By now you might know me as an OLED aficionado (who hasn't bought one yet, due to burn-in and brightness concerns), so I'm naturally posting this.

As a fan enthusiast...or, fan fan, I find things like the above DB very useful.

And the shit show from Nvidia continues. But prices are slowly improving, it would appear.

Very interesting to see that Windows 11 is slightly ahead of Ubuntu. Clearly the Ubuntu experience isn't that polished yet, as there are various driver issues. Still very interesting comparison. I sort of can't believe you can play Cyberpunk on this thing.

I'm following the OLED market with excitement. Therefore I shall post OLED news here. Seeing a sub-£1k display is especially exciting.

Seems like this space is a good opportunity for some censorship-free discussions.

Obviously there's dread, but it's perpetually DDoS'ed and therefore hard to access (except via I2P).

Now with removable RAM! Razer has refreshed its Blade 14 this year with significant internal and external upgrades including a move to 16:10 and the latest processors from both AMD and Nvidia.

Posting this as it's relevant to me. Along with Asrock's recent initiative to sell mobos without RGB (for like £100 less!), I'm happy to announce there's a graphics card now too.

Stupidly it's a useless graphics card that nobody should ever buy, but here's to hoping that people who don't need RGB can get cheaper components without flashy lights on them :)

(I really don't have anything against RGB, if people love it, good for them. But I have something against not being able to buy anything without RGB and then paying a premium for something I don't want)

Another excellent Guru3D article. I have a Synology here, on 1gbps, which does about 100MB/s in the real world, which is great, but seeing what this 10gbit NAS could pull of makes me rather envious. I've cabled the whole house with Cat 6 cables, so should be able to do 10gbit one day. Routers and extension cards are a bit too pricey for that still.

Like I said, I love small computers :D I have a meshlicious from SSUPD at the moment. The problem with that one is graphics card space. Quite tempted by the DAN C4. I hadn't realised Lian Li make these.

Love me a tiny computer. I've been following this space with a lot of interest for a while. If I think about the insane levels of performance you can get from something like this or a NUC, I must admit, it often feels like the biggest difference between my system and one of these is the graphics card.

Here's an article close to my heart. I've been wondering about this specific issue for a while, because I'm on a B550 motherboard, which just about supports the 5800X3D. (current proc is a 5600X)

I bought a used 3080 a while ago and have high hopes for better 99th percentile performance.

I don't know whether my DDR4 RAM will hold me back, but at the same time, there's no chance I could afford a DDR5 based platform with a 7800X3D. New ram, processor and mobo is just out of the question with current hardware prices, so I'm hoping to be able to put together a 'last-gen-fast' system.

Yesterday I was out and about, having to use mobile data. Suddenly, Jerboa reported a certificate error wile browsing feddit.de. I figured it was just a glitch, but the error persisted. Tried accessing it via browser on mobile and suddenly I'm getting some Vodafone gateway telling me I need to unlock 18+ content....WTF? I'm not even on Vodafone, so presumably my phone was data-roaming. Accessing Reddit was, naturally, no problem. I'd love to know how many orders of magnitude more porn there is on Reddit than on Feddit lol...but feddit is blocked??

Anyway, I swiftly put my VPN on my phone and it's no longer an issue. Very bizarre to see this, though. Has anyone else encountered it?

Love Guru3D, been reading Hilbert's content for...who knows how long. Decades? Anyway, I'm also very interested in OLED tech and have so far felt hesitant to commit, mainly because of burn-in. I'm from the CRT monitor era, so burn-in lingers in my mind. Until someone guarantees no burn in for many years on OLED, I'm not going for it. Perhaps waiting for MicroLED is the way to go. But that feels about a decade away. Whichever one it ends up being, the day I make the switch will be glorious.

I have decided to editorialise the link. Also, yes, LTT's thumbnails are annoying, but the video is really worth watching. Those EUV machines are something else.

I always had high hopes for SSDs to come down in price enough to rival spinning rust, but it seems we've hit a wall around 4TB for the time being. If HAMR drives don't turn out to be outrageously expensive, I'll be spinning discs in my NAS for the foreseeable

Well, what can I say, as a programmer, I find this interesting, as I've always wanted to have a virtual workspace with unlimited screens.

At the same time, I wonder about text-legibility. Maybe the 4k per eyes will be enough, but you hear that resolution requirements for text-clarity in VR are monstrous (with some people claiming 8k per eye is required).

I'm obviously not spending $3.5k on this thing and I definitely don't want anything to do with the Apple ecosystem, but if Apple can raise the bar for other manufacturers to try and match, we hopefully all benefit.

From the video description:

"We interviewed one of Noctua's technical team members (Jakob Dellinger) to discuss the challenges and troubles of focusing entirely on performance for a cooling product. This video goes over fan behaviors like tensile strength, endurance, aging, creep, and cooling characteristics like blade tip distance from the frame and blade passing harmonics. The video is a surprisingly transparent insight into what Noctua has been dealing with for 8 years now as it has attempted to reinvent its most popular product, and the company now thinks it has an NH-D15 Gen2 and "Next Gen Fan" nearly ready for primetime."