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Technical issues have delayed this week's podcast, sadly.. so here's some regular news.
MadShrimps have a low-to-midrange PCIe video card roundup. In this roundup we compare seven different video cards which don't cost you an arm and a leg.
HWSecrets peek at the innards of switching power supplies. In this tutorial we will explain you how switching power supplies work and we will provide a journey into the PC power supply showing you its main components and what they do.
Loop Goose spotted a Radeon X1600 with HDMI. The card uses a small PCB and can fit in just about any case including a home entertainment PC. It sports a VGA connector, HDMI out and SPDIF in. I think I saw something similar at CeBIT Sydney, will have to check my notes.
I'm not sure if two heatsinks constitutes a roundup, but Motherboards.org have compared the Big Typhoon and Mini Typhoon CPU coolers from Thermaltake. What remains to be seen, however, is if this little brother is still big on performance, just like family tradition implies he is.
Stuart sent word of the world's first Open Movie. Not only would the movie be made using Open Source software, but the contents themselves were to be Open as well: all of the digital assets and production files are released under a Creative Commons license, allowing everyone to see how the movie was made, make changes to it and create a new, derived movie.
Futurelooks spotted a laser turntable. Time to dig out all those old LP's! According to ELP, this machine is so cool, it can even play "Warped and Damaged Records". They claim that "In some cases, the LT plays even broken records when all the pieces are placed on a tray without tape or glue".
From Flect: An Internet-based computer game that puts players in the army boots and black trench coats of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as they kill Columbine High School classmates is attracting attention and sparking controversy. Seems a bit uncool.
SharkyExtreme have their monthly Value Gaming PC buyer's guide posted. Finding the best system components for a value gaming system is more difficult than simply picking the top hardware money can buy, and it entails some concession on the part of the buyer.
From White Rhino: There's a bit over a week left to vote for the April Iron Photographer and entries are open for the May competition: "Something Fishy".
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