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Forum Projects (1 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 29-September-2016  11:01:48 (GMT +10) - by Agg Here's some more projects and reviews from the forums: windwithme reviewed the MSI WS72 4K laptop vk2fro has been (carefully) hacking an APC UPS Defyant built a Hot Wheels track terroristone built a rigid-tubed watercooled PC while -inVaRed. used fancy chrome tubing while samus reviewed the 2016 Toyota Corolla Hybrid Elon Musk and Mars (0 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 28-September-2016  16:49:22 (GMT +10) - by Agg Elon Musk continues his development into a James Bond villain without the evil, announcing an interplanetary transport system as part of his overall personal goal of making humans an interplanetary species. The first ship to go to Mars, Musk said, would be named Heart of Gold as a tribute to the ship powered by an “infinite improbability drive” from Douglas Adams’ science fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. More details here. Discussion continues in this thread in our Science forum. Wednesday Morning Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 28-September-2016  08:10:07 (GMT +10) - by booj Motherboards: MSI X99A XPower Gaming Titanium on ocaholic. ASUS Rampage V Edition 10 on PC Perspective. Storage: SanDisk Extreme 510 Portable SSD on Hot Hardware. Seagate IronWolf 10TB NAS HDD on TweakTown. Plextor M8PeG 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD with Heatsink on eTeknix. Drobo 5N 5-Bay NAS on eTeknix. Crucial MX300 750 GB SSD on OCinside. Samsung 850 EVO 4TB SATA III SSD on TweakTown. QNAP TS-251A 2-Bay SOHO NAS on eTeknix. Samsung 850 EVO 4TB SSD on Custom PC Review. Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB SSD on ThinkComputers. Cooling: Be Quiet! Silent Loop 280 on Guru3D. Bequiet Silent Loop 240 AIO Water Cooler on Madshrimps. Input etc: Zalman ZM-K900M Gaming Keyboard on Benchmark Reviews. Evoluent VerticalMouse C Right Wireless Mouse on PC Perspective. Misc: Patriot Viper 4 8GB DDR4 3400MHz Memory Kit on Neoseeker. InWin Classic Series 750W Fully-Modular 80 Plus Platinum PSU on eTeknix. TP-LINK Neffos Y5L Smartphone on Madshrimps. Raijintek Aeneas case on techPowerUp. Fitbit Charge 2 Fitness Band on TweakTown. Gigabyte RX 480 8GB G1 Gaming edition meets the Red Devil & the GTX 1060 on babeltechreviews. GE 13868 Plug-In Outdoor Smart Switch on Bigbruin. Tuesday Evening (1 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 27-September-2016  18:04:35 (GMT +10) - by Agg If you get a mysterious USB stick in your mailbox, don't use it - obviously. USB sticks containing harmful malware have been left in Australian letterboxes, police in Victoria have warned. Residents of Pakenham, a suburb of Melbourne, have reportedly found the unmarked sticks in the boxes. Plugging them into a computer triggers fraudulent media-streaming service offers, as well as other malware, the force said in a statement. The devices are "extremely harmful" and should not be used, police say. HP are also annoying people by stealthily blocking aftermarket ink cartridges in their printers. And consumer advocacy group Choice says it will begin investigating whether HP has breached Australian Consumer Law. Early last week, HP printer owners using non-HP ink cartridges began to complain they were receiving error messages such as "cartridge problem", "one or more cartridges are missing or damaged" or "older generation cartridge". NZ researchers have restored the first recordings of computer-generated music, credited to Alan Turing. The aural artefact, which paved the way for everything from synthesisers to modern electronica, opens with a staunchly conservative tune — the British national anthem God Save the King. Researchers at the University of Canterbury (UC) in Christchurch said it showed Turing — best known as the father of computing who broke the WWII Enigma code — was also a musical innovator. ARM have a new safety processor aimed at (among other things) the autonomous car market. James McNiven, general manager for CPU and media processing groups at ARM, provided some background information about the new processor's development: "We are helping partners to meet particular market opportunities, especially in fully autonomous vehicles and robotics systems where specific functionality is required for safety-critical tasks." To meet the industry safety standards ARM has documented the strict development process, fault modelling and supporting software isolation for the Cortex-R52. Coming soon to a CPU near you: reconfigurable chaos. “We propose utilizing chaos theory – the system’s own nonlinearity – to enable transistor circuits to be programmed to perform different tasks. A very simple nonlinear transistor circuit contains very rich patterns. Different patterns that represent different functions coexist within the nonlinear dynamics of the system, and they are selectable. We utilize these dynamics-level behaviors to perform different processing tasks using the same circuit. As a result we can get more out of less.” Meanwhile an AMD A12-9800 APU has been overclocked to 4.8GHz on stock cooling. A Korean overclocker, Namegt, has reached 4.8GHz on AMD's new A12-9800 APU using AMD's Wraith Air cooler at a voltage of 1.325V. This is a huge improvement on the overclockability of AMD's older Kaveri APUs, which require much larger cooling solutions and higher voltage in order to achieve the same clock speeds. This overclock is 1GHz higher than A12-9800's base clock speed of 3.8GHz and 0.6GHz higher than this CPUs boost clock speeds of 4.2GHz, which is an impressive overclock given the fact that this CPU is still using AMD's reference CPU cooler design. Monday Afternoon Reviews (2 Comments) (link)  Monday, 26-September-2016  16:24:34 (GMT +10) - by aftahours Audio: Jabra ECLIPSE Wireless Headset on NikKTech HyperX Cloud Revolver Gaming Headset on BigBruin iClever Wireless Audio Gear on Funky Kit Monster Fatal1ty FxM 200 Headset on LanOC Case: Zalman Z9 & Z11 NEO on OCC AeroCool XPredator II Full Tower Chassis on NikKTech Anidees AI Crystal Mid-Tower Chassis on TweakTown In Win 303 Computer Case on APH Networks Videocard: Dual GTX Titan SLI for 4K and Triple Monitor Gaming on Techspot HIS Radeon RX 480 IceQ X² Roaring Turbo 8GB GDDR5 on Funky Kit GIGABYTE GTX 1060, 1070 & 1080 G1 Gaming on Vortez EVGA GTX 1080 Classified Video Card on Hardware Asylum GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming Premium on HardOCP Storage: Kingston SSDnow UV400 480GB SSD on NikKTech Crucial MX300 525GB SSD on Madshrimps Misc: Evapolar USB air conditioner on GoodGearGuide Gigabyte Brix S GB-BSi5HT-6200 Ultra Compact SFF PC on Hot Hardware ECS Z170-LIGHTSABER Intel LGA1151 Motherboard on TechPowerUp OPPO F1s Selfie Expert Smartphone on TechARP FSP Hydro G 850W Gold Power Supply on PC Perspective

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