Willamette P4 Core Due to Die
Published: Friday, February 22, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
According to x-bit labs by 3Q of this year the .18 micron P4 core will cease to be manufactured as a Pentium 4. This doesn?t mean we won't ever see the core again considering it may become the next "Celeron" or similar inexpensive processor.
Mini Lian-Li Case
Published: Friday, February 22, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
MicroATX form factor all wrapped in Aluminum, this case isn?t much for show but would make a great LAN or mini server case.
New Chipsets From VIA and SiS
Published: Friday, February 22, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
According to the chart SiS will be slightly ahead of VIA in the P4 arena in March. Here are some things we can expect, DDR400, AGP 8x and 533MHz FSB all on the Pentium 4. DDR400 for the AMD series of processors won't be until the end of 2Q.
Here is something I noticed of interest, could VIA be skipping the KT333A?? "KT400" - "Greatly updated version of KT333"
GameSpy and XBOX
Published: Friday, February 22, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Not more than a few weeks after the XBOX launch a crafty programmer figured out how to tunnel traffic from the XBOX though a computer to enable online XBOX game play. The software ran on Linux, was kind of buggy, and had a huge overhead. It would appear that GameSpy has refined the idea and is now marketing it to the masses. Now if only I had bought a lifetime license back in '95 
MSI 645 Ultra Review @ accelenation
Published: Thursday, February 21, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This was one of the first SiS645 enabled motherboards out and it is still being reviewed. I especially like how the IDE connections are now in the lower left of the board instead of the lower right. 
oh, and btw you can boot to a command prompt in Windows XP. 
You will have to read he review to find out what I mean.
VIA KT333 Announced Today
Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
We have heard the rumors and even seen some board samples but until today nobody could post any info about the chips performance. As you might have guessed this is the hot news for the day and all of the k00l kids got samples to review. I'd suggest starting at [H]ard|OCP or Anandtech and digress from there.
MSI 845 Ultra-ARU DDR Review @ PC Stats
Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Once again we have some more crazy red MSI action, this time with the Intel i845D chipset. The MSI 845 Ultra-ARU features 3 DIMM sockets, Promise ATA133 with RAID USB 2.0 and a veriety of overclocking features.
Soyo Fire Dragon & Dragon Ultra Reviews @ HotHardware
Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Just recently I've become quite a fan of Soyo and their DRAGON series of motherboards and these second generation samples are quite impressive due to the addition of a Promise ATA133 controller.
Building a Wireless Bridge
Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This really isn't that hard to do if given the proper equipment. 
Soyo Fire Dragon Review @ Active Hardware
Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Here is another review of the Fire Dragon from Soyo. It is pretty cool that Soyo is playing around with colors but I would have rather seen a black PCB and red PCI slots.
Northwood Overclocking Database
Published: Monday, February 18, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
In case you haven't seen this before VR-Zone maintains an overclocking database for the Pentium 4 Northwood processors. The top listing is a LN2 cooled 2.2GHz @ 3.8GHz
Dual Socket A Board from Chaintech
Published: Saturday, February 16, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
I'm going to try and find out more about this board but from what Digit-Life has posted the board looks to be very well equipped for workstation usage.
Gigabyte 7VRXP KT333 Review @ OCworkbench
Published: Thursday, February 14, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
OCworkbench takes a look at Giga-byte's latest motherboard the KT333 enabled 7VRXP. The new board features not only DDR333 but also includes the new Via ATA133 Southbridge and a Promise ATA133 RAID controller. Then just to keep with the theme an Athlon 1500+ (1.33GHz) processor was used during testing. My look at all of those 3's
IBM Drive Problems and Fixes?
Published: Thursday, February 14, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
TweakTown has a non-technical yet informative article on the IBM series of hard drives and looks at the cause of the drive failure problems
Serious Sam - The Second Encounter
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Well I finally got my copy of this game and much like the first encounter the game is amazing. Now if only 3d Realms would get their act together and release Duke Nukem Forever we might have a good year of FPS sequels. 
Chipset Problems Slowing DDR333 Launch?
Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
DDR333 is here but due to low demand for the faster memory many companies are putting the faster chips on slower modules. Corsair XMS2400 comes to mind, if you check the Micron chip specs they where actually designed to be DDR333 memory chips.
XMS2700 Review @ Serial Addiction
Published: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
This is the same memory I used in the SL-85DRS2 review. In our review I was only able to run the system at CAS2.5 so it is good to see they will in fact run at CAS2@166+
PIV P4 Overclocking How-To @ Hexus
Published: Monday, February 11, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
In some cases overclocking is a matter of how much voltage you can feed a processor and Hexus shows us how to override the defaults.
Soltek Motherboard Reviews Posted
Published: Monday, February 11, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
It has been a busy few weeks here in the Ninjalane Labs but we have pushed out two Soltek motherboard reviews for you to see. First was the SL-85DRS2, a Pentium 4 motherboard that uses the SiS645 chipset. The second is the much talked about and highly configurable SL-75DRV4 based on the KT266A.
For those in search of a purchase I would suggest heading over to misrcorps.com
SL-75DRV4 Motherboard Review Posted
Published: Monday, February 11, 2002 - By: DennisNews Source: Ninjalane
Our review of the much talked about revision, to the ever-popular SL-75DRV2 is now done and the SL-75DRV4 is much more than another purple face in the crowd.
