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The RAMBUS-vs-Infineon trial has taken a sudden turn away from RAMBUS's favour (awww) - as reported on TheEnquirer and TheRegister, the presiding Judge has dismissed all but 3 of the 57 claimed patent infringements, thanks Sniper770.
VooDoo points out this interesing RAM info page by Mushkin - check especially the "Why is my computer unstable?" section. Another useful page is here at Realtime Systems.
Japanese mad lad Bunny has been hard at work, posting today his Athlon 1333 @ 2175MHz (click the centre-top link, "(English)" on that page). Of course, this is no air-cooled namby-pamby project, this is a stonking great bucket of liquid nitrogen. Like to see you dragging THAT along to a LAN party. :)
In a similar vein, VR-Zone have a gallery of AXIA overclocks. Some impressive WCPUID shots for sure, but since the Speed Cheet Affects Benchmarks article I'm finding it hard to get excited about these kinda things.. hmm.
If you're after a different kind of grunt, consider the Unisys E7000 server - info here and here. 32-processor Xeon box with 32GB of ram and 88 available PCI slots.. that should run Linux nicely. :) Thanks Ben.
Kinda offtopic but an interesting article, TE interviewed some flightsim guys who converted to CS. I used to be a big Falcon 3.0 player on the Amiga and found that the mechanics of a close "turning fight" dogfight are very similar to a deathmatch-type battle of the Doom/Duke or Quake1 era. One less dimension in Doom/Duke of course and more interaction with your environment, but in many ways you're solving the same problems of maintaining the advantage over your opponent, predicting his maneuvres etc. Interesting to read in this interview how they found the teamwork/strategy applies across the different games as well.
Eddie went along to the Consumer Electronics Show in Sydney recently and put up a few pics of the event. He says it was "ok".. :)
Eski points out these IDE to SCSI converters which allow the integration of IDE storage devices into a SCSI environment.. neato.
VIAHardware have an article on Windows XP Hardware Compatability. Also, hardware detection has become much more intelligent, with the majority of driver installation happening in the background. Users who perform a motherboard swap will be simply amazed, as XP boots up and installs the proper drivers without any intervention, or any real interference with the user's computing.
Reviews:
Sanyo CRD-BP1500P 24x10x40x CDRW on CDRInfo.
Rounded ATA-100 Cables on OCAddiction.. our cheapy version here.
Philips Acoustic Edge soundcard on VYW.
AOpen AK73 Pro (A) KT133A socketA mobo on BlueSmoke.
Taisol CGK 742092 socket cooler on ChillBlast.
Gigabyte GF3000 GeForce3 video card on Electic.
Siemens ID Mouse thumbprint-reading mouse on PCStats.
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