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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/camera-review-site-dpreview-finds-a-buyer-avoids-shutdown-by-amazon/ Nice to see another resource being saved...

Oh Gigabyte... My take on it is, Gigabyte is using a slightly more brittle PCB material (than other manufacturers) is that more prone to cracking when installing/removing, coupled with traces close to stress points on the retention mechanism leading to failures.

Oh, so much this. A lot of time it's assumed knowledge, since kids have grown up with tech. But the tech they've grown up is Android and iOS/iPadOS, where the desktop/file/workspace concepts are largely mute and ignored. I know when my kids started doing tech subjects at school, things like file...

Yep there were heaps of those... Mind you, there were a heap that supported either Adlib or Sound Blaster 2.0 or Sound Blaster 16 at the hardware emulation level as well (for DOS compatibility).

Ah, Transmeta, something that could have been... I was sticking to the Pentium 1 era stuff, and Transmeta was P2 / P3 era with AGP already widespread. Forgot about Aureal despite being quite big at the time. For audio, there's also ESS, Realtek, Analog Devices, Philips, Winbond, etc.

The days of Socket7... Intel, AMD, Cyrix, IDT WinChip and Rise Technologies CPUs all on the same socket... ATi, Matrox, S3, Rendition, 3Dfx, nVidia, PowerVR, SiS, Trident for PCI video... Creative, Yamaha, VIA, Turtle Beach, Gravis, C-Media, Ensoniq and Roland for audio Seagate, WDC, IBM...

Likewise, who's providing the "better" product tends to ebb and flow between vendors... But at the moment, Asrock seems to be pretty consistent in the reliable category... There were a lot of brands that were #1 that don't exist anymore or a tiny fraction of what they used to be... Abit? DFI ...

There are a few other videos of his about X570 in general, so might be worth reading up a bit.

X570 Taichi ? If so, check your memory voltages or your memory configuration. Buildzoid noted some oddities on these boards in regards to memory configuration that lead to stability issues...

+1 for Asrock... and we've used several of their Asrock Rack motherboards at work in servers over the years and they have been rock solid even if they are missing a few features (compared to Supermicro and Tyan in the DIY server space). My current desktop is based on a Asrock H97M Pro4...

Ideally yes, but Intel had a a poor launch due to less-than-perfect drivers (especially in games that used DX9), so a lot of the initial fan-fare was lost. AFAIK, Intel has fixed a lot of the issues in the drivers and the A750 and A770 are good offerings for modern games. But nVidia IMHO also...

A lot of new games released in the last 6 mths seem to use 10GB+ of VRAM, especially if you enable ultra settings and RT effects and run resolutions 1440p+. If you dial down the settings (especially lower quality textures), you can get VRAM usage under 8GB. I think it was Hardware Unboxed did a...

Oh heck yeah, it's a problem.... As outlined in the article it'll do nothing but confuse people... And the number 1 vector malware uses to get onto systems, in the bag of meat and water in front of the device...

In case anyone missed it, Drobo has ceased sales... https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/drobo-reportedly-files-ch-7-bankruptcy-signaling-the-end-of-a-simpler-nas/

IIRC, Intel has always said use of XMP (or any form of overclocking) is not covered under warranty. Since enabling XMP may overclock the IMC (integrated memory controller), hence its use voids the warranty. This has been in affect since Intel added an IMC to the CPU. 2020 post...

From what I seen on Reddit, no, it affects all 7000' series chips. (there are reports of 7600X and 7700X - non-3D models seeing the same failure). The root cause appears to be too much voltage sent to the IO Die (aka VSOC), where the IO Die on the 7000's should receive no more than 1.3V...

Another necro thread rise... Backblaze reliability for Q1 - 2023. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/hdds-typically-fail-in-under-3-years-backblaze-study-of-17155-drives-finds/ Looks like anything 10TB+ in size, expect it to die in 3yrs...

In fairness, a lot of sites have given up hosting their own forums and now rely on reddit, discord, fb, etc... Haven't been to SR in a while, and noticed this on the bottom of the site: Did they change hands again?

Re: M2 based mac mini. The other point of consideration is the form factor, show me how to build a Ryzen 5900 + A770 / RX6650XT in the same space as a mac mini for the same price? (The mITX pricing premiums suddenly erode a lot of the extra $ the mac mini costs). Even when looking at the Intel...

On the QLC / MLC/ TLC note, is there anyone still doing SLC NVMe's? or are those pretty much $$$$$ enterprise only devices these days? I see Kioxia have a few interesting NVMes ( https://apac.kioxia.com/en-apac/personal/ssd/exceria-pro.html )?

I'm soooo sorry to hear that. Out of all the long-covid effects, that one would have the one of the worst, especially if you enjoyed certain foods or beverages.

Hi Dave, Welcome back! Are in you Copenhagen (or near), and if so, did you go to the Tivoli Gardens at Christmas? Did you try glögg and what did you think of it? And did you have any Tuborg Julebryg?(The latter is so hard to get here in Australia). My wife was born in Rønne, and her most of her...

For your M.2's, would something like this be possible? (not recommending this one in particular, just an example of what is out there). https://www.amazon.com.au/ASUS-M-2-X16-Expansion-Card/dp/B084HMHGSP IIRC, I'm not aware of any M.2 NVMe to USB controllers. There are a few Thunderbolt...

You can**. Remember RAID10, RAID50 and RAID60 are technically RAID on RAID schemes... eg RAID10 is RAID 1 of multiple RAID 0 arrays or a RAID 0 of multiple RAID 1 arrays. (depending on your controller/software) likewise, RAID50 is a RAID 5 of multiple RAID 0 arrays. Using your example, with 2x...

I don't mind Hardware Unboxed as a channel, but I do think they skim over things a little too lightly. I think Jay (Jayz2cents) is starting to become jaded with the big manufacturers, and is starting to speak his mind which is refreshing. For me, I like when Jay does the custom case mod stuff...

Just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope you enjoy a safe and pleasant holiday period. For all others who also celebrate other events at this time I also wish a: Happy Hanukkah Io, Saturnalia! Happy and Joyful Kwanzaa Happy Constitution Day Joyful Feast of Winter Veil Happy...

Then don't touch them. Advise the customer that their contract/service agreement doesn't cover them and refer them to your boss/manager. If they get shitty at you, then leave and advise your boss/manager. (It's better to fire a shit customer than a good employee). I know its hard to say "no" to...

Why not get work to pay for a unit then? If they need/want you to have experience with a product, get them to pay for it, especially if it's outside of your current scope of work. (You do have a training budget)? The main reason to get a real mac, would be to get familiar with the restore/clean...

John Carmack leaves Meta: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/12/john-carmack-leaves-meta-after-a-decade-fighting-to-make-vr-a-reality/?comments=1&comments-page=1 It'll be interesting to see where he ends up? Back into game dev, or going to another VR company, or starting/joining a VR unit at...

My only bit of advise when dealing with current mac's, is when buying second hand: Buy direct from the Apple Refurbished Store. Buy from a large bricks/mortar store who is an authorised Apple reseller. (B&H, Walmart, etc). If buying from a liquidator or other refurbish center, power on the...

For those on Nebula, I enjoy: https://nebula.tv/isaacarthur https://nebula.tv/realengineering https://nebula.tv/legaleagle Any other picks?

Regarding the mIRC license, it ultimately comes down to, is this a breach of EULA / contract, which depending on your area and the amount, would typically be seen in small claims court or similar if there is quantifiable harm done to yourself by the breach. You would have to prove on the balance...

Voucher: "LEGALEAGLE" for 42% off full year ($12 for full year, instead of $20 for the year).

We have Curiosity Stream + Nebula (I think we got it for US$12 for the year on a special), and I've been watching 50/50 Youtube vs Nebula recently. The quality of content is certainly far higher on Curiosity Stream + Nebula.

Myself and the kids all have Logitech G502s... (mine's coming up to 8 yrs old). My wife has an Intellimouse that she likes.

Do you need an optical drive? A lot of new case are ditching the 5.25" bay...

Are you after a dedicated mini-itx case, or a small matx case? Options in the mini-itx area seem to have stagnated in the last few years (nothing new on the market), the Inwin Chopin and Cougar QBX being the main ones I'm seeing recommended in addition to the Cooler Master NR200 series and the...

I'm not surprised, but it certainly doesn't help raise the reputation of the Windows 11... Many years ago when working at various MSPs, the number of times I had to attend a site with a dead server and no viable backups was way too many... Between dead tape drives, blank tapes and later dead...

Hi all, Just a quick PSA on the use of "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" on Windows 11. ** For those that are using this combination, you may suddenly find that your scheduled backups are no longer working due to a recent Windows update. From what I can gather, a recent windows update removed...

My kids went through a few Razor Kraken headsets pretty quickly (poor build quality and not that all durable), and are currently using Logitech G733 Lightspeed headsets which seem to working well for them. (They've had them for just over 12mths).

Title says it all: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/nvidia-will-unlaunch-the-12gb-rtx-4080-says-its-not-named-right/

The only one I've come across is https://www.youtube.com/c/EposVox/videos

It's certainly a small card...

So, when I look at a laptop with an RTX3060 GPU in it, can you tell just by the model number which one is actually included? People who read reviews, look at benchmarks will know there are potentially 3+ variants, all called the 'RTX3060' and all vary by speed, wattage, memory bus and included...

IIRC Adobe products use the built in encoding engines (QuickSync on Intel, NVENC on nVidia) and on nVidia uses CUDA for acceleration for other operations... So depending on how well the CUDA code Adobe has written, you could see linear improvements based on the linear increase in CUDA core...

Is it a case that they want to continue the profit margins as seen in the last few years (which many would consider an anomaly due to gpu driven crypto mining, pandemic and WFH), thus pleasing shareholders? Also remember TSMC (and shortly after most other fab's) discontinued bulk discount...

Another interesting note on the 12GB 4080, it uses a 192bit memory bus, which historically were only seen on 60's series cards. 70's and 80's always had 256bit+ memory busses.

Just got through watching some of the videos on youtube about the new cards, and there certainly is a lot of hate for the 12GB model name. (The card itself is fine, but hate for it being branded an 80's series card when many consider it's more like a 70's series card).

What type of processing are you doing, especially what components are being utilised? eg CUDA cores, nvenc, etc?

Why does the 12GB RTX 4080 really feel like it should have been called the RTX 4070? (less memory and memory bandwidth, less CUDA/Tensor core, fewer RT cores and lower shader performance).