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Monday Night (4 Comments) (link)
 Monday, 31-July-2006  22:17:13 (GMT +10) - by aXi$te

First up for tonight, Peter sends word that ATI have released Catalyst 6.7, head over to ATI.com to grab them.

ChileHardware have a guide to changing faulty capacitors on your motherboard. If your motherboardīs capacitors are leaking or you wanīt to upgrade the quality of them on your motherboard (like we did with the DFI LanParty nF4 in the article) this is a must read guide. The original guide is in Spanish, but the pictures make up for the poor translation.

Hardware Secrets have posted Everything you need to know about Serial ATA. "Serial ATA - or simply SATA - is the hard disk standard created to replace the parallel ATA interface, a.k.a. IDE. SATA provides a transfer rate of 150 MB/s or 300 MB/s against of a 133 MB/s maximum using the previous technology. In this tutorial we will explain everything you need to know about Serial ATA."

EclipseOC have an article on their Open Air test rig: Frustrated with your closed and cramped case?! We were as well. Have a look to see what can be done about it.

Trusted Reviews have an article entitled "Build Your Own Media PC" Heres a snippit: "Anyone who read the recent budget HDTV roundup might be after a little more information on what we used for our testing. While Riyad was vigorously testing these displays with his Xbox 360 and a copy of Dead or Alive 4, I could be found bent over my lab desk with a screw driver in hand, doing things the hard way."

James Cooper sends word that E3 may not be cancelled after all? In his own fine words: Won't somebody please think of the booth-babes !@#$%"

The Air Force will close Cheyenne Mountain "the real-world setting of the fictional series Stargate SG-1", thanks TheTron.

Linux is headed into Boeing anti-sub aircraft. Boeing has awarded Wind River Systems a contract to embed its version of Linux into a new military aircraft, the company plans to announce Monday along with a new batch of products built around the open-source operating system. Thanks Jotham.

From BFM: Whilst looking for live penguin webcam feeds, turns out this site has some absolutely AWESOME Nintendo VST effects that OCAU music composers will love!

Voltus sends word that Amd have released (Subscription required) the X2 3600+ "to combat the entry level Dual core arena." Discussion right here in our own forums.

Guru3D have posted part 9 of the Definitive Multi-GPU World Tour The Definitive Multi-GPU World Tour is a collaboration between nine respected sites around the world to cover the entire ecosystem of products that make up the multi-GPU marketplace. In this comprehensive series of articles we cover the basics of implementing a multi-GPU setup and the technology behind it, what products we feel represent the best performance and feature-set for each price point, and how each setup performs using 60+ applications and benchmarks.

CambrianHouse have a video posted entitled: We fed the entire Googleplex Pizza a full-length feature about how we fed 1000 pizzas to Google.. unannounced. thanks Komodo.



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