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Just been playing Armagetron. It's fairly cool. Graphics arnt exactly real-life, but thats not the point. It's fun. Anyway, playing it from home.. couldn't get to QGL which is a bit of a shame.. maybe next time. Maybe tommorrow if someone wants to give me a lift. HAH. Anyway.. here's the news.
GazG pointed out this heatsink lapping article - it's pretty good, and pretty usefull, and pretty similar to Agg's ancient guide to lapping PPGA celerons.
elvis pointed out this pretty cool arcade machine thing-o. A student found a discarded arcade machine frame sitting beside the road and "updated" it with a Linux/MAME combo, a 15" monitor and a pair of 8" subs. Looks to be pretty well done, good for parties :) Nice work.
If you're looking to build a divx box for your TV, or a pc-based MP3 player or something along those lines, maybe a hifi look alike case might be what you're after. They look pretty decent, but it's in German. Which means the cases are in Germany. If they had stock. Which they don't.
I found some pics n stuff of the upcomming Intel i860 mainboards for the Xeon "foster" processor. They look pretty hardcore. The pics are from an Australian Distributor, so they're obviously not far off. Also on Intel, I discovered that they sell computer cases. Pretty decent server ones.
Rizenet has reviewed a Tweakbox Liquid Neon Light. Neon's look cool. I don't really seem to be in the ranty mood tonight sorry. Dunno why. Computer is irking me. It's not working properly. I want to hit it.
MSI has released a nVidia crush based motherboard. No word on performance yet, but it seems to have it in spades from the specs. Apparently the chipset is going to be called nForce and there'll be four different versions of it aimed at different market segments. The range topper, the 420-D sports dual channel DDR RAM support and onboard Dolby 5.1 decoding. All of them feature an onboard version of the GF2MX core dubbed GF2MX "Plus", reportedly as fast as a GTS. The MSI board is a mATX layout with 3 PCI, 1 ACR and 1 AGP. Usual 2 IDE channels and a floppy controller. Tweaktown have a blurb up (thanks elvis), and InsaneHardware have a decent one up as well. No doubt there are a heap more around the web as well.
OCWB have a blurb up on their news page about the new cD0 stepping for P3 processors. Nothing overly ground shattering, changes are similar to move from cB0 to cC0. The thing that catches my mind about that was the decent overclockability of the cC0 celerons.. They went pretty hard. I wonder what these cD0 P3's go like. Apparently they come with an Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS) a-la K6-2 style, but I've yet to see pictures of it. They also require a BIOS upgrade.
Frostytech have reviewed a new Zalman Heatsink - but it's not a "flower" one. Instead this "CNPS-5000 Plus" uses a smaller design with an integrated fan. Dosn't look much at all like the original Zalman's.. looks more like an orb. Sort of. It's orb-ish. Well, it's unique, like all Zalman hs/f's have been so far.
Anandtech have paid a visit to the Hong Kong Computer Expo.. a sort of low-key pre-computex event. What's most interesting are all the slim-profile PC's which are pretty much mandatory in a space-strapped honkers. No HX08's for them.
ClubOC appear to of got their hands in a few DDR pies reviewing the first of seven socket-a DDR boards they intend on, ah, reviewing. It's an ALi-based board, so I'm suprised to hear they reckon it has kick ass memory performance. I shouldn't really, as DDR is such an immature platform, but ALi hasn't made the best showing of itself in chipsets lately.
LiamC has written up a decent article examing the performance differences of various hard drives under the Winstone benchmarking software. Apparently it's quite a bit. Winstone isn't that prominent in the Overclocking benchmark scene, but alot of the popular print mags rely on it quite heavily.
ChicksHardware has looked at the Blizard 360 pre-modded ATX case. Why 360? Well.. 3x120mm fans=360. Not only that, but 3x120mm fans = alot of cooling power. Finally, 3x120mm fans = alot of noise.
Finally tonight, Apache.org was hacked. Yes, Apache of the we-serve-up-the-majority-of-web-pages-on-the-net-today-including-ocau fame. Not really sure what to say about that, but it's sure suprising. No doubt similar occurances have happened to their competitors (IIS for example), but being the nice GNU people they are they've been honest about it and told us exactly what happened. Still suprising tho.
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