Check out our new sponsor, The Overclocking Shop.  HERE.  They are a UK based store that is soon to go live and stocks tested CPUs, tweaking products and all kind of overclockers goodies.

We know them personally and what's most important is that The Overclocking Shop is run by overclockers, for overclockers.  They would like your views on what they should stock and what you would like to be able to buy, so go check out the site.

It's about time there was a shop for overclockers in the UK.  Until now Sarah has had to swim naked across the Atlantic every time she wanted some thermal grease.....

Sarah has been working hard on her new site.  It is called "The Evolving Story" and is the world's first unwritten book.  The book starts with only one paragraph and each day another is added.  Each new paragraph is written by the visitors to the site and the story continually "evolves".

We think it's a great idea and gets the whole Internet community involved, so go and CHECK IT OUT!

Tamika will be doing a news update later.

Sarah will be away for a little while on a secret mission.  In the meantime Gayle, Tamika and Alison will be keeping all the NudeOC regulars entertained with their very own brand of naked shenanigans..........

Windows 2000 has 63,000 bugs in it.  Now there's a surprise.  Makes you wonder, doesn't it?  Why release flawed products?

Gayle was contacted by a mysterious person who goes by the name of FDISK, regarding the future of life on IRC.  We have posted this short but very funny "commentary" on a political debate IRC style HERE.  Warning:  You will see bad language and you will not understand a word of it unless j00 4r3 4n 31337 hax0r

Sarah enjoyed the feedback regarding her article HERE on technology.  It is the first of many such articles and she is currently working on some more for the site.  If you would like to write an article for us we will post reader articles here too.  MAIL US

Check out this amazing picture of a fighter plane breaking the speed of sound.  HERE.  I don't know exactly how it was done but it looks amazing.

AMD have announced their new 850mhz processor.  Is it me or are things going waaaaaaay to fast now?  It makes Sarah's celeron @ 450 look totally out of date.  I wonder if it will overclock to the 1ghz level.  I feel a bit of spending coming on........

"With the 850MHz AMD Athlon processor, AMD continues to demonstrate the capabilities of the processor's architecture, delivering supreme performance for computer users who demand the best," said Larry Hollatz, group vice president of Computation Products at AMD.

"As the AMD Athlon processor maintains its speed leadership, AMD's penetration of the commercial arena should accelerate. The 850MHz AMD Athlon processor provides another superb tool for business users seeking outstanding performance in their high­end desktops, workstations and servers. On the consumer forefront, the 850MHz AMD Athlon processor is designed to deliver compelling power for high-performance PC users," said Dana Krelle, vice president of Marketing of Computation Products at AMD.

The full article can be found HERE

And finally:  This was far too funny not to post.  Thanks to HARDOCP HERE for the picture.  Alison couldn't stop laughing at this.  It's a monitor at an airport, announcing departures:

Takes the phrase "plane crash" into a whole new dimension........

-MONDAY 7TH FEBRUARY 2000-

Further to Sarah's editorial about technology and invasion of privacy we watched a fascinating documentary earlier about government spy centres.  This link HERE is a gateway to a discussion forum that was running earlier this evening.  It would now seem that EVERY telephone call, email and fax is routinely monitored.  Freaky, eh?  Is the NudeOC becoming NudeXFiles?  Who knows!  Nudity is out there..........

What features would you like to see added to the site?  TELL US.  We want your input!

If you're an arcade games fan (King Of Fighters in particular) then check out this "shrine" to all things digitally confrontational.  It's run by "The Gunsmith" who quite surprisingly doesn't trade in illegal firearms......

What kind of success are you having with your coppermine processors?  TELL US  We will post your success stories on the site.

Tamika noticed that Kyle from HARDOCP has gone into overdrive recently.  Not only can he cover his entire body in thermal grease in less than 13 seconds (with only one hand) but apparently now updates his site 412,340 times a day.  If you haven't yet been there then check it out, it's one of the funniest places on the net.

Apologies for the lack of updates over the last few days but we've been very busy working on a secret project.  It's so secret that we can't tell you!  Don't you just hate it when people do that?

Sarah has just written her first editorial for NudeOC on the changing face of technology.  When we aren't overclocking in the nude we like to get down to the nitty gritty and write passionately.  Well, Sarah has, so go CHECK IT OUT.  It reveals an interesting story about how much we are spied on by the powers that be........

Sun bathing in silicon valley.  You gotta love it.  Gayle was on a top secret mission to break into the test lab at Intel HQ.  She managed to get out with her life but sadly with no hardware.  Which leaves the question, what is this paragraph about?  To be honest, nothing.

HARDOCP posted the blurb about a new CPU convertor card which allows you to run several different types of processors on a Socket 370 board.  FULL STORY HERE.

Completely off topic but 3DFILES have a download of a new game Called Tower Of The Ancients:

Pit your piety against the vanity of men who would build a tower to heaven. Tower of the Ancients is a fast-paced puzzle game, featuring spectacular graphics and sound as you attempt to avoid the wrath of God. With divine graphics and special effects, spiritual sound and music and god-like gameplay, Tower of the Ancients is a truly religious experience not to be missed.

It's only a 10 meg download and Tamika had great fun with it.

Thanks to all those who sent in their overclocked Athlon specs.  If you have one and haven't yet done so then check out the survey page and send us your details.  We will be compiling a chart very soon.

How do you cool your system?  LET US KNOW.

Sarah wants to know about your experiences with RAM.  And no, not those kind of experiences!  We're talking the purpose for which RAM was originally designed!  Good God.  Any opportunity to take a perfectly innocent sentence and twist it viciously into a damn innuendo.  Is there any hope left for the world??

"Calm down Alison" - (Tamika)  .......deep breath....

We want to know what RAM you use, what RAM you used in the past and with which systems and how well it performed.  (No comments please).  TELL US.

"Overclocking, overclocking, tweaking in the nude......"  Can't get that damn tune out of my head now.  HERE

Kyle from HARDOCP has posted some extremely interesting pictures of what looks like him washing the dishes early on a saturday morning.  Although, in true overclocker's style, the dishes in this instance are actually pieces of electronic equipment........  We're just wondering if he uses thermal grease instead of washing up liquid..........

Sarah's bit on the side, Jim from tweakfiles has a download of WinRAM Booster professsional:

"WinRAM-Booster Professional 2000 +PLUS+ is a Utility to optimize the memory management and the performance of your PC under Windows 95 and 98. It's a combination of CachePower 2000 and WinRAM Booster."

DOWNLOAD

The Ars boys, erm, maybe I should re-phrase that:  The guys over at Ars-Technica have an article up about the war for dominance in the 133x motherboards market.  HERE

What do you want to see reviews of here?  And please, no more suggestions for reviews of Alison and Gayle in bed.  This is a hard......ware site after all.  Tease?  Me?

If you have news then by all means Send it.  Don't be shy.

The NudeOC would like to welcome Vortexion on board, here at the overclocking nudist colony.  Vortexion is joining as another staff writer and will be bringing solid hardcore, erm, what's the word?  Solid, hardcore, tech info to all you extreme overclockers out there.  Vortexion enjoys bringing hardcore (subject) matter to the throbbing masses........

Are there any sections you would like to see added to this site?  Tamika wants to know.  She's bored with her soldering iron nowadays and needs to do something more constructive.  So what do you want to see here?  WELL

Keep the overclocking stories coming.  We want to know what kind of systems our visitors are running and how you overclock them.  We'll be posting a collection of reader stories on the site soon (with pics) so if you want to be included in this and let the overclocking world see your equipment then SEND IT IN

And finally, have you ever had the hots for the girls who read the news?  Well, if you have then your dreams have just come true.  ANANOVA is the world's first completely computer generated newsreader.  She is a cyber-anchor.  We, of course, are far more attractive............  (jealousy?  me?)

We ran a game on the site a few weeks ago called Escape from the Intel labs and it was very much enjoyed by all.  Keeping with the same theme, we proudly present to you:  "The Big Nude Quest For The Holy Motherboard!"  In this interactive online rpg you play the role of Gayle, leading the nude overclockers to the sacred ABIT motherboard.

CHECK IT OUT NOW!

Keep the EMAILS coming in.  We want to know what you think of the overclocking nudists and would like to hear your comments/suggestions for the site.

How long does it take you to get your speed up?  Which methods do you use?  Do you prefer using thermal grease?  Or do you do it the normal way?  We want your overclocking stories.  Tell us what you overclock, how you overclock it and how you keep your system cool.  TELL US.

If you own a Voodoo 3 card you can download the latest drivers HERE.  Why are they called drivers anyway?  I mean, are there really millions of little silicon people whizzing around in micro-cars, transporting information around your system?  Maybe when your system crashes, it has actually crashed, literally........

Looking for a new processor?  Intel have announced more price cuts.

"Intel cut prices on the Pentium III line by up to 31 percent, the latest salvo in the escalating battle between the chip giant and Advanced Micro Devices in the upper reaches of the processor market. 

The price cuts, which went into effect on Sunday, fell mostly in the 20 percent range. The 733-MHz Pentium III, for instance, dropped 21 percent, from $754 to $594, in volume quantities, while the 650-MHz dropped from $562 to $423, a 25 percent discount."

Full story HERE

Are you a NudeOCer?  The definition of this is either:

(a) Somebody who overclocks in the nude, or

(b) Somebody who likes watching us overclock in the nude.

If so then check out the NudeOC desktop wallpaper.  Now you can see us babes in action offline as well as online.

NudeOC Wallpaper DOWNLOAD, 73k.

HERE is an interesting site run by people who do naughty things with their socket 370 processors.  (Naughty by Intel's definition, not by ours)

Finally, HERE is a short tune that Gayle made, messing about with Evolution Audio.

A lot has been going on today at the NudeOC.  The four of us have been working like crazy on three new segments to the site.  The first is our new search section - HERE.  You can search the web for specific hardware items/news or just search for whatever you want (no matter how bizarre it may be).

Secondly we have added a new article to the features section.  It's a very detailed CPU performance comparison chart - HERE.  Be warned, there are a LOT of statistics and unless you are seriously disturbed (HERE) you will find it incredibly boring......  Pages and pages of MIPS and MFLOPS.....

Lastly, and on a much more exciting NOTE (you will get the pun by the end of the this sentence) we can exclusively reveal THE NUDE OVERCLOCKERS THEME TUNE!!!!!!  CLICK HERE  

Tamika will be updating this news page more in a few hours.  (That's if she ever stops sulking over her new Afro) - HERE