Issue 29


Issue 29	WAR AND PC	June 03

CONTENTS
Section	Article	Page
editorial	1:8571	6
news	Cash-padded Cell	8
	Mobile Bananza	8
	Aus Egamer	10
	Embedded upgrades	10
	Atomican Battle@Matchrix 3 : Atomic defeats OCAU! The Unofficial At0mican guide to cases and case modding. Mindless PC Destruction Sydney Paintball.........is it time to do it again? Funnel’s tips for successful bachelor living.	10
	POTM: Atomic Saved My Life... Has It Saved Yours?	10
	What's HOT, What's NOT	10
technica obscura	Of bridges and bytes Software Horror Stories RISKS digests Illustrative Risks to the Public in the use of Computer Systems and Related Technology	12
z-access	The path of fate to be	14
ground zero	Making wires invisible	16
hot box	atomic's Hot Box page: Explague's Dangerbox Kurt's TrickedOutPC	18
	Red Roar Thurlow Milkcrate Royale	19
gearbox	Flexiglow bubble light Steel pad SRC-3810 universal remote Thermaltake ducting mod Vantec Iceberg chipset cooler Vantec Tornado fan Ventec Ez Swap HDD Case Mouse Bungie	20
x-ray	Mil-tech: Battlefield 2003	22
head to head	ATI RADEON 9800 Pro vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra The F-Buffer: A Rasterization-Order FIFO Buffer for Multi-Pass Rendering	30
feature	Missing in action: Whereabouts now known	34
	Hammering to bits: AMD's Opteron Opteron reviews and information: www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1815 www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1818 www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=55000251 www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/index.html arstechnica.com/cpu/03q1/x86-64/x86-64-1.html	40
	Crashing the Rambus: Intel adopts dual-channel DDR Manufacturer's 'compliant' memory lists Intel VIA SiS NVIDIA	46
reviews	Sinking feeling	53
	Atomic Benchmarks BAPCo Unreal Tournament 2003 from HardOCP MadOnion.com SiSoftware	54
	Framerate: New graphics cards and CPUs Sparkle GeForce FX 5200 Albatron FX5200P ABIT Siluro FX5800 DOTH Deluxe Sparkle Ti4200-8x Platinum	56
	Leadtek Quadro FX2000 professional graphics card	58
	Shuttle MN31N motherboard	60
	AOpen AX4GEFM motherboard	60
	Linksys Wireless-G broadband router	62
	Antec Sonata case	62
	Thermaltake Volcano 11 Xaser Edition HSF	64
	Cooler Master Aero 7 HSF	64
	Hauppauge TV-PVR-350 tuner/capture card	65
	XS DRIVE II VP2060 portable HDD	65
	MSI FX5200-TDR128 graphics card	66
	Sapphire RADEON 9700 PRO AIW graphics card/TV tuner	68
	Palsonic TFTV-151 TFT screen with TV tuner	68
games	Desert Combat... my kind of mod	71
	Scanner: Game technology and previews Realtime first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Oblivion Lost In the jungle	72
	Yager	74
	Delta Force: Black Hawk Down	76
	Devastation	77
	Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings	78
	Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus	79
	Galactic Civilizations	82
i/o	Wrenched tools PCB making FAQ Overclockers CPU ID guide	84
Phr33x tw33x	Tweak0ring your Windows Security - part 2	87
tutorial	Modjitsu: Brush strokes	88
competition	Operation Freeness	95
subscription	Sub-Light: 9700 + 100 = 9800?	96
fallout	Chess beating	98
crashtest	#2 - S(t)imulation	98

Futuremark releases 3DMark03 build 320 with changes for DX 9.0a.

Dell releases 3GHz P4 Dimension XPS for 'enthusiasts'.

You'll have to wait for it...

AMD releases Barton based Athlon XP 3200+,

Three Vietnam based games due out.

GTA and Vice City to be ported to Xbox and GameCube.

'sphereAdelic' by Jarrod Bloomberg aka 'JarrodB' - page 52

'Fire in the hole!' by Mark McPhee aka 'Ender' - page 70


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