Recent content by bob3002

If we're going by automotive analogies, it's like buying the most expensive cargo-hauliing semi-truck... and then taking it to the dragstrip and measuring how fast it does a quarter mile.

The Gigabyte press release could be referring to upcoming Zen4 desktop APUs with powerful IGPs, not the basic ones inside the current Ryzen 7000 series.

First page mentions Atomic Heart, I'm guessing the find-and-replace missed one. Seems to be fixed. It's good to see that, in an environment where shoddy PC ports have become the norm, the RE4 remake doesn't disappoint. Hopefully they can fix that RT crashing bug soon.

I think there's something wrong with their fan's claimed performance. 83.04 CFM at 1800 rpm, in a claimed 120mmx25mm fan, seems impossible when compared to the competition. The Noctua NF-A12x25 at 2000 rpm only claims an airflow rate of 60.1 cfm (converted from the listed 102.1 cubic meters per...

I see...someone finally made a distro plate that uses radiator/fan mounts so that any case with a front or side 240mm/360mm radiator mount can use this. It appears to be a distro plate for watercooling, which is an integrated reservoir/pump system. The holes allow you to connect all the...

I don't immediately understand why the Relative Performance at 4k (Page 32) shows the RTX 4080 at 114% of this. The sum of the red bars is slightly larger than the sum of the green bars on the graph at the bottom. Only one game (Civ VI) has the Nvidia card with an advantage of >14% over the 7900...

This whole rebrand/ software lockout thing reminds me of how my six-month-old Creative webcam didn't get drivers for Windows Vista (until Microsoft themselves wrote some basic compatibility drivers a couple years later). In the meantime I had already bought a different brand webcam.

Will there be a follow-up article comparing XeSS on non-Intel vs Intel hardware? Supposedly (according to Intel's deep dive presentation on XeSS), Arc hardware-accelerated XeSS uses a more advanced upscaling model. I'm wondering if the result is noticeably better.

Mendocino seems to be in the same generation as the semi-custom APU that powers Valve's Steamdeck, but with the GPU units pared down to save power/cost. Steamdeck APU: 4C/8T Zen 2 CPU, 8 CU RDNA2 GPU, LPDDR5 memory Mendocino: 4C/8T Zen 2 CPU, 2 CU RDNA2 GPU, LPDDR5 memory

This press release is extremely misleading; it seems to imply that a drop-in upgrade of DDR4 modules is possible, instead of needing an entirely new platform. All of the advantages listed are also simply part of the DDR5 standard, not something unique to Silicon Power SODIMMs.

So is this the first confirmation that the cooler mount holes will be the same for AM5 as for AM4? I haven't seen any previous announcement saying the same.

There's space for two 2.5''/3.5'' drives in the rear cage above the PSU, and another two drives on the removable side plates (where fans go on the non-air variant). Look at where the SATA SSD is installed in the test system. The plate that covers the cables only supports 2x 2.5'' drives.

I remember seeing that image as part of a larger slide from this Anandtech article from last year. That article seemed to refer to that diagram as four compute chiplets and the stacks being HBM memory, similar to a CPU version of the Vega/Radeon VII GPU designs. Cooling an HBM stack is probably...

Looks extremely similar to the Dactyl Manuform keyboard, but with an extra column of keys on each end. Which itself is a mashup of two keyboards, the Dactyl being an open-source two-piece re-implementation of the Kinesis Advantage, and the Manuform a re-thinking of the thumb cluster. I'm sure...

System integrators likely buy these in bulk directly from Arctic, as well as trays of CPUs (with no included heatsinks) from AMD. Arctic is likely just diverting a few extra into retail boxes to maintain some shelf presence.