StreetGlow HotWirez Review
posted: December 29, 2001 @ 11:26 EST by: ryan
virtualHideout has posted up their review of the StreetGlow HotWirez:
"Well, I liked both items very much. I like the PC Connector Kit since I will be using 4 neons/cold cathodes in my case. I never want to just turn one on, I want them all to turn on at the same time. The Hott Wirez is some of the pimpest shiznit I have seen. I was impressed with the performance of the Hott Wirez. The one thing I was stoked about bit time was the inverter for the Hott Wirez. From what I have read concerning the EL Cable, the inverter is noisy. Well, there is a slight high pitched tone coming from the inverter on the Hott Wirez kit, but nothing you can hear from a few feet. If the inverter is in your case, you will never hear it. If it is around the keyboard area, room noise will usually make it unhearable. I really like both kits a lot."
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Dr. Thermal TI-V86N
posted: December 29, 2001 @ 11:25 EST by: ryan
TweakTown has just posted a review of the Dr. Thermal TI-V86N HSF. Here's a snip:
"The name Dr. Thermal has been cropping up lately in a lot of places. This newcomer has a different design that they use for their heatsinks, and some very innovative features. But the main question is still "Can it cool?" Come join TweakTown as they check into the Dr. Thermal TI-V86N HSF and finds out if it has what it takes to handle the big-boys."
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Cyber Cooler P-8100 Review
posted: December 29, 2001 @ 11:24 EST by: ryan
MikHailTech has posted their review a very different heatsink. The P-8100 from Cyber Cooler is the first (to my knowledge) model to use horizontal fins in a flower type array. Here's a quote:
"This is what I’ve been talking about. You have to admit that the fins are flower shaped. The central copper core measures about 18mm in diameter. There are 15 fins extending from that core. Also, you’ll notice 12 holes in each fin. The fan on top of this HSF blows the air through these holes until it reaches the bottom, which I doubt will improve performance. The reason? Well, the air is supposed to be moving over the fins, absorbing the heat from the copper and taking it away from the heatsink and the CPU. Here, the air just goes through the holes, reaches the bottom, then bounces up again. Some of the moving air will squeeze in-between the fins and move away. But “squeeze” isn’t enough. If this heatsink doesn't perform very well, then I am sure this would be the reason."
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Abit KR7A-RAID Mobo
posted: December 28, 2001 @ 8:30 EST by: ryan
TweakTown has posted up their review of the Abit KR7A-RAID Motherboard. Here's a snip:
"The KT266A chipset was met with much fanfare and rave reviews. This is because its high performance and vast array of features gave it a leading edge over the competition. Join TweakTown as they take a look at Abit's KT266A offering; the KR7A-RAID. Can Abit continue their trend of high performance, highly tweakable motherboards? Read the review to find out!"
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Samsung 170T LCD Panel
posted: December 28, 2001 @ 8:29 EST by: ryan
NeoSeeker has posted a review of the Samsung 170T LCD Panel. Here's a bit:
"The Samsung 170T monitor is not just an ordinary 17" LCD display. Well, it has everything a regular display would, but the display has been digitalized. It supports both analogue and digital input streams from the video card. By using a digital feed, pixel reproduction will be nearly perfect and issues such as pixel jitter and color mismatch can be avoided. However, with the highly developed analogue to digital circuitry used in most LCDs today, the benefits are not easily distinguishable."
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Hercules GF3 Ti5000
posted: December 28, 2001 @ 8:28 EST by: ryan
Hexus.net has done a comprehensive writeup about the TI500 from Hercules, going in to very extensive detail.
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Altec Lansing's ADA890
posted: December 28, 2001 @ 8:27 EST by: ryan
EXHardware has posted up a review of Altec Lansing's flagship ADA890 THX Speakers with built in Dolby Digital decoding and of course, as the name implies - Lucasfilm THX certification.
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Rounded IDE Cable
posted: December 28, 2001 @ 8:26 EST by: ryan
SLCentral.com has posted a review on the So-TrickComputers Round IDE Cable. Here's a quote:
"One last cool part inside of there is the actual wires; Normal IDE wires are plain straight cables up ribbon. However in an area as small as this round cable there could be a possibility of crosstalk between wires, so to prevent this, they twist the wire pairs. This allows for better signal integrity."
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Windows XP Pro Review
posted: December 27, 2001 @ 9:35 EST by: ryan
EXHardware has posted up a new review and this time, they take a look at the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system:
"Microsoft's latest piece of software, the Windows XP operating system is perhaps one of the most anticipated software releases in 2001. Although never quite as popular as Windows 98 during it's beta testing period, Windows XP managed to surprise quite a number of users with it's new design and architecture when it was officially announced on the 25th of October 2001.
Windows XP unlike the previous versions of Windows such as 95, 98 and Me is built around a hybird architecture combining the power and stability of Microsoft's NT architecture and the flexibility and user-friendliness of the 9x architectures."
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Dragon Silver Case
posted: December 27, 2001 @ 9:34 EST by: ryan
BurnoutPC has posted up their review of the Chieftec Dragon Silver case. Look out 56k users because it has 40 pictures. Quote:
"I really wanted a new case, but which one? i was surfing the web and I saw A shop selling Dragon / Chieftec / Antec cases, so i bought the Dragon, DX-01-SLD. The case has different names because it's sold in different country's in the Netherlands they're just called Chieftec cases. I've bought the silver one, that looks like the AlienWare cases."
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S.W.I.N.E Review
posted: December 27, 2001 @ 9:32 EST by: ryan
SLCentral.com has posted a review on S.W.I.N.E. Fishtank Interactive brings us an RTS with gorgeous visuals and unique concepts, but they stumble along the way with some of the concepts that truly make a great tactical game.
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RAID Tutorials
posted: December 27, 2001 @ 9:31 EST by: ryan
VYW has a new article posted about the advantages and drawbacks of many different RAID modes that are useful to PC users. Here is a quote:
"For servers that crave high bandwidth, MODE 0 is a great solution in theory at least. Unfortunately for MODE 0, its gains are generally outweighed by its faults, or its lack of fault tolerance as it were. The savvy server operator will overlook RAID 0 almost immediately for a far more appropriate solution: Mode 10."
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AIW Radeon 8500DV
posted: December 27, 2001 @ 9:30 EST by: ryan
HotHardware has a product on review that frankly was a bit of a "sleeper" to us until it hit the test bench. The ATi All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV turned out to be one hell of a 3D/TV/DV powerhouse graphics card!
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InnoVision GeForce2 Ti Rv.
posted: December 26, 2001 @ 9:18 EST by: ryan
Overclockers Online reviews another GeForce 2 Ti today, made by InnoVISION. Snip:
"Today, we're about to have a look at InnoVISION's ('InnoVISION Multimedia' in full or 'Inno3D' in short) Tornado GF2 Ti videocard. We were very eager to check this one out because the previous InnoVISION product we reviewed here at the O² labs had managed to impress us alot (I'm refering to the InnoVISION Geforce2 MX400 review). As the name of the card already states, the card is based upon the nVidia GF2 Ti GPU. The specs of this GPU and the differences between the Ti and the Pro/Ultra have all been explained in our Prolink GF2 Ti review we did last week, BUT to make it easy for you, we'll quote some words in this review as well. Isn't that nice? ;)"
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Enermax Adjust Fans
posted: December 26, 2001 @ 9:17 EST by: ryan
SLCentral.com has posted a review of the Enermax Manual Adjust Fans. Here's a quote from the review:
"as functionality is concerned, Enermax has also included some cool stuff here. Built onto the fan is a second cable that has a small rotary switch on the end that controls the fan speed analog style. This means that with the turn of a knob you can adjust the speed of the blades, which is very cool. Then next to that is the power cord, which on all 3 models here is a 3-pin motherboard connector. The most powerful fan out of the lot is the 120mm, which only draws 3.6W of power, which is well within tolerances of the motherboard specs for almost everyone."
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Personal System Review
posted: December 26, 2001 @ 9:16 EST by: ryan
the DDR Zone has posted up a review of their own personal system. In my opinion this is really stupid, but you may get a kick out of it.
"Over here at the DDR ZONE I’ve finally gotten around to reviewing my own personal system that is in use every day. It’s not just any PC though. Sporting a Tyan tiger S2460 Dual AMD motherboard, Adaptec 29160 SCSI and 181 GB of hard drive space, a GF3 and a laser cut Chenbro server case with 12 fans its far from normal. Remembering this case gets taken to a LAN every month and is folding 24/7 its the ultimate in performance personal computing.
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Merry Christmas
posted: December 24, 2001 @ 11:19 EST by: ryan
And to all a good night.
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MSI vs. 845D
posted: December 24, 2001 @ 11:18 EST by: ryan
Hexus.net takes a look at the MSI answer to the Intel 845D platform.
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Sparkle GF2 Ti Review
posted: December 22, 2001 @ 9:40 EST by: ryan
Today Hexus looks at its first retail Ti card, this is from a manufacturer which isn't as well known as others on the market such as Hercules or Elsa. This is from Sparkle, they have a look at this card in detail.
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Inno3D GeForce2 Ti Review
posted: December 22, 2001 @ 9:39 EST by: ryan
T-Break just finished putting up their review of the Inno3D GeForce2 Titanium Video Card. Quote:
“The Inno3D GeForce2 Titanium features a core frequency of 250MHz and 64 Megs of DDR memory frequency of 400MHz. The memory interface is 128 bit, just like the GeForce2 Pro and GTS. The memory bandwidth of the GeForce2 Titanium is the same as the GeForce2 Pro 6.4 GB/s. As a reference the GeForce2 GTS only has 5.3 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GeForce2 Ultra’s memory bandwidth was measured at 7.4 GB/s. How much of a difference will that make?”
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Shuttle AK31r3.1 Review
posted: December 22, 2001 @ 9:38 EST by: ryan
VYW has been putting the Shuttle AK31r3.1 through its paces for a couple of weeks now and testing out the new KT266A chipset. Here's a quote:
"The Shuttle AK31r3.1 is not the perfect motherboard for everyone. It is relatively slim on features and extras. It does, however, provide quite a bit of performance and reliability for its price. It has been totally stable in my system, and it can be had for $75 online. In fact, my entire upgrade (1600+, 2 256mb sticks of Crucial PC2100, and the Shuttle) cost me around $250. It is hard to deny the appeal of the Shuttle over say the Asus or Abit KT266A motherboards that cost almost twice as much when you consider that it offers very similar performance. The BIOS can be temperamental at high FSB, but I am not certain whether this is caused by hardware limitations (RAM or CPU), an inadequate PSU, or bugs in the BIOS."
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Directron Hydraulic Case
posted: December 22, 2001 @ 9:37 EST by: ryan
Virtual-Hideout.Net has just posted a review of the Directron Silver Hydraulic Case. Quote:
"Other then that, this case is pretty damn awesome. Like I had stated previously I was very impressed with this case and really like this case. I will probably look at getting more of these cases for my other machines. I bet a few of these sitting side by side on a network bench would look sweet. One thing that I don't like about the case is that the cables that go to the LED"s, power switch, reset switch, and speaker have to be removed from the motherboard every time you want to remove the motherboard for cleaning. This is a feature that is on the Lian-Li's that I have grown to really like. If you are like me and tend to clean the inside of your case a lot, removing the cables from the motherboard and then trying to remember which way is which when it comes time to attach the wires again, is a flat out pain in bootay. But then again, mod the cables too while you are modding the case. I know I will. For modding, the only problem I see is the front spot for an 80MM fan. Modders do not like all them silly holes that come with stock cases and will definitely remove that section first."
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Lian Li PC-67 Review
posted: December 21, 2001 @ 6:54 EST by: ryan
NeoSeeker has posted their review of Lian Li's PC-67 modified my AMK Services. Here's a piece:
"The silver colored case is made with 1.5mm thick hard anodized aluminum, and looks as though it should weigh quite a bit. In fact, you can pick this baby up and you could swear that it's one of the lightest cases you've ever worked with. When you start working with this case, that's when you notice it's not all just looks and lightweight allure - it's one of the best damned cases you can possibly work with."
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Dr. Thermal Units
posted: December 21, 2001 @ 6:52 EST by: ryan
GideonTech.com got another one of these Dr. Thermal units on the reviewing grill.
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ASUS P4B266 Review
posted: December 20, 2001 @ 6:47 EST by: ryan
X-bit labs has posted a ASUS P4B266 Mainboard Review.
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ECS K7VTA3 v2.0
posted: December 20, 2001 @ 6:46 EST by: ryan
T-Break has published a review for ECS's K7VTA3 v2.0 Motherboard which is a pretty decent solution for $68. Here's a bit from the review:
"ECS is excellent for people who want to try out new chipset based motherboards but cannot afford to pay the mucho bucks that are associated with some of the other manufacturer's newer products. They do this by providing a very basic board that's low on features. But unlike some other cheap board producers, ECS gives you a quality product that is stable with good support through constant driver updates. Their KT266A chipset based K7VTA3 Rev 2.0 is right in line with their philosophy."
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iPAQ PM-1 MP3 Review
posted: December 20, 2001 @ 6:46 EST by: ryan
If you're like you me, you'll find the portable MP3 players which use compact flash or smart media doesn't have enough memory and MP3 players that uses a CD are just too big. Well Compaq has a product for you! The iPAQ PM-1 is a MP3 player which makes use of 3.5" mini CD-R and CD-RW to keep the size nice and small and has enough storage for up to 6 hours of music! The Tech Zone gives you the full review here.
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Microsoft SideWinder Wheel
posted: December 20, 2001 @ 6:45 EST by: ryan
EverythingUSB has another wheel review up for Thursday, covering the Microsoft SideWinder Precision Racing Wheel. Here's a snippet for quoting:
"Microsoft has been involved in the gaming industry for quite some time now, and has many acheivements under their belt, ranging from one of the first major companies to push force feedback, to their recent X- Box console system. While a corporate giant, Microsoft is still serving up low-priced devices, such as their SideWinder Precision Racing Wheel."
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Cyber Cooler P-20000
posted: December 20, 2001 @ 6:43 EST by: ryan
MikHailTech takes a look at Cyber Cooler's P-20000 heatsink. This is similar to a Fortis but is made completely out of copper and performs pretty well. Here's a quote:
"The CC P-20000 is made of 100% copper, except for the shroud and the clip, of course. The design of the fins is very similar to those of Fortis’s HSFs, but the material is different. Copper is used instead of aluminum for better performance. And due to the use of copper, the heatsink is heavy. It’s much heavier than the other CyberCooler HSFs I’ve reviewed before, including the all-copper P-5700. Of course, there’s a point where heavy = bad. The right amount of material can give you great performance, but a lot of copper will add to the weight of the heatsink and thus apply much more pressure on socket and its clips. The P-20000 seems to be heavy and full of copper goodness, but not too heavy."
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Leadtek Titanium Review
posted: December 20, 2001 @ 6:43 EST by: ryan
X-bit labs has posted their Leadtek Titanium Graphics Cards Review.
"We reviewed two graphics cards from the Leadtek Titanium family: WinFast Titanium 500 TD and WinFast Titanium 200 TDH. They appeared very stable and reliable during the tests and showed perfect overclockability, especially the Titanium 200 TDH. Boasting unique hardware monitoring feature (Ti 200 only) and beautiful huge heatsinks these solutions definitely deserve your attention."
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Digisette MP3 Player
posted: December 19, 2001 @ 6:52 EST by: ryan
NeoSeeker has posted their review of the Digisette DUO-64 MP3 Player. Here's a piece:
"To most, being "two-faced" is an undesirable trait to have. However, in the Digisette Duo-64's case, it is more than a welcomed attribute. The Duo-64 functions both as a personal MP3 player and a self-contained MP3 cassette adapter - all in one. In addition to its versatility, the Duo-64 is very light, attractive, holds 64 MB of flash memory and generates good music quality."
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Best KT266A Boards
posted: December 19, 2001 @ 6:51 EST by: ryan
HotHardware has a review and showcase of epic proportions for you tonight! They took the best of the best in KT266A boards, put them up on the test bench, turned on the juice and put the pedal to the metal in a flat out drag race!
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ATC-201 Aluminum Case
posted: December 19, 2001 @ 6:50 EST by: ryan
EXHardware has posted up a review of the Cooler Master ATC-201 Aluminum case.
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MSI i845 Pro 2 Review
posted: December 18, 2001 @ 6:54 EST by: ryan
Hexus.net has another review has posted up their review of the MSI i845 Pro 2.
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Rio Digital Audio Center
posted: December 18, 2001 @ 6:53 EST by: ryan
EverythingUSB has posted up a review of the Rio Digital Audio Center:
"As digital audio becomes even more mainstream than it currently is, the demand for functional digital audio devices for use in home theatre will grow. SONICblue has answered the call with their Rio Advanced Digital Audio Centre."
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