The amazing thing about events like Computex is that there are actually two shows. The first is the one we computer types like to see and the other is the booth babes. The majority of the girls are freelance models that get hired to help out around the booth and pose for photos.
Over the years we have created some good connections at Foxconn and were given an exclusive look at the 2 latest motherboard products during Computex and was later invited to the HQ offices in Tu-Sheng to see some working samples and take the following photos.
With every Computex venture we quest to complete a mission. This year the mission was to get in contact with the companies that we feel have some of the best products for the coming year and get them to work with Ninjalane.
Foxconn says not quitting own-brand motherboard business
Published: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 - By: DennisNews Source: Web
We actually knew this little gem for over a month and even wrote up an exclusive article about it. Be sure to check out the new Inferno Katana and DigitLife Cinema.
Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has said it will maintain its own-brand marketing staff for motherboards but will transfer some technical staff to support other business units. The comments were made in response to ongoing speculation that it has been decreasing efforts to market own-brand motherboards and may eventually exit the market.
However, since Foxconn had to go to Digitimes it seems not everyone was convenced.
I braved having to wear a mask to get this exclusive information, the least you could do is read about it. 
Logitech G19 Gaming Keyboard @ Tweaktown
Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
The ultimate gamer geek toy for the PC is here. The Logitech G19 has a full color LCD screen built onto the keyboard for all kinds of wild things. Check out the review to give you something new to crave on the hardware want list.
"We have the awesomeness of the LCD providing you with more geek than you could possibly imagine. There are a good number of applications out there and the ability to link up with Windows sideshow, while not totally amazing, does give good room for expandability.
The one thing I love about this keyboard is the ability to change the backlight colour to anything under the RGB rainbow! It really does make me grin wildly just playing with such a nifty feature."
Holy *&^%! Look at that price!
DFI UT X58-T3eH8 @ HardOCP
Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Web
Another super board for overclocking with a better price tag than the Classified is the DFI UT X58-T3eH8. Let's see what the guys at HardOCP think about it.
"The UT X58-T3eH8 is DFI's answer to the current onslaught of Intel X58 chipset based motherboards. The board is part of DFI's much vaunted LanParty line of boards, squarely aimed at the gaming and hardware enthusiast. It looks to be strong contender in this highly competitive space."
In leet speak does that say (T3e-H8)The-Hate? 
Kingwin Mach 1 1000W PSU Review @ JonnyGURU
Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
I will admit it that it excites me to see a PSU get tortured. Call me weird, but it is something I enjoy. Let's see how the Kingwin Mach 1 holds under the pressure of a full on beating.
"These days, for a power supply company to be competitive, there's gotta be a 1kW or up model in there somewhere. Kingwin recently joined the party by bringing in their Mach 1 series of units, which tops out with a 1.2kW monster. Today I'm having a look at the second most powerful in the line, the 1000W model. This is the only 80 Plus Bronze certified unit in the range, and it features such cool things as modular cables with illuminated rings around them when you plug one in."
Don't call it weird just call it a fetish. A fetish that is all.
NL: PC Game Reviews Roundup
Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
Here we have a couple PC game review to look at for you gamer types out there.
Light Of Altair (PC) Review @ Gamingheaven
Light Of Altair is a game made by two people with a budget price tag of $15. We love independent titles on Gamingheaven because quite often they don't suffer from restrictive publisher control and are free to explore radical ideas outside the confines of a big budget production. As SaintXi develop and publish the game is it able to offer something entertaining for the relatively modest asking price?
Wheelman (PC) Game Review @ ocaholic
Loads of action, quick cars, hot shapes and Vin Diesel. Who in this case doesn't think of The Fast And The Furious needs to have Midways Wheelman in its mind. We take a closer look at Wheelman and tell you if it has a solid basis or if it's just another game.
EVGA E761 X58 SLI Classified Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews
Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
It is very popular, and has every reason to be popular among hardware enthusiasts. The new EVGA Classified boards are really second to none, and the colors are just awesome too.
"What is there to say? The EVGA X58 E761 Classified is like an over-the-top blockbuster movie; it wows you on all fronts all the while costing an arm and a leg to produce. Core i7 is a new processor and motherboard and BIOS engineers are still figuring it out, but the team at EVGA has clearly stumbled across something to be able to release a board that pushes these chips past the notorious 220MHz base clock wall. This board reminds me a lot of the Asus LGA775 Rampage Extreme, except the Rampage Extreme came so late in the game..."
I want one to play with so bad.
AMD DirectX11 White Paper Released @ Legit Reviews
Published: Monday, June 29, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
Here is a good read from the marketing guys at AMD. With the intention of knocking the marketing guys at NVidia from changing the consumers mind about DX11. Wait a second doesn't that mean AMD is trying to sway our minds with there marketing on DX11.
"Some of the guys up in Toronto sent us an e-mail this morning and explained that DirectX 11 is important and we should take NVIDIA downplaying it with a grain of salt. It seems they are worried that the tried and true NVIDIA marketing machine will possibly start pumping out a lot of information to deflect and sway consumers. This is likely going to be the case as NVIDIA is rumored to be late to the game with DirectX 11 graphics cards and is going to have a rough time to get them released this calendar year. To help avoid this looming marketing battle, AMD has released a white paper that has been put together by AMD to showcase the importance of DirectX 11 and why it matters. They also gave us quick breakdown explaining that DX 11 is about efficiency..."
Ouch! Ouch! Brain starting to hurt.
Asus HD 4770 Formula Edition @ Bjorn3D
Published: Monday, June 29, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
Living in the racing capital of the world will make me have a huge liking to heatsinks that look like Indy cars. Asus has the Formula version of the 4770 that looks just freakin awesome.
"Asus has long been considered one of the top manufacturers of all kinds of PC components, so it comes as no surprise that they have decided to make their own cooler for the brand new ATI HD 4770. They have called this card the Formula edition. Asus being the big company they are, have paid a lot of attention to detail on the heat sink design. I will explain a bit later on in the review. With this larger heat sink comes lower temperatures. Surely Asus geared this card for the mid range graphics card buyer who is looking to gain some performance by overclocking.
Just one look at the HD 4770 specs is enough to say the card is the perfect card to play all the latest games at decent settings without breaking the bank, so it would seem that the Asus 4770 Formula has its work cut out for it. Surely with the ability to cool the card better will lead to a higher overall overclock, thus increasing the cards performance even more. This is stacking up to be a tight competiton between this card, and its other ATI siblings, the 4670 and 4850."
Yes, I know it is more like a Formula 1 car, but it is close enough for me.
World of Warcraft MEGA FAQ! @ OCModShop
Published: Monday, June 29, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
WoW is the juggernaut of games and on the PC it is one of the most played games ever. So here is a little information for those that have lived under a rock and know nothing about this game.
Warcraft is a beast. You must seriously consider if you're ready to take it on as if you were committing to banned substances. Levels, achievements, heavy multiplayer, many different builds to tinker with, a full economy, gear with no end, and just tons of things to collect for vanity, you really have no hope of having any other entertainment if you start playing WoW.
Yes, this game is extremely fun. If you like anything in gaming you will find something to like in this game, and no one can argue with the strength of the multiplayer, which is essentially 1/4 of the game unless you just love running dungeons and raids.
All I can say "WoW!" to all the things in this game.
Inno3D GeForce GTX 295 Platinum (Single PCB) @ techPowerUp
Published: Sunday, June 28, 2009 - By: DennisNews Source: Email
Can there be such a thing as a worthless revision? I think not and neither should you.
NVIDIA has silently introduced a new revision of their GeForce GTX 295. The new version crams everything onto a single PCB. While the performance characteristics have not changed, thermals, fan noise and power consumption did change indeed. Is the new single PCB GTX 295 a success or just an unimportant product revision?
In fact I may just buy one of these if someone will put it on a red PCB.
World of GOO - PC Review @ Gamepyre
Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
Okay, okay this is all me here on this one. I usually collect a couple game reviews, but this one deserves it's own news post. This game just rocks out loud for the complete waste of time, and brain teasing fun.
"This game is all about the physics of things, even the physics of goo. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not a physicist, but I have enough common sense and I've had enough education to learn the basics about gravity. And in 2-D Boy's World of Goo, you have to use common sense and apply very little necessary knowledge about gravity towards building incredible things out of goo. On the surface, the game is very basic: all you have to do is make the goo travel from point A to point B."
Got my i7 920 oc to 4Ghz. Check!
Got my GTX 285 in SLI. Check!
I'm ready to play World of GOO.
GeIL Black Dragon DDR2 1066MHz dual channel kit review @ ModReactor
Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
Ninjalane posted pics and information from Computex this year of these awesome looking RAM modules from Geil. Well now it is time to see a review on them in action.
"Geil Black Dragon DDR2 1066 is a cheap dual channel kit aimed mostly at gamers. You can expect out of it very stable work, nice performance and limited overclocking capabilities. Basically you get what you paid for (which mind you is less that for any of the other rival 1066MHz kits out there). One well positioned in its class product, that shines mostly with its price/performance ratio, still nowadays you'll get more from a 2x2GB gaming memory at even lower frequency. And indeed that is what we recommend you should do, unless of course that does not contradicts with your priorities in some way."
I love evil dragon RAM modules.
ASUS Crosshair III Formula Motherboard Review @ Motherboards
Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
Here is a sweet looking beast of a motherboard for the AMD platform. Once again Asus is raising the bar for enthusiast boards.
"ASUS has set a reputation among enthusiasts of offering high-priced excellent performing gaming motherboards of choice with their Republic Of Gamers motherboards and the CROSSHAIR III Formula is an excellent example of its breed. The board overclocked to 3.21GHz from the default 2.6GHz a 23% overclock that was completely stable. The board also has the features you want from an AMD board including support for AM3 Phenom II CPUs, an LCD POSTER, the ability to "Level Up" your CPU with the flick of a button and onboard Start, Reset and MemOK buttons on the board. The one negative on this board is the lack of more than two PCI Express x16 slots as the flexibility of more slots offers more choices for the gamer. Otherwise the CROSSHAIR III Formula board is excellent in every way from features, performance and stability. This board is a serious Hot Product as it has great features and excels in performance."
I want one!
Home Theatre PC and Ripping Station Guide @ Tweaktown
Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 - By: WilliamNews Source: Email
Here is a cool guide for all of you guys out there with your shiny new HD TV's and your serious media collection..
"So, you have the big 1080p Hi-Def TV, the awesome surround system and a DVD and music collection that puts HMV to shame. You could throw together some parts in a fancy case and make yourself a home theatre PC, but that's so 2008. Instead, let's spruce it up by getting your HTPC to copy your precious polycarbonates to a whopping big disk!
With the introduction of 1TB+ HDDs over the last couple of years, the prices have undergone the usual jostling and competitive dropping and are now in the region of extremely affordable; so there's no excuse not to own one."
I still need to build myself one of these.
EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified Motherboard Review @ Motherboards
Published: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - By: DennisNews Source: Email
This might be the most talked about X58 motherboard in existance and for good reason, its expensive, comes with a ton of features, and overclocks like crazy.
EVGA put a serious amount of time, energy and effort into the design of this motherboard, and it shows in all the features and extras this motherboard has. This is no amateur product, in fact it's really a motherboard that is geared toward overclocking professionals who want the quality components, and overclocking capabilities the new 3X SLI Classified has to offer. This motherboard is a bit on the pricey side and only those who are looking or the highest of the high-end motherboard will find themselves buying this board. The board looks absolutely great too and has ample room for any after market CPU coolers, which on a board like this is a very good design implementation.
We got to see the board in semi action during CES, check out the photos in our CES show coverage.
AM2 Mainboards with OnBoard-Graphics - Roundup II @ TweakPC
Published: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - By: DennisNews Source: Email
So what good is onboard graphics? In the gaming world, not much. However if you're looking to build a PC for mom or something for that big screen TV you might want to consider it.
Mainboards with graphics onboard are not expensive anymore. We took a look at the performance, stability and features in our second part of the roundup.
Funn, none of the graphics enabled boards we have reviewed are listed.
CPU3D Review: MSI Eclipse Plus (X58) Motherboard
Published: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - By: DennisNews Source: Email
On the surface this looks like the perfect X58, with any luck we'll have one in the Ninjalane Labs for testing.
When MSI released the Eclipse SLI last year, it was their highest performing motherboard based on Intel's X58 chipset. It was packed with features, including X-Fi audio, DRMOS technology, APS (Active Phase Switching) as well as supporting 3-way SLI ... it was a favourite amongst the gamers as well as enthuisasts.
If you are one to weigh your purchase decisions on specs the Eclipse line might be a good one to check out.
Happy Monday Everyone
Published: Monday, June 22, 2009 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I trust that everyone had a good fathers day weekend. It was my first one and was really quite uneventful at that.
In a way that is a good thing 
We have been working hard to get things back to normal after Computex, seems a combo of Jet Lag and the lack of sleep caused me to catch a bug while I was in Taiwan and while it wasn't Pig Flu it was nasty enough to still be with me here a couple weeks after getting back. Health concerns aside we have some new reviews in the works along with some cool tech articles so stay tuned.
Most Ninjalane readers will find the new articles to be a little on the simple side but nobody has really tackled the subjects so they should be a good community builder and help to expand the readership.
Travel with Techgage: Taiwan for Computex 2009 @ Techgage
Published: Thursday, June 18, 2009 - By: DennisNews Source: Email
As many of you already know I just got back from Taipei Taiwan for Computex and one thing I have learned after 5 trips over there, you can never run out of things to do. Each year I try to do something new but I will admit I rarely capture the experience on film. It's not like a Vegas thing but rather a "you would have to be there" sort of thing because you really can't describe anything in words.
Our Computex 2009 coverage is long done with, but this article isn't about what we saw on the show floor or learned during a meeting. Rather, this article takes a look at things from a different angle: the experience. We'll talk both about what life is like during these trips, and in this particular case, what it's like to spend time in Taiwan for just over a week.
I do have some photos from the trip. I'll see about creating an album with comments, it will be my own little slideshow like what your grandparents used to do.
Ultimate BIOS Guide: Every Setting Decrypted and Explained! @ MaximumPC
Published: Thursday, June 18, 2009 - By: DennisNews Source: Email
Well as the title says.
Every modern motherboard comes with an embedded Flash EEPROM module, otherwise known as the BIOS chip. Short for Basic Input Out System, this is the first bit of code executed when you boot your PC. The BIOS stores all kinds of essential information about your system, such as your CPU's clockspeed, the size and type of RAM you're running, the boot order of your media, what onboard devices are present, and much, much more. An improperly configured BIOS can prevent Windows (or Linux) from loading, while a finely tuned BIOS has the potential to significantly improve performance over that of a similarly spec'd machine.
Whatever your goal is, this is your go-to guide for everything you've ever wanted to know about the BIOS. We cover every setting -- even the obscure ones -- so you'll never feel lost or out of your element, no matter what motherboard you're rocking under the hood.
