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

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Supermicro's Intermediate Server Rack System the B300

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

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Minisforum MS O2 Ultra Is a Fantasy Level Mini PC

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

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Strix Halo Mini PC vs DIY Build -- Does it make sense for Gaming? For AI? What for?

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Intel's Battle Matrix Benchmarks and Review

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Minisforum M1 Pro 285H Review

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AMD's New Redstone Driver: Performance Gains for Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT, But There's a Catch

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Intel i915 SR-IOV Mode for Flex 170 + Updated for Proxmox 9 PVE Kernel 6.14.8

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Cooling Two Epyc CPUs with the Silverstone XE360P-DD!

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show June 3 2025: Grand Theft Wind

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“AI Factory” Isn’t a Metaphor — It’s a Design Pattern (And That Changes Everything)

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Intel B70 -- Arc Pro Battlemage Lands with 32gb VRAM, 600+ GB/sec bandwidth, and more

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Teaching a Robot how to Game with Turnstone and Nvidia VSS!

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Running Vision-Language AI Locally: Building something fun with Jetson, Small Models, and Big Ideas

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What Exactly is the Deal with DDR5?

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The Level1 Show November 9 2022: Cheques for Checks

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0:00 - Intro
0:27 - Stripe lays off 14% of workers
0:58 - Amazon pauses hiring for corporate workforce
1:43 - Amazon plunge pushes valuation below $1 trillion first time since 2020
2:35 - Uber whistleblower says current business model 'absolutely' unsustainable
3:36 - T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades
4:38 - Charter raises base Internet to $80 a month; price hikes to hit 9.5M users
5:37 - Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Lost Almost $190 Million in Terra Crash: Report
6:23 - Bondholders of Troubled Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Said to Be Working With Lawyer
7:03 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II breaks franchise record with $800M sold in three days
8:20 - Microsoft promises eternal support for Call of Duty on PlayStation
9:06 - Uber tests push notification ads, a feature literally no one wants
9:46 - Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs
10:14 - Google’s building package tracking right into your Gmail inbox
11:30 - Google’s new shopping features can help you snag good deals
12:44 - Google is shutting down its dedicated Street View app next year
13:08 - RIP Google Hangouts, Google’s last, best chance to compete with iMessage
14:04 - Steam on Chromebooks enters beta, adds AMD support
14:57 - You’re Gonna Have To Pay To Use Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now
16:26 - Discord Bans 68,000 Servers, 55 Million Accounts
17:59 - Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3
19:39 - Teleport Creators Raise $9M to Build Decentralized Uber Rival on Solana
21:06 - Cheaper Netflix with ads plan is not supported on Apple TV
21:43 - New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later
23:44 - AMD Unveils Radeon RX 7900 XTX And 7900 XT For Performance-Per-Watt Gaming Leadership
26:21 - PlayStation VR2 Release Date and Price Revealed
28:08 - Arm-Qualcomm legal battle suggests OEMs need Arm IP licenses, not chip firms
29:11 - New TSMC 3DFabric Alliance seeks to boost chiplet designs
30:05 - Amazon teams up with TCL after striking deal with Google
31:11 - Microsoft mulling cheap PCs supported by ads, subscriptions
32:28 - NYC is seeing more fires caused by e-bike batteries
34:22 - Saudi wealth fund sets up electric car joint venture with Foxconn
35:50 - Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger
36:43 - Amazon Prime now comes with a full music catalog of 100 million songs and ad-free podcasts
37:50 - Wharton, Berkeley, NYU Offering Online M.B.A.s for the First Time
39:36 - Netflix adds 6th gaming studio with acquisition of Spry Fox
41:40 - Apple Employees at Unionized Maryland Store File Labor Board Complaint After Being Denied Benefits
43:16 - Apple's $100M Small Developer Assistance Fund starts paying out
44:55 - Dogecoin surges on Elon Musk's Twitter deal
45:54 - JP Morgan executes first DeFi trade on public blockchain
46:45 - Opioid lawsuits: CVS, Walgreens pharmacies agrees to $10 billion in settlements
48:38 - '14-hour days with no break and no bathroom': Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sued by his former housekeeper
52:47 - Elon Musk planning to cut half of Twitter's workforce
53:51 - Twitter reportedly limits employee access to content-moderation tools
55:07 - Elon Musk says Twitter Blue will cost $8, and include blue tick verification
57:35 - Twitter will not reinstate banned users without 'clear process,' Musk says
58:00 - Chief Twit, Elon Musk, signals interest in reviving Vine
59:07 - Facebook Has a Portal for Government Officials to Request Content Be Suppressed
1:00:00 - Ye suspended from Instagram again after targeting Jewish people in post
1:01:08 - Instagram jumps into NFTs with minting and selling feature
1:03:04 - TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data
1:03:54 - Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
1:06:47 - Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit boinking

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The Level1 Show November 2 2022: Call of Duty: Modern E-Waste

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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report
2:51 - Seagate to Cut 3,000 Jobs Amid Poor Quarter, Charges of Export Violations
3:48 - Amazon (AMZN) earnings Q3 2022
6:25 - Freeway Crypto Halts Withdrawals After Promising 43% Returns
7:26 - Apple Is Working on a 16-Inch iPad, Further Blurring Line With Laptops
9:04 - Apple confirms the iPhone is getting USB-C, but isn’t happy about the reason why
9:38 - Apple lawsuits say health monitoring company Masimo copied Apple Watch
10:50 - Nvidia RTX 4090’s power draw may be too much for its power connector to handle
12:12 - Microsoft’s “Project Volterra” becomes an Arm-powered mini PC with 32GB of RAM
13:05 - Intel Core i9-13900K Blasts Off to 8.8GHz, Breaking World Record
13:51 - Chip can transmit all of the internet's traffic every second
15:04 - SpaceX Starlink Announces Satellite Internet for Moving RVs
16:18 - TSMC says efforts to rebuild US semiconductor industry are doomed to fail
18:30 - After complaints, Volkswagen will ditch capacitive steering wheel controls
20:23 - Apple developers are frustrated with gambling ads appearing across the App Store
21:19 - iPhone owners will now get annoying messages that an Android user 'reacted' to their text.
22:22 - iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura arrive on October 24th
23:10 - Memtest86+ Is Back! New Version Released After 9 Years
23:47 - Microsoft’s PC Manager is like CCleaner for your computer
24:27 - Spotify pulls audiobook purchases from iOS app after Apple blocks updates
27:33 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s disc is just 72MB of nothing
28:38 - Comcast’s new higher upload speeds require $25-per-month xFi Complete add-on
29:48 - Apple raises prices on Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, and Apple One
31:12 - YouTube’s latest revenue grab: A 27 percent price increase for family plans
35:07 - Amazon says fear of Google putting off vendors from TV hardware partnership
36:46 - New Zealand Uber drivers win landmark case declaring them employees
37:31 - RIAA Flags ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Music Mixer as Emerging Copyright Threat
41:59 - Lee Jae-yong: Samsung appoints convicted heir to top job
42:50 - Fake books
44:51 - Following PR Crisis, PayPal Again Updates TOS Hoping You Won’t Notice
46:04 - Thomson Reuters leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data
47:08 - New York Post employee posted racist, violent headlines targeting AOC, Hochul
49:04 - Ed Sheeran: Hacker who stole singer's unreleased music is jailed
50:51 - Australia's Medibank says data of 4 mln customers accessed by hacker
52:03 - Iran releases footage from prison fire, adding to mystery
52:47 - Google can now remove your identifying search results, if they’re the right kind
54:10 - Passkeys—Microsoft, Apple, and Google’s password killer—are finally here
55:52 - PayPal is implementing passkey logins
56:21 - Samsung privacy-protecting Maintenance Mode is coming to Galaxy S22s worldwide
57:28 - Why Block’s Square sends ads after receipts
58:30 - Ring Cameras Are Being Used to Control and Surveil Overworked Delivery Workers
1:00:42 - ‘SiriSpy’ iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your Siri conversations before fix

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Build Time with Z790 Taichi Carrara

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13th gen Intel is here and Wendell needs a new build for future testing and benchmarking! Enter the z790 Taichi Carrara! This video goes over the ins and out of the motherboard, bringing to attention the kind of memory support, the amount of PCIe Lanes and that smooth marble looking finish!

Check it out here: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813162092

Look out for a Livestream later today!!!

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Live Hangout with PC World/Gordon RE Radeon 7900 Launch

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The Level1 Show November 1 2022: The Land is Mine, I'll Build the Line

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0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Google Settles With DOJ Over Lost Criminal Crypto Exchange Data
2:28 - FAA warns of aviation safety risks without U.S. mandate on 5G limits
4:09 - Alleged Chinese spies charged with trying to recruit assets, obstruct US Huawei investigation
5:45 - Drizly data breach: FTC seeks to clamp down on alcohol delivery service and its CEO
7:18 - More kids to ride in 'clean' school buses, mostly electric
10:03 - UFO study by NASA-selected study team kicks off
11:29 - French Government Hits Clearview With The Maximum Fine For GDPR Violations
12:07 - Outsourcer Interserve fined £4.4m for failing to stop cyber-attack
13:02 - UK Eyes Scaling Back Net Neutrality Rules For No Coherent Reason
14:18 - UK Lawmakers Vote to Recognize Crypto as Regulated Financial Instruments
15:09 - Australia to toughen privacy laws with huge hike in penalties for breaches
16:11 - Singapore may soon require retail investors to take test before trading crypto, prohibit credit cards
17:10 - India fines Google yet again, orders to allow third-party payments
18:10 - The Wire retracts reporting on Meta citing 'certain discrepancies'
19:07 - Japan steps up push to get public buy-in to digital IDs
20:55 - Neom: Saudi Arabia pushes ahead with its sci-fi city vision
22:41 - Meta stock falls 24% on earnings miss, analyst downgrades
23:07 - Altimeter Capital's Brad Gerstner calls on Meta to slash headcount
26:34 - Meta hit with antitrust breach order in Turkey for combining user data across FB, WhatsApp, Instagram
27:16 - Facebook warns it could block news in Canada over proposed legislation
28:09 - We were not wowed by our first Meta Quest Pro experience
30:07 - Interpol Launches 'First-Ever Metaverse' Designed for Global Law Enforcement
31:15 - TikTok Content Moderators Pushed to the Brink in Colombia
32:05 - TikTok Denies Forbes Report That ByteDance Planned to Track Americans
34:22 - TikTok immune from lawsuit over girl's death from 'blackout challenge'
35:34 - Google acquires Twitter-backed AI avatar startup Alter for $100 million
37:41 - Twitter is now an Elon Musk company

#level1show

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SON OF THE FORBIDDEN ROUTER! How to Build a Blazing Fast Router on a Budget

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True evil can never die! Wendell runs down a cheaper option for those of you who want to build your own FORBIDDEN ROUTER!

Forbidden Router Trilogy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL10NWKboioZRzCsTw9WedxId9sa0GC7nx

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My Power!? Its uninterruptable! (and also RGB) -- ft Tripp Lite Smart 1200 PSGLCD

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Power loss on your PC and Servers is an unexpected issue that should be expected, so prepare yourself with backup batteries! In this episode of L1Rambles, Wendell explains what an uninterruptable power supply is and why the UPS you got may not be the right one!

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The Level1 Show October 26 2022: Step Into My Parler, Said The Dying Company to the Rapper

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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Apple announces new iPad Pro with M2 chip and Wi-Fi 6E
1:15 - New iPad Only Supports First-Gen Apple Pencil, Requires Adapter to Charge
2:26 - Apple bows to pressure, drops plan to buy Chinese memory chips
3:16 - Intel 13900k is Here! Give it Power and It'll be Powerful!!
4:27 - Pixel Watch teardown shows off “ugly” insides, gives strong first-gen vibes
5:27 - Pine64 Ox64 is a Raspberry Pi Pico-sized single-board PC with a RISC-V processor
6:05 - Microsoft preps DirectStorage 1.1 with GPU decompression for faster game loads
7:02 - GeForce RTX 4090 Has a Spirit Level to Prevent GPU Sagging
7:52 - USB-C can hit 120Gbps with newly published USB4 Version 2.0 spec
8:32 - Starlink unveils airplane service—Musk says it’s like using Internet at home
9:21 - BMW will build a $1.7 billion EV battery factory in South Carolina
9:58 - Google “doubles down” on Pixel hardware, cuts Google Assistant support
10:53 - Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse.
12:42 - Microsoft layoffs October 2022: The tech giant cuts nearly 1,000 jobs
12:57 - Stripe Takes Steps To Prune Workforce
13:24 - Don’t worry, Uber WILL find a way to advertise to you
14:04 - RIP Apple TV HD: Apple went all-in on 4K yesterday
14:43 - Microsoft is building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google
15:59 - Netflix cloud, PC gaming efforts confirmed
17:16 - Netflix password-sharing crackdown will roll out globally in ‘early 2023’ — and here’s how it could work
18:08 - Ubuntu's New Terminal 'Ad' is Angering Users
19:24 - Bitcoin Fails to Produce 1 Block for Over an Hour
19:59 - Uber Eats now delivers cannabis in Canada
21:15 - ‘A tipping point for higher ed’: Google launches new, low-cost online programs for high-demand jobs
22:17 - Workers form union at Waymo, Google's self-driving car company
22:49 - Workers at second Apple store vote to join union
24:40 - Apple Card will add savings accounts to earn interest on Daily Cash rewards
25:25 - Nikola NKLA founder Trevor Milton found guilty of fraud
26:32 - Meta Horizon Worlds metaverse losing users, falling short of goals
27:18 - Meta says it will sell Giphy to comply with UK breakup order
28:01 - Mark Zuckerberg takes shot on iMessage, says WhatsApp more ‘private and secure'
28:39 - Untangling The Wire’s accusations about Meta and Instagram moderation in India
30:28 - Bernard Arnault Sells Private Jet so People Won't Track Him
32:57 - Planned cuts at Twitter likely to hurt content moderation, user security
34:11 - ‘Responsible social media’ council looks to bridge divides on tech
35:11 - Kanye West to acquire ‘uncancelable’ social media platform Parler

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The Level1 Show October 25 2022: 3+3 = 🐄💩

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0:00 - Intro
1:18 - FTC Wants to Add Right to Repair to Existing Energy Saving Rules
2:23 - Visa, Mastercard under fresh FTC investigation over debit card routing
3:35 - SEC's Gensler says CFTC authority over stablecoins should be bolstered
4:53 - Former US Security Officials, Experts Reserve Concerns Over TikTok Compromising National Security
5:29 - AT&T Hit With $23 Million Fine For Bribing Illinois Lawmaker
7:05 - Help, Foxconn has gone from AI 8K+5G to ‘3+3=∞’
8:43 - Texas sues Google for allegedly capturing biometric data of millions without consent
9:35 - Intel sued over future of historic DEC chip factory site
10:48 - Xi's call to win tech race points to new wave of Chinese state-led spending
11:14 - Chinese distributors reportedly dump dud chips on Russia
12:48 - Japanese regulators loosen crypto laws and make it easier to list coins
13:33 - India fines Google $162 million for anti-competitive practices on Android
14:20 - Russian lawmaker urges WhatsApp ban for state employees
15:08 - Internet connectivity worldwide impacted by severed fiber cables in France
16:08 - UK government could ration diesel supplies to keep data centers up
16:59 - Germany fires cybersecurity chief 'over Russia ties'
17:43 - Turkish opposition applies to annul disinformation law
18:45 - Mexico probes whether Pegasus spyware purchases were legal
19:57 - GPS interference caused the FAA to reroute Texas air traffic. Experts stumped
20:54 - Datacenter fire takes out South Korea’s top two web giants
21:25 - Kakao co-CEO resigns, company to invest over $300M to build data center after mass outage
22:06 - Qatar Spyware required for World Cup visitors
23:26 - Microsoft customer data leak includes contact info, emails
24:10 - Hackers have stolen record $3 billion in cryptocurrency this year
24:39 - Crypto scam victims seek to hold Coinbase responsible for losses
25:21 - Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career
25:59 - Over 45,000 VMware ESXi servers just reached end-of-life
26:38 - Streaming brought new ways to cheat at poker. Garrett Adelstein thinks he was a victim of one.
28:04 - Apple’s Mixed Reality Headset to Offer Iris Scanning for Payments, Logging In
29:09 - Texas schools send parents DNA kits to identify their kids’ bodies in emergencies
29:59 - TN man finds TWRA hidden camera on his property
32:13 - China censors word "Beijing” after rare protest in city

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Level1 News October 21 2022: Filled with Shatness

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0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Lab-grown brain cells play video game Pong
2:41 - Microsoft brings DALL-E 2 to the masses with Designer and Image Creator
3:45 - Fake Joe Rogan interviews fake Steve Jobs in an AI-powered podcast
5:14 - Many U.S. drivers treat partially automated cars as self-driving
6:08 - Nike moves to curb sneaker-buying bots and resale market with penalties
7:25 - AI music generators could be a boon for artists — but also problematic
8:53 - Amazon abandons live tests of Scout home delivery robot
9:37 - This Danish Political Party Is Led by an AI
10:48 - SpaceX announces a second private flight to the Moon aboard Starship
11:33 - Amazon changes Kuiper prototype satellites launch from ABL to ULA
13:29 - Nasa says Dart mission succeeded in shifting asteroid’s orbit
14:54 - SpaceX competitor Lynk testing 5G cell phone service from space
15:35 - Stoke Space aims to build rapidly reusable rocket with a completely novel design
16:30 - Robot falls asleep while being quizzed by Lords
17:45 - Sony and Honda envision an EV that entertains while it takes the wheel
18:13 - William Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With Sadness
18:56 - Artist Damien Hirst just burned 1,000 of his paintings and will soon burn more
20:32 - New York changes gun buyback after seller gets $21,000 for 3D-printed parts
21:28 - New Zealand angers its farmers by proposing taxing cow burps
22:46 - Rainbow fentanyl' is not being targeted at children, experts say
24:09 - Pastor who gave kids 'I ❤️ hot youth pastors' stickers placed on leave
25:17 - Halloween 2022: Lower Merion School District in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania cancels parades over safety, inclusivity concerns
27:01 - Florida car rental employees find toddler left in returned vehicle
29:40 - UC Berkeley to offer new course about Nicki Minaj in its spring 2023 semester; Artist says she'd 'love to stop by'
31:13 - $1.5 million floating home prototype sinks into the water at unveiling
33:05 - Ubisoft thinks you should pay $120 for Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition even though it didn't win a GOTY award
34:13 - ‘Ballots have been stuffed’: voting scandal rocks Alaska’s fat bear contest

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