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Exams are nearly over and holidays are approaching which is good. Thanks to all those people who sent in vortex2 suggestions, I'm going to try them all tommorrow and I'll be sure to let you know how it works out.
Someone pointed this out to me as a prime reason why there is a cap on the Telstra BPA services now.. some quick and dirty 1am maths suggests to me that is 18k/s constant downloading nonstop over a 1 month period. HAH. Sounds like the dingoblue days. Theres also an old-ish article on AustrainIT talking about users getting their Installation Fee refunded.. cool - thanks Frank.
Hmm.. chillblast have been into the moonshine again. They want me to do their news post in pirate style.. I'm not too sure about them. Anyway, they've reviewed an Akasa Silver Mountain - which sort of sounds like something you'd see in a Japanese roadmap, but it's actually a solid copper hs/f thats silver plated. I'm pretty sure that silver dissipates heat more effectivley into the environment than copper, so there is some merrit in this, but I'd imagine it to be miniscule..
Mikhailtech have a sort of budget buyers guide for overclocking gear. Explains what all the trick overclocking things are and what benefit they bring. Good for newbies.
Bit-Tech have a blow-by-blow photo-by-photo guide to some case modding they recently performed. Fun for all you modem people, and any Telstra users trying to see what 3gb month feels like.
Yet another guide for newbies:- this time how to change a video card, psycho style. S'not in english, but it dosn't really matter - the angle grinder says it all. Thanks to eddie for this highly amusing link.
The coloured PCB craze is starting to spread.. ABIT has moved on from the aqua-ish KT7E to an i815e board thats white. Looks.. weird, almost not-real. Cool tho.
WildAndyC has Intel's latest roadmap up, and the dissapointing news comes with the Tualatin not being able to be used in SMP, as reported here on the Inq.
HardwareOne has looked at a device called a Bit88 that claims to improve sound quality. And supposedly really does. I'd be interested to see inside it tho..
YYK is a bit concerned as to what the world is comming to when the cookie monster becomes the victim of physical attack. Makes me wonder too..
The Guru of 3D has been busy doing a bit of detonator benching, and have in fact started a database benching all the drivers on the basis of speed. 8.03 and 12.90 get the rundown this time. They also have pics of the upcomming Creative GF3 card.
Eeep - this is not good news. According to this article on Tech Report, GamePC experienced trouble using Thunderbirds in SMP on a 760MP board. Baaad.
Finally tonight, some factory overclocked madness for you. Vapochill, in associations with Asus and AMD are now selling a 1.82GHz Athlon system.. vapour cooled of course.
Reviews:
Enermax Temperature Monitoring Driverack on 8Balls.
Sonigistics Monsoon MM2000 Speakers on Neoseeker.
OCZ Gladiator on TweakTown. 10/10 = not bad.
Vantec Ultimate HDD Cooler on SystemLogic, ours here.
OCZ Titan II MX400 on PCStats.
Asus 8200 Pure GF3 on IANAG.
ThermoEngine V60-4225 on GideonTech
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