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Saturday Afternoon
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(link) Saturday, 13-September-2003 14:42:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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News story of the day seems to be some preliminary Half-Life 2 benchmarks doing the rounds. More info on Tech-Report, Anandtech, GamersDepot and TomsHardware. The results pretty clearly show ATI having a performance lead over NVIDIA in this new game engine, which will no doubt (if Counter Strike is anything to go by) be powering some of the most popular games for a while. There are also some interesting claims about driver optimisation and how benchmarks are becoming less accurate for showing real-world performance. NVIDIA have responded to these numbers and there are apparently some as-yet unreleased 51.75 Detonators to address the performance, which AMDMB have checked out (but not in HL2). Thanks to everyone who sent all that in.
Plenty of those Bank scam emails going around still.. this time the target seems to be St George, but the wording of the email is the same as we've seen for other banks in the past. Your bank won't ask you to "validate" or "confirm" your account details via email, just delete it.
Xbit have a roundup of Radeon 9800 and 9800 Pro vs GeForce FX5900 and FX5900 Ultra, if you're thinking of buying into the top end of the video card market. PinoyPC have a similar thing, but with some 9600 and 5600's in the mix.
Athlon64 info continues to trickle onto the web, with pics on Akiba (and here too, thanks Ambush) and some motherboards from Gigabyte, thanks Andreas.
From D_Web: Satellite: $100 million dollars... 24 Mounting Bolts: $2 each... The two guys standing around like they didn't do it... priceless.
Hexus have a PC into Mac G4 case project posted, including some motherboard modding to make it fit.
If you think that's hardcore, check out this Alien Head PC project from Plastic in our Modding & Electronics forum, thanks BlueSmurf.
Unlock your AthlonXP with this guide from ViperLair.
Tee sent word of a new Half-Life 2 trailer, get it from AusGamers, it's 122MB. They also have the 1.02 patch for RTCW:ET, thanks Merlin.
Father_Frag noticed this nicely-finished PCDB entry from zapper_fish. one_nil's setup is not too shabby either.
Ambush spotted this MBM plugin that lets you monitor temperature, fan speed and voltage on certain MSI video cards.
Apparently Sharp have a 3D laptop on the way, thanks Josh. The computer, part of the Mebius series, will be the first notebook computer that can show 3D images without users having to wear special glasses, Sharp said in a statement. More info here, thanks Robert. The computer display produces 3D images by sending a slightly different image to the right eye and the left eye at once by bending them in different angles, according to Sharp.
Morbo discovered if I type "kazaa" into Google it displays results but with the message "In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 9 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results."
ABIT have updated their website, with sections for various parts of the world, including Australia. Not sure how much Australia-specific stuff there is there.
David sent more info about the 12yo RIAA target girl, with several parties offering to pay her fine. In fact, it seems she'll make a tidy profit from the experience.
Bored? Matex suggests: While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot. While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction. Heh, weird.
Still bored? Thetron says you should smear some yoghurt on your favourite CD.
Interesting Forum Threads:
Race to catch [H] less than 25,000 points now! in Team OCAU.
Modding a budget waterblock in Extreme Cooling.
Athlon64 Info in AMD Hardware.
Half-Life 2 Benchmarks in Video Cards.
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