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Altech sent along a few things. Firstly a quick note about some 1000MHz DDR2 Corsair memory. They also announced some new Vapochill products from Asetek. Finally, they reported the results of the Australian round of ACON5, a recent gaming tournament.
Antec announced updates across their power supply line, in the form of TruePower 2.0, SmartPower 2.0 and Phantom 500. More info and pics here.
ASUS announced an Athlon64 SLI motherboard which uses a heatpipe system to cool the chipset, hence running silently. Instead of a selector card, the A8N-SLI Premium adopted a PCI Express switch IC (integrated circuit) to provide quick switching between SLI and non-SLI operation with just a few clicks on the mouse. More info and a board pic here.
Corsair published an Application Note on memory performance for the Intel 955X Express chipset. We can draw several useful conclusions from the results of this testing. First, we have discovered that selection of the system memory should be tightly coupled to processor selection. We've mirrored the 8-page, 631K PDF here.
Australia's Attorney-General has announced new classification markings for films and computer games. The new Determination changes the way the classifications appear, but it does not change their meaning. Consistent with the previous decision by Censorship Ministers, the Determination does not provide an R18+ classification for computer games. More info in a 58KB PDF here. Some press coverage here and here.
ATI unveiled the Mobility Radeon X800XT graphics chipset for notebooks. Equipped with 16 pixel pipelines and six vertex engines, as well as a 256-bit memory interface and GGDR3 support, the Mobility Radeon X800 XT delivers virtual performance parity to ATI's award winning Radeon® X800 XT PE desktop graphics processors. More info here.
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