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There has been some cool stuff popping up in the PCDB and elsewhere the past few days.. Dracarys has some b-i-g fans on his mid tower, meanwhile Mongy2 has a super-bright padded vinyl job. Both look good, but are outdone by the Ferrari PC that has been around for a while (since this whole case mod thing started really) and was pointed out to me by wild.
If you've got a valid excuse for not running folding (and as far as I know, there isn't one) Firemoth points out FightAidsAtHome. Follows the same concept as folding, except it's trying to find a cure for Aids. Well and good, but to stay ahead of OC.com we'd really appreciate it if you joined our folding effort.
Digit-Life has a guide to flashing the BIOS on your GeForce series video card. The only reason I can see for this is it will allow you to permanently run your card at overclocked speeds (no software required) and you can change the bootup messages. I'm sure that is good enough for a lot of you tho :)
Dr Kildare points out this article which says AMD will start to outsource it's CPU production to other companies in the race to keep up with Intel.. an interesting quote taken from the article by the head of AMD Jerry Sanders is Real men have fabs. Heh. Meanwhile their Hammer processor has been delayed according to this Inq article pointed out to me by Brett.
Murder1 has pointed out that DirectX 8.1 Final has now been released ( mirror here).. I haven’t seen any benchmarks showing any performance differences, but if anyone out there with GeForce3 and a fair wack of CPU grunt would like to send me in some 3DMark2001 results before/after the upgrade I'd be more than happy to chuck them up on the news page so everyone can find out.
DarkFlash emailed me to say that the next of the infamous GXP 7,200rpm IDE Hard Drive series from IBM has been released: the 120GXP. It incorporates cutting edge technology such as Pixie Dust (that is a quote). Let's hope the Pixie Dust can fight of the chronic unreliability problems of previous GXP drives whilst maintain the performance crown.
Finally this evening, Czechmate pointed out an interesting article over on OC.com about overclocking the Tualatin-cored 1.2GHz Celeron CPU.. Apparently speeds of over 1.6GHz are possible, making it not too shabby at all.
Reviews:
MSI Starforce 822 GeForce3 on HotHardware.
SilverStorm2 Radiator vs BlackIce Radiator on Dan's Data. Our review of BlackIce here.
Abit KG7-R AMD760 board on Slautech.
Soyo K7V Dragon Plus KT266A board on AMDmb.
Aluminium Cooler Comparo on IPKonfig.
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