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SilverStone SG-01 Sugo SFF
Shuttle Computer was one of the first manufacturers to widely market Small Form Factor PCs. When visiting Computex Taipei this year, Shuttle Computer had an exhibition where they simply had their sexy showgirls walk around with these tiny SFF PCs. Although the design and size of these chassis’ are rather impressive, they require some proprietary hardware such as the motherboard and power supply. Wishing to bring SFF PCs to the masses, SilverStone Technology has released the Sugo SG-01, which is a Small Form Factor chassis but is compatible with all micro ATX motherboards and power supplies.
Looks like another clean looking case from SilverStone that surprisingly has a good amount of working space inside. Check out the full look at the case over at Phoronix.
Nudity in games
Hardcore gamers know about the many arousing game mods out there. Granted none of them–as far as we know–has involved an actual sex act like Grand Theft Auto’s (GTA) mod, but there are still plenty of available patches available for download if you want to add nudity content to your games. Jack Thompson, who is famous for very loudly denouncing the terrible effects of sex and violence in video games, might use this article in his next press release.
Warning, ingame nudity ahead. Check out the interesting look over at Toms.
Zalman 5.1 Surround Sound Ultimate Gaming Headphones Review
After receiving the Zalman Headphones I was very happy to finally have a full surround sound feel to my gaming, music, and general needs. One thing I found out quickly is that you must have a 5.1 supported audio card, with out one you would have to buy the Zalman external 5.1 sound card.
Check out the full review of the headphones over at HardwareMods.
Ultra Fan Commander w/Thermal Sensors Review
Ultra is becoming quite the visitor to the Overclockers Online pages. If you cruise through their web site you will notice a menu of products about half a page long. That list includes their award winning Power Supplies, complete Tool Sets, impressive Memory Modules, various Cooling solutions, Cases and so much more. It really is staggering what this globally known Ohio based company offers to the market in quality products. They back that quality up with one of the best Warranty programs around, the best I have ever seen.
This is a great looking, and heavy duty fan controller. Check out the full review at Overclockers Online to see how it makes out.
MSI NX7800 GTX SLI Review
MSI packaged the NX7800GTX in a silver box with a carrying handle. MSI adorns the front of the box with a simple angel graphic, along with the main key features of the video card. The box lists that this card has D.O.T (Dynamic Overclocking Technology), 256MB DDR3, TV-Out/Dual DVI, HDTV, VIVO and is PCI-Express and SLI ready. On the reverse side, MSI goes into more detail about the features of the video card and the system requirements. They also have to areas that describe the game and their D.O.T. technology.
I’ve always been partial to MSI, and these cards seem to live up to the standards. I’m not too crazy over the graphic they chose for the cooler, but it’s the performance that matters! Check out the review over at Hard|OCP.
Basic System Buyer’s Guide – August 2005
Finally, after months of waiting, we can now squeeze in a 128-bit, 128MB vanilla GeForce 6600 into our system. We chose Asus because of their reputation and because it was one of the cheapest 128-bit 6600s we could find. This is quite a boost and should future-proof our system against upcoming software and game demands for some time. We can now begin focusing more on storage, processor, memory, and motherboard upgrades. Then again, that all depends on how the market plays out.
Check out the full guide over at MikhailTech.
ABIT Fatal1ty X800 XL 512MB Review
Whilst ABIT has sugar-coated the X800 XL 512MB VPU with its range of sweet new features, we find it hard to recommend it unreservedly. It’s ostensibly slower than similarly-priced cards, and speed is, after all, why most users shell out £275 on a graphics card. However, it’s been refreshing to see a company willing to design better and cleverer cards than the majority of other board partners, and we hope to see more innovation from the folks at ABIT on, dare we say it, faster GPUs.
Check out the full review over at Hexus!
SilverStone SG01 SFF Case Video Review
Small Form Factor Cases are becoming more & more popular because they are light & compact. This makes them a perfect candidate for building a KICKASS system for LAN parties. The SG01 is aluminum with fantastic styling, construction & looks. There are 2 external 5.25″ & 2 internal 3.5″ drive bays. At the front, conveniently located, is 1 Firewire, 4 USB2 ports, mic & headphone jack. It also has good air circulation. Watch the Video to find out more…
Check out the full video review over at 3D Gameman.
Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra Socket 939 Motherboard Review
The Epox EP-9NPA+ Ultra offers users a very flexible nForce 4/PCI Express platform, and has some useful integrated peripherals like a 8-channel audio, 10 USB2.0 ports, IEEE 1394a, and Gigabit LAN. It’s not the most well equipped motherboard we’ve ever dealt with, but for mainstream users I think you could say it fills out all the necessary points well.
Head over to PC Stats for the full review.
Albatron GeForce 7800GTX Videocard Review
The Albatron GeForce 7800GTX videocard is pretty darn impressive. In addion to its nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX GPU with 302 million transistors, the PCI Express x16 videocard packs 256MB of GDDR3 memory, SLi compatibility, a low-profile & low-noise heatsink, twin DVI video connections and support for a host of video input and output formats. Albatron ship along a basic set of software and cabletry with the Albatron 7800GTX videocard so that every feature can be used (SLI bracket excluded), but there’s nothing else in the box aside from the 7800GTX card to really get excited about.
Check out the full review at PC Stats.
Gigabytes and Gibibytes – What you need to know
When talking about a binary number like computer memory or processor cache, where the memory is made up of a series of memory cells that hold single bits of information, the number of memory cells is always power of 2. For instance, 1024 bits of memory, what you’d likely usually call a kilobit, is 2^10 bits. However, kilo is a prefix for base-10 or decimal numbers, so it doesn’t actually apply to that figure when it’s a representation of a binary number. The correct prefix is instead kibi, so 1024 bits is really a kibibit.
Check out the full article over at Hexus.
Mushkin Ultra-Low Latency Memory Giveaway Contest Posted
Team ARP is proud to announce a new giveaway contest! At stake is a 1GB Mushkin PC3200 222 Level II V2 Dual Pack Memory Kit! This is your chance to get this amazing memory kit for free!
Check out the full details at Rojak Pot.
Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 9.1 Posted
We hope it will prove to be a useful reference. We will keep this guide updated regularly so do check back for the latest updates!
Here are the updates:
- Added the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 and Graphics Media Accelerator 900.
- Added the ATI Rage 128 VR and Rage 128 GL.
- Added the Architecture specifications for ATI Radeon SDR, Radeon DDR and AIW Radeon DDR.
- Corrected the Architecture specifications for ATI Radeon VE.
- Corrected the Pixel/Texture Pipelines specifications for the Riva TNT and TNT2 series.
- Relabelled NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti as NVIDIA GeForce 3.
- Corrected the Interface specifications for ATI 3D Rage Pro and Rage Fury MAXX.
- Corrected the Interface specifications for ATI Radeon X700, X700 LE, X700 Pro and X700 XT.
- Corrected the DirectX Support specifications for the GeForce4 Ti series.
- Corrected the Interface specifications for 3dfx Voodoo Banshee. “
Check out the full guide over at Rojak Pot.
Vapochill Micro Ultra Low Noise Review
By absorbing heat from the processor, the fluid will dissolve and form into gas which travels towards the top of the pipes. Once the gas is cooled down it’ll turn into a solid fluid form again and travels back to the bottom of the CPU cooler. The recirculation of the coolant is based on gravity. So the evaporation chamber absorbs whatever heat energy is available to it from it’s surroundings to vaporise the refrigerant.
Check out the full review at Guru 3D.
Evercool Neon Crab Memory Cooler
Computer enthusiasts and case modders are always looking for that next-best-thing. We search for products that allow us to squeeze the last few MHZ out of our systems in search of the ultimate overclock. We also want to have a product that looks good. The Evercool Neon Crab Memory Cooler is advertised as something that can fill both these voids. It has a funny name and looks unusual, but let’s see how well it really works…
I had high hopes for this product, but it seems that it didn’t actually cool the memory that much. Check out the full review over at Big Bruin.
OCZ Platinum PC4800 Elite Edition 1GB Dual Channel Kit Review
After hearing many complaints from enthusiasts, OCZ brings back the use of TCCD in their high speed Platinum memory. The PC4800
Elite Edition overclocks wonderfully to amazing new speeds.
Check out the full review over at InsaneTek.
NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX + 1.0-7675 Preview
Today, is a rather special day for GeForce 7800GTX Linux owners as we can finally expect some new drivers from NVIDIA that fix the poor performance issues. Although these new 1.0-7675 drivers continue to lack some of the new antialiasing modes, and SLI (Scalable Link Interface), supported by the GeForce 7 series they do come with a hefty amount of changes. In this article, we have new benchmarks to demonstrate the areas that the driver improved, and those that have not been affected. Continue on for this exclusive 1.0-7675 testing.
Check out the full preview over at Phoronix.
Logitech MM22 Portable iPod Speakers Review
The unprecedented sales success of the Apple iPod portable music player has spawned a growing peripherals business to supply the owner base with a wide range of accessories. Among the most popular add-ons are compact portable speaker systems which allow the user to un-tether from his/her headphones and share their music with others. Altec-Lansing, in particular, has had great success with a variety of portable speaker systems, from the ground-breaking inMotion to the subsequent IM3 and IM4. Now Logitech has entered the fray with their mm22 Portable Speakers.
Check out the full review over at Bona Fide Reviews.
Razer Unveils the Copperhead
San Diego, August 4, 2005 – Razer, the world leader in high-end computer gaming peripherals, unveiled the newest snake in their family of reptilian gaming accessories – the copperhead(tm) – during a press conference at their world headquarters in Singapore.
Known for ultra-precise gaming peripherals like the award-winning Diamondback(tm) mouse, the Copperhead is the world’s most advanced gaming mouse, giving hardcore gamers precise tracking and accuracy, unprecedented speed and, for the first time, built-in intelligence.
“Razer products embody cutting- edge gaming technology pioneered by a team of talented engineers,” Robert Krakoff, president, Razer USA, said. “Working closely with the gaming community also helps us develop peripherals like the Copperhead, giving gamers a competitive edge in play. We’re confident that the Copperhead will be the new benchmark for mice among competitive gamers.”
Most were impressed by the recent 1600DPI mice, but it was only a matter of time before we seen it go higher. This mouse comes in at an impressive 2000DPI! You can check out even more infomation on the new mouse over at Razerzone.
Windows Vista – First Impressions
The drive for this first release is clear. This isn’t a showcase of the new features to you and I, this is the starter course for many months of development work from partners and application designers. Many of the new and exciting features which interest the users are missing from this release and there is far more emphasis on getting the under-the-bonnet revamping out there to the people writing the software for it.
You can check out a great look at the next version of Windows over at Bit-Tech.
Yahoo corrals audio services with one search tool
Continuing its Hollywood makeover, Yahoo today introduces a new Internet search tool for finding downloadable songs, podcasts, newscasts and speeches.
The audio search feature for the first time breaches the barriers between the various online music services, providing access to more than 50 million digital recordings. It allows anyone to look for an individual song within the digital collections of 16 different services, including the iTunes Music Store, Napster, Rhapsody and Yahoo’s own Music Unlimited.
You can check out the posting over at Silicon Valley and test out the search here. This could actually proof quite useful if you are looking for a specific song, but don’t know where to look. I gotta test it out..
Mali200: A New Graphics Core From Falanx
Falanx Microsystems is a Norwegian company that was born of a bunch of University minds and a 3D graphics project four years ago. As 3dfx and Matrox were making painfully obvious, there was getting to be less room for 3D graphics competitors. At this time Falanx, with the support of their government, focused on markets that are not always on the radar for most of us.
Falanx was incorporated in April 2001 and is a privately held corporation developing and marketing IP Graphics Cores for the mobile market for use in mobile phones, PDAs, set-top boxes, handheld gaming devices and infotainment systems. Falanx is licensing its family of IP Cores directly to equipment vendors and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) vendors.
Hard|OCP has a bit to say on Falanx, as well as multiple slides. It’s looking hopeful so far, so chances are we will hear more about it soon. Check out the full article here.
Mozilla Foundation Announces Creation of Mozilla Corporation
The Mozilla Foundation has announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will continue the development, distribution and marketing of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. Unlike the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation will be a taxable entity (that is, a for-profit rather than a non-profit) but the Foundation is eager to emphasise that it will pursue the same public benefit goals as the Foundation itself and will not be driven purely by revenue goals.
The change will not affect the day-to-day development of Mozilla, with the current system of module owners, drivers, reviewers and super-reviewers staying in place. End-users are unlikely to notice any difference either, though the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation will eventually have separate websites. At the moment, only Firefox and Thunderbird will be developed under the auspices of the Mozilla Corporation; other projects, such as Camino and SeaMonkey, will continue to be overseen by the Mozilla Foundation.
This likely will not affect end users too much, but it will help keep all of Mozilla more organized and productive! Check out all the information here.
ZBoard Battlefield 2 Keyset Review & Giveaway
We’ve played Battlefield 2 with this new keyset and once we were used to the new locations of the commonly used keys the game became much easier to play. The enlarged movement, jump and other important keys were much easier to find. We appreciate the work of Ideazon to keep the new keysets coming and making gaming easier for ZBoard owners.
Thanks to a great relationship with Ideazon we are able to provide our lucky readers their own ZBoard and Battlefield 2 keyset in our latest giveaway – we are going to giveaway both ZBoards with Battlefield 2 keysets. Be sure to get in as many enteries (one per day) as possible to increase your odds!
Check out all the details at 3D Xtreme.
Novell Delivers Enhancements for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9
MARKHAM, Ontario – Aug. 4, 2005 – Novell has released the second service pack (SP2) for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9, delivering numerous security improvements, maintenance enhancements, and updates for the most popular open source projects within the distribution. SP2 also includes new software packages that facilitate improved clustering and server consolidation, providing a more scalable and efficient solution for enterprise customers.
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 SP2 contains all the latest security patches and bug fixes that have been released for the Linux 2.6 kernel and associated packages, rigorously tested and fully integrated into the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server environment. Included in this release are the new Oracle Cluster File System 2 for x86, AMD64®, Intel® EM64T®, and Intel Itanium® 2 processor family, and dual core CPU support for latest AMD64® and Intel® EM64T® processor and Intel Itanium2 processor family. SP2 also includes updated device drivers for the most recent generation of server hardware for all major hardware architectures (including x86, AMD64, EMT64, Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor Family, IBM POWER and IBM zSeries).
SP2 is available to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server customers who have valid Upgrade Protection from Novell and can be accessed here.