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Friday, 19-February-2010 03:42:02 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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ATI's Catalyst 10.2 drivers are causing quite a stir, with coverage on Tweaktown, LegitReviews, PCPerspective, Icrontic and Techgage. Discussion in the forums here and here.
Tech Report compare Core i3 and Athlon II. What happens when you test the Core i3-530 against the Athlon II X4 in a broad suite of benchmarks, while considering power efficiency, overclocking headroom, value, and historical perspective? Repetitive strain injury, if you're us. For you, though, we have a massive, comprehensive CPU roundup.
IGN ponder gaming in 2020. Live on IGN, a mammoth developer roundtable feature discussing what gaming will be like in the year 2020. Contributing to the discussion are representatives from 5th Cell, Blizzard, Turn 10, Rocksteady, Ubi Montreal, Radical, Capcom, Platinum Games, Gearbox, Guerrilla Games, FreeStyle Games, Bizarre Creations, Avalanche, Chrome and 2K.
Stephen Conroy continues to draw fire, with suggestions he has made too many bad calls and should be axed, thanks enigma. If governments were not required to take into consideration the political fallout attached to decision-making about who does and does not sit in cabinet, Kevin Rudd would surely have sacked Conroy by now.
Timbot spotted this interesting article about TechEd admins rickrolling leechers. We don’t shape the traffic on the network at all and nor do we see it as our role to police or restrict delegate use of the network (a policy that will, no doubt, change for tech•ed 2010 based on last year). Given this, we had to do a bit of seat-of-our-pants work to identify who the main culprits were and then implement counter-measures to at least lessen their impact on the delegates who were at the event to learn and share (rather than download).
Neerav wonders if we're headed for digital dark ages. One of the great ironies of the information age is that we are creating an abundance of information/multimedia content in the form of photos, video and text on the internet, computers and portable devices but also losing/destroying it at a fantastic pace because it isn't archived properly for the future.
Bjorn3D checked out some high-end hard drives. We are reviewing four Seagate Cheetah NS.2 600GB 10,000RPM 6.0Gbit/s SAS hard drives in order to see how well they perform in tasks like video editing and composing.
NASA has slashed the prices on their Space Shuttles, thanks von Stalheim. All stock must go! No reasonable offer refused! If an entire shuttle is beyond your budget, consider a main engine instead. NASA had hoped to charge up to $800,000 for these but lack of interest has forced it to slash the price. They are now available for free: a bargain in anybody's language. Just bear in mind that the buyer must pay for postage and packaging.
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