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Agg's getting back at me for not doing the news this morning, so he's made me do it tonight. He said if I procrastinate anymore he'll whip me. I'm not sure if that was supposed to be encouragement or a deterrent, but anyway. On with the news!
First up is an article over on T3 about adultery and SMS.. who would of thought. Just a side-note, T3 is a pretty interesting pommie site to have a look around every now and then.. its a cut-down version of a print magazine that costs almost $20 in au.
Robert sent in a link to a company providing well made liquid cooled computer cases.. It's really worth having a look at, the clip on the waterblock looks pretty special, and the video card one doesnt look half bad either. A liquid cooled PSU and Hard Drive tho? eh.. maybe stretching it a bit far. If you could make a radiator without a fan tho.. you'd have one hell of a quiet system.
TheTechZone have reviewed the long-awaited game Tribes 2.. and when I say long awaited, I mean years, not months. Verrry long time. Good game luckily enough :)
IANAG are running a comp to give away 54 assorted goodies.. and once again, be the ever trained watchdog I am, I made sure that it's not one of those post-in-our-forum comps. Another contest is running over on TweakTown.. this time all you have to do is vote in their Case Mod's Gallery.. which they've added 10 more entries to.. kind of like our PCDB really.. except not.
ClubOverclocker sends word that the new IWill Dually P3 DDR Mobo, based on the Via Pro266 chipset, is now shipping. They've also got the scoop that it'll ship with a pair of Taisol hs/f units - for free. Free stuff is always good!
Doglet has informed me that you can now easily buy that neon string stuff easily in Australia.. from the epicentre of rice, none other than Hot-4's Magazine.. 'spose this is proof, case mods really ARE a form of rice.
Now onto the hardcore Japaneese stuff.. first of all theres a 1.33GHz AXIA (there go those village people again) T-Bird running at an astounding 2173MHz @ a FSB of 189MHz.. crazy stuff. Crazy benchmarks too.. coming very close to RDRAM scores without the latency the RAMBUS platform brings. You think thats crazy.. then have a look at this.. that's a multiplier unlocked P3 running at 252MHz FSB on a CUSL2.. that's a 190% overclock of the FSB - just simple madess. Finishing off the insanities with a big bang is this P4.. at 2.7GHz.. I don't think I could make the font big enough to convey just how insane I think this is. That's an overclock of 1GHz.. with the help of Liquid Nitrogen of course :)
If you havn't got enough madness just yet, ZZZ Online Number 78 is out.. seems to be madness central here at OCAU tonight..
If you're looking to get rid of the madness with a bit of LAN action and you live in the S-E Queensland Area, GameServe is holding an ANZAC LAN at the Gold Coast International Hotel Ballroom - swiishhhh.. what a venue for a LAN :).. anyway, its on the 12-13th of May, and it's only $25 to get yourself two solid days of fragging.. I'm seriously thinking about going :)
Everything USB has info about a 100Mbit USB network card.. no great news to me, I'm using an o@h one right here.. the funny thing is tho, that 100Mbit network speeds are faster than the theoretical maximum of the whole USB format.. whoop de doo. Other on the USB front is that it appears that the US Army is now using USB technology in their Land Warrior project. I think that goes along with what I heard about them using NT4 in a submarine somewhere.. maybe all that's needed to win a war these days is a copy of winnuke.exe ?
Interesting interview with Steve Jobs, of Apple fame, over on the Sydney Morning Herald.. and, whilst pretty much all of us have gone down the Wintel path (or laybe AMDux ?), it's still interesting to find out what the competition is upto.. and with Apple doing everything themselves inhouse, it makes it all the more interesting.
Reviews:
KT7A-RAID on Tech-Report here.
Samsung Syncmaster 753DF 17" Flatscreen Montior on Madness PC here.
KyroII Preview on HardCoreWare here.
Visiontek GF2GTS on AcidHardware here.
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