GlacialTech Igloo 4310 Heatsink Review Posted
Published: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
If you are looking for a quiet alternative to the stock Intel cooler that actually works look no further than the GlacialTech Igloo 4310.
10 Reasons not to Play FPS Games
Published: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Perish the thought.
"2. Media says it'll turn me into a killing machine and the wife keeps telling me "no killing machines in the house"."
Soltek SL-85DR3 Motherboard Review @ 3dXtreme
Published: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
The i845PE enabled motherboard from Soltek is under review at 3dXtreme and they seem to like the offering.
"I didn't have any problems with placement of the two DIMM sockets. I was a bit disappointed that this motherboard only supported 1 GB or ram. I have four sticks of PC3200 but have not had need to have more than two sticks in each rig at this point"
k...
Charge your popup blocker before you head over, you'll need it.
Matrox Parhelia Review @ Beyond3D
Published: Monday, December 02, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Matrox, now there is a name you don't hear every day though I'd imagine it is spoken quite often in some markets.
"Naturally, where Matrox scores big is their usual haunt, which is of their display output. The 2D quality is very good on Parhelia, among the best I've personally seen. Also, if multi-monitor support is something that's important for you then Matrox has both the most flexibility in the display output options and exceptionally good multi-monitor configurations and software tools."
I have always been a fan of the Matrox display quality but I play games a little to often to put one of their cards in my system full time, regardless I would still buy one.
Of course after I get a GeForceFX 
Gigabyte GA-8INXP Review @ HardwareZone
Published: Monday, December 02, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Here is another look into funky colored, i7205 enabled board from Gigabyte. Overall the HardwareZone guys seem to like it.
"However, the only gripe we had with the board is that it is a little too heavy on the storage side as it comes with support for up to 10 ATA devices. We would have preferred a little bit more balance and a FireWire controller would have been more appropriate."
Firewire would be a nice addition but only if you are a mac lova! 
Lian Li PC-9300 Aluminum Review @ Anandtech
Published: Monday, December 02, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This case would be perfect for that holiday entertainment center mod for the living room. All it needs is a nice LCD display and some plexiglass.
ABIT NF7-S nForce2 Motherboard @ Hexus
Published: Monday, December 02, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
There was a lot of hype around the original nForce chipset release and after it was all said and done the release barely made a wave. Now with the pending release of the newly upgraded nForce2 (creative name huh?) I think we might have something to look forward to.
"Why have I chosen dual-channel DDR266 over dual-channel DDR333 at 133FSB ?. The answer lies in the fact that we actually lose performance by running dual-channel DDR333 at 133FSB. The asynchronous memory speed provides more bandwidth than dual-channel DDR266, but latency is increased by having to account for the asynchronous memory and CPU FSB clocks. "
I wonder if the Intel solutions will have similar problems.
Chipset Shipments Grew in November
Published: Monday, December 02, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
"While Taiwanese chipset designer VIA Technologies suffered a drop in November shipments from the previous month, both Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and ALi Corporation (formerly Acer Laboratories) preliminarily estimated increases."
w00t
I'm Back!
Published: Sunday, December 01, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I trust that everyone had a great Holiday weekend. It would appear that I have a little house cleaning to do before I start with my site updates.
Happy Thanksgiving
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Well everyone I am just about off for my Thanksgiving vacation. The place that I'm traveling to may or may not have internet access (most likely dependant on if I want to fix their computers or not ) so there may or may not be news this weekend.
Have a great turkey day. 
Comdex Wrap-ups at Techware Labs
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
They have two on file and even shed a little more light on why ATI suxX0red.
"We were somewhat disappointed that ATI did not open their meeting room to the media or public until Friday since Harry and I were leaving Comdex Thursday night"
*tisk tisk*
Macs, Adobe, and IE - Who Owns the Bug??
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Our resident Mac expert Talon sent this in and it looks to be a pretty serious yet totally funny little bug. Here is what you need to do.
Go to the site listed below using your favorite IE browser (on the windows platform). You will notice that the page doesn't completely load and a few of the images are gone.
Next using the same browser go to any other site on the net, you will notice that no images are being loaded.
The problem resides around IE freaking out about XML data that is inserted into the .jpg file when it is saved from certain Adobe products on the OSX platform. It is only temporary, just close and restart your browser.
Mozilla based browsers are unaffected.
For more information check out this page
New Poll Question
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Per request I'm working on a new poll question, if you have any ideas let me know.
New Dual Channel DDR Boards From MSI
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
"Micro-Star International (MSI) recently released a new Pentium 4-platform motherboard line, the GNB Max series. Adopting Intel’s E7205 chipset (codenamed Granite Bay), the GNB Max series is able to support the latest Hyper-Threading Technology, AGP 8x graphics and dual-channel DDR memory."
Granite Bay baby!
CoolerMaster HSC-V62 Copper Heatsink Review @ RadiativeNZ
Published: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
The HSC-V62 looks to be your typical thin-fin copper heatsink with the addition of a thermally controlled variable speed fan. In the past I've disliked this approach since the thermal control was more dependant on case temperature than CPU temperature. Coolermaster took this into account and actually placed the sensor under the fan instead.
No Recession for the Porn Business
Published: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
"While many parts of the nation's economy have suffered, the past five years have been good for the adult industry, as new video and computer technology opened the doors to hundreds of millions of potential customers around the world."
pr0n the stable of the new economy.
Comdex Over
Published: Monday, November 25, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
With Comdex officially over a few sites have released their reports of Comdex and as you can guess they had better luck getting in to see other Vendors.
I've seen a few shots of the internal ATI booth along with the elusive AMD meeting room. Like I mentioned in my Comdex write-ups I didn't have a lot of time to spend in Las Vegas so I wasn't able to hit the other hotels and see what they had to offer, and from what I saw quite a few vendors opted to have their shows in hotel convention rooms instead of in the Convention Center.
Two days just wasn't enough 
New Product Schedules Out for Springdale
Published: Monday, November 25, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
"VIA, SiS and ALi release new product schedules due to Springdale changes"
Nothing to outrageous here but it does set some schedules back slightly, while others simply are adapting to the change.
"With samples of its P4X600A expected to be finished in January, VIA is likely to be the first to introduce an 800MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR400 chipset. VIA said that the P4X600A will offer the technology support through overclocking."
Gigabyte 8INXP Review @ t-break
Published: Monday, November 25, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Gigabyte has released their version of a Granite Bay enabled motherboard and according to the specs it is built in typical Gigabyte fashion. Not sure I like the lime green and neon orange treatments but it is unique.
Ellen Feiss Speaks
Published: Sunday, November 24, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
The stoner chix strikes again, but according to her she wasn't stoned, but does admit to being on drugs at the time. Benedryl
"Does it bother you at all that some of your fame might be related to your perceived state of sobriety in the commercial?
It doesn’t really bother me. I do admit to looking pretty out of it in that commercial — I think I look horrible. It was after school, but I was the last person to make the commercial, so by the time I made it it was like 10, so I was really tired. The funny thing was, I was on drugs! I was on Benedryl, my allergy medication, so I was really out of it anyway. That’s why my eyes were all red, because I have seasonal allergies. But no one believes me."
