Recent content by efikkan

I'm glad there is coming more "basic" workstation motherboards, there is a real need for competition in this segment. Getting rid of all the gimmicks lowers the entry for the platform, and if they just made the board lot's of IO, they would have cut costs even further, and made it a wonderful...

Correct, and I may add that the complexity of implementing SMT in the pipeline has grown greatly with ever more superscalar CPU designs. Not to mention the biggest problem; all the security issues, which requires lots of constraints for the designers to avoid. Thirdly, there is also the fact...

As always, I'm a bit skeptical about leaked clock speeds for a simple reason; they never know the final clock speeds until they got the final stepping in a significant volume, which leads to the following logical deductions; a) The CPUs are ready for "imminent" release (within the next couple of...

While there are some use cases where tighter timings have some advantages, it's usually just a few percent except for some edge cases, and most non-gaming workloads scale better with increased bandwidth anyways. Running overclocked memory does come at a cost too; system instability, wear and...

There is no need for water cooling. On LGA 4677 the specialized NH-U14S can cool about ~680W sustained, which is a lot more than the "mainstream socket" version of the same cooler, which tops out about ~225-250W depending on the die. Probably very low. These are the server versions of the...

Even 253W beyond 56 seconds (with sustained load) will likely shorten the chip's lifespan. What kind of sustained clock speeds do you achieve at a 150W power limit? I'm leaning more and more towards "HEDT" for productive works, even though I don't need many cores. Xeon-W tops out at 4.8 GHz...

What we need is information like this, but with actual data. There are always some failures with mass-produced electronics, but real statistics tells us whether there is a widespread defect/design flaw, or if this is just noise from a few people shouting very loudly. Most of us probably remember...

That's your opinion, and people have very different opinions on this matter. And I do appreciate the huge cost of maintenance, and I've experienced the effort it takes in development both for desktop software, mobile apps and even just simple websites can be more effort in testing and bugfixing...

Even though we know the slide is fake, I just want to point out that no one, including the best engineers, could precisely assess the effect of a cache change without evaluating the performance of a specific microarchitecture. A change in cache size on one microarchitecture might not translate...

I see that Microsoft will continue to make it difficult for anyone developing/maintaining software for "legacy" OS' (as usual). :( I can certainly understand anyone who don't have the fastest PC would like to hold on to their Windows 10 over getting a more laggy Windows 11, not to mention all...

Don't forget that the SSD has to rewrite the data to prevent data rot and to do wear leveling, so QLC will be terrible for long-term storage.

Please stop it with the straw man argument here. I've seen no one seriously making that argument, so there is no hypocrisy here. It would be different if the article were phrased in a way to excuse Nvidia, but it isn't, in fact it only focuses on the possibility of the driver being responsible...

Even if the entire audience brings 10 cell phones each, the distance is going to make the electromagnetic noise from these insignificant in this regard. Anything that does have an affect must be very close and have a strong field. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of ECC, and would strongly...

Like bit-flips from cosmic radiation during a time span of a few minutes would matter. :rolleyes: Sounds fairly far fetched compared to other risks. But what they could do is at least run the games on Linux (for the games which supports it), which is a much more stable OS than Windows, not to...

The endurance figures of TLC drives are already greatly exaggerated, not to mention the nonsensical figures for QLC. They make up these figures by optimistically estimate the usage, where the majority of writes will hit RAM cache etc. In reality though, these will wear out much faster. Then...