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GeForce 9-series: a big disappointment
Clive Webster
The GeForce 9-series has three flavours so far: GeForce 9600 GT - a mid-range product that performs near-identically to an existing 8-series product and costs roughly the same. GeForce 9800 GX2 – a massive graphics brick that inelegantly combines two underclocked 8-series GPUs for high performance and Sun-like temperatures GeForce 9800 GTX – a minor update to the 512MB GeForce 8800 GTS that performs near-enough the same, but costs..
Another NDA: 2pm once again
Alex Watson
Nope, it's not an April fool. A company really is launching a new product today... Check back later for the full story :) ..
Skulltrail on its way
James Gorbold
I just finished a very productive phone call with Intel's helpful PR chap. After discussing the merits of Christmas pudding he revealed that a Skulltrail demo kit (CPUs, motherboard, RAM, HSFs) is on its way to CPC, ETA this Friday. Hopefully this means we'll be able to start uploading some benchmark results from this monster system sometime next week. For those not aware what Skulltrail is its Intel's attempt to provide..
A world without marketing speak
Chris Lee
I have to read a fair amount of marketing speak, you know: "This USB sticks shifts the paradigms of your digital life to enable..." I just want to know how much it is and where I can buy it. So, I put forward that henceforth all unnecessary enthusiasm be banned, and to help hardware companies make this transition to plain English, I've helpfully translated a page of AMD's website: Original: The new, all-AMD..
NGE ; You Are (Not) Alone.
Adam Piper
It seems the people over at Gainax have been busy this year and have bought out a new Neon Genesis Evangelion film. /!\ Spoilers for the NGE Series! If you plan on watching the series DO NOT READ! /!\ Those of you unfamiliar with the NGE series, the basics of it follow Shinji a 14 year old kid who after three ears gets a call..
Service Pack 3rd Time Lucky
Kenneth Henry
Make that a third installation of XP Pro. To cut a long story short it was my separately downloaded SP3 which caused my crashout, strange GDI32.dll errors and a reinstall last night, though it was largely unattended this time and wasn't the main PC. Both machines were re-imaged and this time, the update was sought from Windows update only and worked along the lines of the CPC..
Exams Suck! And CRF get pulled to bits.
The I can't think of a name blog
I've just finished my Year 9 SATS. They truly are the most miserable thing in the history of ever. I mean, the people who wrote them were so fed up they went and played on F.E.A.R, because it said "Alma put 20mg of...". That nearly made me bust out lauging in the exam, and nearly made our clan as well! The clan, some of you may know, is a UT2004 one..
Square Eyed and Fat... Realy???
Square Eyed and Fat
Sad as it is, this is how most of the world seem to see us. (us being computer fanatics) If you tell someone that youre into computers, their immediate impression tends to be: geeky fat person who sits in front of their computer every spare second of the day. In reality however, i dont think many of us fit that mold. I dont know any computer addicts (for want of a better..
Final Pictures!
Heaven & Hell
Now I'm running 2 reservoirs - one for return and one for pump feed with a join in between - and there's not much room at the top of the case so hosing it was a nightmare. This is the best I've been able to get it, can't really think of it any other way?
Tinkering again!
My First Custom Case
I got the lighting installed and everything else, but I was bored as I had nothing left to do. So I decided to change my graphics card. I sold the 8800 Ultra and EK waterblock and have bought a 9800GX2. I have never tried an SLi setup and was curious enough to give it a go. As I have an Asus P5K, a 9800GX2 was the only way to go..
First thoughts.
My First PC Case.
Perspective viewThe Hole. So i've had a teensy bit more thought put into this project. The space i've got for the case measures 18x17.2x10". Which is the size of a small case on it's side. Which is a good thing. I've decided to base the design on my old case - it fits nearly perfectly into the enclosure. I think it'd be much..