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• Secret Agents from Gigabyte @ hardwarezoom

  Published: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "Our Special Task Force has managed to capture one of them alive at GA-8IPE1000 Pro 2. After a series of interrogation and tortures, finally they have revealed their secrets of boosting the performance of the new Gigabyte i865 motherboard without our users knowing.
  
  Read our report to find out what C.I.A and M.I.B. have done to secretly make your games run smoother and your video encoding done faster than ever."
  Could these be fancy names for new overclocking controls?? Or does Gigabyte actually have secret agents working for them? The limo gives it all away.

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• Xice EC600/H Athlon Kit Review @ Water-Cooling

  Published: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "The two most common reasons for changing over to watercooling are: 1. to overclock further and 2. to reduce the noise level. Today I will be reviewing the Xice EC600/H which aims to tackle that second reason. The Xice kit is an external unit which contains no fans and a quiet water pump and therefore can run practically silent."
  Pretty fancy external cooling unit but without a fan to keep things cool you are very dependent on ambient temperature when it comes to cooling performance.

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• Cooler Master JET 7 Review @ LegitReviews

  Published: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 | By: Dennis

  Some of you may remember the Cooler Master Jet from our Computex 2003 Coverage. Well here is the engine that made it fly. (so to speak)
  "It may not be the best cooling heat sink out there, but nothing can beat it when it comes to creativity on looks! If you have ever had the desire to have a heat sink fan that looks like a real jet engine this is it!"

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• Gigabyte GA-8KNXP i875P Review @ PCStats

  Published: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "In terms of peripheral expansion, the Gigabyte 8KNXP features an 8x AGP Pro slot as well as five PCI's. The six DIMM slots can accommodate up to 4GB of ECC/Non-ECC PC2100/2700/3200 DDR RAM, however you can only use eight banks of memory. Each side of DIMM counts as one bank, so plan your memory early lest you be caught with six double sided DIMMs of which only four will be used."
  Kind of makes you wonder why they even bothered to include 6 dimms. Gigabyte was one of the first companies to release a Canterwood enabled motherboard and it’s good to see it can still run with the best of them.

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• Zalman ZM-WB2 Waterblock Review @ ModFathers

  Published: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "It significantly whopped the Altantis within the flow rate of a pump pushing at 600l/h, it must be remembered that the Atlantis was designed for a higher flow system. It performs better with a pump above 1000l/h, however with the success of blocks such as the White Water this high velocity / high turbulence design clearly has great advantages over the older higher flow ones."
  I’m quite surprised at how small the Zalman block is compared to some other that I've seen.

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• Dorkstorm: The Annihilation

  Published: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  These sorts of lists are hella funny.
  "Live Action Role Playing
  Distinguishing Characteristics: Aside from the barbarian clothes and giant monster heads, it’s impossible to know who might be LARPing. The only way to be sure is when they throw make-believe fireballs at you from their very fingertips, but by then... it’s already too late. "

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• Reaping and Sewing From Corn

  Published: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "Earlier this year DuPont announced a new polymer called Sorona that is used to make clothing such as swimsuits, negligees, carpets and upholstery. Sorona products are based on petroleum, but DuPont has joined with Genencor to engineer a microorganism to ferment sugars from corn and corn biomass that would replace the petroleum."
  And you thought corn was just for dinner.

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• Microsoft unpacks details of Longhorn storage

  Published: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "One of the most significant enhancements to Longhorn is a data storage system called WinFS, technology designed to make information easier to find and view. Clearing up long-standing confusion, a Microsoft senior vice president said that WinFS will work with--not replace--the existing file system in Windows, called NTFS, when WinFS debuts in late 2005 or 2006."

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• 'Subversive' code could kill off software piracy

  Published: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "Fade exploits the systems for error correction that computers use to cope with CD-ROMs or DVDs that have become scratched. Software protected by Fade contains fragments of "subversive" code designed to seem like scratches. The bogus scratches are arranged on the disc in a subtle pattern that the game's master program looks for. If it finds them, the game plays as usual."
  Pretty smart but I don't think it would be hard to get around.

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• NL: Review Block

  Published: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 | By: Dennis

  phj34r the l33t 9r45pin9 ph0r p0w4!!
  
  Or something like that.
  
  - Aspire X-Alien Review @ 3dXtreme
  - Thermalright SLK-900A Heatsink @ BleedinEdge
  - Microcool NorthPole Northbridge Cooler @ TheCruible
  - Aerocool Extreme HSF Review @ Overclockers Club
  - Radeon 9800 Pro Volt Mod @ MadShrimps
  
  This review block to you by..

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