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28/04/00:
Maz
from over at our Spanish reseller Ngasis
has
spotted that yet another version of Nvidia Detonator
drivers have been leaked. You can download them from Reactor
Critical
As I'm
usually hanging around on IRC most evenings I thought
it would be useful for technical support if people
could talk to me online there. Here is the IRC info
you need :-
server:
irc.barrysworld.com port: 6667
channel: #ninja (or #clan-ocuk to challenge me
to a quake game :)) Fluke
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27/04/00:
There
were many previews of the soon to be released NVIDIA
GeForce 2 GTS (NV15) on the web yesterday, and by all
accounts the card looks great and will only be beaten
by the top of the range V5 6000 (which will cost a
fortune). By the time the V5 6000 comes out NVIDIA
should have the NV20 near release.
The
best preview around has to be the one at Anandtech.
Here is a link
straight to it. Fluke
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26/04/00:
Paul
Hardacre has informed us of a new graphics to end all
graphics cards. It's called the ucfx™ Woohoo5™
34500 AGP :)). Quote -
"Note:
Will not fit in most PC cases without slight case
modifications. Card comes with a Honda diesel
generator for power. Not FCC approved. Keep away from
water, small children, air traffic control towers,
munitions dumps, and pacemakers. Extended use may
cause cancer. Shipped via truck freight. Estimated
retail price $5,743.56 (USD)"
You
can check out the full specs on this card here.
Fluke
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22/04/00:
As everyone in the UK seems to be jumping on the
"un-metered" internet access bandwagon (I
can't believe it's taken this long), it's getting
harder and harder to find a good ISP offering this
service with the intial demands being so high. One
site that might help you is ISP
Review.
Edited by Mark 'KILLZAT' Jackson, ISP
Review has all the latest ISP news and reviews in the
UK. check it out. Fluke
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21/04/00:
Now we were, as many of you, were thinking that the days of
Athlon overclocking would come to a end with the
release of AMDs new processors, but after trawling the
web (and with help from a mail from Pika) we have what
looks like goods news.
The
soon to be released Thunderbird looks like it will be
very overclockable with current GFDs such as our
FreeSpeed card. We had feared that our current
FreeSpeed revision would not work because of it's
1050Mhz limitation, but it seems that AMD have
reworked their multiplier adjustment so that a setting
of 6X on our card would equal 1.1Ghz, 6.5X 1.15Ghz
etc.....
Here
is a piccy of the Thunderbird PCB. Note the absence of
separate L2 cache chips.
(The
TB has on die full speed cache :)
This
does indeed look very good for all us overclockers,
and in theory would give headroom of over 1.5Ghz for
overclocking antics :). Of course this is all
speculation, but we can be sure that the release of
the Thunderbird will breathe new life into the Athlon
and give the coppermine a serious kick up the ass :).
The
findings mentioned here were worked out by Anson over
at AthlonOC.com
.......VERY
good work!. You can check out these in more detail
from this link
straight to the article. Fluke
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20/04/00:
There is a new FreeSpeed review up at The-View.
Here is a link
straight to the page.
Kevin
Mauldin has mailed us to tell us about the cooling
system he has put together for his Athlon system. You
can see more details on his web page here.
Check it out. Fluke
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19/04/00:
HipHardware.com
have posted a FreeSpeed review. Here is a link
straight to the article.
We
have had a few terrible benchmarks for the Arctic
competition :) .....one more word on this, just plain
funny benchmarks may win....it's all just abit of fun
:) Fluke
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18/04/00:
Cleggy (our SETI god) has informed us that we are now
rank 131 in the UK and 2901 in the world in our SETI
team, however, due to a few people defecting to other
teams we now need more CPU power :). If you feel you
can help by donating some processing time please visit
the NM
SETI page
and sign up.
We
currently have a spare Arctic Circle cooler up for
grabs.....we have decided to run a little competition
to win it. The slowest SiSoft
Sandra
CPU benchmark we see by the end of the week wins the
cooler (so break out your 386 PCs :) Fluke
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16/04/00:
Maz from over at Ngasis.com
has posted a round up between ASUS motherboards K7V
and K7M. It´s in Spanish but there are lots of benches
and could be interesting to anyone in the market for a
Asus board. (Ngasis
also resell our FreeSpeed card in Spain)
What a
day yesterday.....decided to go for a Win2k Upgrade
*gulp*. Win2k failed on the first two attempts with a
strange bug meaning that we could not extract driver
files to install them.....a total reformat followed
and the same thing happened. Eventually I gave up
(after 4 attempts) and reinstalled Win98se. Someone at
*icro*oft has alot to answer for :) Fluke
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15/04/00:
Two UK
magazines have posted articles on Athlon overclocking
FreeSpeed stylee :) ........PC
Answers
and Micro
Mart
both have tested and reviewed the FreeSpeed.....many
thanks to the staff writers involved. Fluke
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14/04/00:
We just had a great email from Paul
'Flood' Francis
.........he has spent alot of time putting together a
great flash movie promoting Ninja Micros....all I can
say is AWESOME :), some of the best flash work I've
seen for ages. If you want to check it out just click here.
(the movie is around 200k so will take a little time
to load).........check out the end manipulation of our
logo, VERY well done.
If
anyone would like this guy to do any flash movies for
their site, give him a mail........I'm
sure he would be happy to help you out. Respect due - Fluke
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12/04/00:
Screaming3D
have posted a review of our FreeSpeed card.....you can
jump straight to it here.
Net
access here is the UK is finally changing and 24/7
un-metered services are popping up everywhere (BTs
offer now looks decidedly overpriced) ...One such ISP
is Redhotant.
I signed up with these guys yesterday and their
service appears to be great so far. (I feel a
Btinternet cancellation coming on:)
Spie
from over at OCuk
(one of our UK FreeSpeed resellers), has posted a review
of the long awaited Abit KA7. Check it out. Fluke
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09/04/00: Update: Thanks
to Tom Martyn who mailed us and points out that the
info about enabling antialiasing in the new detonator
drivers can be found on Reactor
Critical
You
can download a small text file here
that explains how to enable the feature.......the only
problem however, seems to be the huge performance hit
you will get. (we are going to just stick with high
resolutions instead :) Fluke
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09/04/00:
In case no-one has heard of this, more detonator
drivers for Nvidia cards have been "leaked".
These are version 5.13 for Win95/98, adding antialiasing support to games that use DirectX7 as well as
OpenGL (does anyone know the registry tweak to enable
this ?). Here is a local copy to download.
Fluke.
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08/04/00:
Though we have
had a couple of CPUs reach 1Ghz over the last few
months none of them have been ours :) ........so this
weekend we are going to try (though I only have a
0.25u Athlon to attempt it with).
Things are looking
promising already. We have fitted a Asus K7V (very
nice board kindly supplied by VGI
Computers) in
replace of the old MSI6167 board and also replaced the
Arctic cooler with a shiny new Globalwin VOS32+.
Results to far ?, well currently running a rock solid
969Mhz (not too bad). You can check out the benchmark here.
Hopefully I'll post some more details later and maybe
a higher result. (though we may not get higher with
this Athlon 550 750 0.25u core as it's already pushed
to 2.05V to achieve this speed). Fluke
05/04/00:
Anandtech
have posted a review of the long awaited K7V KX133
based Asus board. It seems that Asus have continued
their Athlon mainboard domination as the board excels
in all areas. We are getting one in for testing this
weekend and will post the results. You can jump
straight to the review here.
T-Break
has posted a review of the Aopen AK72 (err machine gun
:) ........you can jump straight to the review here.
SETI
have released both new Win32 and DOS clients of their
screensaver. Please update your clients to the new
versions. You can join our SETI team from our Ninja
Micros SETI Page. (check out the results
that our SETI god "Cleggy" has been
collating in EXCEL format. You can clearly see how
well we are doing, thank you all for your valuable CPU
time :). Fluke
03/04/00:
I would just like to apologize for the lack of posts
here over the last few days, this has been due to me
moving house :). Things should get back to normal
today and I should be able to catch up on the msg
board and 24hrs of email.
VTR-Hardware
have posted a in depth review of our FreeSpeed card
where they gave it a very cool 17/20 :). You can jump
straight to the review here.
Respect - Fluke
30/03/00: I
guess most people like me always look forward to the
next generation of CPUs or Graphics cards....and with
graphics people like Nvidia and 3DFX currently on
6month cycles there is always new chips to look
forward to. The one I'm waiting for is the NV15 (Maybe
to be called Geforce 2 ?) .....anyway, here is the
reported specs - (drool mode engage)
- 8 Texels per Clock
with Hypertexel
- 2nd-generation T&L Engines
- 256-bit graphics architecture
- Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory
- AGP 4X with Fast Writes
- 32-bit color
- 32-bit Z/Stencil
- Cube Environment Mapping
- DirectX Texture Compression
- Order Independent Full Scene Multisample
Antialiasing
- 1000+ Mtexels Fill Rate
- 20+ Mtriangles/sec through T&L and setup
- 5GB+/sec Memory Bandwith
- 350Mhz RamDAC
- Maximum 3D/2D resolution of 2048 x 1536 @ 75 Hz
- Complete DirectX 7, 6 and 5 support
- Industry's First fully 1.2 compliant professional
OpenGL support for Linux
- Integrated 720p, 1080i HDTV Playback
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