Well folks it is the last day of 1999 and we all are impatiently waiting
to see what midnight will bring upon us. Personally my only concern this evening
will be trying to get home safely so I can go to work at the fire station in the morning.
Things around the site have been really slow lately since I decided to
take some time off and spend it with my family and friends this Holiday season. The
fact that I had a complete system failure on my main box a couple of weeks back (seems
most likely a very destructive virus) also left me a little frustrated and I have spent
several days trying to get things back to normal. I should have a few new things to
offer in January including some introduction information concerning ALPHA's newest
heatsinks, my own UH X2 cooler project, and the first of a series of articles concerning
the plexi-glass cased liquid cooled system.
I truly appreciate all the Holiday greetings I have received and I have
taken the time to personally answer each and every one of them. Stay tuned folks
cause there is gonna be some interesting stuff here.
For those of you interested you can check out a live webcast of Time
Square tonight.
11:30 - 12:30 am (Eastern)
10:30 - 11:30 pm (Central)
8:30 - 9:30 pm (Pacific)
Here's What You'll Need to Listen to or View The
Broadcast:
 | The Free RealPlayer - Get It Here |
| At Least a 14.4Kbps Internet Connection for Audio or a 28.8Kbps Connection for
Video |
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Alrighty kiddies It looks like Santa
finally has a winner for the UnlimitedHardware "Dear Santa" give-away
contest. First off on behalf of Santa I (John Bogush) would like to thank all those
that took the time to create and send in an entry. There were almost 500 emails and
after narrowing down the field the crew of Tampa Fire Rescue Station 14 and my dear wife
helped decide the winner...
Congratulations to Timothy Chan
Timothy submitted the following entry...
Dear Santa,
I am biomedical researcher at Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. My name is
Timothy A. Chan and I am trying to cure cancer. At the Oncology center, I have been
using bioinformatics and complex analysis of human genome sequences to understand what
genes become dysfunctional in cancer and in doing so, develop therapies that affect those
genes and kill cancer cells. Currently, because of lack of funds, I am using a
single Pentium Pro 180 to analyze the complexities of human genetics and a bump to 600Mhz
would do wonders for our efforts to come up with a cure. And, if we do it, we will
have unlimited hardware.com, proton computers, and of course you, Santa, to thank
for it. In fact, we would be so appreciative as to praise you, Santa, and
unlimitedhardware.com and Proton Computers for their kindness in many nationwide press
releases!
Thank you sincerely,
Timothy Chan
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The entry
deadline for the "Dear Santa" contest has now passed, Santa is not accepting
anymore letters. Thanks to all those who got their letters in on time and good luck. The
winner will be announced before midnight (Eastern Standard Time) 12/24/99.
Special thanks
to Proton Computers for
sponsoring the UnlimitedHardware "Dear Santa" give-away contest. Please
pay them a visit and check out their Christmas specials.
OK
folks, I know my schedule has forced me to neglect the site a little this month but I can
make it up to ya I swear. How about I give away some hardware? Ya thats right,
a Christmas give-away contest and the winner will receive a sweet box of high performance
hardware courtesy of Proton
Computers. The prize package will consist of...
| A Pentium III 450MHz processor that runs stable at 600MHz |
| An ALPHA SECC2 Heatsink assembly |
| The winner's choice of either a SOYO 6BA+III or 6VBA-133
motherboard |
12/25/99:
The contest is now closed.
Well I guess it has been a while since the last news update so
here we go...
It is now almost 100% unlikely that the UH X2 PPGA cooler modification will ever
make it to the market. I seem to have a poor ability when it comes to seeking
inexpensive manufacturing support for specialized low volume products. The problem
is that nobody seems to be able to manufacture the parts for these projects at a (or close
to) a reasonable cost since the volume is relatively low. Anyway I do plan on
writing an article including instructions and a template so the UH X2 can be a
do-it-yourself project which is very easy with simple hand tools and inexpensive
materials. Look for the article just after the beginning of the year.
Another project of mine which is slowly coming about is the clear plexi-glass
cased liquid cooled system I have been planning. Thanks to 2CoolTEK I have now procured two
120mm Panaflo fans which will carry the duties of keeping the system's
"radiator" supplied with fresh air. These Panaflo fans are very quiet and
that was my primary reason I chose them. Although not directly related to the
project Ian from 2CoolTEK threw an Everglide Attack mouse pad in the box along with the Panaflo fans.
If you are a gamer then I seriously suggest getting an Everglide pad for yourself
because they truly do make a difference especially in first person shooters.
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| Panaflo
fans and Everglide Attack Pad from 2CoolTEK. |
3D
Spotlight has whipped up a review on Creative Lab's GeForce base 3D Blaster Annihilator video
card. Some of what 3D Spotlight had to say...
| "Creative
Labs is one of the few companies sporting the new GeForce chip. The Creative Labs
Annihilator is a standard plain SDRAM based GeForce however that doesn't mean it won't
perform well, and I think you know what I mean." |
For those of you who have never visited Benchtest.com then I suggest you do
so. Jim from Benchtest.com has for about the last year been refining liquid cooling
techniques for slot1 and now PPGA processors. He is an excellent craftsman with good
sound ideas and things are about to get better because Benchtest.com and 2CoolTEK have organized an affiliation
which should result in some interesting products. I have traded email with Jim a few
times and his ideas have been instrumental in developing my own cooling systems.
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