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• Another Slow Day

  Published: Monday, July 22, 2002 | By: Dennis

  It's kind of slow today so I figured I would post an update as to what has been going on here at Ninjalane. First of all after a year of planning and development Ninjalane v2.0 has finally gotten off the ground though the code base will still feature Classic ASP the structure is XHTML. A plan to move the code base to ASP.NET (.aspx) will happen sometime after launch. No launch date has been planned but best guess would be second week in Aug.
  
  We have at least one motherboard review planned for sometime later this month early Aug. I won't go into to much detail at this time but the product will be following the "High Quality & Difficult to Obtain" theme that we try to stick with.
  
  A couple of new case modding "How-To" articles are in the works focusing on some of the more "custom" of mods. Also to complete the "How-To's" full circle a very basic what you need and how to get started "How-To" is also planned.
  
  If you have any suggestions of comments feel free to post them in the Ninjalane Message Forum or email me at redmax@ninjalane.com

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• Soyo DRAGON Ultra - Platinum Edition Review @ HardwareZone

  Published: Monday, July 22, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Here is another view into the Dragon Ultra from Soyo. The HardwareZone guys complained of poor overclocking ability when unable to hit 166MHz FSB.

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• P4 533MHz Chipset Roundup @ x-bit-labs

  Published: Friday, July 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  All you wanted to know about 533MHz FSB Pentium 4 chipsets but where afraid to ask. Keep in mind though the VIA chipset that is listed in the article isn't in production anymore. It was replaced by the P4X400 not to long ago.

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• Nvidia Gets Xbox II Deal

  Published: Friday, July 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This is quite amazing considering that the two companies have been less than favorable to each other since the release of the original Xbox. I'd guess it had something to do with the decline of nVida's stock price.
  
  Anyhow w00t to nVidia!!

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• Intergrated Chipsets Becoming Popular?!?

  Published: Friday, July 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  I can understand the demand for integrated solutions for corporate and OEM computers but for the computer enthusiast like myself integrated solutions tend to cause problems. Though I will admit Soltek has demonstrated some pretty extreme overclocking with the Intel i845G chipset.

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• China Could Strike!!

  Published: Friday, July 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  The way I understand it China has threatened to invade Taiwan for years now and considering they are only 100 miles away shore to shore there isn't much we can do to prevent it from happening.
  
  I say leave Taiwan alone!

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• Water Cooled Laptop

  Published: Friday, July 19, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Currently they are only selling these units to corporate customers but if the demand is high enough they will start mass producing them.
  
  "The new products are slightly thicker than existing air-cooled Flora models, in order to show the tank at the back of the LCD (liquid crystal display) panel and hence differentiate the water-cooled machine, Akabane said. The tank also be hidden, he said."

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• One Pager on the ATI 9700 @ [H]ard|OCP

  Published: Thursday, July 18, 2002 | By: Dennis

  This graphless review is only one page in length making it a pretty quick read. The bottom line is "Did I mention it was really really fast too?"

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• ATI's Day of Terror

  Published: Thursday, July 18, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Well we knew it was coming and I even posted some news giving us the date it would happen. Yep you guessed it, the R250 and R300 GPU's from ATI have been officially announced and is about 20-30% faster than the Ti4600.
  
  "ATI has finally done it; they have finally got all of their moons in alignment and released a GPU that’s not only a leader in performance, but in technology as well and they’ve done it months before NVIDIA."

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• Topless Car Wash Continues Despite Ban

  Published: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 | By: Dennis

  Daisy Mace has been making headlines left and right with her topless car washing business and the saga continues. Moscow's city council voted five-to-one to ban public nudity thus allowing women to only show clevage in public.
  
  "Other critics say the ban will affect women wearing bikinis."

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