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The cool PCDB entries keep pouring in, check out the mottled blue paintjob and other goodies on APOVIS's machine, Wedge's very tidily modified Lian-Li and Subside's cool paintjob/logo.
Case Badges are sold out! .. looks like we way underestimated demand, despite ordering double what we thought we'd need. Don't panic if you haven't heard from Tim yet as he's kinda swamped with orders. Please don't email him to check if your order got in in time, he will respond to every email but adding another one to the pile won't speed that process up. But if you haven't ordered yet, don't bother, you missed the boat! In a week or so when the orders are confirmed I will put up a poll asking if there are more people wanting some, in which case we'll get more made up.
Guru3D have updated their Detonator Dbase which lists performance stats for various versions of the NVIDIA drivers.
If you like Win2K but don't like how it looks, Nigel sent in this article which gives you some options..
Andypoo noticed this new Western Digital 100GB ATA-100 HDD reviewed on StorageReview.. yikes. SR is a really good site if you're looking for HDD info btw, check out their leaderboard etc.
Futurelooks reviewed Gran Tourismo 3 for the PS2. There's been a lot of ads for this driving game on TV lately.. which reminds me - what the hell does "Playstation 2: The Third Place" mean? Seems like suicide marketing to me, the only impression I get from that phrase is that there are 2 things better (ie, in 1st and 2nd place) than the PS2. Can anyone who speaks Marketing translate it for me please, ta. Update: Lots of people have lots of theories. Go to this thread if you reckon you know!
Digit-Life have their Monthly Hardware Digest for July posted. This is different to the 3D one from yesterday.
From Wolff: on 10AM wednesday 22 August at Ross Auction there is the Perth One.Tel auction including: 80+ Dell 15" Flat panel LCD Monitors, 2 x SONY 108cm Widescreen flat panel Plasma screens and no doubt plenty more stuff..
Interesting/scary thing from Narkov, the potential for virii to spread much faster than Code Red did. I'm a bit skeptical about this article but I can't put my finger on why.
This from DarthWindu: just thought I'd drop a line and tell you about the 2 products I recieved in the mail from Germany today, from www.noisecontrol.de - a Noisecontrol Silverado hs/fan that is basically inaudible (haven't fully tested cooling capabilities yet, but initial check looks good, and THG was impressed with it a while back) and more significantly for people concerned with PC noise reduction, the No Vibes hard drive mount that basically secures your HDD into a 5 1/4" slot with a metal frame and some "rubber bands" to dampen vibration. This device is freaky and disturbing: my 7200rpm IBM 75gxp HDD makes virtually no noise - you can defrag and not even hear anything. This is particularly significant since the rest of my setup is rigged for silence - the above Silverado, a low speed Panaflow 80mm PSU fan, and no other blowers aside from the negligable 40mm fan on the GF3... I recommend everyone to check this out - $US22 postage, but to me by far my best PC purchace ever. Overkill if you're running a delta, since you probably don't know that HDDs even make noise, but for mere mortals... very nice.
Catch your weekly dose of the bizarre over on ZZZ Online..
Reviews:
TwinMOS PC166 sdram on PCStats, thanks Nigel.
Evergreen 3D Sound Amplifier on SoundCardCentral.
Alpha PAL8045 socket cooler on ClubOC.
Samsung 1100P-plus 21-inch CRT monitor on PCStats.
nPOWER NP60D socket cooler on OCNZ.
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