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Misc Pics (6 Comments) (link)  Friday, 3-July-2020  13:42:17 (GMT +10) - by Agg Thanks to Axe, biatch, metamorphosis and JugV2 this week! GIGABYTE Laptop Reviews by windwithme (0 Comments) (link)  Thursday, 2-July-2020  18:15:49 (GMT +10) - by Agg I just noticed a few more laptop reviews by windwithme in the forums, all from GIGABYTE: Mech. Keyboard & Ultrathin Bezel AORUS 17 Ultimate Gaming Laptop Thin Bezel & Detachable Battery AORUS 7 Mid-Range Gaming Laptop Core i7-10875H & RTX 2070 Super AERO 17 HDR Creator Laptop Wednesday Night Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 1-July-2020  21:41:05 (GMT +10) - by Agg Motherboard & CPU: MSI MEG Z490 GODLIKE Motherboard on Tweaktown. ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-Plus (Wi-Fi) on Vortez. Cooling: Thermaltake Riing Quad 12 RGB Fan on FunkyKit. Cooler Master SickleFlow 120 Series Cooling Fans on APHNetworks. Memory: Patriot Viper Steel 64GB DDR4-3600 Memory Kit on FunkyKit. Antec Katana Series 7 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 MHz on FunkyKit. Storage: Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD on TechPowerUp. Samsung 870 QVO 2TB SATA3 SSD on Guru3D. Samsung SSD 870 QVO on HotHardware. Samsung 870 QVO 4TB V-NAND SATA SSD on Tweaktown. SAMSUNG 870 QVO SSD on Vortez. Gigabyte AORUS M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD / 1TB on Bjorn3D. Team Group T-Force Spark RGB 128 GB on TechPowerUp. ASUSTOR Lockerstor 10 Pro AS7110T NAS on Tweaktown. ROG Strix Arion M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure on Bjorn3D. Samsung 870 QVO 1TB & 4TB SATA3 SSD on Anandtech. Misc: CORSAIR iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Towers on TechPowerUp. Corsair iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Towers on ThinkComputers. Corsair iCUE LT100 RGB Lighting Towers on APHNetworks. E-Win Flash Series XL Gaming Chair on BabelTechReviews. Razer Blade Pro 17 laptop on UltraBookReview. ASRock Radeon RX 5600 XT Phantom Gaming D3 GPU on Modders-Inc. Cooler Master Masterbox TD500 Mesh case on TechPowerUp. Silicon Power Blast Plug BP82 TWS Earbuds on NikKTech. Forum Projects (0 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 30-June-2020  23:59:19 (GMT +10) - by Agg Time to catch up on some more cool projects from the forums. Another good way to see what's going on in there is to hit the New Posts link. Enjoy! cokeeffekt is building a tiny ITX gaming case Vanne has a retro Compaq Deskpro build Mistkal is having a Socket370 nightmare luke_o built a tiny 3700x Mini-ITX machine sonicthemouse has made custom ITX and MATX cases Soc is building a Clubman with a Hayabusa engine Tuesday Morning (3 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 30-June-2020  00:33:31 (GMT +10) - by Agg It's 2020 and there's some flying car news, thanks von Stalhein! Like a scene straight out of Mad Max, flying cars are set to grace the South Australian outback in Coober Pedy, where the original film was shot. It may sound futuristic, but an international startup says it will host a full-scale flying car race in remote South Australia before the end of the year. Even if I don't have my flying car yet, perhaps I can smash things with my robot arm. At ICRA this week, researchers from Université de Sherbrooke in Canada are finally giving us what we want, in the form of a waist-mounted remote controlled hydraulic arm that can help you with all kinds of tasks while also being able, should you feel the need, to smash through walls. It's reached the point where the concept of suicide drones doesn't surprise me anymore. Have we learned nothing from Philip K. Dick stories?! The Pentagon tested a loitering munition, more commonly referred to as a suicide drone, last year that will arrive over its designated target area at hypersonic speeds. It has since turned the project over to the U.S. Army for further development. Additional details about the program, dubbed Vintage Racer, have now emerged in an official picture showing Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy discussing it, as well as other advanced weapon systems. Back to Earth, and Guru3D look at Ryzen memory scaling. The impact of memory timings and frequency on AMD Ryzen 3000 systems in games has been a topic of discussion. In this article, we'll zoom in on specifically that. See, AMD made a change in 3rd generations Ryzen, aka "Zen 2" processors, splitting the memory controllers from the die that contains CPU cores. The DDR4 memory controller is located in the processor's 12 nm I/O controller die. What's the game performance effect with frequencies, latencies, and ranks. Here's a fairly heavy-going article about the history of non-volatile memory. As with every significant semiconductor product development, from the transistor to the microprocessor, NVM devices evolved from the work of pioneering researchers who built on the efforts of their predecessors through intuitive insights, lucky breaks, trial and error, and a determination to ignore the doubts of naysayers. This article is a chronological presentation of some of those pioneers and their key technology developments from the first glimmerings of the idea at Fairchild in 1960 to the high-volume manufacture of Flash chips in the last decade of the 20th century. Another interesting read comes from metamorphosis, about tracking down people who changed their name to Turok in a promotional contest years ago. But perhaps its most successful and notorious stunt was to raise awareness for Turok: Evolution. This 2002 PR campaign offered five members of the British public £500 and a free Xbox if they changed their name to Turok. The idea that people took up this offer is amazing to me. Signing for parcels, going to work, going on dates named after a fictional dinosaur hunter – what was life like as Mr or Mrs Turok? I had to know, which is why I decided to track them down and ask them myself. Also, the Segway is officially dead. Now, less than 20 years after the first Segway’s release, Fast Company has learned that the Segway brand will retire the last Segway as we know it, the Segway PT.

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