Recent content by wickerman

nice to see some niches filled by the little Arc cards, and in this kinda spot they do well!

The N100 is an interesting little chip that could manage windows 11 just fine. Run a lighter weight linux distro and its brilliant. These are a big step up over the class of chip we used to see in the really small fanless stuff like the celeron N5105 or atom x5 z8330s in intels compute sticks...

outside of gaming the low end ARC cards are great little encoders. Can run passively without their fan and suddenly youve got a single slot, slot powered, passively cooled card to handle damn near any encoding job including new AV1. I did just this with an Arc A310 turning a bunch of old 1080p...

finally a gaming rival for my Arc A310, the performance showdown of the century awaits lol

Ive got one of these on order, I think batch 8. I agree its probably $500+ more than the same specs on something else if you just wanted that cpu and gpu combo in there. I also agree that the benefits wont outweigh that for everyone but for me it did, because I want it to gain traction too. The...

The best bet with x3d chips seems to be PBO2 tuning, increasing efficiency to achieve higher clock speeds. You can pick up a few hundred mhz of average sustained clockspeeds as well as lowering temps. You may see 100-200mhz bump in your average sustained clock speeds. Its about all you can do...

AMD and Intel go to some effort to prevent silicon from being wasted, and the process for that is binning. You test your die and the ones that require the lowest voltage tend to wind up in the most premium products because thats a desirable property in mobile or dense servers - remember the AMD...

I don't see how this would be bad for gaming though, I would absolutely welcome a world where handheld gaming consoles like the steamdeck have both user replaceable storage and system ram. It would make such consoles easier to repair or upgrade if you dont have to send them off to a fellow with...

ive got an n100 in an Matx board, and measured as package power the cpu itself is usually 4-6w, but the lowest ive seen being 3.7w at idle and peaks at 11.8w in windows 11 with all the default max battery/eco stuff enabled in bios. With an os that isnt throwing 20-56% cpu usage just sitting...

a version with 2x m.2 slots would absolutely be worth it, plenty of folks with SFF dreams who just need the extra storage space without having to look at 8tb nvme drives that are still pretty high in price. Or even adapting one of those slots to provide a pcie slot to some other slim pcie device...

I was in a similar spot and went with the 5800x3d simply because it was a big enough upgrade over my previous cpu and let me reuse my ddr4 at a time when ddr5 was much more expensive. Today ddr5 is cheaper but its still an added cost - on top of an added cost - on top of the cpu itself so it...

exactly this, just because a newer generation exists it doesnt make last generation useless. It usually makes it a better value allowing you to reuse parts that have a lot of life left in em. Anyone who bought a decent motherboard with an AM4 socket has had an almost unheard of selection of cpus...

Its pretty impressive speed when you consider the competition is emmc and emmc5.1 is something like 250mb/s read and 125mb/s write. Fair point if the application of the storage doesnt benefit from anything faster but this is pretty solid performance jump in a world thats usually a soldered emmc...

I agree there, but its likely AMD offered some kind of deal launching with the 7700S + the AMD CPU or Nvidia just being difficult to work with. Launching with a single gpu sku also simplifies logistics when they already have a marketplace to launch the other modules. But it feels to me like this...

Anyone seen a Gigabyte 6600 GT 3D1 with this style cooler? The card in the database has a dual fan cooler, and mine is labeled GV-3D1-LX. Otherwise looks the same as the database entry. Had it forever, as I recall I bought it from an online retailer going out of business and didnt get the...