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Found a writeup over at the The Register on SuSE 7.3 Linux, from the same author of Red Hat Hell which was to say 'amusing'.

A review of the upcoming Duron 1200 is afoot over at THG. I believe that this new offering from AMD is going to be made available come monday, at least officially. A quick seach over at pricewatch turned up only 1 vendor stating delivery at the end of Nov. for $105

Here's a few screenshots of the new Castle Wolfenstein from over at the nVidia site. It's looking to be a really sharp looking game so far. I just hope that the gameplay is as good as the graphics, but knowing the boys at id, they will put out a winner as they always do. I can't wait to feed my GF3 this little piece of software! Linkage-CW screenshots

The Opera 6 beta is available for download here

Looks like the boys in Satan Clara are thinking about dropping Rambus and joining the rest of the world in the use of DDR memory. Read it all here at The Register

There are new radeon drivers posted at 3dchipset for all flavors of windows. Get'em here 3DChipset

Over at Firing Squad they put up a review of the new nForce chipset. Check it out here Firing Squad

Lost Circuits has done a great job as always of reviewing the Asus A7V266-E. This one uses the KT266a chipset. Check it out here.

I just finished my case modding for this week. Check it out here.

If your like me and wait till Microsoft releases things, here is the download page. I haven't put it on my system yet, but I rarely use DirectX. I'll do it after playing some Tribes 2

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Saw over at M3DZone that they have the new 8.1 version out.

ViaHardware has done a nice job of describing in detail the Radeon 7500 and 8500. Check it out here.

I saw over at pcgameplay a small article and several screenshots of the upcoming and much delayed Duke Nukem Forever. From the looks of it the boys at 3D Realms haven't been sitting on thier butts. The screenshots look awesome! Looks like this is gonna give my geforce a run for the money! pcgameplay

THG has a review put up pitting Nvidia's Ti500 against Radeon's new 8500 including overclocking results. Will the Radeon come out of the OK corral standing? You make the call. Check it out at Radeon vs Ti500

I saw on VIAHardware that VIA has a new design board. The Mini-ITX is 50% smaller than the FlexATX standard and it integrates a VIA C3 CPU on the motherboard. I don't like an all in one designs for myself, but I wouldn't mind setting up a internet box in the kitchen with it. You can see the full press release here.

OCworkbench has a review up of the new XP333 from Iwill. What really is weird to me is that they didn't try, or I missed it, to overclock it at all. The board sould be stable up to 166mhz FSB (Or 333mhz for you DDR peeps).

Well it looks like windrivers.com is no longer a free place anymore to track down those hard to find drivers. You'll have to pay now to the tune of 14.95/6 months and 29.95 for a year. These prices are the special introductory prices. After that they go up to a whopping 29.95 and 49.95 respectively! Ouch! At least the home page is still free. I guess I'll be bookmarking my sites a lot more these days.

So you want a new Athlon XP, but don't have the funds to pay for it? You say you can't make it to road shows they are having all over the US, because you have to stay home and change the diaper on the kid? Well you can try your luck online to win one of those puppies. Just sign up and follow the instructions. Linkage- AMD Giveaway

Check out this article over at tbreak reviewing the new MSI nForce based motherboard which is due out shortly. Ya gotta love those red PCB's! Linkage- MSI tbreak Review

Found an good article over at the VR Zone giving a how-to on connecting those pesky L1 bridges that AMD has made more difficult to unlock by lasering pits in the substrate. You can check it out here Unlocking AthlonXP

AMDzone has a review of the new XP 1900+ from AMD. You can check it out here.
Anandtech also has their own review. Click here.
ViaHardware also has theirs up. Click Here.

So you say your tired of waiting for that application or game to load up or your system seems sluggish on that i8xx Intel chipset based board of yours? If you have one of these chipsets take note. Intel has put out a program to better optimize the storage subsystem bottleneck on their i8xx based chipsets. If you are interested the download is here at the Intel website for free Intel Application Accelerator

Looks like a new update for MBM. It has a few adjustment s to clear up some issues for some users that have been having problems. An excerpt-

To solve the 2 issues (slowdown of ME and exception error) issues with 5.1 which both where in the CPU usage code I have released 5.1.0.1. It only changes 4 items, so if your okay with 5.1 then save yourself the download

I have made this a quiet release as the few changes to not really justify a big release (mailing list, news pages etc etc.)

changes from 5.1 to 5.1.0.1

- Added on/off switch for the CPU usage, about 20 peoplein total had some troubles with this part of the code.By default this switch is turned off, so if you wantCPU usage turn it on

- Added switch to ignore scan for sensor chips at $2Eor $4E, so far only 1 user needs this

- Right click on dashboard will add/remove sidebar

- % sign is removed from log if you selected to nothave any symbols in the log file

You can download the new version here- MBM Download

I finished week 1 of my case mod, check it out here.

I saw on overclockers that they put up a review on the Shuttle AK31 rev 3. Find it here.

Anandtech has a round-up of 9 AMD 760 motherboards. Check it out here.

You might have heard all about the How Modern CPU's Cope With a Heat Emergency article at THG about how to cook yourself a cpu for breakfast and end up with an Athlon omlette. Of course AMD strikes back with another article posted at THG claiming the new palomino cores with a properly modified motherboard do in fact 'cope'. AMD Strikes Back Well chipset maker Via apparently has been sitting back watching the fireworks and gotten quite a laugh from the whole ordeal. Via as you may or may not have known has entered the cpu market now after buying up Cyrix and is currently offering the C3 cpu. At current die sizes as low as .13 microns and emitting a measly 11 watts of heat from a 800Mhz cpu, they tout it as a feature to take on chipzilla and chimpzilla. And to prove it, they have put out a little 7mb video. Roll that beautiful bean footage! C3 parody at Viahardware

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It's that time again that I'm building a new computer. It feels good . This one is going to be special though. I'm going to actually mod my case. Since I go to a tech college, I'll use their CNC and other machines to chop my case. The colors will be red and black, for ASE Labs...