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Thursday Afternoon
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Thursday, 28-February-2019 17:26:07 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Day 10 of no internet in the AggCave. Some progress, though. Anyway, here's some news catchup.
On a very related note, former NBN CEO Michael Quigley has written a long article about what happened to broadband in Australia. We pointed out that of the three major fixed-line telecommunications deployments in Australia prior to the NBN, only two could be regarded as being successful – both built by governments. The first was the overland telegraph line built by the South Australian government in the 1870s. The second was the existing telephone copper network progressively built by the federal Postmaster-General’s Department, starting in the early part of the 20th century. Both turned out to be of great value to Australia.
This sounds like a cool idea, but I can't load it on my super slow tethered-3G connection at the moment. Someone play with it and describe it to me. Maybe send me a fax. Anyway, it's a map that lets you see your location over millennia. Ancient Earth, the tool behind this millennia-spanning visualization, is the brainchild of Ian Webster, curator of the world’s largest digital dinosaur database. As Michael D’estries reports for Mother Nature Network, Webster drew on data from the PALEOMAP Project—spearheaded by paleogeographer Christopher Scotese, the initiative tracks the evolving “distribution of land and sea” over the past 1,100 million years—to build the map.
Josh spotted this wall of GPU history in the Direct3D developer office. Our collection includes mainstream successes, influential breakthrough products, and also many more obscure cards that nevertheless bring back rich memories for those who worked on them.
Speaking of which, Tech-Report have an article about Intel's Graphic Odyssey. In which we interview Chris Hook, Intel’s director for Visual Technologies Marketing, about the company's "Odyssey" program. Read on to understand what this "Odyssey" thing is, how Intel is approaching grassroots meetups as a strategy, and all about the company's optimistic outlook for denting the discrete graphics market.
The name Zilog will be familiar to retro fans - sadly its creator passed away earlier this month. Dr Bernard L Peuto, the architect of the Zilog Z8000 processor has died. The Z8000 was the big brother of the 8-bit Z80, used in the first wave of low cost microcomputers like the Spectrum and TRS80, though it had a starring role in its own right. As a 16-bit CPU it powered several Unix systems, including those from Commodore, Olivetti and Onyx, as well as Zilog's own System 8000 machines.
Tuesday Midday Reviews
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Tuesday, 26-February-2019 12:23:01 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Input Etc:
MSI Vigor GK60 Keyboard on TechPowerUp.
Cooler Master SK650 keyboard on Vortez.
CORSAIR IRONCLAW RGB FPS/MOBA Gaming Mouse on NikKTech.
Storage:
Crucial BX500 960GB SSD Review - Micron 96L TLC Ships on Tweaktown.
Crucial BX500 960GB SATA SSD on FunkyKit.
ADATA XPG SX8200 PRO 512GB NVMe SSD on Modders-Inc.
Video Cards:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Linux Gaming Benchmarks on Phoronix.
MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming Z on Bjorn3D.
Gigabyte RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro 6G on LanOC.
Memory:
Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB on Vortez.
Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB DDR4 memory (32GB / 3600MHz) on Guru3D.
Audio Visual:
Viotek GN34C 34-inch Curved 1440p Ultrawide Monitor on ThinkComputers.
SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless Gaming Headset on MadShrimps.
EVGA’s Nu Audio Brings Entry-Level Audiophile Sound to the PC on BabelTechReviews.
Cooling:
Scythe Mugen 5 CPU cooler on OCClub.
EK-XRES 140 SPC PWM Classic RGB pump/reservoir on TechPowerUp.
Cryorig H7 Plus CPU Cooler on ThinkComputers.
Thermaltake Massive 20 RGB Laptop Cooling on OCInside.
Alphacool Eisbaer Extreme 280 Black Edition AIO Liquid CPU Cooler on NikKTech.
Arctic Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU cooler on Vortez.
Software:
Metro Exodus game on OCClub.
AxE: Alliance vs Empire preview: MMO mobile chaos on Tweaktown.
Misc:
MSI X299 Creation motherboard on Bjorn3D.
Raidmax Enigma S14 Chassis on FunkyKit.
NVIDIA GTX 1660 Ti Reviews
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Monday, 25-February-2019 23:47:21 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Here's a pile of GTX 1660 Ti reviews from around the web - of course you can read OCAU's review here as well:
EVGA GTX 1660 Ti XC Ultra on LanOC.
MSI GTX 1660 Ti Ventus XS on LanOC.
EVGA GTX 1660 Ti XC Black arrives to take on the Red Devil RX 590 on BabelTechReviews.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti on HotHardware.
Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6 GB on TechPowerUp.
MSI GeForce RTX 1660 Ti VENTUS XS on Guru3D.
MSI GeForce RTX 1660 Ti Gaming X on Guru3D.
ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1660 Ti on Guru3D.
Palit GeForce RTX 1660 Ti StormX on Guru3D.
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GAMING X & VENTUS XS on Tweaktown.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti on TechSpot.
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti ARMOR OC (6GB GDDR6) on FunkyKit.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Xc Ultra Gaming Gaming Performance on TechGage.
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Ventus XS 6 GB on TechPowerUp.
ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1660 Ti on Vortez.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti XC Black 6 GB on TechPowerUp.
MSI GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X 6 GB on TechPowerUp.
MSI GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X 6G
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Saturday, 23-February-2019 12:25:04 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Booj has taken a look at the MSI GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X 6G, a mid-range video card featuring the brand new GeForce GTX 1660 Ti from NVIDIA. This GPU omits some of the fancier RTX features of the high-end cards, but does it skimp on real-world performance?
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Still no internet, and it's not going to be sorted until next week at this rate. I'm sure it'll all be worthwhile once I get my nice shiny super-fast high-tech high-speed NBN, right? Right?? In the meantime, here's some Misc Pics from January 2009:
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Thursday Afternoon
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Thursday, 21-February-2019 13:01:25 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Time for some news catchup. Firstly, I was saddened to hear that the Opportunity Rover has died, or at least, stopped responding, on Mars. Designed to last just 90 Martian days and travel 1,100 yards (1,000 meters), Opportunity vastly surpassed all expectations in its endurance, scientific value and longevity. In addition to exceeding its life expectancy by 60 times, the rover traveled more than 28 miles (45 kilometers) by the time it reached its most appropriate final resting spot on Mars — Perseverance Valley. A bit more info here and discussion in this thread.
2019 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and NASA have found a heap of new high-quality footage from the Apollo program. It was like a family discovering a forgotten shoebox full of old Super 8 movies of major life events and departed friends—only the family was America, the movies were of theater quality, the event was one of the most important accomplishments in human history, and the departed friend was Neil Armstrong.
Apparently Australian political IT systems have been compromised by a "state-based actor". Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday said the activity was uncovered during the investigation into the security breach that forced parliamentarians and their staff to reset their passwords. “During the course of this work, we also became aware that the networks of some political parties – Liberal, Labor and Nationals – have also been affected,” he said. “Our security agencies have detected this activity and acted decisively to confront it. They are securing these systems and protecting users.”
Samsung have unveiled their Galaxy S10 range, with hands-on reviews on news.com.au and CNBC. However, it may be overshadowed by their other new product, the Galaxy Fold, a phone which opens out to reveal a double-width touchscreen. Samsung is using a new 7.3-inch Infinity Flex Display that allows the phone itself to have a tablet-sized screen that can be folded to fit into a pocket. The main display is QXGA+ resolution (4.2:3), and when it’s folded, a smaller 4.6-inch HD+ (12:9) display is used for the phone mode. Samsung is using 512GB of Universal Flash Storage 3.0 (eUFS) for fast speed, alongside a Qualcomm 7nm octa-core processor and 12GB of RAM.
Fake news may be about to become even faker, with an AI text generator called GPT2. Feed it the first few paragraphs of a Guardian story about Brexit, and its output is plausible newspaper prose, replete with “quotes” from Jeremy Corbyn, mentions of the Irish border, and answers from the prime minister’s spokesman.
For a real retro fix, you can play with the world's first web browser. OCAU doesn't look that great through it. :) In February 2019, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the development of WorldWideWeb, a group of developers and designers convened at CERN to rebuild the original browser within a contemporary browser, allowing users around the world to experience the rather humble origins of this transformative technology.
Thursday Morning Reviews
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Thursday, 21-February-2019 11:32:43 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Still no internet in the AggCave..
Motherboard & CPU:
MSI MEG X299 Creation motherboard on Guru3D.
MSI MPG Z390I Gaming Edge AC Motherboard on FunkyKit.
BIOSTAR B450GT3 (AMD B450) Motherboard on Tweaktown.
EVGA Z390 Dark Motherboard on HWAsylum.
Supermicro C9Z390-CG-IW (Intel Z390) Motherboard on Tweaktown.
MSI MEG X299 CREATION on TechPowerUp.
Portable & Pre-built:
Corsair ONE i160 Compact Gaming PC on TechPowerUp.
Huawei MateBook 13 Review: A High Performance Ultrabook With Caveats on HotHardware.
Video Cards:
MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z 6G on LanOC.
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro 6G on ThinkComputers.
GAMING GeForce RTX 2080 Ti AMP Extreme (11GB GDDR6) on FunkyKit.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q mobile GPU on TechSpot.
Software:
Far Cry New Dawn Benchmarked: 1080p, 1440p, 4K All Tested on Tweaktown.
Metro Exodus PC Graphics Benchmark on TechSpot.
Battlefield V DLSS Tested: Overpromised, Underdelivered on TechSpot.
GeForce 418.91 Driver Performance Analysis on BabelTechReviews.
Metro Exodus Ray Tracing Benchmarked on TechSpot.
Input etc:
Microsoft Pro IntelliMouse on TechPowerUp.
ASUS ROG Strix Flare Keyboard on TechPowerUp.
Drevo Durendal Gaming Keyboard on ThinkComputers.
Thermaltake Premium Level 20 RGB Cherry MX Speed Silver Gaming Keyboard on FunkyKit.
Cooler Master CM310 and MP750 mouse and pad on OCInside.
Cooling:
Deepcool Gammaxxx L240 AIO on Guru3D.
SilentiumPC Spartan 3 Pro RGB CPU cooler on TechPowerUp.
Gamer Storm Captain 240 Pro CPU cooler on Vortez.
Arctic Liquid Freezer 240 CPU Watercooler on FrostyTech.
Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM Fan on TechPowerUp.
Cases:
Thermaltake View 71 TG RGB Full Tower on NikKtech.
DimasTech Easy V3.0 Testbench on Vortez.
Audio Visual:
ROCCAT Renga Boost Gaming Headset on APHNetworks.
EasySMX COOL 2000 Gaming Headset on NikKTech.
Misc:
ASRock Multi-Gigabit Performance: 10GbE/5GbE/2.5G Networking on Tweaktown.
Kensington LD5400T Thunderbolt 3 Dock on Tweaktown.
Tuesday Morning Reviews
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Tuesday, 19-February-2019 11:46:23 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Switching to NBN has gone as smoothly as expected.. Telstra reckon we'll have internet back on again in 3 days. So, have some reviews from the cafe I'll be camped out at for the next 3 days.
Memory:
Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine DDR4 Gaming Memory Kit on MadShrimps.
GeIL Super Luce RGB Sync DDR4-3200 16GB Memory Kit on Tweaktown.
G.Skill TridentZ Royal 4000MHz 32GB Memory Kit on Tweaktown.
Input Etc:
DREVO Tyrfing V2 RGB Backlit Tenkeyless Mechanical Keyboard on NikKTech.
Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard on TechPowerUp.
Tesoro Gram MX ONE Mechanical Keyboard on APHNetworks.
Portable & Prebuilt:
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme on TechARP.
Intel Bean Canyon NUC Review: 8th Gen CPU With Iris Plus Graphics on HotHardware.
Software:
Resident Evil 2 Remake Review: Fright Night on Tweaktown.
Far Cry New Dawn PC graphics benchmark analysis on Guru3D.
Metro Exodus Benchmark Performance, RTX & DLSS on TechPowerUp.
Metro Exodus Benchmarked: The New 'Can It Run Crysis' on Tweaktown.
Metro Exodus PC Game & Performance Review on BabelTechReviews.
Metro Exodus: PC graphics performance analysis on Guru3D.
NVIDIA DLSS Test in Battlefield V on TechPowerUp.
Battlefield V - DLSS PC performance update on Guru3D.
Storage:
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB NVMe Linux SSD Benchmarks on Phoronix.
Samsung Pro Endurance 128GB microSD on Tweaktown.
iStorage Disk Ashur Pro2 on Vortez.
Kingston DataTraveler Bolt Duo on ThinkComputers.
WD Black SN750 NVME SSD (1TB) on Guru3D.
Thanks to Axe and timb0t this week! For something different, here's info about an urban legend arcade game I hadn't heard of until today. The original game allegedly was part of a government-run psychology experiment based in Portland, Oregon. Gameplay supposedly produced intense psychoactive and addictive effects in the player. These few publicly staged arcade machines were said to have been visited periodically by men in black for the purpose of data-mining the machines and analyzing these effects. Eventually, all of these Polybius arcade machines allegedly disappeared from the arcade market.
Bumper crop of Misc Pics this week - the second-last one might be (but isn't) NSFW. Enjoy!
     
     
     
     
     
     
      
Wednesday Afternoon Reviews
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Wednesday, 13-February-2019 13:16:19 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Motherboard & CPU:
ASUS PRIME X299 DELUXE II on HardOCP.
ASRock Z390 Taichi Ultimate (Intel Z390) on Tweaktown.
SuperMicro C9Z390-PGW Z390 LGA1151 on MadShrimps.
AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPUs on Anandtech.
Video Cards:
Revisiting the AMD Radeon VII at 1440p on TechReport.
MSI GeForce RTX 2060 Ventus 6G OC on ThinkComputers.
ASRock Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX 590 8G OC on OCInside.
AMD Radeon VII Mega Benchmark on TechSpot.
Storage:
iStorage diskAshur PRO2 5TB USB 3.1 PIN Authenticated Portable HDD on NikKTech.
WD Black NVMe SSD (2018) 500 GB on TechPowerUp.
OWC Drive Dock USB-C on Tweaktown.
Team Group Delta S TUF RGB SSD on Guru3D.
Seagate Barracuda Pro vs WD Black HDD performance review on BenchSpotter.
Samsung 883 DCT SATA SSD on StorageReview.
Portable & Prebuilt:
Huawei Mate 20 Review: Camera Chops And Great Battery Life smartphone on HotHardware.
Dell XPS 13 9380 + Intel Core i7 8565U Ubuntu Linux Performance on Phoronix.
The Corsair One i140 is a nearly perfect SFF PC, but that price on TechReport.
PC Specialist Magma RTX Gaming PC on HWHeaven.
Misc:
FSP CMT340 case on ThinkComputers.
Mellanox ConnectX-5 VPI 100GbE and EDR InfiniBand network cards on ServeTheHome.
Tt eSPORTS Talon Elite Gaming Gear Combo mouse and mousepad on TechPowerUp.
Seasonic FOCUS SGX-650 650W SFX-L PSU on HardOCP.
Wednesday Morning
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Wednesday, 13-February-2019 11:13:51 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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ExtremeTech are of the opinion that the recent AMD and NVIDIA product launches are the least-appealing GPU upgrades in history. It’s not surprising that GPU generations last longer now, given the complexity of modern GPUs. What is surprising is that both companies have comparatively so little to show for their respective efforts. Nvidia had more than two years between Pascal and Turing, while AMD took its second shot at Vega on 7nm at TSMC.
Backblaze have published their hard drive stats for 2018. As of December 31, 2018, we had 106,919 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,965 boot drives and 104,954 data drives. This review looks at the hard drive failure rates for the data drive models in operation in our data centers. In addition, we’ll take a look at the new hard drive models we’ve added in 2018 including our 12 TB HGST and 14 TB Toshiba drives.
Anandtech have an interesting article comparing two 1TB NVME SSDs that use the same controller and VRAM. Last year we reviewed an engineering sample of the SM2262EN platform with an early firmware version. Today we're looking at two final retail products based on the same controller. The ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro and HP EX950 are direct replacements for two of the most successful NVMe SSDs from last year (the SX8200 and EX920, which used the older SM2262 controller). Together, those two drives have dominated the consumer NVMe market for almost a year with the best combination of high performance and reasonable prices.
Tokyo will be making the Olympic medals out of recycled gadgets. That figure includes more than five million disused phones that were handed in at NTT Docomo stores. Collection stations were also placed in post offices and other public buildings. The committee’s target of 2,700kg of bronze was met last June, while 93.7 percent of the 30.3kg gold target and 85.4 percent of the 4,100kg silver target had been extracted by October.
John Haynes passed away recently. That name might not be familiar to you, but if you've ever owned a Haynes manual for a car or similar, you have John Haynes to thank for it. So it's not exactly OCAU-related, but I think he very probably shared our enthusiast hacker mentality. John Haynes, the entrepreneur and creator of the Haynes Manual, founder of the Haynes Publishing Group PLC and the Haynes International Motor Museum passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on the evening of Friday February 8, aged 80, after a short illness. John was a kind, generous, loving and devoted husband, brother, father and grandfather, who will be missed enormously.
Monday Afternoon Reviews
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Monday, 11-February-2019 13:33:18 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Video Cards:
Testing AMD Radeon VII Double-Precision Scientific And Financial Performance on TechGage.
MSI RTX 2060 Gaming Z 6G on OCClub.
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro on FunkyKit.
GIGABYTE RTX 2070 GAMING OC on Vortez.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Founders Edition on Vortez.
AMD Radeon VII Review: Rushed to Launch on GamersNexus.
AMD Radeon VII Anti-Aliasing & 5K, 8K Benchmarks vs. RTX 2080 on GamersNexus.
AMD Radeon VII on Anandtech.
AMD Radeon VII 16GB on TomsHardware.
AMD Radeon VII on PCPerspective.
AMD Radeon VII 16GB on KitGuru.
AMD Radeon VII on OC3D.
Radeon VII on PCWorld.
AMD Radeon VII on Hexus.
Storage:
Patriot Scorch 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD on NikKTech.
HP EX950 2TB SSD nVME drive on Tweaktown.
Crucial P1 NVMe M.2 SSD on Modders-Inc.
Drobo 8D Thunderbolt 3 Storage on Tweaktown.
ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro Solid State Drive on ThinkComputers.
Samsung 883 DCT SATA SSD on StorageReview.
Input Etc:
CORSAIR K70 RGB MK.2 SE Keyboard on TechPowerUp.
Cooler Master MK850 Mechanical Keyboard on APHNetworks.
SteelSeries Rival 650 mouse on TechPowerUp.
Networking:
10Gtek X550-T1 10G Ethernet Converged Network Adapter on NikKTech.
IOGEAR 4K Ultra Long-Range Wireless Extender on Tweaktown.
Portable & Prebuilt:
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme laptop on TechARP.
Corsair One i160 Gaming PC on TheVerge.
Apple iPhone XR smartphone on Anandtech.
Memory:
T-Force Delta TUF Gaming RGB DDR4 3200 MHz Memory on Guru3D.
Team Group T-Force Delta TUF Gaming RGB 3200 MHz on TechPowerUp.
Power Supply:
Cooler Master MWE Gold 750 Fully Modular PSU on OCClub.
be quiet! Pure Power 11 700W L11-CM-700W PSU on NiKTech.
Misc:
GIGABYTE Z390 Aorus Xtreme (Intel Z390) Motherboard on Tweaktown.
Reeven Justice RC-1204 CPU Cooler on APHNetworks.
Thanks to mpot and t1mbot this week!
     
     
     
     
     
Radeon VII Reviews
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Friday, 8-February-2019 14:26:38 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Performance results from AMD's Radeon VII video card have hit the web, after much teasing of this new flagship since CES. This is the world's first 7nm-process card and boasts 16GB of VRAM. How will it fare against NVIDIA's RTX offerings? Here's some reviews:
AMD Radeon VII 16 GB on TechPowerUp.
AMD Radeon VII 1440p, 4K & Ultrawide Gaming Performance on Techgage.
AMD Radeon VII Review: 7nm Vega With 16GB HBM2 Benchmarked on HotHardware.
AMD Radeon VII Review: RTX Killer or Flop? on TechSpot.
AMD Radeon VII Review: Team Red Is Back To Enthusiast GPUs on Tweaktown.
AMD Radeon VII Linux Benchmarks - Powerful Open-Source Graphics For Compute & Gaming on Phoronix.
AMD Radeon VII graphics card review: Can it topple RTX? on TechReport.
Review: AMD Radeon VII (16GB) on Guru3D.
Discussion in this thread in our Video Cards & Monitors forum.
Forum Projects
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Thursday, 7-February-2019 16:36:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Time to catch up on some more cool projects and reviews from the forums. Another good way to see what's going on in there is to hit the New Posts link. Enjoy!
Thursday Midday
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Thursday, 7-February-2019 12:28:15 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Everyone seems to be talking about Apex Legends, a new free-to-play Battle Royale type game. They broke one million players in under 8 hours from launch. There's more info in this article on Eurogamer. As Respawn is eager to reiterate, this is a battle royale set within the Titanfall universe rather than a Titanfall 2 sequel. It takes place about 30 years after the events of Titanfall 2, in an area called the Outlands, featuring an eclectic bunch of characters who are all competing in "the Titanfall equivalent of a blood sport". Hunger Games, but more sci-fi. Discussion in this thread in our PC Games forum.
ArsTechnica report on the rise of liquid cooling in datacentres. It's also got more general info about the history of liquid cooling. So how has liquid cooling gone from esoteric science on the fringe of computing to near-mainstream in modern data centers? Like all technologies, it was partially the result of evolution involving trial and error and a lot of engineering. But specifically for liquid cooling, today’s massive data center operators should perhaps thank the early overclockers, who may really be the unsung heroes of liquid cooling.
PCWorld have a video interview with Scott Herkelman of AMD. Join The Full Nerd gang as they talk about the latest PC hardware topics. In today's show we are joined by Scott Herkelman, VP & GM of Radeon Gaming at AMD. He's here to talk about Radeon VII, how FreeSync vs Gsync is like VHS vs Betamax, and tell us about his try at pro gaming!
TechSpot explain display technologies. By far the most common types of display panels used on PC monitors are TN, IPS and VA. We’re sure you’ve heard these terms before if you've researched monitors to purchase, and to be clear, the type of panel is a key piece of information that reveals a lot about how the monitor will behave and perform. A brief overview is in order, before we focus on the individual characteristics of each technology and how they perform.
Tweaktown have re-visited NVIDIA DLSS benchmarking with 3DMark Port Royal. What we have here today is a run through of all of NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX series cards including the RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, RTX 2070, and RTX 2060 graphics cards. I've used our newer Intel Core i9-9900K test rig that is powered by a Z390 AORUS PRO motherboard, 32GB of Hyper-X RGB memory, and Toshiba OCZ R100 M.2 SSDs.
A Canadian crypto exchange is in trouble after the founder died with nobody else knowing the password. Robertson also said that Cotten held “sole responsibility for handling the funds and coins” and no other members of the team could access the stored funds. QuadrigaCX announced Cotten’s death in mid-January, saying he had died “due to complications with Crohn’s disease on December 9, 2018 while travelling in India, where he was opening an orphanage to provide a home and safe refuge for children in need.” While Robertson has Cotten’s laptop in her possession, CoinDesk wrote, she says she does not know the password, and a technical expert recruited by the firm has been unable to bypass its encryption. She also says Cotten left behind no business records.
Optus has been fined $10M by the ACCC over third-party billing services. The Federal Court has ordered Optus pay a $10 million penalty for its treatment of customers who unknowingly purchased games, ringtones and other digital content through its third-party billing service, following action by the ACCC. Optus admitted that the company misled consumers and breached the ASIC Act when it billed customers for third party-produced content which they mistakenly bought or subscribed to through its “direct carrier billing” (DCB) service.
Google have released a new Chrome extension to check if your passwords have been found in a data breach. The Chrome browser extension, called Password Checkup, is available today. It securely checks credentials used to log in to websites—whether they're manually entered or stored in Chrome's password manager—against hashed credentials stored in an encrypted database of billions of compromised accounts maintained by Google.
Wednesday Morning Reviews
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Wednesday, 6-February-2019 11:43:16 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Audio Visual:
Logitech G935 gaming headset on TechReport.
Best Value FreeSync Monitors for GeForce Owners on TechSpot.
Motherboard & CPU:
ASUS ROG STRIX RTX 2060 Gaming on Vortez.
EVGA Z390 DARK motherboard video review by Luumi on YouTube.
Cases:
Cougar Panzer G on TechPowerUp.
MetallicGear Neo on ThinkComputers.
Portable & Prebuilt:
Lenovo Yoga C630 Review: Big Battery Life, Always Connected on HotHardware.
DOOGEE Y7 Plus Smartphone on MadShrimps.
Input Etc:
TECWARE Phantom 104 RGB Backlit Mechanical Keyboard on NikKTech.
Cooler Master MM830 Gaming Mouse on ThinkComputers.
Networking:
Razer Sila Wireless Router on Tweaktown.
Synology MR2200ac Mesh Router on Tweaktown
Misc:
GeForce 418.81 Driver Performance Analysis on BabelTechReviews.
DeepCool Captain 240 PRO all-in-one CPU cooler on Guru3D.
Crucial BX500 480GB SATA SSD on Modders-Inc.
ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-E Gaming video card on OCClub.
Synology DS1618+ NAS
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Tuesday, 5-February-2019 15:24:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Sciby has taken a quick look at the Synology DS1618+ NAS, which boasts six drive bays, up to 32GB of RAM and an upgraded CPU over previous models:
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Monday Afternoon
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Monday, 4-February-2019 14:23:26 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Techgage look into Threadripper 2990WX performance issues in Windows. Performance regression issues in Windows on AMD’s top-end Ryzen Threadripper CPUs haven’t gone unnoticed by those who own them, and six months after launch, the issues remain. Fortunately, there’s a new tool making the rounds that can help smooth out those regressions. We’re taking an initial look.
Babeltech have an overclocking showdown between the RX Vega 64 and RTX 2070 video cards. We have optimized and maxed-out our RTX 2070 FE and RX Vega 64 overclocks with all performance options set to their highest limits to get the maximum performance from each card.
TechSpot wonder if 6GB VRAM is enough for 1440p gaming. Today we're investigating claims that the new GeForce RTX 2060 is not a good buy because it only features 6GB VRAM capacity. The RTX 2060 offers performance similar to the GTX 1070 Ti, but that card packs an 8GB memory buffer, as did its non-Ti counterpart. In other words, the RTX 2060 is the fastest graphics card to ever to come with a 6GB memory buffer.
Musicians and fans of oldschool digital music might be interested to hear there's a new MIDI standard on the way. Despite being virtually unchanged since its release in 1983, MIDI remains by far the most popular digital interface for musicians. At the 2019 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM)show, the MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) just announced that it is in the preliminary prototyping phase of drafting the MIDI 2.0 standard.
Wired report on a new record for the world's fastest supercomputer. Summit, which occupies an area equivalent to two tennis courts, used more than 27,000 powerful graphics processors in the project. It tapped their power to train deep-learning algorithms, the technology driving AI’s frontier, chewing through the exercise at a rate of a billion billion operations per second, a pace known in supercomputing circles as an exaflop.
Intel are going to retire Itanium soon. Under their product discontinuance plan, Intel will cease shipments of Itanium CPUs in mid-2021, or a bit over two years from now. The impact to hardware vendors should be minimal – at this point HP Enterprise is the only company still buying the chips – but it nonetheless marks the end of an era for Intel and their interesting experiment into a non-x86 VLIW-style architecture.
Optus are lining up a 5G service to challenge the NBN. The service will cost $70 a month and include unlimited downloads and a ‘satisfaction guarantee’ that will allow customers to cancel their contract without any fees if they get download speeds below 50 megabits per second (Mbps). That price point compares favourably with Optus' NBN products: For $70 a month the telco offers an NBN service with unlimited downloads and typical evening speeds of 40Mbps.
Monday Midday Reviews
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Monday, 4-February-2019 12:06:32 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Motherboard & CPU:
Supermicro C9Z390-PGW Motherboard on Anandtech.
Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 workstation/server motherboard on ServeTheHome.
Intel Xeon W-3175X 28-Core CPU on GamersNexus.
Intel Xeon W-3175X CPU on TomsHardware.
Cooling:
Cooler Master Hyper 212 RGB Black Edition CPU cooler on Vortez.
Swiftech H240 X3 AIO CPU cooler on TechPowerUp.
CRYORIG C7 Cu CPU Cooler on NikKTech.
Input Etc:
XPG INFAREX M20 mouse on Vortez.
CHERRY MW8 Advanced Wireless Mouse on MadShrimps.
Video Cards:
MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING Z video card on Tweaktown.
MSI GeForce RTX 2060 GAMING Z on HardOCP.
MSI RTX 2080Ti Lightning on OC3D.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, RTX 2070 & RTX 2080 Laptop GPUs on NoteBookCheck.
Power Supply:
Sandberg Outdoor Solar Powerbank 24000 on NikKTech.
Corsair SF450 (2018) 450W SFX on HardOCP.
Audio Visual:
Cooler Master MH751 Gaming Headset on OCInside.
Dell S2719DGF Monitor on RTINGS.
Misc:
Samsung Galaxy A9 2018 (SM-A920) phone on TechARP.
G.SKILL Trident Z Royal 4000 MHz CL17 memory on TechPowerUp.
Anthem: The end game PC game on GamingNexus.
Synology DS 1819+ NAS on Modders-Inc.
Dell EMC PowerEdge T140 tower server on ServeTheHome.
Thanks to GillR and Axe this week!
     
     
     
     
     
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