[H]ardNews 5th Edition

H20 Your GF 6800GT:

ModdersHQ has posted a small guide to water cooling your GF 6800GT if you are so inclined to do so. The review uses the Swiftech MCW-50 but their methods can be applied to any GF 6800GT water block installation.

As far as performance is concerned, the GPU sits at 39C without oveclocking (350Mhz) and 41C overclocked to 410Mhz. The only problem is without the fan assembly the memory on the card is now passively cooled so cant be overclocked as much.

PCs Hijacked In Minutes:

All the more reason to make sure you use protection when you venture out into the wild and wacky, world wide web. According to this, unprotected PCs are compromised within minutes of going online without protection…and surprisingly enough, people still do it all the time.

Simply connecting to the Internet - and doing nothing else - exposes your PC to non-stop, automated break-in attempts by intruders looking to take control of your machine surreptitiously.

Top 100 “To Do Before I Die” List:

Somehow I think that the Top 100 “To Do Before I Die” list compiled by New Scientist magazine will be significantly different than my personal top 100 list of things to do before I die list. How do I know? Because I checked the list twice and I didn’t see hookers, turtle wax or the lottery anywhere on the list.

A thinktank of British scientists has come up with a new way of quickening the national intellect - a brain-taxing spin on the old formula of 100 things to do before you die.