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Saturday Afternoon
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Saturday, 5-May-2001 16:26:07 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Headed over to Fairfield Markets today. You forget how many people there are out there until you go to a big place like that and see them all milling around.. picked up some new boots, some airhorns for my bike (heh heh) and some other stuff. Not a bad way to spend the morning..
An important thing going on at the moment is the FireFighters Strike. One of my good friends is a firefighter and as he explained his situation (and that of his wife) to me it's pretty grim. For such a high-risk job, for there to be any doubt about death or disability benefits is just crazy. Plenty of info on that page.
OCWB have a screenshot gallery from "AMD N-Bench". Not sure what that is, although it rings a bell.. I'm guessing a new benchmark from AMD. :) Looks good.
VR-Zone found that their GF3 overclocked better on a P4 system than a Thunderbird system. A score of 7619 in 3DMark2001 is mind-wobbling.
LostUniverse have a step-by-step guide to fixing the sound cutoff bug experienced by Vortex2 soundcards run under Windows2000 (especially on a VIA chipset motherboard).
FiringSquad have a 4000-word Windows XP Preview. MicroSoft are saying XP is a fundamental change, it's as big a deal as Win95 was over Win3.1. But guys, we're only just getting used to Win2K! :)
Daily Radar, gaming news site has gone, another victim of (as they put it) the collapse of the Internet souffle. Diablo2.com are temporarily down according to their page, but if you believe the Wednesday post on BAMF it's more than just a simple redesign. I really wonder what the net will be like in a year or so now, all controlled by BigCorp's with lotsa money and lotsa lawyers? Certainly doesn't seem to be much fun for the little guys at the moment..
Seems Intel and AMD are not totally at war despite competing pretty vigorously for market space - they've renewed their agreement to exchange technology for at least the next 10 years. In 10 years time I expect to be floating in a vat with a high-speed net connection directly into my brain. Brings new meaning to the terms virus, reboot, blue screen of death etc tho..
Along those lines (well, maybe not), GU wonder if technology is moving too fast. I'm sure there are people out there who NEED 1.7GHz PC's, but this Duron 700MHz seems plenty fast enough for everything I do. So much so that I've not even gotten around to overclocking it yet.. oh, the shame. :)
Kyrre from Norway sent word of his watercooling project. Quite a neat little system..
Speaking of which, OCMOD have a guide to increasing flow rate in your watercooled rig. I found that the radiator can make a massive difference in my cool-computers radiator review.
VIAHW have a 7-way SocketA motherboard shootout happening.
MicroSoft have attacked open source again, saying it's insecure and a threat to the economy. Riiiight.
PCStats checked out the AOpen HX08 Fulltower case. These things have been around forever and are still really popular. I bought mine 2 years ago and you still see them being the basis of many a case mod. In the PC Database a quick search by case for HX-08 or HX08 reveals nearly 100.. some tricked-out ones by dmband, under-the-influence and of course DrR0M.
Reviews:
Asus V7700 Pure GeForce2 GTS video card on VCD.
Hercules 3D Prophet II MX and GTS video cards on Digit-Life.
Thermaltake Chrome Orb socket cooler on Electic, thanks KyocEr@~*.
QDrive USB HDD on IPKonfig.
Video Excel GeForce2 MX video card on PCFaction.
PixelView GeForce3 video card on DansData.
ThermalTake Volcano II socket cooler on TweakTown.
Neng Tyi KA01 socket cooler on Cool HardWarez.
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