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(link) Sunday, 5-November-2006 19:43:55 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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MadShrimps spotted a peltier-powered VGA cooler from a company called MACS. They are concentrating on making the TEC cooler work for VGA cards, the TEC is rated up to 18W and is cooled by a massive construction of 4 copper heat pipes, a large copper base and a series of aluminum fins which are cooled by two 80mm fans.
OCAU member Bonkers has been working on a free online RPG called Kalune. More info in this thread. It's in pre-Alpha mode at the moment but there's apparently plenty to do and a competition etc.
PCMech have look back at the soap opera of CPU history. The Durons, like the Celerons, were crippled revisions of the company's "cream of the crop" processors. So what's different? AMD held one major advantage over the Celeron. The original dual-pumped front side bus stuck, and so it offered a 200 Mhz FSB over the Celeron's 66Mhz FSB speed. Intel responded when they upped the FSB to 100 Mhz. The war rages on...
AllAboutTrust spotted some Australian Wii pricing here and here: $399au, December 7th, Just in the nick of time...
Shadowman and koopz both sent in this 3D video technology on Engadget. The video images generated by the four projectors are re-assembled within the prism-like pyramid through a process of mirroring and reflection making them appear to float in mid-air.
Check out this amazing ad for Sony's Bravia LCD screens, using paint fireworks. The effect was stunning, but afterwards a major clean-up operation was required to clear away all that paint!
eCoustics explain HDTV and 1080p. Everything you wanted to know about HDTV resolution and the real world benefits and myths of 1080p are discussed in this very detailed article.
A site called Windows-noob tried to find out how resistant IE7 is to spyware/toolbars etc in the hands of a complete newbie. I wanted to see if IE7 was any better than that screenshot of IE6, how would it cope with a user that simply clicked 'yes/allow/next/accept' to everything that was presented to them.
Justin sent word of a change to Vista's licensing terms. Our intention behind the original terms was genuinely geared toward combating piracy; however, it’s become clear to us that those original terms were perceived as adversely affecting an important group of customers: PC and hardware enthusiasts.
Those of you still thinking multi-core CPUs are no good for gaming might be interested in this article on DriverHeaven covering Valve's thoughts on the subject. Driver Heaven USA Hardware Editor James Gregory was at Valve's Headquarters a few days ago and he has written up a very nice article on Valve's new strategic implementation for multi core CPU's.
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