Tech News
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BlizzCon 2009 - Recap & Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Thursday, September 3, 2009 | By: WillBlizzCon is over, but everyone is already getting ready for the next one. It is good to see that some companies are still pushing the PC gaming industry.
This year's BlizzCon has definitely been the best one for me. The new World of Warcraft expansion looks like it will be the best one yet. I love the old world and getting to go back there and visit all the old content with new activities looks like it will be a lot of fun. The new raids and dungeons look amazing. The fact that they chose to concentrate on end game and environment rather than quest lines..."
Get Diablo 3 out already!
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ASUS Crosshair III Formula AM3 Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks
Published: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 | By: WillLooks like AMD has really driven up it's demand with the new Phenom 2 processors among the enthusiast. Also factor in the slumping economy and people lacking tons of cash to buy the more expensive Core i7 processors.You have a receipe for better motherboard support.
"If we went back in time to just a few short months ago, there really wasn't anything that was really exciting about what motherboard manufacturers had on tap for AMD's lineup. Now, with the resurgence of the AMD brand's Phenom architecture, things are rapidly changing and the AM3 platform is being noticed by enthusiasts. Today we take a look at the board that is supposed to lead all others when it comes to AMD processors: the ASUS Crosshair III Formula."
I know those people could have just bought a Core2.
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Can Ubuntu 9.10 Outperform Mac OS X 10.6? @ Phoronix
Published: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 | By: WillFor all of the people out there that like something different than the normal Windows environment can rejoice for Mac OS X Snow Leopard is out. On the same note it looks like it has some compitetion from the new Ubuntu on the alternative OS area.
"Back on Friday we published Mac OS X 10.6 benchmarks and found it to offer some terrific performance improvements, but at the same time, there were a few notable regressions. Apple engineers have been working hard at pushing technologies like Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), OpenCL, full 64-bit support, and other changes to their OS X stack to bolster its performance capabilities and reduce the overall footprint. Now that we have tested Mac OS X 10.6, we are seeing how its performance compares to that of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" will be out in October and does have some performance improvements as our earlier tests have shown, but Canonical engineers have not been exclusively focusing on performance optimizations with this release. Can the Karmic Koala outperform Snow Leopard? Yes and no."
Windows 7 all the way!
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MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2009 Grand Final in Beijing - Video Coverage @ TweakTown
Published: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 | By: WillThese overclocking events are becoming all the rage, and we here at Ninjalane love it. We cannot wait to get a team in on this someday in the near off future.
We just got back from Beijing, China where we attended MSI's Master Overclocking Arena (or MOA) 2009 grand final. MSI decided to host the event at the 2008 Olympic city as it themed the event in the same style, except with IT athletes.
There were about 100 people in the group consisting of MSI staff, overclockers and media from all over the world. As far as the competition went, there were a total of 20 global overclocking teams (two competitors per team) from about 15 different countries."Ninjalane FTW!
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4-Way SSD Round-Up Redux: OCZ, Corsair, PhotoFast @ HotHardware
Published: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 | By: WillHere is a good roundup of the ever popular SSD produsts. At the Ninjalane labs we have tested a couple of these drives and have been very impressed with them.
"Solid State storage products continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Over the last year or so, solid state drives, or SSDs, specifically targeted at PC enthusiasts have transformed from buggy, generally underperforming products to the preferred, high-end storage solution for performance hungry enthusiasts. Available capacities have increased, cost per gigabyte has decreased significantly, and a number of useful features have been introduced that enhance or otherwise optimize performance.
We have already covered a number of different solid state storage products at HotHardware, but in this article we're rounding-up another quartet of solid state drives, the updated OCZ Vertex Series drive with garbage collection, and OCZ Vertex Turbo Series drive, Corsair's P64, and a beast of an SSD from PhotoFast, the G-Monster V5..."Move on over Raptor, the SSD is moving in.
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X58 Motherboard Roundup Review @ OCC
Published: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | By: WillAll of the recent Core i5 talk has overshadowed the Core i7 LGA1366 processors. Don't fear more X58 motherbaord reviews are here.
"The overclocked scores give us a better idea of how each board performs. In Apophysis, MSI's X58 Platinum takes first place by one. The top performer in WinRAR is another MSI board. In just about every benchmark the MSI Eclipse Plus outperforms the competition. For this round I'd say the MSI Eclipse takes the cake, hands down, for both the stock and overclocked scores let's move on to the next set of benchmarks."
Underdog is here!
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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Monday, August 31, 2009 | By: WillHere is some new PC games to check out.
Trine (PC) Review @ Gamingheaven
"These days when discussing new PC games, the talking point is generally around a new cutting edge engine and how much better it looks when compared to the previous version. It seems quite often that the core element of gameplay is overlooked and today we are looking at a title from developer Frozenbyte which is a modern take on the classic 2D action adventure genre."
"From the developers of Mafia comes Mafia II, a look into the dark and unforgiving world of the Mob. Powered by a next-generation engine built specifically for Mafia II, players experience new depth and dimension to gunfights, hand-to-hand combat and vehicular exploration. Born the son of a poor immigrant, Vito is a beaten down Italian American who is trying to secure his piece of the American Dream. Looking to escape the life of poverty that consumed his childhood, Vito is soon swayed by the lure of power and wealth that a life of Organized Crime can bring. A petty criminal his whole life, Vito, along with his childhood friend, Joe, will descend into the world of Organized Crime. Together, they will work to prove themselves to the Mob as they try to make their names on the streets of a cold and unforgiving city. Take part in car-to-car gunfights, hand-to-hand combat and gunplay, forming an intense and exciting experience? See you in the following Gamescom-Preview from Technic3D."
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Intel Core i7 870 @ InsideHW
Published: Monday, August 31, 2009 | By: WillWell look out the 2 channel memory controlled Core i7 is already getting checked out on the net. Let's see what this new comer has for computer experience, and wallet impact.
"Benchmark resuts of new Intel Core i7 870 (Lynnfield) CPU did appear a month ago along with some announcements about new CPUs (Core i7 870, Core i7 860 and Core i5 750) and new chipset (P55). We managed to get our hand on fully functional configuration based on Intel Core i7 870 CPU paired with Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 motherboard..."
Socket 1156 is almost here.
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ASUS MARS - QUAD SLI - Extreme gaming! @ DriverHeaven
Published: Friday, August 28, 2009 | By: WillIs there ever a time of to much power? Well Asus does not think so, and everyone that is a hardware enthusiast should never say such a thing either.
"Asus have just rewritten the Nvidia rulebook with the release of their 1 grand video card - the Asus MARS. Its basically two 285's on one board with 4GB of high performance ram. Asus sent us TWO of these limited edition boards and we put them in a watercooled system to see just how many frames they can deliver with all the modern gaming titles."
Time for the mad scientist laugh.
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Apple's Worst Products and Biggest Failures @ Digital Trends
Published: Thursday, August 27, 2009 | By: WillWell here is something for the guys that love to laugh at the Mac failures of yesterday. In all of my days working with Macs. I think the biggest failure was them making a machine with a optical drive that wouldn't last over a week.
"The iPod. The iPhone. The iMac. The Macintosh. The LaserWriter. The Macbook. Mac OS X. The list goes on. Apple, the multinational corporation that began life in the mid-seventies in a garage trumpeting "Think Different" as its mantra, has concocted and released some of the most imaginative, groundbreaking, and iconic products of the digital age. It has continually set the tone for style and ease of use, and has harmonized the relationship between man and computer more efficiently than any other company on the planet."
iHate the whole "i" thing with a passion also.
