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At this point, cable is fiber-to-the-node, with coax for the last mile. With DOCSIS 4.0 you can get up to 10 Gbps downstream and 6 Gbps upstream, which is competitive with FttH service. You do still run into the issue of cable providers over-provisioning nodes so the bandwidth you pay for is a...

The internal SSD isn't a standard NVME because the controller is onboard the SOC, and that is done because the drive is encrypted and unlocked by the secure enclave which is also onboard the SOC. So the internal drive will never be a standard NVME as the separate controller would compromise the...

Definitely some strange choices of places to build fabs considering the water needed. TSMC in Arizona, obviously. But now Micron in Idaho which is in the middle of a severe drought and restricting water for farmland.

With general competence in short supply, and specialized competence even less available, companies can have all the great ideas & plans that they want, but will have trouble securing the people needed to make it happen & succeed unless they already have them in place. With the current interest...

It definitely looks like somebody is paying them in some form for shelf space, which seems weird for PC hardware.

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It's not really a thing as enterprise flash storage is shifting to smaller format drives than 2.5". It just doesn't make sense as the space would just be wasted.

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Haven't really used mine much since I bought it, and haven't fired up VR yet, but I'm glad that VR performance has seen a good boost.

It's from The City on the Edge of Forever, Season 1 Episode 28 of Star Trek. Spock builds a computer in 1930.

The official specs look like they're meant to match the Xbox Series X, which is going to run the game at 30 fps. I'm with you, we need to know what's required to actually run the game, 30 fps is no bueno.

I wonder why Sony & Microsoft aren't increasing console pricing in the US. Were the margins on hardware sales here already higher?

It doesn't look like any of the other GPU water block manufacturers are making a block for the reference 7900 XT. Just the reference 7900 XTX & various AIB custom cards that use the same layout for the XT & XTX. Alphacool's design for the 7900 XT/XTX blocks seems to be more modular which makes...

The ASUS Z690 Hero was a diode installed backwards, which caused several capacitors to fail. Had to RMA mine, but it was a smooth process.

Less undocumented features than any prior Bethesda game? Maybe we'll need a community mod just to reintroduce some of those lovely quirks from Skyrim & Fallout 4. Just think of all the fun that we might miss out on since we're now going to be on planets in space. I mean who doesn't want to...

It's an option in the Group Policy Editor if you're running Pro or equivalent. There's also a registry entry you can add. But it applies to all drivers, not just GPU drivers, so I'm not sure if DDU is just adding the registry entry or what.

I have had problems with it still wanting to update drivers even though I have it disabled. A real PITA as often the AMD graphics drivers on Windows Update are out of date and it installs them over the newer drivers anyway.

Also, with RDNA 3 they can get some more performance by disregarding efficiency.

Hoping my ASUS Z690 Hero will just need a bios update.

I bought the Premium Deluxe edition of MSFS 2020, it says that DLC will carry over, I wonder about the additional planes & airports from the Deluxe & Premium Deluxe editions. Will MSFS 2024 have the same 3 tier structure of MSFS 2020?

One might even say the industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Plex works with Intel ARC gpu's, but it doesn't support AV1 encoding currently. I think there is the issue of the Linux kernel driver for the Intel ARC gpu's, it is included in the 6.0 & newer kernels, so if you're running on Linux you need at least kernel 6.0 to get the ARC gpu's to work.

So another wonderful marketing term divorced from reality, another recent example I can think of is Comcast 10G, which will max out at 8Gb download speeds.

These could also be useful for transcoding on Plex servers & the like.

I wonder what the total number of unique games they've given away is, like what's the maximum one could have? Over 300 is quite a lot, I've only claimed around 125 on Epic. Otherwise I got Godfall which had to be redeemed on Epic as a free game with an RX 5600 XT & I bought Hitman 3 while it was...

Being a CPA and toiling away for a paycheck while reading these kinds of stories really makes me wish for a new dot com bubble burst. Constantly reading about some asshole scam artist becoming obscenely wealthy from what appears to me to be an obviously fake business while my younger, newlywed...

It looks like there are now updated BIOS's posted for all revisions of the board dated June 1st. They weren't there at the time of my prior post on June 2nd, at which time the press release from Gigabyte said they had posted updates for all the B550 motherboards.

There really doesn't seem to have been any perceptible improvement in standard desktop workloads from these ever faster SSD's. And the high-end SSD's have gone from MLC to TLC, while the low end is overtaken by QLC drives. Pricing per GB has steadily improved, that's pretty much it.

That's the board I have, not sure which revision. All the revisions are listed in the PDF as affected.

I have one of the effected B550 motherboards. There is no BIOS update on the support page.

And apparently Nvidia has predicted that their second quarter revenues will be $11,000,000,000 when they have never been higher than $8 billion for any quarter. I really don't have any explanation for this other than irrational exuberance.

Apple bought out Intel's smartphone modem business in 2019 and have been working on developing their own 5G modem. Reportedly this years iPhone release is the last that will employ Qualcomm 5G modems, although this is actually as pushback from when Apple wanted to switch to their own in-house 5G...

In the US real wages have declined for 25 consecutive months. I'm not sure but I believe real wage declines in the UK have been even worse, I'd imagine that the EU is similarly suffering. In the US credit card debt continue to push new historic highs when they had decreased just 2-3 years ago...

Bundling the Kinect was just moronic, the PS4 was the easy choice. It's OK though, Microsoft has rebounded by buying every publisher & studio they can get their hands on and creating the Netflix of video games.