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• Asustek launches workstation motherboard with dual CPUs

  Published: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | By: Dennis

  Compact 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: Dennis

  Dr00l! 

  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: Dennis

  We’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: Dennis

  The 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: Dennis

  I 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: Dennis

  The 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

  Check them out today!

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• NL: Review Block - A CrapLoad of Video Card Reviews

  Published: Friday, February 29, 2008 | By: Dennis

  As the subject says there are a crapload of 9600GT reviews hitting the interweb this week, its almost like it got released or something.

  Personally I would have liked to see a new nVidia chipset but that might have to wait.  I'm thinking it might be around the Computex timeframe.

  - Club3D NVIDIA 9600GT Review on Technic3D
  - Biostar GeForce 9600 GT 512 MB V9603GT52 @ techPowerUp
  - Nvidia's GeForce 9600 GT graphics processor reviewed at TR <- (ya they have the weirdest headlines)
  - EVGA e-GeForce 9600GT SSC Edition Review @ Gamepyre
  - Palit 9600GT Sonic 512MB Geforce 9600GT Videocard Review @ PCSTATS
  - Galaxy 9600 GT 512MB OC Video Card Review @ Madshrimps
  - ECS Elitegroup GeForce 9600 GT @ TweakPC
  - Biostar V903GT52-NV1AN 512MB Geforce 9600GT Videocard Review @ PCSTATS
  - Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic Graphics Card @ TweakTown

  While we're at it why not post some 8800 stuff?

  - Overclock3D Content: XFX Triple SLI - 8800 Ultra's in 3 Way SLI
  - XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB Alpha Dog XXX Edition review @ Elite Bastards
  - Asus EN8800GTS (NVIDIA 8800GTS) TOP 512MB @ APH Networks
  - Palit GeForce 8800GT Super+1GB @ Techgage
  - XFX 8800GTS vs. Gainward 8800GT 1024MB Review @ Metku
  - XFX GeForce 8800GTS 512MB @ InsideHW
  - Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GT Review @ OCC

  That should be enough for today. 

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• LANParty LT X48-T3R, a real monster empowered by ThermalRight

  Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | By: Dennis

  We have actual product photos posted in the Ninjalane Message Forum,  Roll on over there to see what this beast will end up looking like. 

  Forum registration is required to see the photos, but its free so what are you waiting for! 

  Although the Chinese New Year festival was important to DFI's headquarters, the R&D team of DFI hasn't slowed down at all, in order to launch the new product of X48 motherboard well ahead of the preset schedule. DFI's LANParty LT X48-T3R is now just around the corner, ready to greet our enthusiasts throughout the world. This motherboard, based on Intel LGA775 socket CPU, will fully support the latest Intel 45nm process Quad-core CPU. Our LANParty UT X48-T3R features the highest end of Intel X48 + ICH9R chipset. It provides enthusiasts with a powerful strength that supports the latest CrossFire technology and the fastest FSB1600MHz, DDR3 1333 memory. Besides this, a server grade model, LP UT X48-T3R provides even more goodies such as the utmost Volterra 8-phase Digital PWM, full solid state aluminum capacitors, and Marvell's dual gigabit LAN chip which surely enhances the overall teaming function. Users kept telling DFI that the BIOS design is the "soul" of a motherboard; we listened and now we are coming up with the most elaborated version of BIOS for every finished board that rolls out from our factory. For enthusiasts, this means the ability to tweak their monster gear with unlimited choices of BIOS environment. The combination of Genie BIOS and CMOS Reload is the ultimate weapon to help every knight of our enthusiasts to beat the beast, over again and again.

  You will also be happy to notice an eye-catching feature on our LANParty UT X48-T3R board, a powerful heat pipe cooler, we called "heat freezer". It is a first-in-industry invention that resulted from our cooperation with The ThermalRight Company, a world renowned, professional manufacturer in the computer cooler industry. ThermalRight is highly regarded by the computer world for its creativity and expertise in the heat dissipation process. It has been with great honor that DFI involves ThermalRight in developing a supreme quality cooler such as our "heat freezer" for servers. Every LANParty UT series motherboard is now equipped with the exclusive sub-assembly. For this, DFI has just pushed the motherboard standard a step farther. While you are serious in the game world, you would not want to miss a board with the utmost, state-of-the-art heat freezer feature.

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• Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler @ APH Networks

  Published: Sunday, February 24, 2008 | By: Dennis

  You have to wonder about these tower style heatsinks, I mean we already know they cool well but has the market gotten that stagnant??

  The market for CPU heatsink and fans has grown quite saturated -- but with this saturation also comes a diversity that allows for a different heatsink to suit every preference. From performance heatsinks, noise conscious designs, to value/budget products, there's at least a dozen from various brands to fill in the specific market niche -- or maybe even a combination of two or more.

  Seems they were thinking the very same thing. 

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• ADATA 2GB Mickey Mouse USB Drive Review @ Virtual-Hideout

  Published: Sunday, February 24, 2008 | By: Dennis

  Here is a short and sweet review, of a product we have already done Check out our review here.

  The Adata Disney Series 2GB USB Drive is a cool idea and will naturally end up being a popular gift if you want to send or take something home reminding you of Disney. It's a cool idea that'll appeal to everyone's better nature without the theme park price tag. This should please a lot of people. And the novelty of it should resonate among the younger people. My daughter saw the pictures from CES and thought it was the coolest thing for kids who want to take music over their friends house, or for school projects. She knew exactly what it would probably best be suited. So, you can imagine the excitement level while taking pictures. I'd like to have played with it a little longer, but apparently, it's not my turn anymore.

  Sorry about the long ass quote, seriously though this quote it longer than the whole article! 

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