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  Tuesday, 11th October 2005 
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It is a good time to be a PC enthusiast. The lead up to the Christmas games season is well upon us and more than a few great games are on the horizon. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has been teasing us with dazzling screenshots for most of the year. It’s no understatement to say that this is simply the best looking PC game to date. The good news is that Atomic has an Australian exclusive preview in Atomic 58, which goes onsale this Wednesday!

Also hot in Atomic 58 is another exclusive for Atomic, our benchtests of ATI’s Crossfire. With Nvidia’s headstart in the dual graphics card scene, can ATI stay in the game? Atomic 58 has the answers.

A taste of Atomic 58 is packaged with this newsletter for you, because we know you can’t wait. Scroll down and enjoy our review of AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 4800+ CPU. Is dual-core CPU computing ready for the mainstream, or is it just an expensive technical experiment?

Atomic 58. This exciting week.


  • AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
  • Half-Life 2 news
  • Harkening for Turkish delight
  • Australian High Court rules in favour of modders
  • Robot vehicles conquer US desert terrain race
  • Microsoft plans nine patches
  • Firefox 1.5 makes progress: Beta 2 ready
  • AMD subpoenas Intel customers in antitrust case



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    AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
    The era of dual-core CPUs is upon us. Two heads really are better than one, as Bennett Ring demonstrates. More...



    Half-Life 2 news
    Two new addons just around the corner, now, with HDR support! More...


    Harkening for Turkish delight
    David Kidd celebrates a good time of blades, mounts and games. More...

    Australian High Court rules in favour of modders
    The High Court of Australia has ruled that Australian consumers and overseas travellers can buy cheaper computer games and hardware offshore and modify them locally.
    More...

    Robot vehicles conquer US desert terrain race
    Three modified driverless vehicles crossed the finish line and into the history books on Saturday after traversing 210 kilometres of desert terrain, guided only by laser sensors and onboard computers. More...

    Microsoft plans nine patches
    Tuesday will be a busy day for Windows administrators, with Microsoft promising nine security bulletins in its October patch release. More...

    Firefox 1.5 makes progress: Beta 2 ready
    Mozilla has released the second beta of its next browser, Firefox 1.5, to testers and developers.
    More...

    AMD subpoenas Intel customers in antitrust case
    Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it has served subpoenas this week on dozens of Intel customers seeking documents for its private antitrust lawsuit against arch-rival Intel Corp. More...

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    Abusing high-performance, fast cars in a game is all well and good, but getting in the driver’s seat of a V8 monster and screaming around a race track in real life?

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