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Meanwhile South Korea laughs in having standard 1 gigabit internet as the standard even in most rural areas.

Nope. I'll buy what's within budget and meets most of my needs and expectations, and from companies with some history of consistent production quality. Basically, if it's a decent Made in China, Taiwan, S.Korea, or Japan one cheaper even after tariffs, I'll buy that. If I want a fancy laptop...

They should go ahead and release it with completely maxed out clocks as a flagship of the flagship. GN's video showed that a similar prototype for the 4090 ran cooler than most other variants and came close to some AIO or custom liquid cooling setups.

I mean, installing M2s onto GPUs isn't entirely new; AMD first tested it with their Prosumer line, ASUS did one with an Nvidia GPU to make full use of the lanes, and there's that recent one from a Chinese company that adds 2 M2 slots to an Intel GPU to make full use of the lanes. Now if GPUs...

It would have been funny had they been spun-off completely just to be purchased by AMD and paired with their Xilinx IP.

I had the V10, and the V10's Peltier worked for me. Granted, it didn't work as well as the Peltier coolers from TITAN (the Titan Amanda) or V-something (Vantus? Vantec? Vantex?) clone which used a shrouded rectangle around the finstack that let the fans in push-pull really keep their Peltiers...

Alphacool also got into the enterprise cooling market pretty early on, and thrived off providing custom solutions before they began providing expandable AIOs as design standardization set in. And they also were one of the first to wedge themselves into Asetek's consumer space with expandable...

I'm not interested in buying it even if I had the money, but I do enjoy stories of false facades done to hide what was really in them. In fact, some things like this were common way back when, with a fake house built just to provide a cover for a community's phone service switchboard, or later...

And yet China is still determined enough to try again, with another "Big Fund 2.0" going out. Although supposedly, China is going to more tightly vet the applicants before giving them the money. We'll see how long that lasts before corruption takes hold and most of those applicants go bankrupt...

Was hoping AsRock would bring the AQUA to AMD too (again), and keep the 10GbE port the X570 had (or upgrade it to a better controller). Just for less than the previous AQUA (which was 1k USD and limited to 500 boards).

In some parts of the US, the wiring in the walls are rated for 20 amps but tied to a standard 15 amp circuit-breaker more as a precautionary measure, since some individuals would then inevitably try and replace the 15 amp CBs with 20 amp ones without upgrading the wiring. The local construction...

I was wondering if we'd see more AI virtual assistants. Computex 2023 had a basic one that Dawid covered a bit, but it was rough and inconsistent. But it's odd that there wasn't more push for virtual assistants at an AI-oriented expo, given that studies show that humans would prefer to...

Would be neat if these became standard and integrated into SSDs, HDDs, and maybe even parts of the motherboard, where the flexible design of solid-state fans can allow for a hybrid heatsink-cooler over the VRMs and ICs, as well as within the shrouds that cover the NVMe drives and chipset.

It would be neat if they did make it touch-capable and usable with e-reading apps. Maybe include a button where it can shut off the reader and switch to the programmed static image. Then also switch to the static programmed image when opening up the laptop to start gaming or doing more intensive...

I'm surprised another company revisited the idea. ASUS did a similar setup with the MATRIX 2090, and it performed slightly better than other similar 3-fan cooler equivalents, mainly due to the increased time it took to thermally saturate liquid. Of course, ASUS then gave up on the concept and...