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Coolink Chip Chilla Chipset Heatsink Review @ Techwarelabs
Published: Friday, March 7, 2008 | By: DennisThis has to be the coolest name for a chipset cooler ever!
Cooling your chipset can be very important. Think of the chipset as the nerve center of your motherboard. It communicates with the CPU commands from many components and if running hot can lead to reduced performance or end up in a damaged system. Read our review to find out why the Chip Chilla has both a good and bad design.
Of course we wouldn't need these things if the chipset coolers the mfgs supplied actually had some cooling capacity.
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Chinese hackers: No site is safe
Published: Friday, March 7, 2008 | By: DennisZHOUSHAN, China (CNN) -- They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon.
The leader of these Chinese hackers says there "is always a weakness" on networks that allows cyber break-ins.
In fact, they say they are sometimes paid secretly by the Chinese government -- a claim the Beijing government denies.
"No Web site is one hundred percent safe. There are Web sites with high-level security, but there is always a weakness," says Xiao Chen, the leader of this group.The sad thing about all of this... its true. No website is completely safe and if the front door is blocked "they" will find a back way in. The part that confuses me is that while websites may get hacked there is rarely a direct link from that website to a local lan.
So how are they downloading sensitive information? I really doubt any site admin dumb enough to push sensitive information to a public webserver unless they had a good reason to, like are running a honeypot or loading trojan horses for tracking purposes.
Either way it really doesn't make too much sense as to why hackers/crackers target websites.
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: FOXCONN Dreadnought 790i chipset mainboard @ Hexus
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisFOXCONN gives us an early peak at the NVIDIA triple SLi mainboard for overclockers.
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NL: Review Block - Misc Stuffs
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisJust some extra stuff we had floating around in the news inbox.
- XFX 8400GS 256MB Video Card Review @ gamepyre
- Asus P5E3 WS Professional Motherboard Review @ mikhailtech
- AMD 780G Chipset Motherboard Preview @ Legit Reviews
- AMD 780G Chipset and Athlon X2 4850e Preview @HotHardware
- XFX nForce 630i / GeForce 7150 Review @ Motherboards
- Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC2-8500 2GB DDR2 Memory Kit Review @ EOClong names amazing results, or something.
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Neoseeker E8500 Review and Overclocking Analysis
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisHere I'm just gonna repost the entire email message, it pretty much says it all.
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Neoseeker has published a review of Intel's 45nm Wofldale E8500 C2D CPU. As usual we also push this baby to its limits and manage to clock it to a very health 4.275Ghz, from its stock of 3.16Ghz.
"The E8500 still performed like a champ on the X38 based board I tested it on; and I was able to reach a stable overclock of 4.275GHz while only air cooled.I was able to get to the Windows desktop at 4.52GHz - however it was not stable, and I did not wish to crank Vcore high enough to stabilize it. The Intel data sheet shows 1.46V to be the maximum safe Vcore for the E8500, so I did not want to exceed that by much. 1.468V was enough to get the system stable for all our benchmarks at 4.275GHz."
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Ken’s World 3/5/08 - Nerd Breakup
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisI remember similar comics over at geek.com, funny stuff at the time, though now when you look back at their comics you can tell they had like 50 or so actual comics and they just changed the text to make them funny.
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Ultra m998 Mid-Tower ATX Case Review @ DragonSteelMods
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisOMG OMG OMG, I sooo have seen this case before. Like 7 years ago! There was a little company called Freeway Design that designed this case in Aluminum then farmed the design out to various companies looking for something to sell.
This is sooo cool.
and here it is! http://freeway.twotop.co.jp/product/design/fwd-case/index.html Sadly I was never able to review it
I guess its time to call up Ultra!Today for review I've got the Ultra M998 Mid-Tower ATX PC Case and it just might be one of those cases that offers most if not all of the things we want to see in a quality case. The M998 is named after the tough and rugged M998 HMMWV military vehicle or more commonly know as the Hummvee, the case isn't quite military standard issue but it does have some resemblance to military stylings on the outside with user friendly features inside and out as well.
Funny thing is most of these people have no idea.
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Complete GeForce 8800 GS/GT/GTS Voltmodding Article posted @ techPowerUp
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisIt never ceases to amaze me at how easy some of these mods are.
Got an itch to push your new NVIDIA 8800 GS, GT or GTS 512MB a little by doing a voltage modification? Well, you're in luck. All you need is a soldering iron and some simple resistors.
Warranty violations included
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Are Solid State Hard Drives Worth the Extra Cash? @ Digital Trends
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisOur opinion on the subject varies. On the surface anything solid state is better than something with moving parts that's just the nature of the beast. However right now they are not very fast, they have limited capacity and they are expensive. Granted in the right situation they are the best choice. ie industrial systems, small form factor stuff, limited power situations, etc..
but for the average Joe (or Jane) spend a 3rd of the cash and get 9 times the storage space and when it dies go get another one.
The looming arrival of solid-state hard drives (SSD) for notebooks seems like a rather exciting development at first blush. Unlike their mechanical counterparts, which have spindle motors, rotating platters and read/write heads, solid-state drives typically consist of flash memory chips and have no moving parts whatsoever. The benefits that these drivers offer compared to a mechanical drive are numerous, and include lower power consumption, improved performance, increased durability, less chance of data loss (no heads to crash into the platters), no noise and no heat output.
Nuff said
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E-Power EP-2KW 2000 Watt PSU Review @ OCC
Published: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | By: DennisI think I can say what most people will be saying when they read this.
"2000 Watts!! holy fuck stickers batman, thats alot of power!"
and it is, not to mention the thing is friggin HUGE
Getting inside the main power supply we are greeted with two 1000W power supplies that are run in parallel to achieve the 2000W rating. The power supply internals are industrial grade and built to last. The dual capacitors, coupled with the thick copper wound inductors on each board on the primary side, the transformer sitting between the large black heatsinks, and heavy gauge wire on the secondary side make for a winning combination.
Check out the review at your own risk.
