Tech News May 2005 - OCmodshop.com

OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Titanium Review @ PC Modding Malaysia
PC Modding Malaysia :: Monday, May 30, 2005

“Since OCZ is marketing the Titanium series as being “exceptionally reliable”, I decided to test how well it would do under constant stress testing. While only one week of virtually constant stress testing may not be enough for me to say that this memory is “exceptionally reliable”, I will update this section of the review should I encounter any problem at all with this memory. I will be running it 24/7 perhaps for the next year or so in my server, so rest assured that I will keep everyone updated should it be any less than exceptionally reliable”

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Swiftech H20-120 Rev. 3a Water Cooling Kit Review @ PC Modding Malaysia
PC Modding Malaysia :: Monday, May 30, 2005

“Overall, the Swiftech H20-120-SB Revision 3a kit is a perfect water cooling kit. It is almost compatible with almost any case available in the market and the integrated bay reservoir and pump is simply space saving. I have to admit that this is the most convenient water cooling kit I have ever reviewed, period. Besides that, the Radbox allows installation on any case and it gives better performance with the radiator installed externally. I was also impressed with the Coolsleeves as it gave better flexibility to the tubings (without kinking) even under the tightest situation.”

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THERMALTAKE SVIKING BA400BWS BLACK COMPUTER CASE REVIEW @ Tweaknews
Tweaknews :: Monday, May 30, 2005

“The Thermaltake SViking series is a good buy, with a few exceptions. The sharp edges were kept to a bare minimum and for the most part the metal was rolled nice and neatly. The case offers a lot of room for optical and hard drives. The cases airflow is designed well, but mark my words, you won’t be able to take the full speed setting for long.”

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Danger Den MCT-40 Coolant @ Techniz.co.uk
Techniz.co.uk :: Monday, May 30, 2005

“The Danger Den MCT-40 is specially design for the water cooling usage. The coolant of the MCT-40 is able to reduce the temperature of the water to improve the cooling performance. During our testing, the MCT-40 is performing better than the distilled water. Beside that, by using the MCT-40 in your water cooling setup, it will have a lot of advantages such as controls algae by eliminating food source, extend the life of the water block and water cooling system.”

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Shuttle XPC ST20G5 Review @ Hexus
Hexus :: Monday, May 30, 2005

“All wrapped up in the very stylish G5 XPC chassis, the ST20G5 has a whole lot going for it. Until Shuttle pair nForce4 with the G5 chassis, there’s arguably no better teeny PC to place a Socket 939 CPU and a PCI Express graphics board into.”

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Corsair COOL Watercooling Kit @ InsaneTek
InsaneTek :: Monday, May 30, 2005

“Corsair continues their watercooling line with products from Swiftech. Sure they didn’t actually manufacture it but they do make a nice bundle at a great price. Plus you get a green bracket that Swiftech doesn’t offer”

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Ultra compact IWILL 4-Way, dual-core Intel Xeon MP mainboard pictures @ Hexus
Hexus :: Monday, May 30, 2005

“The board is based around the 6th generation Intel 8500 core logic and supports 4-way, 64-bit Intel Xeon Processors, and the chipset also has full dual-core Xeon support. It has the ability to use 16 DDR2-400 ECC Registered Memory modules, supporting hot-swap, memory raid – sparing/mirroring. ”

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DVdoctor.feature – PCI Express technology backgrounder @ Hexus
Hexus :: Monday, May 30, 2005

“PCI Express isn’t just about increased bandwidth. It also offers better power management, including native hot-plug support. And, although the physical interface is not backwards compatible, the driver architecture is. So PCI products can rapidly be moved over to PCI Express with little rewriting of software needed to make them work.”

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Intel Pentium 4 670 and Pentium D 820 @ Hexus
Hexus :: Saturday, May 28, 2005

“To state the obvious, where the Pentium D 820 thrives is in multi-threaded applications that take full advantage of both its cores concurrently. When that happens, its performance beats out the fastest and most expensive single-core models with comparative ease. Above all else, what the £200 Pentium D 820 does is bring real dual-core goodness to the masses.”

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Mushkin 1GB DC DDR400 Redline Review @ Techniz.co.uk
Techniz.co.uk :: Saturday, May 28, 2005

“The Mushkin 1GB DDR400 Redline series memory module is a very highly overclockable memory module that will meet the needs of most enthusiasts. This pair of DDR400 is one of the fastest frequencies RAM of the DDR memory range. This dual channel RAM is able to run at tight timings of 2-3-2-6 which is the best and basic requirement for a good memory module. Furthermore, with the voltage of 2.9V, it was able to hit 236 MHz which is equal to DDR 472 with the tight timings of 2-3-2-6. With a higher voltage at 3.6V, the Redline modules are able to reach 258MHz at the timing of 2-3-2-6.”

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DFI Lan Party nF4 Ultra-D Review @ PC Modding Malaysia
PC Modding Malaysia :: Saturday, May 28, 2005

“This board is just another legendary board from DFI. Without any doubt the DFI Lan Party nF4 Ultra-D will be the dream board for overclockers due to its high overclocking ability and luxurious BIOS tweaking. If you are lucky, you might get the older batch which can be modded to nF4 SLI without extra cost. However, if you are not an average / hardcore overclocker and do not bother to do the tweaking, you can still purchase this motherboard but it will be pointless getting a super-overclockable motherboard when you don’t even intend to overclock at the first place. Besides, this motherboard needs a lot of tweaking and trials to bring the best out of this board. Besides the high overclocking ability, this board also has other advantages as well such as the CMOS reload, EZ-on buttons and dual Gigabyte LAN, just for the list. With the price of around 130USD, it definitely an inexpensive solution for your ultimate overclocking setup”

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Talkback: The Console Wars
Designtechnica :: Friday, May 27, 2005
“All three gaming consoles have been disclosed at E3, the new Sony/Apple-like Xbox 360, the new Playstation 3, which looks like it was designed by Porsche, and the Nintendo Revolution, which rather looks like it was designed by, well, Sony.

The good news is all of the products look much better than those preceding them, and they should outperform their predecessors as well; however, there are massive differences between them. The Nintendo product is the lightweight in terms of performance, but it’s expected to cost less than half of what the other two products cost, in a market that traditionally has not liked products over $200 very much. Unfortunately, it will also be the last to market and it will enter when the other two players should have vastly greater game support. That gives the Nintendo long odds for this race, which has been increasingly between Sony and Microsoft.”

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