[H]ardNews 10th Edition

Get Buzzed - Shoot People:

Sounds like a normal weekend night around our casa. I know plenty of you were a bit tipsy when you have been handing my ass to me in Counter Strike over the last few weeks. Now it is official, we can feel proud and boozing and gaming...at the same time.

REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 28 -- Microsoft Corp. and Anheuser-Busch Inc. today announced an interactive bar program for Budweiser and the Xbox(TM) video game system, scheduled to visit bars, clubs and pubs during evening hours, for contemporary adult consumers 21 years old or older. The national program will be conducted in more than 100 markets by nearly 300 Anheuser-Busch wholesalers from Oct. 28 through the end of the year.

This looked to be legitimate and was referred to as a press release from Lesli at AEG. Thanks Bryan Intihar.

Celeron at 3GHz:

But we hear it is still dog slow! Hell, I really don't know, just talking trash about the throw away CPU from Intel. Hexus has the real scoop, you know better than to listen to me...or especially that Steve guy.

A bit of further experimenting lead to a rock-solid default voltage speed of 2940MHz. Yes, you've read that correctly. Increasing the load voltage to ~ 1.6v lead to a stable speed of 3150MHz, as shown below. Note the Stepping ID of 7. This denotes the very latest C1 stepping.

I bet is sucks for gaming just about no matter how fast it is. Might as well have the cache on the mainboard. Like who would be stoopid enough to do that?

[H]ard|CS:

See the link on the menu? You too can now participate and possibly get your name in lights...or at least waste some time on the [H]ard Counter Striker server. Only one is running now, but more are soon to come. Thanks to ThePlanet and Corsair.