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Wednesday Morning #2
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Wednesday, 29-March-2006 11:12:17 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The ACMA has laid down new rules for Australian ISPs, requiring them to provide spam filtering and email sending limits. The code will come into effect on July 16, after which ACMA plans to conduct compliance checks of the country's 700 ISPs.
Azul has announced a 48-core CPU, using TSMC's 90nm process. Using the Vega 2 processor, Azul will be able to design future versions of its Azul Compute Appliance server platform that can scale up to a 768-way multiprocessing system with up to 768 gigabytes of memory.
If you've got a pile of money to burn on a gargantuan new monitor, C|Net's comparison of Apple's 30" Cinema Display and Dell's UltraSharp 3007WFP may be of assistance. All tests were run at the monitors' 2,560x1,600 native resolution. Neither Dell nor Apple would specify the origin of the panel used in each monitor, but various reports have surmised that the panels are the same.
Slightly more approachable is this 19" LCD monitor roundup on THG. As our tests show below, there are some truly exceptional, all-purpose monitors that are good for gaming, photo retouching and other applications.
3DXtreme compared three GPU waterblocks, the DangerDen Maze 4, AquaXtreme MP-1 and Swiftech MCW60.
Techgage have their first impressions of PhysX, based on info and demos from GDC. I was able to see the Ageia PhysX card in action as well as sample ATI and NVIDIA’s approach to physics and gaming.
Anandtech checked out Sun's T2000 server, based on their UltraSparc T1 CPU. Sun claims that this 72 W eight core, 32-thread CPU can outperform the power hungry (200-400W) quad IBM Power 5, Intel Xeon and the AMD Opteron machines in many server applications.
TechPowerUp have a marketing presentation from ATI called The Product Stack. There is a comparison of different price segments against what the competition from NVIDIA has to offer. Also there is a hint of "cable-free CrossFire mode" with upcoming Catalyst 6.5.
TheTechZone have more info about ajaxWrite, the free web-based wordprocessor. I encourage you to try ajaxWrite.com from Firefox 1.5, or newer, and experience the future of software firsthand. There's no cost. No registration required. Nothing to install.
OCInside updated their interactive S939 pinmod guide. Choose the original volts and the volts you desire, and the relevant pin mod is displayed.
LegitReviews have a DIY guide to building a PC. You could check out our Wiki page on the same topic, too.
FriendlySlugs talked to ATI about their take on physics acceleration. If you recall, ATI first demonstrated physics acceleration during the R520 (Radeon X1800) launch last year.
Tomshardware have an article about the complexity of memory upgrades. As we delve deeply into the memory upgrade jungle, we'll consider the problems that could affect any purchase decision, and what resources major brands - such as Apacer, Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, Mushkin, PNY and Viking - offer to assist potential customers.
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