Hard drive squeals muted, amplified

Meanwhile, the Techreporters attempt to get to the bottom of those reliability problems afflicting some of IBM's GXP-series hard drives. On top of the complaints, mountains of posts and lawsuits, comes this.

The Hexer in charge is at IDF. Here are some notes on Digital Home, chipsets and stuff. And here's some stuff on Silicon Photonics from an R&D pre-exravaganza briefing.

And, back in Blighty, here's their look at a Gainward GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Golden Sample with Ultra/960 Dual-DVI 128Mb and what-have-you.

While we were nearly on subject, the German tecChannel mulls Intel's 64 Bit Extensions for IA32 in pre-IDF mood over here. The really interested will have to Babelfish, though. Unless you like the pictures.

And Extremetech has a word on Florence, over here.

Elsewhere, RipNet-UK get backing up USB2-stylee over here.

BigBruin.Com takes a look at the Startech.Com ATX POW500DF 500W PSU here. Desirable if not top dog, they reckon.

Beyond3d has a squint at ASUS's non-Ultra V9570 TD FX 5700 256Mb graphcs card here.

HardwareHell has a fiddle with PowerColor's Radeon 9600XT Bravo and its extras over here.

Sharky Extreme serves up its Value Gaming PC Buyer's Guide for the month, over here.

The Madshrimps want to give away some Corsair TwinX1024 kits of PC3200LL Pro memory. That's 1Gb of Low Latency rememorabila over here.

Creative's MuVo² uses a 4Gb micro drive is small and makes a lot of noise over on TBreak, here.

Dan's got mail. Shurley you know the score by now; this is the 91st time of asking. Still, more to the point, why aren't there zillions of porno shoot 'em ups and bordello-based adventure games out there, he wonders.

The Overclocker Cafe takes a look at Shuttle's P4 barebones system, the Zen XPC ST62K. over here.

There's summat called a Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition Northwood Processor over on Tweaknews.net. High expectations and big pockets? You'll like it. Overclocking bonkers? You may squeeze 4Gigs out of it if you buy a suitable fridge. They can't.

Wibbles here.