Tech News
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NL: Review Block: Motherboard Round-Up Z77 and X79
Published: Sunday, March 11, 2012 | By: DennisQuick little motherboard review round-up. We got some Z77 boards in there with the illegal "ivy bridge" monger in the title (as of this news post "ivy bridge" hasn't been released). We also got some fancy X79 boards in there including the MSI X Super Big Boom Bang BIffity-Bish Bash board.
Motherboards
- MSI Z77A GD65 motherboard preview
- MSI Z77A-GD55 Motherboard Review @ HardwareHeaven
- MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews
- Sapphire Pure Black X79N @ Hardwareoverclock
- Gigabyte G1.Assassin 2 @ ocaholic
- ASRock X79 Extreme9 Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks
- ASUS X79 Sabretooth Motherboard Review @ Madshrimps
- MSI Big Bang Xpower II X79 @ ocaholicMore board reviews to come.
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X79 Motherboard Roundup: ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte
Published: Sunday, March 11, 2012 | By: DennisI've always wanted to do a "round-up" style review but I never get enough of the same product in, at the same time to make it worthwhile.
Intel’s X58 chipset made for great platform performance, and even though the chip maker has unleashed many more chipsets since the X58 came out, there hasn’t been a true successor in the high-end of their product line-up (not even the Z68 chipset) until now.
The X79 chipset looks to pick up the X58’s poll position, so we decided to bench test a few motherboards from ASRock, ASUS, and Gigabyte to see how Intel's new flagship performs.Given that the performance of these boards will be almost identical doing side by side comparisons does make sense. I wonder which one came out on top?
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NL: Review Block: Cases and Cards Edition - (video, no mercy)
Published: Sunday, March 11, 2012 | By: DennisSome case and video card reviews from the Ninjalane inbox, enjoy
Cases
- CM Storm Trooper Tower @ Hardwareoverclock
- Corsair Carbide Series 500R Mid Tower Case @ Pro-Clockers
- Antec One Case Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Cougar Evolution Enthusiast Mid Tower@ Pro-Clockers
- InWin Buc 101 Mid Tower Computer Chassis @ TechwareLabs
- Cougar Evolution Mid Case Review @ XtremeComputing
- Cooler Master Storm Trooper Computer Case Review @ Bigbruin
Video
- VTX3D Radeon HD7970 X Edition Review
- Funky Kit Review: Gigabyte HD 7770 OC GPU (1GB GDDR5)
- OC3D: Gigabyte HD7970 OC Review
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB OC Edition Video Card Review @ Legit ReviewsI'm not so sure about the Cougar cases, they just seem werid and that they have been done before.
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Have online comment sections become "a joke"?
Published: Sunday, March 11, 2012 | By: DennisI think the answer here is, yes.
It was only a matter of time before people realized that while the Internet was created by intellectuals and scholars looking to share their collective knowealge when it was opened up to the rest of the world the uneducated masses would go and f*ck it all up.
"The idea of capturing the intelligence of the readership -- that's a joke."
Denton was speaking at South by Southwest Interactive, the annual festival here devoted to Web and digital culture.
He said commenting on his own sites (which he said he's seen make reporters cry) has gotten so bad that he doesn't engage.
"I don't like going into the comments ... for every two comments that are interesting -- even if they're critical you want to engage with them -- there will be eight that are off topic or just toxic," he said.Some have asked me why I don't enable comments within the news section and don't allow open comments within the reviews? Well the reason is there are some idiots out there looking to get their name on something or just want to let their anonymous voice flow. Personally I would rather people be held accountable for their actions, its how I was raised and how the world should be.
Tis a good read, be sure to check it out. Oh and check out the gems in the comments section. *roll*
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 680: Kepler arriving this month
Published: Sunday, March 11, 2012 | By: DennisIf the rumors are true we should see the next generation of nVidia GPUs coming out later this month. The initial rumors were for a April/May release (which might still be the case) though reports out of CeBit has pushed this timeline up quite a few weeks.
And now the most important bit: Specs. The GK104/GTX 680 will have 1536 CUDA cores and a 256-bit memory controller connected to 2GB of GDDR5 memory (4GB will be an option). The core will sit at 705MHz, while the shaders will be clocked at 1.4GHz. The memory will be clocked at 2GHz QDR (6GHz effective) and should be capable of 192GB/s. There’s no information on the GK107, but the GK110 is expected to have 2304 shader cores. It is rumored that the GTX 680 will be slightly faster than the HD 7970 in some tests, and slightly slower in others.
Given the name the GK indicates an entirely new core though will likely follow some of the same architecture patterns found in Fermi. A new feature will be "turbo boost" which will help even out framerates and lower overall GPU temps. From a spec standpoint the GK104 might just be the best gaming card ever.
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NVIDIA Tesla GPUs Accelerate Science on HP ProLiant Generation 8 Servers
Published: Thursday, March 8, 2012 | By: DennisI don't normally post press releases in the news but this story seemed fitting considering my recent encounter with an HP Proliant DL360 G5.
HP ProLiant SL250 Gen8 CPU-GPU hybrid servers combine the world's most powerful parallel processors, NVIDIA Tesla M2090 GPUs, with new Intel Xeon E5-2600 series CPUs based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture.
With an average of 12 percent higher performance for scalar processing, the new Intel E5-2600 CPUs relieve sequential bottlenecks for GPUs to tackle and complete parallel tasks significantly faster. This results in dramatically higher GPU utilization and overall increased application performance.If you think about it this is a natural progression for server systems when they need more power. We have been doing the very same thing for years in our desktop PCs but we don't use them for science experiments but for games and we call the technology SLI and Crossfire.
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Walton Chaintech returns to motherboard and graphics card markets
Published: Thursday, March 8, 2012 | By: DennisThis is an interesting read, I wonder how serious they are at getting back into the market.
Taiwan-based Walton Chaintech has announced it will form an alliance with China-based leading graphics card vendor Colorful and return to graphics card and motherboard industries. The company quit the motherboard and graphics card markets in 2006.
Walton Chaintech chairman Lu Li-Cheng (transliterated from Chinese), pointed out that the company has many years of experience in motherboard and graphics card production, R&D and marketing and as the company received OEM orders from Colorful, the company expects to gradually return back to branding business in 2013 and is targeting to breakeven in 2012.Lets hope when they do get production rolling their motherboard offerings are better than they used to be. Then again one of the last great AMD 754 based motherboards we used was a Chaintech design, and a motherboard I still have in my collection.
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Cebit 2012 HardwareHeaven Coverage
Published: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | By: DennisThere are three major trade shows that occur throughout the year. The first is CES which focuses on personal electronics, I attend this show because it is close (In Las Vegas) and rather inexpensive for me to attend. The next is CeBit in Hannover Germany. This show is geared more for the EU market than a worldwide stage. Of course the third is Computex and might be the best tradeshow in the world, at least for a hardware guy like myself.
We headed over to Germany this week to check out the latest tech on offer at Cebit 2012. Check out our coverage.
The quote is very descriptive of their coverage but I fully expect to see more from them.
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Introducing the EVGA Classified SR-X Motherboard
Published: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | By: DennisThe EVGA SR-X is the anticipated upgrade to the famed SR-2 using the latest LGA2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors and quad channel memory x2.
March 6th, 2012 - EVGA Corporation, the leading-edge 3D processor and motherboard manufacturer, announced the ultimate in high performance motherboards, the EVGA Classified SR-X. This motherboard sets a new standard for what is considered an enthusiast motherboard with dual CPU support, 4-way SLI support, SATA III 6GB/s, SAS, USB 3.0 and more. Whether you are an extreme power user, workstation, server admin, folder/cruncher; this is the ultimate board for you. This board was designed from the ground up to support the latest and greatest in technology, and be able to complete any task you throw at it faster than you ever thought possible.
Keep in mind this is server class hardware meaning you'll need to run Xeon processors for proper SMP.
More photos in the Ninjalane Message Forum and more information using the link below.
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Minor Issues with URL Rewrite
Published: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | By: DennisIt would seem that the webmaster tools at Google alerted me to an issue with the URL rewriter in charge of converting the review URLs from the old querystring format to the new hackable directory structure we see today. The issue has been resolved and I doubt it caused any "real" visitors any harm.
However if you were caught up in that issue over the past few days AND you happen to be reading this, then accept the apologizes of the Core Ninjalane Staff and Chief developer.
The real issue here is SEO since Google tends to work slow at indexing sites and when you have errors like this they tend to consider you a failure and remove your existence from their database. And just to think I had finally gotten the whole site re-indexed
