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Mobile CPU with a built in Desktop Chipset Adapter

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It's time for another AliExpress Adventure! This time with a mobile CPU soldered onto an LGA desktop chip adapter!

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A NAS with a No Name Motherboard, Mounted in a 3D Printed Case?!

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Talk about DIY! This homemade network attached storage may not be pretty, but gosh darn if it ain't good!

Print your own with this: https://www.printables.com/model/406125-8-bay-itx-nas

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The Level1 Show August 14 2024: uBlock'd

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0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Asus, MSI Release Motherboard BIOS Updates to Address Intel CPU Bug
2:33 - Intel Foundry Achieves Major Milestones
3:24 - The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Review: Zen 5 is Alive
5:07 - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
8:29 - Netflix suffers "the biggest leaking disaster in anime history" as significant chunk of its 2024 slate appears online
9:03 - Crunchyroll Passes 15 Million Monthly Paid Subscribers
9:40 - Delta to CrowdStrike: Don't Blame Us for Tech Problems
12:18 - Video game actors are officially on strike over AI
14:28 - Why Sonos's biggest fans turned against it
18:32 - Apple revises DMA compliance for App Store link-outs, applying fewer restrictions and a new fee structure
21:41 - A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
22:11 - Dell lays off thousands of workers in sales reorganization
23:44 - Logitech’s ‘forever’ mouse isn’t happening
24:14 - Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
26:07 - Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
27:55 - Hyundai and Kia's new anti-theft software is showing results
29:00 - Cyberattack knocks Mobile Guardian MDM offline and wipes thousands of student devices

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Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Review and Benchmarks

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AMD has released their newest Desktop Class CPUs and Wendell is here to show you what's up!

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Check out our article for USB flash updating your motherboard BIOS to support the 9000 series: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/how-to-usb-bios-flash-motherboards-for-…

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Looking at a Ryzen 7 Mobile Chipset Motherboard from AliExpress

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This AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS Motherboard looks pretty cool and Wendell has some ideas! Stay tuned for those.
Check out the forum post here: https://youtu.be/eeYRsVmYJjs
This is where we bought ours https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806388284807.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2u…

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Gigabyte Joins The Threadripper Pro Fray! Checking Out The MH53-G40 Motherboard

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Gigabyte throws their hat into the Threadripper Pro ring, and Wendell is here to check it out! Whoa!

Get yours here! https://newegg.io/nc456669e9

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The Level1 Show July 3 2024: OneDrive Me Crazy

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0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Used EV price crash gets deeper with 'premium' brand idea history
1:39 - Redbox Fails to Pay $4 Million to NBCUniversal As It Fires Its Board
3:22 - 'Great Resignation' enters third year as workers embrace AI, upskilling, PwC says
4:45 - Nordic Online Store Boozt Blocks Thousands of ‘Serial Returners’
6:42 - Activists Disrupt Amazon Conference Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel
7:46 - ‘It’s been hell’: injured Amazon workers turn to GoFundMe to pay bills
9:19 - Apple Pauses Work on Planned North Carolina Campus
10:07 - Ontario Science Centre to close immediately: province
12:29 - Nvidia sees around £339bn wiped off market value in three-day sell-off
12:57 - Microsoft scores high on Surface repairability
14:02 - Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success
15:07 - Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs
16:06 - Intel launches optical compute interconnect chiplet: Adding 4 Tbps optical connectivity to CPUs or GPUs
17:03 - Framework Laptop 13 is Getting a Drop-In RISC-V Mainboard Option
18:11 - Walmart adopts electronic shelf labels, following other supermarkets. What it means for you
20:08 - 3 recalls for Tesla Cybertruck in as many months
20:58 - Volkswagen's $5 bln investment in Rivian boosts EV maker's shares
21:25 - Apple expands Self Service Repair Diagnostics support to Europe
22:09 - How the Teamsters and a Homegrown Union Plan to Take On Amazon
23:35 - Monster 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks
25:39 - Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
26:39 - Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week
28:12 - Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay
30:01 - Google dropping continuous scroll in search results
30:40 - Streaming execs think TV’s future looks a lot like its past
31:13 - The big streamers have been cutting their original content output
31:39 - Paramount+ Is Hiking Subscription Prices Again
32:22 - Slack Will Begin Deleting Older Content From Free Workspaces
33:34 - Linux in your car: Red Hat’s milestone collaboration with exida
34:16 - Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit
35:21 - Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
36:30 - Amazon plans discount store in bid to fend off Temu and Shein
37:54 - Elden Ring balance update makes the first half of the DLC easier, so you don't have to be as good as games journalists
38:52 - New Jersey man flies to Florida to attack another player over an online gaming dispute, deputies say
41:28 - Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag
42:15 - Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers
43:26 - Apple might partner with Meta on AI
44:23 - Reddit blocks AI bots from crawling its website

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

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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

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The Level1 Show May 8 2024: The Year of the Windows 10 Desktop

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0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Tesla makes its newest cut: Interns
1:14 - Peloton to lay off 400 employees as CEO Barry McCarthy departs
1:46 - Google cuts hundreds of 'Core' workers, moves jobs to India, Mexico
2:35 - Google urges US to update immigration rules to attract more AI talent
3:17 - WEF president: 'We haven't seen this kind of debt since the Napoleonic Wars'
4:01 - Dave & Buster's to allow customers to bet on arcade games
5:52 - Even Walmart thinks American healthcare is too expensive
6:46 - Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures
7:57 - U.S. chipmaker Intel was once dominant, now struggles to stay relevant
9:02 - CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239
10:16 - Exclusive: Tesla retreats from next-generation ‘gigacasting’ manufacturing process
11:48 - The Apple Vision Pro’s eBay prices are making me sad
12:30 - Sales of Samsung's foldable phones have nosedived in China
12:57 - The world's largest 3D printer is at a university in Maine. It just unveiled an even bigger one
13:58 - Satellite operator SES acquiring Intelsat in $3.1 billion deal
14:44 - Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased
15:31 - Rabbit R1 First Impressions: How I've Been Using the Handheld AI Assistant So Far
16:36 - Google’s payments to Apple reached $20 billion in 2022, antitrust court documents show
17:27 - Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
17:55 - Microsoft says April Windows updates break VPN connections
18:18 - Bill Gates Is Still Pulling Strings at Microsoft, Overseeing AI Ideas
20:18 - Roblox players to start seeing video ads in its virtual realms
21:04 - Huawei Secretly Backs US Research, Awarding Millions in Prizes
21:52 - RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback
22:36 - Google Phone app rolling out 'Audio Emoji' feature
23:06 - Apple working to fix alarming iPhone issue
24:11 - Switching Your Credit Card May Not Stop a Streaming Service's Recurring Charges
25:49 - Walmart and Roblox are teaming up to make virtual e-commerce a reality
26:46 - Amazon says its Prime deliveries are getting even faster
27:25 - Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement
28:49 - Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users’ photos to train AI if they don’t delete them
29:38 - HouseFresh disappeared from Google Search results. Now what?
32:23 - Encrypted email service files complaint over Google results
33:51 - Spotify just hid song lyrics behind its subscription
34:26 - Tens of millions secretly use WhatsApp despite bans
35:21 - Instagram Goes After Accounts That Only Repost Other People's Content
36:28 - A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feed

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Review and Build Test of the ASRock WRX 90 WS EVO With 24 Core Threadripper

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Finally, a commercial wrx90 that's not weird! This motherboard from ASRock might be the board you are looking for, so join Wendell as he breaks it down!

Get yours here: https://newegg.io/nc61fd34f6

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