Tech News
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NL: Case Reviews Roundup
Published: Saturday, December 5, 2009 | By: WillLooks like the case reviews are out in full effect. So let's highlight a few of them.
- Antec Nine Hundred Two Mid Tower Case Review @ ThinkComputers
- SilverStone SUGO SG04-FH Case Review @ Motherboards
- Cooler Master HAF 922 Full-Tower Case @ TheTechLounge
- Thermaltake Element G Gaming Case Review @ Legit Reviews
- Review of LanCool Dragonlord PC-K58 case@ Testseek
- NZXT GAMMA Classic Series PC Case @ Bona Fide Reviews
- Cooler Master HAF 922 @ Technic3D
- Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower Case Review @ PCStatsWait! Wait! we have about all of these cases in our Case Review section already.
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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Saturday, December 5, 2009 | By: WillHere is some more games to check out for the holidays. Plus one of them is already pushing the envelope for DX11 gaming.
Colin McRae: DiRT 2 (PC)@ Elite Bastards
"If it's been a while since you touched a game like this, there's certainly something of a learning curve initially to readjust to the skills required to compete in your average DiRT 2 race, but once it all comes flooding back to you you'll soon find yourself enjoying the almost balletic juggling of brake and accelerator required to safely but quickly traverse each circuit. The track layouts themselves are certainly designed to get the adrenaline pumping - Quite brilliantly so at times, as you find yourself hanging mere inches from a sheer cliff face at times in the name of shaving a few fractions of a second of your lap time or to sneak past an opponent, and taking the word "dangerous" into a whole new league way beyond simply hitting a tree or wall on your way around the track. Once you get into some of the faster cars and find yourself faced with narrow, rock-lined tracks with huge drops around every other corner, nobody will blame you for finishing a race with sweating
palms and dilated pupils, such is the wonderful recreation of high speed that this game offers."Dragon Age: Origins Review (PC, PS3, 360) @ OCModShop
Bioware's new epic, dark fantasy RPG has been receiving a lot of attention lately. The game's marketing team has hit the internet hard and you would practically have to be blind to miss all the online ads for the game. This is a special case in which all the hype and pomp is very much deserved.
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ASRock X58 Extreme Motherboard @ PCShopTalk
Published: Saturday, December 5, 2009 | By: WillAsRock is not known for making boards that are extremely overclocker friendly. So I could see the lack of super cooling on this board. They tend to stay in the lower priced market with lots new options on their boards. So let's read this review to see if they are staying in that model set for them.
"The VRM and X58 chipset cooling solutions are linked together with a heatpipe; I do not consider this a very good solution because, as we already know, the X58 chipset is very hot also, like the VRM, and when we overclock the system and they will transfer the heat from one to another. I would have preferred this board to have some bigger heatsinks, with one or two heatpipes between the VRM and the X58 chipset."
It is not a horrible looking board.
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Intel: Initial Larrabee graphics chip canceled
Published: Friday, December 4, 2009 | By: DennisWow, I mean Wow.
"Justin Rattner (Intel Senior Fellow) demonstrated Larrabee hitting one teraflop, which is great but you could walk across the street and buy an ATI graphics board for a few hundred dollars that would do five teraflops." A teraflop is 1 trillion floating point operations per second, a key indicator of graphics chip performance.
Larrabee, a chronically delayed chip, was originally expected to appear in 2008. It was slated to compete with discrete graphics chips from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices' ATI graphics unit.
Under the circumstances I can understand why they did this. Seems any future Larrabee development will be in the form of a software development platform.
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Intel unveils 48-core cloud computing silicon chip
Published: Friday, December 4, 2009 | By: WillVirtual computing and Cloud computing is looking to be the next big thing for computers. We here at Ninjalane just have to ask the big quetion. Wonder how well these beast will overclock?
Intel has unveiled a prototype chip that packs 48 separate processing cores on to a chunk of silicon the size of a postage stamp.
The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC), as it is known, contains 1.3 billion transistors, the tiny on-off switches that underpin chip technology.
Each processing core could, in theory, run a separate operating system.Also wonder what kind of cooling it will take to keep these guys humming along.
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Thermaltake Toughpower XT 750W Power Supply Review @ TechwareLabs
Published: Friday, December 4, 2009 | By: WillWe here at Ninjalane have the Thermaltake EVO Blue 650 Watt PSU up for review. This was just a friendly reminder is all. Here is a review of the TT Toughpower XT 750 Watt for you to read after you enjoy our review.
"Current power supplies are all about efficiency and power and for good reason, you want enough power for power hungry system while being efficient enough not to destroy your power bill. Thermaltake has updated their famous Toughpower line with the newer Toughpower XT 750w which we will be looking at today."
Shameless.
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Corsair® launches Dominator™ GTX 2250MHz ultra-performance DDR3 memory
Published: Friday, December 4, 2009 | By: WillCorsair® launches DominatorTM GTX 2250MHz
ultra-performance DDR3 memory
- World's fastest DDR3 memory for extreme overclockers and performance enthusiasts -FREMONT, California, December 3, 2009 - Corsair, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer and flash memory products, today announced the launch of its new Dominator GTX ultra-high performance DDR3 memory modules for Intel® and AMDTM platforms, designed specifically for performance enthusiasts, gamers and extreme overclockers.
Corsair Dominator GTX modules are individually screened and tested on multiple high-performance Intel X58 and P55 chipset platforms to ensure that they operate at the incredible frequency of 2250MHz at low-latency timings of 8-8-8-24 at 1.65V. They are designed specifically for performance enthusiasts and overclockers who want to achieve the highest performance possible and to break benchmark world records.
"Corsair has a long history of delivering the fastest overclocking memory on the planet, and our engineering expertise and unique understanding of the enthusiast market allows us to continue to push boundaries," said Kevin Conley, VP of Engineering at Corsair. "Corsair Dominator GTX modules are the most tightly-screened, highest-quality and fastest DDR3 memory modules in the world, and we look forward to seeing what the enthusiast and overclocking community can do with these exciting new products."
In addition to the incredible frequencies possible on Intel platforms, Dominator GTX modules have also been tested and verified to operate at up to 1800MHz CL6 in high-performance Socket AM3 motherboards for AMD PhenomTM II processors, providing AMD enthusiasts with a powerful new weapon in their overclocking arsenal. The following table shows baseline performance in a number of popular DDR3 platforms.
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Silverstone Temjin TJ10B: Water Cooled with Silence @ Bjorn3D
Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | By: WillWe at Ninjalane love the super highend giant roomy cases out there and here is one very elegant Silverstone version that just rocks. I am diggin the way this Silverstone case has been thought out for the watercooling crowd out there.
The Silverstone Temjin TJ10 chassis comes in many different styles. Depending on what the user prefers, some of the most known models are the Black and Silver TJ10, which are named TJ10B and TJ10S respectively. These models come with either a windowed or solid closed side panel. Many of the reviews written in the past have taken a look at the TJ10 with the window side panels and just some of their features, so we here at Bjorn3D, decided to take it one step further and try to build a killer gaming rig from the parts that we gathered over time. To accomplish this, our goals were to have an internal water cooling system that will cool the CPU, but also try to install AcoustiPack Ultimate Soundproofing Kit and AcoustiPack Acoustic Noise Reduction Foam Blocks to fight the annoying noise some of the latest computer systems make.
Stop reading and check it out the review.
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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | By: WillHere is a couple awesome looking games to check out for the holiday season.
Rogue Warrior (PC) Review @ GamingHeaven
Rogue Warrior was announced two years ago and Bethesda held an event in Las Vegas which I attended - war hero Richard Marcinko was there to detail the game development and to show an early level. The title showed a lot of promise, offering an almost Rainbow Six style experience which relied on tactics and teamwork as well introducing Demo Dick - the temperamental main character whose experiences formed the foundation of the game.
Borderlands Gameplay Performance& IQ @HardOCP
Borderlands is a colorful co-op shooter in more ways than one, coming to retail after a lengthy development cycle including at least one redesign. It uses a familiar graphics engine, but with some tweaks and upgrades which have brought with it some unexpected performance challenges. We play Borderlands with 9 of today's best video cards.
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VIZO Ninja HS @ LanOC Reviews
Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | By: WillYep, here comes one of those moments that we post news on something that is not so much of our interest as much as we just like the name. Seriously we are Ninjalane and this product has the Ninja in it's name. So this is only fitting.
Companies have been trying to produce the perfect laptop cooler for years, trying to cover all range of sizes and focusing on unique hot spots of the laptop models. This is near impossible with one set mold, or at the very least spreads each aspect so thin it hardly does any good. However The people over at VIZO weren't satisfied with one specific mold. They decided that the best way to satisfy each individual user was to let the user decide their own measurements and fan placements, to meet their own unique cooling needs. The result is the Ninja HS, and VIZO has sent us a sample to try for ourselves.
I also think it is a laptop cooler as well.
