-
You heard it here first: Black Friday 2024 has arrived!
abufrejoval's latest activity
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread News AMD's Strix Halo Zen 5 APU tested in Geekbench AI benchmark — Ryzen AI Max 390 sample falls behind Ryzen 7 7840HS.Yeah, nomenclature needs to evolve and it's getting complicated... I'd have said that a Lunar Lake approach, where chiplets are...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread News AMD pushes Ryzen to the Max — Ryzen AI Max 300 Strix Halo reportedly has up to 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 RDNA 3+ CUs.256 LPDDR5 means 8x 32-bit LPDDR5 channels or 4x 64-bit DDR5 channels: no idea how costly it is to support both in terms of IP block...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread News AMD pushes Ryzen to the Max — Ryzen AI Max 300 Strix Halo reportedly has up to 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 RDNA 3+ CUs.AMD has Intel as an excellent example how aiming for 11 can have you shoot yourself in the foot: they could never afford that type of...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread News AMD's Strix Halo Zen 5 APU tested in Geekbench AI benchmark — Ryzen AI Max 390 sample falls behind Ryzen 7 7840HS.To my understanding, Strix Halo isn't really an APU, as those have been strictly monolithic. Keeping with doing a nicely big range of...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread News Intel customer scores Core i9-14900K as a replacement for degraded Core i9-13900K — another received a $599 check for a fully working Core i9-13900K."At least some RMAs are also being accepted without proof of CPU instability, which is surprising." It doesn't surprise me. Few vendor...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread News AMD’s laptop OEMs decry poor support, chip supply, and communication — OEM complains the company has "left billions of US dollars lying around" d....I'm currently evaluating two new AMD laptops, a Lenovo Thinkpad X13 with a Phoenix Pro 7840U and a Lenovo LOQ 15 with a 7435HS...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread Why I won't buy an Intel Lunar Lake-powered laptop.It would be like making a 2nd engine in front optional on a Porsche designed for a rear engine. Whether or not a signal just needs to...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread Question Anyone else noticing crazy number of NVMe power cycles per running hour? (250,000 cycles for 278 hours).So tried that and unfortunately that doesn't do the trick: I changed the power plan to never power off the disk on battery or external...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread Why I won't buy an Intel Lunar Lake-powered laptop.Pretty sure I am an outlier, but since I started back in CP/M days when all computers were individually assembled, I didn't change...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread Question Anyone else noticing crazy number of NVMe power cycles per running hour? (250,000 cycles for 278 hours).Thanks, I was going to try that as an ugly fix. I don't know what it means in terms of power consumption and battery endurance, but at...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread Why I won't buy an Intel Lunar Lake-powered laptop.Well, why would one ever even want to carry around a computer anyway? For serious work one should sit down at a proper desk with a...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread Why I won't buy an Intel Lunar Lake-powered laptop.You might argue Apples were Personal Computers before there were PCs with the Apple ][. That crucially had 8 expansion slots (mine all...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread Why I won't buy an Intel Lunar Lake-powered laptop.Please read the fine print: he is running VMs, not just a desktop. Same here. And there are other use cases for extra RAM. Modularity...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread Why I won't buy an Intel Lunar Lake-powered laptop.I've been searching for hints there and I wasn't so hopeful. Evidently 64GB are possible when using DDR5, but only 32GB are possible...
-
Aabufrejoval replied to the thread Why I won't buy an Intel Lunar Lake-powered laptop.Pretty near the same here! First off: why buy two computers if one can do it? Often enough I just need another NUC for a short-term...
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram