Recent content by Zarathustra

I also have an intel based laptop, but that is mostly because my laptop is ancient, as I have had no reason to upgrade it. The only personal laptop I own or use is a 2013 vintage good old thick Dell Latitude E6540 with an Intel Core i7-4810mq and a Radeon HD 8790M. I've thought about getting...

Ahh, OK. Thank you for that. Last consumer Intel CPU I had was Sandy-Bridge-E (i7-3930k) on an x79 platform I bought in 2011 and replaced with my Threadripper in 2019, so it has been a while. I have a Rocket Lake Xeon (Xeon E 2314) on a Supermicro X12STL-F, but enterprise/server solutions...

I'm not going to lie. I have absolutely no idea what anything in that chart means 😅

Oh, you are probably right. I expect Zen6 to be an evolutionary improvement rather than a revolutionary one. Fabric may be entirely internal to the CPU package, but it requires a lot of hooks in the BIOS, and if they mess too much with how the I/O Die communicates with the RAM, it may no...

I feel like the many core consumer desktop thing is so overplayed at this point. It was never interesting when it was new when Bulldozer first came out with 8 cores, and it isn't interesting today. Large numbers of cores are great for servers, especially hypervisors, and also for...

Hard pass if it comes with an NPU. At least unless it can be disabled in the BIOS.

What AMD really needs to focus on in the next generation is improving the fabric bandwidth situation so that it is no longer a bottleneck for RAM and PCIe bandwidth and latency.

Doesn't this essentially force you into a native framerate of (divides by four) ~18-23 fps? It might look smooth due to frame gen, but that input lag out to be atrocious. We are talking like 45-60ms (excluding monitor)? (1/framerate * 1000) I'm not sure I could play my games with that...

Nice review. Thank you for including STALKER 2. Three Quastions: 1.) Any word on what is required for a game to be compatible with the driver override? Is it any title that is already compatible with the first gen transformer model? 2.) Did you compare the image quality to previous...

I figured it was absolutely necessary, because even really good PSU's are not perfect, +12VDC can range up and down by a few tenths of a volt, and if one PSU is skewing high, and one low, you could have some reverse power flow going on, and god knows what that might do to the PSU witht he lower...

Alright. Some numbers. First off, the flow through the radiators is actually a little bit better than my previous pessimistic figures. I think during the first fill I forgot that I had to tell the Aquaero which type of flow meter was connected for the calibration data. So I get 232 L/h...

Alright, first off, here are some semi- finished (could still use some cleanup, especially the rack cable management which is a bit of a rats nest) Phase 1 pictures. ...yeah, this is obviously the back of the rack, not very visible, but it is a rats nest of fiber optic, Ethernet and...

Alright, some troubleshooting later I found the problem. One of the crimps on my custom cabling was bad. ...so now I had to crawl on the floor and crimp laying on my side. Fun fun.... Now to get the external loop to trigger when the workstation powers on. I have an opto-isolated relay...

...and yes. I do realize there are only 7 bottles in that picture. I don't know what happened to the 8th one. I misplaced it somewhere during my mixing and filling 😅

I decided to replace the rubber gasket in the hole in the back of the box with a clamping fitting to prevent accidental ripping out of wires and bending of pins. Since the hole was a little large, this resulted in needing a set of reducing washers: Which brings us to another thing I...