Tech News
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CoolJag Falcon 92-CU CPU Cooler Review @ Hardware Canucks
Published: Sunday, February 24, 2008 | By: DennisOk, here we have the copper version of the super cool cooler from CoolJag that we reviewed last year. Performance was excellent and the bling bling fan really topped it off.
CoolJag is not a very well-known company in the cooling market but they are quickly trying to make a name for themselves. With the release of their Falcon 92-CU it looks like they have done just that. This all-copper CPU cooler promises to be the best air cooler on the market but can its performance match that claim?
Well all know that CoolJag has been around for years, nobody hears about them because they deal mostly with OEMs and companies looking to rebrand their stuffs.
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NL: Review Block - 9600 in the house
Published: Sunday, February 24, 2008 | By: DennisThe 9600GT has been making for some pretty sweet reviews esp considering its a mid-range card pumping out pixels at 8800GT speeds.
- NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT @ Digit-Life
- NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT @ MadBox
- Palit 9600GT Sonic review @ Neoseeker
- Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic @ ChileHardware
- NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT - G94 Launched @ HotHardware
- EVGA e-GeForce 9600 GT SSC Review at NVNews
- Galaxy GeForce 9600 GT OC review @ Elite BastardsThere were others too, but we seem to have lost those particular emails.
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New Features @ Ninjalane
Published: Thursday, February 21, 2008 | By: DennisOver the next few days we'll be brining you some new features here at Ninjalane. The most visible is the new footer content (check the bottom of the page)
I was decided that we needed to bring some more usable features to the site including a related articles section and a place to hold the new members related information.
We’ll be adding even more features as time goes on so keep checking back.
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A brief look at three-way SLI @ The Tech Report
Published: Monday, February 18, 2008 | By: DennisThis is what you would call, Insane.
Sign me up!
At this point, my editor, if I had one, would probably be clobbering me. No doubt I could more profitably be spending my time reviewing hardware that most folks might actually, you know, want to purchase. And heck, I'm getting really close on that review of the 45nm Core 2 Duos—honest. But I couldn't resist a brief detour involving a howling phalanx of GeForce 8800 Ultras, mostly because I wanted to see whether we'd finally found the hardware equal to the task of making Crysis run smoothly at high resolutions and quality levels.
there is at least 1500 bux with of video card on that board, not to mention the 1200 Watt PSU.
What you get for your trouble, of course, is one of the most astoundingly powerful GPU configurations anywhere, with a total of 2.25GB of GDDR3 memory dedicated to video RAM and over 1.7 teraflops of raw shader power. In fact, don't even bother going for a three-way system unless you're going to hook it up to at least a 30" display with something like 2560x1600 resolution. Anything less would be a waste in most of today's games. You're going to want to push display resolutions and quality levels to the max in order to make the most of three-way SLI.
Funny how companies will do something just because they can. Then again we're glad they did.
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NL: Review Block - Misc Stuffs
Published: Monday, February 18, 2008 | By: DennisHere is some good stuff for your reading enjoyment.
- Wacom Bamboo Tablet Review @ mikhailtech
- Rosewill RX353-S BLK USB eSATA HDD Enclosure review @ OCIA
- HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 @ Bjorn3DWe normally don't post this misc stuff, but its a holiday so what the hell.
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NL: Review Block - Memory
Published: Monday, February 18, 2008 | By: DennisMemory blocks are fun and easy to make, first you get a news inbox and tell people from all over to submit your news articles for evaluation.
Then you decide how many news articles you can post without going insane.
Run some math on the numbers and decide what can be grouped together for easy reading.
The result..... A bunch of links in a single news post.
ie teh win!
- Patriot Viper Fin Extreme Latency PC2 6400 Review @ OCC
- DH Review: OCZ and Kingston PC3 14400 DDR3
- Cellshock PC3-14400 (DDR3-1800) 2GB DDR3 Kit @ OC3D
- Patriot Viper Extreme 2x1024MB PC3-15000 at Overclockers Online
- Aeneon Xtune DDR3-1333 2GB Memory Kit Review @ ThinkComputersMore to come, even from us!
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Foxconn Mars Review @ OCC
Published: Monday, February 18, 2008 | By: DennisI'll give you 2 guesses who Foxconn tapped to get the design idea for the MARS series?
(and no it wasn't us)
We've been trying to get one of these boards from Foxconn for quite some time now, but they have bigger boards on the way so sadly this little piece of enthusiast history will be all but forgotten here pretty soon.
The MARS is part of the Quantum Force series of performance products from Foxconn. The theory behind Quantum Force is to provide the enthusiast with performance without compromises. Basically what the theory is designed to do is get rid of the fluff and provide a lean, mean, fighting machine to allow the user to extract the most performance from the installed CPU and memory. The theory behind Quantum Force is not just a theory, but it is part of a design philosophy used by the engineers at Foxconn called SWORD. This philosophy is the driving force behind the innovation and drive to build a better performance product.
Keep an eye on Foxconn they will be making waves this year.
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DFI Lanparty LT X38-T2R Motherboard @ Overclock3D
Published: Monday, February 18, 2008 | By: DennisThis is the first review of the X38-T2R that we've seen and by the looks of it we get a chipset upgrade and DDR2 support on a board based on the P35 design. I don't think they'll get away with this on the X48 so hopefully nVidia will pull out something supporting the Intel/SLI engine soon.
Based on the Crossfire friendly X38 chipset combined with DDR2 slots, the Lanparty LT X38-T2R looks perfect for those of us who haven't yet sold a kidney to fund some DDR3 modules but want to run dual GPU's without any PCIe lane bottlenecks. The rest of the specs look pretty standard for DFI with many of the unnecessary "bells and whistles" found on other manufacturers boards being omitted in favour of a no-nonsense layout.
On a side note this board didn't come with the Transpiper system but rather the north bridge cooler found on the LP 680i LT
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Solve File Copy Problems: Tweak Vista's auto-tuning Network
Published: Monday, February 18, 2008 | By: DennisOne of Vista's features tries to change the network's receive window on-the-fly to adapt to changing network conditions. If you've been experiencing lower network throughput when transferring large files or experience weird network disconnects, then you can try disabling Vista's auto-tuning network feature.
Still haven't gotten on the Vista bandwagon but its in our future here at Ninjalane and we've been resisting the change for quite some. It's not an issue of money, we'll be getting Ultimate when its time, but rather the troubles that our close friends have been having.
Hopefully those issues will be ironed out with SP1, if not we're going to need a bigger pool of tweaks and workarounds.
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Abit of what you fancy - inside the mainboard makers HQ
Published: Thursday, February 14, 2008 | By: DennisThis is from Hexus.tv so sit back and watch away.
The video is rather short, full of crazy music and features no talking what so ever. I guess they didn’t want to waste all of the good stuff right away.
