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Ack, last minute news. Again! But don't worry.. it'll still be all right. I promise :)
Well, in case you didn't notice on that Akiba page we linked to a few days ago, USB 2.0 is pretty much out, man. Maxtor has a USB2 Hard Drive on the market.. and the cards to run it are also starting to filter down, as are the drivers. In case you've been living in a hole, the good thing about USB2.0 is the backwards compatibility with the already widespread USB1. And the 480Mb/sec isn't bad either.
Hmm, 3Dspotlight are giving stuff away to people who sign up to their mailing list. Giving away a GF2MX card to be precise, which in today's market isn't that much.. but still, it's free! And so are the Vantec CCK-6035D hs/f's that ExtremeOC are giving away. Novel idea that, giving away stuff..
You think those 60mm Delta fans are hardcore.. wait until you see the 80mm units. How about 64cfm in your case. How about the noise 64cfm makes in your ears. Yes, serious cooling. Serious Noise. What else do you expect from delta? Meanwhile in the fan world, OCcafe have checked out some pre-production fans due on the market soon.
In case you didn't already know, George pointed out how a video card works. And it sure isn't without a great deal of tech stuff these days.
Ungrateful Ninja points out this computer aptitude test.. now I must admit to partaking in a few bourbons tonight.. but to me it just seems to be a HAHAHAHA bet this will make you spew type thing. I'm not too sure.. way beyond my level of comprehension atm.
VooDoo points out this extremely insane case mod.. and when I say insane, I mean, INSANE!
Tech Report is having a rant about Macs.
In the hard drive world, it appears the almost redundant-in-practice ATA/100 standard has already been superseded by ATA/133. Which all seems a bit stupid to me, as hard drives can't even reach speeds where ATA/100 is necesarry, let alone ATA/133 speeds. Supposedly Intel is ignoring all this ATA/133 stuff and heading straight for Serial/ATA, which seems to be the way to go.
Kyrocea points out that Handspring Visors are now retailing for as little as A$160 in Japan at the moment.. which is damn cheap considering the cost of a Palm equivalent in Australia at the moment is quite a deal more than that.. so if you're heading over to Japan soon, please let me give you $160 :)
OcPrices have been doing the water cooling and peltier thing, meanwhile we did that ages ago *totally*.. you can read about Agg's experience with this sort of gear here and here.
Any webmaster out there has no doubt read this latest article on Anandtech. It talks about their latest server upgrade, to a dual 1.2GHz Athlon 1ru machine. I sure wish I could ring up Corsair and request 2Gb of DDR ECC RAM. On a smaller scale of course, of course, our server contains 512MB of Corsair memory kindly donated by Realtime Systems. Which is greatly appreciated - Thanks Jim :)
Finally tonight, XenOfEx have checked out a rather inovative solution to solving BIOS flash problems.. a little device which sits in your BIOS chip slot and keeps a backup of your original bios. Quite cool.. it's called the RD1 Bios Savior.
Reviews:
SonicBlue aka Diamond RioVolt CD-MP3 Player on PCstats.
OCZ Goliath copper hs/f on ClubOC.
Tt Dragon Orb 3 on TechPlanet.
Thermalright SK-6 on TechPlanet.
Vantec Bay Freezer on TacoNuts.
Elsa Gladiac GF2/Pro on Hardware One.
Kanie 294M Hedgehog on OCShoot.
PCMods Blue Cold Cathode Tube on Rizenet.
A4 Tech Optical 2-Wheel Mouse on RipNet UK.
RomTec Trios HDD Selector on OConline.
TwinMOS 265Mb PC133 SDRAM on PCStats.
Rumble FX Force-Feedback Headphones on AMDpower.
Labtec Pulse 424 speaker set on VyW.
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