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Hmm, not really that much in the newsbox this morning.. but I said I'd do the news, so here's the *ahem* news..
Top of the 'box today is a Globalwin FNP-50 review on ChunkyHardware. We've linked to it a bit late, because apparently the first 'revision' of the article had alot more mistakes in it.. Oh well, read the comments. Pretty amusing stuff.
DeeM@N has pointed me at Counter-Strike: The Movie.. and before you dismiss it another crap-but-amusing flash animation with sticks for characters, go over and watch the trailer. It's using real people in true-to-the-game costumes and all that.. looks awesome to me. Be even better if they could build a set around a popular cs map.
Overclocker's Online has looked at the Overclockers Hideout "Reactor" waterblock.. and the thing looks pretty damn 'borg.. it's got two fans on it, which um, blow air. At some really small heatsink fins.. really small. They *do* however, increase the borg look of the thing.
Eurogamer have Yet Another GeForce3 Review™.. but I don't seem to be able to get to it at the moment. Maybe everyones dying to get their 23rd review of the GF3? *shrug* I'm not sure. It's the Elsa Gladiac 920 card btw..
Chris Nolan has a bit of an update regarding the ide=>scsi converters in the previous post.. I'd like to point out that these protocol adaters only work in PIO or MW-DMA2 modes (< 16.6MB/s) on the IDE side, and only up to Ultra (20MB/s) on the SCSI side, so their application is a little limited. It seems to me that they'd only be useful if you've got an ALL scsi system with no PCI slots to add an IDE adaptor, and theres some data on an IDE drive that you simply -must- get at. They are pretty expensive too.. thanks for that Chris.
ComputerChaos has thrown a delta fan at the TT VolcanoII heatsink and updated their review.. Naturally it does drop the temperatures, but is it worth the noise for the temp drop? The graph they have just makes it harder to comprehend IMHO.
Finally, BennyK has let me know that a few aus retailers have already started passing on the yet-to-be-offically-announced AMD price cuts. Good to see.. Just a side note, I'm not going to link to the specefic retailer because it could easily lead to other retailers wanting us to post their price cuts as well.. and this isn't a Guess-Who-Just-Had-A-Price-Cut page.. so go find out who it is yourself. You might learn a few things :)
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