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Thursday, 15-November-2001 20:45:17 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Sorry for the lack of news yesterday, there was some confusion over who was actually doing it. No matter, you'll get a bumper load today.
Many thanks to the 138 people who notified me that the banner system was broken this morning (including someone from Sweden and another from Germany!) .. some minor server confusion there, easily sorted.
There's been a rumour for a couple of weeks that RAM prices are set to double soon, I have received word from a couple of trusted sources in the last few days that say a BIG price hike is filtering down from the manufacturers. A few people have suggested this explanation, as Klif-E puts it: One of the world's largest memory manufacturers Hynix (formerly Hyundai) is currently upgrading their manufacturing plant. Whilst this is happening there is a shortage of RAM and wholesale prices have risen sharply in the past week. Once Hynix's new facility is fully productive, RAM prices should drop again, but this might not be until the new year. Seems to make sense but again I've seen nothing official. Based on what I've heard, I'd be surprised if there WASN'T a big price rise happening now or soon.
Leo noticed you can win $5000 for searching on YellowPages.com.au.. a prize every week for a little while, sweet.
ScienceWhiz reported this radiator testing article over on OC.com in the USA.. very detailed presentation of how accurate comparative testing should be performed. It's an 8-pager so I've not read it in full detail yet, but looks like it should be required reading for some folks in our Extreme Cooling forum!
Creat|ve has posted his Gainward GF3 experiences in the forums. Compare our Golden Sample review from a few months ago.
Flektone sent info on observing the Leonid meteor shower: The 2001 Leonid meteor shower, perhaps the biggest in decades, is coming soon. ... If you live in Australia or one of the many Asian countries along the Pacific Rim, the right time to be outdoors is Monday morning, Nov. 19th.
VyW checked out what effect increasing the diameter of tubing in a watercooling system would have.
3DGameMan have footage and photos from the XBOX Launch.. not the Australian launch of course, because we're still being told "Early 2002".. seems odd that they don't announce it everywhere at once.
Apparently litestep.com is back up and running, good news for fans of this alternate Windows shell, thanks Wokket. He also notes there's a LiteStep User Database including some Aussies and a LiteStep User Map image.
There's some coverage of COMDEX posted - the huge PC & IT show in the USA.. here from HardOCP, here and here from VIAHW and here from G3D.
Digit-Life have a roundup of 10k-rpm SCSI hard drives.
Reviews:
Asus A7N266 nForce-based SocketA DDR motherboard on HardwareMania.
AccessDTV HDTV Tuner Card on AwareMag.
Arctic Alumina thermal paste on LWD.
AMD AthlonXP 1900+ on Hexus.
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