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November 2024 |
Friday again!
     
     
     
     
Wednesday Night Reviews
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Wednesday, 27-November-2024 22:52:41 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Motherboard & CPU:
Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master on TechPowerUp.
MSI MEG Z890 Unify-X on Tweaktown.
ASRock X870E Taichi Motherboard on ThinkComputers.
Portable & Prebuilt:
Lenovo Legion Pro 5i (Gen 9) laptop on SMBTech.
MSI Sword 16 HX B13V laptop on SMBTech.
Asus Zenbook S 16 laptop on SMBTech.
Dell PowerEdge XE9680 – The Ultimate AI Powerhouse server on StorageReview.
Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 laptop on StorageReview.
NVIDIA SFF-Ready System Build & Benchmark on TechPowerUp.
MSI Prestige 14 Ai Evo C1MG Laptop Review (2024) on SMBTech.
OnePlus Pad 2 Review: An Affordable Premium Android Tablet on HotHardware.
Geekom GT1 Mega (Core Ultra 9 185H / 32GB) Mini PC on Guru3D.
Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro Review: Snapdragon 8 Elite Mobile Gaming Unleashed on HotHardware.
Audio Visual:
Razer Barracuda X Chroma Wireless Gaming Headset on Tweaktown.
Turtle Beach Stealth 500 Wireless Gaming Headset on APHNetworks.
Input Etc:
Endgame Gear XM2 8K mouse on TechPowerUp.
Epomaker Galaxy70 Mechanical Wireless Keyboard on MadShrimps.
Power Supply:
Corsair RM1000x ATX 3.1 Fully Modular Power Supply on FunkyKit.
Anker SOLIX C300 Portable Power Station on LanOC.
Cooling:
Breaking Thermal Barriers: Testing ZutaCore’s Two-Phase Server Cooling on StorageReview.
Ocypus Iota L36 360 mm AIO on TechPowerUp.
Memory:
Crucial DDR5 Pro OC Edition DDR5-6400 32GB Dual-Channel Memory Kit on Tweaktown.
Crucial 32GB DDR5-6400 CUDIMM Memory Kit on FunkyKit.
Kingston FURY Renegade RGB 32GB DDR5 8000MHz CL38 Dual-Channel Kit on NikKTech.
Software:
STALKER 2: DLSS vs. FSR vs. XeSS Comparison on TechPowerUp.
STALKER 2 Handheld Performance Review on TechPowerUp.
Misc:
GIGABYTE X3D Turbo Mode: Free performance for your AMD Ryzen CPU on Tweaktown.
Memblaze PBlaze7 7A46 6.4TB Enterprise SSD Review - 3.3 million IOPS of Power and Efficiency on Tweaktown.
be quiet! Light Base 900 DX case on TechPowerUp.
Baz's Viper - Finished!
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Monday, 25-November-2024 00:43:43 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Baz has finished his Full Scale MK II Colonial Viper - 7 years in the making! It's finished, it's out of the shed and you can see it in Canberra this Sunday 1st December at the Canberra Knife Show in Tharwa. Congrats mate, this is an amazing project.
Click for the final photos!
Friday again!
     
     
     
     
Friday Lunchtime Reviews #2
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Friday, 22-November-2024 12:19:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Audio Visual:
Quick Look: MOONDROP Quark2 Type-C In-Ear Monitors on TechPowerUp.
Sennheiser HD 490 PRO Open-Back Headphones on TechPowerUp.
Asus ROG DELTA II Headset on LanOC.
Quick Look: Shanling M1 Plus Portable Audio Player on TechPowerUp.
SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds on Tweaktown.
Cases:
Valkyrie VK02 Lite on TechPowerUp.
Corsair iCUE LINK 3500X RGB on ThinkComputers.
Storage:
Crucial P310 1TB PCIe M.2 2230 SSD on OCInside.
FlumeIO F5900 7.68TB E1.S Enterprise SSD on Tweaktown.
Micron 6550 ION SSD on StorageReview.
Silicon Power Marvel Xtreme DS72 1TB USB 3.2 Gen2 Flash Drive on MadShrimps.
Addlink G55 (Phison e31t) PCIe gen 5.0 NVMe SSD on Guru3D.
Power Supply:
UGREEN Uno 65 W GaN Wall Charger, Uno 100 W GaN Wall Charger, and Uno 100 W USB-C Cable on TechPowerUp.
GAMEMAX Rampage GX1050 Pro ATX 3.1 Power Supply Unit on NikKTech.
Cooler Master X Silent Edge Platinum 850W PSU on APHNetworks.
Misc:
Quick Look: G.SKILL WigiDash PC Command Panel on TechPowerUp.
OneXGPU 2 eGPU Review: Radeon RX 7800M Turns Modest PCs Into Gaming Beasts on HotHardware.
Flexispot BS12 Pro ergonomic chair on Guru3D.
Essencore KLEVV FIT V 32GB DDR5-6000 Memory Kit on FunkyKit.
STALKER 2 Performance Benchmark Review - 35 GPUs Tested on TechPowerUp.
Friday Lunchtime Reviews
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Friday, 22-November-2024 11:59:13 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Motherboard & CPU:
ASRock Phantom Gaming Z890 NOVA WiFi Motherboard on FunkyKit.
ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wifi on LanOC.
ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite on NikKTech.
ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Apex Motherboard on Tweaktown.
ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite Motherboard on FunkyKit.
MSI MPG X870E CARBON WIFI on LanOC.
Cooling:
Ocypus Iota A62 WH CPU Air Cooler on Tweaktown.
Corsair RS120 MAX and RS140 MAX Cooling Fans on APHNetworks.
Cooler Master MasterLiquid 360 Atmos AIO Liquid CPU Cooler on NikKTech.
be quiet! Light Loop 360mm All-in-One Liquid Cooler on APHNetworks.
ARCTIC P12 PWM PST 120 mm Fan on TechPowerUp.
Portable & Prebuilt:
Asus ExpertBook P5 on SMBTech.
Maingear ML-16 Gaming Laptop Review: Premium, Powerful, Customizable on HotHardware.
Beelink GTi12 Ultra Mini-PC + EX Dock (Intel Core i9-12900H) on TechPowerUp.
Input Etc:
AQIRYS ZEPHYR Gaming Mouse on MadShrimps.
Redragon K1NG 8K mouse on TechPowerUp.
YUNZII RT75 Rapid Trigger Gaming Magnetic Keyboard on Tweaktown.
Epomaker TH40 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard on TechPowerUp.
Hexgears Immersion A3 TKL Wireless Mechanical Keyboard on Tweaktown.
Monday Night
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Monday, 18-November-2024 21:18:21 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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We seem to be hitting that age where a lot of computing pioneers are passing away. Recently Thomas E. Kurtz, co-inventor of BASIC, interpreted his final GOTO command. In the early days of academic computing in the 1960s, there were no simple non-professional programming languages available for undergraduates. BASIC was aimed at this audience. To realize their vision, Kurtz and Kemeny concurrently developed the Dartmouth Timesharing System, allowing BASIC to be accessed by students around campus using Teletype terminals. Like many people, BASIC was my first computer language - before I even had access to a computer!
Half Life 2 is 20 years old now, and there's a documentary about it linked in this post. It's also free on Steam (again) at the moment, but only for a few more hours.
kombiman sent in (a while ago) this cool urban Spotify project. I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below.
If you're sick of running out of storage on Dropbox or Google Drive etc, StorageReview have an article about building a Nextcloud server instead. Nextcloud is a free and open-source cloud storage platform that puts the power and flexibility of the cloud into your hands. It supports several popular Linux distributions, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. In this article, we’ll use Ubuntu Server 24.04.1 and Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.0) to build a high-performance, completely customizable cloud storage server. Some of the steps shown here might require some background knowledge of Linux server administration and the command line interface, so put your thinking cap on and get ready to get technical! There's a Nextcloud thread here in our Storage & Backup forum.
Voyager 1 keeps chugging away in deep space, after a days-long comms outage. Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter it hasn’t relied on since 1981 to stay in contact with its team on Earth while engineers work to understand what went wrong.
Supermicro is having financial issues which are attracting attention from the US Justice Department. Last month, Supermicro's auditor EY said it was “unwilling to be associated with the financial statements prepared by management" and resigned effective immediately. Supermicro was temporarily delisted in 2018 for failing to file financial statements and in 2020 was fined by the SEC for “widespread accounting violations."
Before crypto mining, before Folding@HOME, we used our computers to look for prime numbers - turns out it's still going, and they found another one recently. For many people, prime numbers have faded into the background since distant grade school days. However, for Luke Durant, a 36-year-old former Nvidia programmer, prime numbers became an all-consuming passion. He devoted nearly one year and invested a considerable sum of his own money to uncover the world’s largest known prime number.
Turns out OCAU isn't the only Forum still going nowadays, thanks Simon - there's a list of them here - but we're not on it! When I want information, like the real stuff, I go to forums. Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger. Reddit, Discord and Facebook groups have filled a lot of that space, but there is just certain information that requires the dedication of adults who have specifically signed up to be in one kind of community. This blog is a salute to those forums that are either worth participating in or at least looking at in bewilderment.
The 2024 MotoGP World Championship will be decided in the final round this weekend. Will the upstart Jorge Martin maintain his slim lead, or fall back into the clutches of two-time and defending champion Pecco Bagnaia? Should be a fun couple of races to watch, regardless - discussion thread here.
     
     
     
     
Wednesday Night Reviews
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Wednesday, 13-November-2024 22:58:03 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Motherboard & CPU:
ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 APEX motherboard on Guru3D.
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Processor on Tweaktown.
MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi Motherboard on NikKTech.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Processor on Tweaktown.
ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Hero Motherboard on ThinkComputers.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Processor Comparison on FunkyKit.
Colorful iGame Z890 Flow V20 motherboard on Guru3D.
MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi Motherboard on ThePCEnthusiast.
ASRock Z890 Taichi Motherboard on FunkyKit.
ASUS STRIX Z890-F Gaming WIFI motherboard on Guru3D.
ASRock X870E Taichi AMD AM5 Motherboard on OCInside.
Audio Visual:
Razer Basilisk V3 Pro 35K Wireless Gaming Mouse on Tweaktown.
ENDORFY Solum Voice S USB Microphone on Tweaktown.
AVerMedia VERSATI go USB Microphone with FELXI go Arm on Tweaktown.
Cases:
Cooler Master TD500 Max pre-cooled mid-tower on NeoSeeker.
XPG Invader X Mini on TechPowerUp.
SilverStone ALTA D1 case on TechPowerUp.
SilverStone FARA 514X High Air Flow Case on HWAsylum.
Endorfy Arx 700 ARGB Computer Case on APHNetworks.
Sharkoon AK5G RGB on TechPowerUp.
Memory:
Crucial Pro Overclocking White Edition 32GB DDR5-6400 Memory Kit on FunkyKit.
Crucial Pro Overclocking Edition DDR5-6400 32GB Memory Kit on ThinkComputers.
Crucial Pro Overclocking 64GB (4x16GB) DDR5-6000 White Setup on MadShrimps.
Cooling:
ASUS ProArt LC 360 Liquid CPU Cooler on ThinkComputers.
ID-Cooling FX360 INF Liquid Cooler on Tweaktown.
Thermaltake CT120 EX ARGB Sync Cooling Fans on APHNetworks.
ID-Cooling FX360 INF AIO on TechPowerUp.
Software:
NVIDIA App v1.0 on TechPowerUp.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Handheld Performance on TechPowerUp.
Storage:
Team Group A440 Lite 2 TB SSD on TechPowerUp.
Netac NV7000-Q 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD on NikKTech.
MSI Datamag 20Gbps External SSD Review: Super-Fast USB Storage on HotHardware.
Misc:
HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 Lunar Lake laptop on SMBTech.
KISS QUIET Silent G3 750W White Power Supply on FunkyKit.
Two Retro Lets Play Games
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Monday, 11-November-2024 21:35:16 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN
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This month's "Retro Let's Play" is now a Two for the Price of One Retro Deal.
First up we have GUN from 2005
When life robs Colton White of all that matters, the only thing left he can trust is his GUN. Follow Colton on his quest for discovery as he seeks to exact vengeful justice...
It's an epic tale of the old west, gritty, free roaming adventure, that came nearly 5 years previous to Red Dead Redemption, and some say, is the better game. The gunplay is very tight and the controls are nicely defined and feel very solid.
click for the thread!
The second 733t game is POOYAN from 1982
The goal is to rescue or protect the piglets, by firing arrows from the elevator at the attacking wolves. Pretty easy right? Looks very easy, but isn’t.. The best versions of this game in Vanne's rubbish opinion are the arcade and the Commodore 64 editions. Easy to find, even easier to load up.
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Happy Birthday Vanne!
Retro Misc Pics
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Friday, 8-November-2024 13:45:32 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Currently in Singapore, so here's Retro Misc Pics from January 2012: Back to normal next week!
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Retro Gaming November 2024
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Thursday, 7-November-2024 23:38:46 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN
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This month's "Retro Let's Play" for November is GUN from 2005
When life robs Colton White of all that matters, the only thing left he can trust is his GUN. Follow Colton on his quest for discovery as he seeks to exact vengeful justice...
It's an epic tale of the old west, gritty, free roaming adventure, that came nearly 5 years previous to Red Dead Redemption, and some say, is the better game. The gunplay is very tight and the controls are nicely defined and feel very solid.
click for the thread!
Bumper Crop CPUs, Motherboards
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Thursday, 7-November-2024 23:30:00 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN
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Ryzen 9800X3D:
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ HotHardware
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ TechPowerUp
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ LanOC
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ guru3D
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ TweakTown
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ Vortez
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ cowcotland
x870:
ASRock Phantom Gaming X870E Nova WiFi @ FunkyKit
BIOSTAR X870E Valkyrie @ FunkyKit
MSI MPG X870E Carbon Wi-Fi @ TechPowerUp
ASUS ROG Strix X870-I Gaming Wi-Fi Mini-ITX @ TweakTown
Core Ultra:
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K @ Vortez
GIGABYTE X870 AORUS ELITE WIFI7 @ Vortez
Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Pro Ice @ LanOC
Intel Core Ultra 200 Series @ LanOC
Core Ultra 9 285K and Ultra 5 245K @ HotHardware
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K @ HotHardware
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K @ HotHardware
Intel Core Ultra 7 265K @ HotHardware
Core Ultra 9 285K processor @ guru3D
Core Ultra 7 265K processor @ guru3D
Core Ultra 5 245K processor @ guru3D
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K & Core Ultra 5 245K CPUs @ NikKTech
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K @ ThinkComputers
z890:
Asus TUF Gaming Z890-Plus Wifi @ LanOC
Gigabyte Z890 AORUS Elite X ICE @ FunkyKit
ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 HERO motherboard @ guru3D
MSI MEG Z890 ACE motherboard @ guru3D
Random RAM Review
Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB DDR5 2x 16GB DDR5-6000 @ OCinside
Audio Visual:
NuPhy Air60 HE @ TechPowerUp
I\OAudio SOGNO In-Ear Monitors @ TechPowerUp
Wanbo Dali 1 Smart Projector @ NikKTech
AVerMedia Versati Go @ TechPowerUp
HIFIMAN Mini Shangri-La Electrostatic Headphones + Amplifier @ TechPowerUp
Keyboard Mouse:
Darmoshark M5 @ TechPowerUp
Chilkey ND75 Mechanical Keyboard @ TweakTown
Glorious Model O 2 Mini @ ThinkComputers
Meletrix Zoom75 TIGA Mechanical Keyboard Kit @ TweakTown
G-Wolves Hati-R 8K @ TechPowerUp
Case:
SilverStone SETA A2 @ TechPowerUp
Best Laptops Group Test @ TechPowerUp
Storage:
Corsair MP700 Elite 2 TB @ TechPowerUp
Corsair MP700 Elite 2 TB @ HotHardware
TeamGroup T-Force Z540 (4TB) and Dark AirFlow I @ guru3D
Acasis TBU405ProM1 Thunderbolt 3/USB 3.2 Gen 2 M.2 SSD Enclosure @ aphNetworks
Crucial T705 Pro Series 4TB Gen5 M.2 SSD @ NikKTech
Power:
FSP Vita GM 850W ATX 3.1 @ NikKTech
BLUETTI AC50B Portable Power Station @ aphNetworks
Enermax PlatiGemini 1200 W @ TechPowerUp
Benchmark:
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Performance Benchmark @ TechPowerUp
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Performance Benchmark @ TechPowerUp
Portable Prebuilt:
ECS LIVA Z7 Plus Barebone Mini-PC (Intel Core Ultra 5 125H) @ TechPowerUp
Shuttle XPC slim DS50U7 Barebone @ Madshrimps
Best Laptops Group Test @ SMBtech | High Performance Laptops
ASUS Vivobook S15 (Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite) @ TweakTown
Cooler Master Cooling X Mini PC @ HotHardware
Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 @ TweakTown
ASUS NUC 14 Pro (Intel Core 7 155H processor / 32GB ) Geekom Mini PC @ guru3D
Miscellaneous:
Aura Smart Sleep Mask @ TweakTown
Thanks to Lou and Scott this week!
     
     
     
     
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