Tech News
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Sapphire PURE Black X79N Mainboard Review on Technic3D
Published: Monday, July 30, 2012 | By: DennisHere is a motherboard that I really wanted to get a firsthand look at but was never given the opportunity before Ivy Bridge took over the scene. Sadly X79 is all but forgotten in the eyes of the enthusiast.
The Sapphire PURE Black X79N Mainboard arrived Technic3D. We check the Mainboard with Intel X79 and NVIDIA nF200 chipset functions and Performance in the following Review with a Intel Core i7 3960X CPU on Windows 7 64 Bit and Linux.
The review is "not" in english but the photos are universal and google translate does a pretty good job so you'll figure it out.
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NL: Review Block - Keeping Chilled
Published: Monday, July 30, 2012 | By: DennisThere is a forum called "Keeping Chilled" in the Ninjalane Message Forum dedicated to all things cool(ing) related. You name it, its there. You want to see what SS cooling is? we gotcha covered. LN2? Boom!, Water? yep, got quite a bit of that.
Reviews from around the web
- Cooler Master TPC 812 CPU Cooler Review @ Custom PC Review
- Thermaltake WATER2.0 Performer CPU Cooler Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Noctua NH-L12 CPU Cooler @ TechreactionFor more cooling related news and reviews check out the Cooling section on Ninjalane.com
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New Microsoft Mice Are Crucial for Windows 8 (is it enough?)
Published: Monday, July 30, 2012 | By: DennisThis little device was a little unexpected and seems to fill the void most people were complaining about but still doesn't address the issues related to multi monitor desktops.
Using Windows 8 at your desk may be a problem, though. The Windows 8 Metro interface is great…as long as you’re using a touch-enabled device like a tablet. However, trying to navigate the Metro Start screen, or access some of the unique capabilities of Windows 8 using a traditional keyboard and mouse can be tricky. The hot corners and keyboard shortcuts are frustrating and unintuitive.
The new mouse is a wedge shaped touchpad that enables you to do gestures just like if you were touching the screen directly. Of course this is only beneficial if you are using the Surface in an office environment where its connected to a traditional keyboard, monitor and mouse.
Will it be enough for the power user? I highly doubt it.
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Hackers build private 'Ninja Tel' phone network at Defcon
Published: Saturday, July 28, 2012 | By: DennisA common theme at Defcon is "Ninja" this and "Ninja" that. Its all very interesting and makes you wonder what people would think if Ninja Lane was in attendance.
Network uses phones running the "Ninja OS," which features innovative apps such as "BoozeFone," where people can exchange beverages using what I dubbed "booze networking."
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There are 650 phones on the private network, with people making phone calls, texting, chatting, holding conference calls, and playing a sword-fighting game. There are additional apps being created by people who are using the phone through Android's IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
People choose their own phone number and username and can have their photos taken so that their face shows up in everyone's contact list. Once the customized Ninja SIM card is inserted, a special terms of service written by a Ninja who is a lawyer is displayed and the phone receives a call with a fun welcome message recorded by Pat Fleet, who is the voice of AT&T.Very Cool! Takes some smart people to pull this off. oh, and a few bucks.
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NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers
Published: Saturday, July 28, 2012 | By: DennisI've never actually attended Defcon but it has started to really sound like the place to be for anyone interested in cybersecurity, including the NSA.
Against a backdrop of relentless cyber-espionage on U.S. companies and government agencies and vulnerabilities and exploits affecting critical infrastructure providers, Gen. Alexander, who also is commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, asked the hackers for help. "In this room right here is the talent we need to secure cyberspace," he said. "You know we can protect the networks and have civil liberties and privacy and you can help us get there."
Long a staple at Defcon, the "Spot the Fed" contest served as a playful detente between the hackers and the agents who chased them for phone phreaking, distributed denial-of-service attacks, Web site defacements, and basically using the Internet as their personal playground and social experiment.With the increasing threat of cyber warfare many will look to the very people who made things like Defcon possible to further protect ourselves from attack.
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Those 27-inch IPS displays from Korea are for real @ TR
Published: Friday, July 27, 2012 | By: DennisMonitor reviews are usually pretty darn boring but after reading the "hook" in the email notification I got a little curious.
In forum threads across the web, enthusiasts have been swapping stories of amazing deals on 27" monitors with beautiful IPS panels imported from Korea. Unable to resist this prospect, we ordered up one on eBay to see what it was like.
The short answer? Pretty amazing. It was delivered by a man riding a unicorn made of bacon, and when we turned it on, it shot rainbows of ecstasy into our eye sockets. Our full review follows:I'm really not sure how special this monitor really is, the bezel is a glossy black and the stand is simple and just tilts forward and back. Combine that with 25x14 resolution and I would have to get this monitor a 100% meh rating.
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The Android Dilemma - An Open Platform Open to Piracy? @ Techgage
Published: Thursday, July 26, 2012 | By: DennisHere is an interesting article that looks at the piracy problem of the Android OS.
Unlike its leading competitor, iOS, Android is about as open as a traditional desktop OS. As such, piracy is no stranger here, and some developers speculate that the situation is made worse by the fact that it is in fact "open". We analyze that and other thoughts, and try to evaluate whether or not closing Android would solve anything.
Weird how you can have piracy in the open source world but when do you don't give credit where credit is due or bypass the pay to play model you're not much better than the guy selling copies of that movie you saw last night.
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Pictures of the New Gigabyte Z77 OC Board Released
Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 | By: DennisGigabyte released some photos of their much anticipated Z77 OC edition motherboard complete with the famed orange and black color scheme and promise of insane LN2 overclocking potential.
This motherboard comes with some insane features including a 32 phase power supply, thin-fin radiator covering the South Bridge chip and monster PWM cooler around the CPU socket. If you look closely along the right side of the board (near the overclocking buttons) there is a tiny switch to enable the LN2 mode which should allow full pot overclocking and bypass the complex steps to get there.
It is difficult to tell but the small heatsink under the CPU socket is likely for the PLX PCI Express 3.0 Switch which will enable 4-way SLI and Crossfire configurations. While most hardcore overclockers will claim this adds latency to their scores the truth of the matter is there are very few platforms which will run 3DMark 11 @ 6.6Ghz without it.
I did get to see a version of this motherboard at Computex. It wasn't mentioned at the time but the insane layout made the product seem more like a board designed for press coverage than an actual product.
Turns out I was only half wrong
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NL: Review Block - Motherboards and Storage
Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | By: DennisWelcome to another edition of Motherboards and Storage, in this segment I'll be showing you a vareity of motherboard reviews that range from Asus and Gigabyte designs with an ASRock thrown in there just for fun.
Afterwards I'll have you look over the list of Memory and Storage reviews including a well known Boise brand, Crucial, whose reviews have reached out beyond the confines of the Boise valley.
Motherboards
- Hardware Reviews - MSI 990FXA-GD80 Motherboard
- ASRock Z77 Extreme9 Intel LGA 1155 @ techPowerUp
- ASUS P8Z77-V Premium @ Ocaholic
- ASUS Maximus V Extreme review
- Gigabyte Z77 G.1 Sniper 3 @ PureOverclock
Storage and Memory
- OCZ Vertex 4 256 GB @ techPowerUp
- Crucial Ballistix Elite 2x2GB DDR3-1866 MHz CL9 @ Ocaholic
- G.Skill TridentX 2666C11-13-13-35 Kit Review @ MadshrimpsMore to come.
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MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning Video Card Review @ [H]
Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | By: DennisHardOCP has posted their review of the GTX 680 Lightning which is one of the most anticipated video cards of the summer. The question now is, Does it stack up against the EVGA Classified? and was it worth the wait??
The MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning comes loaded with high end components, a proven custom cooling system, and the promise of extreme overclocking ability. We will push the MSI GeForce GTX 680 Lightning to its limit and compare it to an AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition and an overclocked AMD Radeon HD 7970 to find its value.
Read on to find out.
Having used a few Lightning edition video cards in the past I'm a little curious to see how this one handles the Kepler power problem.
