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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2021 18:26:00 GMT
ASUS PN51 Mini PC review: This AMD-powered compact workstation is a beast AMD-powered super-compact mini PC. www.windowscentral.com/asus-pn51-mini-pc-reviewASUS has a mini PC on the market that offers something a little different from the competition. Instead of going with Intel, the company opted for a Ryzen 5000 processor. It's the same AMD mobile processors you'd find in high-end laptops like the HP ENVY x360 15, which we adored so already ASUS is off to a good start. Throw in expandable DDR4 RAM of up to 64GB running at 3200MHz, NVMe storage, and plenty of ports to hook up all your accessories, and you've got one compact workstation. If you're searching for a small form factor PC that can double as a work and gaming PC without requiring external GPU support, this ASUS PN51 may just be what you're searching for.
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2021 14:55:46 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2021 17:06:35 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2021 20:30:42 GMT
I’m back with another of the talks from Hackerspace Gent’s NewLine conference, fresh from my weekend of indulgence quaffing fine Belgian food and beers while mixing with that country’s hacker community. This time it’s an overview from [Michael Smith] of the MiSTer project, a multi-emulator using an FPGA to swap out implementations of everything from an early PDP minicomputer to an 80486SX PC. At its heart is a dev board containing an Intel Cyclone SoC/FPGA, to which a USB hub must be added, and then a memory upgrade to run all but the simplest of cores. Once the hardware has been taken care of it almost seems as though there are no classic platforms for which there isn’t a core, as a quick browse of the MiSTer forum attests. We are treated to seamless switching between SNES and NED platforms, and even switching different SID chip versions during a running Commodore 64 demo. There are many different routes to a decent emulator set-up be they using hardware, software, or a combination of both. It’s unlikely that there are any as versatile as this one though, and we’re guessing that as it further evolves it will become a fixture below the monitor or TV of any gamer. It’s a step up from single-platform FPGA emulators, that’s for certain! hackaday.com/2021/09/12/hey-mister-emulator-gimme-almost-any-classic-platform/
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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2021 17:59:25 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2021 12:59:00 GMT
RASPBERRY PI WITH SOME SERIOUS GRAPHICAL MUSCLE Matthew Carlson hackaday.com/2021/09/20/raspberry-pi-with-some-serious-graphical-muscle/[Jeff Geerling] routinely tinkers around with Raspberry Pi compute module, which unlike the regular RPi 4, includes a PCI-e lane. With some luck, he was able to obtain an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU card and decided to try and plug it into the Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module. While you likely wouldn’t be running games with such as setup, there are many kinds of unique and interesting compute-based workloads that can be offloaded onto a GPU. In a situation similar to putting a V8 on a lawnmower, the Raspberry Pi 4 pulls around 5-10 watts and the GPU can pull 230 watts. Unfortunately, the PCI-e slot on the IO board wasn’t designed with a power-hungry chip in mind, so [Jeff] brought in a full-blown ATX power supply to power the GPU. To avoid problems with differing ground planes, an adapter was fashioned for the Raspberry Pi to be powered from the PSU as well. Plugging in the card yielded promising results initially. In particular, Linux detected the card and correctly mapped the BARs (Base Address Register), which had been a problem in the past for him with other devices. A BAR allows a PCI device to map its memory into the CPU’s memory space and keep track of the base address of that mapped memory range. AMD kindly provides Linux drivers for the kernel. [Jeff] walks through cross-compiling the kernel and has a nice docker container that quickly reproduces the built environment. There was a bug that prevented compilation with AMD drivers included, so he wasn’t able to get a fully built kernel. Since the video, he has been slowly wading through the issue in a fascinating thread on GitHub. Everything from running out of memory space for the Pi to PSP memory training for the GPU itself has been encountered.
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Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2021 19:44:41 GMT
HOME AUTOMATION TERMINAL WITH CYBERPUNK STYLE hackaday.com/2021/09/22/home-automation-terminal-with-cyberpunk-style/The OLKB-Terminal designed by [Jeff Eberl] doesn’t have a battery, can’t fold up (even if it seems like it could), and is only portable in the sense that you can literally pick it up and move it somewhere else. So arguably it’s not really a cyberdeck per se, but it certainly does look the part. If you need to be furiously typing out lines of code in a dimly lit near-future hacker’s den, this should do you nicely. [Jeff] has provided everything you’d need to recreate this slick little machine on your own, though he does warn that some of the hardware decisions were based simply on what he had on-hand at the time, and that better or cheaper options may exist. So for example if you don’t want to use the Raspberry Pi 4, you can easily swap it out for some other single-board computer. Though if you want to change something better integrated, like the LCD panel, it will probably require modifications to the 3D printed components.
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2021 12:29:34 GMT
EVEN FASTER FOURIER TRANSFORMS ON THE RASPBERY PI ZERO Lewin Day September 22, 2021 hackaday.com/2021/09/22/even-faster-fourier-transforms-on-the-raspbery-pi-zero/Oftentimes in computing, we start doing a thing, and we’re glad we’re doing it. But then we realise, it would be much nicer if we could do it much faster. [Ricardo de Azambuja] was in just such a situation when working with the Raspberry Pi Zero, and realised that there were some techniques that could drastically speed up Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) on the platform. Thus, he got to work. The trick is using the Raspberry Pi Zero’s GPU to handle the FFTs instead of the CPU itself. This netted Ricardo a 7x speed upgrade for 1-dimensional FFTs, and a 2x speed upgrade for 2-dimensional operations. The idea was cribbed from work we featured many years ago, which provided a similar speed up to the very first Raspberry Pi. Given the Pi Zero uses the same SoC as the original Raspberry Pi but at a higher clock rate, this makes perfect sense. However, in this case, [Ricardo] implemented the code in Python instead of C as suits his use case. [Ricardo] uses the code with his Maple Syrup Pi Camera project, which pairs a Coral USB machine learning accelerator with a Pi Zero and a camera to achieve tasks such as automatic licence plate recognition or facemask detection. Fun! Posted in Raspberry Pi Tagged fast fourier transform, fft, fourier transform, raspberry pi POST NAVIGATION
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2021 17:37:19 GMT
Asrock B550 PG RIPTIDE review A high-tidal flow AM4 motherboard? www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/asrock-b550-pg-riptide-review,1.html Meet the Asrock B550 PG RIPTIDE motherboard. It’s a mid-tier ATX product from the Phantom Gaming series. According to Asrock - Riptide is named after a specific kind of water current with strong waves in the ocean, representing the philosophy of the sea’s double-side, calm and unlimited strength. Built around powerful gaming-related features, the Riptide has given a powerful smash and immerse users in the sense of stability. This is a 30.5 x 24.4 cm ATX-factor product equipped with a B550 chipset, and it offers such features as a 10-phase power design (Dr. MOS) and 1x 2.5 Gigabit ethernet (Killer Ethernet E3100). The design is rather attractive, with a consistent black-and-grey theme. MSRP is at about 160 USD, so it’s reasonably priced
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2021 19:05:40 GMT
Seagate Is the First Company to Ship 3 Zettabytes of Hard Drive Storage We're going to need to store 175 zettabytes per year by 2025. uk.pcmag.com/storage/132697/seagate-is-the-first-company-to-ship-3-zettabytes-of-hard-drive-storageIf you need proof that demand for data storage is accelerating, look no further than Seagate, which has become the first company to ship 3 zettabytes of hard drive storage capacity. The rate at which the company went from shipping one zettabyte to the next is quite simply staggering. It took Seagate 36 years to ship its first zettabyte of capacity, which happened in March 2015. Four years later and the next zettabyte had shipped, and then last month, just two years later, the 3 zettabyte mark was reached. Of course, the next question everyone will be asking is: how big is a zettabyte? As Seagate explains, a zettabyte is 1,000 exabytes, and one exabyte is 1,000 petabytes. Each petabyte is 1,000 terabytes. A zettabyte is enough storage for 30 billion 4K movies, or 60 billion video games, or 7.5 trillion MP3 songs according to Seagate. If you wanted 3 zettabytes of storage at home, you'd need to hook up 300 million 10TB hard drives. Our need for more storage is apparently only going to increase, with current estimates predicting the world will produce 175 zettabytes of data a year by 2025. Self-driving cars alone will account for 32 terabytes per day, which of course is music to the ears of a storage company like Seagate, assuming it can keep up with demand while also increasing the size of the drives it ships. The good news is, Seagate expects to be shipping 50TB hard drives by 2026, and Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) technology should scale up to 80TB. And for longer term storage, Microsoft is working on a brand new storage medium constructed from quartz glass that has already made it possible to watch the Superman movie for thousands of years.
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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2021 10:17:35 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 7, 2021 20:50:29 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 4, 2022 19:59:34 GMT
Core i5 12400 review 6x BIG and 0x Little www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/core-i5-12400-processor-review,1.html With six performance cores and hyper-threading, meet the Core i5 12400, what could be the most sought-after budget-friendly and rightly performing Alder Lake series CPU for use on a gaming platform today. It provides a significant amount of tier1 performance, can be tied to DDR5 memory when paired on the less expensive B660 chipset. Six high-performance cores properly clocked will offer you truthfully good gaming value, as well as excellent overall desktop performance for this processor, tagged at give or take 210 USD. With this release, we enter the mainstream value segment, which means there's no K-version (overclockable) of the processor as reviewed today. The Core i5 12400 will come in a 12400 and 12400F revision, the latter one has its IGP disabled. Every chip still has 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes, which can be used for either graphics or storage, though it should be noted that there are presently no B660 devices that implement the 5.0 specification. However, using a 200 USD proc on an expensive Z690 motherboard might not be the wisest thing to do, we advise you to seek that value B660 motherboard. Here you'll end up at PCIe 4.0 lanes as opposed to PCIe 5.0 (not a big deal really). Motherboards will support either DDR4 or DDR5 memory, with native speeds of 3,200MHz or 4,800MHz, respectively, depending on the model. The Intel Core i5-12400 contains six Golden Cove P cores only, with hyperthreading. There are no energy-efficient E-cores active in this Alder Lake variant. The processor features an 18MB L3 cache and has a lower 65W TDP. On a single-core, the boost clock reaches 4.4GHz; on all cores that value is 4.0GHz with a base frequency of 2.5 GHz. This processor has a 65W base power (PL1) and a maximum turbo power of 117W (PL2). We have a lot to talk about and to explain; let's had on over into the article, where we'll start off with a bit more information bout the architecture that is Alder lake, the initial processors released, and of course, a full test of the processor. This article covers the Core i5 12400, a mainstream yet very gaming-friendly processor.
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Post by Admin on Jan 7, 2022 17:51:46 GMT
MSI jams a 14-core Core i9-12900H and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti into a tiny laptop The MSI Z16P features a vapor chamber and a phase-change liquid-metal pad for cooling. www.pcworld.com/article/562693/msi-jams-14-core-cpu-and-geforce-rtx-3080-ti-into-a-tiny-laptop.htmlJust what are the limits of a thin and light laptop? MSI looks to test that with its new Creator Z16P, which manages to jam a 14-core 12th gen Core i9-12900H CPU and—we repeat—and Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU into a fairly thin portable. How thin? The Z16P is 0.75-inches thick, or just over 19mm. The laptop’s footprint is about 14×10 inches, which makes it pretty petite for the hardware it packs.
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Post by Admin on Jan 8, 2022 19:24:51 GMT
End of an era? This PC case gives the O11 Dynamic a run for its money Thoughtful design elements make this case a serious contender. www.pcworld.com/article/563958/end-of-an-era-this-pc-case-gives-the-o11-dynamic-a-run-for-its-money.htmlAt this point, nearly every DIY builder knows the O11 Dynamic. Scores of people love using it too, even when there’s not a single tube of custom water-cooling inside. The case is a showpiece, and if Lian Li’s many size variations of it are any indication, it’s a formula not to be messed with. Other companies have produced uncannily similar creations, to boot. Not Hyte. This relatively new offshoot of system integrator iBuyPower launched last year with the Revolt 3, a case that resembled the NZXT H1 and SSUPD Meshlicious, and yet held its own with distinct details that set it apart. In 2022, the company’s doing it again with the Hyte Y60, a case on the opposite end of the scale—think the size of the just-launched O11D Evo.
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