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Well, with a little last minute ass whipping in the #overclockers IRC channel, we managed to break the record of Most-Ever-Users-Online in the forums by quite a substantial amount.. it's now up to 244. We've also passed the 5,000 members flag recently as well as the 100,000 posts.. so all up it's been a record breaking week for the forums. Can't wait for some new hosting to come along and give odin some much needed relief.
Intel really seems to be turning up the heat on AMD, not only have they recently just fwopped us all with the 2GHz P4 part (that you can actually buy - makes for a change) as well as huge price cuts across the whole P4 range, they've also just demonstrated a 3.5GHz P4 Part.. sure, it's probably an excercise in extreme vapour phase cooling.. but that's a lot of Hz.
nVidia have released a " Personal Cinema " add-on for their range of current-model video cards.. and what it does is add all sorts of connectors ala ATI All-In-Wonder style, including one for watching TV on your PC. I've been down the TV-card-in-PC route before and must say that it really isn't that satisfying.. maybe now that my TV is closer to my bed it may be, but still.. it's a bit iffy. Sounds good in theory, but dosn't work out so well in practice.
Joseph pointed out that to celebrate Linux's 10th birthday there was an Install Fest held by the LinuxSA group in.. you guessed it, SA. Tech-Junkie was there, and have info about the event.
TacoNuts have updated their case mod gallery, whilst no doubt our PCDB has been updated within the last hour or so. We win, nyer! :)
A1-Electronics has taken a look at wireless networking as a standard, and as a new gizmo you can get down at your local retail computing store.. dubious benefit to us overclockers tho.
Walrek has been all the ball and noticed talk over on THG about the re-introduction of the PR for AMD CPU's to allow them to better compete with Intel counterparts in the uneducated retail market.. and while I can see weight to their argument (a lot of weight, in fact) I reckon it stinks. The aim of it is to allow customers a fair comparison.. but how can they do that when they are confused? Walrek started a thread in the forums to disccus it. Nicely picked.
Finally tonight, remember that pc-on-a-PCI-card firewall we linked to ages ago? It made it to market, and it made it into The Tech Zones review box as well.. quite extremely cool, if I must say so myself. I never get any of the cool toys. *whinge*.
Reviews:
GlobalWin CAK38 on DreddNews.
Abit Siluro MX400 on JSIHardware.
Hyundai PC133 256Mb SDRAM on ocNZ.
Abit TH7-II on OCWorkbench.
MSI 850 Pro2 i850 socket-423 P4 mobo on PCHardware.RO
Blizzard CPU Intercooler on GamersHQ.
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