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(link) Thursday, 31-May-2018 16:03:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Amazon have announced they will be blocking Australian shoppers from their main USA site, redirecting us to the smaller AU site. Why? Because of the overseas GST legislation. From July 1, shoppers visiting Amazon.com (and other overseas Amazon sites) will be redirected to Amazon.com.au, which launched late last year. This coincides with changes to the Online Goods Tax that require online retailers to apply the 10 per cent GST to all online purchases shipped to Australia from overseas. (Currently, the rule only applies to purchased items that exceed $1000.) Discussion in this thread in our Current Events forum.
TomsHardware report on USB 3.2 with 20Gbps speed. Synopsys released a video of the world's first USB 3.2 demonstration. Synopsys used a Windows 10 host system running existing USB drivers embedded in the operating system. The target device was a Linux system configured as a mass storage device running a powerful array capable of at least 2,000 MB/s of throughput. The prototype hardware sitting in the middle consists of USB PHYs built on the FinFET process running at 10 Gb/s per lane. According to Eric Huang from Synopsys, lane bonding allows the interface to achieve USB 3.2 speeds.
Tech Report have a system build guide update. We've tried to create builds across a wide range of price points with parts that provide the best performance possible for the money. However, we don't just ferret out the cheapest components possible or compromise configurations to hit arbitrary price points. Indeed, these are the systems we'd build for ourselves, given the money. From our cheapest build to our most expensive (or the second-most expensive, at least), you can rest easy knowing that we've done the hard work of balancing the need for performance against the curve of diminishing returns.
They also get more specific, building a PC around AMD's Ryzen 3 2200G CPU. Ever since AMD released its Raven Ridge APUs for the desktop, I've wanted to put together a system with one of those chips inside just to see what it could do. Eventually, the stars aligned and I got ahold of all the parts to make it happen. Join me as I put together a Ryzen 3 2200G PC.
Neoseeker meanwhile investigated AMD's StoreMI Technology, which seems to be an SSD caching system for HDDs. RAM disk, RAM drive, paging file, swap file and other methods to increase performance have been a boon to Windows operating system over the years. I have tried several of these programs and even modified the Windows page file to attempt to get that performance to its peak with some success and occasional program failures. Now AMD has given 400-series chipset socket AM4 motherboard users a way to get the capacity of large HDDs and speed of SSDs without having to chance limited funds by using StoreMI, a free storage enhancement utility (with some device size limitations).
Today's timewaster is The Lockdown, which is for smartphones and sounds like an AR "Escape Room" type challenge. It takes about two hours to complete the game. You can follow different ‘routes’ to the final level, which is the only challenge with a time limit. For those who hate puzzles in every shape or form, there’s a challenge that partly sets in the real world, too. Less code-cracking, more map-reading.
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