Tech News
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Soyo SY-CK8 Dragon Plus Review @ 3DXtreme
Published: Monday, February 2, 2004 | By: Dennis"As you can see, we managed some pretty decent numbers on overclocking, and might have possibly gone higher if we increase Vcore some more. We will soon be looking at a water cooling unit and will definitely revisit overclocking this chip again at that time. We also expect some faster RAM soon which will help us achieve better FSB at 1:1 as the CPU is certainly able to handle DDR450 speeds."
The Athlon64 isn't really a strong overclocker like the Pentium 4 and AthlonXP are but it doesn’t need to be due to the great out of box performance. Though as the chip matures overclocking should improve to the "watch out!" category.
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Socket 939 Photo
Published: Monday, February 2, 2004 | By: DennisThe socket looks actually very similar to the Socket 940 with just one pin missing from the corner, Not really super exciting but still pretty cool. For those of you living under a rock the 939 is the Athlon64 FX is the cool one that doesn't require registered memory.
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NL: Review Block - Just to get it posted ed.
Published: Monday, February 2, 2004 | By: DennisCooling
- Thermaltake HardCano 12 Review @ ModSynergy.com
- Thermaltake Tiger 1 Northbridge HSF @ A True Review
Cases
- Black Lian Li 6077 Review @ OCIA
- Enermax CS-800TA-S Review @ Envy News
- SilverStone Temjin TJ-01 Review @ FastLaneHW
Video Cards
- HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600XT Review @ myWORLD Hardware
- nVidia FX Card Round up @ ModFathers
- MSI GeForce FX 5700 Ultra-TD128 @ Bjorn3d
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Prescott Released!
Published: Monday, February 2, 2004 | By: DennisPrescott is here, there, and everywhere cept in the Ninjalane Labs.
but I'm not bitter.
- Prescott @ Legit Reviews
- Funky Prescott @ xtremesystems
- Prescott @ accelenation
Tons of reviews on the net, check out the [H] for a more complete list. -
News Time
Published: Monday, February 2, 2004 | By: DennisOk back from work, time to post some news.
To tide everyone over check out the Janet video I scored. Janet at the Superbowl, Justin looks pretty pissed for some reason, com'on man we know its not Britney but still.. 
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No News This Morning
Published: Monday, February 2, 2004 | By: DennisMonday news is going to be a little lacking today due to my current schedule. Plenty of stuff came in and only a portion of it will be posted, just later.
On a side note did anyone see Janet's breast on TV during the Super Bowl? kind of yummy.
Prescott also was released and once again Intel didn't send us one. Shame on them but looking back I'm kind of glad, processor reviews are sooo boring. -
PC Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Conversion @ Techseekers
Published: Friday, January 30, 2004 | By: DennisOur resident Mac user will love this article at Techseekers.
"Most manufacturers have stayed very close to the reference design, and as such doesn't affect the success of the conversion. In my case I have used a Connect3D Radeon 9800 Pro, but any 9800 Pro will do."
No longer does the Macintosh and its users need to be stuck with shoddy video. -
Western Digital Raptor WD740GD Review @ Overclockers AU
Published: Friday, January 30, 2004 | By: DennisThe peeps in the down under have reviewed the new, improved, and bigger 10k RPM SerialATA Raptor drive from Western Digital.
"The interpretation of the results with the 3 tested drives is quite easy. Even a quick glance through the previous 6 tables with the test results reveals that the WD740 is consistently leading the pack. It is by a clear margin better than the older WD360 and it is outclassing the 7,200 rpm Maxtor in each and every test, be it as single disk or in RAID 0 with 2 disks."
I actually have 2 Raptor 36GB drives in a phatty ole RAID 0 in my current workstation; this combo is the only way to compute. -
Corsair Twinx Memory Reviews
Published: Friday, January 30, 2004 | By: DennisCorsair makes some of the best enthusiast memory on the market today; we use it in all of our systems here in the Ninjalane Labs and probably will for many more moons to come.
- Corsair TwinX PC4400 Review @ MadShrimps
"We first started out testing this memory on an Asus P4C800 with latest BIOS revision and a P4 2.4 "C" capable of 290FSB on air cooling. Although we are able to boot into windows and run some benches, this speed proved unstable when trying *any* 3D game/benchmark. So out went the Asus and in the Abit IS7."
Good board btw.
- Corsair TwinX XMS4000 Pro Review @ 3DXtreme
" Users with a stock P4 c revision Processor will be using a front side bus speed of 200 Mhz. In the following graphs you’ll see the memory bandwidth increase by moving from 200 to 233 and then to 250 Mhz. There is definitely an increase in the memory throughput when changing the Front Side Bus alone, keep in mind the CPU was still at 3.0 Ghz."
Obviously pimping that they got an engineering sample from Intel.
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nVidia XF 5700 Ultra Reviews
Published: Friday, January 30, 2004 | By: DennisI may be a little biased but from an architecture standpoint I think the FX5700 Ultra is one of the best mid-range cards out there, loads better than the FX 5600 Ultra from days gone by.
- Gigabyte GV-N57U128D FX 5700 Ultra Review @ PCStats
” Manually adjusting the core we were only able to hit 535 MHz. Not bad all things considered. The GV-NV57U128D is equipped with eight 128bit 2.2ns Samsung DDR2 (K4N26323AE-GC22) BGA DRAM modules that are clocked at 900 MHz SDR (450 MHz DDR) by default.”
- BFG Technologies Asylum FX 5700 Ultra Review @ Monkey Review
” BFG has impressed us by using a blue PCB rather than the green PCB we see on the reference cards. Something else which is impressive are the high quality ram sinks, we find these not only on the top side, but on both. Good move BFG.”
Kind of hard to read but there are just so many monkeys! I can't resist.
