Graphics IHV’s at CeBit 2005 article @ Beyond3D
Beyond3D :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
“Finally we also heard that graphics cards may soon be receiving a new type of output port: HDMI. HDMI is a new interconnect that’s primarily being used with high resolution devices such as HDTV’s and uses the same signalling methods as DVI with the addition that it also carries audio signals. Hopefully other PC components, such as flat panels, will also transition across to these interconnects at some point in the future, but because PC’s are increasingly being used in Media Center type environments expect some graphics cards to support HDMI fairly soon.”
PimpRig Review // Razotech RAM Mod
PimpRig :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
check it outMushkin PC2-4200 DDR533 CL 3-2-2-8 Review @ PCModdingMy
PC Modding Malaysia :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
ASUS 6800GT SLi @ t-break
t-break :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
One of the problems we initially faced with SLI was the usage of a 400W PSU to power the entire setup- this was just not cutting it and the lack of availability of a better PSU in the local market had our hands tied. Luckily, we managed to aquire a Enermax 600W PSU and that, along with nVidia releasing the new WHQL passed 71.84 drivers a couple of weeks back, made us decide to re-visit the technology.
Gigabyte G-Max N203 Laptop Review
PCStats :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
“Most people end up compromising with a midrange laptop that does most or all of what they want, but without the utter sleekness that three grand will get you. Today we’re going to take a look a Gigabyte’s G-Max N203 laptop in “Ruby Red”, which fits neatly into this midrange category. Features and portability are this 1.6GHz Centrino-based laptop’s primary strengths, but it can also hold its own in the office computing department, as we will see a little later in the benchmarks. The ‘Ruby Red’ N203 (which we reviewed) comes with a 1.6GHz Pentium M processor and 256MB of memory.”
Corsair COOL Water Cooling @ Legit Reviews
Legit Reviews :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
“With the majority of today’s processors becoming hotter water cooling is something that is becoming more mainstream. Corsair has been doing watercooling for years with the Hydrocool 200 and has decided to bring out a new product called the COOL to replace their old unit. Can Corsair’s new “Cool” unit bring water cooling to the masses and still perform well?…”
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI Review @ Neoseeker
Neoseeker :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
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It seems that with every Socket 939 board that we test, overclocking capabilities only get better. Our last Gigabyte board, the K8NXP-SLI, topped out at the high 270’s on the HT bus. On our K8N Ultra-SLI sample, I’ve managed to crank things up to 295 MHz. While I’ve been somewhat spoiled by the DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra’s 365 MHz, I remind myself that going from 200 MHz to ~300 MHz is a ~50% jump. A few years ago, hardcore overclockers would have killed for such percentages
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Razer Diamondback Professional Gaming Mouse Pictorial Review Posted!
Tech ARP :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
Today, we will take a look at the Razer Diamondback professional gaming mouse with its incredible 1600 DPI resolution and 16-bits data resolution! This could be the mouse that will make you the Fragmeister! ”
Fujitsu-Siemens E8020 Notebook @ t-break
t-break :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
The top-of the line model that we recieved was nicely loaded with the currently fastest Pentium-M 775 (2.13GHz) CPU, 2x512MB 533MHz DDR2 modules, a 4x Dual Layer +/- DVD writer and an 80GB, 5400RPM SATA drive. Graphics were powered by the PCI Express based ATI Mobility X600 with 64MB dedicated RAM along with a 15.1″ LCD with an SXGA+ (1400×1050) resolution.
Silverstone Strider SST-ST46F 460W PSU review @ XtremeResources
Xtreme Resources :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
Another power supply unit will have to tolerate my cruelties that take place inside my test bed PC. Today, it will be the Silverstone Strider SST-ST46F 460W power supply unit, a rather special power supply unit from a similarly special company. Silverstone is a Taiwanese based company, founded back in 2003, which makes them quite new to the computer industry. They produce high class aluminum cases, power supply units, and they have expanded into the cooling and accessories market recently. Let us see if this power supply unit can keep up with the reputation of the company it represents.
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Introduction to Tape Backup @ The Tech Zone
The Tech Zone :: Thursday, March 17, 2005
If you run a small business, chances are you’re saving important files to a server. But what happens when disaster strikes? How are you ensuring that your files won’t be lost? Many people fail to realize that the loss of files could cripple their business. You can insure your office and equipment, but you can’t insure files. You can’t repair or buy back lost files. Ipso facto, they are lost!
AMD Turion 64 notebook Special – Already 10 Designs!
AMDboard :: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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AMD Turion 64 is surely one of the hottest CeBIT 2005 product. Dubbed as the Centrino killer, the Turion 64 potential looks very good and AMD already announces more than 20 OEM and ODM willing to sport the firm latest mobile processor. Today, AMDboard.com is releasing its “AMD Turion 64 notebook Special” where all the known designs are now stored. Coming from ACER, ARIMA, ASUS, MITAC, MSI and UNIWILL, this special has already gathered 10 ODM designs ranging from 12.1″ to 15.4″ TFT, and sporting various chipsets like ATI RS480M, VIA K8N800, SIS756 and graphic chips like ATI X300 mobility, ATI X600 mobility, ATI X700 mobility or SIS760M (chipset with integrated graphics). This is undoubtedly the most extensive list of AMD Turion 64 notebooks available so far and it’s all at
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The Future of Entertainment @ The Tech Zone
The Tech Zone :: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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I’ve heard this argument before. My grade ten IT teacher assured us that within five years (and this was four years ago) we would no longer be purchasing CDs. With the advent of broadband we were going to see purchases of music and movies online, streamed to the computer or another device. I’ve always thought this was relatively unlikely. I may be in the minority, but I really like the CD and DVD cases. There’s something a bit more tangible to them, more of a feeling of value for money. Plus they look kind of good lined up on a shelf like some new-age library.
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Gigabyte K8VT890-9 Motherboard @ hardCOREware
hardCOREware :: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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When the K8T890 chipset was announced last summer, we had high hopes for VIA’s entry into the PCI-E realm. Had the timing been right, they would have been the first out of the gates with a PCI-E solution for Athlon64 CPU’s.
Unfortunately, things didn’t quite work out that way. Thanks to its architecture, we are going to see a flood of low end Socket 939’s being released with this Northbridge, pairing it up with a Southbridge that was originally introduced for Socket A motherboards. Last week we reviewed one from Soltek, this week we’re looking at Gigabyte’s solution, which carries an MSRP of just $83
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[COLUMN] Semi-Fortnightly Ramble: United Parcel Stompers @ TTL
The Tech Lounge :: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Have you ever shipped anything UPS? Sure, we all have. How about anything worth more than say, $100…or maybe even $1,000? Wouldn’t it stand to reason that if you were shipping something of considerable and readily declared value that the company who makes money shipping things might just take that little extra step, one sliver of extra-carefulness? Apparently not. ”
Gigabyte GV-3D1 Dual GeForce 6600GT Videocard @ PCStats
PCStats :: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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Gigabyte has come up with a very interesting alternative to the dual card SLI option; what they’ve done is placed two nVidia GeForce 6600GT cores and two sets of memory onto a single videocard PCB! Like a regular pair of SLI compatible cards, the two individual cores split the PCI Express 16x bus and each core gets a direct PCI Express 8x connection to the rest of the system though one standard PCI Express x16 slot. Each of the GeForce 6600GT cores on the GV-3D1 are supported with dedicated sets of 128MB of Samsung GDDR3 memory each, for a total of 256MB GDDR-3. The GV-3D1 has its cores clocked at 500MHz apiece, but the memory runs at 1120MHz – a full 120MHz over stock speeds. We’ll see later what kind of performance benefits this can produce.
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Gigabyte K8NXP-9 Review @ PCModdingMy
PC Modding Malaysia :: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
After going through this review and the benchmark results in the previous pages, you should be clear that this Gigabyte K8NXP-9 definitely is a top high end nForce4 Ultra. It outperforms the competitor by a small lead during our testing and we would like to say that the competitor is one of the famous nForce4 Ultra boards in the market now. Besides that, this Gigabyte K8NXP-9 also offers luxurious packaging, which really attract me a lot. Although the price is expensive, it’s worth it. Dual BIOS, DPS, SATA 2, 7.1 channel audio, WiFi PCI card are the signs of a high tech motherboard. Maybe Gigabyte K8NXP-9 isn’t a extreme overclocking board but it is definitely a good performance, high end, rich features board.
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Thermaltake PurePower 680W Power Supply @ InsaneTek
InsaneTek :: Tuesday, March 15, 2005
The Thermaltake 680W has placed Thermaltake in the recommended overclocker’s choice for power supplies. While offering amazing aesthetic features, such as a titanium finish and fully sleeved cables, it has enough power to supply the most straining components available. The power supply is also one of the few power supplies that is able to power two PCI-E video cards, aside from the PC Power and Cooling SLI series. ”
LiteOn SOHW-1673S 16X DVD Writer Review @ Techniz.co.uk
Techniz.co.uk :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
“Again, LiteOn have come out with another great DVD Writer, the SOHW-1673S. The SOHW-1673S was a very good optical drive in terms of performance. The overall performance was much better than the previous model which is the SOHW-1653S. The drive itself is very stable during the reading/writing of any CD/DVD media. As for the noise level, it was much quiet compare to the all the previous model. Furthermore, the sample unit that I receive is a Black Bezel unit. I think most of the users now is looking for the Black Bezel drive. Since it looks much nicer compare to the beige bezel drive. The LiteOn SOHW-1673S DVD Writer is a worthy solution of the new 16x Dual Layer DVD writer. Highly Recommended!”
OCZ ModStream 450W Power Supply Review @ Techniz.co.uk
Techniz.co.uk :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
CeBIT 2005: ASUS – Full ATi MVP Breakdown and more! @ Hexus
Hexus :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
“MVP supports split frame rendering using supertiling, where the screen is split up into tiled areas with each tile processed on a GPU, using any GPUs that support supertiling. That’s anything from R300 up, but it’s likely to be limited to R4xx GPUs. You can use X700 and X800, X800 XL and X850 XT PE, or any other mix that you can think of. There’s the potential to increase anti-aliasing IQ using supertiling (multipassing the tiles through a GPU) and MVP.”
CEBIT 2005: AMD or Intel? Same Motherboard! @ Hexus
Hexus :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
“Here at CeBIT 2005, you see innovation galore, but at the ECS stand they have something truly special that stands out as being one of the hottest products of the show. HEXUS brings you the ECS PF88, the first mainboard to support both Intel P4 AND AMD Athlon 64 processors.”
Revoltec Star Series Chromus II RPS-450V2 PSU Review @ Xtreme Resources
Xtreme Resources :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
CeBIT 2005: Zalman No Noise Computer Enclosure @ Hexus
Hexus :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
“The new TNN 300 is a compact, ‘Totally No Noise’ computer enclosure, which in Zalman’s own words is a “petite, sexy variation of the TNN series computer enclosure”. To you and me that means that Zalman have added a stylish twist to their kit, and eye appeal has had a say in how the final product looks.”
CeBIT 2005: XFX bring Extreme PC to the masses @ Hexus
Hexus :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
“Now, as an homage to the Extreme PC Garage series, XFX have created PYP3, which takes the PC design concept, throws the idea of having a square box right out of the window, runs it over with a bus and then shoots it… twice.”
Budget System Buyer’s Guide – Socket 754 under $400 @ Mikhailtech
Mikhailtech :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
“For the first time in our budget guide we’re making the switch from the now-discontinued Socket A platform to a much more potent Socket 754. The performance difference is a very noticeable one and although we’re not building a system for overclocking, the potential of these new 2600+ processors is amazing to say the least (overclocks close to 1GHz have been achieved). These new Semprons (the 2600+ being among them) are based on the Palermo core which is similar to Winchester with the exception of a reduced L2 cache and disabled AMD64 technology. For those wondering, in order to keep performance similar to Socket A counterparts, AMD lowered the clock speeds on the new Sempron CPUs and this is why a 2600+ runs at only 1.6GHz. The L2 cache is also smaller than older Semprons (128K vs. 256K). The Palermo core uses the 90nm manufacturing process and runs at a measly core voltage of only 1.4V. This is a retail processor so you also get a 3 year warranty (keep in mind overclocking voids this) and a stock cooler.”
Sunbeam LAN Party Bag Review @ GideonTech
GideonTech :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
“Let’s face it. Most people mod computers with the understanding that sooner or later their creation is going to be taken to a LAN party. Unfortunately the road to a LAN party is fraught with danger. Your case can be scratched, dinged, or otherwise damaged. Not to mention it’s a pain to carry around all of the extra gear like your keyboard, mouse, and cables. Thankfully Sunbeam has a rather nifty solution to all of these problems.”
VIA Grease Monkey Patch-Tracking Software @ PCStats
PCStats :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
“I’m a die-hard PC gamer, and I’ve got to admit that console games have PC games soundly beat on at least one major aspect: they work like they’re supposed to. No one patches console games because you can’t. While many games these days ship with a built in patching engine, many more do not. Add to this the long file download queue times associated with download sites like FilePlanet and you have a recipe for frustration. Wouldn’t it be good then, if you had a little application that could automatically locate the patches you need and the demos you want, as well as linking you to a dedicated downloading server for them? Well, today we’re going to look at an app that claims to fill just this role, the VIA Technologies “Grease Monkey” software.”
Razotech Blizzard Case Review @ PimpRig
PimpRig :: Sunday, March 13, 2005
“Before I go any further, let me talk a little bit about the airflow design of the Blizzard case. It makes no sense at all. Both doors and the top are actually a huge mesh, but only the top and left side have filters. The front is mesh, but is mostly blocked by plastic. The only fan included on the Blizzard is a front intake yet there is no filter there. Due to the mesh design there is no way to have an effective airflow pattern because you will be unable to set up your cooling as either a positive or a negative air pressure flow.”
Thermaltake’s Beetle Heatsink @ TechTastic
TechTastic :: Saturday, March 12, 2005
