Issue 17


Issue 17	THE ULTIMATE PC	June 02

CONTENTS
Section	Article	Page
editorial	The beautiful box	6
news	Developers, developers, developers: Asia Pacific Intel Developers Forum	8
	Console Wars: Microsoft strikes back	9
	The Duron is dead	10
	Atomican Atomic Überness Atomic m337 version 2.0	10
	What's HOT, What's NOT	10
technica obscura	Life imitates games...	12
z-access	Moore's Wall	14
ground zero	Video Memory Mysteries	16
hot box	This issue's Hot Boxes: Ozzidave's Iron-Box Joshua's Merlin 18	18
	RBaggio's ShinyBox TeXXaS' Deep Purple	19
scanner	Previews of forthcoming releases	21
	Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix	21
	Virtua Fighter IV	22
	Rise of Nations	22
	Final Fantasy X	23
x-ray	3GIO: PCI Express bus	26
head to head	RAID: Speed for the masses George Breeze's VIA 19d latency patch Benchmark links: ATTO PCMark 2002 SiSoft Sandra 2002 Intel IOMeter	30
feature	Army tech: digital AUGmentation	34
subscription	Are you fully atomic?	36
reviews	The mall of the Gods	38
	Atomic Benchmarks BAPCo MadOnion.com	40
	Framerate: our new super spesh section! New Good Stuff - Graphics cards and CPUs MSI G4MX460 3D Prophet FDX 8500 LE ASUS V8170DDR GeForce4 MX 440 ASUS V8460 Ultra/TD Chaintech A-G441 Gainward GeForce4 Ultra/750XP Gigabyte AP64D-H Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz 400MHz FSB AMD Athlon XP 2100+	42
	ABIT AT7 motherboard	44
	Leadtek WinFast A250 Ultra TD graphics card	46
	MSI GeForce4 Ti4400 graphics card	47
	MSI Hermes barebones PC	48
	RD1 BIOS Saviour	48
	Just Cooler PS4 30 power supply	49
	Cyberbank PC-Ephone connected PDA	50
	AOpen GeForce3 Ti200 128MB graphics card	52
	MSI 845E Max2-BLR motherboard	54
	JNC SSF-264 MP3 player	56
	PC Case Gear Bay Bus kit	56
	X-MeM HDD enclosure	57
	mStation Car Jukebox MP3 player	57
	Toshiba Satellite 5100 notebook	58
	ThermalTake Volcano 7+ HSF	58
	Skyhawk ACE 135 HDD cooler	59
	RD2 PC Geiger PCI bus analyser	59
games	The difference between Virtual and Real	60
	Global Operations	62
	Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3	64
	Warlords: Battlecry II	66
	Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project	67
	Dungeon Siege	68
	Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions	69
	War Commander: Rangers Lead the Way	72
	Heroes of Might & Magic IV	73
i/o	We fixum brokeney bits The enemy within? Dan talks about Magnets Multi-monitor woes: List of Supported Display Adaptors for Multiple Monitors & Dualview in Windows XP Windows Hardware Compatibility List Driverless Direction: Puretek Modem Drivers Bin Gone: Tweak UI utility Windows XP: MSConfig	74
tutorial	The Heavy Water Project: Phase 1 of 4 PC Case Gear Dan's Data	78
	House Modding: networking your home	84
competition	Free at last: The Great Games Giveaway Win Dungeon Siege, Global Operations, Heroes of Might & Magic IV, Might & Magic IX or Serious Sam SE	86
post apocalypse	Frendsh lettersh POTM: Console Wars	88
IT Directory	Trying to find a product or service?	97
fallout	Fields of joy	98

NEC Earth Simulator - a 640 node 35 Terra FLOPS supercomputer.

SEGA announces division for creation of mobile phone games.

Google releases Web API allowing developers to interface with the Google search engine.

Creative releases Nomad Jukebox 3. Now has 20GB storage and Firewire.

Amazon makes a profit and the universe implodes. Amazon makes US$5m profit.

IBM and Hitachi joint venture to make hard drives. Hitachi to purchase IBM's existing hard drive assets.

Optus finally confirms its interest in running a residential DSL service.


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