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Wednesday Midday (3 Comments) (link)
 Wednesday, 1-June-2005  12:00:46 (GMT +10) - by Agg

I just noticed we're half a million points ahead of [H]ardFolding in Folding@Home. Nice one! Don't slack off now, though.. and if you want to be part of the #1 team, join team 24!

Computex is in full swing in Taiwan now: Tweaktown have Marketing Mishaps, Operation Insider and Day One Show Floor reports. Phoronix also cover Day One, while Hexus found a large Zalman cooler and some new ATI cards. PCPerspective have an interesting interview with AMD while HWZ report on MSI's new goodies.

Some more ATI CrossFire (p)reviews: AMDZone, DigitLife, DriverHeaven, EliteBastards, GamingNexus, HardwareZone, Hexus, HotHardware and ViperLair.

CrossFire was demonstrated at Computex by DFI, PowerColor and ASUS, reports on TechReport, Tweaktown and Hexus.

HWSecrets have a guide to changing the BIOS boot logo on your motherboard. If you’re a service man or if you work in a store, you can use this tip to place your company logo, with your address and phone, transforming this feature in a powerful marketing tool.

Murray spotted a new prototype slimline drive. The new drives are 2.5 millimeters thick and store 10G bytes of data. This makes them half the thickness of the 1-inch drives sold by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST). The highest capacity 1-inch drives currently on sale store 6G bytes. He also sent in more info about VIA's C7 processor and some future TV display technologies.

InsaneTek have a guide to building an ultimate gaming rig.. on a budget. By not purchasing an SLI board, I saved myself an additional 50 dollars.

From Dinuc, regarding our Photography Forum "Iron Photographer" challenge which happens every month: May's challenge has closed and top ten lists are now being sought. After a week or so, these are compiled into a final top list which is then voted on. The June challenge was thought of by the winner of the April challenge, Mred32 and it's a very inspiring one. Have a look here.



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