Alienware Announces AW2521HF Gaming Monitor – 360Hz Monitor With NVIDIA GSYNC And AMD Freesync

Alienware introduces the AW2521HF gaming monitor is a 24.5″ monitor with a native refresh rate of up to 240 Hz and an incredibly fast 1 ms GtG fast IPS response time. This monitor also has a fantastic feature of being able to be overclocked to a new refresh rate of 360 Hz, all the while still offering support for both NVIDIA’s G-SYNC and AMD’s FreeSync Premium.

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Adventures with solderless 3D printed circuits + conductive filament

I had in my possession some X3D conductive ABS. The question begged: Could I create a 3D printed PCB that didn’t use a soldering iron? Yes!
Well, sort of..

I certainly learned a lot making this video but the conductive filament isn’t quite up to the task, based on my experiences and those I reviewed of others.
This filament was supplied to me free of charge by my filament sponsor X3D. It was my choice to make the video and all opinions expressed are my own.

G2A admits it sold stolen game keys

After years of shrugging off claims it sold stolen keys, grey-market reseller G2A has admitted to shifting copies which were “illegally obtained”.

The disclosure comes as part of a backfired plan to prove its innocence, which has also cost the company around $40,000.

Last year, G2A attempted to dampen longstanding concerns it did not give a damn where the mysteriously-cheap keys it sold actually came from. It laid out a limited-time offer designed to grab headlines after a round of bad publicity – saying it would pay game developers 10 times their costs if it was proven G2A sold stolen keys for a particular game.

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ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner

This has been a long while in the making—it’s test results time. To truly understand the fundamentals of computer storage, it’s important to explore the impact of various conventional RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) topologies on performance. It’s also important to understand what ZFS is and how it works. But at some point, people (particularly computer enthusiasts on the Internet) want numbers.

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