Reducing Case Vibration
Published: Friday, November 08, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Case vibration is one of the main causes of noise in home-built PC's and the solution to the problem isn't that hard to solve.
a) Buy a real case that uses good quality sheet metal. recommended
b) Spend the money you saved buying that cheap ass case to buy some sound deadening material (i.e. Dynamat)
Dynamat's main purpose in life is to change the resonating frequency of material, in this sheet metal. The stuff is made out of a tar like substance that is easily shaped by heat and has a glued backing so it will adhere to just about anything. Not only does it stink up a storm but it will also make your case very heavy.
I will be addressing sound deadeners in my forth-coming case-modding how-tos.
nForce2 vs. KT400: Gaming Performance
Published: Thursday, November 07, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Instead of going a complete comparison between the two chipsets the amdmb guys opted to concentrate on gaming performance between two unknown motherboards using these chipsets.
The whole article just to say this.
"we discovered that the problem was restricted to only OpenGL or Quake III engine-based games and that the bottleneck was in the way those software components interacted with the 8x AGP bus. "
DevEdge Interview With Douglas Bowman
Published: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
"One of the Web's oldest news sites, Wired News draws between 20 and 25 million page views every month. On October 11, 2002, Wired launched a brand-new site design that uses validating XHTML for its structure and a small collection of CSS files for its layout. The new design clearly shows what some experts have been saying: that standards-based design can be visually compelling and preserve the interface conventions we've come to expect from Web pages. "
The new layout uses 13 stylesheets and not a single formatting table. 
I considered building Ninjalane v2.0 as a standards compliant website but to many of the visitors here still use non-standards compliant browsers.
Maybe that will be the next poll question. hummm
Good Comics Today
Published: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Today is a great day for online comics. The "Tube" saga continues at Penny Arcade, and looks to be in vain for Tycho.
AMD Could Extend 333MHz FSB to Athlon XP 2600+
Published: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Could this be a gift from AMD or just a feeble attempt to keep an aging processor line alive for just a few months more? I think the jury will be out on this one for a while.
"Despite its launch of the new 333MHz FSB Athlon XP 2700+ and 2800+ on October 1 and continuing production transfer to the 0.13-micron process, AMD has been facing tough sales, as its latest processors attract mainly top-end users with their relatively higher prices and its progress in transferring processes has still been slower than that of archrival Intel."
Albatron PX845E Silver Edition Review @ accelenation
Published: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I always get a kick out of accelenation reviews since there is usually something pretty wacky contained within.
"Like always, before I get to the benchmarks I like to check the FSB to make sure the manufacturer isn’t cheating in benchmarks, which some manufacturers are known to do. Here the PX845E’s FSB is clocked only a tad higher then the Intel Desktop boards, which shouldn’t make that much of a difference in benchmarks."
I think this is pretty much standard practice. 
Nvidia Mania's Day
Published: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Not much to report here since the page is really just a bunch of pictures. Check out the NV30 fun facts.
"More floating point power than a Cray SV-1 Supercomputer"
Thats alot 
CP-100 Pentium 4 Liquid Heatsink
Published: Monday, November 04, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This is actually a pretty neat idea, phj34r the babblephish.
" As for the mechanism of the cooling " CP-100 ", those which heat are sent to the fin top from the heat sink by the fact that it circulates the liquid of the tank which is attached to both sides. The tank of the liquid entering is utilized in place of the heat pipe, perhaps it is easy to understand, you say. Furthermore, this liquid being the water, or being special ones, details are unclear. "
Here is a (also found at AKIBA.)
Doom ]|[ Leaked Over the Weekend
Published: Monday, November 04, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
As you can guess John Carmak is pissed and after further investigation it would appear that ATI is to blame (or someone at ATI).I have also heard reports that the Alpha of Doom ]|[ is only playable on an ATI 9700 and pretty much runs like cr4p on the Ti4600, go figure.
Be Sure to Load Everything
Published: Friday, November 01, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I have gotten some reports of the new site looking funny with links being green and some text being black.
The reason for that can be attributed to the new stylesheet not being loaded properly. To solve the problem do the following.
press [shift] + your browsers reload/refresh button. This should reload everything from the site instead of the browser cache.
VIA Will Request a Retrial
Published: Friday, November 01, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This lawsuit between VIA and Intel has been going on for quite some time now and VIA seems to be unwavered by it. I think this quote sums it all up.
Other board makers said that even if VIA loses the case, which targets the P4X266 chipset only, the result would not affect VIA’s sales much, as the chipset is close to being phased out of the market now.
To little to late?? 
Moddin an Apple
Published: Friday, November 01, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I was just speaking to Talon about this the other day and he was very quick to discredit me saying that an Apple is already modded.
He was so unsure of what he was doing, he labeled every component, including all the screws, to make sure he could figure out how to put it back together again.
"I always end up with extra screws and parts left over," he said on his website.
The result is Blue Ice, a stunning, transparent G4 tower that lights up with fluorescent blue neon and has a nifty LCD screen mounted in the front panel.
"I hit the power switch and boom, half my room glows electric, icy blue," Salas writes on his site.
Kind of sounds like he knew exactly what he was doing.
The Search Engine Mafia
Published: Friday, November 01, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Normally I would discredit this news posting as an attempt to regain web traffic lost because Google hates them but, they do make a pretty good point."When you're No. 4 that plays well; when you fall off, you tend to lose phone traffic. And if you don't have the right relationship with Google to find out what you could have done wrong, you're out of luck," Ahern said, noting that this can have a dangerous domino effect. "If you're not ranked in Google, Yahoo won't list you. It's incestuous"
Ninja's at Penny Arcade
Published: Friday, November 01, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Raise your hand if you have ever had sword fights with leftover paper tubes. Yes I'm guilty too.
Ninjalane v2.0 Released - Finally
Published: Friday, November 01, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Whoa, what is going on here??
Oh ya, I finally finished development on the much anticipated v2.0 of ninjalane.com. Aside from the graphics I would also like to draw your attention to the URL changes. Unlike the previous version, which was coded in Classic ASP (.asp), the new site uses ASP.net (.aspx). I ported over many of the pages from the previous site but due to consolidation some needed to be removed completely, please update your bookmarks to reflect the change.
Keep in mind that I'll be making code changes over the next couple of weeks so if a page is down or missing please check back in a couple of hours.
Thank you and enjoy!
Happy Hallows
Published: Thursday, October 31, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Considering the holiday (so to speak) and the pending "launch" schedule later this evening *hint hint* I am going to take a day off from the news, but if you have a story you think is relevant feel free to send it in. 
If you are dying for some tech news check out the Ninjalane World News section.
Dell selling Apple's iPods
Published: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I don't know what to think about this. Dell computer is selling Apple iPods, granted they are the Windows version but still, iPods?.
"Yep, Dell is reselling iPods," Apple said in a statement provided to CNET News.com. "We are delighted to offer our 5GB, 10GB and 20GB iPods for Windows through Dell's direct retail channel. iPod has been a big success to date, and we would like to make it even bigger"
You can thank Talon for the news post.
Next Gen ATA Drives - Not Quite Serial
Published: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
As I alluded to in the title this is still a parallel ATA hard drive with a few enhancements to tide us over until SATA is released.
"Some of you may say "But SATA increases bandwidth to 150MB/s." True, but the only way you're going to see improvements is through the burst speed of your drives and a 17MB/s advantage over the latest PATA standard, which isn't that much. When the densities of drives start getting higher and maybe a 10k spindle speed increase, we will start seeing drives flex their SATA muscle. "
3-D Chip Bonding Technology
Published: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This could be the way of the future in chip design.
"The approach can join logic devices with memory, or logic with analog components, the company said. It could also be used to mount RF filters onto other RF components, or bond silicon or silicon germanium devices with chips made in III-V materials, the company said. "
Asus Dual Channel DDR Board Photos
Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I was quite surprised to find that this board was using the SiS DCDDR chipset instead of the Intel; I must be slipping since I never knew. Anyhow I will let the pictures speak for themselves, oh and as a little side activity try to count the extras, hint: there is a lot.
