Recent content by Rob1C

Our short term gain: Saved a buck. Our long term loss: Lost a few bucks, and jobs; other things such as military advantage. Their long term and irreversible loss: Pollution and death.

Captcha to ChatGPT: Click box to prove you are human. Note: Instructions are complete and task is easy. Captcha to Human: Click all images with a bicycle owned by Tom in an intersection. Note: Instructions are fairly complete, if not somewhat complicated; ultimately there's something unclear...

When you compare the top EPYC with the top Threadripper a number of factors come out, and some seem like hidden gotchas. One thing that becomes readily apparent is that Threadripper has a greater selection of "workstation" motherboards; and the number of "server motherboards" is often equal to...

It's not incessant whining, as much as excessive gouging. A low quality Wi-Fi 7 device can be had for less than 100 bucks, moderate quality for a quarter the price and for a third the price you can get mesh with 3 satellites. True that the BQ16 Pro offers $50-100 more features (with some...

More interesting for some people is the USB version, for little more than half price. https://www.seagate.com/products/external-hard-drives/expansion-desktop-hard-drive/?sku=STKP6000400&store=1

The problem with tape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open is that an LTO-9 drive costs several thousand dollars, and an LTO-10 drive isn't backwards compatible and even more expensive. Where you win (if you don't consider this a loss) is that 45 TB (LTO-9) tapes are ~U$150 (so a bit...

The air coolers by Dynatron go up to 660W for Intel and 600W for AMD. https://www.dynatron.co/product-page/c21 https://www.dynatron.co/product-page/j25 It's true that some of that could just be headroom, but liquid cooling would take us even further. We should be able to get more than just...

@aaron Klotz > "The highlight of the unit is its enormous 2500W power capacity, which is so high that it only works in households with 240-volt outlets. As a result, the vast majority of U.S.-based households will not be capable of powering this unit with a standard 110-volt outlet." If you...

They use a PCIe Switch - 16 lanes to motherboard's PCIe slot (giving x16) and 32 lanes bifurcated 8x4, for a total of 48; 16 one way and 32 the other: https://www.broadcom.com/products/pcie-switches-retimers/expressfabric/gen5/pex89048

He should be satisfied with all the money he saved by doing it himself. Expensive lesson learned. He saved ~$100, if his time is worth $10/hr and he fixes it then he breaks even. He could © his own MEME, but I already had a boss who took every opportunity to save a buck, whatever the cost...

This is a new product: https://www.maxell.jp/consumer/mxcp-p100.html Japanese Manual: https://www.maxell.jp/consumer/assets/pdf/mpcp-p100_manual.pdf They already make a Cassette/CD FM/AM player recorder: https://www.maxell.jp/consumer/mxcr-100.html Both sold to a limited Japanese market

They made Zen 5 Turin with a maximum of 128 cores. They made Zen 5c with a maximum of 192 cores, by cutting the cache in half. They should make (new) Zen 5b Turin with 256 cores; use X3D to add the cache back. They should make (new) Zen 5a Turin without (normal) cache and 256 cores. Use X3D to...

and @ bit_user. They have implemented a new protocol, which enables higher speed, and uses more wires than the prior speed; while remaining backwards compatible (like adding PAM to PCIe). https://www.allion.com/hdmi-8k-protocol-concept/

I guess it depends on where you look, but I don't see tripling; if anything I see a puny reduction for DDR4. Here is PCPartsPicker' charts: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/#ram.ddr5.4800.2x16384 While Jim Handy (The Memory Guy) says DDR4 prices have risen to meet DDR5 prices...