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Join the community - in the OCAU Forums! CPU Vending Machine (8 Comments) (link)  Wednesday, 1-May-2024  16:09:07 (GMT +10) - by Agg You might remember my article from last year about Japanese Gachapon vending machines, the cute little server rack kits, and me losing my mind. A few people including metamorphosis sent word that there is one that dispenses used CPUs. I know, because Sciby and I saw it last year! He got a few CPUs out of it, and here's some some photos from inside the shop that I forgot to post earlier: Newsy Nuggets, Just in case you missed them... (4 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 30-April-2024  17:49:50 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN A LED touchscreen that's also a PV charger and reads fingerprints. Tech is awesome QDEL wants in on that action Australia's biggest radio dish, DSS-43, it's the only antenna remaining capable of comms with Voyager 2 Agg was happy to hear Voyager 1 has resumed sending engineering data No radio dish out here said the NASA laser Nintendo really really dont like emulation MSI dont like AMD GPU's much either Boston Dynamics' new Atlas robot is freakish PC enthusists; There's nothing left to RGB. Hold my beer says Razor Apple Vision Pro sales tank, but also used in ground breaking surgery US manufactured chips will cost more Spiders, Mars, but no David Bowie IntelInside wants you to get Win11 on the cheap (possibly) Tuesday Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Tuesday, 30-April-2024  17:44:02 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN Audio Visual: Dangbei Atom 1080p Laser Projector @ TweakTown Dell UltraSharp 40 5K Curved Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (U4025QW) @ ThinkComputers Creative Outlier Pro Bluetooth Earphones @ aphNetworks SteelSeries Arctis Nova 4X Wireless Gaming Headset @ TweakTown Philips 27E1N1300AE Monitor @ OCinside Storage: Lexar PLAY 1TB M.2 2230 NVMe SSD @ NikKTech Ugreen NASync DXP4800 Plus @ TechPowerUp Motherboard, Memory: V-Color Manta X-Prism RGB DDR5 6800 MHz CL34 2 x 48 GB @ guru3D Team Group T-Force Vulcan ECO DDR5-6000 32 GB CL38 @ TechPowerUp ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming WiFi II Motherboard @ ThinkComputers ASRock Phantom Gaming B760I Lightning WiFi Motherboard @ FunkyKit Crucial 64GB Kit (2x32GB) DDR5-4800 SODIMM @ Madshrimps Snapdragon X Plus @ HotHardware Keyboard: WhiteFox Eclipse Mechanical Keyboard @ HotHardware Cooling: Yeston x Zeaginal Sakura 360 AIO CPU Cooler @ Neoseeker PSU: XPG Core Reactor II VE 850w 80 PLUS Gold ATX 3.0 PSU @ TweakTown Sunday Night (2 Comments) (link)  Sunday, 28-April-2024  22:12:03 (GMT +10) - by Agg I spent much of the weekend in a home-automation monitoring deep dive, after initially just wanting to measure how much electricity some devices were using. The core of it is Home Assistant, which is open-source and runs on a Raspberry Pi. I've ended up with a fairly ugly dashboard (next stop Grafana) which shows info from my home solar setup, the mains power usage, 6 (and counting) smart power plugs, the Starlink usage, etc. If your high-end i9 machine is acting unstable, Gigabyte may have a fix. Intel's been under some fire recently for issues affecting its top-end Core i9 processors from both the 13th- and 14th-generation Core families. Some of these chips, even when set to "BIOS defaults", will crash or otherwise fail in certain tests, most commonly Cinebench 2024 and especially, games using Unreal Engine. The release of Tekken 8 really brought the issue to the forefront, as gamers started to struggle with stability on these high-end CPUs; one report noted as many as ten returns per day in Korea. MSI have some tips also. But if you need a new Z80, you may be out of luck, thanks Callan. Zilog is retiring the Z80 after 48 years on the market. Originally developed as a project stemming from the Intel 8080, it eventually rose to become one of the most popular and widely used 8-bit CPUs in both gaming and general computing devices. The iconic IC device, developed by Federico Faggin, will soon be phased out, and interested parties only have a few months left to place their orders before Zilog's manufacturing partner ends support for the technology. Some more info here and discussion here. Net Neutrality has been reinstated by a recent ruling in the US. Policymakers at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted along party lines Thursday to reinstate net neutrality principles, which mandate that internet service providers can’t interfere with how online content is transmitted. A laptop with external watercooling? Sounds.. inconvenient. The difference between the models lies in their GPU configurations and cooling methods. The company has announced RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 models, both housed in the same chassis with attachable liquid tubes at the back. Gamers can choose to use the external radiator or rely on the integrated dual-fan cooler. This design resembles that of many OEM brands like XMG Neo, indicating a similar approach. While the laptop chassis may differ, the external radiator seems to be largely the same. I'm a sucker for a nostalgic Amiga article - and here's another one. Personally? I really did love the Amiga. I had more glorious evenings with it than any other machine, in terms of hours played and the quality of those hours. It provided the best party game ever in Sensible Soccer, the best futuristic (and best looking) sports game in Speedball 2 and the best time-swallower with Championship Manager, just edging out Sim City. And I am not sure there has ever been a more mathematically precise sports game than Jimmy White’s Whirlwind Snooker. Misc Pics (22 Comments) (link)  Friday, 26-April-2024  14:03:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg Shout-out to those who took today off and made a sneaky long weekend out of it: Friday Afternoon Reviews (0 Comments) (link)  Friday, 26-April-2024  13:04:39 (GMT +10) - by Agg Cooling: Corsair iCUE Link XC7 RGB Elite CPU Water Block on TechPowerUp. DeepCool AK620 Digital CPU Cooler on NikKTech. Gigabyte AORUS WATERFORCE X II 360 ICE All-in-One CPU Cooler on FunkyKit. HYTE THICC Q60 Liquid CPU Cooler on ThinkComputers. Corsair iCUE LINK RX120 RGB Cooling Fans on FunkyKit. HYTE THICC Q60 240 mm AIO on TechPowerUp. Audio Visual: GravaStar Sirius P5 Combo Earphones on MadShrimps. FiiO K19 Desktop DAC/Headphone Amplifier on TechPowerUp. ASUS ROG Swift Pro PG248QP Gaming Monitor on Tweaktown. MOONDROP x Crinacle DUSK In-Ear Monitors on TechPowerUp. iFi audio hip dac 3 Portable USB DAC & Headphone Amplifier on NikKTech. Mobile Pixels Duex Plus 13.3-inch 1080p Portable Laptop Monitor on FunkyKit. Storage: Lexar Professional CFexpress Type A Silver Review (320GB) on StorageReview. UGREEN DXP6800 Pro NAS on StorageReview. Building the Ultimate Home Entertainment Server with an ASUSTOR NAS and Viper Gaming NVMe SSDs on Tweaktown. Cases: Thermaltake CTE E600 MX Computer Case on APHNetworks. Corsair 6500X Mid-Tower Dual Chamber PC Case on Guru3D. Cooler Master TD500 MAX on APHNetworks. Furniture: Atlasio SHD Mini Office Desk and Dynamic Chair on OCInside. FlexiSpot C7B-Mesh Ergonomic Office Chair on Tweaktown. Portable & Prebuilt: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 on Tweaktown. Dell Latitude 9450 2-in-1 on StorageReview. ACEMAGIC AD08 "Core i9 11900H" Mini PC on Tweaktown. Input Etc: Glorious Model D 2 Pro 4K/8KHz Edition mouse on TechPowerUp. Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Keyboard on TechPowerUp. FiiO Jade Audio KB3 Mechanical Keyboard on NikKTech. Power Supply: Seasonic PRIME TX-1000 Power Supply Unit on NikKTech. Seasonic Prime Titanium 1600W TX-1600 ATX 3.0 PSU on Guru3D. Misc: EcoFlow Wave 2 mobile air conditioner video on FunkyHome. ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER OC video card on Guru3D. KLEVV Bolt V DDR5-6800 32 GB CL34 memory on TechPowerUp.

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