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Ever since Aureal dropped of the scene the sound card market has been pretty tame, with the SB Live range of cards dominating the market and corrupting your HDD data. The Herc Game Theatre XP brought a bit of excitement, and the Audiophile 2496 looks set to bring even more. It's a high level sound card, and TweakMax has the review. The CaseJunkiez crew also got along to a Phillips product launch and had a gander at a new sound card in the pipes from Phillips.. looks terribly like a SB Live to me, but I'm assured it's not. Finally, for people still hanging onto Vortex2 cards (which rock incredibly hard), there is rumor of WindowsXP supporting them.. anyone with a copy of RC-1 and a Vortex2 want to test it out for me?
Fwoaaaaar burners are getting fast. Really fast. 24X CD-R Write Speed Fast. That is Really Really Fast. CD-R info have reviewed a Plextor 24x IDE unit, which you can pretty easily claim to be the king of the burning world for now.
Rizenet have checked out a DTI3D 2015XL Virtual Window Display which is a rather longwinded name for a 15" LCD Screen. However, it's an LCD Screen with a difference. The pixels supposedly do some "tricky stuff" that presents a slightly seperate image to each eye, giving the illusion that the image is 3D, without the need of special glasses or a second screen. Most previous 3D efforts have failed because they have been fairly complicated to use, but all that appears to hamper this unit is a small viewing angle. With LCD prices comming down I can't help but wonder..
That reminds me of an extremeley cool WinAmp plugin that follows in the footsteps of the already damn popular geiss plugin.. it is in fact made by the same people. Anyway, if you've seen Geiss before (or Drempels, its cousin) you'll probably be interested in MilkDrop.. it's damn trippy. Coolest thing about it are the 3D textures, which seem to be begging for a pair of 3D glasses.. trip to Imax anyone? ;)
Nigel sent in this link to some Extreme Geforce3 techniques on OC.com.. hmm, sounds like a certain madman we know around here *cough* DrR0M :)
Bit-Tech have been modding a Lian-Li PC70 full tower case.. to fit a VapoChill inside! Pretty mad, but I'd be interested to see what they thought was wrong with the original VapoChill case.
Jab pointed out this article in which an Intel rep pretty much writes RAMBUS out of Intel's future after i845 hits the shelves. Didn't see that comming (not at all..)
Draffa points out yet another instance of over-reacting Journalists.. this time a Melbourne Journo reckons Half-Life: Blue Shift will lead to people attacking Security Guards. Yeah, right.. i'll just grab an AK47 from the SAS soldier protecting the Alien Spawn I hand grenaded to death and go and shoot a security guard. Well, it was in the game.... officer? Yeah, right.. As if code red worm bollocks wasn't enough.
Finally, feedback on the Interesting Forum Threads has been pretty positive, so I think I will continue it.. because of time constraints it won't be a daily thing, but it will be pretty regular. The people have also spoken, and it will continue in it's original form, except below the Reviews instead of above. Too easy.
Reviews: Gyration's Wireless GyroMouse Pro on TechExtreme. Zalman CNPS5000-Plus cooler on RojakPot. Hitachi CM828 21" CRT on PCStats. MaPower MAP-63C External USB HDD Case. PocketMail Backflip for Palm on FutureLooks. VideoLogic Vivid!XS KyroII card on 3D Spotlight. Cool-View Acrylic Window Kit on TheTechZone. Antec SX635 Mid-Tower Case on VyW. Enermax EG651P 550W PSU on IANAG. Lian Li PC60USB Mid-Tower case on EXHardare.
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