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    edzieba replied to the thread News AMD 3D V-Cache teardown suggests the majority of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is occupied by dummy silicon.

    The cache die is on the opposite side of the compute die from the HSF. Any heat the cache die absorbs can only leave by heating up the...

    Wednesday at 1:17 PM
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    edzieba replied to the thread Review Hyte Keeb TKL Review: Unique aesthetic and ultra-smooth switches.

    Never seen an original (G3, with the CRT) iMac keyboard then?

    Wednesday at 11:25 AM
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    edzieba replied to the thread News Inno3D hints at Neural Rendering and Advanced DLSS technology for Nvidia's next-gen RTX 50-series GPUs — DLSS 4 may debut with Blackwell.

    "Neural rendering" is probably something akin to DeepFocus. Not "wow, AI image blurring!" specifically, but the concept of using machine...

    Wednesday at 4:53 AM
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    edzieba replied to the thread News Seagate launches 32TB Exos M hard drive based on HAMR technology – Mozaic 3+ drives are the world’s first generally available HAMR HDDs.

    Not for warm storage. HDDs are still king for cost/GB, and when you're looking at several PB storage across a few racks then that's a...

    Tuesday at 10:30 AM
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    edzieba replied to the thread News UK's Wolfhound mobile laser weapon exhibits 100% drone zapping success in field trials.

    Gepard and similar existing SPAAG systems are too expensive: cost to take down a drone (multiple rounds expended) exceeds the cost of...

    Monday at 1:24 PM
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    edzieba replied to the thread News AMD shares 30x25 progress: New AI machines are 28.3 times faster than 2020 machines.

    Without disclosing the 2020 comparison system, this is just a pick-your-desired-marketing-multiplier exercise. In 2020, AMD had chips...

    Dec 11, 2024
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    edzieba replied to the thread News Nvidia reveals detailed ray tracing differences, promotes DLSS 3 for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

    By default ("RTX off") the game will use lower resolution RTGI as its only illumination pipeline, but will use screen-space reflections...

    Dec 11, 2024
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    edzieba replied to the thread News Microsoft allows Windows 11 to be installed on older, unsupported hardware but specifically nixes official support — minimum requirements for full....

    They did the whole "here's the minimum requirements, but you can run it on older stuff at your own risk" bit with Windows 8. It resulted...

    Dec 10, 2024
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    edzieba replied to the thread News Fanless audiophile PC sells for close to $30,000 — music server features dual Xeon 10-core CPUs, 48GB RAM, 280GB Optane SSD, and 2TB secondary stor....

    Sounds like they took a kernel of truth (fanless PCs used in recording studios to cut down on fan noise) and slapped a few extra zeroes...

    Dec 10, 2024
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    edzieba replied to the thread News iFixit now sells genuine Xbox replacement parts but at ridiculous prices — $599 for an Xbox Series X motherboard when a new console costs $499.

    That's under the assumption that distributing individual components to endpoints for consumption is some new and novel thing, rather...

    Dec 8, 2024
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    edzieba replied to the thread Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 PC performance testing and settings analysis — we tested 23 GPUs, the game is even more demanding than its predecessor.

    What a bizarre interjection. Not only are the 4060 non-Ti and 4060 Ti 8GB not present is ANY chart (let alone the framegen one that...

    Dec 6, 2024
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    edzieba replied to the thread News Scientists develop the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, offering a 5,000-year lifespan — the device uses radioactive decay to generate low....

    It's just a Beta Battery using a different isotope than the usual Tritium or Promethium.

    Dec 5, 2024
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    edzieba replied to the thread News Valve publishes Powered by SteamOS brand guidelines — logo readied for third-party hardware bundled with this Linux-based OS.

    Kiiiiinda. SteamOS 3.0, the one the Steam Deck is actually running (2.0 came out in 2014), is pretty much Steam Desk only. The "install...

    Dec 5, 2024
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    edzieba reacted to USAFRet's post in the thread News Microsoft reiterates that it will not lower Windows 11 requirements — A TPM 2.0 compatible CPU remains "non-negotiable" for all future Windows ve... with Like.

    https://www.microsoft.com/EN-US/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products?icid=MSCOM_QL_M365&culture=en-us&country=us

    Dec 4, 2024
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    edzieba replied to the thread News Taiwan ready to discuss 2nm transfer to U.S. following Trump's comments.

    Brazil serves as an example of the effect import tariffs have on domestic manufacture of electronics. Or rather, the lack thereof.

    Nov 29, 2024

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