Tech News
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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.
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Asustek launches workstation motherboard with dual CPUs
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisCompact and Powerful.
Asustek has released the Z7S WS workstation motherboard, equipped with dual 771 sockets. The board utilizes the latest Intel 5400 chipset and also supports fully buffered DDR2 800MHz dual-channel memory, dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots; and comes in the compact CEB form factor.
The Z7S's particular heat-pipe design is made to increase durability, life spans and enhance thermal capacity. It also provides highly efficient operation with less heat than traditional heat sink designs, according to the company.This system still requires that you use FB-DIMM modules so its not going to be an overclocker but 8 cores of power cannot be argued with.
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Foxconn slaps waterblock on NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI board
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisDr00l!
Kind of like the BLACKOPS, this will be one expensive, expensive motherboard. Want to know what all the fuss is about?
When it comes right down to it I've been waiting for this board to come out and now its on display. Funny thing though, Foxconn had the X48 edition at CES, and the 790i at CeBit. Maybe they will have them for sale by Computex??
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale CPU @ HotHardware
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisWe’re writing to let you all know that we have just posted a new article at HotHardware in which we evaluate the features and performance of Intel’s recently released, Wolfdale-based Core 2 Duo E8500 processor. The E8500 uses Intel’s 45nm Penryn derived Wolfdale core, with a 3.16GHz clock speed, 6MB of L2 cache, and support for SSEE4.1. Overall, even in its stock configuration this processor was a strong performer, while consuming less power than Intel’s 65nm processors. But while overclocked to over 4GHz on air-cooling alone, it put up some truly impressive benchmark scores. Head on over to the site and take a look.
Some good stuff here,
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Review @ OCC
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisThe E8500 processors are the new Wolfdale cores running at 1333Mhz FSB. The E8400 is available for around 300 bones.
Overclocking this chip has been a pure pleasure. When paired with the X38 chipset, the potential could be far out there with the correct cooling setup. I started at 400 x 9 and 1.35v and the system booted so flawlessly that I knew that it was thirsty for more. So I jumped the multiplier to 9.5 and kept raising the FSB by 15MHz while keeping the voltage the same until it would not boot.
Sounds like fun.
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100% Passively cooled case build @ Metku
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisI have wanted to build a fully passively cooled computer case since I had my first Athlon Thunderbird 800 MHz. That time the fan noise was amazingly high, and manufacturers didn´t much care about the noise levels, and didn't offer products for building a quiet PC. Nowadays a quiet PC is not much of a challenge to build, but totally silent?
Think it can be done? I think so, it's "that" hard to do
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Logo Shop Back in Business!
Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: DennisThe Ninjalane LogoShop is back in business!
This time around in addition to the normal Ninjalane logo gear you can get a new shirt exclusive to Ninjalane that we are calling "Skull and Cross Cables" Its a variation on the Skull and Cross Bones but with a modern twist.
The shirts are printed on quality dark fabric in both Mens and Womens fashion.
Click on the banner above or the link below, either way
