CONTENTS
Section	Article	Page
editorial	Official! Numbers don't count	6
news	3.5GHz P4! Court in the Net.	8
	Friesian goes home. Australia's online habits	9
	Playing silly buggers. What's HOT What's NOT	10
social	The Sydney M337!: Gathering of Atomicans	11
technica obscura	The Microsoft way: Microsoft and its not-so-open source strategy.	12
z-access	The future of 3D gaming.	14
ground zero	Freedom of speech: When hardware and fiction collide.	16
hot box	This issue's Hot Boxes: Wiggy's green and gold. D-Elvis' Kong MP3 box	18
	Steve's wolf pack Access Denied's fluffy cow	19
x-ray	Bandwidth and how to use it up.	22
head to head	Tualatin vs. Thunderbird	26
subscription	Win 'Out of This World' book packs	30
	1 year of Atomic@home for only $39!	31
feature	The speed of sound: sound card round-up: AOpen Audio Phantom AW200 AOpen AW744-L Creative Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1 Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128 Digital Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II Hercules Gamesurround Muse XL Hercules Game Theater XP Hercules SC-Core 6 Digital and Hercules SC-Riser 6 CNR Hoontech 4D-Wave Nx Philips Acoustic Edge Philips Seismic Edge TerraTec DMX TerraTec DMX XFire 1024 Video Logic Sonic Fury	32
feature	The P4 goes SDRAM: 845 steps to paradise	44
reviews	Please Sir, may I have some more?	48
	atomic benchmarks	50
	Toshiba Satellite 3000 laptop	52
	AMD Duron 1GHz CPU	53
	Intel Pentium 4 2GHz CPU	54
	ASUS P4B motherboard	55
	Everglide MouseSkatez SurgeMaster II	56
	VIA C3 800A CPU	57
	ASUS A7V266 motherboard	58
	Suma Platinum K2 video card	60
	Philips A3.500 speakers	62
	Acer FP581 TFT screen	63
	Topower Top-420W PSU DR_100 System DeHumidifier	64
	GlobalWIN CAK38 HSF Agilent ArctiCooler HACA-0002	67
	Cold Cathode Light Kit Swann Opti-Glo Mouse	68
	Belkin Gold Series cables Perspex Window/Sticker Kit	69
games	Eerie expanses of icy knobs	70
	Anachronox	72
	Onimusha Warlords	73
	Shogun: Total War Warlord Ed.	74
	ATV Offroad	75
	MechCommander 2	76
	Preview: Civilization 3	78
i/o	No pain, no gain	80
subscription	Win 'Out of This World' book packs	84
tutorial	Fan maintenance: Fixing the spinny bits	86
	The fridge PC	88
post apocalypse	The ventilated spleen	94
competitions	F R E E S T U F F	96
fallout	Hardware inevitabilities: Learn what is eventually going to go wrong with your PC.	106