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Saturday, 16-December-2000 23:00:32 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Tshirts are "sampling" early next week. So it seems unlikely we'll be getting them by Christmas.
I just got warned via a group email to a bunch of people I ride with, that there have been a few deaths/injuries on the Old Road (I'm presuming this is the Old Pacific Highway, north of Sydney) in the last couple of days, so it'll be a cop blitz area for the next few weeks no doubt. So take it easy, cars and bikes alike.
Thanks to Hellfire, we now have thread hit counts working in the forums. This new column on the right side of the thread listing in each forum lets you see how many times each thread has been viewed. The counts started from about midnight last night I think..
While on the forums, people are expressing their thoughts about the big news of 3DFX being bought by NVIDIA here in the general forum. It shows how badly consumers have been treated in similar situations in the past, that we automatically presume a monopoly or near-monopoly will be abused to the detriment of the consumers. We'll have to see how NVIDIA behave in the marketplace once they totally dominate it.
Alchemy pointed out that apparently the A7V and A7-Pro are not approved for the Duron 800MHz. 750 is ok, but 800 is not. Actually that's an interesting page, quite a few boards don't have the 800MHz part listed. Whether that means there's an issue or they just haven't been tested, I'm not sure..
Speaking of 800MHz, I notice on Akiba that 800MHz / 100MHz FSB Celeron II's are hitting the market there. I swear there's some kind of temporal distortion around that marketplace, have Intel even announced these chips yet?
Apparently there's a new bios for the KT7 out. UPDATE: Don't do it, kids! Apparently they fry your mobo. Thanks alchemy.
Some people call it cable rounding. Some call it cable wrapping. Some call it cable stacking. Only the CaseJunkiez would call it "Stealth Wiring".. actually not a bad guide - the finished product looks good and improves airflow, what more could you want?
Wondering what to spend that pesky, yet huge pile of USD$100 bills in the middle of your living room floor? TheTechZone have a guide to some mind-wobblingly expensive Christmas geek gifts. I'll take the laser lawnmower, thanks.
..or, now that they're available in lots of pretty colours other than pink, you could buy me one of those "sweet kiss" Aopen motherboards.. and I could kill you, slowly, with my new laser lawnmower. Thanks Dave.
After forking out for any of those geek gifts, you'll need to use a budget system guide to get your next PC, lucky for you Tech-Planet have a new one..
I spent all day benchmarking video cards. I'm starting to see those red trenchcoated guys from 3DMark2000 walking around my house out of the corner of my eye. :) Hope to have my review of the Creative Labs GeForce2 Ultra posted Monday morning. About 8 things in the review queue after that, too..
Reviews:
Soltek SL75KAV-X KT133A mobo on OCWB. Can't wait to see my first 133MHz-FSB Tbird system.
Leadtek WinFast GeForce2 Ultra video card on Digit-Life.
Abit SA6R i815E-based mobo on BXBoards.
in Adrian's Rojak Pot.
fUnc 1030 mouse surface on Max3D.
MSI StarForce Intergalactic Runabout on PlanetGeForce. Or maybe it's just a video card.
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