Archive for November, 2007

Phase Change Assembly Line Produces V2000B Single Stage

This unit is a story of many delays as it was my first V2000 build. Now that I’m done with it and satisfied I must say I’m rather pleased with how it turned out and will most likely be making myself one but I don’t know if I’ll build another V2000 for a customer as [...]

Phase Change Assembly Line Produces Twin 2

Finished up the second Twin last week but I just shipped it out today due to an emergency arising at my daytime job and keeping me tied up most of last week. This unit is identical to the previous first unit except for a minor change in how I wired up the controller. The charge [...]

AMD Launches HD3870 and HD3850 Graphic Cards

It’s GPU month here in the tech industry and this second product launch doesn’t quite measure up to the 8800GT launch earlier this month. The RV670 GPU which is the core used in the HD3870 and HD3850 cards is essentially a shrunken R600 core that forms the basis of the HD2900Pro and HD2900XT cards that [...]

Intel Officially Launches 45nm Penryn Chips

Yesterday Intel officially unveiled its 45nm Penryn architecture with the launch of the 3.0GHz QX9650 desktop processor and 15 individual server processors ranging from 1.86GHz dual-cores to 3.2GHz quad-cores. These new processors contain many firsts for Intel including their removal of lead and halogens in their manufacturing process to which Intel totes their processors as [...]

Phase Change Assembly Line Produces Twin 1

Friday saw the culmination of a few weeks of effort with the shipping of Twin 1 from my current line of single-stage builds. Over the last few months I’ve been honing down this build process to a standard assembly line and I do believe I have finally sourced all the components. These particular builds, Twin [...]

Review: Hellgate:London

Here we are, the game I have been waiting for since I put down Diablo II in 2004. Hellgate:London is the closest thing I believe we’ll see to a Diablo III unless Blizzard decides to put down the cash cow that World of Warcraft has become. Hellgate:London, launched on October 31st, 2007 contains a decent [...]