Tech News
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NL: Review Block - Cases, Chassis, and Stuff
Published: Friday, August 21, 2009 | By: DennisIt's been awhile since I've done a review block, so here we go.
ThermalTake Element G Review @ OCC
Corsair Obsidian Series 800D @ Hexus
Lancool Dragonlord PC-K62 Case Review @ Hardware Canucks
In Win Maelstrom Case @ Hardware Bistro
SilverStone Raven RV02 Case Review @ Hardware Secrets
Thermaltake Element T @ LanOC ReviewsNot going to say much about these cept that we also do case reviews and a couple on the list we have already looked at.
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Asrock Ion 330 Nettop PC @ Pro-Clockers
Published: Friday, August 21, 2009 | By: DennisWe have all heard of the nVidia Ion, but finding companies that are using Ion has been rather difficult. Well here is a review of an extremely small Ion based "Nettop" computer. (I'm guessing it's like a netbook without the screen/keyboard/portable aspect)
Our good friends at Asrock as grace us with one of their new Nettop Ion 330. This model is one of two that ASrock produces. The Ion 330 is based on the Nvidia Ion chipset obviously. And the other S330 is based on the Intel 945C chipset. They are both centered center the Intel Atom 330 dual core processor. The feature set of both are pretty similar as they both supply HD 1080P playback through HDMI, slim-line DVD device and a 2.5" hard drive. But the most important features once again are the small size, money saving and light multitasking. So, read on to see if the Nettop Ion 330 is a considerable unit to be place in your entertainment center.
I'm sure there will be more Ion based products in the future; however considering the size of the processor we might not be able to find them with the naked eye.
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EVGA's P55 Motherboard Lineup Revealed + P55 FTW Preview @ Hardware Canucks
Published: Thursday, August 20, 2009 | By: WillEVGA board line for the Core i5 is shaping up to be a very interesting lineup.
"As our P55 previews continue, we are now able to bring you some exclusive information: the details of EVGA's entire P55 motherboard lineup along with some new pieces of overclocking technology. Piggybacking onto this deluge of drool-worthy information is our preview of the upcoming EVGA P55 FTW motherboard."
I cannot wait for the new processors.
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CryoTech and New Cooling Technologies You've Never Seen @ FrostyTech
Published: Monday, August 17, 2009 | By: WillWe at Ninjalane love playing with different ways to cool our extremely hot systems. So now we have a new idea on how to go about cooling a system.
"Since today is bugger of a hot one, I thought it might be fun to depart from the usual pixel fodder and take a brief look at a few cool technologies you've (likely) never seen before, touch on some fun tests from Frostytech's unpublished archives, and collect all the thermodynamics research we've reported on recently into one location. This includes vapour chambers, thermoacoustic and phase change waterchilling, conduction cooled PCB and stirling Cycle Cryo Coolers among many others."
MuHaaaHaaa! Evil scientist laughter always makes my day.
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AMD Previews DirectX 11 Gaming Performance on Evergreen @ Legit Reviews
Published: Monday, August 17, 2009 | By: WillThe clock is ticking for all kinds of great new stuff from all hardware directions. The graphic card market is starting to gear up for the DirectX 11 battle with AMD firing off about the new "Evergreen" graphic card.
"Taking a look at the back of the case we can see that the DX11 'Evergreen' graphics card is a dual slot solution. For hooking up monitors the card has a has a pair of dual DVI outputs and then both DisplayPort and HDMI connectors. There is also an exhaust port on the back for what could be an outside thermal exhaust system. This is one of the only pictures of this elusive video card on the web...."
I cannot wait for this fall!
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Windows 7 vs Vista VGA Game Performance @ Guru3D
Published: Friday, August 14, 2009 | By: WillWindows 7 is so close we can just taste it. So it is a good time to start reading upon what we are going to see from Windows 7 gaming performance.
"Windows 7 (Final) vs. Windows Vista VGA game performance analysis ATI and NVIDIA -- Single versus Multi-GPU.
Windows 7 VGA performanceLast week Microsoft released the final build (RTM) version of Windows 7 to MSDN members, yes Windows 7 has gone gold, though you as a consumer might have to wait a while longer (October) for you to be able to upgrade to Windows 7. MSDN members already have access to the final build and as such can prepare and migrate to the new Operating system."Good Read!
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Phenom II vs Core i7: Gaming Value Comparison @ PureOverclock
Published: Friday, August 14, 2009 | By: WillAnother AMD and Intel comparison will always get everybodies attention. The battle that never ends, but it does get some fun flame wars going very well. I'm going to go ahead and throw some fuel on the fire with saying "Core i7 FTW!"
" AMD vs Intel. Nothing quite stirs the passion and sets the flame wars firing than such a debate. Today we have a special treat as we'll be tackling that debate head-on with the question: Is a Phenom II or Core i7 system provide better gaming performance and value? To find out, we'll be running single card, dual cards, stock CPU speeds, and overclocked CPU configurations to bench the snot out two gaming systems and give you a definitive answer.
Let the fanboy flame wars commence!!!"Core i7 FTW!
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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Friday, August 14, 2009 | By: WillHere is some PC game reviews for everyone to enjoy.
Joint Task Force - JTF - PC Review @ Gamepyre
"Now, if you were in a hurry and skipped all other sections of the review, I'm going to try my best to sum it up for you in just a couple of sentences. Joint Task Force (JTF) is a modern time military RTS. The graphics are good but they are by no means top of the line and the same can be said about the game's sound. Some of the game's features work really well, while others seem very buggy and unfinished. This game is a lot more entertaining in the skirmish or multiplayer modes considering that the storyline is rather boring. If you are ABSOLUTELY sick of WWII RTSs, this might be a nice stress reliever one skirmish at a time. But if you're expecting to play this game five years from now, you're expecting way, way too much out of JTF. I'll even go as far as saying that five years from now, this game will be completely forgotten."
Fall Out 3 Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt - PC Review @ Gamepyre
"As all successful games, it was only a matter of time before additional content was released. Sometimes companies really try to push over products on their unsuspected fans. The best example is the stand-alone expansion pack to Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes - Tales of Valor. By making it a stand alone copy, THQ had in fact stole a score. As a stand alone game, Tales of valor was good, but if it were not a stand-alone product, reviewers would not have given it a score over 30."
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15 Case Mods From Quakecon 2009 on Day 1 @ Legit Reviews
Published: Friday, August 14, 2009 | By: WillNinjalane came onto the hardware scene some 10 years ago with making modding our big thing. Now we are into a little bit of everything, but we love to see some great Mods when we get a chance.
"I can't say that I have ever seen a full sized gas BBQ be turned into a PC, but now I can. The mod works great, but sadly the BBQ functionality has been totally lost. If only it had a working side burner! Just imagine you could BBQ up some dry rub spare ribs for dinner and frag at the same time..."
Mmmm...ribs!
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DDR2 & DDR3 Dual and Triple Channel Memory Roundup: Corsair, Patriot, GeIL, Elixir @ ModReactor
Published: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 | By: WillWe at Ninjalane always love a great no hold bars cage fight amongst RAM. It is a great reason to wake up everyday with a smile.
"Recently the Modreactor lab got flooded with various memory kits. And though initially we were considering a series of reviews, eventually we decided to write a single mega article comparing different type, latency, volume and frequency modules in not only scaling performance and different platforms, but also in the field of subjective general feel about them, describing what we liked (or disliked) in each of them. And so, it's about time we get to the ultimate comparison of DDR2 and DDR3 memory kits with Core 2, Core i7 and Phenom II based systems!"
There is other reasons too, trust me!
