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Friday Morning (10 Comments) (link)
 Friday, 11-August-2006  03:13:29 (GMT +10) - by Agg

From Chris: A few of the guys over in the Sport, Fitness and Health forums are starting a new Weight Loss Challenge in September and are looking for new blood to join the ranks of the weight loss champions. Come on in, sign up for either 1, 2 or 3 months and get fit and healthy in time for Summer!

Some of EA's older games will no longer work online after October 1st. There are a lot of sports gamers that don't read gaming blogs or follow gaming news online who will suddenly not be able to play their favorite games online, and they are going to be angry.

Darkness has been raving about the Dark Messiah of Might and Magic demo.. 1.5GB download tho!

From Daztay: Heres a interesting electric motor design. Actually invented by Micheal Farady (Mr capacitor). Now with the discovery of rare earth magnets makes this a simple workable design.

Motherboards.org are giving away a case and a cooler from Spire.. seems to be open to international entries.

Recently the Web turned 15 and the PC turned 25, thanks Timbot.

GDHardware have an interview with the people behind the Killer NIC, thanks dirtyd, while XYZComputing chat with Wallace Wang, author of "Steal This Computer Book".

Pretty much as expected, AMD will apparently drop the ATI brand when the merger is complete. Or then again, maybe not. Discussion here in our Video Cards forum.

From Nick, news that Google Mail no longer needs invites Down Under. "As we prepare to broaden availability, we have decided to launch these efforts in Australia and New Zealand first," said a Google Australia spokesperson.

A few people sent in this cool time fountain project.

BleedinEdge have part 4 and part 5 of their CPU cooler roundup posted.

Tech-Hounds have a GeForce 7900GT roundup. To answer these questions, we test four cards from different manufacturers: the ASUS EN7900GT TOP, Gigabyte GeForce 7900GT TurboForce (GV-NX79T256DP-RH), Leadtek PX7900GT Extreme and the reference clocked MSI NX7900GT (VT2D256E) to the test.

Quite a bit of Quad SLI coverage today, with performance and quality on PCPerspective, the DIY experience on Guru3D and eVGA Black Pearl Quad SLI setup on Hexus. More info on HotHardware and Bit-Tech.

Today's timewaster is training targets from iain. 'Survival' is harder than 'normal' and speed counts for a lot more than accuracy.



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