of this website sometime next month.
