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Pemalite on 23 January 2020
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Bofferbrauer2 said:

For those who want to help fight the Bushfires in Australia, Humble Bundle has set up a big Bundle just for this:

https://www.humblebundle.com/games/australia-fire-relief

For the low price of $25, you get a whooping 29 games, some of them quite big titles. Of course, you're free to give more if you want to. 100% of the income goes to the cause, Humble Bundle or the developers won't take anything from that money

Wish I knew about this earlier, but been busy fighting the fires, so haven't had time for anything.
Fires are winding down now though, for at-least the short term, things will start looking rude again next month for much of the nation.

Thanks to everyone who donated to the cause, it's obviously an issues that is very close to home for me.

Barkley said:

Nice, while I was looking into it for you I boosted my own ram from the 1333mhz to 1600mhz by enabling profile also. Come on DDR3! You can last another 2 years till DDR5 hits the market!

Finally overclocked my i5-4670k to 4.3ghz and upgrading my RX470 to a GTX 1070 TI, that'll hold me over for a while. My CPU has done an admirable job lasting this long and I'm hoping it'll still manage 60fps in games for a while yet until I upgrade to Ryzen.

And yeah... I'm wary of getting a motherboard with a fan too. I'm kind of obsessed with having a quiet PC.

Yeah. My old 3930K from 2011 is still able to run the latest games just fine, it's relegated to mostly just office work these days though as my Ryzen rig shits all over it, but it's amazing how those old chips are still hanging on even after a decade.

JEMC said:

And not just for quietness, but also because a new fan is another component that can fail, and what happens when that fan fails?

Zip tie a 40mm fan onto it.

But seriously, adjust your fan profile so that it engages at only higher temperatures (60'C or more) in the BIOS, that way you get peace and quiet and the fan will last longer as it's not running flat out all the time, plus will still kick in when needed.

My old X79 board had a chipset fan (Actually two of them!) and there hasn't been any issues.

JEMC said:

Homeworld 3 studio Blackbird Interactive is working on something new
https://www.pcgamer.com/homeworld-3-studio-blackbird-interactive-is-working-on-something-new/
Gearbox Publishing revealed at PAX West last year that Blackbird Interactive, the developer of the 2016 RTS Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak—and founded by veterans of original Homeworld studio Relic Entertainment—was working on a new, back-into-space Homeworld game. A very successful Fig campaign followed, and a little over a month ago the studio laid out its plans for the game.
But that's apparently not the only thing Blackbird is working on.

Probably one of my favorite developers right now...



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