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Passive Cooling Gets Taken to the Extreme With a 4kg Chunk of Copper
Whether you utilised an air cooler, AIO solution, or perhaps even a custom-loop setup, cooling methodologies within PC designs are, typically speaking, fairly uniform in their overall concept and application. – While there are, of course, passive cooling options (such as the Noctua NH-P1), however, they typically don’t tend to…
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Mikes Rant Christmas Edition – The Craziest News from 2022!
There’s something of an expression at the eTeknix office. It goes along the lines of ‘if a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well’ – ‘If it’s weird though, just give it to Mike’. – Yep, I make very little secret of the fact that while I love writing…
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For $11,500 You Can Now Buy A Smart Toilet With Built-In Alexa!
Someone famous once said that only two things in life are certain, death and taxes. While making the expression notably less eloquent, it would’ve probably made it a bit more accurate to add ‘poop’ to that list as well. – Now, of course, the concept of ‘smart toilets’ is hardly…
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World of Tanks Superfan Builds a Tank for His Son!
Have you ever played World of Tanks? I have to concede that I personally haven’t (beyond using it as a benchmarking tool) but given how cool it looks, and how huge and loyal a fanbase it has, maybe I’m missing out on something pretty huge here. – Regardless of whether…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Bombs Twitch Streamers (and Starts Singing Lady Gaga)
Most of us in the tech world are fairly (or at least mostly) accustomed to either seeing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in his rather fancy kitchen or on a presentational stage, graphics card in hand. – Well, except for Andy here who has the rather distinct honour of once bumping…
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YouTuber Reveals Commodordion – Commodore 64 + Accordion = Musical Instrument?!
While most would agree that the Commodore 64 was one of the most iconic home gaming systems ever created, I doubt that you’d think it was possible to attempt to modify it for any other kind of practical use. – Following a video released by Linus Åkesson, however, through a…
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Ex-Mining GPUs Get PRESSURE WASHED Ahead of Second-Hand Market Sale – Video!
Following the transition of Ethereum to the new Proof of Stake standard earlier this month, this has effectively resulted in the near-total death of GPU cryptocurrency mining. – As such, with it well known that there are masses of huge mining operations around the world, many of these will now…
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Samsung Asks Customer to Destroy 980 Pro SSD in Bizarre RMA Request!
There are many instances of a tech product being perfectly sound in general but, for reasons unclear, a particular sample just doesn’t work. In these instances, the vast majority of manufacturers have a pretty straightforward RMA (return merchandise authorisation) system where consumers can return the item for either a refund…
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Janet Jackson Song Gets Security Listing As it May Cause Laptop HDDs to Crash!
I would freely concede that I have a somewhat unusual, and dare I say, unique taste in music. – It is, in fact so eclectic that if the storage devices on my PC or laptop had a personality, they might voluntarily choose to stop working so they wouldn’t have to…
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Diablo Immortal Player Spends $100K And Are So OP They Can’t Get a Matchmake!
The predatory nature of Diablo Immortal’s microtransaction system is hardly any secret and my opinion on the game has always remained the same. Don’t play it or if you do, please don’t feed the beast of modern gaming loot box mechanics! – Simple right? Well, apparently not. You see, despite…
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Henry Cavill Shows His Love for Noctua’s Brown and Beige Fans!
While I daresay that some of you reading this are perhaps more familiar with his wide variety of acting roles, it’s well-known within the tech community that Henry Cavill is a bit of a geek. Well, by a bit, he likes PCs, World of Warcraft, and Warhammer 40K. – The…
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5 Fun Things I Found This Week on YouTube – #2
It seems that the last week has gone by amazingly quickly. Something I’m not, incidentally, going to complain too much about since, with a young lad, I’m one week down in the Summer holidays with five more to go! – As often is the case though, when you have 5…
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Chess Robot Blunders With Unorthodox Move (Childs Finger to Emergency Room 1)
I rather enjoy chess, but would freely concede that even on just a somewhat mildly competitive level, I’m not very good. I’m sure though that I wouldn’t be telling you anything new by stating that for nearly 50 years, give or take, people have been seeing the limits of how…
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Popular Steam App Used to Share Adult Content in China (Bypassing State Censorship)
I’m sure that many of you are aware that China has quite possibly the strictest and most heavily censored internet in the world (well, with maybe some competition from North Korea). – As part of its ‘morality’ laws, therefore, adult content, and I’m sure you all know what I mean…
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5 Funs Things I Found This Week On Youtube – #1
If you’re anything like me, then the time between when you should go to bed and when you’re up very much past your bedtime is often submitted to the beast that is the ‘YouTube Blackhole’. – Oh yes, YouTube can throw up some very interesting rabbit holes if you get…
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