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A vital computer crashed at my job yesterday so I have spent the majority of my free time since then working on rebuilding and recovering everything so to say the least nothing will be happening tonight in regards to this website. I know I said I would get it looking good and update it but work and school come first. Now time to crash and wake up early and try to get this thing up and running before it delays too much stuff. Did I mention it was running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation? Shoot me please.

My name is Chris Morrell and I am an addict. I just can’t turn down a good competition and I just recently discovered another arena in which I can compete. HWBot.org happens to be this particular arena and it is precisely what the overclocking scene has needed. HWBot.org is the closest thing besides XS.org in regards to an overclocking database but HWBot.org actually rewards users for difficult merits. HWBot.org is quickly growing with total number of teams pushing past 200 and 2403 registered users.

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Duke Nukem Forever has been the worlds most well-known Vaporware project since it’s inception over 10 years ago. In 2006 we were told Duke Nukem Forever would finally release sometime in 2007 and 3D Realms has FINALLY released an in-game screen shot. I do hope this isn’t some sort of hoax as even though the image is a very small resolution button, the shadows and textures look amazing. Hopefully this is a real in-game screenshot and Duke Nukem Forever will live up to the years of development. I will surely buy this game and provide a ton of screenshots if it ever hits shelves. Now time to go find a copy of Duke Nukem 3D and start practicing.

Over the last 72 hours our Internet service has been down more than it has been up which partially explains my terrible schedule. I just got off the phone with Comcast tech support and they told me that one of the major nodes had a fiber line severed which interrupted service for a greater portion of Atlanta. I am assuming that this node was a central router for the entire area and I am also assuming that whoever severed that fiber line is currently looking for a new job. I think the service is back up for good but that isn’t definite so the next couple of days may be rocky. Speaking of Rocky, didn’t anyone see the new Rocky? Curious who really reads this and if you are willing to speak up ;) Have a good weekend everyone.

If you were to take a peek under the hood of most of the boxes shipping from Dell and other OEM companies you would think that heatsink technology has been rather stagnant over the last 2 years. It is a rather sad fact that the stock heatsink for both Intel and AMD processors are so vastly underpowered but they are also massproduced chunks of aluminum that cut a fine line between performance and price. The aftermarket heatsink market on the otherhand has a broad range of heatsinks ranging from near-OEM models up to multi-fin multi-pipe monstrosities generating enough thrust to help launch a satellite into orbit (slight exaggeration..). Today I’m going to perform a review upon my personal Scythe Ninja Rev. B, one of the top heatsinks on the market at this time.

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I don’t think these guys got the memo that Netburst is dead! After watching the 7.4GHz runs occur about a year ago I thought we had seen the end of high-clocking Netburst processors but there has been a sudden surge in retro-overclocking as chip prices have plummeted and motherboard technology has finally become powerful and fast enough to push the Netburst processors. ThuG OC Team just crushed the clockspeed world record with their godly Penitum 4 631. Godly describes this processor perfectly, 8GHz at 1.91 volts is a club shared by this single processor.

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I’ve been silent here for nearly a week and you can blame HWBot.org for that. Recently my home forum and team for overclocking, XtremeSystems, lost their 1st place and there was a call put out for anyone and everyone to help take back #1. For those of you not familiar with HWBot, it is essentially a ranking of overclocking records for various benchmark programs that have set the bar for overclocking and stability. This particular calling came out at an opportune time as just a week before I had finished up my singlestage phase cooler and had already been benching my system. So rather than spend my time doing productive things like write, I spent my time running loops of benchmarks watching the same scenes render over and over again. However, while watching those scenes render I did gather a ton of data and what the common person may find most interesting was my power consumption data. So further blubbering aside, here we go.

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Rather than cluster up your RSS feed-reader with 4 separate articles in 2 hours, I have decided to consolidate all of the interesting articles I have found around the web in a simple post. Now you only have to hit the delete key once!

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