Recent content by blargh4

So after the last couple generations self-destructed, they're still unable to properly qualify and test a chip before shoving it on the market? Very encouraging.

Disappointing for who? More "disappointment" based on leaks and pre-release benchmarks? God tech journalism is turning into just non-stop tedious clickbait.

It's a world of tradeoffs out here. If I was getting a laptop for work, I definitely wouldn't want a macbook air-class product. But if I want a Macbook Air-like PC, heaps of multithreaded perf wouldn't be a plus for what I value about that class of machine - you'd need beefier cooling to...

What is the % of people buying thin+light laptops for heavy multithreaded workloads?

As long as perf/power is moving the right direction, I'm not particularly bothered. Lowering the power limit is easy enough.

Shame about the disastrously ill-conceived keyboard ruining what looks to be an otherwise excellent machine.

Unfortunately for AMD, Apple's M4 is like a solid 25% increase in ST perf.

That is the most valuable part of this article. This isn't the heyday of Moore's law, people aren't compelled to upgrade their CPU every couple years. Including the 2600K or something might be a bridge too far but the 8700K is still a perfectly capable CPU that lots of people bought which is...

Thanks, this is a useful article. I'm surprised how much my 8700K is not bottlenecking me at high resolutions even with current games.

Man, this site needs to stop publishing garbage like this. I didn’t even need to check the forum discussion to know a report of some buggy pre-release product isn’t publication-worthy. The clicks aint worth it

Startup claims extraordinary things about non-existing product, news at 11 Wake me up when it breaks Amdahl's law

These clickbaity articles about benchmark leaks have got to be my least favorite genre of tech site filler. We already have a good idea of the IPC gains because AMD gave us the numbers - and as the author himself is clearly aware, AMD's 16% number is based on a geometric mean of numerous...

Given years of hype about Zen 5 being a more sweeping uarch redesign, a bit surprised at how incremental this improvement is. Oh well, looks like a solid enough upgrade for my 8700K at any rate.

The world of semiconductors is broader than smartphone SoCs and data center GPUs; there is a heap of silicon in current production that uses 180nm+ lithography. I suspect Russia's priorities lie in beefing up homegrown capabilities for national security related concerns first and foremost...

MD5 was considered broken 20 years ago. Breaking an insecure hash is non-news.