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Wednesday Night.. Go Forums!
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Thursday, 1-November-2001 02:14:50 (GMT +10) - by alchemy
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JimX points out this article which reckons WinXP is slower than Win2K. JimX writes that he hasn't seen any noticeable difference in performance, so it mustn’t be that major. Still, it's very Microsoft for the new OS to be slower (need faster RAM, CPU) and bigger (more hard drive space).
Hardware Accelerated has taken a squiz at OpenGL 1.3, and all the new features that it brings. I personally reckon that OpenGL is pretty neat (better than DirectX at least) and would like to see it maintain it's place in the game engine's of the future. With MS's dominance tho, I don't really see that happening.
InsaneWB has managed 3.04 volts on their Abit KT7A, which they say is a world record.. but they don't say a word about how they did it. Luckily it doesn’t look like they did it using Photoshop, but still..
All the Gateway stuff is going under the hammer.. including Over 2000 Boston Digital Speakers incl BA7500G 3 piece Powered Sub/Satellite which they apparently sold out of. Or apparently not. Maybe so many people who ordered 4.1's and ended up with 2.1's just asked for a refund. Either way, going from the price the One.Tel stuff went for on Grays I doubt there are going to be any super bargains to be found. Thanks to MegaBaz for the link.
Wokket pointed out an amusing email FW that has been going around concerning Win2K for aussies. I've linked to it in the forums because it's easier.. Incidentally, speaking of the forums.. we broke the record tonight by a long shot Most users ever online was 306 on 31st October 2001 at 10:59 PM!!! I think previously it was around 250something.. so congrats to everyone who is a part of the forums.. they're going from strength to strength.
HardOCP has checked out the MSI K7T266 Pro2, a KT266A chipset mobo. They like it.. good thing about that board is that it's on the aussie shelves right now. There is also a variant of it, the Pro2-RU that has onboard Promise RAID (better than HPT imho) and a USB 2.0 controller. Pretty swanky.. it also ~apparently~ has a USB security device thing? I can't find much info on that if anyone wants to help me out I'd appreciate it..
Keith writes in that there is a new strain of nimda going around. YAY. Update your scanners people.
A new version of Matrox's tweak utility is out on Electic.
Reviews:
SiS 315 GPU at Tech-Report.
Thermaltake Volcano 7 on IANAG.
Gigabyte GA7VTX KT266 board on TheDDRZone.
CoolingFlow Thermal Compound on OC'dCafe.
OCZ Dominator 2 also on OC'dCafe.
USB->IDE HDD Kit on IANAG.
Enermax EG651P-VE PSU on SerialAddiction.
SiS735 chipset on Bench-House.
ATI Radeon 7500 on TheTechZone.
Athlon XP 1800+ on Hexus.
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