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Quickies, Coast to Coast
Let's start this off with some violence!
BigBlockMopar
answered the age-old question: what happens when a tank runs over a hard drive.
NeoCode sent the The Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer, and finally,
matticus discovered The Overclockerz Store is selling burnt-up athlons/durons made into keychains.
Now that we've got that out of our system, lets get some schoolin' by learning
about the facts of life:
spankweasel sent in the invisible condom.
Now math:
Jonathan Hayward sent us
A four-dimensional maze.
And some history:
John Willemin sent us a nostalgia
inducing Microsoft Ad from the days of yore.
After a hard day of education, why not travel home on your lawn mower powered
hoverboard at
a cool 15mph? (thanks LenZ)
Then we can play some
dot-com monopoly (thanks to gmag3) and see what's on TV.
MTO sent us Trailers for the Dune miniseries, and
David Hume sent an abc
article about Vinyl Video which
attempts to generate images from your records. Finally, we better check
the weather channel to find out what the weather is gonna be like ...
on Mars
(thanks noctis).
Try to get to Big Ben in London on Dec 4th, 1932.
Someone you trust is one of us.
Don't bother buying an AMD keychain from OCZ, I'll sell you the one they sold me!
I bought a Duron 600 pretested to do 950 from these guys. At first it seemed to work fine, but within a week it had developed serious stability problems, and eventually refused to boot at all (no POST, not even sync to the monitor). So I contacted customer service. They recommended e-mail, so I tried that first. After a week (I should have waited less time), I picked up the phone. Their only phone contact system is voice mail! You can't call up and talk to a real person, you MUST leave a message and wait to be called back. So it was 3 to 4 weeks after my initial purhcase that I was first meaningfully contacted and offered a small tech tidbit (that should have been on their site in the first place) that helped me out a bit, but in the end was a wash. Even after I had solved my first problem, tracked down another show-stopper and thought I had everything licked, my chip eventually did die.
The end result was a chip they promised to do 950 lasted less than 2 months, most of that time running at its stock 600. And unfortunately for me, as I was re-applying thermal compound and re-mounting the heatsink in a (vain) effort to revive my dead chip (I was grasping at straws at this point), I cracked a corner of the die, thus making the damned thing completely un-returnable.
So I have a $110 AMD-brand keychain-to-be of my own sitting right here on the desk.
Moral of the story? %$#@ those &*@#$es at OCZ! I bought a replacement Duron 600 for $50 and did the unlock job myself with a pencil and am running fine at 900 right now. You're better off doing it yourself than spending extra money and writing off any chance of getting service should they sell you crap akin to what I got.
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