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(link) Saturday, 23-June-2001 12:17:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A heap of people sent in this link to a bizarre purple-plastic and smiley-face-encrusted version of AOpen's AX3SP Pro.. is it a joke or for real? I'd say probably real, it might do ok in the Japanese domestic market. No need to bother with a review sample for us tho, thanks AOpen. :) BTW, I disagree with Alchemy about that white one from yesterday too, I think it looks terrible. :)
You might remember one of the niggles from our Epox 8KTA3 review was the somewhat fiddly approach to FSB setting. Walkinshaw says: I just obtained a new MB EP-8KTA3+ RAID by Epox. Delighted by the board and new sticker on the front labeling it as an EPOX-8KTA3+PRO, I delved into the bios to notice that the FSB now is in 1mhz increments from 100-180......Just the thing to improve an already brilliant overclocking board. Hmm! I wonder if they'll make a PRO version of the non-raid (no "+" in the name) version, or if this is something that can be flashed onto older boards with a newer BIOS.
There's a Red Dwarf movie on the way! Thanks sw1tch.
Tomato got his Palomino 1.2GHz to just under 1.5GHz aircooled with a hefty volts boost. 1430MHz @ default voltage is not too shabby, but the Thunderbirds are doing better aren't they? We'll have to wait for a bigger sample set of Palomino results.
While wandering around last night I discovered BadAstronomy, a very interesting site that tries to debunk and correct mistakes and misconceptions about (mostly) astonomical phenomena. For example, they debunk the toilets swirl backwards in the southern hemisphere one. They even have a review of TombRaider showing all the bad astronomy in that film. :) We need a BadComputing site which tears strips off films like ID4 for using things like computer virii as a plot-windup tool.
Intel went the stealth-mode product launch for the new Tualatin, according to EB.
I dunno if we've already linked this or not, but anyway we should - it's an article on theoretical limits of computing over on ArsTechnica. When all is said and done, Ng calculates that that the limit on a 1 kg black hole computer is ~1051 operations per second. So according to Ng, a 1 kg black hole computer would be able to perform ~1032 operations on its 1016 bits during the time that it exists - which is the same value as that found by Lloyd. .. Keeping in mind the rather challenging issues of making a black hole in the first place, programming it, and extracting the data once it evaporates, this kind of computer seems somewhat impractical - though quite entertaining to think about.
Another one from ArsTechnica, this time an ancient article on overclocking myths.. from back in 1998, before OCAU even existed! BTW, it's our 2nd birthday soon, I hope to have some goodies to give away.. hmm, that's not how birthdays are supposed to work.. :)
Interesting one from Kazashi, a press release about copyright protection in the new game Operation Flashpoint. Apparently anyone attempting to play an illegal copy of Operation Flashpoint will begin with a game that looks and plays just like the real thing. However, over a period of time, the game gradually self-modifies and degrades elements of play to a point where the game is no longer playable. Hey, wait a minute, that sounds like Windows! :) As Kaz points out, it could just be a marketing ploy to deter piracy, but it's an interesting tactic regardless.
I'm not really sure what to make of this next one.. it's a lengthy article about Kolody vs Coca-Cola, a legal "one man against the corporate machine" story. The first coupla pages were interesting, if you're up for a long read check it out, thanks G.
There's a thing happening to raise money for a newspaper ad expressing people's views on the Telstra 3GB cap.
Wow, according to the spammers this morning, I have been selected to win 3 separate world cruises! So I guess you'll be seeing a lot less of me soon.. not. :)
Reviews: Shuttle AK31 a socket370 mobo apparently using "Revision 2" of KT266.. on VIAHW. MSI Starforce 822 GeForce3 card (again) on PlanetHardware. RumbleFX Headphones on Max3D. Hercules Prophet 4500 on PlanetHW. ViewSonic VG150 ViewPanel TFT monitor on OCNZ.
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