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Thursday Afternoon (5 Comments) (link)
Thursday, 13-March-2003 12:16:36 (GMT +10) - by Mred32

A lot of people sent this link in. On Ebay, you can purchase your own SuperComputer, well it was the ducks guts back in 1996! But for now if you have a spare room to put it in and can afford the power bill and freight costs, it might be a bargain.

Silent PCReview are making noise with a list of recommended cases with details about things such as power supply, airflow, roominess and the likes. There are some well made cases on the list.

Hardware Fusion interviews Andrew Humber, European PR Manager for NVIDIA on the GeForce FX. This is part one of a two part interview.

VR-Zone have posted a review on the new Intel Centrino Mobile Technology. They look at the 3 key aspects; Pentium-M codenamed "Banias", Intel 855 Chipset family and a Wi-Fi module.

One of the guys from DigitalFerret has been playing around with the latest Longhorn Beta. It seems that this upcoming OS yields vastly improved benchmarks on RAID systems, compared to 2k.

Forum goer Shintaro found an article on the soon to be released Catalyst 3.2 drivers.

Falkor want to let you know that we have a OCAU NRL tipping comp going on in the forums. Check the link.

64-bit computing and x86-64. Its on its way and we will want to know more about it at some stage. Why not start now. Ars Technica have a good guide and intro to 64bit computing.

The folks at Bjorn3d have had a play with some e-Dimensional E-D 3D Glasses. They say "you need to get used to them".

Tom has a write up about the SiS655 chipset with dual channel DDR333. Read more here. Thanks Simon.

Albatron have released a Limited Edition Anniversary Mainboard. Its based on the i845PE chipset but it supports Intel's upcoming 800Mhz CPU's. ExplosiveLabs have some pictures if you want a look see.

Funky flash thing for today is Super Fighter.

Reviews
Altec Lansing 621 Speakers at HardAvenue
MSI GNB Max Granite Bay Motherboard at NeoSeeker
Soyo P4I 845PE Motherboard at Overclockers Online
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra at HotHardware
SanDisk ImageMate 6 in 1 USB 2.0 Reader at Extreme Overclocking
Albatron GF4 Ti4280PV at OCAddiction
Billion BIPAC-741 ADSL Firewall Router at Xtech (Thanks yday)
TaiSol K7 Heatsink at Furioustech
Gigabyte Maya II R9500 Video Card at Digital-Daily
Minolta DIMAGE F300 Camera at Digit-Life
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Hard Drive at Digit-Life
Altec Lansing 5100 Enhanced 5.1 Speaker System Video Review at 3dGameMan

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