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Watercooling Toolbox

Purpose: The purpose of this case was to: provide a durable portable solution for my water-cooled PC; cut down on noise make maintenance easier Time Taken: Roughly 20 hrs total start to finish. This does not include the construction of

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PA: First Tale

Hi, this is my first-hand experience with product activation. I signed up for the WinXP Beta program. Yesterday, I got around to installing RC1. Here are my system specs: Abit VP6 Dual PIII 700CC0 @ 1001MHz 256Mb Ram Geforce2 GTS

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History

I’ve been seeing some of the responses on my hypothetical “MS gives 5% to AIDS prevention and treatment,” which is basically a devil’s advocate argument, and I’m getting some rather interesting twist and turns. Perhaps the oddest, though, is the

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Via: Too Little, Too Late?

The Via KT266 boards are just starting to trickle in. So far, I haven’t seen any particularly good reason to buy one rather than an AMD760 mobo. Something else is trickling in, too, are nForce mobo release dates, apparently the

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MS or AIDS?

What’s Worse, MS or AIDS? No, not multiple sclerosis, Microsoft. The percentage of adults with HIV exceeds 20% in much of Southern Africa. The number of people who will die if not treated due to this will dwarf the number

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AMD Earnings Warning

A few comments about this: All these earnings warnings from the tech companies aren’t coming just because all of a sudden they decided to be nice. The SEC began requiring them last fall. Given their estimate, AMD seems to be

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Foam and Flame

Just read the article on building a quiet PC. It was interesting and fun. One worry I have is the flammability of the noise damping foam. I am a polymer scientist (PhD) and it seems to me that you may

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Die, PIII, Die!!! – Time for PIV

(Someone ought to slap me for that title. 🙂 ) Intel is supposed to have an announcement “of great significance” within the next couple weeks. Both the Register and the ex-Register agree that this probably means the end of the