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Sunday Night (14 Comments) (link)
 Sunday, 20-April-2003  22:15:45 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Found a new whizz-bang mobile phone going cheap? Maybe it's one of these stolen ones, thanks Boky.

MaxOC have a picture showing how to do a voltage mod to your brand spanking new Radeon 9800 Pro. Braver (and fatter wallet) than me!

Win y'self a USB flash drive on EnvyNews.

PlanetSavage checked out the nForce2 onboard graphics in single and dual-channel modes.

I'm sure we've linked this before, but if you're bored on Easter Monday you can always make the Starship Enterprise from a floppy disk, thanks Pugsley_21.

Digit-Life have info on new storage products from Samsung.

From Matt: Dick Smith Electronics have the perfect kit for manually controlling the speed of fans, even most monster 120mm ones. you can find more info here (if the link just takes you to the homepage, search for product number K3070). I built one and linked the pot to the PCB with an old CD-ROM audio cable so that I could easily mount the control on the front panel and house the board inside the case. It costs about A$17 so it's dirt cheap and is fairly easy to build, although I wouldn't recommend it for CPU fans that are powered from the motherboard. I managed to power a CPU fan from the HDD power connecters and still link the sensor lead to the motherboard socket so it still worked but I don't know whether that will work on all boards (I guess what i am saying is if you blow your motherboard in any way I don't wanna know!!).

Techimo want to tell you about encoding WAV files to MP3.. for all the legal reasons you'd want to. :)

Digit-Life dusted off a bunch of old video cards, to give us a little perspective.

NordicHardware compared a couple of fairly high-end PC speaker systems from Creative.

Dan has written about solid-state storage.

Wired have an article about John Carmark, focussing on the upcoming Doom III release.

Interesting Forum Threads:
Post your Cinebench results here in Overclocking and Hardware.
Final Fantasy fans, please inform me in Games.
The Case Clubs Hub in Modding & Electronics.
Most influential albums of all time? in Media & Current Events.
Radeon 8500 flashed to 9100 in Modding & Electronics.

Reviews:
Enermax UA-A07FATR2 multi-function panel on ClubOC.
Belkin 1200VA Universal UPS on EnvyNews.
Creative Inspire 5200 5.1 speakers on GeekShelter.
Koolcases Minion midtower on RBMods.
MouseMAXX mouse pad on BurnOutPC.
Cremax IcyDock Bodyguard525 HDD cooler on ClubOC.
SPire NeonBar II case lighting on ModSynergy.



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