Recent content by stdragon

Last I looked into speccing out a Ryzen based laptop, many reviews pointed out a common theme - gimped PCIe lanes to the M.2 slot. It wasn't because of the CPU, just a MB design consideration for whatever reason. Makes no sense to me unless they're trying to force it into the low-end of the...

It's because their support sucks or is non-existent. They make quality hardware, but again, post-sales support is severely lacking. If Gigabyte is suffering, it's because of their short sightedness

Chinese companies are part state-owned. The modus operandi of all native technology from China should, and be required, to be assumed suspect of being "bugged" to spy on nation-states. Imagine if the US Gov owned and operated Intel or AMD and was headed by the NSA complete with engineered...

"Quasi-Core" lol

If it were not for Google, this would not be happening. Open Source is eroding market-share for MS. They need to maintain that foothold. If they must, I have no doubt the Window OS kernel would be open sourced will still rolling out their own OS for corporate use (Active Directory, SQL...

In a typical SLI configuration, how much communication is there between two GPUs over PCIe? Or is most if not all coordination done over an external link module/bridge.

Was just talking with a co-worker dealing with big data and VM infrastructure. Right now 10gb is the mainstream for that, but there's already a 25 and 40gb standard. When dealing with host servers talking ISCSI back to SANs, you'll want lots of redundancy and throughput. For example many host...

Cortana was always their answer to Siri, and just as annoying.

Basically, yeah, PCIe 4.0 is being leapfrogged in favor of 5.0. As for AMD's 4.0 implementation, while not many devices will develop with 4.0, their MB should still be cross compatible with coming 5.0 devices but obviously stepped-down to 4.0 speeds.