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First up, some promo material from forum members. White Rhino wants to remind us about the Iron Photographer competitions currently happening in the forums. You can check out and vote for the entries in June's "couples" theme here. July's competition is underway as well. Remember that Road Mogul give away a 1GB CF/SD card to the winner each month.
Bit-Tech have published Butterkneter's latest case mod, EA's official FIFA 07 case. Ah, the summer months are beautiful, aren't they? There are so many great things to do for the 20 hours that the weather's nice: barbeques, beach visits, football... Well, it may not be the greatest weather for any of the above in Blighty, but that doesn't stop a good German guy from having a go. Olly, also known as Butterkneter, has done just that with his new EA FIFA 2007 mod.
Phoronix have posted an article comparing the performance of the Geforce 8 series of cards under Linux and Windows. When it comes to binary display drivers under Linux, NVIDIA is generally known as the company that's able to offer drivers that are on par with their Windows driver... However, with the GeForce 8 series we have come across some unusual issues that are limiting the performance of the GeForce 8 series under Linux and Solaris.
HardwareZone have taken a sneak peek at Gigabyte's GA-X38-DQ6 motherboard, based on Intel X38. You may have seen glimpses of them from this year's Computex showcase, but we've got close up shots of an actual engineering sample of Gigabyte's upcoming Intel X38 motherboard, the GA-X38-DQ6, as well as some information on more X38 boards from Gigabyte.
If you want to show off your fragging skills and win some cool prizes, you might be interested in the FiringSquad AMD Fragging Contest. wanted to let everybody know we are having a 30-second fragging video contest on FiringSquad. It's open to anybody-all you have to do is submit a 30 second video of you fragging away. There are some great prizes, including an ATI 2900 XT. We already have a few entries but I'd say the field is wide open.
Apparently Australians are more succeptable to their XBox360 consoles breaking due to the hot climate. Unsure if it's the reason why Matthew de Brouwer's one died. But he managed to get his one replaced despite it being out of warranty. You think he was lucky? Not as lucky as the chap who found a small fortune inside a playstation he bought off eBay.
Still with consoles, Bonafide Reviews have had a look at console exclusivity. As a gamer, have you ever wondered why Final Fantasy generally comes out on Playstation and no other systems? Or what about things like, why Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 were only redone for the Game cube and no other consoles? Ever wonder why Gears of War is on the 360 and hasn’t shown its face on the other consoles? Well everyone the answer is simple, and it lies in a little thing called exclusivity.
Madshrimps have posted up a comparison between 8 video card coolers. In this article we test and compare 8 different VGA coolers from Zalman, Gigabyte, Vantec, Coolermaster, ZEROTherm, Arctic Cooling and Titan. The models range from completely passive no-noise solutions to multi heat pipes equipped cooling monsters. Read on to find out which one(s) offer the best performance/noise balance.
It appears as though Microsoft's Digital Rights Management has been hacked again. Microsoft is once again on the defensive against hackers after the launch of a new program that gives average PC users tools to unlock copy-protected digital music and movies. The latest version of the FairUse4M program, which can crack Microsoft's digital rights management system for Windows Media audio and video files, was published online late Friday.
Optus have just introduced a new broadband plan in which uploads count in the monthly data allowance. It might be a sign of things to come with other ISPs looking to follow suit. More information about the move here. Found this interesting: Mr Malone said six years ago the average iiNet user uploaded 1MB of content for every four that they downloaded. Now the ratio was starting to exceed four in every five, he said.
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