Recent content by evolvedpc

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    Review ASRock Z490 Aqua Review: Testing ASRock's Water-Cooled Flagship

    Given this board is all about water cooling, it would have been good to see more detail on the cooling performance. Water temps? How good is the waterblock? The monoblock design leaves you with no other option but to use it, so knowing how good it is arguably the most useful thing any review...
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    Did Steve Jobs Steal The iPad? Genius Inventor Alan Kay Reveals All

    It mystifies me why the iPad should provoke all this philosophising and talk of "innovation". It's just a big iPod Touch, isn't it? Making something that you've already made - only bigger - is hardly worthy of someone's lifes work, is it? Why do any of Apple's gadgets provoke such a furore...
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    8 gigs of memory issue on GA-890GPA-UD3H

    Are the dimms all identical? If not, are you installing paired dimms in slots of the same colour?
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    Evolving an extreme gaming rig

    Thanks r_manic. It looks like scan.co.uk seems to be the e-tailer of choice in the UK at the moment. Meanwhile, I've had a wee rethink in light of the upcoming dual-CPU overclockers mobo from EVGA, along with SATA 6Gb, USB3.0 and 2xNF200 chipsets for plenty of additional PCIe lanes. Full...
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    UCSC Students Creating Killer StarCraft Bot

    Hmmm, I'm neither a PhD student, nor artificially intelligent, but I very much doubt that I would achieve a 20% win ratio in online StarCraft. :-) I would be interested to know if they are trying to write an algorithm specifically tailored to be effective at StarCraft, or whether they are...
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    Evolving an extreme gaming rig

    Hi all, I'm about to start building an extreme gaming rig. I'll be starting off fairly modestly, but within 6 months I plan to get it to a level where it will play any game that catches my interest at max detail and resolution. For those interested, I'll be blogging my progress, including...