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Sunday Morning (2 Comments) (link)
 Sunday, 16-May-2004  11:29:22 (GMT +10) - by Agg

Scientists claim that a long-buried formation off the west coast of Australia might be a crater from a meteorite that caused the biggest mass extinction in the history of the earth. This has sparked a lot of debate - more info here.

PCPerspective compared the GeForce 6800 and Radeon X800 in terms of image quality and CPU scaling. They also took a look at the newly announced technology from Alienware called X2, that allows future Alienware machines to use multiple PCI Express graphics cards to share the work load of high resolution gaming.

PCUnleash have a Mac G4/G5 hybrid custom case project, while a Bit-Tech reader has made a wooden case.

Dan has less letters than usual. Admittedly, they're quite long, but it's a step in the right direction.

TrustedReviews compared two 22" CRT monitors, while Sudhian look at three products to cool your A64 CPU.

The American FCC has approved a plan to use vacant TV channels to carry high-speed internet. Presumably you'd use a modem for the upload channel.

The X-Prize contest continues to be interesting, with an entrant setting a new altitude record for a privately-funded aircraft: 211,400 feet, or about 41 miles above the earth. Not quite to the official boundary of space, but not far off it.

This quote made me laugh.

SkyMaster noticed that Sun and Microsoft have agreed to cooperate in future.

HWZone Israel compared ten 500MHz DDR dual-channel memory kits, from OCZ, Kingston, Corsair, Mushkin and ADATA.

The other HWZone interviewed Robert Holleran from Hitachi Global Storage Tech, who bought much of IBM's hard drive business last year. ViperLair meanwhile talked to Dan Snyder from Intel, about overclocking and upcoming technologies.



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