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Overclocking the 285 non k Intel Ultra 9 w/ the ROG STRIX Z890-I Gaming Wifi Motherboard

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Can the Intel Ultra 9 285 be just as good as the K version while being cheaper? Check out the video and see for yourself... The answer is kind of.

Get yourself this STRIX Motherboard here:
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The Level1 Show February 12 2025: Disney Minus

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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
2:07 - Google may use AI for weapons, surveillance – prompts backlash
3:24 - Arm ends legal efforts to terminate Qualcomm’s license
4:17 - AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter for the first time in Q4 2024
4:46 - AMD promises “mainstream” 4K gaming with next-gen GPUs as current-gen GPU sales tank
5:42 - Apple's iPhones to support Starlink direct-to-cell coverage in US
6:12 - Panasonic Shares Jump Most in 11 Years on Restructuring Plans
6:57 - Phone bans in schools don't help grades or health, study suggests
8:10 - Salesforce Cutting 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI
8:30 - Workday to Cut Nearly 2,000 Workers on Profit Focus
8:59 - Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
9:54 - uBlock Origin is dead for Chrome, but ad blockers live on
11:06 - Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers in Final 3 Months of 2024
11:59 - Banks in Japan are blocking Steam payments for sex games, leaving Japanese adult game devs cut off from income
13:08 - Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok
14:13 - TikTok Traffic Bounces Back as Creators Diversify Amid Shutdown Fears
15:04 - Threads adds another 20M monthly users since December, reaching 320M
15:53 - Meta in talks to reincorporate in Texas or another state, exit Delaware, WSJ reports
16:34 - Meta's CTO said the metaverse could be a 'legendary misadventure' if the company doesn't boost sales, leaked memo shows
17:52 - “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
19:42 - German activists sue X demanding election influence data
20:23 - Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies

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The Level1 Show January 17 2025: IGUANA EMERGENCY

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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Another new year, another round of job cuts at Microsoft
1:01 - Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge, Creating a Premier Visual Content Company
1:53 - Amazon workers in North Carolina to hold union vote next month
2:14 - Nvidia launches RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs: $2,000 RTX 5090, $1,000 RTX 5080, RTX 5070 / Ti are $549 and $749
3:24 - Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore's Law
4:42 - Quantum Stocks Drop as Nvidia CEO Sees Use Years Away
5:29 - NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips
7:22 - AMD Shows Off Next Generation of Handheld Gaming PCs at CES 2025
7:51 - Samsung is rolling out a smartphone subscription next month
8:50 - Starlink’s New Mini Dish Delivers Portable High-Speed Internet on the Go
9:51 - Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of advanced chip
10:30 - Lenovo’s Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen
11:29 - After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages
13:00 - Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in FY 2025
13:45 - Tesla directors to pay up to $919 million to settle claims they overpaid themselves
14:47 - The unlicensed OneDrive fun ends this month
15:30 - Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com
16:40 - Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It
17:30 - Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
19:00 - Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks
19:38 - The Wiretap: Telegram Handing Data On Thousands Of Users To Law Enforcement Across The World
20:13 - Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot
21:03 - Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people's identity documents
22:41 - Is 10,000 steps a day worth your personal data? How 80% of fitness apps are selling your privacy

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The Level1 Show January 15 2025: Full Self Paying

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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Another new year, another round of job cuts at Microsoft
1:01 - Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge, Creating a Premier Visual Content Company
1:53 - Amazon workers in North Carolina to hold union vote next month
2:14 - Nvidia launches RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs: $2,000 RTX 5090, $1,000 RTX 5080, RTX 5070 / Ti are $549 and $749
3:24 - Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore's Law
4:42 - Quantum Stocks Drop as Nvidia CEO Sees Use Years Away
5:29 - NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips
7:22 - AMD Shows Off Next Generation of Handheld Gaming PCs at CES 2025
7:51 - Samsung is rolling out a smartphone subscription next month
8:50 - Starlink’s New Mini Dish Delivers Portable High-Speed Internet on the Go
9:51 - Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of advanced chip
10:30 - Lenovo’s Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen
11:29 - After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages
13:00 - Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in FY 2025
13:45 - Tesla directors to pay up to $919 million to settle claims they overpaid themselves
14:47 - The unlicensed OneDrive fun ends this month
15:30 - Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com
16:40 - Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It
17:30 - Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
19:00 - Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks
19:38 - The Wiretap: Telegram Handing Data On Thousands Of Users To Law Enforcement Across The World
20:13 - Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot
21:03 - Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people's identity documents
22:41 - Is 10,000 steps a day worth your personal data? How 80% of fitness apps are selling your privacy

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The Level1 Show October 30th: Pack It Up, Plastic Pillows

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0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs
2:34 - Apple and Goldman Sachs fined millions for misleading Apple Card holders
4:17 - Amazon says it ditched plastic air pillows
5:23 - T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users
6:12 - Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode
7:38 - Arm to Scrap Qualcomm Chip Design License in Feud Escalation
9:02 - Qualcomm brings laptop-class CPU cores to phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite
10:01 - TSMC halts chip supply to customer after finding it in Huawei product, source says
10:41 - Nvidia's Jensen Huang admits AI chip design flaw was '100% Nvidia's fault' — TSMC not to blame, now-fixed Blackwell chips are in production
11:22 - iFixit’s Meta Quest 3S teardown reveals a Quest 2 ‘hiding inside’
12:22 - Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say
13:27 - Huawei’s HarmonyOS NEXT launch marks a divorce from Android
14:25 - Adobe made its painting app completely free to take on Procreate
15:26 - Disney and Apple are breaking up over App Store fees
16:03 - Netflix closes AAA game studio before it ever released a game
18:17 - Roblox's Child Safety Changes Reveal How Dangerous It's Been
19:30 - This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them
22:04 - Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
23:24 - Almost anything goes on social media — as long as it doesn’t make billionaires feel even a little bit unsafe
26:11 - LinkedIn Fined More Than $300 Million in Ireland Over Personal Data Processing
26:51 - Elon Musk's X hit by 90% revenue plunge in India
27:48 - Yelp disables comments on the McDonald's Trump visited
28:55 - Oversight Board says Meta’s handling of a satirical image of Harris and Walz raises ‘serious concerns’
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The Level1 Show October 22nd: Like, Favorite, and Click to Cancel

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0:00 - Intro
1:25 - The Pentagon Wants to Use AI to Create Deepfake Internet Users
4:34 - The FCC is looking into the impact of broadband data caps and why they still exist
5:25 - FTC takes on subscription traps with 'click to cancel' rule
6:56 - Biden Administration to Invest $900 Million in Small Nuclear Reactors
8:53 - Hacker arrested for the fake SEC tweet that caused a Bitcoin price spike
9:39 - UK considering making USB-C the common charging standard, following the EU
10:23 - EU regulators may fine several Musk-owned companies for Digital Services Act violations
11:52 - Chinese cyber association calls for review of Intel products sold in China
12:33 - South Korea vows to prevent technology leaks with heavier penalties
14:33 - India plans laptop import curbs to boost local manufacturing, sources say
15:07 - Cisco investigates breach after stolen data for sale on hacking forum
15:54 - Casio confirms customer data stolen in a ransomware attack
16:44 - National Public Data, the hacked data broker that lost millions of Social Security numbers and more, files for bankruptcy
17:36 - Discord Disputes DMCA Subpoena, Rejects Role as 'Anti-Piracy' Partner
19:51 - Chinese Scientists Report Using Quantum Computer to Hack Military-grade Encryption
21:10 - Chicago-Area Billboards Hacked to Show MrBeast Endorsing Anti-Israel Messages

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The Level1 Show October 16th: Backdoor 4 Beijing

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0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Samsung apologizes for making just $6.8 billion last quarter
2:16 - Cognizant faces legal setback: US court finds company discriminated towards non-Indian workers
3:11 - Global semiconductor sales up 20.6% to hit record $53.1B
4:04 - Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs offer 'parity' performance at half the power
5:39 - AMD launches MI325X AI chip to rival Nvidia's Blackwell
7:31 - M4 MacBook Pro offered for sale on Russian site; likely real
8:40 - Nintendo announces new game hardware: an alarm clock called Alarmo
10:58 - Nintendo Switch Modder Who Refused to Shut Down Now Takes to Court Against Nintendo Without a Lawyer
12:14 - 'Nearly unusable': Calif. police majorly push back on Tesla cop cars
15:10 - Fisker bankruptcy hits major speed bump as fleet sale is now in question
16:39 - Windows 11's big 2024 update leaves behind ~9GB of undeletable files
17:11 - Roblox accused of lying to investors about user numbers by Hindenburg Research
19:22 - Chinese hack shows why Apple is right about security backdoors
20:42 - Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
21:01 - Hacktivists Claim Responsibility for Taking Down the Internet Archive
22:20 - Porch Pirates Across the Country Target AT&T iPhones Delivered By FedEx
23:35 - MoneyGram says hackers stole customers' personal information and transaction data
24:07 - OpenAI Says China-Linked Group Tried to Phish Its Employees
24:29 - American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems
25:12 - Comcast confirms 237K affected in feisty breach notification
25:45 - Fidelity says data breach exposed personal data of 77,000 customers
26:23 - CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance”

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The Level1 Show September 18th: Boldly Folding Where No Man Has Ever Folded Before

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0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Microsoft Lays Off Another 650 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Sends Memo to Staff
1:40 - Verizon to eliminate nearly 5,000 employees in $2 billion cost-cutting move
2:12 - Samsung Elec plans global job cuts of up to 30% in some divisions, sources say
3:06 - Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president
4:16 - AMD’s new Variable Graphics Memory lets laptop users reassign their RAM to gaming
5:21 - China's Huawei prices trifold phone, to launch same day as Apple iPhone 16
6:28 - Oracle designing data center that would be powered by 3 small nuclear reactors
7:33 - Sleep apnea detection is coming to the Apple Watch
8:16 - AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature
9:47 - Sony’s PS5 Pro is a pricey test of next-gen consoles
11:07 - Former Samsung execs arrested for allegedly using stolen memory tech to build chip factory in China — suspects leaked $3.2B worth of Samsung secrets
12:04 - Ex-Google exec said goal was to 'crush' competition, trial evidence shows
13:19 - Here's how Android apps are getting better at detecting sideloading
14:01 - Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023
15:13 - YouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videos
16:54 - Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
18:06 - Mark Zuckerberg says he's done apologizing
19:21 - Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option
20:18 - Police brushed him off. So he exposed an international bike theft ring on his own
21:56 - TikTok craze leads to Iceland cucumber shortage

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The 32" 4k ASUS ROG Swift OLED Monitor Review

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A great-looking monitor with a built-in KVM?! Wendell's got the details
Like what you see? You can grab it here: https://newegg.io/ncb7cf973c

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Music: "Earth Bound" by Slynk

Edited by Autumn

Laser Shot Small 1 by bubaproducer -- https://freesound.org/s/151025/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

A Laptop With No Screen? Checking out the MinisForum AtomMan G7 Ti

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A mini pc with a laptop form factor? That's weird! Let's take a look!

https://store.minisforum.com/products/atomman-g7-ti

0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Unboxing and overview
3:47 - Thermal and cpu/memory benchmarks
5:46 - Hardware considerations
8:28 - Gaming benchmarks
8:52 - Outro

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