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Saturday Night (3 Comments) (link)
Saturday, 30-August-2003 22:10:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Ambush and a few others sent word that Intel may offer an overclocking utility soon. More info on TheInq, Xbit and Intel'sown page.

Sin22 spotted a Penny-Arcade comic about modding.

ByteSector have a rant about Intel and how they suck or something.

3DNewz has some videos about making Half-Life 2.

Xbit have compared six KT400A motherboards for your Athlon or Duron. They also looked at two onboard sound solutions. The first is formed by a VIA VT8235 South Bridge and an AC’97 VIA VT1616 codec, and the second one is based on nForce2 MCP-T with the integrated APU SoundStorm and an AC’97 Realtek ALC650 codec.

Bit-Tech have some modding 101 info posted.

Kernal32 notes that viruses will get you arrested and some IBM monitors are fire hazards. More info on the virus arrest here, thanks Tekka.

Games-Fusion went to ECTS 2003, a big gaming convention in Europe, and have coverage of upcoming games etc.

Digital-Daily compared GeForce FX5600 Ultra and Radeon 9600 Pro mid-range video chipsets.

Samsung apparently have their GDDR2 memory well on the way, thanks Tekka.

PCReview have some guides to choosing components for various parts of your PC.

Stanza says that some DLink wireless gear can be updated to 44Mbps with a new driver.. search through here for yours.

TechSpot want to help you tweak your Radeon video card. Techimo will tell you how to overclock it. If an NVIDIA card is more your style, our old overclocking with coolbits article is what you need.

Interesting Forum Threads:
R9800 Pro Mod in Video Cards.
My custom fibreglass/perspex case in Modding & Electronics.
Choose your socket! in AMD Hardware.
Using Tualatin on a BX in Intel Hardware.
Best Mod EVER! in Modding & Electronics.
What are you currently playing / looking forward to? in Games.

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