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Yeah, AMD has sold Epyc "X" SKU's with up to 800MB of total cache since Zen2/Milan.

As mentioned in the other thread, there were serious hints that changes to the 3d Vcache were coming (combination of Zen5 chip layout making old layout unworkable, TSV (chip interconnect) mount points looking radically different in Zen5, and the fact that every leak about Zen5 X3D parts...

I'm more concerned about the power bill. All of these distributed projects always market these things as "no biggie, it's just your idle CPU cycles, use them to do something good", without taking into account the increased electric bill, and impact to emissions it results in. Like the old...

Interesting. Similar to Gimps/Prime95? (If anyone actually uses it for anything except stability testing, and actually submits their results?) I'm curious. Other than a mathematical curiosity, why do we care about finding new really large prime numbers?

What is Primegrid?

I wonder, what workloads do you see benefiting from that? Gaming is generally best if restricted to the same CCD anyway due to cross-core latencies. Isn't that what the Microsoft game bar thing tries to do for you whenever you launch a game?

And there we have it. https://www.techpowerup.com/328160/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-has-the-ccd-on-top-of-the-3d-v-cache-die-not-under-it Nothing as complicated as I was thinking. They are simply reversing the order of the chips in the stack. 3D-Vacahe (which produces much less heat) goes on the...

Just to add to this a little bit, here are the AI end of turn time benchmarks from my last two CPU's in my main desktop. I also - for ****s and giggles - tested it on my testbench machine with its rather large queanttity of old slow Xeon cores (the board and CPUs were from my old server)...

I wish I had bought more things from GoG. I just got into the habit of making Steam my first stop after I pre-ordered the Half-Life 2 + Counter-Strike: Source "Gold" bundle back in - what - 2003? 2004? Can't remember. GoG definitely were the good guys all this time. Their store was less...

I don't even know where to start. Musk is "Exhibit A" in the claim that all it takes to be successful is to inherit enough money that you don't have to care whether or not you take risks, a little bit of luck, and no ethics. He's not particularly innovative, and doesn't have particularly good...

Didn't we have this same news story like a month ago? Either way, I still call bullshit on the whole "first GPU" thing. That is only true if they use a very contrived and narrow definition of "GPU" based on their own products. I'd argue 3DFX and even Matrox and possibly even others beat them...

I like that distinction, but that is not how people who use those terms in earnest typically define them. Agreed,

I can't. I remember participating in plenty of forum discussions over the years with people complaining about woke/DEI characteristics about various games movies and TV shows. Some of them I agreed with, as they weren't historically accurate, or regionally accurate for the story the...

I just installed it last night. After some initial problems (I have never used a mod in any Civ game before, I didn't realize I had to start the game from the mod menu, not the main menu) I am really liking it. I had also forgotten how much more I appreciate the Civ5 graphics over the Civ6...

I don't share your hate for DEI. I mean, there are definitely cases when it has been done wrong (black Nazi soldiers in WWII anyone? Lolwut? They would have thrown them in a concentration camp...) but where it otherwise doesn't harm historical accuracy and/or immersion I think it is a...

I didn't even realize the Internet Archive had user accounts that could be compromized. Only thing I've ever used it for was the wayback machine to find old articles that have gone offline :p I'm genuinely curious. What are the accounts for? I guess my question is, did they just steal the...

I'm just reminded of those Doom shareware floppies that everyone seemed to have back in 1993. :p (Though I could have sworn the label was red...)

I bet they have done what every other study on this subject does, and estimate the total number of pirated installs out there, and treat every one as a confirmed lost sale, not factoring in that in many cases piracy was the only way that particular install was ever going to happen, and if piracy...

Ok, but what if I don't want windows in the picture at all? I have a Linux-based NAS. What if I want to tell it to present pre-encrypted files and upload them to OneDrive using standard open source protocols (not having to install any Microsoft software)? Is that even a thing? Or have they...

So here is the part I don't understand (and it is based on ignorance as apart from at work where I was forced to enable OneDrive (because some jerk project manager decided to require syncing project files via onedrive and teams, yuck) I've never really played with it. On a basic level, other...