GeForceFX aka NV30 Released Today
Published: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
We have plans to actually see the card in action tomorrow during day two of our Comdex adventure, in the meantime quite a few other sites have already posted their "previews" of the new card, go ahead and check them out. 
Comdex 2002 Day 1 Posted
Published: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Well it has been a long day of shaking hands and walking all over the place but we survived and stayed awake long enough to post the highlights of Day 1 at Comdex.
Look for a followup to be posted late tomorrow.
Comdex Baby!
Published: Sunday, November 17, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Well I am off to sleep since I have to get up pretty early to catch a flight to Las Vegas for Comdex 2002.
I am planning to post a page with pictures and commentary for the days that I’m there. Stay tuned, barring that Justin and I don't miss our plane we'll say hello again from Las Vegas. 
Logitech vs. Logitech
Published: Sunday, November 17, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This is has to be one of the strangest reviews that I've ever seen, though since I've been really quite curious about the new MX500 mouse from Logitech, I figured I would check it out. To be honest I'm still curious. 
The [H] Coverup
Published: Saturday, November 16, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This is getting to be pretty interesting, Here is the skinny. Kyle posted a review of the new 3.06 P4 and shortly after posting the review the 3DMark graph changed. The number went from 17829 to 17329 though it is unclear to me if the numbers changed before or after Kyle got cr4p over it.
Here is a clip from the [H]
" After researching this fully for two days, I have been able to pull together 100% factual evidence that a single set of benchmarks in the 3GHz article were changed after publication of the article. The 3DMark benchmark was changed from "17829" to "17329". The fact of the matter is that we did not note this change. It is standard operating procedure that anytime a portion of an article is changed, outside spelling and grammar, it is noted and explained as to why the change was made. This was not done."
LifeView FlyVideo 2000S Review @ RadiativeNZ
Published: Saturday, November 16, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This is kind of a strange review for me to post but... Hey sometimes is pays to be strange, just look at Jim Morrison.
"The LifeView FlyVideo 2000S is a PCI based TV Tuner, TV Capture, and FM tuner card. There are a couple of versions available, the 2000 and the 2000S, the only difference is that the "S" version supports stereo sound"
Kind of Slow in the News Department
Published: Friday, November 15, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
It would appear that the 3.06GHz Pentium 4 was the pinnacle news story for the entire week!
Tyan Tiger i7500 Review @ 2CPU
Published: Friday, November 15, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
It has been quite awhile since I posted anything from 2CPU.com and I kind of feel bad. 
Anyhow Hooz has posted his review of the Dual XEON Tyan Tiger i7500. This board supports up to 8Gb of DDR RAM two P4 XEON processors and will fit into a standard ATX case. 
" If you weren't already aware, the Tiger i7500 is the first and only E7500 board to be released on a normal ATX sized PCB. This is awfully handy for anyone who has a smaller server or rackmount case already... Hell, I even fit mine into an Antec SX600 series case (a feat I couldn't accomplish with any of the other E7500 boards I've had)"
Albatron PX845PEV Pro Review @ PCStats
Published: Thursday, November 14, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
The Albatron board is easily one of those love hate motherboards, I love the features and hate the layout.
"My biggest qualm with the motherboard surrounds the placement of the floppy drive connector. With it located at the very bottom of the motherboard, users with full tower cases like the Inwin Q500 will have big problems getting the drive and motherboard connected."
I think the reviewer agreed. Despite the layout downfalls the board performs pretty well and if you are like me and don't use a floppy drive anymore I'd say "think about it".
3.06GHz Pentium 4 Released Today
Published: Thursday, November 14, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
As you can guess (based of an earlier news post) the Hyperthreading enabled 3.06GHz Pentium 4 was released today and for the most part everyone that reviewed a processor liked the results.
Maybe one of these days I'll be able to review a new processor. *sigh*
Waterblocks, and More Waterblocks
Published: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
ExtremeCooling is living up to their name and has reviewed a series of waterblock designs and tested how well they worked. This is a pretty good read if you are curious about watercooling.
Hyper-Threading On P4 2.4BGhz
Published: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
VR-Zone has a very curious screen shot posted of a HyperThreaded 2.4GHz P4 with the idea that HyperThreading has been enabled all along in the Northwood processor but just disabled in the BIOS.
One of two things happened here,
1) a very creative screenshot hack.
2) a very talented BIOS programmer hacked the provided BIOS.
Either way this is just more fuel for the HyperThreaded fire 
Intel Price Cuts, AMD to Follow
Published: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
"INTEL HAS CUT the prices of its Pentium 4 processors in advance of the expected launch of a new 3.06GHz Pentium 4 processor Thursday"
HyperThreading is almost here
Interview With David Kirk of Nvidia @ Hardware Accelerated
Published: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
"The nForce2 was recently announced, what kind of feedback has this seen? Serial ATA was not included however, is there a reason for this? "
NVIDIA is evaluating SerialATA as a feature for our next-generation products, however, the saturation point for SerialATA devices is not high enough for inclusion at this time. There is no point of burdening consumers with a cost for a feature they probably won’t take advantage of.
I would have to agree with him, at least for now.
MX500 Optical Mouse Review @ Envy News
Published: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Over the years I have loved and hated Logitech. One moment they release the worlds greatest mouse, the next min it is discontinued and replaced with yet another one that more or less sux. I could be too critical but then again I look beyond any technical achievement they may include since using the mouse is really the most important aspect.
As you can guess I really don't like the new mouse and find the MouseMan Dual Optical to be a better buy.
Enermax EG465P-FC 430w Review @ Inside-Hardware
Published: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Its not very often I post power supply reviews but... Well here is a clip.
"A long time ago, in a distant galaxy far far away power supplies were once overlooked. After years of neglect the power supply industry has finally exploded. The need for more power has become vital with the creation of new more powerful silicon chips. Processors currently at 3 GHZ, excessive complusive's disorders with case fans, peliter coolers, super fast cdroms and level 5 raid array's..."
Watch out for the Wookie.
Chaintech 7NJS nForce2 Review @ VR-Zone
Published: Monday, November 11, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Chaintech has been making quite a name for themselves in recent months and I think the following quote tells it all.
"Chaintech 7NJS nForce2 board is based on the latest ZENITH series which is a more powerful solution over the current successful APOGEE series. Many more goodies and features are being added into the ZENITH series of boards making them the best featured and most accessories bundled boards of all time."
This is pretty exciting since the growing trend is to include just what is necessary to install the motherboard making the user buy the rest.
XtremeDDR PC-3500+ Review @ MBReview
Published: Monday, November 11, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I'm still a fan of the Corsair stuff but I'm open-minded to the other offerings out there. MBReview has a three-way posted between some of the big names in PC3500 memory. Corsair, Samsung, and XtremeDDR.
What chips do you think XtremeDDR uses?
AquaXtreme-XP Watercooler Review @ OCAddition
Published: Monday, November 11, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I've been trying to get into watercooling lately and with the wide variety of kits available it doesn't make much sense to build one from scratch anymore. OCAddition installed the AquaXtreme-XP from CoolTechnica and seems to like it.
Abit BE7-RAID Review @ Legion Hardware
Published: Monday, November 11, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This is one of the few pumpkin colored motherboards on the market, and in a way it kind of scares me. This board features the i845PE chipset from Intel along with the normal things we have come to expect from an Abit motherboard product.
