Random Hardware topics

[Brian Boru]

Power Supplies

5-min video from Riley at Linus about new measurement regime for Power Supplies—the new part starts around 4:30

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRpqGF2poJM

 

[Colif]

5 minute video? only 30 seconds useful? sounds about right

 

[Brian Boru]

Budget PC Builds November 2022

Paul has an 18m vid with 3 builds at $660, $1,100 and $1,200—includes parts lists, a Google doc, and he will be updating and following up on Black Friday.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2AInCD-LW8

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Dont mind me, just lusting after another Fractal Design case. Proper lush.

Fractal Design North Review

The Fractal Design North puts the focus on a beautiful design and material mix with clean curves, a silver power button and unique wood elements. On top of that, you get to pick from a TG or side-vented variant. But is there substance underneath the surface? Read on to find out!

www.techpowerup.com

North

North reimagines the gaming PC, introducing natural materials and bespoke details to make gaming a stylish addition to the living space. Fusing design and airflow engineering, the case features fine-patterned mesh ventilation and an open front with real walnut or oak panels. The design is...

www.fractal-design.com

 

[Colif]

i like one thing about that case, its finally got pwm fans as opposed to DC. I have to replace my DC ones... I should get those in coming days. PWM would have saved me money.

 

[Brian Boru]

BBC article:
US-China chip war: How the technology dispute is playing out

All we need now is for China to reinstate export controls on rare earth minerals and the tech industry will be royally screwed.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Here's me waiting for the mid range cards, Nvidia coming in with the 4 slot cooler and potential 600W TDP

Spoiler

Allegedly

NVIDIA RTX 4090 Ti / RTX TITAN (Ada) Pictured, Behold the 4-slot Cinder Block

Here's the very first picture of an alleged upcoming NVIDIA flagship/halo product to be positioned above the GeForce RTX 4090. There are two distinct brand names being rumored for this product—the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, and the NVIDIA RTX TITAN (Ada). The RTX 4090 only uses 128 out of 144 (88...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/directstorage-testing-shows-pcie-3-drives-are-basically-as-fast-as-pcie-5

Direct storage not showing much difference between Gen 3 and Gen 5 overall yet.

Happy to hear, my old NVME might still last a while yet.

 

[Brian Boru]

my old NVME might still last a while yet

Hope so, I'll be very sad for you if it doesn't.

Oh hang on… I haven't got my first NVMe yet, and you already have an old one? Life can be so cruel, almost as bad as the MGS5 intro at times 😢

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Sold a 128GB Samsung 830 SATA SSD that I'd had for 8 or 9 years as a boot drive at the time, Samsung
Magician reported 95% drive health.

I'm really not sure if NVME's will have that kind of lifespan. They run so much hotter than SATA because of their size and place on the motherboard.

The new consoles are both using storage tech that streams data super fast from NVME storage to VRAM/RAM. I dont know exactly how it works, but Direct Storage is the PC version of that, and it will bring performance benefits to games that use it you wont get without an NVME drive. So I'm happy that my PCI-E Gen 3.0 drive will be most likely be able to give some of that benefit in the future. I dont think SATA speeds will cut it with the tech.

Dont know if you knew or cared about any of that, but it does explain why I might care so I thought it worth saying

 

[Brian Boru]

freeCodeCamp.org is one of the tip-top YT channels, and just put this out:

Computer & Technology Basics Course for Absolute Beginners

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kg3MOk1sY


I haven't watched, but a few comments I scanned were appreciative—and I know FCC content is usually high grade.

⭐ Course Contents ⭐
⌨ (00:00:00) Introduction
⌨ (00:00:55) What Is a Computer?
⌨ (00:03:37) Buttons and Ports on a Computer
⌨ (00:06:01) Basic Parts of a Computer
⌨ (00:08:47) Inside a Computer
⌨ (00:10:58) Getting to Know Laptop Computers
⌨ (00:12:55) Understanding Operating Systems
⌨ (00:14:21) Understanding Applications
⌨ (00:15:53) Setting Up a Desktop Computer
⌨ (00:18:47) Connecting to the Internet
⌨ (00:22:41) What Is the Cloud?
⌨ (00:25:06) Cleaning Your Computer
⌨ (00:29:02) Protecting Your Computer
⌨ (00:32:17) Creating a Safe Workspace
⌨ (00:36:25) Internet Safety: Your Browser's Security Features
⌨ (00:38:36) Understanding Spam and Phishing
⌨ (00:43:27) Understanding Digital Tracking
⌨ (00:45:39) Windows Basics: Getting Started with the Desktop
⌨ (00:47:40) Mac OS X Basics: Getting Started with the Desktop
⌨ (00:52:26) Browser Basics

 

[Brian Boru]

New screen tech hoped for by 2026—NanoLED, touted as very cheap top quality. 4-min video by Anthony at Linus:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-rudzrfwyI

 

[Brian Boru]

Optimize Your Solid State Drive With SSD Fresh
Free and $10 versions.

Usually optimizers get a bad press from tech writers. I'm not familiar with Russ Ware as a tech journo, but he's been at it a while, so…

Any of you use SSD Fresh, or think it might be helpful?

 

[Brian Boru]

Couple of PCG articles of interest:

https://www.pcgamer.com/corsair-rmx-shift-psu-build-hands-on/

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https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-puts-tsmc-on-notice-with-step-towards-angstrom-era-chips/

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

https://www.pcgamer.com/making-like-a-tree-is-expensive-with-this-all-wood-wireless-keyboard-from-japan/

Makes me feel all Zen just looking at it

 

[Brian Boru]

all Zen

Sweet… and available in cherry—that's synergy!

It should help with log on, right?

 

[Brian Boru]

RIP Gordon Moore

Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore's Law, dies aged 94

Mr Moore famously predicted that computer processing power would double every two years.

www.bbc.com