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Wednesday, 10-September-2003 00:01:13 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Creative, who by no coincidence is an Admin in our Video Cards forum, has pushed his system to over 24,000 3DMark2001 points.. apparently the first in Australia to do so and ranking extremely high world-wide. Nice one! :)
IBM have done some clever stuff to make faster chips again.. dunno when this will boil down to something you can actually buy.
DJ-Studd notes that spam becoming illegal in Australia is coming along nicely. Unfortunately that won't slow down the chinese or americans who seem to be sending me most of my spam.. or the thousand or so Sobig virus emails I get most days.
Guru3D went and visited NVIDIA to see how their hot chips are made.
Xbit say that Intel have Celeron 2.7GHz and 2.8GHz chips on the way, thanks Tekka. That's right, folks.. value chips are now nearly 3GHz. I said this at 1GHz, I said it at 2GHz and I'll say it again now: "gee, sounds perfect for reading email and doing wordprocessing!"
Zapper_fish pointed out this nicely finished system from 10GHz in the PCDB.
Good news, the RIAA is offering amnesty to file swappers.. apart from the ones it's suing already, thanks Jotham. More info here, thanks G-Banger. The Electronic Frontier Foundation have a bunch of info about how to avoid being sued, and whether this amnesty Clean Sweep thing is something you should be involved in, if you're a naughty music pirating person. I don't know if this is something that Australians even need to be concerned about. I note that Electronic Frontiers Australia make no mention of it.
Google have celebrated their fifth birthday recently, thanks Koopzy. Wow, they employ over 1000 people. All the cool kids use Aggle, though. :)
MadShrimps have a naked Northwood.. P4 without the headspreader.
Simon says: DivX 5.1 is out (not 5.0.5), offers 10% to 30% better performance on all CPU's.
Apparently a recent IE patch doesn't work, thanks Dink. They also owe Be Inc a large bucket of cash now, thanks leperMessiah, more info here.
Xeons. Linux. Overclocking. It's all good.
Creepy feelings may be caused by sound you can't hear, not supernatural forces.
From Madonion87: Some people at Overclockers.ru has managed to change the new Duron to AthlonXP by connecting the L2 bridge. Their article is here. Its full Russian but I guess the pictures can tell the story. Also, only some Duron will actually work, others they had to turn off L2 cache in BIOS for it to be stable. Probably because its low quality AXP cores? =) Seems to kinda defeat the purpose. :)
This is pretty cool.. running linux on your wireless AP, thanks OneArmedMan.
Intel have two new Itaniums, while AMD has two new Opterons. Who comes up with these names, anyway?
Dink spotted an amusing article on TheReg about CD's from Universal becoming cheaper.
ExtremeTech have reviewed an interesting kit that helps you upgrade your laptop HDD for a faster/bigger one.
From Starfire: Just saw these 3D glasses from eDimensional. Unlike normal 3D glasses which are red and green, these are tinted and work by rapid changes in opacity. There are settings included for almost every DirectX game available. There is also an add-on software which claims to transform any DVD movie into an iMax 3D experience. Sounds awesome.
LANs: Estorm in Brisbane this Saturday and CDS in Lismore this weekend.
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