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The 1GHz Morgan (Duron) reviews are still flowing in at a healthy rate, with NewsForge having one here, and SourceMag one here. Most interesting thing I've noticed from the reviews is that a Morgan Duron will keep up with a Thunderbird Athlon in a lot of benchmarks.. Which is pretty damn impressive. Take into account that a Spitfire Duron is almost a fair match of a P3 and you can see how much competition Intel has on their hands.. Can't wait until these things filter down to the retail market. With Duron 950's selling for about $170, and T'Bird 1GH'z for $200 from the more price competitive Australian online retailers I'm guessing a price point of about $185.. which isn't too shabby at all.
OCmod has an guide to modding your standard ATX PSU to get 17V out of it.. they're basically just joining the 12V and 5V lines together.. be good for those power hungry Peltiers. I'd be treading softly tho, of the things that can hurt you inside your PC, a faulty PSU is way up there with 80mm monster Delta fans.
I'm starting to wonder what it is with motherbords getting Ricey Names, like the IWill KK266 Plus R that VR-Zone has reviewed. This isn't the first 'R' motherboard I've seen, and I'm pretty sure there has been a 'Type-R' product as well.. if I see V-TEK I'll be scared, very scared.. Meanwhile in the Motoring forum, wazza has pointed out 9 easy ways to cook rice, which is incredibly amusing.. the sound effects are a killer.
Dan has reviewed the Xitel MD-Ports which are a fancy USB way of outputting audio to your MD recorder.. but they're not that special in that they're just a USB audio device and work in the same way as a sound card. So, if you've got a sound card (unless you need the TOSLINK output that one unit has), you won't need one.
PCHardware.RO has added a new chapter to their rather in-depth Mastering a Network series. This one is about OSI Layer 2 Data Link and covers MAC addresses, network topologies, standards, encapsulation, specifications and layer 2 devices like bridges and switch. See what I mean?
Finally this morning, TweakTown has taken a look at the upcomming WindowsXP. I think I've already mentioned this before, but the best thing about it for myself and a few other people is the support for Vortex2 sound cards and Via chipsets.. thanks to all those people that emailed me confirmation of this a while back!
Reviews:
CrazyPC Window Mod Kit on ClubOC.
Via C3 on PLE133 Chipset on Digit-Life.
TweakMonster Copper Ramsinks on BSOD.
DFI Ak76SN AMD761 board on Radeonic.
COOLPC Video-1-120 Graphics Card Cooler on RojakPot.
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