The Fridge

If you’re looking for ideas on how to mod your RTX 4060, maybe remove its fans and slap a ridiculously big heatsink on it like this person did

There are many things that I would do to my graphics card—undervolt it, treasure it, sing it lullabies—but I probably wouldn’t slap a gigantic heatsink on it just to eliminate the fan. Don’t get me wrong, passive cooling is nice, but I’m glad I don’t have to DIY it myself, creating the monstrosity I’ve just…

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‘There are limits to how much prices can be raised’ says SK hynix chairman about memory crisis but I’m not sure the market will care

The PC hardware market right now is not a pretty sight, so it’s nice to hear one of the companies arguably at least in part responsible acknowledging how bad things are from a customer’s perspective. Even if that is taken with the giant pinch of salt considering it’s being approached from a business perspective, and…

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Turns out Todd Howard is a full-time Reddit lurker just like the rest of us, says we’d ‘be surprised how many great ideas’ he gets from the site

Well, it turns out that Bethesda’s executive producer Todd Howard and I have at least two things in common—we’re both roughly 5 feet 6 inches tall, and we’re both chronic Reddit lurkers. Admittedly, I only have IMDB to go by when it comes to the height thing. Maybe it’s wrong! But the Reddit thing is…

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‘With the power of illustration, we can capture the true, playful vibe of a kangaroo’: Google explains the thinking behind its new 3D emojis

I like to imagine that, in thousands of years time, an alien species will land on the desert wasteland that was once Earth and begin combing through our digital records. What they’ll likely discover fairly quickly is the rise of emojis in our daily communications during the late 2000s, a process Google is looking to…

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