Ninjalane News

Arkua 6228 & 7528 Heatsink Review @ Jsi Hardware

Published: Friday, January 18, 2002 - By: Dennis
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More copper core "ThermoEngines" on review.

EPoX 4SDA+ Review @ Tweak Town

Published: Thursday, January 17, 2002 - By: Dennis
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Epox has been making quite a name for themselves and has started addressing the overclocking community as well. The 4SDA+ is no exception.

Soltek KT333 Motherboard SL-75DRV5 released

Published: Thursday, January 17, 2002 - By: Dennis
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I got this press release last night from Soltek stating that they will be building another 75DRV series Athlon motherboard, this time based on the new DDR333 chipset from Via. The board will feature a wide variety of Soltek features including a "Purple Ray" PCB and Red Storm Overclocking in the bios. Soltek has yet to announce the release on their website, Most likely due in part to changing specs of the new motherboard.

Speaking of "Purple Ray" sometime next week the Ninjalane Labs will have the Soltek SL-75DRV4 motherboard that contains this feature, keep an eye out for that review.

Corsair XMS2400 DDR Review @ AMDWORLD uk

Published: Thursday, January 17, 2002 - By: Dennis
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It would seem that putting heat spreaders on your memory is going to become the norm in the near future. big grin smile I would like to add that many reports say that these PC2400 sticks will overclock to PC2700 standards quite easily.

Corsair 333MHz XMS2700 DDR

Published: Thursday, January 17, 2002 - By: Dennis
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I saw this memory posted on Corsair's website after I came back from vacation but didn't happen to pay attention to any of their press releases. The question is what makes this memory any different than the other PC2700 vendors? A CAS Latency of 2.0 shock smile. You can expect to see some of this memory around the Ninjalane Labs when we start our Pentium 4 reviews and system-building projects sometime next month.

P4 Northwood vs. Athlon XP 2000+ @ SLCentral

Published: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - By: Dennis
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This review is quick, dirty, and to the point. After looking at the numbers in some instances the overclocked 2.0@2.3GHz Willamette processor is quite impressive.

P4 Chipset Roundup @ VR-Zone

Published: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - By: Dennis
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Intel, SiS, Via, and ALi are all going head to head at VR-Zone. As always there is some really good info and some insight into the revised DDR chipsets for the Pentium 4.

Portals More Popular than pr0n

Published: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - By: Dennis
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At least according to a report from Jupiter MMXI.
They claim that more people have turned to the net for the purpose of shopping than surfing for pr0n. Here is a quote of a quote that is supposed to explain these findings. "Porn is a great example of how to get people to pay for content. But it's not even in the top 10 - people have way more important things to do than looking at porn sites." How strange, I can't seem to think of any. tongue smile

Something Strange is Going On

Published: Monday, January 14, 2002 - By: Dennis
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I can't quite place it but there is something wrong with with that image.

Hyper-Threading Technology

Published: Monday, January 14, 2002 - By: Dennis
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Anand has posted a very interesting article on Hyper-Threading Technology and what it could mean for the P4. In a way it is hardware supported single processor SMP.

AOpen AX4B Pro Review @ Tweakers Asylum

Published: Monday, January 14, 2002 - By: Dennis
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AOpen has always had some nice to look at motherboards but have never really been that popular in performance systems, that could soon change.

The "VIARAMA" Approval Program

Published: Monday, January 14, 2002 - By: Dennis
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VIA is being pretty confident in their chipsets lately though with the pending legal suit with Intel sales are down. I'm dubbing this program,"VIARAMA", The Viragra for Via's P4X series chipset.

The Future of Wireless Networking

Published: Monday, January 14, 2002 - By: Dennis
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If I can ever get a good price on the gear, wireless networking will become the norm here in the Ninjalane Labs.

DDR Shootout @ Templin Tech

Published: Monday, January 14, 2002 - By: Dennis
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Their vote was for Crucial brand DDR. Personally I think it is a toss up between Corsair and Crucial.

Tentative Schedule for Partial Trade Center Rebuild

Published: Monday, January 14, 2002 - By: Dennis
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This is a little off subject but building 7 is scheduled for groundbreaking on Sept. 11th 2002. Normally I wouldn't think much of this except that I wanted to comment on the Architectural firm hired for the project. "Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the nation's largest architectural firm would design the structure, adding the latest technology to make it safer and more fire resistant. " I tried to interview with this firm but got the "letter". sad smile

New Nvidia Chip Details Leaked

Published: Friday, January 11, 2002 - By: Dennis
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I think there is truth to this though some of the details could change before the launch day in Feb. The "Titanium" name will stay, the high-end version will support 128Megs of 300Mhz DDR memory and all cards are AGP 8x. Check out the article for more details.

Soltek SL75DRV-4 @ Preview VIAHardware

Published: Thursday, January 10, 2002 - By: Dennis
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Not a full on review of the new Soltek motherboard but a preview of features complete with "spy" style photos.

Hercules and ATI Make a Deal

Published: Thursday, January 10, 2002 - By: Dennis
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Hercules has now partnered with ATI to produce Radeon brand video cards. I wonder how nVidia will take this?

LIAN-LI PC35 Review @ AMDWorld UK

Published: Thursday, January 10, 2002 - By: Dennis
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It is a "Miniature Aluminum Case", even though it accepts a full size ATX motherboard.

New iMac Idea Copied?

Published: Thursday, January 10, 2002 - By: Dennis
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A Belgian Web designer claims to have drawn up a design similar to the new iMac over 6 months ago, and here is the good part. Not only did he sketch out the new design but he also posted it on the Internet to a website frequented by Apple employees. Of course now he is wondering why he never got credit for the design, h3ll I would too. Be warned this article is one of those reiterative "This guy said this, and here is quote to prove it "quote guy saying this""