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With the nVidia's release of the nvSystemUtility, Drayzen sent in this link to an interview with Scott Baker, nVidia's senior product manager for its nForce business unit, about overclocking and how he expects the nvSystemUtility to change the universe of chip crankers.
This from Kasi. "I know that application benchmarks are supposed to more accurately reflect real world hard disk performance. However many people, even review sites, still like to use HD Tach as a way to compare performance. Anyway there is a new version, 2.70 released which will work on Windows XP and Windows 2000 for read testing without needing to be registered". You can find it here.
In the power supply arena, there is often very little separating one generic grey box from another. G3D found two PSUs that are not plain grey boxes and put them head to head. The Silverstone ST360 up against the Kingwin KWI-450WABK. Full article here. Meanwhile, HardwareZoom have put a pair of scanners against each other. The Canon CanoScan LiDE30 vs Epson Perfection 1260 scanner shootout.
Pelts for the People: WHAT'S BEYOND WATER COOLING?. Thats the title of a new article over at The Mod Fathers. If you are thinking of playing around with extreme cooling for your CPU/GPU, this article is for you. You could also have a browse through our own Extreme Cooling forum for Cathar's thread detailing his Experiments in peltier-based water-chilling. Cool!
SFFTech check out the range of SFF (small form factor) PCs at a recent Computex. Some small, not so small, quiet, noisy, some ugly, and everything in between.
In the less extreme area of watercooling, Viper Lair have revised their Wet and Chilly Chips Water Cooling System.
A Brisbane teenager has been arrested after allegedly hacking into an Australian ISP. For some reason, I don't feel sorry for him. Thanks neXus.
We've posted this before but it's still funny so we'll post it again. Its a 3.2Mb video of an Apple Mac parody. "Mac, killed my inner child!" Thanks Rob.
Another day, another Windows Virus. Patch time again. Thanks Dink.
Some more info on the release of Linux Kernel 2.6. From ludeking.
How about a full featured computer that fits in your pocket. Well you might have to save up a bit longer but they going to be available soon.
Blood! We all need it, but Eddie tells me that blood stocks in Sydney are down to about one days worth. I don't think things are much better in any of the other city's in Australia. If you can find the twenty minutes it takes, why not consider donating blood. All the info you need on how to go about this can be found on the Australian Red Cross website or by calling 13 14 95. Give it some thought. You won't miss a litre or so.
Who remembers the game "Prince Of Persia"? Oh...the hours I spent on that one. Well, thanks to LoneWolf, thats what you get for todays flash timewaster. Get it here.
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