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This episode is a bit shorter due to technical difficulties and scheduling but here it is, Episode 3 of Low Volume!
This episode is a bit shorter due to technical difficulties and scheduling but here it is, Episode 3 of Low Volume!
- Today's hosts: Joshua Ramirez, James Schell, John Morrison, and Jay Mattison.
- 1:35 Low Volume now has a live audience on Discord!
- Supporters that subscribe to SFF Forum can now listen to live shows, interact with us, and join in on "The Aftershow" where we answer questions and discuss topics that don't make the cut for the podcast
- 2:38 SilverStone's PPO8 SFX to ATX bracket
- Cheap, at just under $7
- Unlike other adaptors/brackets, aligns the power supply against an edge to maximize how much internal volume is reclaimed
- Available in any color you like so long as it's black
- 6:35 Intel cajoles motherboard manufacturers to undo firmware updates that allowed non-K Skylake CPUs to be overclocked
- Motherboard manufacturers such as AsRock took advantage of loopholes in Intel's microcode to unlock BCLK and multiplier
- These capabilities came out of the blue, and it seems that Intel wasn't the biggest fan
- 13:04 More on AMD's Zen unified socket - including support for eight channels of memory across the board
- Useful for certain contexts and use cases where memory needs are large but compute needs are low
- Also helpful since DDR4 memory modules remain expensive at high capacities
- 20:19 A cooling discussion inspired by John's InWin BK 944SE - or is it the ? - mATX case
- Hosts talk about preference to liquid or air CPU cooling, performance or noise characteristics, and other concerns
- 42:45 This episode's 'Fortnightly Favorite Fread': ono3 - Pelican 1430 to S4 Portable VR Workstation
- An insane integrated build for a truly portable VR experience - a headset connected to a backpack-mounted computer and battery power system
- Already coming together, with tests providing over an hour of battery life
- Did we mention this is insane?
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