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Monday, 30-January-2017 13:06:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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HardOCP checked out the Scythe FUMA SCFM-1000 twin tower CPU air cooler, and they reckon it's pretty much the best thing ever. Scythe has a real winner on its hands with the FUMA. It killed it in our testing phases as long as you’re looking to overclock. Stock CPU users need not apply. The performance of the FUMA rivals many of the bigger water coolers in addition to demolishing the smaller All-In-Ones.
Simon sent in this cool article from 2015 about what may be the oldest computer program still being used. Keeping software alive for just a few years without constant updates and overhauls might seem nearly impossible. But some software systems remain in fine fettle decades after their launch.
HotHardware looked at the lowest-powered Kaby Lake variant, Kaby Lake-Y, in a Dell laptop. We would be remiss if we didn't point out that, yes, Intel has done away almost completely with the "Core m" moniker with Kaby Lake, choosing instead to denote the series in the root of the model number, like it does with the U series (as in Core i7-7Y75). However, the company does list lower-end Core m3 variants of Kaby Lake as such, while i5 and i7 higher-end SKUs are only distinguishable with the Y in the root of the model number. Clear as mud right?
GamersNexus report that MSI's M.2 "Heat Shield" seems to actually increase SSD temperatures, not lower them. Ultimately, the point is that there’s just no way this thing is going to do any more than trap heat beneath the M.2 SSD and prevent cool air from accessing the drive. There’s just not enough conduction and spreading potential to make up for the lack of even indirect airflow. We tested MSI’s M.2 “Shield” in a Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon to validate whether the marketing made any sense, and found that, minimally, the shield is poorly executed and should be discarded by any potential owners.
This from Jeremy: Ladyada from Adafruit industries recently did an interview with Bunnie Huang (co creator of the Novena open source laptop). They talk about his past and future projects, and his privacy and freedom advocacy, among other things. It's a really great interview, and something your readers might be interested in.
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