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Saturday Afternoon (0 Comments) (link)
Saturday, 15-February-2003 14:40:39 (GMT +10) - by Mred32

CyberCPU have done a comparison of hard drive performance using a serial ATA adapter that you might want to check out. The results are not surprising but they did reveal some interesting points.

Nigel from Customtech Computers says he has found a bug in 3DMark03 that will open the gates for the cheats. Try it for yourself. It works.

The people at Modfathers have a series of "mods for beginners". This time they make a few simple changes to a USB and Hard Drive caddy to make it into a cool looking feature.

Sudhian have a great new article where they tell us how to mod our wives and girlfriends for better compatibility. Its dated February 14th, 2003. :)

leperMessiah sent this one in. The makers of the Opera web browser have hit back at Microsoft after having been hit themselves. "Users accessing the MSN site will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork!" hehe. leperMessiah also notes that in the UK, more than 390,000 people claim to follow the Way of the Jedi. Read it here. What next, The way of the Teletubbie?.

From New Scientist, "THE broadband Internet revolution may be coming to Australian homes much sooner than expected thanks, ironically, to third-generation mobile phone technology". Read more here.

Many more letters answered by Dan.

Reviews
AMD AthlonXP 3000+ Barton CPU at PCStats
Asus A7N8X nForce2-SPP Motherboard at PCStats
Combat Flight Sim 3: Battle for Europe at 3DAvenue
ThermalTake Aquarius II Watercooling Kit at PC-Arena
Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro 2 at Virtual-Underground
Plextor 24/10/24U USB2 External CD-RW Drive Video Review at 3dGameMan
Vantec Fan controller at R&B
SunBeamTech Rheobus Kit 2 at SubZeroTech

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