Tech News
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Fake Intel Core i7 920s at the Egg
Published: Saturday, March 6, 2010 | By: WillWell this is a warning to everyone. If you bought a Intel Core i7 920 recently from Newegg open the box right away if you haven't. Looks like somefake CPU have been sent out. Looks like Newegg is taking care of the situation very well. Here is an article over at HardOCP that seems to sum up the problem very well.
Newegg Selling Fake Intel CPUs
"Did you just order an Intel Core i7-920 CPU from Newegg? Have you opened the box yet to check and see what is inside of it? We highly suggest you do."
Here is an image of the fake heatsink used. We borrowed from HardOCP.
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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Friday, March 5, 2010 | By: WillHere is one of those new PC games getting reviews done now for everyone to read.
Aliens vs Predator (PC) @ GamingHeaven
"People who grew up in the eighties know two things - the first being that Aliens was amazing and the second being that Predator was also amazing. This would lead anyone from that time to arrive at the conclusion that combining the two would be very much a wining idea. So it proved across various systems, the nostalgia mash-up delivering what many of us had hoped for down the years."
Aliens vs. Predator (PC) @ TweakPC
We took a look at Rebellions Aliens vs. Predator. Classical gameplay, nice graphics, so all good? Let's see!
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ASUS TUF SaberTooth 55i @ Bjorn3D
Published: Friday, March 5, 2010 | By: WillThis board has everything to make it look cool and even has the cool name of SaberTooth. Still does the features and the overclocking potential make this an awesome board? Let's read on to find out.
We over at Bjorn3D.com are going to be looking at one of ASUS's newest additions to their motherboard line up. This motherboard is built upon ASUS's outstanding continuation of high quality and their attention to detail. This motherboard uses Intel's P55 chipset, like other motherboards based on the this chipset, the ASUS Sabertooth 55i motherboard can support any 1156 socket CPU. It can be configured to run either Nvidia's multi GPU configuration SLI, or ATI's multi GPU configuration Crossfire X. But like all other P55 based motherboards, this motherboard only supports Dual Channel memory.
The ceramic heatsinks is just to cool.
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WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review @ HotHardware
Published: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | By: WillWell the time has come for the big boys of Hard Drive land to step in the SSD market. Looks like Western Digital has the first foot in. Let's see what WD has to offer us end users.
"Storage is going solid state and the move to acquire Silicon Systems back in March of 2009, was a very deliberate course of action for WD that spoke clearly about their intentions. We've heard rumblings of offerings forthcoming from WD's primary competitor, Seagate, as well but today WD makes it real with their new SiliconEdge line of SSD products. We've taken a 256GB SiliconEdge Blue drive out for a spin, or perhaps lack thereof, and have our impressions posted on the pages ahead of WD's first foray into solid state drive technology..."
Wonder where the other guys are at?
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Indilinx Barefoot Firmware Testing with the RunCore Pro IV SSD @ Tweaktown
Published: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | By: WillWith all of the problems with some of the Seagate hard drives I don't think it is to uncommon anymore to update your Hard Drives Firmware. Still it is rare to see many of the manufactures showing the newest firmware for there drives. So this is a good educational article for people.
"When we first tested the RunCore Pro IV solid state drives we had no idea that the Indilinx Barefoot firmware would be updated more often than your typical motherboards BIOS. Some people may be a little disheartened by this since it can be a pain to update firmware every couple of months, but for the most part enthusiasts welcome the additional features and with them performance advantages that come from the latest in technological achievements.
When it comes to firmware updates for solid state drives, the company that manufactured your drive DOES MATTER! While going back through my collection of drives to update them to the latest firmware, I found several manufacturers that either do not list publically new firmware updates or are so outdated that it isn't even worth the hassle. TweakTown has looked at more SSDs over the past year than any other hardware review site, so we have quite a few to play around with on any given day."Free performance sweet.
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EVGA W555 Information Round Up
Published: Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | By: DennisThis isn't really a review style round up but more of an informational post about the forthcoming dual board from EVGA.
We of course got to see the board first hand at CES and even talked with Shamino about the various aspects, limitations, and available options. As many have guessed this is a dual Xeon board so you'll need dual Xeon processors
Techgage posted a mini-rant related to the EVGA W555 in response to a posting over at Bright Side of News, (which is nothing more than a FAQ / Q&A).
There is one lucky guy to have already gotten one of these super sweet boards, Movieman over at XtremeSystems scored the sweet deal of a lifetime, and has pics to prove it. The story broke in several places at once. Wrigleyvillain was nice enough to post the good news in the Ninjalane Message Forum, while the HWBot guys micro-blogged on twitter about the good news.
Sadly, no W555 for us just quite yet, but we have our fingers crossed, 4 leave clovers nearby, and credit card on standby (for procs. mems, and cards) just waiting for the much anticipated release.
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Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H AMD 890GX Motherboard @ TechwareLabs
Published: Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | By: WillAMD has just released that new 890GX/SB850 chipset that brings with it the ability to use the new 6-core Phenom. II. That is not all they also are first to the gate with USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0Gb/s native on the chipset. So check out this awesome Gigabyte board sporting all the new technology.
"Check out the new Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H Motherboard. This is Gigabytes first board to include AMDs new 8-series chipset, the 890GX. Check out what's the future holds inside! The new Phenom II X6, Thuban will also be supported by the 890GPA-UD3H."
Nice jump in front for a little bit for AMD.
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Asus P7P55D-E Premium motherboard review @ APH Networks
Published: Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | By: DennisTalk about breaking one of the 7 deadly sins.
Taking a look around the CPU socket area reveals an impressive array of chokes. You don't even need to count them to see that there's a serious quantity of them on the CPU voltage regulator circuit! Asus specifies a 48 Hybrid Phase power design on the P7P55D-E Premium, which is calculated by a 32-phase power design for the processor, three for the memory controller on the processor, and additional phases over the T.Probe to balance current over these phases.
The only question now is, how much of that hybrid PMW is always in use, and is the extra cost worth the effort? I mean it doesn't even support triple GPUs.
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ASUS X58 Rampage III Extreme Motherboard Preview @ Legit Reviews
Published: Monday, March 1, 2010 | By: WillLooks like someone got ahold of a new board without any stock heatsinks. I love the passive Zalman heatsink strapped on to this board. From the read it looks like this board is a overclocking beast.
"I'm rather glad ASUS stuck with the Rampage Extreme branding as it lets me say stuff like EEEEXXXXTRRREEEEMMMMMEEE in daily conversation. I know in just writing this article I've mumbled that to myself a half-dozen times with a grin on my face. I have a feeling the Rampage III Extreme will be another board that goes down in the history books for high performance. The ASUS R3E motherboard though won't be limited in appreciation to just those people who benchmark with liquid nitrogen and dry ice. A lot of thought was put into the layout and the fact that it has an ATX form factor height means it'll enable 4-way CrossFire in a normal ATX case unlike the EVGA X58 Classified 4-Way SLI which fits in only a handful of cases..."
I just not feeling it when I say Extreme.
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SilverStone HDDBoost Hybrid SSD / HDD Device Review @ Hardware Canucks
Published: Sunday, February 28, 2010 | By: WillWe at Ninjalane do not get puzzled to much at new hardware till you run into something like this. This is a mother of odd ideas that just might be cool, or just might be one of the goofiest things we have seen. Read the review and be the judge of it.
"Many people have shied away from SSDs due to their somewhat limited storage capacity and high price for the drives. Spindle-based hard drives on the other hand have massive amounts of storage space but lack the performance of SSDs. SilverStone's $50 HDDBoost looks to marry the best of both worlds by allowing us to seamlessly link a budget SSD to a hard drive for increased performance. However, does it work?"
Yes, grammar hounds "goofiest" is a word. If not the word now belongs to Ninjalane.
