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Hacking Your Xbox 360 Fan "Unable to source a replacement DVD-ROM drive that might run more quietly than the stock product, we settled for replacing the 360's fan with a quieter model—which, as a bonus, glows green. While the DVD-ROM drive will still make our ears ring as we play games that cause it to spin up, toning down the fan noise will help when playing Xbox Live Arcade games or enjoying downloaded or streamed movies or music, which don't trigger the optical drive."
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What happens if your PC is on fire? "The most curios results of this experiment (i.e. despite heavy flames lurking out of the case, the pc still runs windows) we've captured on HD-Video. The full version (ten minutes!) is on our magazine's cover mount DVD for the 04/2008 issue but we've decided to already give you a glimpse of what's to come. Enjoy the pictures (just click on an image, and the gallery opens up) and some snippets from the movie in our galery and the linked video. Registered Members enjoy the benefit of a downloadable Trailer in HD quality." Geez, the fire brigade gets Mercedes Benz trucks.....
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HD-DVD confirmed dead Company sources at Toshiba said it is mulling three main options. Option One: Stop selling recorders and specialise in players. Option two: withdraw from the Japanese and US markets and march on Europe, where sales are stronger. Option Three: retreat completely from the next-generation DVD business.
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3DMark Vantage RC0 screenshots released "These “screenshots” are captured by digital camera. It seems the RC0 version of 3Dmark is not stable, because it can’t even finish the benchmark and reporting errors. source said his testbed can not finish Graphic Test 2, and all the graphic test/CPU test/feature test can not be ran one right after another or it will crash. The application still have lots to improve. Just for your information, 3Dmark Vantage is a Vista/DirectX10-only benchmark program and scheduled to be released at GDC on Wednesday the 20th of February 2008. Source said there both release note and spec did not mention DirectX10.1."
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Wii to Displace Xbox 360 by End of 2008 "Nintendo's popular Wii game console will displace Microsoft's Xbox 360 as the new-generation game machine, iSuppli said Thursday. The market researcher forecasted that the global installed base of Wii game consoles will rise to 30.2 million units in 2008, up from 18 million in 2007, putting it ahead of the Xbox 360's projected 25.7 million units. The Wii is already riding a wave of popularity that saw it win the greatest growth among new game consoles last year, according to iSuppli figures. There were only 3.2 million units in people's homes at the end of 2006, jumping to 18 million at the end of last year. The Xbox 36…
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Wal-Mart dumps HD DVDs to back Blu-ray "Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) has decided to exclusively sell high-definition DVDs in the Blu-Ray format, dealing what could be a crippling blow to the rival HD DVD technology backed by Toshiba Corp (6502.T). The move by the world's largest retailer, announced on Friday, caps a disappointing week for HD DVD supporters, who also saw consumer electronics chain Best Buy Co Inc (BBY.N) and online video rental company Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) defect to the Blu-ray camp."
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Lego Machine Gun We build the base and the rest for the slide first. I will only list the parts, assembly is straight forward and goes according to the images.
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Radeon 4000 HD info "New High ending model becomes the ATI Radeon hp 4870 X2 (R700XT). Like the Radeon hp 3870 X2 are used here two (RV770) diagram chips on a plate. Also over 2 TeraFLOPS (FLOPS = floating decimal point operations per second) this diagram map should be theoretically four times faster than a Radeon hp 3870. Radeon hp 4870 X2 diagram maps can to be equipped with 1 or 2 GByte GDDR5 memory and be supposed approximately 250 Watts to use. A chip clock of 1050 MHz and a storing act of 1800 MHz are planned." <<< actual Babel Fish Translation of the same page
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ACM LAN Party 2008 is approaching! Tournaments, prizes, food, soda, and tons of gamers! Date: Sat. March 1st Time: Noon - Midnight Location: UB Student Union *SIGN UP NOW:* www.acm.buffalo.edu/lanparty FEAR TOURNAMENT W0000000000000000000000000000000000000000T
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You could take on 26 five year old kids in a fight.
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Flash drives ready to jump in capacity "SanDisk and Toshiba will start making flash memory on a new 43-nanometer manufacturing process that will result in SSDs later this year with capacities that should approach those of today's mainstream 2.5-inch hard drives, ranging between 120GB and 160GB."
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Team Fortress 2 Valentine's Day Update "Tomorrow (2/14) at 11 am PST all PC versions of Team Fortress 2, the class-based multiplayer action game named PC Game of the Year by Gamespy.com, will receive its largest update since the product was first made available on October 10, 2007, as part of Valve's best-selling Orange Box compilation. The free update includes global optimizations for networking, graphics, and player statistics, plus improvements to Source TV for tournament viewing. In addition, three of the currently available maps (Dustbowl, Granary, CTF_Well) have been iterated for enhanced performance and gameplay. The release is headlined by the intr…
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