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Thursday Morning
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(link) Thursday, 23-March-2006 03:00:29 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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There's more chatter about physics acceleration today. PCPerspective have news on a sales partner for AGEIA, while Techgage report on an SDK for PS3 from them. HotHardware have some news of the PhysX launch at GDC.
Meanwhile PenStarSys have thoughts on NVIDIA's SLI version of physics acceleration, as do HardOCP.
HWSecrets took a trip to Legoland. Do they still have that Lego centre down in Circular Quay in Sydney? Or wherever it was? I remember going in a competition there when I was a little kid. I think I did ok. :)
MadShrimps have cooling, cases & hardware from CeBIT 2006.
Nightranger sent word of a Western Digital Class Action Settlement which is USA-based so probably doesn't affect us. It's to do with the old "how big is a gigabyte" argument, where hard drives format to less space than the advertised size. I've bought loads of Western Digital (and Seagate, and Maxtor) drives over the last few years and I really don't care too much about losing 3GB of an 80GB drive or whatever.
LegionHW have a VGA cooler shootout posted, comparing six products from Arctic-Cooling, Thermalright and Zalman.
Microsoft are boosting Xbox360 production, with two more companies coming onboard to help make the consoles. One of whom is Celestica, who may sound familiar because they made our database server.
Eroda spotted another Solid-State Hard Drive from Samsung. The 32 GB solid state disk (SSD) drive comes in a 1.8" form factor and reads data at more than twice the speed of hard drives. Best of all: The SSD is promised to consume 95% less power than a hard drive.
ABIT and USI have formed a new company named Universal ABIT Co., Ltd. With the new partnership, ABIT receives a strong financial backing from which to continue its core business, and also eliminates the financial straits which began late Q4 2004.
HardOCP report on CPUs & real-world gameplay scaling, examining the real-world performance of 6 CPUs and 4 video cards.
Some snippets from HAVIC: Bad Japanese habit helps virus spread. Apple may sacrifice France for exclusivity. How to safely get rid of an old computer. Who owns the internet pipes?
Interesting Forum Threads:
Xgl LiveCD - fantastic demo in Other Operating Systems.
The Great Server Upgrade in Storage, Backup & Memory.
BEST way of monitoring temps EVER in Video Cards.
Sensor cleaning fun! in Photography.
Bits from CeBIT 2006 in VIA Hardware.
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