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nemy Territory Quake Wars Limited @ Gamepyre
Published: Monday, November 12, 2007 | By: DennisOf the multi player "team based" games out there Quake Wars really is the only one that even remotely sparks my interest. Now I know Quake Wars isn't much different than say BF and there might be betters ones on the market but the simple fact you can play as the Strogg is really the only reason I even consider this game playable.
Humm maybe that needs to be the next LAN Party game?
As the second multiplayer-only Quake game, Id Software's Enemy Territory Quake Wars is a great choice. This product easily wins itself and Gold Medal award for being one of the best team-based shooters that I have played since the original Battlefield 1942. Quake Wars easily lives up to the standards set by its spiritual successor, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, and moves beyond those standards set. This game is worth picking up, and any Quake fan won't want to miss these bonus features in the Limited Edition -
Vantec LapCool 5 Laptop Cooler Review @ Mikhailtech
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | By: DennisVantec's LapCool 5 is a decent product. It looks nice, is small, doesprovide a degree of cooling, gives you an extra USB port, and doublesback as a stand. However it does have a lot more potential that couldbe realized if the fans were reversed and had a bit more airflow.
Laptop coolers are a great invention but really they don't do much cept clutter your desk. Sad but true. -
Enable Hidden 'Aurora' Boot Screen in Vista @ OCModShop
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | By: DennisIf you're like most of the world the thought of a new MS OS really sparked some curiosity but really didn't warrant too much investigation. Well knowing what we all know its no wonder that we don't remember the Longhorn boot screen.
The original Vista Bootscreen is very similar to Windows 2000, and is very bland and boring (you know, with the little catepillar bar scrolling from left-to-right). But did you know that Vista comes with a much better highly visual bootscreen? Did you know how easy it is to enable it? No?
Microsoft may not have enabled this by default because of potential hardware issues, but that doesn't make sense because the minimum video card requirements to even run Vista should handle the new bootscreen without any problem. In either case, here is how to make Vista look that much cooler with the "Aurora" bootscreen...
By the looks of it, the steps are really quite easy. -
NL: Review Block - Sound Stuff
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | By: DennisHere are a just a few sound related reviews.
- Logitech G51 Surround Sound Speaker System Review @ OCIA
- Logitech G51 Gaming Surround Speakers @ Techgage
More to come, and check out our latest review of the Edifier e1100 speaker system -
Auzentech X-FI Prelude 7.1 Sound Card @ Overclock3D
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | By: DennisThe Auzentech cards really amaze me, it would seem in a world of nickel and dime sound devices and most every motheboard coming with multichannel sound on board there is a company out there pushing the envelope and proving that you still "should" buy an addon sound device.
Overclock3D gets its hands on the World's first soundcard custom-engineered around the X-Fi chipset . -
Ninjalane Photoshop Contest Sponsored by CoolIT
Published: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 | By: DennisEntering this little contest is easy...
Become a member of the Ninjalane Message Forum,All contest entries have to be received in the forum and posted by you,how else am I supposed to get you your swag. (current members arealready a step ahead)
Photoshop something!, Now notjust anything. You have to photoshop something “hot” and your job is tomake it “cool”. An example might be a fan on a volcano or a landmine inparadise. (you can actually use those if you want, but be creative) Theonly requirement is that you have to have “CoolIT” somewhere in thephoto, big small it don’t matter it just has to be there and you’llneed to supply a link to the original photo so we know its beenproperly “chopped” google images is a good source.
Photoshopping skill will not be a deciding factor here as creativity is the key
The winner will be selected based on points and you can gather points in a variety of ways..
For more information and prize list check out the post in the Ninjalane Message Forum -
Contest Galore
Published: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | By: DennisCoolIT is a popular name in the computer cooling but is looking to get the word out in the form of some contests. We will be posting our own here shortly but in the meantime check these out.
- CoolIT October Contest. USA Only @ Bjorn3D
- CoolIT Systems Contest @ OCIA.net -
Modding in Hungry
Published: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | By: DennisHungarian modding compo is done
It would be an understatement to say that modding isn't a stable in the computer industry and while you can only do "so" much with a computer case and still remain usable that shouldn't stop you from modding a church around it. -
MSI P35 Diamond DDR3 @ ChileHardware
Published: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | By: DennisWatch out for the rollercoster heatpipes
Haciendo un acercamiento a la parte superior de esta tapa vemos que semuestra un primer plano de la refrigeración de esta tarjeta madre ytambién algo que a muchos les gustaría ver, una SoundBlaster X-FiXtreme Audio.
Did I read that right? Yep, soundblaster onboard. -
Scythe Ninja Mini CPU Cooler @ Pro-Clockers
Published: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | By: DennisThese coolers are never really all that but we like posting news about them anyway.
Today, I have the privilegeof reviewing the Scythe Ninja Mini, one of the newest CPU coolers from Scythe.Scythe has been around 5 years now. They’re not so long in the tooth ascompanies like Intel or NVIDIA, but they’re proving to have staying powerthrough innovations and quality products. This particular cooler is builtaround performance and silent computing. Will it live up to the standards Scythehas set for itself?
On a side note CoolerMaster has a similar cooler that we actually have here in the Ninjalane Labs.
