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000039 - 04-10-06 (Updates Monday, Wednesday & Friday)

Welcome
Anybody spring cleaning the dusty Easter bunnies out of their computer cases?

The links page will be updated soon, so if you know of any active tech forums that are not listed let me know.

Windows XP Mac Benchmarked
Macrumors has the news about Windows XP on a Mac benchmarks. Of course their forums are heating up over the debate.

Too Hot To Handle
Are computers running too hot these days? Some people at Anandtech seem to think so. Newer high end video cards and processors have monster heatsinks now and you need a hurricane to push air through your case. I guess this is the price of progress.

More HDR+AA
It seems there is a patch coming for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, to enable HDR + AA on ATI cards. Support for this feature has been spotty at best lately. Source engine games like Day of Defeat: Source support this feature on most newer cards. However, very few games support this version that came out with the recent ATI cards. You can read about it in forum post at Rage3D.

Deal of the Day
RIM BlackBerry 8700c Phone FREE!
After rebate and Cingular service agreement.

Past deals of the day

Changing Your Letters
Sometimes a Windows install will not setup on drive C:, this of course can be a problem. Many programs like for Windows and it's system setup to be on C:. If you have had this problem you might want to check out this thread at the Tech Report.

Poll - How Hot Is Too Hot?
After reading the post above about computers running too hot these days, I found this poll at the Hardforum. How hot is just too hot for your video card?