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Guess the Guessing Game
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Saturday, 27-December-2025 16:00:38 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN
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Wishing you all a peaceful holiday season and a bright New Year ahead. Recent events reminded me of how important it is to be part of a caring community.
And what better way to spend some well earned down time then to play a game or five with friends.
The Song Game post a song title that has a word, any word, from the previous song title
Geoguessing Game find a google street view link, or a maps/earth link, that matches the posted clue
The Movie Guessing Game name the movie title from the hints provided
Retro Game Guessing Game a retro game guessing game
Hardware Guessing Game name that hardware
Audio Visual:
OBSBOT Tail 2 AI-Powered PTZR 4K Live Production Camera @ TweakTown
AOC Q27G4SL/WS Gaming Monitor @ TweakTown
Edifier ES300 Tabletop Wireless Speaker @ NikKTech
EIZO ColorEdge CG2700S Wide Gamut Monitor @ NikKTech
Keyboard, Mouse:
Womier WD75 Mechanical Keyboard @ ThinkComputers
ASUS ROG Harpe II Ace Wireless Gaming Mouse @ TweakTown
Razer Cobra HyperSpeed Gaming Mouse @ Madshrimps
Logitech G915 X Lightspeed Low Profile Wireless Gaming Keyboard @ NikKTech
Glorious Model O3 Wireless @ TechPowerUp
Cooling:
Endorfy Stratus 120 White PWM ARGB Fans @ FunkyKit
Cougar Poseidon Vistek Pro ARGB 360 @ TechPowerUp
Antec Flux M Micro-ATX Chassis @ TweakTown
Storage:
ANACOMDA I4S 2TB PCIe Gen 4×4 M.2 2280 SSD @ Madshrimps
Motherboard, Memory:
Colorful iGame Shadow II DDR5-6000 UDIMM 32GB Dual-Channel Memory @ TweakTown
ASRock B860 Steel Legend WiFi @ guru3D
Sapphire Nitro+ B850A WiFi 7 @ TweakTown
Patriot Viper Elite 5 Ultra RGB DDR5-6000 2x24GB DDR5 @ APHnetworks
PSU:
SAMA G1000 1000W Power Supply @ APHnetworks
XPG Pymcore SFX 80 PLUS Gold 850w PSU @ TweakTown
Software, Benchmark:
AMD FSR 4 Redstone @ TechPowerUp
Portable, Prebuilt:
Lenovo LOQ 17IRX10 @ TechPowerUp
Inside A Simulated Steam Machine @ HotHardware
Minisforum UM750L Slim @ guru3D
ASUSTOR AS5402T 2-Bay NAS @ TweakTown
Mescy Picsmas
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Friday, 26-December-2025 15:18:40 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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I definitely did not forget it was Friday because of the holidays. Actually the ancient version of Photoshop that I use was misbehaving. Anyway, hope you're having a good one! A few classic Xmas ones in this batch.
     
     
     
     
Merry Xmas
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Thursday, 25-December-2025 10:17:03 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Merry Christmas if you celebrate it. Last year I was on a cruise with my family but we're having a much more sedate time at home this year. Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, I hope you're having a safe and happy holiday.
India's New Spyware Mandate Sets A Dangerous Precedent. The government of India released an order that all smartphones manufactured for Indian citizens must come with a pre-installed government app. This app, known as Sanchar Saathi, is supposed to protect against phone-based crime such as stealing smartphones or miscellaneous telecom scams. India's Department of Telecommunications (DOT) specified that this app cannot be disabled or restricted by users, and that phone manufacturers would have to submit a comprehensive compliance report within 120 days of the order.
NBN Co's 2Gbps services are too fast for ACCC to monitor. While a boon for bandwidth-hungry consumers, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed this week that it has a limited ability to monitor the quality and performance of these very high-speed NBN connections under its 'Measuring Broadband Australia' program. Field testing hardware devices used by the program, manufactured by SamKnows, can’t measure data transmission speeds greater than 1Gbps. This means the ACCC's testing can no longer keep pace with the capacity of NBN Co’s very high-speed service tiers.
Thanks to IntelInside for those two stories above.
Maybe reconsider that energy drink when you're enjoying some holiday gaming. The man, who was in his 50s and otherwise healthy, showed up at a hospital after the entire left side of his body abruptly went numb and he was left with clumsy, uncoordinated muscle movements (ataxia). At that point, doctors pushed for more lifestyle information from the man, who finally revealed that he had a habit of drinking an average of eight high-potency energy drinks every day.
Microsoft have done it again, massive gains in their Windows Server products, just 14 years late is all. Sysadmins willing to take the plunge only have to tweak a registry key, or add a group policy MSI, and they can enjoy up to 80% higher IOPS and up to 45% lower CPU utilization under a high I/O load. This should be a shot in the arm for scenarios involving high-performance file serving, virtualization, AI and ML workloads, and databases.
DDR5 pricing is having an unexpected knock-on effect for prices of older CPU's. The DDR5 memory pricing crisis has sent the whole PC market into utter chaos, including pricing on AMD's flagship AM4 gaming chip. eBay prices for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D have skyrocketed to the point where these chips are being sold regularly for more money than a brand-new Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Second-hand prices for the 5800X3D average around $500-$600 on eBay. Some of the highest-selling units sold at nearly $800, showing how desperate some buyers are to buy AMD's best gaming chip that still uses DDR4 memory.
What a time to be alive !
AMD thought a new 9850x3d chip would help. The CPU was spotted at SHI, an American retailer that listed it for $553.09, and a Swedish retailer called Ordeflow.ch, which put it up for 473.55 CFH (in a now deleted post), which comes out to around $595 USD. Searching the part numbers mentioned on SHI's listing doesn't bring up any further details either. For some context, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D is likely to be a routine mid-cycle bump, bringing slightly higher clocks to an otherwise unchanged spec sheet. We're looking at rumored 5.6 GHz max clock speeds, up from 5.2 GHz on the 9800X3D.
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