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I've just been reading Steve Gibson's DDoS article, and I must say it's a fairly interesting read. I've messed around with the type of trojans he talks about, mainly on an educational level. It's not really viable to "flood" people from Australian 56k modems. I know a few people that have participated in that sort of behaviour, and it's not as underground as he makes it out to be. It's just unknown. Anyway, go and have a read if you havn't already (I think it's been linked twice), but take it with a few large grains of salt. It's not as "underground" or as organised as he says.
QGL is over, and I didn't get to go. Boo hoo hoo. I know (for sure) that I missed out on some killer gaming, but I'll live. Someone I know also came home with a GeForce3.. what a bum. Anyway, expect more qgl info to flow over the next few days.
OCForce have got the first genuine Palomino/760MP benchies. Or so they say. ]-[ellfir, the OCF webmaster is a regular in the #overclockers IRC channel, so I don't really have much reason to doubt him. Just seems a bit inconclusive, thats all. They're impressive tho.
AwareMag have reviewed a DLink Gigabit NIC and switch. VooDoo (who's on his way to computex atm, the bum) took some gigabit gear to QGL to give it a test under some "real world" conditions. Sabretooth took a photo of the card in question, and it's a fairly hefty beast - runs so hot it needs heatsinks. As you can see from this screenshot, it was put through some fairly serious testing.
Overclocking Opolis claim to be the newest overclocking website on the scene, and I think they also take the cake for the biggest mailout list as well. They've reviewed the AXIA "Y" stepping CPU, and they have a Raedon cooling guide up as well. Interestingly enough, a new Athlon stepping is also out - AYHJA. Dosn't really have the same ring to it as AXIA. It's only in the 1.33GHz parts at the moment, but it's also rumored to be a fairly decent overclocker.
IANAG has taken a bit of a look at what's happening on the SMP front, both from Intel and AMD. SMP is going to be getting muuuch bigger next week as well. Why? Well - The release of the 760MP chipset in the form of the Tyan Thunder K7 board, as well as the release of the Palomino server cores to go with it. Can't wait to read about it.
Digit-Life has a fairly interesting article up about cooler testing strategies. We've seen quite a few methods for testing heatsinks lately, ranging from our use-it-normally method, to Dan's use-a-resistor-on-a-big-bit-of-metal method, with peltier methods and other refined motherboard methods everywhere in between. Whilst I don't really think the actual testing method matters so as it being repeatable. The actual temperatures don't matter as much as the temperature differences. Which is why there is no point comparing a review of heatsink a on site b with a review of heatsink c on site d.
CaseJunkiez has reviewed a Thermalright SK6, a fairly decent looking solid-copper cooler. It follows the strap-a-delta-fan-on-it methology which I'm starting to get fairly sick of (I've got a pair of Sunon 4,900rpm 80mm's irking me), but if you can put up with it the performance is definitely there.
Chillblast has reviewed the Silverado cooler from a mob in Germany. I havn't seen a review of one of these before.. it's got a "blowing device" on top of it that can only be described as a turbine "thing". They reckon it's quiet too, which makes a good change from the Delta madness. If you don't mind delta madness tho, see above.
If you have any files stored on MySpace now might be the time to get them off.. Xixys sends word that they are closing. Like, very very soon. In an hour or so I think. Heh. Better hurry.
Stasis pointed out this pic from QGL in #overclockers on IRC. Why is it on the news? Well, it's showing some of the computers from the PCDB in action. TuNeS' box to be precise. Fairly decent looking thing too.
OCcafe is giving stuff away. None of it looks overly superly stupendous, but then, it's free. Live with it.
Well, Microsoft has launched OfficeXP officially, and FutureLooks has the scoop. I say "oficially", because there have been leaked final copies on FTP's and the streets of numerous Asian cities for easily the past three months. Pretty poor form when it takes that long to get into boxes and onto shelves.
Reviews: Skyhawk Aliminium Case on G3D. Our review of a similar model here. CoolerGuys CoolShim V2 on ClubOC. Gigabyte GA-8TX i850 P4 Motherboard on Anandtech. Romtec Trios HDD Selector on ClubOC. Thermaltake Cooling Roundup on Overclocker Cafe. Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM on Inside-Hardware. Senfu Therman Probe on 8balls Hardware.
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