April 2025

Misc Pics (7 Comments) (link)  Friday, 25-April-2025  14:10:08 (GMT +10) - by Agg Have another happy and safe long weekend! ANZAC Day (0 Comments) (link)  Friday, 25-April-2025  10:35:31 (GMT +10) - by Agg They shall grow not old As we who are left grow old Age shall not weary them Nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun And in the morning We will remember them Lest We Forget NVIDIA 5060 Ti Reviews (1 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 22-April-2025  21:04:34 (GMT +10) - by Agg NVIDIA recently unveiled their GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU. This is available with either 8GB or 16GB of GDDR7 and directly succeeds the previous 4060 Ti and 3060 Ti cards. It's aimed at the 1440p gamer who doesn't need ultra-high frame rates. MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Gaming Trio 16GB OC Review - Impressive OC Performance, But Pricey on Tweaktown. Colorful RTX 5060 Ti NB EX on Vortez. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti PCI-Express x8 Scaling on TechPowerUp. MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti TRIO OC (16GB) on Guru3D. ASUS GeForce RTX 5060 Ti TUF OC on Guru3D. Palit GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Infinity 3 (16GB) on Guru3D. Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti AMP 16 GB on TechPowerUp. MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Gaming OC 16 GB on TechPowerUp. ASUS GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Prime OC 16 GB on TechPowerUp. MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Ventus 2X 16GB Review - DLSS 4 goes mainstream on Tweaktown. Palit GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Infinity 3 16 GB on TechPowerUp. MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Gaming Trio OC 16 GB on TechPowerUp. ASUS Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC Edition 16GB on ThinkComputers. ASUS GeForce RTX 5060 Ti TUF OC 16 GB on TechPowerUp. Discussion continues in this thread. Tuesday Evening Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 22-April-2025  20:53:05 (GMT +10) - by Agg Cooling: CPS PCCOOLER DT360 ARGB Display AIO cooler on TechPowerUp. Endorfy Navis F360 ARGB AIO on OCInside. be quiet! Silent Loop 3 Liquid CPU Cooler on ThinkComputers. Power Supply: FSP Mega Ti 1650W Power Supply on Guru3D. be quiet! Pure Power 12 1000W Power Supply on APHNetworks. Montech Century II 1200W ATX 3.1 Power Supply Unit on NikKTech. BLUETTI Elite 200 V2 Portable Power Station and Charger 1 on NeoSeeker. Corsair RM850x Power Supply on Guru3D. ASRock Steel Legend SL-1000G 80 PLUS Gold ATX 3.1 PSU on Tweaktown. Video Cards: ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi 16GB OC on OCInside. Yeston Sakura Atlantis Radeon RX 9070 XT on NeoSeeker. Input Etc: YUNZII AL68 Wireless Aluminum Mechanical Keyboard on NikKTech. Epomaker Split 65 Mechanical Wireless Keyboard on MadShrimps. Teevolution Terra Pro mouse on TechPowerUp. DAREU A950 Wing mouse on TechPowerUp. Audio Visual: beyerdynamic Aventho 300 Over-Ear Wireless Headphones on NikKTech. Corsair VOID Wireless v2 Wireless Gaming Headset on APHNetworks. PowerColor ALPHYN AH10 Wireless Gaming Headset on Tweaktown. ASRock PG27FFX2A 520 Hz Monitor on OCInside. AVerMedia Elite Go and Core Go Review - Innovative Power Delivery with Video and Capture on Tweaktown. AVerMedia Elite Go GC313Pro USB Charger/Capture/Dock on APHNetworks. Portable & Prebuilt: ASUS TUF Gaming A14 (Strix Point + RTX 4060) Laptop on Tweaktown. HP ZBook Ultra G1a 14 on SMBTech. Acer Swift Edge 16 on SMBTech. Acer TravelMate P4 Spin 14 on SMBTech. Asus Vivobook S 15 on SMBTech. HP EliteBook Ultra G1q on SMBTech. Dell PowerEdge R770 Review: Modular, Powerful, and AI-Ready on StorageReview. HP ZBook Fury G1i 18" Early Preview: Blackwell Power and Four SSD Flexibility on StorageReview. Lenovo ThinkPad X9 14 Aura Edition Review: Different, but is it Better? on StorageReview. Storage: SanDisk Extreme PRO Dual Drive Review: A Durable, Dual-Connector Flash Drive on StorageReview. SIPEED NanoKVM-PCIe on StorageReview. Kingston CANVAS Go! Plus SDG4 1TB SDXC Memory Card on NikKTech. Crucial X9 Pro 4TB Portable SSD on MadShrimps. Misc: G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB DDR5-6000 32 GB CL26 memory on TechPowerUp. ASRock X870E Taichi Lite on TechPowerUp. Reminder: TRYX Cooler Giveaway! (0 Comments) (link)  Monday, 21-April-2025  11:27:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg OCAU and TRYX have teamed up to give away a couple of their new CPU AIO coolers - the Panorama SE. It'll keep your CPU cool and look good while doing it. Visit the thread for more info: click for the thread! Misc Pics (14 Comments) (link)  Friday, 18-April-2025  13:31:46 (GMT +10) - by Agg Have a happy and safe long weekend! Sunday Evening Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Sunday, 13-April-2025  19:50:10 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Portable and Prebuilt: TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus @ TechPowerUp Google Pixel 9a @ HotHardware Beelink EQ14 N150 Mini PC @ TweakTown Apple Mac Studio With M4 Max @ HotHardware ACEMAGIC F3A Mini PC @ guru3D Video Card: ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 TUF OC @ TechPowerUp ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 OC @ ThinkComputers GALAX GeForce RTX 5070 EX @ guru3D Zotac GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Amp Extreme @ TechPowerUp PSU: Sandberg Survivor Powerbank 27000 PD65W @ NikKTech FSP Vita GM 1000w 80 PLUS Gold ATX 3.1 PSU @ TweakTown Motherboard and Memory: Crucial CT2K16G64C52CS5 DDR5-6400 2x16GB @ aphNetworks ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF @ TechPowerUp Gigabyte B860 AORUS ELITE WiFi7 ICE Motherboard @ FunkyKit Storage: Sabrent Rocket Enterprise 15.36TB SSD @ TweakTown Kingston DC3000ME 7.68TB Datacenter SSD @ TweakTown Acer Predator GM9000 2 TB @ TechPowerUp Case and Cooling: Thermaltake TR100 @ TechPowerUp MSI MAG CORELIQUID A15 360 @ TechPowerUp Audio Visual: ASUS ROG Delta II Tri-Mode Wireless Gaming Headset @ HotHardware Edifier M60 Hi-Res Compact Desktop 2.0 @ NikKTech Misc: MCHOSE L7 Pro @ TechPowerUp The Last Of Us Part 2 Performance Benchmark @ TechPowerUp Retro Misc Pics (11 Comments) (link)  Friday, 11-April-2025  14:18:14 (GMT +10) - by Agg Still travelling, so here's Misc Pics from August 2012: Back to normal next week! 3rd August 2012: 10th August 2012: 17th August 2012: 24th August 2012: TRYX CPU AIO Cooler Contest! (1 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 10-April-2025  12:06:09 (GMT +10) - by Agg OCAU and TRYX have teamed up to give away a couple of their new CPU AIO coolers - the Panorama SE. It'll keep your CPU cool and look good while doing it. Visit the thread for more info: click for the thread! Monday Evening News Nuggets (15 Comments) (link)  Monday, 7-April-2025  21:21:06 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Built using bismuth oxyselenide (Bi2O2Se), a high-mobility 2D material, the transistor operates at lower voltages Rachel Kroll has clarified the Atop alarm: Turns out it was just a weird little bug, and it's probably already been fixed The company says these price increases are necessary to keep up with rising costs. So users get a sense of the value they’ll be getting from Plex this year Microsoft turned 50, no one cares. Microsoft got AI Ex-Intel CEO Gelsinger: AI GPUs are 10,000X overpriced for inference, NVIDIA got lucky Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick drift Switch Deck 2 is the answer Google says that with the updated “Results about you” feature, you will be able to control your personal information wherever it may appear on its search engine result pages. China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative - GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W PD Old versions of WinRAR = bad Zorin devs have updated this version's apps and added new features. The release announcement makes one target market clear: Windows users whose machines aren't allowed by Microsoft to run Windows 11 Typical micro-LEDs have relatively poor EQE - they only produce a small amount of the energy they consume in photons, and this value gets worse as the LEDs get smaller Monday Evening Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Monday, 7-April-2025  20:37:56 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Audio Visual: UPERFECT UStation Delta Max @ NikKTech FiiO JM21 Portable High Resolution Music Player @ NikKTech Keyboard and Mouse: CHERRY XTRFY K5V2 Compact Black Mechanical Gaming Keyboard @ Madshrimps XTRFY GP5 LITUS PINK XL Mouse Pad @ Madshrimps ASUS ROG Falchion Ace HFX Keyboard @ ThinkComputers Pwnage Trinity CF (mouse) @ TechPowerUp Cases and Cooling: APNX V1 PC Chassis @ FunkyKit Ocypus Iota L36 Liquid CPU Cooler @ NikKTech be quiet! Pure Rock Pro 3 CPU Cooler @ NikKTech Storage: Fadu Echo U.2 7.68TB Enterprise SSD @ TweakTown Samsung 9100 Pro Gen5 SSD @ ThePCEnthusiast Crucial P310 2TB NVMe M.2 2230 SSD @ FunkyKit Motherboard and Memory: Patriot Viper Elite 5 DDR5-6400 2x16GB DDR5 RAM @ aphNetworks MSI MEG Z890 ACE Motherboard @ HardwareAsylum ASUS Prime X870-P Wi-Fi @ TechPowerUp Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-8400 2x24GB DDR5 RAM @ aphNetworks Gigabyte B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 Motherboard @ FunkyKit ASUS ROG Strix B850-E Gaming WiFi Motherboard @ TweakTown PSU: Corsair RM750x Shift 750 W @ TechPowerUp MSI MEG Ai1600T PCIE5 Power Supply @ FunkyKit Video Card: ASRock Radeon RX 9070 Steel Legend OC @ TweakTown PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 Hellhound @ TechPowerUp ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi @ TweakTown Prebuilt: HP Elite t660 @ HotHardware Maingear Apex Force Gaming PC @ HotHardware Misc: BLUETTI AC180 Portable Power Station @ NikKTech Retro Misc Pics (19 Comments) (link)  Friday, 4-April-2025  14:04:49 (GMT +10) - by Agg Currently posting this from a Shinkansen between Osaka and Nagoya, so here's Misc Pics from July 2012: 6th July 2012: 13th July 2012: 20th July 2012: 27th July 2012: Ten Years with Micron21! (11 Comments) (link)  Friday, 4-April-2025  02:41:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg A milestone slipped by recently - we've now been hosted by Micron21 for over a decade! You can see the post here from Feb 2015 where I first talk about the site having moved over to them. Time has flown by - it's amazing to me that we have been with them for 10 of the 26 years OCAU has existed. We've certainly been very happy with their speed, support and reliability during that time. So, big thanks to James and the team from Micron21! Random Interesting Posts and Some News (1 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 3-April-2025  17:41:43 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN eva2000 has made a game. Who's on top of the High Score list? I asked Google Gemini 2.5 Pro to re-create one of my fav games, Atari XE Missile Command and put my own spin on the game with in-game store with additional upgradeable weapons. Current sent this news in. Artificial hearts are now real, and an Aussie invention. Biomedical engineer Dr Daniel Timms spoke about the Bunnings trips that helped the invention come to life. IntelInside sent these articles in. Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature & Apple is removing iCloud end-to-encryption features. Rather than comply and compromise Advanced Data Protection, Apple is left with no choice but to remove the feature altogether. In a statement to 9to5Mac, Apple said that current users of ADP in the UK will eventually need to disable the security feature in order to keep using their iCloud account. Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says. I wonder when OCAU will move to this model? A critical aspect of any potential plan to make Reddit users pay to access subreddit content is determining how related Reddit users will be compensated. Reddit may have a harder time getting volunteer moderators to wrangle discussions on paid-for subreddits—if it uses volunteer mods at all. Wondering why your search is taking so long? It might be the AI crawlers to blame. Iaso's story highlights a broader crisis rapidly spreading across the open source community, as what appear to be aggressive AI crawlers increasingly overload community-maintained infrastructure, causing what amounts to persistent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on vital public resources. Some open source projects now see as much as 97 percent of their traffic originating from AI companies' bots. Thursday Review Round-Up (0 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 3-April-2025  16:42:10 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Audio Visual: Sonos Arc Ultra @ HotHardware Mouse: Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 Wireless Gaming Mouse @ OCinside Case and Cooling: SilverStone Lucid 04 @ TechPowerUp Thermaltake TOUGHFAN EX12 Pro High Static Pressure PC Cooling Fan Snow Edition @ FunkyKit Storage: Kioxia Exceria PLUS G4 2TB @ guru3D ADATA SC740 External Solid State Drive @ ThinkComputers Icy Dock MB204MP-B ExpressSlot Slide @ OCinside Crucial T700 2TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD @ Madshrimps Motherboard: ASRock Phantom Gaming B850 Riptide Wi-Fi @ TechPowerUp ASRock B850 Steel Legend WiFi AMD AM5 @ OCinside PSU: Seasonic Prime TX-1600 Noctua Edition 80 PLUS Titanium ATX 3.1 @ TweakTown Enermax REVOLUTION D.F. 12 850 W @ TechPowerUp Video Card: MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G Gaming Trio OC @ ThePCEnthusiast INNO3D GeForce RTX 5070 Twin X2 @ TweakTown Colorful GeForce RTX 5070 NB EX 12GB-V @ FunkyKit Yeston Radeon RX 9070 Sakura Atlantis @ guru3D Benchmark: DDR5 CUDIMM Explained & Benched @ TechPowerUp Retro Gaming April 2025 (2 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 1-April-2025  21:19:34 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN This month's "Retro Let's Play" for April is Combat Flight Simulator 3 from 2002 A salvo of bombs and rockets is released, shattering across enemy positions. Suddenly, enemy fighters dive in to engage. Bullets fly. Adrenaline surges. Hearts pound. The battle for Europe has begun ... The game is an updated version of the first Combat Flight Simulator, offering a far wider range of options to the player. The game incorporates an active campaign mode, whereby the player may play for the USAAF, RAF or Luftwaffe in a campaign starting in March 1943. Based on the player's performance, the player can alter the length and even outcome of the war. It is even possible for the Germans to drive the allies back to London and force their surrender. click for the thread!

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