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    9950X and 9950X3D is going to be terrific.

    Personally I am disappointed by the limited number of lanes, which will translate to boards with relatively few expansion slots. Even my now aging TR3 setup had plenty of lanes, yet surprisingly few slots. I typically have a GPU, a 25GbE or 40GbE card, a video capture card (think HD SDI) and...
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    MrBeast Ranks as Highest-Paid YouTube Star Ever, Earning an Estimated $54 Million in 2021

    For most people on the planet, Linus is best known as Charlie Brown’s loyal friend.
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    Optical Archival - Software Recommendations?

    Clarification, so it doesn't distract from the software question, I don't know whether I'll buy "m disc" media which may at this point be little more than a marketing term in the BDXL space.
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    Optical Archival - Software Recommendations?

    I'm revving up to do a series of archival burns of important data to M Disc optical media to put into archival storage (e.g. safety deposit box, 2nd out of state home etc.) using some mix of 25GB/50GB/100GB BDXL media. I'm hoping to get some advice on software; I have a few firm requirements...
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    3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad

    Steel Nomad Light on my TR3 3960X / RTX4090 (CPU, RAM, GPU all running stock speeds) was a 20,888 score, lol :) And given the newness of the benchmark, I was able to check off that "Legendary" Steam achievement with this result. Nice!
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    3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad

    Here’s a decent stress test of a M4 iPad running the bench during a zoom call with 30 people and also air playing YouTube to a television while on battery. Not too bad.
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    3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad

    Seems like a decent multiplatform benchmark. Here is a 15 Pro Max and I can post a M4 iPad in a bit.
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    Is there an Apple event upcoming with possible product updates?

    I purchased the exact same combination as you; the pencil and case arrived last week and the tablet itself should arrive tomorrow. I am excited since this is replacing a 2018 iPad Pro 11 inch that I never got around to upgrading and yet has worked just fine all this time. Looking forward to the...
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    Apple Pencil with iPad - useful for making illustrations?

    My wife uses this combo almost daily with the adobe suite, without complaint or concern.
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    Homeworld 3

    Count me amongst those who believe that the game has problems but also a great deal of promise. I dislike resource collectors bugging out, support ships not being selected when selecting an area, and some of the other various gameplay issues. However, all of these strike me as fixable. The...
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    Hardware Nexus: ASUS Scammed Us

    Would you mind summarizing? I don’t have time for another 30 minute video that probably could have been distilled down to two or three minutes, but won’t be for monetization reasons. I like the initiative that gamer Nexus shows, and the important information they have brought to light over the...
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    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    If there are any streaming services that allow offline download and viewing of movies at such a high quality that they have that kind of footprint, I’d love to know about that service. All the ones I use - Amazon, Disney, Max, etc. - have a max of maybe 2-3GB for a 2 hour movie.
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    Homeworld 3

    Yup, 3960X. Tried it on my wife’s 14900k with a RTX3080 and it’s also reasonable but some stutter at times. It’s playable on both.
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    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    Well, downloading movies is a frequent use case for me since a travel a decent amount. That said, movies don’t take a lot of space in the grand scheme of things. Now recording spatial video would be a different matter altogether but I find myself using the Vision Pro to record video very...
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    Homeworld 3

    I've been playing the campaign and am having a great time. This is very much Homeworld through and through. I did notice that the game is far too easy on Normal difficulty; I got a third of the way through the game realizing I don't actually need to pay attention to ship types, unit strengths...
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