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 I survived Atomic Live 2005 Wednesday, 14th December 2005 


Five years is a long long time, but to us it’s all one glorious blur. A blur of wonderful issues of Atomic and everything that’s grown around the magazine. Today the 5th birthday issue of Atomic goes onsale, and we hope you agree it’s one of the best we’ve done.

Of course, we couldn’t let something as special as the 5th birthday pass without doing a special feature in the mag, complete with ridiculous photos and insane stats. I’d like to thank everyone who has ever contributed to Atomic – and that includes you. We’re humbled and grateful for the wonderful community that came to life when Atomic first hit. Believe me when I say that we get warm fuzzies every time we think of the mighty people out there who share our love of tech.

The cover story for this historic issue is the equally historic Xbox 360. We spent days playing the games and have put together an essential primer for anyone interested in the new box. We set tech-guru James Wang onto the case, he analyses the innards and reports on just how Microsoft’s clever design will revolutionise your living room in the coming years.

Elsewhere in the issue we get our mittens on a swag of 500w power supplies. SLI demands power, and you don’t want to be running out of juice right when you need it.

Atomic’s own gamer girl Kate Inabinet presents a special feature on girl gamers. Enjoying games isn’t a boys-only thing. Kate shows us that, perhaps that Lvl 60 Paladin in your guild isn’t the bloke you thought he was.

Fittingly for Atomic’s 5th birthday, we’ve got a 2-part tutorial on building a PC that’s completely submerged in mineral oil. Besides being an engineering triumph that let’s us run at an ambient temp of -61 degrees, it’s insane and over the top, being what Atomic’s all about.

There’s loads more for you in Atomic 60. Just the thing to curl up with after the year comes to a close and all you want to do is play games and muck around with your machine.

From the Atomic team, I wish you and your family a very special Christmas.

Ash.


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  • Federal Government reviews Spam Act
  • Microsoft Xbox 360 sales start slow in Japan: study
  • Honda's robot grows up, ready for office chores
  • Biometric readers fooled with fake fingerprints
  • HarperCollins to create digital warehouse of books
  • Mozilla says Firefox 1.5 bug not serious
  • SMS service supports self-destructing text messages
  • World of Warcraft, meet Australia
  • The Atomic Super-cooled liquid PC
  • AGDC 2005
  • January 2006 Hotbox winner; Hotbox voting for February 2006 now open



    • atomic issue 60 on sale now



    World of Warcraft, meet Australia
    Logan Booker asks Blizzard's Shane Dabiri a few question on WoW's new Oceania-preferred realms. More...


    The Atomic Super-cooled liquid PC
    It had to be done, and we did it. A working PC fully submerged in liquid, running at a CPU core temp of -7 degrees and an ambient temp of -61 degrees! More...


    AGDC 2005
    Game developers in Australia meet and greet. Logan Booker reports. More...


    January 2006 Hotbox winner; Hotbox voting for February 2006 now open
    Hotboxes? Winning? You know they got together! More...



    What's on the slab?
    Craig Simms files a teaser of what we're playing with today in the Atomic Labs. More...

    Sponsored Links

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    Federal Government reviews Spam Act
    The Federal Government has announcemed a review of the act designed to contain the growing menace of spam. More...

    Microsoft Xbox 360 sales start slow in Japan: study
    Microsoft sold less than half of the estimated 159,000 Xbox 360 consoles that were available in stores in Japan in its first weekend of sales, according to a survey. More...

    Honda's robot grows up, ready for office chores
    What a difference a robot-year makes. More...

    Biometric readers fooled with fake fingerprints
    Researchers at Clarkson University fooled biometric systems with fake fingerprints made out of Play-Doh nine out of 10 times, demonstrating a weakness of some computer security systems. More...

    HarperCollins to create digital warehouse of books
    US publisher HarperCollins plans to convert some 20,000 books in its catalogue into digital form in a bid to rein in potential copyright violations on the internet. More...

    Mozilla says Firefox 1.5 bug not serious
    Mozilla is asserting that a bug in its recently released Firefox 1.5 is not serious and poses no risk "to users or their computers". More...

    SMS service supports self-destructing text messages
    Staellium has launched a mobile service enabling UK users to send and receive self-destructing text messages, which disappear after the first time they are read. More...

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    1 x inMotion IM7 boom box
    Speaker systems for iPods generally get a bad rap, mainly because they’re small and tinny, and just don’t have the power to give your music the whump of bass it needs.

    5 x Woddles Penguin Waffle Maker
    Nothing pulls the chicks better than a man who can cook waffles.

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