Recent content by Growle

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    News French Court: Steam's Resale Ban Is a Problem

    Oof... This would force sites like Humble Bundle to find an alternative to Steam for their purchased games. I can only imagine if some of the companies that depend on Steam weren't properly accounted for. Like if someone pays for Humble monthly and just refunds all those games at a profit...
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    News Spice up Your PC With Three Corsair LL120 RGB Fans for $75

    They should have been that price since the white version came out, considering they push less air (check stats on Corsair site if doubtful). Still a good price, but Corsair moves so slowly with price drops. Maybe they're preparing to launch an upgraded version?
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    News 'Designed For Creators,' Lian Li Announces TU150 Compact Portable Case

    Yeah I was responding to the marketing, article is just fine lol. Someone said "creator" is the new buzzword, and they're not wrong; I keep seeing it. Thanks for the defense @bit_user !
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    News Modular 'Pi-Tops' Raise Safety Concerns After Student 'Burns' Finger

    I agree with you entirely. A very nasty finger burn would be second or third degree, but redness? A kid could get that from slamming the laptop on their finger or sucking their thumb. The kid was fishing for a piece of metal that was against an electrical contact... Who would they blame if he...
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    News Modular 'Pi-Tops' Raise Safety Concerns After Student 'Burns' Finger

    DAMMIT TIMMY GET YOUR FINGER OUT OF THE PI-HOLE faint zapping sounds
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    News Noctua's New Look: All-Black Line of CPU Coolers Slated for Q4

    Gotta love these guys. While everyone else is racing to release fans with more ARGB, Noctua can get us excited with black lol.
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    News 'Designed For Creators,' Lian Li Announces TU150 Compact Portable Case

    "Designed for Creators?" Looks designed for whoever wants it. Pretty nice case though, looks spacious for a Mini ITX and the extra GPU space is a solid selling point. Something charming about the handle and those feet too...
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    News HPE Builds Supercomputer for NASA's Artemis Moon Mission

    Kerbal Space Program 3, confirmed... /s
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    News Chinese Vendor Developing PCIe 4.0 GPU With 16GB HBM and GTX 1080-Like Performance

    Looks like they're meant to be an affordable consumer workstation GPU, that can also game. The whole tariff business might even be enough to make these cards more attractive than the alternatives. Also, I haven't kept up in the news regarding crypto mining in China, but it was pretty huge there...
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    News Thermaltake Quietly Launches RGB-Free H-ONE Gaming Memory Sticks

    They look nice but those are pretty underwhelming offerings. Almost feels like they just want to help offload some of that DRAM oversupply but didn't get to the B-die fast enough /s
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    News Comet Lake-S CPUs Allegedly Command New LGA 1200 Socket and 400-Series Chipset

    Thanks Intel? Seems like they're just trying to get a piece of AMD's cake, but 14nm vs zen 2's 7nm is a tough sell. Asking people to stay within the same architecture but buy a new motherboard is questionable, unless they make the price competitive. Now if they confirm that their 10nm process...
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    News Intel Lakefield 3D Foveros Hybrid Processors: Hot Chips 31 Live Coverage

    May be a good thing for future gaming consoles, "extra-small" form factor PCs, and smart pillows. I like the sound of Tiny Form Factor though.
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    News DARPA Wants to Prove Secure Voting Hardware Is Possible

    They can secure the systems all they want, but as long as people still run the process there's always a security risk. That being said, you can't run the process without people, and it only takes 1 person to fudge everything up.
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    News Caseking Is Now Selling Binned Ryzen 3000-Series Matisse CPUs

    So they're not selling the 3600x or 3800x, maybe because they're factory binned (3600/3700) well enough already. Correct me if I'm wrong, but one complaint was that enthusiasts don't have much headroom for overclocking zen 2 chips because they overclock themselves well enough already. Seems more...
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    News AMD EPYC 7742 Battles Intel Xeon in Benchmarks Posted Online

    Yeah like I said, I have no need for it whatsoever! Though it would be nice to build a pc for machine learning and see how well it does.