Tech News
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CoolerMaster AquaGate Review @ OCAU
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004 | By: Dennis"Given that one of the aims of my current PC upgrade is to try to keep the systems as quiet as possible, I found myself limited in terms of cooling options. So, when CoolerMaster sent us one of their new AquaGate 'Liquid Cooling System' units to look at, I was very interested to see how it performs in terms of its cooling ability and also if it would allow for quiet computing."
I can agree, watercooling appears to be the solution of quiet vs performance, since you can get both (to a certain degree) you just can't go wrong. -
Asetek WaterChill Antarctica DYO @ Virtual-Fusion
Published: Thursday, July 1, 2004 | By: Dennis" One of the great innovations in this block, is the existence of three connectors. But so that it will be necessary to use three connectors? Simple, one of them (of the center) is for entrance, while two more external they are for the “exit of water”. Of this form it is made sure that the water is extracted of waterblock badly enters in this, increasing, in theory, its general performance."
The new Antarctica block from asetek is a really good waterblock though isn't very flexible due to the push on hose connectors. You either love them or hate them; last I checked people were about 40-60.
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Mobo makers may not lower 865 motherboard prices
Published: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 | By: Dennis"Taiwanese motherboard makers may not lower prices for 865 motherboards in the third quarter as planned, as the defect found in Intel’s recently launched 915/925 chipsets may delay PC industry migration to the new Intel Pentium platform, according to sources at the makers.
Although Intel is expected to solve the problems related to the ICH6 south bridge chipset this week, the recall is likely to weaken the confidence in the new Pentium 4 chipsets at channel distributors. This should delay the implementation of the new platform, said the sources." -
3Dlabs Unleashes Wildcat Realizm 800 PCI Express Graphics Accelerator
Published: Monday, June 28, 2004 | By: DennisThis is some pretty big news esp. with what we know about nVidia.
"MILPITAS, Calif. – June 15, 2004 - 3Dlabs Inc., Ltd., a leading innovator in professional visual processing, today announced unprecedented power and performance capabilities for professional graphics with the PCI Express-based Wildcat Realizm 800. The fastest professional PCI Express-based graphics accelerator that will hit the market this year, the Wildcat Realizm 800 features a unique Wildcat Realizm Vertex/Scalability Unit (VSU) and dual Wildcat Realizm Visual Processing Units (VPU) to deliver over 700 GFLOPS of floating-point graphics processing."
Granted these aren't gaming cards but are using multi-core GPU technology on a single board. This isn't anything new for 3Dlabs since many of their high end cards have used multiple GPU processors in the past though pair that with the possibility of linking more than one card together and you have a plethora of video processing power.
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nVidia SLI Announced Today
Published: Monday, June 28, 2004 | By: DennisSLI was the shiz back in the day and with a 87-90% boost in performance it is also the shiz today. Now all we need is some mainstream enthusiast boards that support dual 16x PCIe. DFI anyone?
""That's the SLI connector," he joked. I responded with what I thought was the proper sarcasm. I mean, us old timers like to recall the days of the ancient 3dfx Voodoo 2 graphics cards, when 3D graphics on a home computer was still a new experience, and Voodoo 2 SLI ruled the graphics world."
- nVidia SLI @ HardOCP
- SLI Resurrected @ The Tech Report
- SLI is Back @ HotHardware
It should be noted that SLI doesn't stand for "Scan Line Interleaving" like it did back in 3dfx days bur rather "Scalable Link Interface". I don't think many enthusiast users will care much. -
BFG 6800 Ultra OC @ Envy News
Published: Monday, June 28, 2004 | By: DennisBFG is one of the big video card names here in the US and has started to go down the road of factory overclocking to help sell products. The card looks to be a reference board so you can be assured that whatever overclock you can get from BFG you can also get from just about any other 6800Ultra on (or off) the market.
"Now that you know the speed of the 6800 Ultra chipset is sufficient for any game currently out, is it really enough for the sp33d ph34k in you? Using the “Auto Detect” feature in the nVIDIA drivers we were granted the clock speeds of 444MHz on the core, and 1.13GHz (effective) on the RAM. This allowed a 3% boost over the stock speed of the BFG 6800U OC, and a 7% speed boost over the regular 6800 Ultra."
phj34r th3r p00r l33+ sk1llz.
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DFI New Flagship LANParty 925X-T2 Motherboard
Published: Monday, June 28, 2004 | By: Dennis"Meeting the increasing power requirement of the new LGA 775 processors, the new LANParty 925X-T2 features 4-phase PWM to increase efficiency in heat dissipation and improve stability by lowering power consumption each phase bears. For each phase of PWM, DFI uses 4 MOSFETs to provide parallel load sharing. In this scenario, the total power consumption is diminished and enables the motherboard to stay cooler"
You'll need an Intel 775, DDR2, and PCI Express video card to run this board. The processor and memory will be easy to get, the video card on the other hand may not. -
Danger Den TDX Waterblock @ Club Overclocker
Published: Friday, June 25, 2004 | By: DennisThe last time I checked these guys are located not more than 45min away from the Ninjalane Head offices. Sad they never send us news directly.
"So the question is, can the Danger Den TDX hang with alternative forms of cooling? Can it remove enough heat from our 3.0E Prescott and give us enough cooling power to overclock? Well in this review we're going to give you a good idea at what is possible with water cooling, but most of all keep it in the case to give us good portability and user friendliness."
For those of you that don't remember this is the 2-barb version of the popular RBX that we reviewed here. -
XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra @ Hexus
Published: Friday, June 25, 2004 | By: DennisThe way I see it there will be a 3 way battle for the top 6800 Ultra card between XFX, Gainward, and BFG. Though if they all use the reference design the battle will be over price and market share since performance will be the same.
"XFX, while deviating on the presentation front, don't deviate from the reference cooler with their current generation 6800 Ultra. Whispers reach me of a new cooler for future high-end XFX 6800 products, but for now they just use the reference design." -
Researchers warn of infectious Web sites
Published: Friday, June 25, 2004 | By: Dennis"NetSec's Houlahan advocated drastic action.
"I told my wife, unless it is absolutely necessary and unless you are going to a site like our banking site, stay off the Internet right now," he said."
Why not tell the kids too.
Seriously though this is a huge deal for people browsing the net using IE and visiting sites using IIS. The infection is triggered by some JavaScript that is appended to the bottom of every webpage served up by the infected webserver.
It would almost seem to me that by disabling Javascript you could elude the infection, or switch to something cool like Mozilla or FireFox
On a side note it would seem that one of my previous webhosts and the worse hosting company in the world, Interland, got hacked not to long ago.
