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Sometimes I just don't know why I bother.. wake up at 7, go to uni for a WHOLE FIFTY MINUTES, before getting on a bus to come home, write news, and go to work. At least I get to drink lots of vodka with lots of women tonight, if I couldn't there'd be trouble.
This from a CQU mailing list via Sciby..
CNET just reported that MS has given PC makers the OK to ship WXP as a whole month early. The official launch date was Oct. 25-th but it looks like at least four of the large PC builders can start shipping late September. For the industry this is good news. WXP requires powerful hardware and the new
goodies included might sway people to trash their old PC's. That could make total Q4 PC sales look a little better, as total PC sales declined about 8% the last quarter.
There is a little blurb about it at the bottom of this Inq article, and here is the original CNET article.
Bit-Tech has a quick guide to spray painting your case.. which seems to be a fairly popular case mod these days. Just on case mods, Farrod pointed out more pics of that incredibly insane PC-inside-a-RC that was in the HardForum a few days ago.. Once again, fwoar. Ricey PC :) Finally, CoolHardWarez have a guide to using LED lights instead of Neons inside your case.
I linked to a stupidly short blurb the other day about Radeon 2 sample/testing boards being sent out to developers for a look-see. Well, here are the pics of the board. All the text is Korean (' fish it if you want), but the pics are pretty tasty. It's a fairly 'busy' looking board design, and interesting to note the ommision of ramsinks.
Apparently the EPoX 8K7A+ AMD 761 board is particulary sensitive to +5 and +12 voltages, and Scarifier points out this forum thread that's offering a PSU mod as a solution. I'd recomend buying a better PSU than modding your old one tho.. PSU's come in a case for a reason :)
If you want to win one of ten Vantec CCK-6035D all-copper heatsinks, OConline is giving a heap of them away.
In case you havn't noticed, Dan has a serious fetish for LED-based flashlights. This is his fourth review of a number of the things, and these ones are much cheaper and much smaller. And much more I-want-one.
RojakPot has updated their Bios Optimization Guide to v6.20, and made it available in PDF format as well. Probably worth a gander if you're new to BIOS tweaking, or if a new board/BIOS has settings you don't recognise.
For anyone that still has a 3dfx Voodoo card in use, there is a new tweak for them over on the x3dfx forums.
Finally today, apparently IBM is having big problems with the reliability of their 75GXP and 60GXP series of drives. Some people swear by IBM drives, and others curse their very being. I'm in the later camp, after having 4 of the buggers die on me in the space of a fortnight, I'm now a Western Digital fan.
Reviews:
Abit Siluro MX400 on 3DSpotlight.
IWill KK266+ RAID on ClubOC.
Lexmark Z22 color inkjet printer on NeoSeeker.
Enermax Temp Rack on OCcafe.
Archos Jukebox 6000 HDD-based MP3 player on MrPCPro.
Akasa Silver Mountain hs/f on 8BallsHardware.
Mouse Bungee Crystal Pro on HWextreme. Our review here.
Envision EN5100 15" LCD Screen on GideonTech.
MSI StarForce 822 GeForce3 on PCHardware.ro.
Lian Li PC60-USB case on BlargOC.
Antec 1030B black ATX case on BSOD.
Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers on TechExtreme.
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