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News archives from December, 2005
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Digit-Life Review: ATI AVIVO. Part 0: Introduction and Description of Video Technologies |
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December 30th, 2005 - ATI AVIVO is a set of ATI video technologies, intended for further improvement of quality and performance of the existing proprietary technologies from this company. It includes a great number of various technologies, implemented in the new series of RADEON X1000 video chips. AVIVO is notable for its wide applicability, it''s not just an improvement of a certain pipeline stage that processes video. This suite in designed to improve all the stages. AVIVO is constantly evolving and will evolve in future. We''ll review practical aspects of these technologies at the maximum wide angle.
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Intel and ECS Contest |
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December 30th, 2005 - There is only 1 day left for you guys to win a pretty new dual-core processor from Intel. Hurry up before time runs out!
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Digit-Life Review: Intel Pentium XE 955: Ultima Ratio of the Kings |
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December 28th, 2005 - Pentium XE 955 features practically ALL latest advances of this manufacturer: except for the clock, PXE 955 has a 1066-MHz bus as well as 2 (2!) MB L2 Cache per each (!) core. In fact, the resulting monster is sort of an extremum of NetBurst architecture in general. It''s hard to figure out further possible roads of its development: well, at maximum, the clock will be raised by another 266 MHz, getting maximum close to the clock peak of single-core CPUs based on the same core. That is, considering the accented removal of Intel 4GHz CPU from roadmaps, Pentium 4 eXtreme Edition 955 will have only one heir even theoretically. If it will at all. Thus, today we either witness the performance peak, which NetBurst can provide in its perfect dual-core modification, or it''s the very pre-peak. We shall carry out our today''s tests relying on this assumption.
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MSI RD480 Neo2 Motherboard on ATI Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire Edition |
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December 23rd, 2005 - CrossFire Editions of video cards on ATI Radeon X800 and X850 XT processors have already reached Russian parts; in particular, they can be found in Moscow retail. According to the official ATI announcement, availability of proper motherboards is also a matter of the nearest weeks. Looking through the list of announced Xpress 200 CFE motherboards on the new ATI Chipsets Web Site, we can expect at least 6-7 models for AMD (Socket 939) in our parts. That''s not much compared to a deluge of SLI solutions. But in practice, the choice may be sufficient for those, who have already decided in favour of ATI products and are now waiting for an opportunity to buy a CrossFire system.
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Digit-Life Review: Thermaltake XP480 PSU |
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December 22nd, 2005 - Today we are going to review Thermaltake XP480 PSU, which is included into the Thermaltake Soprano chassis bundle. Besides, you can find this PSU as a stand alone product in retail. Note that when we tried to exceed the 277W output capacity, all the voltages left the permissible corridor of values. Under 304W load, the PSU switched off in 4 minutes. When we turned it on again in a minute, the PSU switched off in 59 seconds. And came back to life in 12 hours.
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Samsung YP-U1Z 1 GB MP3 Player |
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December 22nd, 2005 - It seems if you wanted a large capacity solid state MP3 player in the past, you had to settle for a larger player size. Today we take a look at the YP-U1Z 1 GB MP3 player from Samsung that has best of both worlds; small size and a large storage capacity.
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Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9 |
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December 20th, 2005 - Nvidia has introduced a new chipset called the C51 and sports a low end Geforce 6150 graphics solution with HDTV support. Gigabyte''s has done a good job with their offering, providing a TV-out connector on the motherboard iteself.
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ECS 945P-A (2.0) - a Motherboard Based on Intel 945P |
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December 19th, 2005 - We got our hands on the second revision of the ECS 945P-A motherboard, which lost some of attractive features of Revision I, thus becoming a budget solution on a modern Intel chipset with potential SLI support. Frankly speaking, such products do not seem expedient. Especially in this case, when i945P differs from cheaper predecessors only in its support for some functions, required in mid and high-end systems. Nevertheless, if you need (or just want) a motherboard on i945 without any excesses, this model will be a very good choice.
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The Buttkicker Gamer at ExtensiveMods.com |
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December 17th, 2005 - The Buttkicker, sounds like someone that goes around kicking butts. Well there is a little truth to its name because you do get your but kicked... But in a good way. The Buttkicker is essentially an add-on to your sound system, be it your PC or home theater setup, which enhances your listening pleasures by enabling you to feel, rather then just listen to your audio.
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Intel and ECS Contest |
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December 16th, 2005 - Intel and ECS have partnered up to bring a great contest with great prizes. There are still 2 weeks left before the contest is over so hurry up and get in on the action before it is too late!
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Digit-Life Review: Budget Coolers for Athlon 64 |
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December 15th, 2005 - We are going to test another group of 8 budget products for the Socket 754/939 platform, which includes two CK8-JD2B series models from Cooler Master, four Igloo 7300 series models from GlacialTech, as well as Speeze DolphinReef III and TR2 M14 SE coolers. So, let''s proceed!
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Jackson Armor Card at ExtensiveMods.com |
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December 14th, 2005 - Jackson Backup LLC, the word backup basically gives it away. Jackson Backup provides a range of services ranging from data backup to PC repair. This company produces a product they call the Jackson Armor Card. This small PCI device is an innovative way to go about data backup and recovery. The company was gracious enough to send me one of these cards for review, follow along and we will see if it does its job. Review url: http://www.extensivemods.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=99
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Corsair XMS TWINX2048-4000PT 2GB Dual Channel Kit |
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December 14th, 2005 - Corsair''s PC4000PT is not the first, nor second, but third enthusiast 2GB solution thus far. The memory uses Samsung UCCC ICs and comes with a very affordable price. Moving to 2GB just became more tempting.
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OCZ Gold PC4000 GX XTC 2GB Dual Channel Kit |
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December 14th, 2005 - Armed with new heatspreaders and an affordable price, the OCZ Gold PC4000 GX XTC becomes a great choice for enthusiast gamers on the budget. It even comes with slightly lower latencies than the previous Gold PC4000.
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Kingston HyperX PC7200 DDR900 1GB Kit Review |
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December 13th, 2005 - Being (yet again) the fasted DDR2 modules we have tested up to = date, I have to admit that these HyperX DDR2 900MHz modules proved that = they are the fast. Although the latencies were a bit higher than its = competitor, Kingston puts their main focus on higher speeds rather than = lower latencies. Besides that, the modules responded well with the = voltage but we were a bit dissatisfied to have the voltage increased to = 2.1V to do DDR900. Before we wrap things up, we would like to suggest = that the HyperX PC7200 DDR900 modules were designed for overclockers, as = our results shows. If you plan to buy this kit and run it at default = speeds, you may want to look else where because you have to overclock = your system to get it to perform. Priced at USD199 / RM760, these HyperX = DDR2 modules looks impressive and a quick search shows that these = modules are being sold at the same price, if not cheaper than most = DDR800 modules! Overall, the HyperX PC7200 DDR900 modules offer high = overclockability and best bang for buck!
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Raidmax Ninja |
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December 13th, 2005 - Raidmax is back with another case designed with gamers in mind. The case looks cool and does not use excessive plastic parts. Armed with a very affordable price, gaming enthusiasts can finally bring a good looking case to LAN parties.
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Samsung Spinpoint 250GB PATA (SP2514N) HDD |
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December 13th, 2005 - It seems now days that the need for more hard drive space is in higher demand. Software and games have increased significantly in size, as well as the need to store multimedia files such a video, music and pictures. Today we take a look at what Samsung has to offer with there Spinpoint 250GB PATA (SP2514N) Hard drive.
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Thermalright SI-120 |
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December 11th, 2005 - Thermalright''s latest flagship heatsink is a touch-up from the prevoius XP-120 monster. It is now compatible with ALL motherboards and comes with two extra small heatpipes. The end result? Fantastic.
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Digit-Life Review: ASUS Extreme Dual N7800GT 512MB |
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December 10th, 2005 - ASUS Extreme Dual N7800GT 512MB is the most powerful accelerator on a single PCB from ASUS, if we can say so. Indeed, there are no faster products so far. I repeat, ON A SINGLE PCB. By the way, can we install two such cards on an nForce4 X16 motherboard? Theoretically we can. Besides, NVIDIA promises to allow four GPUs to work together...
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Digit-Life Review: ESI MaXiO XD Audio/Midi Rack Unit with PC Interface |
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December 10th, 2005 - This year in March ESI announced the launch of MaXiO XD. MaXiO stands for maximal input/output solution. XD means Extended Edition, as there is a half-rack stereo modification MaXiO 032. The new product is a set of 2U-rack space unit EX8000 and a PCI host card. Interestingly, the module can operate in autonomous mode as well. EX8000 peculiarities: eight mic preamps that can also work as linear, and top DAC and ADC. Simplified MaXiO 032 modification also possesses top converters.
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