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Macrium Reflect 7.1.3169
Wireshark 2.6.0
Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 397.31 WHQL
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Over It
That Win10 update that never got released? The one “they” say will be called “”April Update”? Now “they” say it will be released in May. Oh, and it might also be 1804 instead of 1803. I think we are all over it at this point.
Samsung 970 Pro and EVO NVMe SSDs
Seems the 960s were just released. Press Release here.
Anandtech ran some benchies.
“Since faster storage brings diminishing returns to overall real-world application performance, many consumers will can find drives cheaper than the 970 EVO that are still fast enough, and drives like the 970 PRO are impossible to justify on the basis of performance alone.”
Explained – 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Processors: XFR 2 and Precision Boost 2
Off Topic
Best Headline Ever?
Uranus Smells Terrible. There, We Said it
“The finding comes courtesy of a study in Nature Astronomy, revealing that the cloud tops of Uranus are made principally of hydrogen sulfide, the gas that is principally responsible for the foul smell of rotten eggs and, yes, human flatulence.”
Fleetwood Mac Detail New Tour and Talk Life After Lindsey Buckingham
Nick Swarfega says
I will probably get the 970 sometime in the future. Loving my 960 Pro right now.
Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) says
I never had the chance to see them but would love to. The nearest date for me is DC at 2 hours away and it is a work night so it looks like I will not get to see them.