Tech News
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ULi readies K8 solution and first dual-channel DDR2 northbridge
Published: Monday, February 21, 2005 | By: DennisThis could be really cool.
"Taiwan-based chipset vendor ULi plans to begin mass production of a new all-in-one chip solution for AMD K8 processors in the second quarter of this year and aims to begin manufacturing its first product with dual-channel DDR2 memory support at year-end, according to the company’s associate vice president Bruce Tai." -
AOpen prepares “Cube Mini” Pentium M based SFF PC
Published: Monday, February 21, 2005 | By: DennisCan you say PC Mini?, I knew you could
"On the heels of launching the EY855-II XC Cube, its first Intel Pentium M-based small-form-factor (SFF) PC, AOpen is now preparing for the March launch of its smallest XC Cube SFF PC to date, the MZ 855, according to sources at the company.
The Intel 855GME-based system, which the company has dubbed the Cube Mini, will only be 106mm tall and will support Socket 479 Pentium M or Centrino processors, a 400MHz FSB and up to 2GB of DDR333 memory. Although running a notebook CPU, the MZ 855 will still support desktop hard drives, as well as two front-panel USB ports." -
ATI Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition Review @ Tweaknews.
Published: Monday, February 21, 2005 | By: Dennis"Essentially everything is exactly the same from the 256bit memory interface, the 16 full pipelines and the 256Megs of onboard GDDR3 memory and the copper cooler. You wouldn't be able to see the difference if I handed you the two cards with no product stickers until you installed them and checked out their stock clock rates."
Take a close look, this might be the only time you see a Platinum Edition X800XT.
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The MGE Titanium @ Geekextreme
Published: Monday, February 21, 2005 | By: DennisThis is kind of funny; replace your case because an accessory died. While the logic doesn't really fit to a computer person you will look for just about any excuse to upgrade your system.
"The second issue was that my Vantec rheobus had up & died on me, & all of my fans were then blowing on full speed, making a horrendous racket. The rheobus was obviously the straw that broke the camel's back, so I started looking for a new one."
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ATI Radeon 9800 To FireGL X2 Mod Guide @ ARP
Published: Monday, February 21, 2005 | By: DennisRojak Pot loves modding ATI cards and while I think the entire process is pretty cool you have to make sure you have the right card before you start.
"If your Radeon 9800 SE has fully working pixel pipelines and it comes with a 256-bits-wide memory bus, then this mod should not be a problem. Radeon 9800 SE cards that come with only a 128-bits-wide memory bus have a different PCB layout that may make it harder to mod them into the FireGL X2. In addition, even if you manage to mod one, its performance would not match that of the real FireGL X2 as it has far less memory bandwidth compared to the real FireGL X2 card." -
XFX 6600GT Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Monday, February 21, 2005 | By: DennisXFX is one of those companies that caters to a particular group of computer users but makes their products accessible to everyone.
"Well, we’ve already summed up why this card should be a very solid choice for the gamer on a budget, regardless of whether you are using a PCI-E system or an AGP based system. But can XFX’s entry into the 6600GT market live up to the hype? Read on to find out."
I think I mentioned this before but we've been trying to get a couple of these cards here in the Ninjalane Labs for testing but one of the problems with small(er) companies is that their marketing people are extremely busy and tend to ignore people from time to time. -
Intel 64 Release Day
Published: Monday, February 21, 2005 | By: DennisHere is a clip from Hot Hardware.
"As noted earlier, there are also a few new features that these Prescott 2M cores bring to market for the P4, namely Intel EM64T 64-bit extensions, EIST or Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (6XX sequence CPUs only at the moment), and the Execute Disable Bit, all of which we'll dig into next."
In case you don't remember the disable bit can be hacked to allow you some extra headroom while overclocking
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Chaintech GeForce SA6600G Review @ Overclocker Cafe
Published: Thursday, February 17, 2005 | By: DennisWe don't do to many video card reviews here at Ninjalane but over the years we have come to recognize our favorites. Chaintech just happens to be one of them.
"Today, we have our first look at an AGP version of the GeForce 6600 GT here at the OCC. Thanks to the good folks at Chaintech, let’s take a few minutes to cover this newest midrange VGA burner and see what you get and how it performs." -
Nvidia Forceware Tweak Guide @ TweakGuides
Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 | By: DennisI haven't tried any of these tweaks but they could be worth checking out if you are trying to increase performance or just get a good install.
"Even though the Forceware drivers are quite good, there is plenty of room to customize and tweak them to better suit your needs. Along comes this Nvidia Forceware Tweak Guide which covers the optimization of the Forceware drivers from start to finish." -
DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb Review @ InsaneTek
Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 | By: DennisThat A W is pretty crazy when it comes to overclocking and he loves to pump tons of voltage into his memory modules. Kind of makes you wonder if he does the same stuff with his own equipment.
"The pictures taken are of the 10/15 beta BIOS by Oskar Wu. There isn't much difference between the original BIOS and the beta BIOS, other than the included Memtest option. The beta BIOS provides much better overclocking potential than the official. The official BIOS seems to have a bug that prevents serious overclocking. There are beta BIOSes available that allow VDIMM to go up to 4.0v, but I chose the BIOS most similar to the official."
