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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News Microsoft only planned for 200,000 users for Flight Simulator launch, admits drastic underestimate led to database being overwhelmed.

    The older versions of FS had very little and very rough terain data and invented quite a lot of stuff, especially anything animated...

    Yesterday at 10:48 PM
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    abufrejoval reacted to Bikki's post in the thread News Microsoft only planned for 200,000 users for Flight Simulator launch, admits drastic underestimate led to database being overwhelmed with Like.

    Thanks @abufrejoval, appreciate the write up. I found it incredible detail and well written, with well placed humor here and there. The...

    Yesterday at 10:12 PM
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News Microsoft only planned for 200,000 users for Flight Simulator launch, admits drastic underestimate led to database being overwhelmed.

    First impressions: Caveat: I'm no pilot, nor would I want to be one. That's one thing that having used every version of FlightSimulator...

    Yesterday at 9:32 PM
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News AMD-powered El Capitan is now the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.7 exaflops of performance — fastest Intel machine falls to third place on To....

    Same hold true for quite a lot of Chinese HPC systems, evidently: nobody wants to draw unwanted attention...

    Monday at 8:53 PM
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    abufrejoval reacted to bit_user's post in the thread News AMD-powered El Capitan is now the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.7 exaflops of performance — fastest Intel machine falls to third place on To... with Like.

    Before anyone gets too proud, just know that the AI bros have sailed way past these metrics. The only reason clusters like Musk's...

    Monday at 8:52 PM
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News Intel Arrow Lake T-Series CPUs show tiny improvement over prior-gen — 65W and 35W Core Ultra 7 265 and Ultra 7 265T CPUs are only 5% faster than Ra....

    T-types have been a contant cause of frustration with me. Mostly I'd say because Intel's drive to constantly segment the market has...

    Sunday at 1:38 PM
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News Garbage truck driver finds a working 32-core Threadripper, RTX 2080 Ti gaming PC in the trash — the PC powered on after a good cleaning and a few d....

    Should be interesting to compare globally! Around here in Germany, trash belongs to the municipal government the moment you put it out...

    Saturday at 11:02 PM
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News Asus 'Turbo Game Mode' arrives on its AM5 motherboards — second CCD and SMT toggles arrive for up to a 35% performance boost on X3D chips.

    My last turbo button switched my 80286 IBM PC-AT clone between 8 and 6 MHz, not always without crashing. 6 Mhz would have been the IBM...

    Nov 13, 2024
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News AMD is purportedly preparing Ryzen 200 "Hawk Point Refresh" APUs — Ryzen 7 255/260 set to replace the Ryzen 7 8745H/8845H series.

    You may not like the compromises... Essentially beyond these Phoenices the road forks: you can go left with soldered faster LPDDR5x...

    Nov 13, 2024
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News AMD is purportedly preparing Ryzen 200 "Hawk Point Refresh" APUs — Ryzen 7 255/260 set to replace the Ryzen 7 8745H/8845H series.

    Darn, they caught up with me! I've been hunting Phoenices, because they offer great value! With those 7xxx numbers they obviously no...

    Nov 13, 2024
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News Valve drops limited edition white Steam Deck OLED.

    Why am I thinking nail polish (and remover)? Perhaps they should just adapt their physical design to make that normal instead of a...

    Nov 12, 2024
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News Intel Arc Xe2 Battlemage GPUs rumored to arrive next month — ahead of AMD RDNA 4 and Nvidia Blackwell.

    The NPUs get integrated less because they can access main memory: GPUs can do that, too, specially the iGPUs. The main reason for NPUs...

    Nov 12, 2024
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News Intel Arc Xe2 Battlemage GPUs rumored to arrive next month — ahead of AMD RDNA 4 and Nvidia Blackwell.

    I bought it as a Serpent Canyon NUC with an Alder Lake i7-12700H for €700. At that price the A770m was basically for free while the...

    Nov 12, 2024
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News You know what's NOT a Black Friday deal? RTX 4090 cards at $2,000 or more as prices soar on this 'banned in China' GPU.

    First reaction: good thing I bought my RTX 4090/4070/4060 cards when they were just standard rip-off (and not quite as bad as their 3000...

    Nov 12, 2024
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    abufrejoval replied to the thread News Despite brutal price hikes on many products, VMWare makes Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro free for all users.

    I've bought and used every edition of VMware (Workstation), since the very first they launched in 1999 or so, right after tricking x86...

    Nov 12, 2024

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