Tech News
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Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: Dennis"But some are wondering: What happens when everyone discovers the power of aggregators? Will the Web be able to handle it? In Internet boom-speak, will it scale?
Already, aggregators have swamped some sites, slowing Web servers and eating up expensive bandwidth, according to bloggers and other Web publishers. The end may be near, unless something changes soon, said Gary Lawrence Murphy, whose Linux blog, TeledyN, has been overloaded."
This is one of the primary reasons there is no Ninjalane RSS feed. This may change in the future though will depend on how original our news content becomes.
A call to news posters?, anyone.. anyone.
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Mainboards with 1000MHz HyperTransport
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: Dennis"The first batch of ABIT’s mainboards for future AMD Athlon 64 processors with 1000MHz HyperTransport bus have reached several stores in Tokyo, Japan. The mainboards, however, can work with today’s 64-bit processors too, as they are equipped with Socket 754 that is used with today’s chips."
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NVIDIA NV40 Preview @ Gamers Depot
Published: Monday, May 3, 2004 | By: DennisThe 6800 Ultra is a pretty amazing card though talk of this new GPU has been overtly hush hush since the announcement. Might some of the other hardware sites know something that we don't? Or is the lack of retail samples squashing nVidia enthusiasm?? I'm sure we all will find out in the days to follow.
" NVIDIA needed something to not only reestablish its position as a performance leader, but wanted to make sure that the nails in that coffin would not come un-done with ATI’s soon-to-be-released R420. It appears as if their design team worked tons of overtime to crank out the GeForce 6800 Ultra (code-named NV40)" -
Ninjalane Logo Shop Now Open
Published: Sunday, May 2, 2004 | By: DennisThis web store has been a long time in the making and it is now a reality. The logo shop is run by Cafepress so they will handle the creation and shipping of the products but the artwork used is all mine.
Suggestions and comments are always welcome. -
Introduction to DDR-2: The DDR Memory Replacement
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"DDR2-SDRAM is considered an evolutionary upgrade over existing DDR memory. It maintains the same core functions, transferring 64 bits of data twice every clock cycle for an effective transfer rate twice that of the front-side bus (FSB) of a computer system, and an effective bandwidth equal to its speed x 8."
DDR2 also raises the speed and throughput levels at the expense of higher latency timings. Somehow I don't think that will matter much once things get moving.
A good read, check it out. -
ADPmods Fireworks LED Fan @ TheCrucible
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"The clip really doesn't do justice to the fan's display. The center LEDs really give off a brilliant show. Placing one of these fans on your heat sink, or in the intake hole of your case's door would add some cool lighting effects to the interior of the case."
This fan reminds me of a fan that that we reviewed not to long ago.
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ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB @ Designtechnica
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"Unless you’re just hearing about the ATI Radeon 9800XT for the first time now, you probably know that this video card is the current reigning champion of graphics processors. However, this is about to change."
It is important to know the winners from the losers. However I'm still waiting to see what the R420 brings.
Anyone have bets on the 6800 Ultra?? -
Chaintech GeForce FX5500 Review @ ipKonfig
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: DennisWe don't normally feature budget items like this but it isn't every day you see the featured product come in dead last on every performance chart.
"Chaintech's latest FX5500 video card tries to give the consumer a few more of those added features. You won't find bundled software, like games, or a tweaked-out graphics card. Instead, you'll get its Summit line graphics card without bundled extras. You will, however, find 256MB of DDR memory, something not commonly found on such cards." -
Athlon XP 2600+ mobile overclocking @ Iamnotageek
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"Of course I could have gone higher with better cooling, but with how much more heat is produced by increasing the voltages I want to stick with a very cool running chip. Also my whole point behind this article is showing it with "free cooling" since this was a heatsink I never would have used had it not been for this nice and cool running chip."
2.4Ghz, not a bad overclock though our very own Sycorax has done one better. He took a Mobile XP2500+ and overclocked it to 2.7Ghz using water and a little bit of extra voltage. Check out his rig in the Ninjalane Message Forum. -
PMI 3200 LL Memory Review @ Tweak News
Published: Thursday, April 29, 2004 | By: Dennis"One thing that caught my attention is the weight of the package. The extra heft came from PMI's use of nickel plated copper heatspreaders usually seen on memory rated much faster than DDR400. Although most people will consider this a little overkill on memory rated at base speed, it will allow a better overclock and keep all modules very cool providing you have sufficient case air flow."
ummm... I will agree heatspreaders do help with high speed stability but I have yet to be convenced that the heat spreader alone will increase your margin of overclock.
