A study conducted by Professor Martin Gill of the University of Leicester came to the conclusion that second hand computers pose a great risk of fraud and identity theft. They purchased six computers in the course of their study from various second hand channels. Six computers may not seem to justify the results but it can be seen as an indicator. Half of them had not been securely wiped while one had not been wiped at all. Two of the three contained enough information for identity theft.

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I don´t have a lcd monitor yet but this might be useful to some of you who already own one. This is not supposed to be working for every flat screen out there but I think its nevertheless worth a try. Take a look at the following site and decide for yourself if you want to try this method.

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If this topic did not catch your attention at once then none will. Dr. Charles Gerba from the university of Arizona found out in a study that measured normal bacterial levels inside offices across America that the average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat.

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Mikael from Fosfor Gadgets evaluated thousands of case mods to come up with a top ten of the weirdest case mods ever. I could not believe half of the ten because they really look unbelievable.

I selected two of the ten to present to you, if you´d like to see the rest visit his site. Its well worth it, especially the number one which does not look like a pc at all.

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Are you planning to buy a new computer or cpu, if the answer is yes the new tomshardware guide about cpus called “The Mother of All CPU Charts 2005/2006″ is the right article for you. All in all their compared about 50 cpus ranging from the very old Athlon 1400 Thunderbird to the brand new AMD flagship Athlon 64 FX-57 San Diego. Benchmarks are taken in various fields including of course Open GL and Direct X performance, which is the most important aspect of the test for gamers, to video, audio and application performance.

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