[H]ardNews 5th Edition

Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 i865PE:

PCStats is looking at the Springdale powered Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 i865PE mainboard today. They seemed to like the board overall and recommend it to people not looking for tons of extras.

If you're looking for a fast board that doesn't have too many features (that you wouldn't use anyway) the Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 is a nice board that should be on your list for consideration.

Holy cow, my point is this…the board has 5.1 audio, Gigabit LAN, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394 ( Firewire ), Dual BIOS, Dual Channel DDR, CIA, PAT and SATA…what other features could you want?

Ex-MS Employees Sentenced:

Remember the goofballs that stole millions of dollars worth of MS products and resold them while they worked for Microsoft? Well, one of them was sentenced today while the others wait for trial.

A former Microsoft Corp. employee accused of stealing more than $6 million worth of company software and reselling it was sentenced Tuesday to 17 months in prison for mail fraud.

That sounds like a pretty good deal actually. If you gave me $6 million, I’d actually SIGN UP to go to prison. I know this guy only sold his stuff for like $100k, but you get the idea. Anyone got $6 million to see me go to jail? Hehe…

Dan’s Stuff:

Dan looks at a CPU cooling duct that may or may not work worth a crap. Looks like it has potential. If that doesn’t blow your skirt up, Dan has more letters to be answered in his regular “Dear Dan” feature.

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