Thursday News 2

With the advent of the nForce 2 boards, many manufacturers have jumped on the ball and offered two verified sticks of memory that are ensured to work in tangent on dual channeled board. The most typical configuration is two 256 meg PC3200 sticks which gives a comfortable 512 megs of memory running at 400 MHz. But which is the best for you?

Well it's finally time to review some cold cathodes from Lamps Electronics. These seem to be really high quality and shine nice and bright and actually be the color they say it is.... Well I will not say much more but get this review going!

Well installation is easy, you just plug the Card Reader in a spare USB slot and Windows 2000 finds the drivers and installs them and now you are ready to use both the Compact Flash card and the Card Reader

Well the staff at GruntvillE has been trying to come up with a fan grill design since it opened. Unfortunately, we’ve all been too busy to give it much time. We’ve received an enormous amount of great response from our readers and many asking how they can show their respect for the site and if we have plans for branded merchandise

Cobras are one of the worlds fastest snakes. Do the Antec Cobra cables live up to their namesake? These cables look good, are UV reactive, but there is more! Yes lots more to discover about these rounded UV reactive ATA and Floppy cables. Come on in and read all about these and find out what I did. NO I am not letting the Cobra out of the bag! After you read this article, I think you will want some Cobras of your own.

In another ‘World First’, we take a pair of matched Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB SATA drives and RAID-0 Stripe the drives on an A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. Essentially, we took the fastest non-SCSI hard-disk we’ve ever tested in our Labs, and RAID’ed them, to create one monster drive with benchmark specs WAY OFF our charts. Scream after me - 105MB/sec. Here’s a snip:

“In a follow-up to our hugely popular Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA drive review, we decided to procure a second and identical drive, and with help from the excellent A7N8X-Deluxe nForce2 motherboard, demonstrate the AWESOME power of using two of these DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB drives in a RAID-0 Serial-ATA Stripeset - totalling a whopping 320GB of storage space. To sum up this review in a few short words - Envy This!”