Editorial
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Our editors work tirelessly trying to beat even the most rough submission into shape to present to you, after all it's their job! However, every now and then, work goes quiet. It's then you know that you need to be careful as the editors are thinking. Who knows what thoughts might lurk in their heads?



Penryn benched Print
Written by Gizmo   
Monday, 29 October 2007 21:36
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OCWorkbench have benched the QX9650 Yorkfied.  The results?  Well, the upshot is that Penryn offers pretty much the same performance we've come to expect from Conroe.  Though they try to fanboy the results, basically the benches all differ by the margin of error for the tools used, with one interesting exception: Penryn shows about a 15% performance boost in SSE3 on the Whetstone benchmark.  Even with SSE4, the boost looks to be only around 10% or so.

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Gaming: Is it a sport? Print
Written by Raphael2040   
Sunday, 26 August 2007 14:11
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There have been many-a-discussion about whether competitive video gaming can be defined a sport. Journalists oppose the very thought of it, whilst the vast majority of competitive video gamers do actually believe that their hobby is what can be called an ‘e-sport’. Debates about such topic have been long and short, widespread across all corners of the globe, with everyone wanting to have their say in it. We have the non-gaming journalists, who believe that it would be simply ludicrous to call it a sport, and the competitive and professional gamers who put in hours upon hours of practice and training in their respective games, aiming to win cash prizes in tournaments, who do believe that it should be considered a sport. We have the middle (wo)men; the people who game casually or socially - Recreational gamers who see gaming as nothing more than a way to spend a couple of hours on a rainy Saturday afternoon. And then we have me; a hardcore, semi-professional, competitive gamer who, amongst many, many others, is trying to get himself and the rest of his team to the top. And the following article will give you my point of view about this debate.
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Dell XPS Order Nightmare Print
Written by Dsio   
Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:38
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On the 4th of July, three weeks ago, i ordered my dream laptop from Dell. An XPS M1330, with the specs in my sig. I ordered it because its the first truly brilliant laptop Dell has ever built.
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Ergonomic Computing Print
Written by Daniel ~   
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 12:50
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This article is a continuation of Ergonomics, a way of life that's sustainable.

Part II

One of the most important aspects of gaining a proper posture and maintaining one is having the monitor in the correct position and height.  Given the veriety of desk heights and monitor sizes, this can be a journey of a life time!  While most of us fit reasonably well within the standards for such things, many of us do not.

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New AOA Server Print
Written by Gizmo   
Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:07
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Daniel asked me to do a writeup and let everyone know what is going on.

Yes, you read the headline right: AOA is getting a new server.

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