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Join the community - in the OCAU Forums! Misc Pics (21 Comments) (link)  Friday, 19-April-2024  13:27:07 (GMT +10) - by Agg Thanks to mpot this week! Thursday Evening (0 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 18-April-2024  17:50:41 (GMT +10) - by Agg kombiman sent in this article about WipEout, a classic game I loved as well. Burcombe suddenly entered beast mode in the game. “I absolutely nailed the 150cc Championship on my first attempt with this track playing,” he says. “Winning by quite a margin.” In that moment of elation and hyperfocus, something had gone off in Burcombe’s brain – a lightbulb moment, albeit one that flashed with strobe-like intensity. “It was the best gaming experience I’d ever had,” he says. “That moment etched itself into my brain and I wanted everyone to feel that too.” Within a couple of years, they would. Via a new anti-gravity racing game complete with its own pioneering trance-techno soundtrack. WipEout, released in 1995, was to be the world’s first rave-inspired computer game. HotHardware have an article explaining CPU caches. If you're a budding young tech enthusiast or simply a casual PC purchaser, you may have seen "cache" listed in the specifications for this or that processor and wondered what exactly that is. It's been a major marketing point for CPUs for decades, and recently it has even become a matter of discussion for GPUs. HighPerformanceLaptops have overhauled their Best Laptop Group Test for April 2024. High Performance Laptops’ reviews use of an exhaustive scoring system that mathematically compares every new laptop with everything that’s come before it. However, price and availability change all the time and, consequently, so does the value proposition and overall rank. That’s why we always update our monthly best laptop group test – to produce the definitive Australian laptop buying guide. MSI have some wireless fans - kinda. Each fan has a JAF 7-pin header and magnetic connector blocks. These inserts lock the fans together in a single block and connect them to power and data. So, two of your three fans in this system are cable-free, which is better than none. MSI notes the MPG EZ120 ARGB also sports a whopping 33 LEDs spaced around the frame and blades for even lighting. Another interesting snippet from HotHardware, about a full-size motherboard with SODIMM slots for memory. I've often wondered why mATX or other SFF mobos insist on full-size DIMMs given SODIMMs are available in pretty much every non-extreme speed and capacity and aren't crazy expensive. SO-DIMM, or Small Outline Dual In-Line Memory Module slots are around half the size of a regular DIMM slot, measuring in the neighborhood of 2.66 inches with a 260-pin connector versus 288 pins on a regular DDR5 or DDR4 DIMM slot. They are not interchangeable (not without a SO-DIMM adapter, anyway), so you won't get very far trying to cram a SO-DIMM memory module into a regular DIMM slot. MUTMAN sent word of an AOI designed for de-lidded CPUs. Thanks to the rise of sky-high modern-day CPU power consumption, EKWB has built the world's first All-In-One liquid cooler tailored specifically for delidded Intel 12th,13th, and 14th Gen CPUs. EK says the new cooler was inspired by the huge surge of PC users delidding their CPUs to enhance performance. I really must dig up my old slug sanding article from 1999. Also from MUTMAN, a pogo-stick bouncing drone. Hopcopter is the first robot that I’ve ever seen give this a try, and it’s remarkably effective, combining a tiny quadrotor with a springy leg to hop hop hop all over the place. Definitely sounds like the cutest future Terminator model. TheVerge have an article about the ships that repair undersea cables and basically keep the global internet working. But thanks to a secretive global network of ships on standby, every broken cable is quickly fixed. This is the story of the people who repair the world's most important infrastructure. That reminded me of a huge article I read in a print copy of WIRED a zillion years ago, written by no less than Neal Stephenson (who also wrote two of my favourite novels) where he travelled the world explaining the history of undersea cables. Looks like it's available behind a paywall here, titled "Mother Earth Mother Board". Was a fascinating read at the time, will have to dig up the hard copy I no doubt still have on a shelf in the AggCave somewhere. Also I mentioned robot watches ages ago and Ajax sent in this page with more info. I definitely had the round eye-panel one from page 3. Ah, the nostalgia! Thursday Afternoon Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 18-April-2024  16:56:27 (GMT +10) - by Agg Motherboard & CPU: MSI MPG B760M MORTAR Edge TI Motherboard on Guru3D. Gigabyte AORUS Z790 Elite X WiFi 7 Motherboard on FunkyKit. Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black CPU Cooler on APHNetworks. Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU cooler on TechPowerUp. ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 240 A-RGB White AIO CPU cooler on Vortez. TEAM T-FORCE Siren DUO360 ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler on Tweaktown. Iceberg Thermal IceFLOE OASIS 360 ARGB Gen 2 AIO Liquid CPU Cooling System on NikKTech. Power Supply: FSP Dagger Pro 850W SFX (ATX 3.0/PCIe 5.0) PSU on FunkyKit. BLUETTI AC200L Portable power station on Guru3D. Lexar Professional SL600 2TB USB SSD on NeoSeeker. Cooler Master GX III Gold 850W Power Supply on APHNetworks. Gigabyte UD1000GM PG5 (Rev. 2.0) Power Supply on FunkyKit. Memory: Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB Kit (2x16GB) DDR5-6000 on MadShrimps. Corsair Dominator Titanium First Edition DDR5-7200 32GB Memory Kit on FunkyKit. Storage: Lexar SL500 2TB Portable SSD on FunkyKit. Crucial T705 Gen5 Solid State Drive on ThinkComputers. Sharge Disk M.2 2230 SSD Enclosure on ThinkComputers. Silicon Power UD90 2TB M.2 2230 NVMe SSD on NikKTech. TerraMaster F4-424 Pro NAS on Guru3D. Icy Dock MB038SP-B ExpressCage on OCInside. Corsair MP700 2TB PCIe Gen 5×4 NVMe M.2 SSD on FunkyKit. Audio Visual: Samsung G8 34-inch QD-OLED Gaming Monitor on Tweaktown. I\OAudio VOLARE In-Ear Monitors on TechPowerUp. AVerMedia Live Streamer ULTRA HD on Tweaktown. Dan Clark Audio E3 Closed-Back Headphones on TechPowerUp. AVerMedia Live Gamer 4K 2.1 capture card on Tweaktown. Input Etc: James Donkey R2 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard on TechPowerUp. Rapoo VT9 Air mouse on TechPowerUp. NuPhy Air96 V2 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard on Tweaktown. CHERRY KC 200 MX Mechanical Keyboard on MadShrimps. FiiO KB3 HiFi Mechanical Keyboard Review - Integrated DAC/Amp on TechPowerUp. EPOMAKER RT100 Mechanical Keyboard on ThinkComputers. Video Cards: XFX Radeon RX 7900 GRE on NeoSeeker. ASUS Radeon RX 7900 GRE TUF OC on TechPowerUp. Do AMD Ryzen 3D V-Cache CPUs Offer Gaming Gains For Entry-Level Graphics? on HotHardware. Portable & Prebuilt: ASRock NUCBOX-155H Mini PC on Tweaktown. Alienware m16 R2 Review: A Multi-Purpose Sleeper Gaming Laptop on HotHardware. Nothing Phone (2a) Review: All Budget Phones Should Be This Good on HotHardware. Sunday Afternoon Reviews (1 Comments) (link)  Sunday, 14-April-2024  13:26:29 (GMT +10) - by Agg Thanks to MUTMAN for putting this post together: Audio Visual: MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED @ ThePCEnthusiast EIZO FlexScan EV3240X 4K @ NikKTech Keyboard, Mouse, Etc: Logitech G PRO X 60 LIGHTSPEED Gaming Keyboard @ ThinkComputers Arbiter Polar 65 Magnetic Gaming Keyboard @ TweakTown AQIRYS LIBERTAS Gaming Keyboard @ Madshrimps Cases and Cooling: Hyte THICC Q60 AIO @ FunkyKit XPG Invader X Mid-Tower Chassis @ TechPowerUp Corsair 2000D Airflow @ guru3D Storage: MSI Spatium M580 FROZR PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD @ guru3D Patriot Viper Gaming VP4000 Mini Gen4 Solid State Drive @ ThinkComputers Motherboard, Memory, CPU: Intel Core i9-14900KS @ TweakTown PSU: FSP Hydro PTM PRO 1350W ATX3.0 (12V-2×6) @ FunkyKit Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio 24G @ OCinside Misc: Aqirys Atlas Gaming Chair @ TechPowerUp

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