Tech News
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AMD stops production of Socket 939 Opterons
Published: Sunday, December 11, 2005 | By: Dennis"THE LAUNCH of Opterons for Socket 939 was obviously just a smoke in the mirror. The complete stock of Opterons model number 14x and 16x (dual-core) dissapeared from e-tailers and retailers, with hundreds of overclockers buying even six or eight CPU's at the same time."
Just bought me one of them 940pin Opterons for a board review though had I been paying attention I would have easily bought a 939 as well.
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Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Motherboard @ Pro-Clockers
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisI prefer sexy red to racy but to each their own.
" The motherboard itself is racing red in colour, as are its additives, the sound card and SLI bridge. This all adds to the racy feel of the board."
On a side note what ever happened to the red LEDs on the back of the early boards?? I thought that was a pretty cool feature. -
asetek WaterChill Extreme Watercooling Kit @ Viperlair
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisWe reviewed this kit not to long ago and I can easily speak to its performance, and it is good. The only drawback is the size of the radiator, a two fan unit will fit 80% of the mid tower cases out there without to much trouble but a triple fan unit takes some modding.
"Of all the components in this kit, this is the one you will need to take the most consideration in when it comes to mounting it; not because it is difficult endeavor, but because of the shear size of it (I’ve personally bracketed mine and hung it under the top of the stand my case sits on). Of course, being a triple radiator, and having six 120mm fans supplied speaks volumes to the intended performance." -
PCMech: Optimize Your SLI Rig
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisI actually see this article to be more about the effects of AA and AF on an SLI system but I'll let you call it as you see it.
"Do you notice that AA SLI 8 and AA SLI 16 show around a 50% decrease in FPS than the rest of the AA settings? And do you remember that AA SLI 8 and AA SLI 16 rendered images which were visually the same as AA 8xS? I think this means we can forget about using either AA SLI 8 and AA SLI 16 because it shows no noticeable gain and sacrifices performance drastically." -
NL: Review Block - Memory Strikes Again!
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisBe sure to check out our latest memory review.
- Corsair DDR1 2GB Memory Roundup @ Legit Reviews
- Corsair TwinX XMS PC4000 2GB DDR @ Pimprig
- Crucial Ballistix PC2-8000 review @ Driver Heaven
- OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 2GB Gold GX XTC @ techPowerUp!
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DFI nForce4 Infinity SLI Review @ Futurelooks
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisI would have to agree, right down to the brown PCB.
"Compared to the non-SLI variant, the only significant change is the addition of the second PCI-E x16 slot, which functions as an x8 in SLI mode. All other features are intact, and surprisingly none of the other PCI-E or PCI slots were sacrificed. The size of the board has increased slightly by 2cm, but it appears to have been done to the benefit of the layout, which seems much more spacious with the IDE headers being a nice distance away from the ATX and FDD headers."
Here is a quick tip, flip to page 4 to begin the review.
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DFI LANParty UT RDX200 CD-DR Review @ The Tech Report
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisIt would seem that the "me-to" push behind the ATI crossfire also created a somewhat limited chipset. I think we all remember that even the might nForce was once the underdog in the Athlon64 arena.
"To help make up for the SB450's mediocre RAID support, DFI equips the RDX200 with an auxiliary Serial ATA RAID chip from Silicon Image. The Sil 3114 serves up an additional four Serial ATA ports and can handle RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 5 arrays, but you won't find support for 300MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates or NCQ here, either. You will find a pokey PCI interface, forcing the Sil 3114 to compete for bus bandwidth with the RDX200's Firewire chip and its PCI-based Gigabit Ethernet controller." -
Logitech Z-5450 Digital 5.1 Review @ The TechZone
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisI haven't been following the computer speaker market but based on this review Logitech has finally started moving their wireless quest to their speaker line.
"Leave it to Logitech to once again raise the bar for computer speaker systems. The Logitech Z-5450 provides high performance sound with the innovation of wireless rear surround satellite speakers. The introduction of dual wireless rear speakers finally solves the common headache of having to run those long unsightly wires that run to your rear surround speakers." -
Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Review @ The Tech Report
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisI like the color but the layout could use some serious work.
"The Fatal1ty AN8 SLI is mainly red, though black is used to differentiate the OTES cooler, floppy drive port, PCI-E slots, CPU cooler bracket, and one set of DIMM slots. The USB 2.0 headers and IDE ports are blue for no apparent reason, though it does give the board a bit of additional color contrast without overwhelming the eye." -
DFI Infinity NF4 Ultra Review @ Overclockers Online
Published: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 | By: DennisWe recently reviewed this board and found it to be a very capable mainstream motherboard offering, actually the only bad thing was the PCB color.
"The DFI Infinity nF4 Ultra is a very solid motherboard. The build quality is great and the components that are used are top notch and seem to be almost the same as the LanParty Ultra-D. I have basically compared these two motherboards throughout the review and have come to the conclusion that the Infinity nF4 Ultra is almost the same model but without the options or accessory package. Call it the base model if you will with the LanParty Ultra-D being the GT or Type-R version that has slightly better performance and more buttons."
