Skip to main content

Builds


Latest in
Builds

Video

Benchmarking an MSI Build with "Cheaper" Memory, a 4070ti and the i7 Ultra 270k Plus

Video

Intel Xeon 6 658X for Workstations Launching Now.. but how's it stacking up?

Video

Tired of Waiting for the Steam Machine? Build One Yourself!

Video

Building a Somewhat More Affordable AM5 Server in the Silverstone RM32 3U Case!

Video

A threadripper build??! in this economy??

Video

Building a PC to help with the Existential Dread (w/ PZ MSI Mobo and Fractal North XL Momentum Case)

Video

Ultimate Proxmox Guide: Set Up a Production Cluster ft. OpenMetal.io Dedicated Servers!

Video

Fractal Pop 2 Air Quick Build

Video

Minisforum MS O2 Ultra Is a Fantasy Level Mini PC

Video

Is Custom Building a Forbidden Router in 2025 a Good Idea? Featuring Editor Grant

Support us.

(Pretty please?)

The Level1 Show June 17th 2024: A Fine They Can't Refuse

Posted by wendell on

https://www.one-tab.com/page/uh3JHerBTgSU_ugthSj0ug

0:00 - Intro
1:31 - FTC Chair Lina Khan tells TechCrunch the agency is pursuing the 'mob bosses' in Big Tech
2:33 - ISPs ask FCC for tax on Big Tech to fund broadband networks and discounts
3:29 - US sanctions PC cooling and power supply maker DeepCool for selling products to Russia, fueling its war efforts in Ukraine
4:36 - Four more states join US monopoly lawsuit against Apple
5:32 - Yelp can sue reputation company for promising to suppress bad reviews
6:52 - Mobile driver’s licenses are coming to New York state starting June 11th
8:13 - NY’s ‘SAFE For Kids Act’: A Lesson in How Not to Regulate The Internet
9:23 - Utah Suing TikTok, Alleging Live Feature Is a 'Virtual Strip Club'
10:57 - Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealing
12:23 - EU announces higher tariffs on Chinese EVs as trade tensions sharpen
13:23 - Valve faces $843 million lawsuit in UK for allegedly overcharging 14 million gamers
14:52 - UK education department awards Fujitsu contract uplift
15:59 - There’s an AI Candidate Running for Parliament in the UK
17:44 - 'Flying taxis' to be tested during Paris Olympics
18:26 - Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
19:06 - Turkish student arrested for using AI to cheat in university exam
20:05 - China Is Testing More Driverless Cars Than Any Other Country
20:54 - Japan law forces third party App Stores on Apple & Google
21:20 - Bangladeshi police agents accused of selling citizens’ personal information on Telegram
21:57 - Apple fined in South Korea for violating location data collection law
23:08 - Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship
24:08 - Brazil hires OpenAI to cut costs of court battles
25:00 - Data broker shuts down product related to driver behavior patterns
26:08 - Your driving could be monitored by popular apps
26:51 - China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says
28:05 - Two arrested over 'text message blaster' smish campaign
28:38 - New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token
29:52 - Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
31:13 - Researcher Finds Vulnerability In Kyber Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM)
32:15 - A disgruntled ex-employee at a Singaporean IT firm caused carnage after deleting over 180 servers
33:01 - Hackers Using OTP bots To Bypass Two-Factor Authentication
33:55 - Facial recognition to be used at British Grand Prix for a second year
34:38 - Workers at TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods wearing body cameras. Here’s what shoppers need to know

**********************************
Check us out online at the following places!
https://linktr.ee/level1techs

*IMPORTANT* Any email lacking “level1techs.com” should be ignored and immediately reported to Queries@level1techs.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro and Outro Music By: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The MS-01 Mini PC with... ** 24 ** hard drives!? Easy Button Disk Shelf

Posted by wendell on

45HomeLab HL15: https://store.45homelab.com/configure/hl15

Minisforum MS-01: https://s.minisforum.com/Level1techs-MS-01

45drives Homelab HL-15 video: https://youtu.be/Ipkg0qj3qq0

**********************************
Check us out online at the following places!
https://linktr.ee/level1techs

*IMPORTANT* Any email lacking “level1techs.com” should be ignored and immediately reported to Queries@level1techs.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro and Outro Music By: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Checking out the SER8 8845HS

Posted by wendell on

A new mini PC from Beelink!

Check it out here: https://www.bee-link.com/collections/mini-pc/products/beelink-ser8-8845…

********************************
Check us out online at the following places!
https://bio.link/level1techs

*IMPORTANT* Any email lacking “level1techs.com” should be ignored and immediately reported to Queries@level1techs.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk

Edited by Autumn

The Level1 Show June 12th 2024: Oral B(ricked

Posted by wendell on

https://www.one-tab.com/page/eX6yPv6lRFerob5xWcPxZQ

0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Microsoft announces up to 1,500 layoffs, leaked memo blames 'AI wave'
1:31 - Microsoft Axes More HoloLens Employees
2:38 - Google's privacy chief and head of competition law are leaving, will not be replaced
3:15 - Google cuts at least 100 jobs across cloud unit, sources say
4:14 - NYSE says technical issue fixed after Berkshire Hathaway wrongly shown to fall 99%
5:11 - Ikea is hiring workers for its online Roblox store for £13.15 per hour, and you can even serve virtual meatballs
6:45 - Elon Musk accused of illegal $7.5 billion Tesla stock sale in new insider trading lawsuit
7:54 - Water company installs locked shields over fire hydrants in South LA to prevent theft
9:33 - Nvidia hits $3 trillion market cap on back of AI boom
10:38 - Intel CEO Takes Aim at Nvidia in Fight for AI Chip Dominance
11:37 - Intel details new Lunar Lake CPUs that will go up against AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple
12:48 - AMD unveils Ryzen AI and 9000 series processors, plus Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot graphics card at Computex 2024
13:19 - For the second time in two years, AMD blows up its laptop CPU numbering system
15:32 - Google can keep a phone if you send for repair with non-OEM parts
16:48 - Arm aims to capture 50% of PC market in five years, CEO says
17:19 - Humane warns AI Pin owners to ‘immediately’ stop using its charging case
18:02 - Apple put a Thread smart home radio into its newest Macs and iPads
18:46 - TSMC’s Arizona chip plant death demonstrates its mounting challenges in the US
20:35 - Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech
22:35 - Apple finally confirms how long it will support iPhones, and it's less than Samsung and Google
23:03 - Toyota apologizes for cheating on vehicle testing and halts production of three models
24:08 - IBM's Iconic Model-M Keyboard Reimagined by 8BitDo
25:01 - These microLED monitors can stack together like Legos
25:54 - Surprise! It seems that the Apple Vision Pro can track your breathing
26:57 - AT&T says customers facing 'interoperability issue' impacting ability to call non-AT&T users has been resolved
28:06 - Dell expects memory and SSD prices to jump an additional 20% this year
29:32 - A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back
30:01 - This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI
30:25 - Google is working on a Recall-like feature for Chromebooks, too
31:03 - Microsoft reopens Windows 10 beta testing for ‘new features’ and improvements
31:29 - Google will disable classic extensions in Chrome in the coming months
32:41 - GameStop (GME) Q1 earnings, plans to sell more stock
33:35 - Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’
35:02 - Max raises prices across its ad-free plans
36:19 - 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
37:17 - Elon Musk’s Starlink Connects and Divides Brazil’s Marubo People
40:18 - Artists flee Instagram for new app Cara in protest of Meta AI scraping
42:41 - Former Meta engineer sues company saying he was fired over handling of Gaza content
43:57 - Meta algorithms discriminate in education ads, study warns
45:51 - Instagram is testing ‘unskippable’ ads that you can’t scroll past
46:50 - Elon Musk reportedly diverted thousands of AI chips from Tesla to X
48:27 - X has new rules that officially allow porn now
50:18 - Australia drops attempt to force X into removing terror vid
51:25 - TikTok acknowledges exploit targeting high-profile accounts
52:38 - Donald Trump Joins TikTok, App He Tried to Ban as President

**********************************
Check us out online at the following places!
https://linktr.ee/level1techs

*IMPORTANT* Any email lacking “level1techs.com” should be ignored and immediately reported to Queries@level1techs.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro and Outro Music By: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Checking Out ASRock's Mini PCs and Superpowered Rack Servers @ Computex 2024!

Posted by wendell on

Join Wendell as he checks out ASRock's mini PC and rack server offerings at Computex 2024

Thank you ASRock for paying our way to Computex!

********************************
Check us out online at the following places!
https://bio.link/level1techs

*IMPORTANT* Any email lacking “level1techs.com” should be ignored and immediately reported to Queries@level1techs.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Edited by Autumn

The Level1 Show June 5th 2024: Junk In The PCI Slot

Posted by wendell on

https://www.one-tab.com/page/IMEK6BXoQMWxOIb8WeOPEg

0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Samsung workers’ union announces first-ever strike for chipmaker | South Korea | The Guardian
1:35 - Fisker cuts hundreds of workers in bid to keep EV startup alive | TechCrunch
2:05 - Bay Area carmaker lays off hundreds after raising $1 billion
2:42 - Phoenix Labs lays off 162 Bay Area workers in yet more video game cuts
3:24 - Klarna using GenAI to cut marketing costs by $10 mln annually | Reuters
5:11 - Salesforce (CRM) Q1 earnings report 2025
5:39 - 'Furiosa' Edges 'Garfield' in Worst Memorial Day Weekend Since 1995 - Times of San Diego
7:01 - Nearly 80% of Americans now consider fast food a 'luxury' due to high prices | Fox Business
8:19 - Arm’s next-gen Immortalis is more powerful and power-efficient - The Verge
9:05 - Gigabyte's new B650E motherboard supports plump graphics cards weighing up to 58 kg | PC Gamer
10:05 - Data centers could use 9% of US electricity by 2030, research institute says | Reuters
10:57 - AST SpaceMobile, Verizon partner on satellite internet
12:04 - Android's new Instant Hotspot feature won't be available on Samsung devices
12:46 - Spacetop, the radical new laptop with no screen, is ready for launch | PCWorld
14:33 - A startup’s “tablet” gears up to take on Apple’s iPad – On my Om
16:05 - Exclusive: Google, augmented reality startup Magic Leap strike partnership deal | Reuters
16:42 - BYD Says Its New Hybrid Cars Can Go 1,250 Miles Without Gas or Charging
17:41 - Swiss company develops CPUs from lab-grown human brains & the internet is horrified - Dexerto
18:51 - Tool may help find missing people in Colorado’s backcountry within minutes
21:04 - HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm
22:14 - YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers
23:57 - Press Release: PayPal Announces New Leaders to Build New Advertising Platform and Accelerate Consumer Product Innovation - May 28, 2024
24:48 - Microsoft's Automatic Super Resolution arrives to improve gaming performance — Auto SR serves as an upscaler similar to Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR | Tom's Hardware
25:44 - Bungie Wins Lawsuit Against Cheat Maker Aimjunkies | PCMag
27:25 - Google threatens to pause Google News Initiative funding in U.S.
28:37 - VBScript deprecation: Timelines and next steps | Windows IT Pro Blog
29:07 - Apple says it will put its AI processing data in a "cloud black box" to keep it private | TechRadar
29:46 - Star Citizen Pushes Through the $700 Million Raised Mark and No, There Still Isn’t a Release Date - IGN
30:41 - Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council
31:54 - ICQ will stop working from June 26
32:43 - Meta says it removed six influence campaigns including those from Israel and China - The Verge
33:19 - Instagram’s ‘limits’ adds a mute button for everyone other than close friends - The Verge
34:07 - White House rejected offer from TikTok allowing US government to oversee app | The Independent
35:37 - Exclusive: TikTok preparing a US copy of the app’s core algorithm, sources say | Reuters
37:09 - UK mother of boy who killed himself seeks right to access his social media | Internet safety | The Guardian
38:16 - More Ontario school boards file suits against social media giants | CBC News
39:07 - Pope clears way for 'God's influencer' to become a saint

**********************************
Check us out online at the following places!
https://linktr.ee/level1techs

*IMPORTANT* Any email lacking “level1techs.com” should be ignored and immediately reported to Queries@level1techs.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro and Outro Music By: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Intel And The AI PC Revolution! Lunar Lake REVEALED

Posted by wendell on

Wendell is in Taipei for Computex! But first, Intel is showing off their new line of mobile CPUs that seem poised to shake things up for them in Q3.

Check out our Xeon 6 video: https://youtu.be/z-9020QjSaQ

0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Why Meteor Lake?
2:09 - Architecture Overview
4:31 - New E Cores
5:37 - New P Cores
6:57 - Xe2 Graphics
8:47 - What's Up With The NPU?
11:01 - Connectivity and Questions
15:00 - Final Thoughts

**********************************
Check us out online at the following places!
https://linktr.ee/level1techs

*IMPORTANT* Any email lacking “level1techs.com” should be ignored and immediately reported to Queries@level1techs.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro and Outro Music By: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Level1 Show May 28 2024: Fraudulent Self Driving

Posted by wendell on

https://linode.com/level1techs

https://www.one-tab.com/page/w11jzC7SRLmr50Eccxr2Mg

0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial
2:15 - Julian Assange wins right to appeal against extradition to US
3:23 - Lawmakers call out eight automakers for sharing connected vehicle data
4:43 - US House passes crypto bill despite warnings from SEC
5:11 - SEC approves 8 Ethereum ETFs including BlackRock and Fidelity
5:46 - SEC: Financial orgs have 30 days to send data breach notifications
6:31 - The DOJ makes its first known arrest for AI-generated CSAM
7:32 - NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
8:18 - EPA says it will step up enforcement to address ‘critical’ vulnerabilities within water sector
10:31 - These cities bar facial recognition tech. Police still found ways to access it.
11:23 - Pentagon worried its primary satellite launcher can’t keep pace
12:01 - Pentagon: Russia likely launched counter space weapon into low Earth orbit last week
12:49 - Pentagon working with SpaceX to cut off Russian military's illicit use of Starlink internet
13:54 - Uber, Lyft Walk Back Threats to Leave Minneapolis as State Passes New Minimum Wage For Drivers
14:47 - Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments
17:40 - Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves
18:22 - California bill would require new cars to beep at speeding drivers
19:23 - California Assembly passes porn site age verification bill
20:00 - Arizona state lawmaker used ChatGPT to write part of law on deepfakes
20:58 - Justice Department seeks breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster through major antitrust suit
22:06 - Europe sets benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws
22:50 - Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices
23:35 - Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor lied 'repeatedly' to support claim, says UK judge
24:23 - ASML and TSMC can disable chip machines if China invades Taiwan
25:46 - Apple slashes iPhone prices in China amid fierce Huawei competition
26:25 - China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky
27:12 - China replaces imported quantum computer component with domestic product immediately after US sanctions
27:54 - Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies
28:50 - Match Group, Meta, Coinbase and more form anti-scam coalition
29:19 - In biometric 'breakthrough' year, you may soon pay with your face
29:57 - Arup revealed as victim of $25 million deepfake scam involving Hong Kong employee
30:34 - Two Santa Cruz students uncover security bug that let anyone do their laundry for free
31:56 - Over 90% female Instagram influencers fall victim to deepfake pornography, finds study
32:30 - Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers
33:20 - American Airlines backtracks after lawyers blame girl, 9, for not seeing hidden camera in bathroom
34:40 - Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world

**********************************
Check us out online at the following places!
https://linktr.ee/level1techs

*IMPORTANT* Any email lacking “level1techs.com” should be ignored and immediately reported to Queries@level1techs.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro and Outro Music By: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Level1 Show May 24 2024: I Take My Coffee Like I Take My Shirts: Bleached

Posted by wendell on

https://www.one-tab.com/page/xCNnMVx2TRiO6CYd3BtZ3g

0:00 - Intro
0:34 - OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company
2:18 - Hello GPT-4o
3:20 - OpenAI's ChatGPT will soon be able to see everything happening on your screen
4:12 - Sam Altman Proposes ‘Universal Basic Compute’ for Global Access to GPT-7's Resources
4:56 - Google Search will now show AI-generated answers to millions by default
5:46 - Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls
6:28 - Astra Is Google's ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT
7:57 - Google targets filmmakers with Veo, its new generative AI video model
9:13 - AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails
9:43 - Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video
10:16 - Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
10:53 - AI is listening: Omnipresent robo-moderators are the latest online anti-toxicity strategy
11:29 - Discord is allegedly assigning gender to users with machine learning AI
12:05 - IBM open-sources its Granite AI models - and they mean business
13:12 - Artificial intelligence hitting labour forces like a "tsunami"
14:00 - She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all
16:14 - Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are ‘Roughly Even’ With Human Pilots Said Air Force Chief
16:57 - Sony lays down the gauntlet on AI, warning 700 companies against training algorithms on its music
18:40 - Amazon Workers Use Bots to Claim Limited Supply of Time Off
19:17 - Feds probe Waymo driverless cars hitting parked cars, drifting into traffic
19:32 - Cruise is back driving autonomously for the first time since pedestrian-dragging incident
20:01 - Isuzu, Gatik to Build Level 4 Autonomous Trucks - Equipment
20:24 - AT&T Goes Up Against T-Mobile, Starlink With AST SpaceMobile Satellite Deal
22:01 - NASA details plan to build a levitating robot train on the moon
22:51 - How SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn astronauts will attempt the 1st-ever 'all-civilian' spacewalk
23:20 - US government considers whether to criminally prosecute Boeing
24:20 - Boeing whistleblower says plane parts had serious defects
25:19 - Bay Area city orders scientists to stop controversial experiment
25:55 - First person to receive genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies
26:36 - US finds Israel’s use of weapons in Gaza ‘inconsistent’ with human rights law, but will not cut flow of arms
27:35 - Woman Won’t Face Jail Time For Putting Bleach In Husband’s Coffee
28:23 - HPD officer who arrested former state lawmaker for DUI now accused of drunk driving
29:01 - Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures
30:02 - Pope Set To Hold Press Conference on Aliens and the Supernatural
31:12 - Dublin to NY Portal Shut Down Due to Inappropriate Behavior
32:04 - Fla. Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Raising Stripper Age to 21
33:04 - Gina Rinehart: Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition
34:22 - Nashville police officer fired over OnlyFans video showing 'traffic stop'
35:28 - Internet use is associated with greater wellbeing, global study finds
36:58 - NC Senate votes to ban people from wearing masks in public for health reasons
38:11 - NYC Mayor Eric Adams proposes immigrants as solution to lifeguard shortage because they are ‘excellent swimmers’
39:03 - Jail fees for this Iowa county helped fund department's cotton candy and laser tag, lawsuit says
40:27 - Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches
41:06 - Difficult to digest cost of doner kebabs in Germany prompts price cap calls
42:19 - Yacht sinks after being rammed by orcas in Strait of Gibraltar
43:03 - A cruise ship dragged a dead whale into New York Harbor. What went wrong?
44:06 - Washington family devastated after butchers mistakenly kill pet pigs
45:37 - Bear Fighting And Other Animals Americans Think We Could Beat Up

S100-WLP Mercury Series from Minisforum Overview

Posted by wendell on

A Quad-Core N100 from Minisforum is in the studio today to be reviewed by Wendell! Is this the mini pc you've been looking for? Join Wendell as he reviews the S100-WLP Mercury Series from MinisForum

Want one? Get it here: https://s.minisforum.com/Level1tech-S100

********************************
Check us out online at the following places!
https://bio.link/level1techs

*IMPORTANT* Any email lacking “level1techs.com” should be ignored and immediately reported to Queries@level1techs.com.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk

Edited by Autumn