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User0001 on YouTube Premium Mex$139/Month (A$11.39), Mex$1390/Year (A$113.89), Students Mex$79/Month (A$6.47) - Mexico VPN Required
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You also only need to patch when something breaks, which isn't often. It's been a bit messy lately though as Google has been breaking…
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Quantico on RTX 4080 Super Gaming PCs: B650/B760 WiFi, 32GB 6000MHz, 1TB Gen4 SSD, 750W PSU, 7800X3D: $2699, 14700F: $2599 + Del @ TechFast
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Grab something like the artic liquid AIO, they are absolutely amazing, the company behind it is pretty good as well for warranty and other…
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Xcom 2 is a game I've probably rage uninstalled at least 10 times in absolute rage. Great game too, highly recommended.
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Blazing147 on [PC] Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition US$14.99 / A$19.97, Deluxe Collection US$19.99 / A$24.97 @ Minecraft
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Bought my account in the extremely early days of beta (before MP), the fact they got away with this is stupid. ACCC hello?
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joshx commented on Samsung Type-C USB Flash Drive, 256GB $31.32 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $59 Spend) @ Amazon US via AU
Take the speeds with a massive grain of salt. But given the size (tiny) and the reported speeds, it looks good.
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electroz on [eBay Plus] Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones WH-1000XM4 $320.45, WH-1000XM5 $420.75 + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ The Good Guys eBay
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Xm3's were the best headphones you could get. Amazing. But they broke after moderate use, which is a pain. Xm4s have an issue where if you…
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Kazusa on Apple Mac Studio with Apple M1 Max Chip, 32GB RAM & 512GB SSD $2347.79 ($2308.65 eBay Plus) Delivered @ Allphones eBay
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ARM is great , aka Apple Silicon. The MacBook airs are fantastic devices with the new chip. Shame apple is apple.
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joshx commented on Apple Mac Studio with Apple M1 Max Chip, 32GB RAM & 512GB SSD $2347.79 ($2308.65 eBay Plus) Delivered @ Allphones eBay
New one apparently coming early next year. So might be cheaper than if you can wait
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joshx commented on Lexar NM790 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD 4TB $227.15 + Delivery ($0 mVIP / SYD C&C) @ Mwave
Not sure if anyone cares, but if you use Linux, your system needs to be suspended then resumed for this to work (atleast as of 6.5.7,…
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f4te on [Prime] ASUS RT-AX56U AX1800 Wi-Fi 6 Router $129 (RRP $229) Delivered @ Amazon AU
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I got the RT-AX53U last year for $65 and it works great as a router with OpenWRT, using stock firmware it's so weirdly slow and laggy for…
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Gamer Dad Reviews on Graphics Cards: PNY GeForce RTX 4070 12GB $796.50, Asus 6700XT $440.1, Asus 6750XT $475.2 Delivered + Surcharge @ Centre Com
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IMHO, only reason they nerfed the RAM on that was so the 3090s would be decent for AI/ML tasks. Greed.
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montorola on Samsung EVO Plus Micro SD Card 64GB $7, 128GB $15, 256GB $26, 512GB $48 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $39 Spend) @ Amazon AU
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NVME can be similar priced, and faster. With a cheap USB enclosure, it's much much faster.
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Warning: These seem to not be properly supported by Linux yet (atleast the 4tb version), as there needs to be a quirk figured out.…
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Yeah. Especially given devices like orange pi5 etc are just so much better. So insanely overpriced.
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Cloud providers like vultr etc are usually cheaper than colo for hobby budget nowadays. :(
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Kooratz on TP-Link Deco S7 AC1900 3-Pack Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System $157 + Shipping ($0 C&C) @ The Good Guys Commercial (Membership Req.)
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Try turning off 2.4, this drastically increased my speeds. I don't need 2.4 (old devices like printers or something do though)
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uder on TP-Link Deco S7 AC1900 3-Pack Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi System $157 + Shipping ($0 C&C) @ The Good Guys Commercial (Membership Req.)
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Few options: 1. Plug these devices into ethernet, downstairs/upstairs , your devices will roll across as they change signal. Most devices…
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B550m with high core count CPUs (5950x, though that's just stupid, tbh) don't handle compiling workloads very well. Wasn't even…
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seriousquokka on ORICO 20Gbps M.2 M-Key/M+B Key NVMe Aluminium SSD Enclosure - Golden $24.09 Delivered @ ORICO via Amazon AU
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So want a 40, but those things are an arm and a leg. 20 t this price is crazy. But yeah, don't chuck in drives that run hot AF anyway then…
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itchy scratchy on Legion Pro 5 (16", Gen 8) AMD, R7 7745HX, 32GB, 1TB, WQXGA 240hz, RTX 4060, $2,181.99 Delivered @ Lenovo
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I was hoping it was this meme: https://youtu.be/pSpIKoA6vsM
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John Doh on Legion Pro 5 (16", Gen 8) AMD, R7 7745HX, 32GB, 1TB, WQXGA 240hz, RTX 4060, $2,181.99 Delivered @ Lenovo
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Had a Metabox in 2016, and it was great but noisy AF. Feel like they don't really care about noise, as they consider them portable…
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troyww on G.skill Trident Z5 NEO Series (AMD Expo) 32GB (2x 16GB) DDR5 6000 CL30 RAM $185 + Delivery ($0 C&C/ in-Store) @ MSY/Umart
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Yup, super keen for the 7950x3d, as it's great for analytical workloads, but the dramas to get everything to work stable is too much of a…
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dead5pur on Keychron Mechanical Keyboard K4 Pro Blue Switch $99 (Sold Out) / Q0 Plus $149 / Q8 Barebone $199 + Shipping @ Keychron Australia
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It's a known issue for keychron, hopefully their new ones fix it. Didn't want to deal with it, so grabbed the wired. Hopefully new model…
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Sillen on Keychron Mechanical Keyboard K4 Pro Blue Switch $99 (Sold Out) / Q0 Plus $149 / Q8 Barebone $199 + Shipping @ Keychron Australia
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The problem is you go from not caring about keyboards and then going full crazy about it. I grabbed the same keyboard, I'm pretty…
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Funnily enough the 7950x3d is really good for analysis workloads. I hate things which are named after gaming, makes it a bit more suss for…
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joshx commented on Arctic Cooling AG Liquid Freezer II-420 A-RGB Black $110 + Delivery ($0 MEL C&C) + Card Fee @ Harris Technology
This is a great cooler range. Artic are a great company, they had a recent issue and sent out kits to everyone. Highly recommended.
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CVonC on TP-Link Deco X68 AX3600 Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi 6 Tri-Band System (3-Pack) $389.48 ($379.74 eBay Plus) Delivered @ Titan Gear eBay
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Yep, TP-Link ignore so many issues, such as these acting as DHCP servers in AP mode, causing issues when the main router reboots.
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Javin on Baseus 100W USB-C to USB-C Cable 1m US$2.66 (~A$3.87), 2m US$3.05 (~A$4.43) Delivered @ Baseus Official Store AliExpress
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Aliexpress is a super confusing website, because they don't want you to use the coupons :P 1. Click Add to Cart 2. On the Shopping Cart…
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Blitzfx on Samsung 1TB SSD 970 EVO Plus PCIe Gen 3 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD $78.40 ($76.44 eBay Plus) Delivered @ Shopping Express eBay
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Until you hit the write cache limit of the t7.
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procrast8k on Samsung T7 Portable SSD 500GB - $59 + Delivery (Free C&C) @ Officeworks
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Another option to consider is grabbing a NVME pcie gen 3 and an enclosure. A semi decent NVME won't have issues where writing a lot of data…
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