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    Laser-based CPU usage monitor

    Have you ever wanted to know what your CPU usage was, but not wanted to use simple software like Windows Task Manager because it doesn't have enough lasers in it? Then you might like this thing I made, seen here inside my sister's PC: It starts off with a Hall-effect sensor (the thing on the...
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    2.5" hard drives have stagnated. Are they going extinct soon?

    Although I switched all my PCs to flash storage years ago, I still use hard drives for external backup purposes. 2.5" drives are a nice portable size for this. The 5TB drives I purchased 5 years ago are over half full though, so I thought I'd go and get some bigger ones. I had a look around, and...
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    Is this the most multi-threaded game there is?

    Behold, the first game I've seen where I was glad to have a 16C CPU instead of 8, or even 12. This is Mount & Blade II Bannerlord, running at 1440p with everything turned up, during a battle with the maximum 1000 combatants on the field simultaneously (over 2000 in total over the course of the...
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    10Gb Network card + GPU heatsink = ?

    I think this might be [H] enough to post here. I bought a 10Gb network card, a Solarflare SFN7022F, and tried to use it in a fanless computer. It overheated to the point that it shut itself off, since it's a server card that assumes a large amount of airflow. Rather than add one of those noisy...
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