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(link) Monday, 18-June-2001 13:19:24 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Digit-Life have checked out a few Maxtor HDD's.
Interesting idea on OCNZ, using a socket cooler as a radiator in a water-cooling system. At first I scoffed at this, at the obvious drop in efficiency (ie, it'd be more efficient to just stick the cooler on the CPU) .. but if you think about it, you could run the lines outside the case and have the cooler running in ambient air.. or even stick a cooler on either side of the second waterblock. Hmm! Food for thought, anyway.
Wired have an article on the future of toys..
CHW have a guide to using thin tubing to control your wires.. can't see much use for the way they use it, but their same technique used on 10mm fishtank tubing around an IDE cable might be a goer.
Ever keen on saving space (including inside their refrigerators), the Japanese have come up with square watermelons, thanks Tigger.
Deejay points out this list of Post-SP2 Win2K Hotfixes.. we've linked to it before, but it's useful if you're supporting 2K boxen.
Brett sends word of a petition about the Panther XL Pro.. rumour is the manufacturer is moving away from the PC market to concentrate on consoles. If you want to show your interest in their sticking with the PC market, go sign.
ExtremeTech have a thing on nVidia Crush, thanks Electoad.
The BB Gatling Gun page has been updated with a new model and some videos, thanks DF.
ComputerChaos compared the 12.41 and 12.42 detonators..
RedHerring have an article about gaming cheats from the vendors perspective, thanks Tigger. Might be time for a reminder that the speed cheat affects benchmarks too.
Apparently this site has some BMW car-promotion videos, some of which are pretty cool, thanks Herbo.
It's Monday, and your new issue of ZZZ Online is full of stuff like laser lawnmower with Internet access..
From Denis: This doesn't really qualify as news, but I have just completed two months' worth of trying to get my new Athlon 1.3G system working, and have finally diagnosed what the problem has been all along - the Via AGP drivers!!!
After trying two different motherboards, two different 2940UW SCSI cards, upgrading the video card, upgrading the power supply, replacing IDE hard disks with SCSI, removing the sound card, using four different motherboard BIOSes, multiple different combinations of BIOS settings, and reinstalling Windows 2000 half a dozen times ... it now works perfectly provided I don't use the Via AGP Drivers from the Via 4in1 set (4.29 or 4.31).
Without the Via AGP drivers - 1. It doesn't hang randomly and constantly.
2. 3dmark2001 benchmarks display nice and smoothly rather than with the 'jerky' motion that was prevalent with the Via AGP drivers.
Reviews: Swiftech MC462 socket cooler on OCrCafe. FrontX Multimedia Ports (updated) on 8Balls. Our review here. Zalman CNPS 5000-Plus socket cooler on OCShoot. Zalman CNPS3100 socket cooler on ARP.
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