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.
KT400 vs. nForce2 Write-up @ x-bit labs
Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
As usual these write-ups are very informative and covers just about everything you wanted to know about the two chipsets. Be sure to top off your beverage before clicking, you'll be there awhile.
EPoX EP-4SDA5+ Review @ Envy News
Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This is a SiS648 based motherboard and despite being first to market with the net technology I don't think the chipset ever caught that much traction.
"On the side of overclocking I was able to get my 2.4G up to 2.7G much like I did with the 4G4A+, on the other side with stability both the 2700 and 3200 DDR options ran, but by sacrificing either overclocking or onboard options."
Sounds similar to our SiS experience.
XFX Graphics Geforce 4 Ti4200 Review @ Techware Labs
Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This review is pretty short but covers all of the basics so I really don't mind. Besides the XFX Graphics card would look perfect on a Soltek SL-75FRV.
3GHz Pentium 4 Processors Shipped to Major PC Makers
Published: Monday, October 28, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Seeing that the launch of the Hyperthreaded Pentium 4 is drawing near something like this is not uncommon.
"While Intel declined to specify the chip's launch date or price, sources said the 3GHz Pentium 4 will debut Nov. 14, just two days prior to the kickoff of Fall Comdex in Las Vegas"
The best part is that we will be there. 
Asia Carrera Q & A @ Unreal Playground
Published: Monday, October 28, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I bet if Asia ever decided to get out of the pr0n business she could make quite a living as a spokesperson for the Unreal gaming community. Though I'd imagine she could fit into just about any gaming community for that matter.
Website "Down-Time" So to Speak
Published: Monday, October 28, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Some of you may have noticed the "Directory Listing Denied" error this morning. Sorry about that I had my webhost make some changes to the server, and they messed up. 
On a happy note the time for change is near, so keep a eye on this page.
Dual Purpose Memory Causes Confusion
Published: Friday, October 25, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
"In short, the GDDR-3 spec defines key changes in the memory's clocking mechanism and I/O scheme so that it is better-suited for point-to-point links to a graphic controller; this approach differs from DRAMs designed to send and receive data over a bus. The first GDDR-3 devices should arrive next May or June, with speeds starting at 500 MHz and throughput of 1Gbits/second per pin. Later versions will scale to 1.4 to 1.6 Gbits/s."
Now they are just making stuff up.
