Sorry for the lack of news last night. My friend came back from dental school and we spent the night drinking. We all passed out. Here's a big load of news today. ECS KN1-SLI Extreme Motherboard Review @ PCStats RIAA vs.
DFI, a world leader of motherboards and maker of the award-winning LANParty motherboard series, is proud to announce today the launch of LANParty UT nForce4 SLI-DR Expert , a suped-up version of the LANParty nForce4 SLI motherboards.
Taipei, Taiwan September 28th, 2005 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, VGA cards and other computing hardware solutions, has launched GIGABYTE i-RAM, the world’s fastest storage device available to digital graphi…
Thermaltake Sports a Redefining Orb ~ 12cm absolutely quiet Fan Cooler :Blue Orb II ~ September 2005 - Taipei, Taiwan – From the leading makers of cooling solutions, Thermaltake Technologies launches the brand new Blue Orb II, an innovative…
September 2005 - Taipei, Taiwan – In order to meet and achieve beyond the increasing power demands in high-end power supplies, Thermaltake Technology announced the upgraded Purepower 680W.
Thank you for being patient with us during our time of transition. I'm personally anxious to have the site 100% back cuz I have some pimpin reviews to release. You guys will like it.
DDR2's reputation has always been plagued by high latencies in exchange for high bandwidth. When DDR2 was first announced, the latencies were rated 4-4-4-12 at speeds of 266MHz. That is just terrible.
Welcome to the new site! As you can see, there are some changes. The biggest thing you will probably notice is the lack of reviews in the review section. We will be updating reviews gradually.
Corsair Strikes Partnership with ASUSTek and Announces the World’s Highest Performing “Asus-Ready” 1GB Module for the AMD Platform -- Jointly developed with ASUS for its new A8N32-SLI Deluxe/WiFi motherboards, the new 1GB XMS-3500LL PRO mem…
Sunnyvale, CA September 26, 2005 OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, is excited to announce the release of OCZ DDR PC-4000 Platinum Enhanced Bandwidth Edition 1GB modul…
Can't seem to fall asleep so I'm up and posting news. The sun is about to rise soon. OCZ PC4800 Platinum Review @ neoseeker OCZ Platinum PC4800 memory is some of the best DDR available.
Does anyone know the new hit by Goo Goo Dolls? A part of the chorus goes something like this: "...cuz tonight is the night the world begins again..." Let me know! OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 2GB Gold Edition @ Phoronix More on kickass OCZ memory.
I couldn't sleep so I stayed up playing PokerStars for about 3 hours, play money of course. I don't have enough money to play with real money. Haha. That sure was fun. I kept catching my rivers, even runner runner sometimes.
TAIPEI, TAIWAN (19 September, 2005) Tul., a world-leading VGA card manufacturer, today introduced the latest 2 products: PowerColor X800 GT Xtreme Edition and PowerColor X800 GT EVO, the newest member of the award winning PowerColor X800 G…
...means another long day of work. Here I go... ABIT AX8 v1 Motherboard Evaluation @ Hardocp I believe only VIA fans will be using VIA-chipset based motherboards. The Abit AX8 overclocked very well for us. You can check it out HERE.
Checked the UPS tracking number and made sure that my packages arrived today. Took a trip back home and picked up THESE babies. Although loosely rated, these babies have Micron fatbody D9s! 2GB worth of them! w00t w00t!
Taipei, Taiwan September 20th, 2005 - GIGABYTE Technology, a leader in motherboard innovation and design unveils the GA-K8N51PVMT-9, the industry's first motherboard featuring High Definition Video for the AMD64 platform.
I'm sure that many of you have seen what these guys are capable of. They make some great kickass case mods. The theme we chose is the Skull and Crossbones theme with blue LEDs. I can't wait. Can you?
I'm sure that the majority of you have watched the movie The Day After Tomorrow. I thought the movie was pretty decent, despite the lacking ending. You can't really help that part though.
Over the past few years, ECS has built up a reputation of producing extremely affordable motherboards. In all of my years of experience, ECS motherboards have been quite adequate for basic computing use.
DRAM prices are going back up just a bit, but 1GB dual channel kits are still very affordable. If you are an enthusiast and do not have 1GB of system memory, shame on you.
Seems like the thunderstorm moved up north already. The sun is out and the crows are crowing. I can now go home safely and pick up some more memory that just arrived.
I've been sneezing for the past 2 hours and I can't stop. I'm about to rip my nose off. It's killinnnnnnnnnnngggg me!!! I'm loooosinnnnng connnnntrollllllllll. (What song is that from?).
The day started off well and I heard my current favorite songs on the radio like three times in an hour, all different radio stations of course. As soon as I finish eating with my friend, it freakin rains.
Milton Keynes, England, Sept 19th, 2005 - Elitegroup Computer Systems (UK) Ltd (ECS), has today announced its brand new platform converter card for the PF88 Extreme Hybrid motherboard, the A4S SIMA Card.
Remember the ginormous spider that I told you guys about? Apparently it didn't run away after I hosed it. It stayed in our garage. The very next day, my roommate woke up for work and went to his car in the garage.
Taipei, Taiwan, September 16, 2005----Info-Tek Corporation, the primary supplier for the worlds leading graphics card brand GECUBE, today announced the global release of the GECUBE RADEON® X800 GTO graphics card.
I forgot to mention that before I left for DnB last night, I encountered a ginormous spider. It was about the size of 60mm fan. I hosed it down and it didn't die. It ran away somewhere. Man that thing was ugly.
My friends are arguing in the living room over some stupid topic as usual so I went to have my usual cigarette. While outside, I looked at two trails of ants and thought of dual channel memory. Then I realized how geeky I can be...
Finally I built my game system last night. Stayed up for over two hours when I should have been sleeping. It's fully assembled. Can't wait to get on WoW again and play with my roommate.
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It's only Monday night and I'm scared of Friday night. My friend is forcing me to watch Emily Rose with her. I'm scared. I get scared listening to the freakin radio commercial!
September 2005 - Taipei, Taiwan Thermaltake Technologies the leading manufacturer of heat dissipation, Following up on the demands of the market, we now have the TR2-420W, TR2-470W, and TR2-500W specifications.
Zalman has manufactured many coolers, astounding enthusiasts everywhere with performance and silence. As companies moved on to watercooling, Zalman continued to bring consumers a quiet computing environment.
Centon is not an unknown in the memory market. Their newly released Advanced memory is a new player in the enthusiast crowd. Check out how it looks. I think it's beautiful. I've just finished testing their TCCD, UTT, and 2GB kits.
Milton Keynes, England, September 12th, 2005 - Elitegroup Computer Systems (UK) Ltd (ECS), today announced availability of its PA1 Extreme and KA1 Extreme, ATI CrossFire motherboards.
When you eat late lunch, is it called "Dunch" or "Linner"? I use "Dunch" but I hear people say "Linner". Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR PC4000 @ Rbmods Crucial's Ballistix Tracer memory is awesome looking when you have a window.
...to a freakin cold day. I woke up early today cuz I went to bed early last night. My allergies also kept me from sleeping any longer. I wake up and it's freaking cold. I look outside and it's clear blue sky and sunny.
A couple of years ago, everyone believed that aircooling would come to an end. There were even rumors about Intel planning to ship processors with a watercooling kit.
I finally watched The 40 Year Old Virgin. All I have to say is that Steve Carrell is the man. The movie certainly wins my vote for best movie of the year. Ahhh...Kelly Clarkson!
Two whole news emails in the news box today. Time to clear it up! Enermax Whisper II 2.0 535W SLI @ Phoronix Must Kill Teddy Bears in CPU Magazine @ CaseModGod.com Ok I'm done. Edit: One more just came in! Zalman VF-700 Review @ tekbunker
I know Fall is here, but it really is a sign when Irvine is no longer sunny. Waking up today to a gloomy sky is very depressing to me. Now I know why suicide rates are so high in Seattle.
Went out to drink with the buds tonight. It's actually been a while since I took a break from all the testing and reviewing. Jager and redbull is so sweet to the lips. Reminds me of the movie Old School.
Just pulled an all nighter building a computer and fixing a huge annoying problem. I thought it was computer hardware problem but it turned out to be the case! Freakin a.
Nobody loves free hardware like a gamer--wouldnt you agree? Crucial Technology is a sponsor at the World Cyber Games this week, but you dont have to drive to New York to claim your share of the winnings!
Hawyard, CA September 7, 2005 DFI, a world leader of motherboards and maker of the award-winning LANPARTY motherboard series, is proud to announce today that its LANParty UT nForce4 Ultra-D motherboard became the first motherboard compa…
With so many options for heatsinks available, manufacturers not only need to offer heatsinks that provide sufficient cooling, but also a product that has a little something more.
I have this 19" CRT sitting here that replaced my LCD. It's purely for benching purposes. I'm getting dizzy from seeing the screen shake. It's so minimal but I still see it.
I had too much fun last night with the SNES emulator that I didn't get any work done. My friends and I spent hours playing WWF Raw and executing special moves. Remember the wrestler Diesel?
PC Enthusiast magazine is a good magazine that brings you lots of good reviews with some good articles. They realize the help needed for the victims after Hurrican Katrina and they've stepped up to help. Here's a quote from their EIC.
My beloved motherboard manufacturer is getting in deeper sh1t. "Due to questionable financial reports over the past three years, executives at Abit are forbidden to leave the country under Taiwanese government restrictions.
I've been playing the old school Streets of Rage 2 on my friends emulator. OMG it brings back memories. Makes me want to build a system and hook it up to the TV just for an emulator system.
"Gigabyte Technology recently introduced an AMD Opteron-based GA-2CEWH motherboard, its first product that follows the EUs Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation." Oooh. Pretty.
Vegas was so fun that I'm already planning my next one. It should be for CES. Wynn was so nice that I wanna stay there. It's time for me to save up. HAHA.
I fought myself over and over and debated whether to spend my money on the X2 3800+. I came to the conclusion to save my money and get myself the Fuji Z1 camera. I need a portable slim camera.
We're having a bit of problem with our database for the site and reviews will have to be delayed a bit until we can fix the problem. Argh I hate it when crap like this happens. I have so much ready to release too! No excitement tonight.
After driving through mucho traffic, I finally arrived at Vegas. Now it's time for me to post the bit of news and head downstairs for some poker. X800GT roundup @ bit-tech I have no clue why ATI would release a card with just 8 pipes.
I lost $200 at the poker table. It wasn't that bad of a run. It lasted me about 7 hours. I'm beat now. Time to go get dinner with some friends. BTW, good thing it wasn't my money! I still feel bad though.
Gamers rejoiced when Shuttle introduced their SFF systems. The lightweight and portability of the small systems gave gamers no reasons not to attend a LAN party.
In addition to our trail of ants, we also have a spider problem. There are a lot of daddy long legs that just hang at places. I mean that's no problem since they're not scary.
Everytime Summer ends and Fall rolls around, I battle allergy season. It's not as bad as before, but I rub my nose and eyes so much that my face looks like a lopsided balloon. Allergy medicine don't work for me. I've tried.
I am the type of enthusiast that is willing to fork over big bucks to possess the latest graphics technology in the market. When the 6800 Ultra and X800XT PE were still mysteries to people, I already had them in my possession.
