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Join the community - in the OCAU Forums! Tuesday Night Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 20-August-2024  22:59:27 (GMT +10) - by Agg Audio Visual: MSI IMMERSE GH50 Wireless Headset on Guru3D. FiiO K11 R2R Desktop DAC/Headphone Amplifier on TechPowerUp. XPG Precog Studio Gaming Headset on Tweaktown. Gigabyte AORUS CO94DQ 49-Inch QD-OLED Gaming Monitor on ThinkComputers. iFi audio iDSD Diablo 2 Ultra-Res Portable DAC / Headphone Amplifier With Lossless Bluetooth on NikKTech. Input Etc: ASUS ROG Keris II Ace mouse on TechPowerUp. SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Wireless Gaming Keyboard on OCInside. Turtle Beach Burst II Air Wireless Optical Mouse on APHNetworks. Logitech G G309 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse on Tweaktown. Akko MU01 Mountain Seclusion Wooden Mechanical Keyboard on TechPowerUp. Portable & Prebuilt: Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Laptop Review: Great Performance, Killer Display on HotHardware. Cyberpower PC Ultra 55 (2024) on Vortez. Cases: Corsair 2500D Airflow on TechPowerUp. Corsair iCUE LINK 3500X RGB Mid-Tower on FunkyKit. Storage: Silicon Power Armor A60 5TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 Portable HDD on MadShrimps. KIOXIA TransMemory U202 USB 2.0 Flash Drive on MadShrimps. Kingston XS1000 external SSD on DVHardware. Misc: G.SKILL Trident Z5 Royal DDR5-8200 48GB Dual-Channel Memory Kit on Tweaktown. Seasonic VERTEX GX-1000 SAKURA Limited Edition PSU on NikKTech. Noctua NH-D15 G2 LBC High-Performance CPU Cooler on FunkyKit. Team Group Memory Winner (5 Comments) (link)  Saturday, 17-August-2024  22:41:32 (GMT +10) - by Agg Congratulations to OCAU Forums member jamesbond who won our Team Group Contest for messiest desk. I'm sure you'll agree it was a magnificent effort: Click for the entries thread! Misc Pics (17 Comments) (link)  Friday, 16-August-2024  15:21:01 (GMT +10) - by Agg Friday again - thanks to Paul this week! Tick Tock - Win Some Team Group Memory! (6 Comments) (link)  Friday, 16-August-2024  07:17:18 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Not much time left to win some DELTA RGB DDR5 DESKTOP MEMORY BLACK from Team Group. click for details! The perfect excuse to upgrade the rest of your old rig ;) AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X CPUs (0 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 15-August-2024  19:11:34 (GMT +10) - by Agg AMD have followed up their earlier mid-range CPUs with the new flagship Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X CPUs, with 12 and 16 cores respectively: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X on HotHardware. Ryzen 9 9950X processor on Guru3D. Ryzen 9 9900X processor on Guru3D. AMD Ryzen 9 9900X & 9950X on Vortez. AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Review - But that Price on TechPowerUp. AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Review - The New Flagship on TechPowerUp. Discussion continues in this thread. Wednesday Night News (2 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 14-August-2024  21:50:35 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN WD lost its hard drive patent lawsuit and now gets to pay MR Technologie a paltry $262M. Well this should help HDD pricing. Right! Suess is a professor and head of the Physics of Functional Materials department at the University of Vienna and MRT is his company. The two patents in question refer to ways to increase the signal to noise ratio in the recording medium layer of hard disk drives and using anisotropy – directionally dependent – magnetic effects in a multi-layer recording material to help switch bits from one magnetic direction to another. Google tells Android users: go into your settings and turn off the "Allow 2G" toggle. It works like this: a group uses a device known as a Stingray, a False Base Station, or an "SMS Blaster" to pretend to be a 5G cell tower. Smartphones connect to it and it immediately sends them a command to step down to 2G, which they will obey if the "Allow 2G" option is still enabled. Once that happens, they can exploit the lack of modern security features in the 2G communications standard to essentially pretend to be you on the internet. Why are criminals using video games to launder money? (Podcast). Cryptocurrency and block chain technology has dramatically shifted the way criminals launder money - so what are the techniques some criminals are using to clean dirty money and what does it have to do with a video game about salamanders? I saw this on The Sizzle. Do you know who Fabrice Bellard is? He's the original developer of FFMPEG, an impressive piece of software for video/audio encoding (and more) that's used in a lot of places thanks to being open source. That alone would put you in the deadset legend status of computing, but no, Fabrice is such a genius that they also decided to muck around and spit out QEMU. If you've ever used a virtual machine that isn't VMware, chances are it was some sort of QEMU variant. Fabrice's website is banger after banger of projects that even if you did just one, you'd be absolutely stoked with and would dine out on it for years. I haven't read it yet, but the ACM did a profile on Fabrice in 2009 and put him in the same league as Alan Turing, Donald Knuth and Edsger Dijkstra. And IntelInside sent in news of a critical flaw in AMD chips. Now security researchers have found one such flaw that has persisted in AMD processors for decades, and that would allow malware to burrow deep enough into a computer's memory that, in many cases, it may be easier to discard a machine than to disinfect it. “I think it's the most complex bug I've ever exploited,” says Okupski. Wednesday Night Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 14-August-2024  21:04:59 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Audio Visual: DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Creator Combo @ FunkyKit ZMF BOKEH Closed-Back Dynamic Driver Headphones @ TechPowerUp Antlion Audio ModMic USB 2 and UNI 2 @ LanOC MAG 341CQP QD-OLED @ cowcotland VIVIDSTORM 120" S PRO P Motorized Tension Floor Rising UST ALR Perforated Projector Screen @ NikKTech Cases and Cooling: Endorfy Fluctus 120 PWM Fan @ TweakTown GIGABYTE AORUS WATERFORCE X II 360 ICE Liquid Cooler @ TweakTown Noctua NH-D15 G2 CPU Cooler @ guru3D Cooler Master MasterBox 600 @ TechPowerUp Cougar FV270 Mid-Tower @ TweakTown Enermax Marbleshell @ cowcotland Software and Benchmark: Testing Intel’s Raptor Lake CPU Microcode Fix @ HotHardware Zen 5 Tested with SMT Disabled @ TechPowerUp Portable & Prebuilt: Pixel 9 Family @ HotHardware Microsoft Surface Laptop Review (7th Edition) @ SMBtech | High Performance Laptops OneXGPU 2 eGPU To Flex AMD's New Radeon RX 7800M @ HotHardware Misc: ASUS RT-BE96U Tri-Band WiFi 7 @ FunkyKit Corsair MP700 PRO SE 2TB PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe M.2 SSD @ FunkyKit

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