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Join the community - in the OCAU Forums! Wednesday Night Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 6-March-2024  23:33:26 (GMT +10) - by Agg Motherboard & CPU: GIGABYTE AORUS Z790 Master X Motherboard on Tweaktown. MSI MEG Z790 Godlike Max Motherboard on Tweaktown. Memory: ANACOMDA EryxTataricus RGB DDR5-7200 32GB Memory Kit on FunkyKit. Patriot Elite 5 RGB DDR5-6000 48 GB CL42 on TechPowerUp. Input Etc: Pulsar X2H mouse on TechPowerUp. Incott HPC01M Pro mouse on TechPowerUp. Corsair M75 Wireless mouse on Guru3D. Corsair M75 Wireless Gaming Mouse on ThinkComputers. NZXT Lift 2 Ergo Mouse on OCInside. Pulsar X2V2 mouse on TechPowerUp. Cases: be quiet! Dark Base Pro 901 Full Tower on NikKTech. be quiet! Shadow Base 800 Mid-Tower on Tweaktown. FSP CUT593 Premium Edition on TechPowerUp. Audio Visual: ASRock CL27FF Gaming Monitor on Tweaktown. FiiO FT3 & FT5 Hi-Res Over-Ear Headphones on NIkKTech. Networking: Starlink terminal revision 4: overview and tests on OlegKutov - OCAU article on Gen 1 here. Portable & Prebuilt: 14th Gen Asus ROG Zephyrus laptop on HighPerformanceLaptops. Lenovo Legion Go Review: A Great Handheld Windows Gaming PC on HotHardware. MSI Aegis RS 14th Gen Desktop Review: Well-Balanced PC Gaming on HotHardware. Storage: Kioxia Exceria PLUS G3 PCIe 4.0 DRAMless M.2 NVMe on Guru3D. Crucial P5 Plus (Heatsink) Gen4 NVMe Solid State Drive on ThinkComputers. Patriot Viper Gaming VP4000 Mini 1TB M.2 2230 PCIe Gen4 SSD on MadShrimps. Power Supply: Phanteks Revolt 1200 ATX 3.0 PSU on Guru3D. SilverStone DA850R Gold 850W Power Supply on APHNetworks. be quiet! Straight Power 12 1000w ATX 3.0 80 PLUS Platinum PSU on Tweaktown. GAMDIAS HELIOS P2-750G 750W on APHNetworks. Seasonic Prime TX-1600 ATX 3.0 on TechPowerUp. Misc: Sandberg Survivor Lantern All-In1 10000 on NikkTech. ASRock Radeon RX 7900 GRE Steel Legend 16GB OC video card on FunkyKit. NVIDIA GTX 2024 - Win an RTX 4090! (7 Comments) (link)  Sunday, 3-March-2024  23:51:04 (GMT +10) - by Agg I think most of you worked out what my teaser from last week meant - once again in conjunction with NVIDIA's annual GTC conference, we are giving away a high-end video card. This time it's an RTX 4090 - a special edition in a box signed by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA! Click here for more info! Retro Let's Play March 2024 (5 Comments) (link)  Sunday, 3-March-2024  11:57:56 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN This month's "Retro Let's Play" for March is Far Cry from 2004. March 2004, when a game was to be released that would wow us with it's gorgeous tropical open world, cutting edge graphics , unique gameplay elements , and re-kindle the PCs reputation as the gaming platform of choice to make such creations possible. The game's story follows a retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier stranded on a mysterious archipelago. He is searching for a female journalist named Valerie Constantine, after she went missing when their boat was destroyed by mercenaries. The game includes thematic elements relating to the dangers of weaponizing genetic engineering and the genocide of local islanders as can be seen by the deformed creatures created by a mad scientist named Krieger. click for the thread! Retro Misc Pics (6 Comments) (link)  Friday, 1-March-2024  13:42:54 (GMT +10) - by Agg Here's some Retro Misc Pics from April 2011: 1st April 2011: 8th April 2011: 15th April 2011: 22nd April 2011: We also had an April Fools Joke that year. :) Friday Morning (3 Comments) (link)  Friday, 1-March-2024  01:12:26 (GMT +10) - by Agg I'm quietly excited about the new Shogun TV show based on the James Clavell novel that I read as a teenager. Also, Tony_L pointed out the handy tip that pressing CTRL pauses the view in Task Manager. Here's a cool story about a guy in Sydney who converted his van to electric years ago. He got it second hand from an ad in The Trading Post newspaper for $100, then began turning it into an electric vehicle that would be powered by his rooftop solar. He took out the engine and sold it for $150, replacing it with three 10-horsepower electric motors from ride-on lawn mowers. He added 8,000 batteries from power tools and laptops, which hook up to a cable that runs down the side of his house from the panels when he charges the van out the front of his home. When it's not plugged into the home the van's batteries are being charged by a 1-kilowatt panel on its roof and small panels on the sides which charge the indicators and lights. Another lunar lander has arrived on the Moon - this time, the first privately-built vehicle to land there. It was a slightly awkward landing but it has sent back some photos. NASA had contracted the operating company, Houston-based Intuitive Machines, to carry six scientific instruments on board the lander. "Odysseus is a success," the agency chief told reporters. "We are in the sixth day of what was planned as an eight-day mission, and we're still receiving data from those instruments." MUTMAN sent in this story about the history of robots.txt and how naughty robots have been ignoring it lately. I can tell you they have been ignoring it for a long time. :) For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the internet from chaos. This text file has no particular legal or technical authority, and it’s not even particularly complicated. It represents a handshake deal between some of the earliest pioneers of the internet to respect each other’s wishes and build the internet in a way that benefitted everybody. It’s a mini constitution for the internet, written in code. TSMC have a new chip fab - built in record time. The two years flew past, and now the facility is ready to begin mass production later this year, with TSMC tapping Sony's assistance to get the plant operational in Japan. The new Kumamoto fab plant has been dubbed "Nightless Castle" as there were workers there on 24-hour shifts, which is how the new TSMC plant was built in just two years, with plants regularly taking three or more years to get up and running. Meanwhile Intel want to be the foundry for the world, thanks MUTMAN, who also sent in this article about their 18A process change. "I’ve bet the whole company on 18A." So, says Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in the most deadpan, matter-of-fact manner imaginable. He's not glib. He's not joking. Everything rides on Intel's 18A process according to Gelsinger. Today's timewaster is particularly time-focused. For reasons known only to himself, a guy I've known through motorcycles for many years decided to make his own talking clock video. This happened because of a programming exercise. When I'm training or evaluating new computer programmers I like to use the "Write a program that outputs the text for a Speaking Clock" exercise. I was doing this myself in Python recently, and thought "Rather than text, why not use video segments for the output?" Getting the rough version running was easy, getting a version that stayed accurate over 12 hours took a lot of extra work.

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