UT2007 Will Spin on PlayStation 3 @ DataFuse.net
DataFuse :: Sunday, December 11, 2005
“Everybody who has gamed in their life and played multiplayer games on LAN parties should know two games: Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament. UT has always been the loved fast-pace game and many versions have followed each other. But it’s been a while since a new release has struck us down like a Redeemer on a powertrip. ”
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CeBIT Goes to India @ CoolTechZone.com
CoolTechZone :: Sunday, December 11, 2005
Infocom, the largest IT expo in India is currently under progress in Kolkata, India. While there, we spoke to some of the key personnel involved and learned that if all goes well, Infocom might either merge or get re-branded as CeBIT India.”
Cooler Master Aquagate Mini 80 Giveaway @ Systemcooling.com
SystemCooling :: Sunday, December 11, 2005
Systemcooling has teamed up with Cooler Master for a cool Christmas giveaway. One lucky winner will be the recipient of an Aqugate Mini 80 water cooling system, and we have other cool prizes for the runners-up. Check out the forum thread for details!
Pinnacle PCTV 110i Review @ AMD Review
AMD Review :: Sunday, December 11, 2005
AMDReview takes a good look at one of Pinnacles PCTV tuners, the 110i. If you have been shopping for a TV tuner or thinking about getting one, this article will give you
How Many Units will Xbox 360 Sell>
Team Xbox :: Sunday, December 11, 2005
High demand for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 produced long lines at retail outlets and multiple hits at BetUS.com’s betting site where oddsmakers predicted how many Xbox units would sell this holiday season.
December Value Buyer’s Guide
Sharky Extreme :: Sunday, December 11, 2005
Today on Sharky Extreme, we’ve posted the December edition of our Value Gaming PC Buyer’s Guide, where we take $1K in search of the hottest AMD and Intel gaming systems:
Abit AN8 SLI Review @ PC Modding Malaysia
PC Modding Malaysia :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
Content: “Abit has done a pretty good job with their AN8 SLI. Offering an impressive overclocker’s friendly µGuru BIOS, the AN8 SLI boast up to 3.4VDIMM for power hungry BH5 or UTT memory chips. The package is also neat and comes with everything you need to get started. The AN8 SLI also features AudioMAX 7.1 soundcard which gives the AN8 SLI a unique look yet improving audio quality. The motherboard also comes with onboard LEDs that light up the MOSFET and AudioMAX area thus making this motherboard standout from the crowd, even without additional case lighting. Utilizing a unique and effective Q-OTES cooling system, the nForce 4 SLI chipset is kept cool even under heavy overclocking. The AN8 SLI served us well for the past month and we ran the system at 290MHz HTT for at least 3 weeks without any crashes or reboots. We also had no cold boot issues with this motherboard and the board boots up perfectly fine.”
Infrant ReadyNAS X6 X-RAID Network Storage
The Tech Lounge :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“One of the players in this NAS market is a company by the name of Infrant Technologies. Founded in 2001, they have set out to create a usage-specific processor which they call an NSP (Network Storage Processor); their goal being a dedicated box for the sole purpose of serving out storage to the network. To this end they have created the software which is aptly named RAIDiator. The software is now in its second incarnation as the RAIDiator 2. To see if all these bad plays on words are worth the effort, Infrant has been gracious enough to send me their latest NAS offering, the X6. The X6 is the successor to their ReadyNAS600 which utilized standard RAID architecture to serve out storage to the masses. The new X6 utilizes Infrant’s proprietary X-RAID technology to allow the user to expand the array on the fly. How well this works is precisely what I intend to find out, so let’s roll up our sleeves and dig in!”
News: Chipset Serial ATA and RAID performance compared
The Tech Report :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
If RAID’s speed and redundancy aren’t enough to pique your interest, maybe its price will. Serial ATA RAID support is included in most of today’s core logic chipsets, so it’s essentially free. Chipset RAID has been around for a while, of course, but only the most recent core-logic chipsets from Intel and NVIDIA support arrays of up to four drives and the highly coveted RAID 5.
We’ve spent a couple of months running Intel’s ICH7R and NVIDIA’s nForce4 Serial ATA RAID controllers through our exhaustive suite of storage tests, and the results are something to behold. We started with a single drive and worked our way up through RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 0+1, and 5 with two, three, and even four hard drives. Read on to see which RAID controller reigns supreme and how the different RAID levels compare in performance.
Keynesis Lockngo and Lockngo Professional Software @ ThinkComputers.org
Think Computers :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
Razer Copperhead @ Pro-Clockers
Pro-Clockers :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
The TechZone reviews the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB Video Card.
The Tech Zone :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
Enermax Laureate Series Enclosures 3.5HDD and 5.25 CD/DVD @ ThinkComputers.org
Think Computers :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
[News]Vantec MP4-7015-CF Mach 1 CPU cooler review @ Xtreme Resources
Xtreme Resources :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“Vantec is a very well known company amongst the computer enthusiast crowd. They design many computer accessories, although they perhaps are known mostly for their air coolers. Vantec has been silent for some time lately, but they recently released a new line of air coolers for all of the new CPU sockets. one of their top rank coolers, the Mach 1 (or MP4-7015-FC for those that prefer the technical name) is in our hands today for evaluation. Let us see what Vantec offers to the mid-stream enthusiast of today.”
[Designtechnica News] Holiday Gaming Gear Guide
Designtechnica :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“Anxious to get out there and spend that Christmas bonus or let friends know what you’re craving each of those eight crazy nights? No sweat – have we got some great gift ideas for you.
Bear in mind, eye-popping new games (seriously – have you seen some of the HD-compatible stuff coming down the pike?) are a given… and available by the truckload on a weekly basis at this point. But we’re going to focus strictly on hardware for the moment. After all, what’s the point of grabbing that hot new title if you’ve got nothing to play it on – or can’t experience the action as its creators intended.”
Dream’eo Enza 20GB Portable Media Center Review
Designtechnica :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“The much heralded Microsoft Portable Media Center has seen little action since its debut at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show. As portable video player manufacturers go several large names, including Creative, iriver and Samsung, put their PMCs out to the market where they have languished despite ok reviews. Into the now quiet PMC world comes the American debut of overseas multimedia devices company Dream’eo. Can their Enza PMC product gain traction, especially in light of the recent iPod with video release? Read on to find out.”
Cooler Master CM Media BTX-B260 Case Video Review #623:
3dgameman :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
DFI LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert Motherboard Review
PCStats :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“Like the previous model, the DFI LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert motherboard is based on the nvidia nForce4 SLI chipset. It supports all Socket 939 AMD Athlon64/FX/X2 processors on the market, and is geared for gaming performance. The four DIMM slots can be equipped with up to 4GB of the fastest dual channel DDR memory available, just as you might expect. In terms of onboard goodies, DFI is known to throw in everything but the kitchen sink in with its boards, the LANPartyUT NF4 SLI-DR Expert is no exception.”
Guide: Home Made Air Pencil Soldering Iron @ GideonTech.com
GideonTech :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“One of my previous guides here was on modifying the CVS camcorder to allow users to download movies made with it to their home computers. During the early stages of this project, it was necessary to remove the memory chip from the camcorder and then surface-mount it on a different PCB to read the chip without killing it. Luckily, a way was developed to access the memory chip via USB, but I decided that it was time for me to take a closer look at ways to improve my soldering.”
Gigabyte G-Power Pro Heatsink
Frosty Tech :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“The Gigabyte G-Power Pro has the appearance of a low noise heatsink, but that isn’t entirely the situation. Noise levels from the 1700-3200RPM fan vary from 50-72 dBA according to our sound measurements. When compared to Gigabyte’s past entries into the heatsink field (ie. 3D-Cooler, 3D-Rocket, and NeonCooler), the G-Power Pro is among the best performing K8 heatsinks at its slowest fan speed. However, it is also the loudest with the fan at full RPM.”
Xbox 360, only 13GB Available Diskspace @ DataFuse.net
DataFuse :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“Word is spreading like a wild fire on the internet: Microsoft only gives 13GB of diskspace with the Xbox 360 instead of the 20GB. Most of you would think I would start bashing at Microsoft for ripping off their customers. Not this time…
While the Xbox 360 does come with a 20GB hard drive, users aren’t able to fully use every offered MB. They are in fact only able to use two third of the full disksize”
Gigabyte G-Power Lite CPU Cooler
PimpRig :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“The fan on the G-Power is pretty close to Baby Blue in color, but that is a hell of a lot better than the obnoxious Orange that Thermaltake insists on using on their fans. The G-Power fan is an unusual 110 x 110 x 25mm and is of the sleeve type instead of bearing. The fan pushes 48.5 CFM at 2450 RPM while staying at a peaceful 27.5 dBA, pretty nice statistics. ”
Thermalright V1 Ultra
techPowerUp! :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
Thermalright is well known for making world-class CPU coolers. Now they have entered the VGA cooling business. The Thermalright V1 Ultra is an improved version of the V1 and features a third heatpipe. Not only does it cool well, it does this without creating a lot of fan noise. During our testing the cooler could easily beat a low-cost watercooling solution.
How To Connect Your PC to Your Home Stereo or Home Theater
Hardware Secrets :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“How about connecting your PC to your home stereo or even to your home theater in order to get a better audio for your games, videos and audio files? In this tutorial we will show you how to make this connection using regular analog connection and also digital connection (both coaxial and optical, also known as SPDIF).”
Asetek WaterChill KT03AT-12VX @ InsaneTek
InsaneTek :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“Asetek’s latest WaterChill watercooling kit features their Antarctica waterblock, a large dual 120mm fan radiator, and a new quiet pump. The fan and pump can be controlled via software!”
DFI Ultra LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D @ Viperlair
ViperLair :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
“An enthusiast’s enthusiast motherboard. Tweaks, tweaks and more tweaks make this a must choice outside of an SLI solution for the overclocker extraordinaire. Sexy looks and performance to match it, DFI hits the mark, again.”
Battle for Technology – Part 2
PC Mechanic :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
Well, recently, countries have decided to remove this “problem” from the system by moving such control to a completely international (read: political) community. This sounds all fine and good – but honestly, what’s wrong with the current system?
“Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe Overclocking Review”
Madshrimps :: Thursday, December 08, 2005
Quote: “Today we explore Asus nVidia SLI solution for Intel, we’ll take full advantage of Proactive AI and determine just how smart the board is. Read on for Madshrimps first IQ test designed for a motherboard.”
Silverstone SUGO SG01 SFF Case @ ThinkComputers.org
Think Computers :: Tuesday, December 06, 2005
PQI Cool Drive U339 Pro @ Bytesector
Bytesector :: Tuesday, December 06, 2005
“Last week, I took a look at PQI’s Intelligent Stick Pro 170, which is the world’s smallest USB flash memory device and offered storage capacities up to 2GBs. Today, I am taking a look at another PQI USB flash memory device; this time, it’s their Cool Drive U339 Pro. The Cool Drive U339 Pro comes with a wonderful-sounding software package called USB Notebook that is a personal file management software package. PQI’s Intelligent Stick amazed me with its size-to-performance ratio, and now I sit here wondering if the U339 Pro will hold true to its performance and functionality claims. Let’s take a look at what comes with the Cool Drive U339 Pro, and then we will see if it lives up the claimed performance of an average 25MB/s read speed and 17MB/s write speed.”
