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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl Gets A New Trailer and More Screenshots

    +1. As much as I want to be proud of Ukrainian gamedev industry, that's not the case I'm goint to place my bets on. Grygorovych certainly earned his reputation of a total jerk and semi-scammy manipulative asshole. I'd wait for a full release and at least couple patches just to consider buying...
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    Why MS buying all of these Studios is bad for Gaming

    The Microsoft situation is a two-sided coin. On one hand you have a very obvious monopolization of gaming industry, which will give them leverage over all competitors. On the other - they actually kept their word on giving studios more than enough autonomy to do things their way (with the...
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    The 10 year plan computer

    PSU: anything with 10 year warranty. Personally I lean towards higher-end Seasonic (got me an SSR-550FX, which so far clocked almost 5y 24/7 with zero issues), but there are many more choices that fit the requirement. HDD: there are no modern HDDs that will last that long, including enterprise...
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    App searched for migrating data from old phone to a new one without a cloud(service)

    Just use Samsung's SmartSwitch, just like everyone said. It works over LAN, no cloud services involved. It syncs everything. All you need afterwards, is to activate your messenger accounts etc.
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    Intel Realizes the Only Way to Save x86 is to Democratize it, Reopens x86 IP Licensing

    Definitely not the april 1st prank. Rumors and very-very obvious hints have been circling since Intel announced IFS a few years back, as an integral part of their foundry services. Though. I'm not sure if at the time it included "just licensing", e.g. selling IP to a customer for it to be...
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    Qubic Cryptocurrency Mining Craze Causes AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Stocks to Evaporate

    Stumbled upon this QUBIC a few weeks ago, when my buddy mentioned that he started mining it with some ridiculous profits. Looked it up - and it ended up worse than I thought... Economics doesn't work at all(with gazillion coins in the works, 8% already minted not even two months in active...
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    The Official Linux/Unix Desktop Screenshots Megathread

    Lol. Just did it yesterday on our work server.... Forgot to do some screenshots. Decided to go against ESXi with all the recent bad news, and Proxmox ended up being an overhyped piece of garbage. Heck, it ended up being easier to set up my storage and VMs via terminal, than banging my head on...
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    Intel Reincarnates Altera as Independent Company, Launches Agilex 9/7/5/3 Series FPGAs

    That was my thought back when acquisition just happened, but over the years the only thing it materialized - is paid "unlockable" features in enterprise SKUs. DLC for Xeons, to be short.
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    MATX case with good airflow

    It's a bad-ass case. You'll like it. When we were building my brother's rig, we've crammed a triple-fan GTX980Ti in it after some juggling around internal brackets, but I AFAIK the newer revision has even more GPU clearance.
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    MATX case with good airflow

    There are to many to even remember. Bitfenix Prodigy M used to be within that price range. Got a "mustang"-orange one for my brother's rig a few years back. Fractal design has a ton of options that can support full-size triple-slot GPUs. Even their cheapest Core 1000 can do up to 350mm if you...
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    Software for capture card and backups

    Basically anything that can record camera can be used with most capture cards(at least with most USB UVC dongles). I personally lean towards ShadowPlay, since it's already installed with GFE and works fine in both desktop and games. Haven't tried RePlay on AMD cards, but I assume it's at least...
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    3D Printer Club

    But that pretty much sums up its problems - it can either be very good, or very bad.... or both at the same time. Pretty sure there is a reason they went with direct drive on their entire Ender3 V3 lineup. Yesterday I finally fixed most of my extruder issues, unclogged the hotend and a nozzle...
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    Asus P104-100 4G mining card hack to GTX 1080 possible?

    There's been many attempts at this over the past 7[!] years, but I can tell you right away - it's not possible. Video outputs and encode/decode blocks are fused off from the factory. Also, it won't accept any non-matched BIOS(may get bricked). The only way to use these cards other than for...
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    Ghetto Mods

    Yep, it worked. Won't do for a wraith prism or stealth, but it sure does a great job for a cheap chinese 3-heatpipe tower on top of my R5-1600AF. Nothing can make my day any better than an almost freebie Ryzen PC.
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    Ghetto Mods

    Not sure if it qualifies, but I had a cheapo non-working A320 board at the office. Fixed it a few days back, but it had no CPU backplate (and somehow I had no AM4 donors at my workshop either). New ones from China only cost ~$2, but I didn't want to wait a whole month for it to arrive. So...
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