Recent content by mikewinddale

It looks like these take up a lot more space than DIMMs. Lying flat, like M.2 SSDs, take up more square inches than a DIMM that sits upright. My current system has 8 sticks of 64 GB RDIMMS. How are 8 of these CAMM2 modules going to fit on a motherboard? Even if they come up to 256 GB each, I'd...

How do you power this? An electrical outlet can only continuously sustain 80% of its rated load. So a 15A outlet is 1440 watts (15A*0.8*120V), while a 20A is 1920 watts (20A*0.8*120V). Assuming 90% efficiency at full load, a 2800 watt power supply draws 3111 watts (2800/0.9). So it draws 3111...

Everything you just listed was already known in 1958. That humans aren't perfectly rational in a Neoclassical sense, and that access to information affects the efficiency of markets, was known a long time ago. E.g. Hayek, Friedrich A. "Economics and knowledge." Economica 4.13 (1937): 33-54. And...

Somehow, the EU is almost 70 years behind the consensus of economic research that predatory pricing is not a legitimate concern and should not be outlawed by antitrust law. As economists have known since 1958, predatory pricing of the sort outlawed by antitrust law is not economically rational...

128 GB UDIMMs or RDIMMs?

Not if encryption works. The whole point of encryption is so that when someone loses a company laptop, the sensitive data are safe.

False. If someone steals my computer, then I can file a home insurance claim and get my money back. No big problem. But if they hack my TPM, then they have access to all the sensitive data on my computer, such as a Chrome browser that saves every password to every bank account and credit card I...

If someone steals your PC, then this hack means that they can access your data. Do you know anyone who has left a laptop at the coffee shop? If yes, then this matters.

Presumably, only for outdoor fixtures like cell towers? I would expect that any indoor location would have a dehumidifier to reduce the humidity to around 40 to 50 percent right? At 80 to 90 percent humidity, I would expect the interior walls to be covered in mold.

I hope that someone makes them retail. I needed 512 GB of RAM for a research project, but most of the time, I only need about 64 GB. So I had to build a ThreadRipper Pro system with some hella expensive RDIMMs, even though most of the time, a Ryzen would suffice for me. It would be nice to be...

Does this mean they won't support ECC UDIMMs anymore? I hope that's not the case, because the AM4 Ryzen provided a great way to get ECC support without going with an expensive Xeon or ThreadRipper.

I'm curious: when people transplant a cooler from their old computer to build their new computer, what do they tend to do with their old computer? Do they buy a new cooler for the old computer? Or do they scrap the entirety of the old computer, even though it still works, simply because the CPU...

I use HWiNFO64, and I set it to show me popup alerts whenever my CPU temperature is out of spec, or whenever my SSD has a SMART alert, or whenever WHEA (Windows Hardware Error Architecture) reports a memory ECC error.

But SSDs lose their data after several years unless they are powered on, continually renewing the data. Magnetic hard drives and tapes can eventually lose their data too. An errant magnetic field and bam, your data are gone. This technology is meant as an extremely long-lived archival storage...

I haven't found a better solution yet. But I'm planning on trying to line my case as much as possible with noise-dampening foam to see if that helps.