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More Computex stuff: Part 1 on Xbit, G70 spy shots, booth babes and Day 4 on TweakTown, Day 4 on Phronix, Part 6 on HWZ, show girls on HWSecrets and more booth babes on FutureLooks.
Reax spotted a new in-game trailer from Battlefield 2. Looks amazing, can't wait for this new version of one of my favourite games.
Here's a cool car-bonnet PC project based on an old IBM PC case.
Aselabs have a look at the BTX standard that is struggling for acceptance in the market. Bit-Tech meanwhile have spotted a BTX S939 motherboard from MSI with a new NVIDIA chipset.
DansData keeps playing around with old IBM keyboards and a few more modern options.
Hexus meanwhile spent some time overclocking a Venice A64 3000+.
BigBruin have the second part of their CPU socket basics article posted, this time focussing on AMD products.
PCWorld have more info about Gigabyte's IRam, an interesting DRAM storage card, thanks Nick. When the card is used in this way, starting Windows XP is a matter of seconds, rather than a minute or more, he says.
HWSecrets toured the Kingmax factory in Taiwan.
Caironet16 sent in this drilling project to sample the earth's mantle, below the crust. Two-thirds the length of the Titanic, it is fitted with technology borrowed from the oil industry that will allow it to bore through 7,000 metres of crust below the seabed while floating in 2,500 metres of water - requiring a drill pipe 25 times the height of the Empire State building.
Phoronix have a coolbits for linux guide. My original coolbits article from 3 years ago still draws a fair bit of traffic!
A few links from Paul: Intel today formally committed itself to bringing its EM64T 64-bit processing extensions down into the Celeron D line of low-cost desktop chips. Oakley shades get bigger MP3 player. When stealing gas in the dark, don't use a lighter to see how you're doing. DNA extracted of bear, dead 40,000 years. Geologists Find First Clue To Tyrannosaurus Rex Gender In Bone Tissue. eDonkey Drops All Bundled Software. A user who was using BitTorrent to distribute his own homemade videos has received a C&D letter from his web hosting service, demanding he stop distributing copyrighted content.
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