HWRoundup A group of readers on our Reader Forum (http://www.delphi.com/endian) has started a Friends of The Register SETI group (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_108163.html). This will probably help establish whether signals emanating from pubs in Maddox Street were transmitted by intelligent life.

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A "brahministic" site has breached the NDA on dual Athlons and has published some benchmarks, here (http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma/dual_athlon/dual_athlon.html). Thanks to JC and AMD Zone for the lead.

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Tom's Hardware (http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q1/010316/index.html) writes up ATI's Radeon VE, which can handle two monitors. And rumours are circulating that little-old-Intel is seriously interested in lock, stock and barrelling ATI.

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Once more, thanks to JC (http://www.jc-news.com/pc/) -- this time for pointing us to a Paul De Mone article on the Itanic (http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT031401225852) platform. Headed "better late than never", it suggests Intel's early intro of McKinley is curious whereas we suspect that this is the only way Chipzilla will keep the IA-64 platform out of Davey Jones' Locker.

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These overclockers are tough old nuts, yeah? Over at Hard OCP (http://www.hardocp.com/) points to another site which has taken to sawing up Slot A and Slot 1 heat sinks. Now if Kyle at HardOCP could get hold of all those Timna boards Acer put together for last year's Computex, he could really have a party, right?

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