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    Fallout 76 B.E.T.A. System Requirements Are Available

    So much debate about Fallout 4 performance here. A literal potato can play 90% of FO4 at 60fps but not even an i9-9900K could break 5fps in that one part of the city when you exit the Railroad hideout.
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    AMD Addresses 9900k Controversy and Outlines Benchmarking Practices

    If the prom queen was only 12% prettier than her sister but still felt the need to airbrush the family photos...
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    Motorola’s New P30 Smartphone Blatantly Copies iPhone X

    There are only so many ways to make a rounded rectangle with a screen on one side.
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    Previously OK HDD slow / freeze with new system

    Bit the bullet and Craigslist'ed the cheapest SATA HDD I could find - a 500GB laptop drive. Installed and it worked at expected speeds as did its permanent replacement 1TB WD Blue.
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    Previously OK HDD slow / freeze with new system

    Solved. HDD was faulty in spite of OK report from SeaTools.
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    Previously OK HDD slow / freeze with new system

    I checked and have two "Standard SATA AHCI Controller". The same as my other PCs. I only took pictures of the screen because the PC is not connected to a network currently.
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    Previously OK HDD slow / freeze with new system

    Computer Type: Desktop. GPU: Gigabyte RX 470 CPU: Ryzen 5 1600. Motherboard: Gigabyte B350m-Gaming 3 RAM: 2x4GB DDR4 2800 PSU: CoolerMaster 650W Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Pro 64 GPU Drivers: 17.12 Chipset Drivers: 17.40 Background Applications: All Storage: WD Blue M.2 SSD 250GB...
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    WTB: CPU + motherboard i3, i5, Pentium G, Athlon x4, A10 A8 FX-4/6/8

    Prefer pickup in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Posting here for a wider audience If price + shipping fits the budget that works for me. Looking for a CPU+motherboard combo for my dead/dying HTPC. Budget $50-$80. Also have 4x2GB DDR2-800 for trade. Motherboard: MATX or smaller form factor. CPU: Just...
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    Microsoft Tried Partnering With Nintendo And Sony Before Making Xbox

    In some alternate reality, Nintendo's SNES "PlayStation" CD add-on, built by Sony, powered by Microsoft Windows remains the only console on the market.
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    UPS Testing Real-Time Tracking On Packages

    Would it be accurate enough to observe the warehouse workers playing soccer with packages?
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    New Zero-Day Flaw Hits Millions Of Linux Servers

    Well... ... the same day the issue was published. So, that's pretty good I think.
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    How Much Would It Cost To Run The Millennium Falcon?

    There is a much better and vastly easier way to work this out. Han agreed to transport Obi-Wan's party to Alderaan for "2000" (they might have been Hutt or Imperial currancy but that doesn't matter) - in the novelization Obi-Wan makes the argument that this is a fair sum for a passenger...
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    The Five Biggest Problems With Fallout 4

    The points in the article aren't wrong, the game could be better. That said it's still an incredible game that I haven't been able to set down since it arrived.
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