Tech News
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Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 (CDM4GX3M2A1600C8) @ Bjorn3D
Published: Sunday, September 27, 2009 | By: WillThey look just super cool and the Corsair Dominators just might run super cool as well. Let's take a read and find out.
Along with Core i5/i7 (LGA 1156) came different requirements for RAM than previous platforms. The predecessor to LGA 1156 was core i7 LGA 1366 and it needed low voltage DDR3 in the triple channel flavor. The LGA 1156 platform needs Dual Channel DDR3, and it has the same 1.65v low voltage requirement as the previous platform.
When LGA 1366 hit the streets memory vendors were scrambling for low voltage memory IC's and the manufacturers of the low voltage controllers couldn't keep up. Kit's were slow in appearing because of the lack of an adequate supply of memory IC's that fit the bill for voltage. Our first kit was a triple channel kit that ran at 1066MHz and we were glad to have it because prices were extremely high at the time.
When Core i5/i7 launched vendors were ready for it and memory in every speed and flavor was ready for the shelves, which means that one of our favorite brands was ready to ship. Corsair sent us a 4GB kit of Dominator 1600MHz with timings of 8-8-8-24. Let's run the Dominator a few different ways and see how far we can drive it before it screams for mercy.These do look just sexy.
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MSI and LucidLogix Form Technology Partnership to Develop Big Bang Mainboard
Published: Thursday, September 24, 2009 | By: WillWe here at Ninjalane took notice of this company a while back named LucidLogix. Well it looks like the technology is ready for primetime, and MSI will have it installed on the Big Bang P55 motherboard. SLI and Crossfire may not matter here soon.
"Through the formation of this technology partnership, MSI and LucidLogix demonstrate how inventive collaboration can extend capabilities and create product innovation. The all-new premium line is inspiried by the "Big Bang" in astronomy, and is dedicated to unique innovation. Powered by the new Lucid HYDRA 200 real-time distributed processing engine, the MSI Big Bang mainboard features the first-ever universal multi-GPU mainboard. Already, its first technology showcase at IDF drew worldwide attention."
ATI and NVidia might want to watch out!
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Intel Core i7 Goes Mobile - Core i7-920XM 'Clarksfield' CPU Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Thursday, September 24, 2009 | By: WillCome one, come all the new mobile processing beast is among us all. Intel has finally placed the newest of it's Core i7 processor line into the moblie market. This should be one awesome processor for this kind of platform.
"Based on the current 45nm Nehalem micro-architecture, the Intel Core i7 mobile lineup consists of three Clarksfield processors. The flagship mobile processor is the Core i7-920XM Extreme Edition followed by the mainstream Core i7-820QM and Core i7-720QM. The new platform brings the two-chip design to laptops which will increase efficiency when compared to the three-chip design of the Penryn-based mobile platform. With the memory controller now on the CPU and IO controlled by the PM55 Express chipset, we should see the mobile market catch up with the desktop market in terms of performance..."
I wonder how the heat envelope will be in this new lineup.
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EVGA X58 SLI Micro LGA1366 mATX Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks
Published: Thursday, September 24, 2009 | By: WillThis board has everything, but the kitchen sink in a nice little cool looking package. Let's take a look at this review and see if it is everything you have ever wanted in the Micro-ATX board.
"The mATX form factor has really made a name for itself over the last few years and that has carried forward to the X58 chipset with fully featured monster boards packed into a small mATX form factor. The EVGA X58 SLI Micro continues that tradition by offering pretty much everything its full ATX X58 counterparts provide. The one big difference is the mATX form factor."
We here at Ninjalane love having our colors on such a cool looking board.
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In the Year 2020, Part I: Cloud Computing @ Digital Trends
Published: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | By: WillCloud Computing is more than some strong buzz words we have started hearing in the last year. Here is a good read to help you get your mind around it, and to also see the potential of such a technology. Good stuff here.
"Welcome to Part I of a three-part series here at Digital Trends on life and technology in the year 2020. We've enlisted the help of a few experts who make it their business to know where technology is moving and how it will impact us, in order to peek into the future. We'll look at the ups and the downs of the digital world a decade hence as it applies to real people, and perhaps even bewilder you occasionally with a forecast or two of what we may see."
I wonder if they will have different types of clouds like in real life.
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NL: ATI Radeon 5870 Review Roundups
Published: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | By: WillThe time has finally come to add a new top dawg in the single GPU arena. Here is a roundup for the newly launched graphics card.
- AMD's ATI Radeon HD 5870 Video Card Review @ HardOCP
- Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB in CrossFire @ TweakTown
- The AMD HD5870 - the fastest single-GPU card available? @ Bjorn3D
- Sapphire HD 5870 Review @ OCC
- ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 Preview @ OC3D
- AMD Radeon HD 5800 series technology preview @ Elite Bastards
- AMD's Radeon HD 5870 graphics processor reviewed @ TR
- ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs. NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 @ InsideHW
- ATI Radeon HD 5870 DX11 Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews -
DFI Hybrid Motherboard HD Video Preview (P45 + ION - Two Systems, One Mobo) @ Tweaktown
Published: Monday, September 21, 2009 | By: WillNow this is a very cool idea. You can now be more productive than ever while using your computer with this new board.
"It turned out that DFI created a totally unique motherboard design that actually allows for two systems to run shared (KVM style) or fully independent of each other, on the one single board.
The left side of the system is built up of the components for the NVIDIA ION and Intel Atom platform. This part could be used as a low-power file server or torrent downloading system or even Blu-ray movie playback. And the right side of the board features the parts seen on a traditional P45 + Socket 775 CPU motherboard, which could be used for gaming, video editing or other intensive applications."Pretty neat.
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NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Monday, September 21, 2009 | By: WillSome more PC gaming to push those super fantastic graphic cards that we have.
Majesty 2: the Kingdom Fantasy Sim (PC) Review @ Gamingheaven
When the original Majesty was released at the turn of the century I spent months of my life trying to complete some of the more difficult missions. It was fiendishly addictive yet also surprisingly difficult. Developer 1C Company have released the follow up entitled ‘Majesty 2' which is set to update some of the gameplay elements as well as introduce a flashy new 3D graphics engine.
Sherlock Holmes Vs. Jack the Ripper - PC Review @ Gamepyre
Basically, if you like action games, shooters, war simulators, anything fast paced and I mean anything, DON'T bother with this game. This game is more of a entertaining puzzle but it is by no means an action game. Reading, exami...
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Gigabyte P55-UD6 / P55-UD6 and MSI P55-GD80 @ Madshrimps
Published: Monday, September 21, 2009 | By: WillIt has only been a couple of weeks and we are already getting P55 motherboard roundups. Well I'm game for it. So lets get some reading done.
Almost two weeks after the official release of the Core i5 platform, we review three LGA1156 motherboards. We put the Gigabyte P55-UD3 and UD6 through the same batch of tests as the MSI P55-GD80 and check who comes out on top. Next to that we have some surprising results for those who want to use Turbo mode and also have a look at the extreme overclocking capabilities of both high-end motherboards.
P55 FTW!
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Seagate Barracuda XT 6 Gbps SATA Drive Preview @ Bigbruin
Published: Monday, September 21, 2009 | By: WillThe new SATA 6Gb/s standard is finally coming to all of us PC folk. The specs look just down right awesome. Then come to think of it so did the SATA 3Gb/s generation, but the drives was never really able to hits that true throughput.
Seagate is launching the industry's first 2TB SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB cache hard drive with its Barracuda XT product line. Seagate has tagged the Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6G hard drive with the phrase: "Speed and capacity, uncompromised." How could anything possibly be compromised with a 6 Gb/s speed, and a huge amount of storage and cache?
Let's hope this time we are amazed before SSD takes over.
