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Hmm, a few ranty things to say tonight.. and the first concerns the o@h problems alot of us have been experiencing.. they're fixed! (for now) Optus has decided to suspend the trial of FTP caching until they can fix all the problems users have been experiencing. Which is good. I'm all for a FTP proxy, 600k/s speeds are niiice. But it has to work. So thanks to optus for fixing the problem so speedily. Iceman let me know of a Whirlpool article about it, and I noticed the news in a post to the usenet group athome.announce.
Other ranty thing.. a new version of SecureCRT has been out for a while.. and it brings a neat little minimize-to-tray and tray activator thing-o. It's neat. I like it.
Final ranty thing.. I went to a computer auction today, and it was an interesting experience. At least 200 Pentium 100-200 systems w/monitors lined up on a table. Kind of like a lan in a way.. most of the popular things went for what I'd deem exhoribtant prices ($300 for a P200/48/3.2/15"), but then there where some bargains on stuff nobody wanted as well. Of note was an IBM Rack-Mount Server housing that me and a mate where seriously considering buying to use as a wadrobe.. only problem was getting it home. And a $16,000 2yo Digital Copier that went for $100. Insane. I solved my printer dilema and picked up an old laser for $30. It works, and I expect that when it ceases to work I'll bin it and get another one. My room definitley looks nerdy now. Lots of computer hardware. Yay or nay for me. Anyway, enuff of a rant, here is the news..
ViaHardware has cobbled together a custom bios for the KT7 series of boards. The ZT bios with the new Highpoint BIOS blended in, with ACPI disabling function to boot. One note of interest, the ACPI function is actually a part of the BIOS, but you need to modify the bios.bin file to enable selection. Often there are other tricky settings like this included in bios.bin files, but the option left out. Using a program like modbin6.exe you can have a look around and possibly enable selection of some hidden settings. Do all at your own risk however.
LittleWhiteDog is giving away a heap of AMD merchandise.. nothing terribly flash (no good hardware), just posters and stickers - that sort of thing. Cool if you're an AMD fan. Lucky for them it's just a send-us-an-email comp.
Matt has been doing a little bit of cooler testing on his own.. all pretty common units - a mini copper orb, fop32, Tt V2 and a cooler master jobbie.
FrostyTech has reviewed a Blizzard S370 Copper heatsink.. a bit out of the ordinary to see a review of a cooler designed for Socket 370 these days.. lots of AMD and not much Intel lately. Which is pretty fair.. Intel pretty much hit the core limit with the P3 series, so there isnt much more overclocking to be had. Tualatin however.. I'll be interested to see what it's like.
Neoseeker has reviewed a SMP P3 mobo with the works.. the IWill DVD266-R.. a Via DDR/Vlink board. Their site seems to be down right now tho.. so mmmmm.
CPUreview has taken an in-depth look at the Athlon 1.33GHz @ 133MHz FSB. It's pretty much what you'd expect of an Athlon. At 1.33GHz. With a 133MHz FSB. CPU reviews are pretty boring these days when the only thing that has changed is the clock speed.
Apparently someone was spreading rumors about FutureLooks being dead. I didn't see them. So I've got no idea. If you did see the rumors, they want you to know that they are not true, and they've reviewed an Epson Inkjet printer to prove it.
CaseJunkiez has reviewed a case. And it's about time.. I think this is their first one! It's just a cheap weird-name-brand one, but it has a few nifty features for the $65AUD pricetag.
Dan has an article up explaining which internet connection tweaks actually do something, and which actually do nothing. Some may even be *gasp* noticeable, which is pretty uncommon for connection tweaks. Probably worth the read if you're a games nut, or are trying to squeeze an extra few kb out of your modem.
AlexJ sent in this handy guide to upgrading your PC. With a shotgun. I'm sure there are a lot of us out there contemplating a little bit of shotgun therapy for PC's giving you the runs.. lucky for us we have totally restrictive gun laws preventing us from doing so!
RojakPot is definitley cutting edge. They've found out a way to overclock the Casio E-125 calcu.. PDA (thanks for letting me know). Overclocking a PDA.. madness. I wonder if you can overclock a cable modem. I know that you can unlock one.. hmm. That reminds me of another question I've had floating around for a while too. Does running an AGP/PCI card above it's rated bus speed bring any performance increase? This commonly happens by FSB overclocking and the lack of suitable AGP/PCI dividers. In some cases the AGP card can be running at 88MHz and above, thats 22MHz above spec, or a 33% overclock. Is there any performance difference? I don't know. And it'd be damn hard to quantify as well.. as a side effect of FSB overclocking is an increase in memory speed as well, which blurrs the performance increases. Maybe if you had a motherboard where you could manually select AGP/PCI dividers.. Hmm. Anyone know the answer? mail me.
BlargOC has looked at the Cybercooler P5500, a fairly seriously looked shrouded copper-dipped cooler with a heatpipe. Extremely serious looking in fact. Reminds me of another question that's been milling in my head as well.. where and for how much can you obtain those Kendon coolers commonly seen strapped to yet another extremely hardcore japanese overclock? Once again, if you know the answer, mail me.
Finally tonight, GamingIn3D have reviewed some fighting robots.. and they've also issued a challange to dan. I don't reckon they've got much of a chance.. compared to Dan's beasts, these little fellahs definitley look consumerish. Nothing up to the level of battlebots tho..
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