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My old MX300 Aureal Vortex2 sound card died last week. I was pretty annoyed with that and I still beleive they're better than the SBLives. Anyway, went and bought a new card today (SBLive), got it home, and it's defective. Hrm. Why do I get the feeling someone dosn't like me listening to MP3's?
The Computex coverage seems to be a bit dry at the moment. Bit odd.. only thing I can find is Via Hardware's coverage of the first day. Oh, and InsaneHardware's coverage of the female promotional staff. Big show this year.. nForce, 760MP, P4X266, i845, Northwood/Brookdale and most important of all, the Via balloons.
I was pretty curious as to who this mysterious "Accelenation" site was with the 760MP review last night.. turns out it's FullOn3D with a new name. Sounds pretty good. Anyway, they've got one of many reviews of the 1.4GHz Athlon CPU. It's still the Thunderbird core, so it's basically a case of same-core-different-clock. No suprises there.. anyway, reviews on Accelenation, Tech Report, CPUreview and Hexus. Finally, not to be left out Overclocking.DK reviewed a Duron 950MHz.
AMDmb has a bit of info up regarding some upcomming 760MP boards.. MSI has the K7D Master-LR in the pipes, Asus the A7M266-D and Gigabyte the GA-7DPXDW. Most notable to myself is the ABIT board, the WA-2A. Another BP6 maybe? Durons are definitely DP-capable, in fact AMD is said to have plans to have SMP Durons as a low-cost SMP alternative to Athlons. I really can't see ABIT producing a server-class motherboard, so it'll be interesting to see what comes of this. Also of note is the Tyan Tiger K7 motherboard - a Tyan 760MP board for the rest of us maybe?
Umm, I don't know what they've put in the water in Melbourne.. OCMelbourne have a guide to cleaning your ball mouse. Mmm. My MS Explorer mouse is buggered, and I rang up Harvey Norman about a warranty claim.. the "service assistant" asked if i'd cleaned it. I said no. He tersley suggested that all mice need cleaning.. So umm, yep. I got someone else on the phone at that point. Nice work mate.
It seems Netscape has finally given the game up, admitting to electic that they are no longer playing for the web browser crown. Ahr well. 3dfx, Aureal, Netscape.. almost everything that was top quality in 1996 seems to of gone belly up now. Sad thing is, they where actually good in their day.. and in retrospect still are. It's all bad management from the looks of things, which is a bit of a shame.
There definitely seems to be a bit of a bright-blue LED fetish among case modders at the moment.. If you don't seem to be able to restrain yourself to turning all the LED's on your tricked-out computer blue, how about the ones in your nokia phone? Only for the obsessed tho, as it's not an easy task. Thanks to TheDriver for the link.
Tigger pointed this out. Intel have shares in AMD. I am pretty damn suprised about that.
Alot of Telstra BPA Freedom users don't seem to be too happy with the 3Gb limit.. and I agree with them. You can do that amount of data in roughly 14hrs.. dosn't seem to be in line with the sort of bandwidth they are offering. Blue Draco pointed out this petition for BPAF users to sign if they don't agree.. it's apparently more effective than the other one we posted. If I was in your situation, I'd sign both. UPDATE: You can actually sign three, Sacrifice has made another one.
Not really overclocking (like half the stuff tonight) but nevertheless.. an NEC scientist in America has broken the speed of light.. which changes a whole heap of things in regard to the theory of relativity, and stuff. And you thought NEC just made televisions, HAH! Cheers to Wokket for the link.
Agg pointed out this wired article covering a survey that showed 25% of computer systems have been the victim of some sort of physical abuse. I don't find it at all suprising.. I've come close to kicking the crap out of this sound card..
Finally tonight, another one from Wokket - Bubblewrap Clothing. I thought this was fairly amusing in Dude! Wheres my Car?, but I didn't think there would be anything more to it than nerds in serch of some oracle thingy. Amusing tho.
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