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Woohoo! AUSSIE, AUSSIE, AUSSIE, OI, OI, OI..... Yes, we won the cricket :)
First up tonight, Gamin' in 3D have a budget dual display shootout pitting the Sis 315 against the ATI Radeon VE.
ZZZ's 114th issue is out, and ready for your weird-tech-sci-geek reading pleasure.
3DVelocity are giving away a Duron 1.3GHz CPU. The competition is open to all forum members active or not and is not location restricted. That's what we like to hear :)
This is not an ordinary PC case, but it's not a usual desk either. It's a computer in desk. Who would come up with such an idea to make a thing like this? It was me! No, it wasn't :(
(WARNING : Some rather bad language here, do not click if you are easily offended) Finally, for all those people that either can't or refuse to RTFM, comes this online help guide on exactly HOW to RTFM. Thanks Stefan.
If you hear a faint ticking coming from your boxen, it may not be that you left your watch inside while messing around in there. It may be, A BOMB! Cheers Alchemist.
(WARNING : Some bad language here. Do not click if you are easily offended.) You know your PC has developed and attitude problem when it returns this error : "The page cannot be f@#king displayed". :) Hehe, thanks Rob. And this one from C_Dawg.
Fraps is a tool that lets you monitor current framerates in a corner of the screen. It also allows you to easily take screenshots of games, and manually determine the average framerate between two points. Further details can be found here. Direct file link here. Taa Rod.
Sophos, a world leader in corporate anti-virus protection, is warning computer users against the new My Party email worm (aka W32/MyParty-A) which is spreading in the wild. The worm, which may appear to have come from a colleague or friend, arrives as an email with the subject line "new photos from my party!". Time to update those virus scanners again..
Bevan has raised a few interesting questions. If the new Apple dual G4 1Gz with Geforce 4 MX is such a powerhouse, why does it only show 115fps while this Athlon XP 1700+ with a stock Geforce 3 shows 181fps? Hmmm...
Viahardware has posted an article on Platform Conference 2002. It was held on January 23-24th, and had several companies showing off new technology and holding sessions to learn about upcoming technology.
If laptops are your thang, check out these exclusive photos of the ECS Notebook.
Genesis informs us there are some new KYRO drivers available for hercules cards. Taa muchly.
SONY just announced it's second price cut in six months for it's Memory Stick storage device. The biggest cut will be the 128MB stick, which comes down from $149.95 to $89.95. (USD though)
A report at digitimes.com reveals the SiS648 discrete chipset. SiS648 is the new chipset that supports the latest P4 processors with a FSB speed of 533MHz, 8X AGP and DDR400 spec.
Henry gave us info on a HDD temp monitoring program. Apparently an updated version of one widely used.
Looks like there may be some AMD and Intel CPU price cuts headed our way, sonner or later. Preferably sooner though, right? :) Thanks to ummmm.......errrr........oh yeah, BL/\DE :P
charliebrown_au dude tells us the epic cinematics from StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War have been collected onto one disc and digitally remastered for enhanced picture quality on your DVD player. Finally, you can witness the struggle for galactic domination in its full, uninterrupted glory!
And lastly, I thought I would link to Demoman's Macase KA130 Fulltower in our PCDB, because it looks rather neat. ( And he's a friend of mine....OH, and because it was my paint) :)
Reviews: Philip's MMS305 4.1 Speaker review over on HardcoreWare. LG GCC-4120B CD-RW/DVD combination drive review from Inside hardware. Olympus C700 Ultra Zoom digital camera review from the peeps at Overclockers NZ. Intel Pentium 4 "Northwood" review from TweakTown. Kingwin Multifunction Transfer Panel review courtesy of OverclockerCafe. Fortis A102 heatsink on SubZeroTech. Clutterbuster review at Elite-Hardware. (Tool that helps keep your desk tidy) SOYO P4S DRAGON Ultra motherboard review from VR-Zone. KR7A-RAID motherboard review over at Tech Report. Everglide gaming mat review on IAmNotAGeek. Samsung YEPP YP-20S MP3 Player from the dewds at FutureLooks. Thermaltake Volcano 7 HSF review from Tweakers Australia.
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