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Tue - 07-Mar-2000 There's a water-cooled Athlon here, actually. First one I've seen, I think. They get a bit evangelical, so be warned. Kyle from HardOCP checked out the Soyo SY-6VBA-133. This board has been around for a while, I've had one for months and liked it, then hated it, and now I love it again. If you read my "Adventures with Apollo" article you'll know why.. :) In fact, the dog-slow performance of the board in his review leads me to think he hasn't read my article.. This is one of the nicest water-cooled rigs I've ever seen. Check out the twin radiators! Actually a lot of good info there, it's a NZ site I've linked to before. Coupla serious dust-sucking cases here. They have the AOpen HX-08 fulltower and have added an extra 7 case fans, I dunno, looks like overkill - the guy lives in Iceland, not Darwin. :) I'm working on my HX-08 fulltower at the moment, I've got a coupla Sunon 80mm's to exhaust out the rear panel, just trying to figure out a nice way to mount a 120mm intake on the front panel.. hmm. Sandra2000 is out! The big news for me is (limited) Win2K support and SMP benchmarking.. mmm, downloading now to see how the dual 572 box stacks up. InsaneHardware (another Aussie site) needs a new logo and is willing to swap you a FreeSpeedPro GFD Athlon-overclocking thingy for one. More Oz goodness from TweakTown, who are having trouble deciding whether ISA or PCI modems are the best. Easy one, guys - external modems are best 'coz you get to see the flashing lights. And, you can turn the stupid suckers off and on when they forget their own name and where they live etc. An amazing revelation from Cold-Wired! Seems those young whippersnappers have found something called a Celeron 366, and discovered that you can run it at 550! This is amazing! They call it "overclocking" .. heh, young people of today.. actually, some interesting info there, even if nothing revolutionary. More Oz stuff - pull up the comfy chair and check out Dan's review of Asus's P3V boards (the P3V4X and P3V133), with a little dash of Alpha for flavour. A long read but a good one. Interesting stuff on some Crusoe-based Webpads (net terminals) here. You remember Crusoe, Transmeta's chip? Amazing how quickly stuff dips in and out of the limelight in this game. Specific info on the Crusoe chip's thermal issues here. IXBT have a low-end video card roundup here. Interesting stuff from the Russian lads. You can win some stuff from MadOnion (makers of 3DMark2000) by bragging about your BX-based AGP overclock on overclockers.com. Thanks to Aaron for letting us know. Modified temperature probe here, interesting. Sun - 05-Mar-2000 Perhaps this is somehow related to some of the more silly computer/internet laws coming out of the US lately. The Promise FastTrack66 hack seems to be a real one, in case you missed it in the forums there are a couple of threads here and here where people in Oz have gotten it to work. RAID0 (striping) makes a definite difference to speed and if you can do it in hardware it's even better. I'm very sorely tempted to get one of these cards and keep it aside for when I can afford a couple of decent drives to hang off it. I don't imagine these units will be sitting around on shelves for long when the word gets around. Update: It was on Slashdot a day or so ago, quite a few people reporting success now. Interesting stuff on Primus's ADSL service here. Apparently they will limit downloads to 300MB/month to avoid "gutting the industry overnight".. 300MB PER MONTH??!??!!? Most of us probably do that with our freakin' 56k modems NOW! Thanks to a coupla folks for pointing it out in the forums. Please sign this petition about Amazon. It's important - this kind of patent-office idiocy has to be stopped. And, if you're in a petition-signing mood, you might be interested in this one which wants to prolong the life of Socket7. Speaking of stupid patents, Intel are trying to patent a fan which is driven by a remote motor.. gosh, what will those whacky engineers think up next? Remind anyone of anything? Fanbelt in your car, pehaps? Oh noooo, this is inside a computer, so it's completely different.. HardOCP have some interesting stuff, firstly info on how to spot the new stepping Coppermines (here on intel's site) and an air-cooled Slot1 Coppermine 550 (old stepping) with the standard HSF hitting 825MHz! Some info on old Sun boxes here. I sometimes get offered old Sun boxes but don't know much about them. Solaris is apparently pretty sexy, but you can always load up Linux on most of them. Info on building switches to set your fans between 12V and 17V here.. kinda like a turbo fan mode for those hot days. More fuel for your anti-mac drunken rants down at the pub here, comparing them pricewise. Anyway, it's my woman's birthday today so we're heading off to the Blue Mountains for a few days.. back tuesdayish.. Mon - 28-Feb-2000 I checked out some odd little bits of kit from Senfu today, the Super Box is a little slide-out drawer for keeping stuff inside your case and the Overclocking DIY House is a kit for building a frame for your PC, kinda like a case without walls. I dunno, I just review 'em. :) Found this wandering around the web, an Aussie with some pretty serious air-cooling in his case. This is very interesting, a bookmark for sure. IXBT have done a historical review of the entire x86 series of chips, all of Intel's offerings plus Cyrix, AMD, Rise, you name it. Thanks to InsaneHardware for the link. AkibaPC have got some interesting stuff up. Yeah, it's in japanese, but scroll down a bit and check out the pic of the dual slot1 apollo pro 133a motherboard! That could be a very sweet board - from Tyan though, not famed for their friendliness towards overclocking but usually rock-stable. Sat - 26-Feb-2000
- Update #2 Have you purchased any Acer
Peripherals in the past? You don't have to suck up to win - be honest, that's the point. I'll draw 10 winners randomly from the emails. Entries close 12 March so make it snappy! In case you're on the hunt for .18 micron Athlons, PCIndex and Eyo Technologies both have 'em in Oz. PCIndex also have the NinjaMicro FreeSpeed Pro GFD device for overclocking your Athlon. I don't know of anyone else bringing GFD's into Aust at the moment. PCIndex also have a 4-way Athlon cooler comparo here. VRZone have reviewed the Gigabyte GA-71XE. It's an Athlon board based on the old AMD 751 chipset. Dunno why you'd buy one, what with KX133-based boards like the Epox EP-7KXA available now. Interesting article on Quantum Computers (no, not the HDD people) on 3DWars. Fairly fluffy and not as technical as I would've hoped, but it stops your head from exploding I guess. The Ars-Masters have taken a look at DDR vs SDR on GeForce video cards, how much is hype and how much is real performance, interesting stuff. Tomato has his Athlon 550 at 925MHz air-cooled.. Pics of Transmeta's Crusoe chip here. Interesting article on the Apollo Pro 133A chipset here. Quite in-depth, they also show the speed penalty for the AC97 sound. Sat - 26-Feb-2000
- Update #1 CHUK have taken a look at the Razor Boomslang. I still prefer the sexymouse. :) This is pretty cool. Apparently the Promise Ultra66 is almost identical to the Promise FastTrack66 and if you know what you're doing, with a bit of soldering and a BIOS flash you can convert the former into the latter. Why is this cool? Well, the Ultra66 is a fairly bogstandard UDMA/66 card while the FastTrack66 is a UDMA/66 RAID card, which does hardware striping (very sexy), mirroring, the works. There's a page in german (translated into English by a machine so some of the phrasing's a bit odd) which tells you exactly what to do here. This was actually brought up in the forums here and nobody believed the original poster.. (I have to admit, the www.whathaveyoubeensmoking.com line made me laugh) .. just shows that 'mazing stuff can happen, do your research before nay-saying! Of course, if you blow your card up, it's your own silly fault. On the other hand, sometimes nay-saying is good. I like to give most people the benefit of the doubt, but this one threw me. Ever considered paying a psychic to talk to your dog and tell you what they think about stuff? Quote: I'd give her a question to ask my dog and sit in silence while she telepathically communicated the question and received the answer. Then I'd listen to her explanation of what my dog had said. How fascinating, with my dog it'd be "FOOD FOOD FOOD THROW THE BALL FOOD FOOD FOOD".. Ars-Technica have taken a look at a PC Power & Cooling Case. Looks pretty funky.. 3DWars checked out an Athlon overclocking combo (case, mobo, chip). Obviously we Aussies would build something from scratch rather than buy this particular kit but it's interesting reading anyway - interestingly, the CPU is sold pre-overclocked.. isn't this what AMD are jumping up and down about at the moment? InsaneHardware have the scoopage on the ASUS P3V4X.. says a few interesting things about it. My review of that board coming soon. Seagate have announced their 15,000 RPM hard drive.. imagine a couple of those spinning up in your box, sheesh! HardOCP have taken a look at Abit's VA6. My review is here for comparison. Over on ClubOverclocker they have some info on certain batches of Micron memory sticks not liking overclocking with coppermines.. just particular batches, it seems. Worth checking out. Interesting stuff on EETimes about a new material that's very peltier-like but much more effective. Could turn into something big.. Part 2 of FiringSquad's Intel Developer Forum coverage is up now. Serial ATA (hmm), USB, RDRAM etc. There is a very interesting article on NVNews.net about 3d imagery, how to present an image with depth to the human eye - goes into many examples and even has ones you can look at (crossing your eyes and whatnot). Quite a long article but I read it end-to-end which is pretty rare for me. Check it out here. I don't know if this'll do any good, but maybe if enough of us sign up at this Pizza Hut page we will be able to order online! Woo. Dominic sent in this info he found on AMD's site. Very interesting! They don't mention the last character's value - it's 'C' for .25 Micron and 'A' for .18.  More stuff later this arvo probably.. Tue - 22-Feb-2000 Ever get the urge to stick your PC to the wall? Me too. Some debate going on in the forums about the news on this site. I'd appreciate your input here. If you just can't get enough of the international media phenomenon that is the webmaster of this site, ie, me, then read an interview with me here. Look Mum, I'm famous! Surprisingly enough, I tended to wander off from the topic of the questions and rant from time to time. Possibly useful thing about decoding the K7 serial number to work out stuff about it here. Nothing too amazing but interesting, C's and A's and all that. Actually that whole site is a new Athlon-specific one. Thanks to David for the link! Some water-cooled stuff here on 3DWars.. nice radiator. I'm a neanderthal when it comes to sound cards - both my main systems have ISA cards in them [hangs head in shame]. I quite like the look of the SBLive but it's getting a little dated, I wonder what will be next. Anyway, the SBLive! X-Gamer is reviewed here. Mmmm, gold thermal paste available now from OverclockersHideout. More thermal paste action here, a 5-way comparo on ClubOverclocker. There's a page on modifying the VOS-32 to fit your K7M etc here on heatsinkguide.com. You can read our world premiere review (I love saying that) on the VOS-32 here. Info on a new 140GB CD standard here. Obviously I need to work on my MP3 collection some more. Seriously, some very interesting stuff on clear 3d memory towards the end of the article. Thanks to Malcolm for the link. A couple of new Aussie hardware sites have popped up, check 'em out - Insane Hardware, run by Jai Ketteridge who frequents our forums and has written a review here and TechWatch.com.au which is the resurrection of Steve's Corner of the WWW. Techwatch is giving away a couple of Acer scanners, so go nab one for yourself! Interesting article about Intel, Athlons and the general state of the market by the Ars-Masters here. Review of Outlaw's retail water-cooling kit here. The page colour scheme reminds me of some Amiga game I can't remember.. There's a new Aussie shop up, dedicated to PC cooling stuff - called BelowZero, here. I dunno if they're any good yet but the website looks pretty nice (not that that means anything). FiringSquad have a review of the Athlon 850 up here. Amazingly enough, it's just like all the other Athlons but a little bit faster. Please form an orderly queue in front of the cash register. Good news for me, nVidia have released their Win2K drivers for TNT2, GeForce etc. Woo! Get 'em here. An 11-way RAM roundup here on Overclockin.com. Interesting stuff, would you believe they have a stick that does 160MHz at CAS2? Lotsa nice big looking fans on this site. Thanks Tom! Tech-junkie.com visited an Australian games developer's office and talked to them about their new driving simulation and some other stuff. Aussie site from a regular visitor here, talking about his water-cooled machine (looks pretty cool, dual waterjacket for BP6). Be warned, there's a lot of ranting about the republic. :) Interesting Itanium Overview on Insane Hardware. Silly name. (the chip, not the website.. well, actually..) A report on Intel's recent Developer Forum here. Plans for the new chips etc.. Interesting round-up of a few Athlon GFD overclocking cards here on TechReport. 6 different ones put through their paces. AussieGamer has info on a probably-huge LAN party in Brisbane soon. 3 days! Finally, a "LAN Party Case" is checked out here on Overclockin.com! Mon - 21-Feb-2000 ..and stop sending me email calling me a slacker. :) I've been busy! Doin what, you say? Well.. there's this review of the Epox EP-7KXA, for starters. It's an Athlon board based on the new KX133 chipset and it's pretty damned sexy. Also, I took a look at some card coolers from Globalwin. Mon - 14-Feb-2000 News update coming soon. I'm off to bed. :) Sun - 13-Feb-2000 I checked out the 2CoolPC Plus - it's a ducted fan setup for improving your in-case airflow. Seems to work pretty well. Tue - 08-Feb-2000 I have been working my way through the competition results these last few days. Over 70 entries and man, there are some really good ones in there. It's going to be a toughie. Hopefully I will have it all finalised soon and the winners can claim their Cool Stuff! OK, I got a lot of email about the Optus@Home message they sent out. Thanks to everyone who sent info, I didn't reply to everyone personally. Seems everyone got the same message (basically, "We're ready but not in your area yet"), even people who already have Optus CableTV in their house! People seem to be having better luck by ringing them up (I don't know the numbers) and requesting it. In some cases Optus have rung people. Apparently the install takes 125MB and they will only touch Win95/98/NT4 - Win2K and Linux they won't set up for you. Pricing is as follows (quoted from a reader, quoting from literature, presumably - thanks Graham!): Optus offers a 12 month contract
(better than 18 months mr telstra) The other option is no contract,
$398 for the Nortel cable modem and Either at the end of the 12
month contract, or after paying your $398, Also at the end of the contract, you go to the $59.95 / month plan. According to someone who supposedly works for Optus but I can't verify, it is "100Mbps shared link so get in early" .. also, unlimited traffic (for now?) but he doesn't know if static IP's and hosting from home is going to be allowed. From the looks of the site it doesn't seem it will be, which is a bummer for me, I woulda liked to host this site from my own Linux box at home so I have basically no disk space restrictions. Ahh well. Someone tell me what it's like when it's installed.. "Fast!" does not constitute a review. :) All of this info could be bollocks for all I know, just passing it on. A few folks have mailed in to say they've picked up a Hercules card for a bargain price (see the last few days of news for more details). Grant says he's found them in Sydney, go to Adelong Computers (I think that's the right URL) and they have them there as Skywell of course. Apparently these have a 200MHz default core speed and according to this review are still up for some overclocking action. If you buy one and it's not a Hercules don't come crying to me, I'm just passing info along from the peeps. :) There's another fan-switch setup here. Good wiring diagrams in case you want to set one up yourself. This site has pics of a week 52 Athlon 550 cracked open to reveal a 750MHz core and 3.6ns cache ram. 900MHz was a no-brainer air-cooled. Keep an eye out for these monsters for sure.. Pretty in-depth article on graphics technology here. My eyes glaze over while reading this stuff so I don't know if this is actually good info or not. Similarly, nanotechnology gets checked out here on 3DWars. If you're interested in an excellent sci-fi/cyberpunk read about (among other things) a society where nanotechnolgy has gotten out of hand, I can heartily recommend The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (my 2nd favourite author at the moment). Great book. Overclockin.com take a look at the Northwind GFD card for overclocking yer Athlon. They also look at the FreeSpeedPro which does pretty much the same thing. Tech-Junkie have looked at the Creative GeForce Pro. You can compare our recent review here. If you can read Japanese you'd be able to tell from this page that .18 micron Athlon 550's are now on sale in Japan. This is very cool stuff. Remember my Senfu review from Friday? ClubOverclocker have the whole kit reviewed here. I have received the kit (and a bunch of other stuff) from Senfu now and am checking it all out, reviewage soonly.. Living proof on an Aussie site that BX and the Coppermine can be a viable solution. UGHardware have an opinion on the Intellimouse Explorer up. Compare our review here. Fast-MHz (don't gimme any o' them normal MHz, I just want the fast ones) take a look at the 2CoolPC ducted fan. I have one of these in the test box right now. Some silver thermal compound info here. Info on the VapoChill mega-cooler here. Sleep now. Fri - 04-Feb-2000 No news tonight, off to the Steve Vai concert! I'm away all weekend, so have a good one and see you all Monday! Wed - 02-Feb-2000 Jason King took a good look at the Creative Labs GeForce Pro. That unit is sold in the US as the Annihilator Pro. Get your DDR-GeForce luvin' here. Jim's rodent fetish struck again - this time the A4Tech 4D+ (model WWW-11) mouse was the object of his attentions.. quite cool - 4 buttons, 2 scroll-wheels (!) and scans at 520dpi.. and a bargain, too! Ars-Technica have a review of a very funky case up. Gary from www.overclockin.com says he has scoopage on the new Abit video card site. Well, I can't find the info on his site but I sometimes have odd caching problems here. Go check his site out anyway, lots of good info there. PCStats.com have a review of a slot-fan up. Looks very similar to a unit we reviewed here. A review of the ACT RS Shifter here.. it's a gearshift, for you driving-sim heads. Looks pretty cool, I must say. More info on the Skywell Magic TNT2 cards that seem to be Hercules Dynamite's in disguise (also mentioned last news update) - Kyu Kim says he picked one up (from Melbourne Computer Centre) and it looks exactly like this, which is a pic of the Hercules. The BIOS says it too, but not in the manual or CD. Looks like all the Skywell ones with TV Out are actually Hercules cards. If you're a Melby person looking for a good TNT2 card at a good price, might be worth checking out. Saw over on the HardOCP that there may be available soon a Socket370 -> FC-PGA converter. This would let you use a coppermine on your socket370 board, in theory.. mmmm.. if they work on the BP6 I will be very happy. I'm going to stay calm until I see a review of one, though, looks almost too cool to be true at the moment. I like to give the Aussie sites a plug - here's one (run by someone I knew YEARS ago) that does reviews and info on new shareware and freeware software. Interesting page and updated regularly but not many hits, so go check it out.. Tech-junkie.com, another Aussie site, have a case-painting howto posted here. The coolest one is the reader submitted one. :) Yet another Aussie site, pcindex.com.au, have an overclocked Athlon article up.. A competition to win a Linksys networking kit here. Dunno if non-US people can enter.. you basically have to grovel in their forums and whoever sucks the hardest gets the goods.. err, so to speak. Did everyone else get that message from Optus@Home? "We're ready but can't do it to your house yet.." ..? Did anyone get a message saying they can do it straight away? Interesting article here, comparing hardware T&L (a la GeForce) with doing it in software (ie, on the CPU). Benchmarking and stuff. A review of the card cooler here. Simple but effective. Sun - 30-Jan-2000  Tom from pccables.com.au sent info on some videos on Intel's site which show you how to remove the SECC/SECC2 casing on your processors. Cool. Until now I've been recommending this guide on D'Best in the West. I don't have realplayer on my PC so I dunno if the vids are any good or not. PeterC sent along some very interesting stuff, plastic heatsinks that work as well as aluminium ones, but of course are much lighter and can be made into pretty much any shape you can think of, 'coz they're plastic. I mailed the manufacturer for a review unit a week or so ago but got no response.. their loss. Zach says if you go to Melbourne Computer Centre and get a Magic TNT2 Ultra card for $279, what you'll actually get is a Hercules Dynamite card - all the manuals, drivers, BIOS etc say Hercules Dynamite TNT2U. These were one of the kickass TNT2U cards, from memory, so they're a real bargain for you south-of-the-border folk. It even has TV out! Araknid reports that the new nVidia drivers for Win2K give a 15% performance boost when SMP'd. So if you've got a TNT2 / GeForce, 2+ CPU's and Win2K, go here (under downloads) for free speed! Fysh sent in news of a PC133 memory roundup here. YYK sent in this link - some interesting products there, big industrial coolers. How does a water-cooler capable of dissipating 100 KILOWATTS of heat sound? Well, it probably sounds like a helicopter taking off, and it's a little big to rest on top of most cases.. but anyway. Here's a 42-CPU benchmark comparison. Phwoar. Coppermines, Athlons, Celerons, K6's etc etc. SDRAM vs RAMBUS. It's all there. Yes, it's in Japanese, but you can look at the graphs and see what they're talking about. Anand has an i820 motherboard roundup posted, interesting stuff. I'm waiting for him to review the time-machine that lets him crank out these incredibly detailed reviews while still having time for school. Geez. Pretty cool article on 3DGameForce, how to make some switches for your fans, with LED's and all. I really like the pro look of this guy's case. I snarfed the link from HardOCP, as you do. Screaming3D (is it just me or is that site really ugly? Not that I can talk..) have a review of the big plastic scoopy duct thing from 2CoolPC. If you remember I linked to another review of this thing about a week or so ago and said I thought it looked dumb, well the manufacturer liked my comment so much they sent me one for review. :) It's in the queue now, look for it soonish. ClubOverclocker checked out some Siemens PC133 RAM here. They also check out a water-cooling kit here. If you had a 1GHz Athlon machine, what O/S would you install? Linux, of course.. or at least, Bill from cpureview would. Check out his results here. 3DWars have a head-to-head between 2 UDMA/66 cards up.. DGENR8 hardware (run by Jai Ketteridge who did the Buddy Virtual PC review for us) has a story about an iBeast up. No, I don't understand it either. :) I can't believe how many freakin' GeForce reviews there have been. Here's a page listing (hopefully) all of them. Actually there'll be another one on this site soon.. argh! :) Overclockin.com have taken a look at the Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler. See our review here for comparison. Nice watercooled P3-450 @ 648 by Komson.. CHUK have an interview with someone from Quantum3D, who make big-momma 3DFX-based cards. These guys took 3x P3-500E's as high as they could go, interesting. Offtopic, but this gave me a chuckle. Found it wandering on /.. Lastly, some new sites have come up, 2cold.com, Tech-3D, OCHaven, G3D, Magic Torch Overclocking (??) .. Thu - 27-Jan-2000 To keep you busy, here's a review of 6 new SECC1 coolers. These, of course, can be used to cool P2's or Athlons. I reviewed the Everglide Large Attack Pad a week or so ago but forgot to put it on the news page. Silly me.. check it out here. REMEMBER: To enter the competition you must MAIL ME a zip of your entry! All the discussion and beta sites etc in the forums is fine but unless you mail it to me it won't count! Competition closes midnight Monday night! Tue - 25-Jan-2000 It was my birthday yesterday! :) Proper news update tomorrow. Tue - 18-Jan-2000 Roland has reviewed the Skywell TNT2 M64-based video card. These seem to be quite a bargain if you're interested in decent, but not bleeding-edge performance. Check it out here. There's a general article that kinda covers a few o/c'ing topics here on ughardware.com.. Silly article about overclocking your SBLive! here. Thanks Tom.. :) If you've run out of ideas for how to blow your PC off the side of your desk, consider the dual slot cooler from TweakTown.. no pics sadly. I still prefer the mega intake-fan from last week - that's good for sucking in pets and small children too. Some guy in Thailand has his P3-500E at 900MHz.. air-cooled. Bah! Thanks to Rogalski for the link. Yetanotherheatsinkcomparo here. The FDP-32 wins. Quick, everyone look surprised! :) Guru3D have a review up of the Guillemot 3D Prophet GeForce 256 vid card.. The latest 3DWar is Slot1 boards vs Slot1+Socket370 ones.. Bill at cpureview.com has part 2 of his 1GHz plaything review up.. If you're interested in Socket370, FC-PGA and the differences between 'em, check out this new site dedicated to just that kinda stuff.. thanks Al. TargetPC has taken a look at Iwill's Slocket2.. FC-PGA in yer Slot1 mobo. Tech-Report has info on H.Oda's new Athlon L2 cache control program here. Fri - 14-Jan-2000 Some cool new P3 coolers came my way last week, I checked them out here. I have updated the contest conditions, nothing major just some clarification of stuff asked in the forums. Still over 2 weeks for you to enter and win the Millennium Edition motherboard or a Palm IIIe or the other cool stuff.. Bill from cpureview.com has taken a look at the Kryotech 1GHz Athlon system.. This is maybe exciting, according to Kryotech their Australian distributor is www.grouppsi.com.au in Arnecliffe, Sydney. Not much on the website so if you're after some frozen 1GHz action you might wanna email them to see what the deal is.. thanks to Cheshire for the info. Cluboverclocker have taken a look at some strange case coolers here, they look pretty dumb to me but he seems to like them.. MattyD dropped me a note to say that Adrenalin Computers in Hindley St. Adelaide have got the MSI FC-PGA adapter (the 6905 Master) for AUD$26.00. Good news if you're having trouble finding them. Eyo have the IWill SlocketII in stock now. Another stupid Internet law is working it's way through the US courts. Check it out here, definitely sounds like something we don't want as a precedent for Australia. Bill Gates hasn't resigned (bloody media) he's just changing his role from management-oriented to technology-oriented.. so everyone just calm down. :) Vr-zone took a look at the EPoX EP-BX6 Special Edition motherboard. This has an in-built debugging card and a wide range of FSB's.. hmm. Quite a lot of Peltier info here, including a big list of manufacturers. Thanks to PeterC for the link. 3DWars have compared the Asus V6600 Deluxe with the Elsa Erasor X, some GeForce action for you. Interesting article on salvaging/making thermistors from old laptop batteries here.. An Aussie Gamers List database is up, they hope to have a list of everyone's email and ICQ so you can hook up for games or send abusive mail to that spotty 12yo who just gave you a pasting.. :) This guy is quite inspiring. Link stolen from HardOCP, it's a very solid attempt at building a dual watercooled box based on the BP6. This is something I've been idly puzzling over for a while (sealing those two sockets is a bitch) - well thought out, very nicely executed with great results to show for it. Go check it out! YMC have taken a look at the Alpha P3125, the copper-plate P3 cooler.. Heatsink-Guide have sneak pics of the new Globalwin VOS-32 heatsink with twin 60mm fans. This is a monster and quite neat because it can be used on SECC1 (P2 / Athlon) or SECC2 (P3) processors. Sun - 9-Jan-2000 Craig pointed this out in the forums, a really sharp looking 120mm intake fan on an AOpen HX-08 fulltower. Very cool! Cluboverclocker have taken a look at the RDJD K601 Socket370 cooler here. Will at cpureview.com is starting a weekly newsletter with news highlights from all the big hardware sites (including this one). If you're interested you can sign up from the front page of his site. Aussiegamer have reviewed 3DFX's Voodoo3 3500 TV AGP here. A little off-topic, but Beowulf is something I've been interested in for a while. It's a clustering system for Linux, which lets you use a bunch of Linux machines as a virtual supercomputer. AboutLinux.com have an interesting article here, sent in by one of their readers, about converting a research team's supercomputing facility from SGI/IBM boxes to a Linux/Beowulf cluster. 3DWars are continuing their series of company briefs - this time they look at Intel. Tech-junkie have reviewed the Abit BP6 motherboard.. Ben Wu sent this in, it's a website of Y2K Mistakes - lots of screenshots of sites with y2k-related errors. Some of them are pretty funny, saying "No Y2K issues!" and being dated 1900 or similar.. :) There's even a shot of SharkyExtreme there.. If you worked over the millennium weekend you will be able to relate to this "Open Letter to the Y2K Bug".. This is a funny review of the different foods you're likely to eat at LAN parties.. Sat - 8-Jan-2000 Wed - 05-Jan-2000 Tom from pccoolers.com sent word that one of his customers had strapped a Globalwin FDP-32 onto his GeForce.. no, I'm not kidding. Heatsink lunacy here. Tom also reports he now has loads of those SuperDual Twin-Fan Socket370 coolers in stock. We reviewed one here and it beat the FDP-32 by a degree. Will over at pcindex.com.au has overclocked his P3-500E to 700MHz.. I've seen this before but Timbo reminded me, using carpet pad to quieten your case - I should set this up on my dual box, unpleasantly loud.. Very cool Athlon Overclocking Page here, diagrams for an overclocking card and other funky stuff.. Comparo info of the Athlon and G3 / G4 performance under Lightwave3D and Photoshop here. In case you're wondering about the performance info of the above link, Ars-technica have an interesting architectural examination of those two processors here. Dr Damage has an Athlon 800Mhz overclocked to 900Mhz (hmm, whoopee - actually, that seems to be about the air-cooled limit for the current core) Overclockin.com have a PPGA Cooler Comparo up. Spot the link back to this site. :) Kat is selling his water-jacket here in the forum. That is exactly the same unit as I used for my original water-cooling experiment here. Seems ABIT made some mistakes with their latest BIOS for the BP6. Don't do it, kids - some severe problems with PCI IRQ assignment if you have ACPI enabled, apparently. Abit have pulled the file from their website and recommended everyone flashes back to the previous version. That's presuming your machine still boots. :) This is why I always wait a couple of weeks before trying these things.. Mon - 03-Jan-2000 Anyway.. now's your chance to:  That's right, the competition I've been hinting about is finally on! Win yourself some goodies, go check out the details here. If you want to ask questions or discuss the competition please do it here in the forums. Read the thread before posting, maybe someone already asked your question! The cool logo is by flamingtext.com. Also, I took a look at a couple of hdd coolers recently, including the "Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler", the big blue one. Next up, Telstra is giving free training on how to alienate an entire customer base. Learn from their years of experience in this field by visiting Whirlpool, an independent site dedicated to the Big Pond Advance community. Very interesting site and you better check it out soon, because thanks to Telstra's insane pricing decision it will be shut down in about a week due to skyrocketing traffic costs. Also, if you're on BPA, a router-head and like playing in-depth with TCP/IP, check out their idea for possibly getting free-ish access. I dunno about you, but I've already registered my interest with Optus@Home.. Got a BP6 and having trouble getting SoftFSB to work? Thanks to Jon in the forums for letting us know that a proggy called BP6FSB is available here. It's a beta, so be careful. If you're not hip to the whole SMP thing, you can read "SMP Explained" at SysOpt.com.. and kick yourself for not buying a BP6. :) Interesting water-cooled experimental stuff here, worth a browse if you're thinking of joining the "people with a bucket next to their PC" club. Cool domain name, too. Thanks pOstal for the link.. Scott over at ClubOverclocker has done a review of the Abit BE6-II. He likes it. A lot. Like, maybe Scott and the BE6-II should get a frickin' room or something. :) Tech-Junkie have a review of the Videologic DigiTheatre Decoder.. external Dolby thingy, for doing surround sound processing if your DVD card doesn't do it. Nothing really new here, but interesting lapping info anyway. Thanks to Ryemax for the link. Bah, back to work tomorrow.. no more Y2K.. now it'll be GST.. sigh.. :) Thu - 30-Dec-99 Click the picture for a closer look!  Ok, it's another joke pic.. sorry. :) Yesterday I took a look at the RDJD K602 Socket370 Cooler. Not a bad little unit for the price and very compact, too. Gary at overclockin.com has checked out Trinity Micro's golden-finger Athlon overclocking gadget. See what he thought of it here. 3DWars have continued their series on chip companies with some info on Cyrix. CPUReview have some musings on Intel's lessons learned from RAMBUS and the fact they are now talking to RAM manufacturers about standards instead of trying to lead the market with a proprietary product.. Fast-MHz took a look at some speakers from Boston Accoustics and a case from Apex.. Tue - 28-Dec-99 On with the news. First up I'd like to officially welcome Servex as our major sponsor (note the banner on this page). You've probably noticed Servex have given us a few goodies over the last few weeks for testing - we've basically formalised that relationship now. Before you say it, yes, I know they're an AOpen distributor and NO, that won't bias us towards AOpen products. I have made it VERY clear that if they send us something that turns out to be junk, we will label it junk just as we would anyone else's products. They are happy with that as they want to know faults so they can do it right the next time. Also, we will, of course, keep checking out other manufacturer's products too. In fact, I have an ASUS P3C-2000 in the testbed right now.. Secondly is something not entirely on-topic and I bet I get flamed for this.. AllAdvantage is now available in Australia, you can download the software and start earning $$$. Now, I'm not going to get into a big debate about whether it's a good idea or not and whether or not webmasters should be promoting it, but the quite simple fact is that this site does NOT pay for itself yet, and if [a] you were thinking of joining AllAdvantage anyway and [b] you want to support the site somehow, this might be a good way to do it. It doesn't affect how much you earn to have me as your referrer anyway. Ok, enough of that. Why do I feel dirty? I've started a topic about this in the Forum, too, go give me your thoughts. Interesting stuff on Joshua, Cyrix/VIA's it's-gonna-be-here-sometime chip, here. Useful thing on Freak! about configuring Windows NT to turn off your PC on shutdown the same way Win9x does. I don't think they mention versions, I presume they mean NT4. It involves copying your HAL files around which if you do wrong can leave you in an unbootable state, so be careful. I've not tried it yet as I'm not using NT4 at home anymore. However, my Win2K machine doesn't do it (turn off) either (Abit BP6 mobo) .. hmm. Speaking of which, I saw over on the HardOCP that there is a new BIOS for the BP6 which fixes a Y2K issue. Nice timing, guys.. CPUReview have some info on Intel's plans to make graphics chips again. Overclockin.com have a comparison of 7 different sticks of RAM, seeing how high each can be cranked. Interesting stuff. Interesting history of AMD article on 3DWars.. OverclockedPC have dug around in Overclockers.com's database and worked out, based on that data, which CPU's are hitting the highest average speeds.. I wouldn't use this data to make buying decisions as [a] there's no way to work out what percentage of each chip is overclockable and [b] there's no way to verify the accuracy/stability of the reported speeds. Interesting read anyway. Speeder is yet another program to magically speed up your PC. These things usually turn out to be bollocks so I haven't looked at it and probably won't, but Overclockers Workbench have, here. Someone tell me if it bumps your frame rates in Q3. :) Huge guide to Unreal Tournament on Gamespot. UndergroundHardware have taken a look at sticking a peltier onto your TNT2 card.. GeForce performance? Not quite, but an interesting idea.. Tech-Junkie have taken a look at some Videologic goodies - the Sirocco Crossfire sound system here and the SonicVortex 2 sound card here. Interesting article on EMBM (environment mapped bump mapping) here on Guru3D. Discusses features vs standards, the eternal debate.. There. That lot oughtta keep you guys busy for a while.. :) Wed - 22-Dec-99 Also, from now on the links on this news page will open in a new window, due to a few requests I've had lately (wow, people read this stuff :) ) - non-news links and normal in-site links will stay in the same window.. Kyle at the HardOCP has taken a look at the FC-PGA (flipchip) P3-500E. Seen a few reports of these chips hitting monster speeds now, hmm! Maybe the next big thing. He also has some Top-Secret Intel Roadmaps, so put on your Secret Squirrel cap and check it out. Notably, Intel are moving from Slot1 to FC-PGA almost completely. Looks like Joe over at overclockers.com heard my curses at the Soyo SY-6VBA-133 motherboard recently. He's got one for review too and has been having similar problems to me. He's obviously smarter than me, though, he got his readers to solve his problems for him. Some common issues and solutions here. Jim dropped a note to say that Leadman have changed the price on the 400W PSU he reviewed for us here. So stop hassling them for the price we quoted in the review, things change. I updated the review to reflect this.. Dan Rutter (another Aussie) at DansData has a review of the AOpen AX6BC Pro II Millennium Edition (shorter names from now on please Mr AOpen) here. Interesting stuff, you can compare my world premiere review (cough *modest* cough) here. One thing jumped up and smacked me from Dan's review, though, he says: "But a C-366 is fairly unlikely to be able to manage 550MHz - well, not without voltage goosing and hefty extra cooling, anyway".. hmm, what a silly thing to say given the huge (and very easy) overclocking successes people have had with that chip. Tom over at www.pccables.com.au has finally gotten a more sensible URL for himself. In case you don't know, he brings in a lot of Globalwin and Vantek coolers, cooling fans etc. All kinds of goodies for your overworked PC, not just cables. So he's now at www.pccoolers.com .. still an Aussie site, despite no .au. At least one happy person from that FIC SD-11 fix we brought you on Monday, according to this thread on arstechnica.. A new site under construction, hwlinks.co.uk. Not a whole lot there now - hopefully will become a proper catalog of sites so I can just redirect my "links" page to it. :) I had to mention it, though, as we're the only site listed under "Overclocking Sites".. :) Saw Austin Powers 2 again last nite (it's on video now). Heather Graham is awesome. That's all for tonight! Mon - 20-Dec-99 Interesting article on 3DWars - an interview with Eric Boeing, marketing dude for Abit. A few good questions there, like "Why is ABIT building graphics cards suddenly, and not making any Athlon boards?" .. something I have wondered myself. Check it out here. Tech-report have been playing with an 800MHz Athlon, lucky sods. Overclockin' reviewed the Alpha P3125 - this is the big P3 monster cooler with the copper heat spreader plate, worth a look. Before you ask, no, I don't know anyone bringing Alphas into Australia.. so just drool quietly or buy some from the US over the 'net. TargetPC takes a look at R2D2, C3PO and a couple of ewoks. Errr, no! Sorry, they take a look at the RDJD K701 Athlon cooler.. Bill from Cpureview.com has compiled what he knows about Intel's new "high-end" chipset, i840, into an article.. nVnews have a thingy up on tweaking Q3's graphics settings for quality vs performance (all pretty obvious, but interesting screenshots showing the differences) Just got an EverGlide pad in the mail from AusPCMarket, hmm, smoothy smoothy.. kinda gives me a weird urge to chop up some carrots on it, though. Review soon. Sad stuff - Saw over on slashdot that Desmond Llewelyn, who (among other things) played Q in all but 2 of the Bond films, died yesterday in a car crash. Q was a true geek hero - I was very sad to see him farewelled in the latest Bond flick.. it's a tragedy that he's gone for good now. Actually, quite bizarrely, I was probably watching a Bond video at the time - last night I had a quiet one at home with the girly, watching "Octopussy". Fri - 17-Dec-99 To prove my point, I took a look at a quite funky (do I use that word too much? ahh, funk off. :) ) dual-fan socket370 cooler. You too can enjoy the sound of a dual machine without all the problems of actually having 2 cpu's.. (like, having more clock cycles than you know what to do with). Actually, this unit is quite fu.. err, neat. Works well and looks good, too! Stick it in your clear perspex case with the Millennium Edition motherboard.. SystemLogic have taken a look at the Soyo SY-6VBA-133. I have one here and it's a very useful board, but I haven't written a review of it yet because I've been having so much freaking trouble getting it to work with various sticks of RAM and HDD's.. some compatability issues there for sure. When it works it's pretty cool, though.. Hardware-One take a look at the DDR GeForce-powered Creative Annihilator. This would have to be THE kickass vid card to have now. Apparently it's coming here soonish.. thanks to Brett for the link. Deeztech have a Socket370 Cooler Shootout up now, 5 units including the Alpha.. Kyle over at the HardOCP has some cool mousemats.. Cpureview have some semi-interesting info on Athlon boards, in the form of email from their readers.. A little Danish dual watercooling action with a fridge.. not enuff pics for my liking, but there you are. A quick look at the DFI PA61 motherboard, another Apollo Pro 133 based one here. Wed - 14-Dec-99 AOpen are certainly pumping out the funky hardware lately. Their latest video card, the PA3030, is a TNT2U card (with SGRAM, mmm) which has "Open BIOS" on it.. what's that? It's a BIOS setup program, you know, just like your motherboard, that lets you adjust the core and memory speed, core voltage, i/o voltage etc.. check the screenshot:  click for big pic As long as this BIOS utility lets you crank the card as high as the programs like TNTCLK and PowerStrip let you, this should be pretty cool.. (unless you make your living from writing those programs). More info on this card and this technology in 2 Word documents, here and here. AussieGamer.com have a review of the AX6BC Pro II Millennium Edition up now, too. Check out my review from yesterday for comparison.. Shannon from NZ has updated his page, more info on his C400 at 744MHz, watercooled with peltiers etc.. now if only he'd realise that HTML frames are eeeevil.. :) Saw over on OverclockedPC that the funky radiators I've seen offered for sale in Japan and Taiwan are now available in Canada.. ok, it's not Australia, but at least it's an English-speaking country.. I emailed the manufacturer in Taiwan and distributor in Japan but they never mailed me back.. Suck.com have a parody of Slashdot.org up.. hehehehe. 3DWars have taken a look at a few mice. I'm not going to make a balls joke. :) They cover 3 models, including the Intellimouse Explorer (sexy+) which we reviewed a few weeks ago.. www.Fast-MHz.com have a new look now, pretty cool and it only cost them a C300A. :) Actually some good stuff on that site, worth digging around on if you're stuck for summat to do.. This is interesting, despite not being entirely relevant to Aussies, I'm sure it happens here too. TheChipTesters have taken a look at the ripoff prices some places charge for shipping (the old "our prices are cheap but we make it up in shipping" scam). Check it out here.. My PalmIII died the final death yesterday, I was very sad. It's about 18 months old I think, so I was fully expecting to have to pay to have it fixed, or buy another one, or something.. rang 3Com Australia, they said "No worries, post it to us and we'll send you a replacement free of charge.." .. cool! Tue - 13-Dec-99 That's all for tonight, sleep now.. Mon - 12-Dec-99 Some funky stuff on HardOCP today, a very sexy looking Athlon-adjuster-card-thingy, probably the tidiest looking of the many floating around at the moment.. and a neat kit for cooling yer GeForce.. Impressive pics on www.overclockin.com of a Coppermine 650 at 890MHz.. Intel are hitting the big MHz but the Athlon just blows them away in the Sandra stakes still.. ..and while I'm stealing links, over on arstechnica I spotted the sexymouse.. you can sod your ergonomics, we want mice with tits. Wow, it's finally happened - a computer on your wrist! cpureview have some info on a cheapie DVD drive by Cicero .. anyone seen this stuff here? Saw on Club Overclocker that overclockers hideout have a funky water-cooling block up.. Hey, would anyone be interested in a yourname@overclockers.com.au email address? It'd be a web-based thing, kinda like Hotmail I guess.. if enough ppl are interested I will set it up.. mail me.. actually, post your answer here in the forum. Sat - 11-Dec-99 Cpureview have more info on RAMBUS and it's future direction here.. Interesting one here - a review of a Gigabyte card using Matrox's G400 chipset.. hmm. It only works with Gigabyte motherboards.. good one, guys. Tech-Report have taken a look at Trinity Micro's adapter-adjuster-thingy for the Athlon's golden finger connection.. TweakTown is trying to get a benchmarking database of Sisoft Sandra results up, you can add your own results there. TargetPC have a comparison of HDD coolers up.. There's an interesting thread running here, about the stability of the BP6. Certianly seem to be a lot of unhappy people, but I'm not one.. I wuv my BP6 (aww).. ..and on our own forums, there's been some sleuthing regarding who's making who's power supplies here. Interesting stuff! Fri - 10-Dec-99 BIll at cpureview.com has gazed into his silicon ball and given us a preview of VIA's upcoming KX133 Athlon chipset.. Tech-junkie now have a review of Quake III up. This has replaced Driver as my standard burning-in and stress-testing program.. :) Steve Hardy let me know that the Tyan VIA 133A board is here in Aus finally, the distributor is here, there's a review here and Tyan's info page here. Overclocker's Workbench have some pics of the new Abit VA6 posted.. Joe over at overclockers.com has been playing with the Coppermine P3-500E and he thinks it's the next big thing in overclocking. How big? Well, he can't exactly tell, because he maxed out his board at 776MHz and the chip seemed unconcerned.. no change in voltage. Passive cooling only. Woah! Still no RAMBUS for me. Boo-hoo. Saw over on the HardOCP that ASUS have a Dimmverter that will let you use SDRAM DIMMS in your RAMBUS motherboard. A couple of readers have told me that Eyo have these in Oz.. hmm, kinda defeats the purpose.. but if nobody comes through with any RAMBUS I guess I'll have to! Thu - 09-Dec-99 Bill at cpureview.com has sent his Celeron SMP Petition off to Intel. Basically he wants them to NOT disable SMP on the die of future Celeron and other "low-end" chips, so that hobbyists and normal humans who can't afford dual P3 boxes can still enjoy dual processing.. I am typing this on a dual Celeron box and you can bet my name is on that petition, along with 16,000+ others. You can add yours here if you like, even though it's been sent off to Intel already, more names can't hurt.. 3DMark2000, which will pretty much become an instant benchmarking standard and videocard showing-off tool, was released in final form by MadOnion.com today. I've not downloaded it yet, but from the screenshots they are much much better at writing benchmarking software than choosing domain names, which is a very good thing. Tech-junkie have managed to pull off some bizarre time-warp thing and have written up a review of 3DMark2000 already.. remember, they're another Aussie site, go check 'em out. Link spotted on www.overclockin.com, this air-cooled Athlon 500 at 884MHz! Dr Damage has put up a pretty cool Athlon Overclocking FAQ. As you'd expect it's full of good stuff including a question I've been wondering myself, about the whole Athlon 200Mhz or 100Mhz bus thing.. Office Christmas party tomorrow.. must not get drunk.. must not dance like an idiot.. must not voice opinion of co-workers.. must not destroy career. Mmm, free booze.. Tue - 07-Dec-99 Speaking of RAMBUS, 3DWars have a comparison of PC133 and RAMBUS memory. They don't have their hands on any either, this is a technical theory type of comparison.. interesting stuff about the relative timing of the chips etc. Fast-MHz have finished their competition now - if you entered, head on over and see if you won a C300A.. Dimension-X have some news on the new Athlon coolers from ComputerNerd. They've put some serious thought into cooling CPU's on the K7M, getting around the dreaded power connector, and come up with some pretty funky stuff.. Some info on the new Abit VA6 on OWB.. looks like another "We're afraid of Intel, don't tell them we made this board, we'll just tell everyone in the universe and try to keep it a secret anyway" thing like the K7M. I bet this is all just some big marketing thing.. don't believe the hype! :) Check out this Aussie site's review of Unreal Tournament.. still haven't seen that one myself, actually. Too busy playing WITH my PC's to actually play ON them.. Big Willy Henning over at CPUReview has dug around again and discovered that the Athlon+FIC mainboard is cheaper than P3+BE6 at every clock speed.. US pricing, of course. I could tell you if it's true for Oz too, but I can't be bothered digging through the Trading Post for that long. :) Speaking of Trading Post, there is now a forum for buying and selling stuff on this site. I noticed a lot of this kinda stuff going on in the other forums, may as well give it a proper home. Check it out here. While I had the admin program open, I thought I'd create the talk-about-anything-you-want forum people have been asking for, too. That's here, called The Pub.. I'm accepting suggestions for a better name. :) I normally hate these pseudo-inspirational things, but my sister just sent this and it's pretty cool: > in the words of George Carlin: hehe :) Mon - 06-Dec-99
The AX6C will be in Oz on the 13th of this month for a RRP of $349. No ETA on the AX6C-L, but the RRP is $329.. if you want to compare the layout of these two with the AX6BC-Pro, there's our review of it here, and our sneak-peek of the Millennium Edition here. Akiba Hotline has pics of the AX6BC-Pro II Millennium Edition on sale in Japan. Remember you saw it here first, kids. Some very funny stuff here - Computer Stupidities.. some of these are absolute classics if you've ever worked in support. :) Wow. The Chinese have upheld a death sentence for a guy who hacked into a bank.. I know, geek purists will say "He's a cracker not a hacker" .. whatever. Too late, guys (for him, too). Got informed of my working hours over the New Year today.. a 12-hour shift from 18:00 on 31-Dec until 06:00 on 1st Jan.. f'n great. Sat - 04-Dec-99 Apparently the AX6BC-Pro II Millennium Edition (sneak-previewed here on Tuesday) will be in Australia in a couple of weeks. RRP will be $349.00.. and then you have to buy a nice transparent case to put it into. :) If you know anyone selling an Amiga 4000 (within Australia or international - must be revision 11 socketed Buster) send this person an email as he's looking to buy one. Woah! This one isn't fake, but it's huge.. check out this card, the "Mercury", from Quantum3D:  I got the link/pic from this Jailbreak conversation - the manufacturer's info is here. I hope they give away free card coolers with those monsters.. :) Hardware-One aren't quoting their sources, but apparently there will be an FCPGA adapter for the BP6.. yes please! HardOCP is 3DFXgamers site of the week.. funny interview here. GamePC has taken a look at a bunch of full-tower cases.. they don't have my current box, the AOpen HX-08, nor the only thing I'd replace it with, the Supermicro 750A.. still, they look at 5 different models, worth a look if you're in the market. ClubOverclocker has put up part 2 of their Overclocking Journey.. some useful links and info there. If you're looking for a spanish-language overclocking site, the new "Overclockers Chile" may be useful to you.. not much there at the moment but it's still new. Fri - 03-Dec-99 This is pretty funny. News from Battlax in Japan - FIC are demonstrating an Apollo Pro 133A-based board, the KA11, which has replaced the powerup diagnostic beeps with a female voice telling you the problem. "Warning, processor not detected", "Warning, hard disk failure" .. "You just turned me on" .. "I'm getting all hot inside now" .. eerrr! Ok, I made those last two up. :) Anyway, check it out and listen to an example sample (a sample sample?) here. You've seen these before, but they're still really really cool. I want one. Lots. Does anyone have any idea where to get things like this in Oz? I have emailed the manufacturer in Taiwan. Might have to get someone at work to do the translating for me. There's all kinds of goodies on this page. Japanese text, but check out the pics.. note the external USB DVD-RAM drive.. mmm. Also a funky little thumb-type keyboard for palmpilots. Obviously don't have thumbs as big as mine.. Overclockers Workbench spotted that the new Intel board has diagnostic LED's that you can see from outside the case.. neato. EYO have the Asus V6600 Deluxe GeForce (as reviewed yesterday here) in stock now, $635 for probably the most kick-arse card you can get in Oz at the moment. There's some GeForce info from Asus (fairly generic marketing waffle, but interesting in places) here .. it's a zipped .pdf. In case your head hasn't quite exploded with GeForce stuff yet, try PlanetGeForce.com.. SGI are giving away a remanufactured O2 box. If you click here, you'll be able to enter the competition to win it, and you'll also give me an extra chance (some kind of referral thing, I dunno. Dunno what I'd do with it, either - put it in the pile with all the other poota bits). Overclocking.telefragged.com has a review of the Soyo SY-6BA+IV up.. Thanks to James for answering my Genlock question from yesterday in the forums.. Stuck on what to buy people for christmas? This site has some cool stuff (and some shite).. I'd love a life-size (7 and a half feet tall) Darth Vader statue for my computer room.. :) and check out the "Truth Quest" phone! Hmm, 2 parking tickets in 2 days.. Thu - 02-Dec-99 For another side of it, check out Thresh's review of the card which also went up today. I note they don't bother clocking the card higher than the included utility allows.. bah, amateurs. :) If that wasn't enough GeForce action to satisfy you, check out this page, which has (apparently) links to every GeForce-related article ever published. Lots, anyway. Digital-clips have an article on Overclocking t |
