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Well, here's part #2, as promised...
Alot of people pointed out to me that the Hard OCP Shower-Head thing I linked to was also on Overclockers.com (no relation to OCAU).. where they get all technical and actually use the correct term for a device like that.. a water tower!
Well, the GeForce3 is going to be hitting the retail market soon, so you're going to be seeing *ALOT* more reviews of it.. as if the 20-odd we've already seen arn't enough.. still, more reviews mean more viewpoints.. and if theres, say, 50 reviews - not all of them can be written by someone under nVidia's thumb can they? CAN THEY? (Tech-Zone has their review here).
The Overclocker Cafe has pitted Artic Silver Adhesive up against Frag tape in a battle to the end.. its pretty obvious which one will win, but the catch with Artic Silver is that you can't get the damn stuff off.. making it hard to return your card if it breaks (for some totally unrelated reason of course).
Hypothermia, as always, are giving away lots of free stuff in the easy-as-pie send-us-an-email-and-your-in-the-draw competition.. This time it's a *complete* water cooling kit from Overclockers Hideout.. good-o.
Tech-Planet are doing the timewarp thing and reviewing an Alpha PAL6035 (no, they're not doing the nutbush dance).. a pretty old but still really decent performing heatsink.. They've come down in price quite a bit over the last couple of months, so might be worth looking at.
Digital-Science has joined in the AMD Tech Tour.. basically a heap of AMD guys touring 'round the country (the USA, not Aus :() showing off AMD's wares. Pretty interesting read in itself.. but what *really* seals it is the confirmation of Dual Duron's.. YES- Durons will work in SMP (according to this article).. and from that I'm assuming that there will be a couple of *cheaper* 760MP mobos to use them in as well.. I can't wait!
PCExtremes has reviewed and benchmarked the nVidia Det's 12.0, for those that want to be on the cutting edge.. Speaking of the cutting edge, best reasons why you'd want to run a leaked beta of pre-release MS software was 'So you can get used to dealing with the bugs in tomorrows software', from Greg.. putting a positive spin on that reason however, was Scot, an IT professional who said he want's to get a grip on the software before his (l)user's start playing around with it.
MikhailTech have reviewed a copper heatsink radiator thing. Hard to describe, but it looks bloody awesome.. kind of like those Kendon things, but made out of copper. If CPU's keep on hotting up I beleive designs like this are the next step up from todays lots-of-fins-and-a-fan heatsink designs.. so let's hope Athlon stays on the market long enough for some killer designs like this to mature, so we're left with awesome cooling solutions for when Palamino and other 'cooler' designs come onto the market.
Thanks to John, who pointed out this article over on ZDNet.UK talking about a precedent set in a US court to back free speech on the web. Short and curlies of it is a federal US judge has ruled in favour of anonymous free speech online, and defended peoples rights to do so without implicating the owner of where they're posting in a great mess. Why is Australia so backwards? *sigh*
ElecticTech has reviewed a HP Omnibook 6000, a 900MHz lappy. Looks to be a pretty killer rig if your a road warrior or something like that.. nothing like some of the 'portable' systems people have been building themselves of late however.
ViaHardware has reviewed the Shuttle FV24, Via PL133-based mobo.. and it is absoltutley tiny! How small? Well.. marginally longer than a pair of DIMM slots.. can anyone say 'car mp3 player' ?
VooDoo pointed this out to me on IRC.. a pretty amusing version of YMCA with AXIA words instead. Very good work funkychild.. got me laughing :)
Guru3D has two bits of nVidia Geforce news.. first off is a review of a 32Mb GeForce PRO.. don't think I've seen one of these reviewed yet. Looks good.. second of all is what they claim to be the first pictures of the retail-boxes Hercules Prophet III, Geforce3 card..
PCReview want you to register and post in their forums just so you can win a crappy Intel internal modem. Hah! 'sif.
EverythingUSB has compiled a list of the top 30 most popular USB products on the market. Whoop-de-do-da!
Finally today, PCStats has looked at a Voice Pen. Why can't the bloody digital future inventors leave already working things alone. I know how a pen works, and I don't need one that talks to me. Or one that listens to me either. A pen that writes stuff, as it should, is fine. Thankyou :)
Reviews:
P4 1.7GHz goes Chip-to-Chip with a 1.33GHz Athlon on X-Bit Labs.
KT7A-RAID reviewed on PCHardware.RO.
BlueOrb reviewed on CydroTech.
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