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First up today, this years OCAU Folding Giveaway is under way and the first round of winners will soon be enjoying their prizes. Week 1 winners are "Wolfspirit of the Gamers-Underground subteam". He has won a stick of 256 Mb PC2100 DDR donated by David Glasson (DGROMS.com). The consolation prize of a jar of Hypermints donated by CoolPC goes to "ScarletHippo". Congratulations guys. Next weeks prizes are an AMD XP2000+ (Palamino) processor with AMD cooler (donated by DGROMS.com) and a consolation prize of a jar of Hypermints (CoolPC).
DWPG take a look at the Prometeia Phase Change Cooler. Part 1 of their review is up.
A new DVD player to hit the market is the first to offer an Ethernet connection to connect to the web and is also the first to offer DivX support. Now why would we need DivX support? :) Thanks Darkness.
Bench House have posted a 16x DVD player roundup.
Cadal notes that DirectX 9a is out. Get it from Microsoft. (Hmm...MS seem to have taken it off the server. Maybe they decided it was not quite ready yet)
Zed came across a problem with his new Asus P4G8X Deluxe Gold (Granite Bay) motherboard and an ATI 9700 Pro video card. The problem seems to be with the chipset itself. Toms Hardware have more details about it.
The DDR Guide II over on Overclockers NZ has been updated with some new ram modules. I used this guide recently when getting ready to buy some new ram.
Interesting piece from eDust. "The GDDR2 SDRAM standard is close to being finalized. This will be used by the video card manufacturers for faster memory".
A curiously amusing article from NZ. Bandwidth bandit loses business. So, stealing bandwidth is bad OK! From Wolfman.
Here is a small collection of useful articles from Rainwulf...well...some might be useful, like the Tseng Labs card cooling :).
The next Supanova Pop Culture Expo is on Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th April at Wharf 8, Sydney. Sounds like fun. Thanks to those people who sent in the link.
Finally, this just in from Gareth. "Red Flag Lan Fest (large perth lan) signups open tomorrow at 9.30am. The event will be held at the Cannington Showgrounds for over 120 people on the 12th and 13th of April". Theres over $1800 in prizes to be had so get your rego in soon.
spankyofoz provided todays timewaster. Its Airwolf. Remember the show from the 80's. Am I that old!
Reviews
Kingston 5GB PC Card HDD & Reader at Mikhailtech
Intel D845GEBV2 Motherboard at Digital-Daily
Nexland Pro400ADSL ISB/ADSL Modem Video Review at 3DGameMan
Epox 8RDA+ Nforce2 Motherboard at 3dXtreme
PC Power and Cooling 510W ATX Power Supply at Extreme Overclocking
Gigabyte MAYA R9000 Pro II at AMDWorld
Sunbeam Rheobus at Boogletech
OCS C3 Clear Ice Acrylic Case at PC-Arena
Jetway 845PEA Motherboard at Digital-Daily
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