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Tuesday Morning
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Tuesday, 18-April-2006 02:44:51 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A few people sent word that memory speeds can be faked with a new DFI beta bios, apparently. The thinking is that it might be an issue if you're buying RAM based on overclocked screenshots.
LegitReviews spent some time overclocking a Pentium D 805 dual-core CPU. At 2.66GHz with a 533MHz FSB the processor doesn't sound fast, but come see how it runs at 3.8GHz!
HWSecrets played around with storage, explaining command queueing and RAID6 advantages. They also have a PSU tutorial and look into Intel's Core microarchitecture.
Modders-inc have a few things to consider when choosing a PSU. It isn't easy to find a "good" one without knowing a little about the types, materials, and basic features involved.
From Matt: You may remember my site as the one that has tracked hard disk pricing back the last 15 years with APC advertisements. With the latest figures in I set out to show that Kryder's Law is no longer being acheived by hard drive manufacturers. According to wikipedia Kryders Law is a kind of super Moore's Law for hard disks that says bit densities have increased factor of 1000 in 10.5 years meaning a doubling every 13 months. Instead I discovered that Kryders Law was just a creation of Wikipedia's enthusiastic editors that miseread a single Scientific American article. Wikipedia accidentally invented the "law", and it isnt even correct. Read about it here. The beauty about wikipedia is that it will fix itself. It is pretty interesting to see how that occurs. Take a look at the talk page here. And you can look at the vote of whether to keep the page at all here. As the old saying goes, if you like laws and sausages it might not be a good idea to see how they are made. The same goes for Wikipedia.
Denlife sent word of a giant advertisement in the desert, where nobody will see it. Well, nobody except Google Maps/Earth, which is the plan.
BFM wanted you to know that the Easter Bunny hates you.
From Sn@Ke: I had a quick search around ocau and didn't find anything on this .. its a new take on spam by automated opt-out requests that bluesecurity sends on your behalf after you forward your spam emails to them. If the spammers dont take you off their list they take legal action and blah blah.. I recently set it up at work and set the bluefrog settings to protect the company domain and have since noticed a decent drop in spam emails. Its got a few cool things like a ranking system and stuff. anywayyy take a look for a better description, thought it might be cool to take a look at since its kinda just starting out (I think) and the more people to use it the stronger the service will become.
PCPerspective reckon that (a) some 7900 GTX boards were randomly freezing and locking up and (b) the problem is resolved now. So yay.
From Matt: Not sure if this has been found before, but: Rigs of Rods is a huge amount of fun (if you like trucks) but more importantly, it has a great physics engine that is being developed by one person - it has "no equivalent in the game industry today". Thought you might be interested. Had a bit of a go, doesn't seem all that exciting unfortunately, but maybe I just don't get it. Flipping trucks down the hills is kinda fun tho.
Some coverage of Apple's "Boot Camp" make-WinXP-work patch on XYZComputing, TechSpot and Hexus.
Disastraus noticed this article about thorium oxide. Supporters of an alternative energy source say it has the potential to revolutionise the nuclear power industry and is a safer alternative to uranium.
From maddcore: On Monday night, the OCAU BF2 Clan took on the Bloody Knife Murderers (BKM) on the barren streets of Mashtuur City. The first round was smoking hot with BKM being a highly mobile team who were obviously well co-ordinated, but [ocau] were tougher and won the round 14-0. The second round clash was even more hotly contested with the area around the mosque and the backyard being the hottest fought, but finally [ocau] fell 29-0 for a final score of 14-29 in BKM's favour. The two teams were very evenly matched, and both teams have expressed interest in friendly games in the future as this game was awesome.
Interesting Forum Threads:
Project: Netfinity 3000 to AMD 64 (56k Warning) in Modding & Electronics.
Commell's LV-667 Mini-ITX for Intel Core Duo in Intel Hardware.
Think your HT sub is big, do ya? in Audio Visual.
Amazing racetracks in Motoring.
REQ: Ideas for prawns in Geek Food.
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