Tech News
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ECS KA3MVP Extreme Motherboard @ Legit Reviews
Published: Monday, October 30, 2006 | By: DennisNow here is a strange sight, ECS doing performance and with a bright purple motherboard to boot. This reminds me a little of the Soltek “Violet Eyes" motherboard from the way back. (which I still have btw)
"When it comes to high-end, uber-overclocking, record-breaking motherboard manufacturers, you usually do not think about the ECS. ECS has been a huge OEM for many years, and has never really produced anything that would be considered top-dog as far as performance goes. They did have the K7S5A that may bring back alot of memories (good and bad) for those that have been in the overclocking scene for awhile. I went through a few of those boards myself! Today, we have the ECS KA3MVP Extreme motherboard to look at. ECS touts this board, as the name suggests, as an MVP board and they say it is extreme. Well, let's take a look at the board and see if it is all that!" -
ABIT Fatal1ty AN9 32X Motherboard Review @ Motherboards
Published: Monday, October 30, 2006 | By: Dennis"ABIT has done a wonderful job with the Fatal1ty AN9 32X board. The board scored over 40 points on our features scoring system, with SLI, Firewire and other features making it one of the most feature-rich boards on the market. Performance was on a par with other boards on this chipset with the default clock speed, but the overclocking was very good on the board making it an excellent choice for people that want the absolute best."
I'm not sure about their scoring system but I must say that this is a very sweet looking motherboard. -
TWIN2X2048-6400C4D DOMINATOR Memory Delivers Innovative Features including Dual-Path Heat Xchange
Published: Monday, October 30, 2006 | By: DennisCorsair is at it again with an patent pending design.
"Corsair’s patent pending DOMINATOR printed circuit board and 4-layer heat sink design offers superior heat dissipation than standard heat spreaders thanks to the DHX technology. It substantially increases the memory module’s thermal dissipation so that the heat generated by the RAM cells can be more efficiently removed from the module via two paths. RAMs that run at lower temperatures enjoy improved performance and extended reliability. Available in 2GB kits, the new TWIN2X2048-6400C4D is fully optimized to deliver rock solid stability."
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Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Motherboard Review Posted
Published: Monday, October 30, 2006 | By: DennisThe layout of this motherboard is very well designed with quite a bit of detail given to making room for two monster video cards. Of course if you don't have two monster video cards you'll get to use the abundance of expansion slots otherwise you'll likely be down to a single 1x PCI Express slot and one regular PCI.
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Quad SLI under the microscope at TR
Published: Thursday, October 19, 2006 | By: Dennis"OVER THE PAST few years, we've seen an incredible number of extreme hardware solutions marketed to PC gamers: graphics cards that cost over five hundred bucks, thousand-dollar "Extreme Edition" CPUs, motherboards with more ports than Dubai, custom physics processors, and now even a "killer" NIC. Without a doubt, though, the most extreme of all of these offerings has to be Nvidia's vaunted Quad SLI."
I would agree, just the thought of 4 GPUs all working together for gaming goodness brings joy to all of the rich kids of the world. -
NinjaForum Back Online
Published: Thursday, October 19, 2006 | By: DennisIt would seem that the crazy "extra space" issue when using never version of PHP cropped up again, but after some crafty debugging the issue was traced down and resolved.
As the title suggests the forum is back open for business.
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Ninjalane Message Forum Down
Published: Sunday, October 15, 2006 | By: DennisHello everyone just a quick note saying that the forum will be down for awhile, I'm doing some updates that should stop the crazy ass robot registrations. I also figured it would be a good idea to update to the latest version too (which means all of the other mods have to be reinstalled as well)
The system should be back up shortly. -
DFI LANParty UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G Review @ PC Modding Malaysia
Published: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 | By: DennisOut of all the AM2 motherboards on the market I have to say the DFI offering is by far the coolest looking board on the market and according to PCmoddingmy is a decent overclocker as well.
"Now, we’ll look at the NB and SB cooling solutions. The nForce 590 SLI SB chipset is actively cooled via copper heatsink fan. The copper SB cooler is DFI’s first motherboard to use such high performance cooler. The cooper cooler is relative large and helps to keep the chipset cool, even when overclocking. In most cases," -
Abit AB9 Pro and AW9D MAX Motherboard Review @ The Tech Report
Published: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 | By: Dennis"ABIT HAS BEEN ON the comeback trail since its acquisition by USI, and we've been impressed by the company's recent AN8 32X and AT8 32X motherboards for Athlon 64 processors. Intel's Core 2 Duo has become the processor of choice for PC enthusiasts, though, and we've yet to see what a reinvigorated Abit can do with an LGA775 socket.
Interestingly, Abit's most famous boards have been for Intel processors. Classics like the BH6 and BP6 essentially defined the enthusiast-oriented motherboard genre, making us particularly eager to see how Abit can complement the Core 2 Duo. "
I would love to see Abit make a strong comeback, though things are tough when a company gets acquired. However personally I'm glad they ditched the "Wendell" editions. -
Intel IHS Lapping and Removal For LGA775 CPU's @ Legit Reviews
Published: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 | By: DennisHere is a fun one for you all.
"To get the IHS off we used four razor blades and placed two under opposite corners to apply force on the IHS. We then got out the Craftsmen propane torch and fired it up. After the CPU was cleaned we used four layers of electrical tape on each side of the core to prevent cracking the die and removed the load plate off our abit AW9D-MAX motherboard so the water block would make contact with the core and not the load plate. We applied Arctic Silver Lumiere to the core and after a test fitting to make sure the water block made contact with the die we fired up the test system..."
Never would have thought to take a blow torch to a processor but, hey whatever works.
