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Misc Pics (2 Comments) (link)  Friday, 5-January-2018  13:12:03 (GMT +10) - by Agg 2018. Still no flying car. Thanks to mpot and Manaz this week! Friday Afternoon Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Friday, 5-January-2018  13:08:00 (GMT +10) - by Agg Motherboard & CPU: Biostar Racing Z370GT6 on TechPowerUp. MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC Motherboard on PCPerspective. MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon on OCAholic. Portable & Prebuilt: HP Envy x360 laptop on TechSpot. CES 2018 : The Dell XPS 13 2018 (9370) Revealed on TechARP. Dell XPS 13 (9370) 2018 Review: White Spun Glass, Killer Looks And Speed on HotHardware. Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 (SM-A530F) Smartphone on TechARP. Cases: Lian Li PC-T70 Open and Closed Air Test Bench on Guru3D. NZXT H700i Case on ThinkComputers. Input Etc: Tesoro GRAM SE Spectrum Keyboard on TechPowerUp. SteelSeries RIVAL 310 Ergonomic Esports Mouse on NikKTech. GAMDIAS Hermes P3 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard on Tweaktown. Storage: NETGEAR RN524X SMB 10Gbe NAS on Tweaktown. Kingston DataTraveler Elite G2 64GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive on FunkyKit. Plextor M9Pe 512GB & 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD on Tweaktown. Plextor M9Pe 512GB M2 NVMe SSD on Guru3D. Audio Visual: The Samsung CJ791 – First Thunderbolt 3 QLED Curved Monitor on TechARP. Gamdias Hephaestus P1 RGB Gaming Headset on FunkyKit. Memory: Geil Super LUCE RGB DDR4 on TechPowerUp. GeIL Super Luce RGB SYNC DDR4-3000 32GB kit on ThinkComputers. AMD Ryzen 1700X Review (0 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 4-January-2018  00:42:32 (GMT +10) - by Agg Here's a detailed review of the AMD Ryzen 1700X, from forum member headin2001. For comparisons, I have lined up the 8 Core/16 Thread Ryzen 1700X up against Intels 4 Core/8 Thread 7700K mainstream offering. Both CPU's feature in around the same price range now (1700X - $485AUD and the Intel 7700K - $435 as at December 2017). Both CPU's are, in my opinion a strong offering from both teams without moving to the ridiculous high price ranges of the Intel HEDT or Threadripper products. Enough babble, let's get in and see how this 95W TDP 3.4/3.8Ghz 8c/16t CPU performs. click for the review! Wednesday Midday (5 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 3-January-2018  12:37:18 (GMT +10) - by Agg I hope 2018 is treating you well and your hangovers have all worn off.. :) Time for some news catchup. Seagate have a new multi-actuator system which could prolong the life of spinning-rust hard drives. The third way, and the method Seagate has chosen, is to design a drive with multiple actuators. The idea of using multiple actuators isn’t new, and Seagate has experimented with it in the past, but had deemed the approach ineffective due to design challenges, higher drive weights, and additional material costs. Here's an amusing story from Axe: a man was so upset with Telstra that he camped out in protest at their store, the Police were called, and they ended up negotiating on his behalf with Telstra instead of removing him. "The cops kind of took our side," Mr Dooley said. "They understood. They used their excellent negotiating skills to negotiate what I hadn't been able to in the last four months. We haven't heard much in the PC space from VIA for a while now, but could they be making a comeback against AMD and Intel soon? In 2018 VIA plans to release their KX-6000 series of CPUs, offering 4 or 8 core processors with clock speeds of 3GHz with support for DDR4 memory and PCIe 3.0. This product is expected to act as a low-cost alternative to Intel's Gemini Lake SoCs that is built on TSMC's 16nm process (The KX-5000 series used a 28nm process). Well, I won't be holding my breath, but it would be nice to blow the dust off the Other CPUs and Chipsets (formerly VIA Hardware) forum. :) Still in rumour mode, there's speculation of a new Intel CPU bug. If the reports are accurate, it appears that Intel might have a pretty severe chip-level security bug on its hands that cannot be simply swatted away with a microcode update. The bug affects all modern Intel processors dating back at least a decade. We should note that squashing the bug requires a patch at the OS level; and Linux patches have already been distributed (with redacted comments). Microsoft is expected to address the bug in its monthly Patch Tuesday update. OCInside have a guide to making a DIY Arcade Machine. Daniel, one of our longtime PC forum members built a fully fledged 24-inch arcade machine construction using Raspberry Pi 3. As always, we wish you a lot of fun reading this new arcade machine diy guide and of course to copy the Retro arcade machine. If this kind of thing tickles your fancy, there's lots more in our Retro & Arcade Forum. TechSpot also compared 44 video cards in PUBG, the popular survival shooter. Following up on last month's CPU-focused benchmarks, we're back to see how PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds performs on a massive range of graphics cards: we have an epic battle between Radeon and GeForce GPUs. Meanwhile BabelTechReviews have a 15-game VR GPU comparison. We are benchmarking 15 VR games on the Oculus Rift including Fallout 4 VR using FCAT-VR, pitting the RX Vega 56 and 64 versus the GTX 1070 Ti, the GTX 1080, and the GTX 1080 Ti. There's more retrospective articles looking back at 2017, with the best case mods from ThinkComputers and the most disappointing games from TechSpot. It's nice to talk about all the great games that were released this year, but we're also not going to let slide the games that really disappointed us, and there's a few that stick out like a sore thumb. The following games simply weren't good enough; far from it in fact. Monday Night Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Monday, 1-January-2018  23:02:58 (GMT +10) - by Agg Cooling: Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB AIO Cooler on FunkyKit. ARCTIC Liquid Freezer 240 AIO Liquid CPU Cooler on NikKTech. Be Quiet Silent Loop 360 AIO CPU Cooler on MadShrimps. Input Etc: Cooler Master MasterSet MS120 Keyboard/Mouse Set on APHNetworks. Thermaltake MEKA PRO Cherry Red Mechanical Keyboard on FunkyKit. Dream Machines DM3 Mini Gaming Mouse on LegitReviews. Roccat's Kone Aimo gaming mouse on TechReport. Portable & Prebuilt: Microsoft Surface Laptop on HotHardware. MSI GV62 7RC laptop on Vortez. Huawei Mate 10 smartphone on TechSpot. Misc: GamerStorm Baronkase Liquid by DeepCool cooler on Modders-Inc. Silicon Power Diamond D30S 2TB USB 3.1 HDD on MadShrimps. TP-Link KC120 Kasa Cam Smart Home Camera on Tweaktown. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition video card on TechARP.

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