Tech News
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NL: Review Block - Cases and Crap
Published: Monday, March 17, 2008 | By: DennisMore review stuff, sans any real comments
Cases
- Mountain Mods H2gO Aluminum Cube Case Review @ OCIA
This is actually one of the coolest cases I've seen in a really long time, cept for those that happen to be cooler than this.
- Lian Li PC-A77 Full Tower Case Review @ ThinkComputers
- DH Review: Ultra Microfly SX6
- Lancool Metal Boned K7 @ techPowerUpCooling
- Zalman Reserator XT Hybrid Liquid Cooling System @ Techgage
- CoolIT PURE Liquid CPU Cooler @ 3DGM
- Auras CTC-868 Heatsink Review @ Frostytech
- CoolJag Mini LED Flash Review @ OCC <- These are fans btwPhones?
- AT&T Tilt Review @ Digital Trends
- Samsung BlackJack II Review @ Digital TrendsPSU, kinda
- How Much Power Can a Generic 500 W Power Supply Really Deliver? @ Hardware Secrets
That pretty much concludes a long ass news posting. I hope you enjoy
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Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 Socket 775 Motherboard @ Pro-Clockers
Published: Sunday, March 16, 2008 | By: DennisGigabyte motherboards are usually a hit or miss when it comes to quality and performance but one thing always remains constant, blue PCB and extremely flashy colors!. This board happens to be based on the P35 and a fancy triple heatpipe cooler.
Gigabyte as long as I have known them, have never skipped out on presenting their motherboards in a very marketable fashion and this new board is no different. The white and pinkish colored box is filled with a world of information about the board but it mostly focuses on the energy saving features of the board.
I really miss the days of red motherboards, seems nobody uses them anymore, something about cost or the environment or something.
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NL: Review Block - Memory
Published: Sunday, March 16, 2008 | By: DennisWell here is another review block, this time on memory.
- Patriot Memory PC2-9200 2GB EP DDR2 Kit @ Tweaktown
- Patriot Viper PC2-6400XLK 2GB Memory Kit Review @ Virtual-Hideout
- Patriot Memory PC3-15000 2GB Dual Channel Kit @ Viper Lair
- Corsair Dominator Twin3X2048 1800C7DFIN DDR3 Memory Review on Technic3D
- Kingston HyperX DDR3-1625 2GB Memory Kit Review @ ThinkComputers
- Crucial Ballistix 2GB PC3-12800 Kit Review @ ASE Labs
We had a really good meeting with Patriot at CES this year, but I'll be damned if they didn't go dark on us. Time to break out the mail bomber
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CeBit stuff from around the web
Published: Sunday, March 16, 2008 | By: DennisAs many of you know CeBit (yes the big one) was last week and while many editors from the US attend it's mostly a huge party for the hardware sites based in Europe.
Ninjalane only attends 2 shows a year, CES in Las Vegas, and Computex in Taipei. We really have no desire to head to Hannover for CeBit even though we're asked about it every year.
It may be big and may be cool, but damn if its not in a sleepy corner of Germany surrounded by people that talk funny and hate Americans.- Driver Heaven: Cebit Coverage Day 2
- More Cebit 2008 Coverage @ OCC
- Cebit: Day 3 Coverage @ DH
- Final Cebit 2008 Coverage @ OCC
- CeBIT 2008: Girls @ techPowerUp (some hot ones, some not so much)
- CeBIT 2008 Coverage with more than 100 pictures on 11 pages @ OC Inside
- Cebit 2008 Coverage Part 1 @ Madshrimps
Not sure what happened to the others
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NL: Review Block - QNAP Reviews
Published: Saturday, March 15, 2008 | By: DennisWe recently reviewed the TS-409 Pro from QNAP, and it would seem some of the other sites did as well. (well one in this case)
- QNAP TS-409 Pro Turbo NAS Review @ Hardware Canucks
Check out our review for reference.
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Its time to Spring Forward!!
Published: Sunday, March 9, 2008 | By: DennisFor those of us in the upper hemispheres and also acknowledge Daylight Saving Time don't forget that today is the day to make them clocks faster.
Of course in 2006 DST was later in the year but some idiot figured that if we moved it ahead 3 or some weeks we could save money. The proof is in the pudding as they say and well, independent studies concluded that we used 1% more energy instead of saving.
So here is a big "fuck you" to those geniuses.
Oh and don’t forget to move them clocks
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More ChipChilla and Coollink Stuff
Published: Friday, March 7, 2008 | By: DennisSadly Coollink didn't think of us when sending out review samples, but we'll see about getting that changed.
- ChipChilla - Chipset Cooler at Modders-Inc
- Coolink GFXChilla VGA Cooler Review @ DragonSteelMods
- Coolink Silentator CPU Cooler Review @ Hardware CanucksBlue fans unite!!
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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.
Not much in this video presentation but I must say its some quality work.
