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Sunday, 10-March-2002 13:17:43 (GMT +10) - by Agg

OCPlus have a guide to making a variable speed fan from a temp-sensing one. Pretty simple stuff.. the advantage of course is that you can choose the fan speed and hence the noise it makes, as suitable for how hard the PC is working at the time. Surfing the web: quiet. Playing a game: loud. More ideas along these lines from our archives: voltage reduction to slow noisy fans, using an automotive rheostat to control a lot of fans at once and a thermal control circuit to speed them up automatically when things get hot. There are commercial products to control fan speed too, from the (probably only in Japan) ST Fan Controller to the impressive-looking PCMods Rheobus and the automatic Digidoc 5.

The SB Audigy may not be as new as originally thought. I'm sure we heard something about this when the Audigy first came out, but it went all quiet again.. hmm.

overl0ad spotted this server-oriented Dual SocketA board from Abit.

Sun say that Microsoft engaged in extensive anticompetitive conduct by not including Java support in WinXP and is suing them for one billion dollars.

Mods4Me have 2 chipset tweaking guides posted.. one for KT133/KT133A/KX133 and the other for AMD760.

Tweaktown have their ITExpo/PCShow 2002 coverage posted.

TheInq are reporting on a strange statement by an IBM person about some of their HDD products.. that they shouldn't be powered more than 8 hours a day..? Thanks ScarifieR.

From the PCDB: Woofer's 3GHz Northwood P4, Vapochill-cooled, naturally.. and Postal's custom watercooled cube case.

Reviews:
AMD Duron 1.2GHz socketA CPU on PlanetSavage.
Netgear MR314 wireless router on TheDDRZone.
GlacialTech Igloo coolers on Digit-Life.
Light Strips on ExtremeOC.
Creative MegaWorks 510D 5.1 speakers on Digit-Life.
Cooljag JAC311C socket cooler on BurnOutPC.
Fortish Technology socket coolers on 8Balls.
CyberCooler Keyboard on MikhailTech.
Hercules XPS 210 speakers on MGON.

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