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Wednesday Night Procrastination
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Wednesday, 2-May-2001 22:39:58 (GMT +10) - by alchemy
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Hmmm.. Agg's ran off and left us alllll alone in the OCAU house.. ehehe, actually, I don't know where he is, and I'm bored.. (actually, I'm just procrastinating.. 'sif I want to write 4000 words of uni assignment) so here's the news.
First of all tonight, The-TechZone is giving away a GeForce3. But it's mine. Sorry. I just thought i'd let you all know before you waste your time entering a contest I've already been pre-determined to win.
AMDMB have reviewed the Taisol Copper Bottom. Sounds like something you'd use in the bathroom.. but it's actually a heatsink with a copper insert in the base. I see why they called it a Copper Bottom tho.. the official name for it is "CGK7600092" riiiight. Anyway, interesting to see all the lower-priced coolers following the trend Alpha started many years ago.
Umm, I'm sure many a flightsim fan of you knows the name ThrustMaster. Well, they've been bought out and restructured and corperatised and all big finacial wordasized. Techextreme has reviewed one of their new products, a Dual Power force-feedback gamepad. Seems the big word fad is catching on at ThrustMaster, now Firestorm.
More FREE STUFF! over on SystemLogic.. this time it's your choice of 2 128Mb sticks of either PC133 SDRAM or PC2100 DDR RAM.. your choice! And it is your choice, because I havn't won this one.. unlike the GeForce3. Which I have already won.
There is a big kerfuffle going on about the Thermosonic ThermoEngine heatsinks. Apparently, the first revision of the heatsink that was reviewed by alot of sites featured a hollow core. Thermosonic has, however, supposedly released a new revision of the hs/f featuring a solid core.. which is leading to temperature increases of between 4 and 10 degrees.. which is quite alot. News about it here, here and here.
Neoseeker have reviewed a AVC 112680, and I now know why the orbs have been so popular.. you can actually remember the name. That, and an orb of some sort performs better than the AVC thing in their tests.
Brad has noted that the new Det 12 drivers for nVidia cards are boosting the performance of P4 systems by up to 50% in some instances. So for all you three readers that have bought a P4 system, you might wanna check it out. More info on AcesHardware.
PCStats have written an article about when you should upgrade your BIOS. And I'll answer that in two sentences: When a new BIOS offers a significant performance or compatibility upgrade. Or when you're feeling bored.
If your netstats are looking low, Mort reckons you should check out this movie. Mine are high, so I havn't checked it out. It seems to be large-ish tho, so probably only for the most dedicated of modem users.
It seems all the buildup to WindowsXP has been a anti-climax, as it could quite possibly of been delayed, at least according to the above-linked ZDnet article. It's Microsoft Software.. what do you expect? Look at their past release history.
Umm, apparently there is a new version of WinAmp out, 2.75. But its not on winamp.com.. soooo, you might want to proceed with caution. I must take this moment to say tho, MP3 is probably THE technology that has had a huge effect on me over the last 5 years. The Internet, eh, little bit harder to define. But MP3 - easy to define, and big effect.. and the whole time it's been WinAmp churning out the tunes. I love ya man! *hug*
I wonder how long it's going to be until people realise that "internet enabled" does not mean sales anymore. It barely even means hype, I'm only linking to this because I think it's stupid. AOL (ok, and scary too) have teamed up with Swatch to make an internet enabled watch. I hate using a 15" monitor. Using a watch to read ocau? *ahem*
Andrew sent in this article about an upcomming speed increase in wireless LAN technology.. taking it from 11mbit to 54mbit. That'd pretty much solve the problem QGL went through recently about time spent rolling out cables.
Other news on the interface front is that a USB 2.0 driver is near completion. Apparently the MacOS X driver has already been written, and the Win2k/Me/9x drivers are in the beta stages. Not XP tho, MS has decided that USB 2.0 Is Not For Them.. and so, not for their l^Husers either.
Reviews:
Prolink PixelView2 GF2MX 32MB Card on TweakTown.
Linksys LNE100TX "Linux Compatible!" PCI Network Card on Rizenet.
FrontX Multimedia Ports on HotHardware.. our review here.
Kodak DC3800 svelte digi-cam on FutureLooks.
Globalwin WBK38 on TweakTown.
ATi TV Wonder USB USB TV-Card on GlideUnderground.
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