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Wednesday The 13th.. Da da daaa~!@#
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(link) Wednesday, 13-June-2001 01:52:45 (GMT +10) - by alchemy
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Fwoar, alot of news tonight. And I'm supposed to be up on time to go out and do Real Cool Stuff. Heh. Might be a bit quick, but I know that some of you like it rough :)
NEC has teamed up with nVidia to make a Jumbo 61" Plasma Display monitor. Jumbo indeed, 61" is pretty big.
HaRm wrote in thinking he found a world first.. but I'm sorry dude, I'm going to have to cut you down. He found 300MHz DDR RAM on Samsung's webpage.. but I'm afraid that Corsair already make this stuff.. they follow the DDR naming conventions and call it PC2400.
DarthStrike thought he'd tell us why he didn't make it to a recent LAN in townsville.. he hit a roo! Heh, pretty bad damage as well. Incidently, this isn't the first roo to interfere with an OCAU-reader's lanning activities.. I remember a while ago VooDoo hit a roo in his commo on a trip down to MPU.. not only did it damage is car, his HX-08 case flew through his car and took out his windscreen. Heh. It's in the news archives ~somewhere~ if you're interested.
MrPC Pro is giving away a motherboard a week.. for how many weeks, I dont know. Not sure about how good the boards are either, but eh. Free. Post in our Forum bad tho.
Speedguide have a pretty decent article up about sattelite internet.. which would be a killer technology in Australia if the people would let it. There is already one-way sat, but it is pretty expensive.. and verrrrrry laggy. Both-directions (can't think of right word atm) sat would be better.. but it's even pricier than the already pricey one-way stuff. There also microwave both-way Internet in existance (chello), but that's been hampered by high price, limited coverage and restricted usage (ie. not always-on). Oh well. Maybe soon.
Chillblast have been drinking the rubbing alcohol they use to remove artic silver from heatsinks, and they've made up this big comparitive graph of all their heatsink tests. Heh.. productive little drunks arnt they?
Just when you thought 20gb/platter was pretty neat, Seagate come along and scoff at you and deliver a 40gb/platter drive. That's 32.6Gbits/square inch folks. Pretty high density if you ask me.
FutureLooks has reviewed the Visor Edge, a Handspring PDA. For those that don't know, Handspring make Palm-Pilot clone PDA's that run the same OS. And like the Mac clones before them they are pretty good.. so I wonder if 3COM will do an Apple and close em down when they get successful?
If you're still hunting for Aliens with TeamOCAU, Myrddin points out that you can check the stats here when the normal stats server is down. Cool.
OCWorkbench have Day 3 coverage of Computex up.. AOpen and FIC get the photos this time.
Hmm, this suprised me a little bit.. DFI, a small mostly value-based Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer has an AMD 761-based board out.. never knew that. Anyway, PC Hardware.ro has reviewed it for all to see.. should be nice and easy on the wallet too, knowing DFI.
Finally tonight, CaseJunkiez is taking case ricing, err.. modding (sorry guys) to a new level with Glowwire. Wire that glows. Looks pretty cool tho, I must admit.
Just a side note.. Manaz is going to be taking care of the news for the next few posts.. both Agg and myself are going to busy for the next few days. So be gentle. Even tho he's been doing it for longer than me :)
Reviews: Thermaltake Memory Cooling Kit on Max3D. GW WBK-38 on Icrontic. DigiDoc 5 on AwareMag. Thermaltake Copper Orb on Neoseeker. Thermaltake Chrome Orb on PC-Critic.
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