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Posted by michael on from the if-santa-didn't-come-through-for-you dept.

Zygo writes "Hey everyone Merry Christmas! (Yes I'm a bit too late) Here's some Hardware & Modding news! : At WinHQ the Xoxide X450 Case, Some pretty Cold Cathode lights over here, nice MX mouses at LANParty, At ClubOC the Swiftech MCX462+T, Some shocking Shockwave Fangrills over at ExtensionTech, Playing Mp3 with the iRock 530 here, a Big cooler here, OCIA brings you the Solarism LM-1711 17" LCD screen, Vantecs Fan Controller at ExtremeMHz, and a 8x GF4 Ti4200 at Viper's Lair"

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  1. Time for a 'casemodding' section. by Brightest+Light · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Im pretty sure my karma is going to take a dive for this one, but i dont think im the only person to think that its time to put stuff like this off in another category. I think it would be safe to say that the majority of slashdotters are tired of seeing 'articles' that are basically advertisements for casemod stuff. I, for one, would like to be able to block this out, i dont believe that cold cathode lights qualify as 'hardware', really.

    *kisses karma goodbye* just my 2 cents

  2. Re:hardware review sites are practically scams by Ponty · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Thank you! What is it about hardware review sites that are written by people who sound like they're struggling to present each sentence. I know a lot of them are written by people for whom English isn't their native language, and this is not directed at them. I'm bitching about the people who are just plain dumb. This quote is from the LCD panel review:
    "Image quality was excellent using the analog cable, which lead me to believe things could only get better with DVI. Sadly enough, I was wrong. I had the opportunity to test the monitor using a Radeon 7500 that supported both analog and DVI. Using the analog with the 7500, the overall picture quality was poor at best. Switching to DVI fixed this, giving image quality equal to that of the GF3 using the analog cable. This confused me greatly. I was under the impression that DVI was a step above analog."

    Uh...unless I'm reading this totally incorrectly, this guy is a moron. That and it sounds like he's trying very very hard to sound intelligent. I have absolutely no faith in this guy's ability to come up with a single thing worth reading about an LCD display.