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Thursday Morning News & Threads
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Thursday, 6-July-2006 02:58:51 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Sniper noticed this interesting dual-core optimisation utility from AMD. There's a lot of discussion about what this actually does here in our AMD Hardware forum.
From VooDoo, an article about metal body grafts. A TEAM of British scientists has overcome one of the great challenges of modern medicine by developing technology that allows skin to bind with metal without causing infection, improving the prospect of bionic limbs. Early clinical trials on a group of patients who have lost limbs, fingers and thumbs, including two people injured in the July 7 London bombings a year ago, are described as very promising. I bags a skull-gun! Thread here, thanks Zzapped.
Bjorn3D have an article about PCI RAID controllers. In preparation for Part 2 we decided to limit the targeted controllers to those that still function in either a 32 or 64 bit, 33 MHz or 66 MHz PCI slot and support SATA or SATA II drives.
DriverHeaven took a look at some PC2-8500 memory from Geil and Corsair. Additionally we'll take the world’s first look at Abit's new Fatality AN9 32x SLI motherboard. Abit are not the first to market with an AM2 board however they do produce some of the most feature packed products which perform to the highest level.
BenZor spotted this 715Mpixel pic of Sydney at night.. very cool. I can almost see into my old office window, wow. Anyway, discussion and "who can find this?" games in this thread in The Pub.
OCW have info on an ASRock board that can not only be upgraded from S754 to S939, but now supports AM2. If you own the K8Upgrade-1689 Socket 754, you are in luck. Thanks to ASRock, thehy have released a new BIOS upgrade which allows you to upgrade the S754 board to Socket 939 (already available since 2004) and now to Socket AM2!
Azrael has more info on the worm that looks like WGA. The Cuebot-K worm spreads via AOL Instant Messenger, registering itself as a new system driver service called 'wgavn'. It carries the display name 'Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification', and runs automatically during system startup.
Tech-Hounds revisit SLI with modern GPUs. Even with the addition of vertex shader units and much higher clocked core, the GeForce 7600GT SLI behave in a similar way to the GeForce 6600 SLI and 7800GTX SLI. With a hit-or-miss proposition on performance and a surpassed quality offering, the only advantage SLI has at the moment for users is ease of installation.
Bit-Tech have a lengthy article considering the ethics of video-game violence and kids. But the potential for violence to leap out of the game world into reality is not the only danger. Your health could be at risk as well. In August 2005, a 28-year-old South Korean man collapsed in an Internet café in the city of Taegu after a 50-hour Starcraft session. He hadn’t slept at all or eaten much during his mammoth bout of ‘real-time strategy’. The end result was death from heart failure induced by exhaustion.
Interesting Forum Threads:
Gigabit file copy only averages 40MB/s, should be at least 60MB/s in Networking & Internet.
Recommend me "Extreme" silence in Extreme Cooling.
Native threads per core: Woodcrest/Kentsfield in Intel Hardware.
Fake 1GB Sandisk SD Memory Cards in Storage, Backup & Memory.
AT LAST!! New X-FI non beta drivers! in PC Audio.
3D Sound and Digital Cables - Why your games are in stereo only in PC Audio.
My Shuttle plane/LAN adventure in Portable & Small Form Factor computing.
North Korea tests "long-range missile" in Current Events.
Which avenue to explore? in Graphics & Programming.
Welcome Albeeny :) in Team OCAU.
Windows Notepad Easter Egg in The Pub.
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