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Still have the 3200G combo?

Not really, but it's an interesting story in and of itself. Zhaoxin's chips are an outgrowth of whatever's left of VIA's in-house x86 designs. I don't know the technical details but essentially it's a cooperative effort. As it is wont to do, China is pursuing multiple potential solutions for its...

UnixBench of ~7400? That's not amazing for a chip released in 2024... I happen to have an eight core IBM Power9 from circa 2018 running as my main machine, and my numbers end up looking quite a bit like the Ryzen 3600 already posted. Version matches; OS was Fedora 40 ppc64le. I will say that...

Glad to read this; it'll be interesting to see where things stand in a few years.

Nvidia's also infamous for working its employees to the bone. It takes time for that stock to vest, and it's likely the AI bubble will pop before that happens for many of the people there. When that happens I suspect there will be a brain drain of burned out, disappointed Nvidia employees...

Respectfully, of course it does. That part of your portfolio is built on the consumption of resources predicated on ever-escalating expectations of software, and the need for new hardware to be engineered, manufactured, and purchased to take advantage of it. The demands of JavaScript and...

PM me, I have a PCIe-plugless Sparkle card I'll let go for $70 shipped.

To the first point: yes, they're absolutely going to ram this through. Microsoft does not care that they're going to create a glut of e-waste; number must go up, and their OEM partners want to drive demand for their new hardware. If it makes you angry that the centralization of power in the...

This chip was the basis of the SoC in the Milk-V Pioneer, a ~$1500 64 core behemoth. I’ll bet customers and Milk-V alike are having a really awful time with this info.

Bump, price dropped to $125.

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D'oh. That'll teach me to phonepost on a Sunday night. Updated.

SOLD! Thanks for looking. Hello! I have an XFX Radeon RX 6600 SWFT Speedster 210 for sale. It comes with the original box, and is in excellent condition. The Radeon worked for a year and change in a Linux workstation and saw little gaming more demanding than the odd bout of GZDoom or VkQuake...

I’m looking to rehome a Sparkle Intel Arc A380, has 6GB RAM and doesn’t require a PCIe connector.

Shame they didn’t say Why Recall was Totaled, though that’s probably because Microsoft is still sold on it and insistent they just need to fiddle with and repackage it

If you haven't looked at Krita or Serif Affinity, hopefully this will encourage you to give them a try.

I've had a relationship with Windows since 1995, when we bought our family PC, and I've defended its strengths through most of those 29 years... But between Windows becoming enslaved to feeding the rest of Microsoft's products starting with Windows 10, abruptly terminating the lifespan and...

Free bump for you - with the right hardware the x300 DeskMeet is a great ITX machine. With a 5700GE and an RTX 4060 it’s preposterously good.

You reminded me of Oldblivion, a mod made largely in response to lousy performance on GeForceFX hardware…

AMD underinvested in ROPs that generation, and tried to make up some of the shortfall by leaning heavily on shader power to perform AA. The problem below the high end 2900 series parts was that the video decoding block took up an appreciable amount of die space, roughly equal to a block of 40...

I don’t want to get into the thick of anything but I’ll confirm DXR raytracing runs Minecraft agreeably enough. DLSS is locked to Nvidia hardware but I had no issues playing around with RT on Intel Arc hardware, even if it was pretty pokey on an Arc A380 for anything north of 720p. Still...

Funny you mention that - one of the first things that came to mind for me was how quickly an abusive partner could wield this as a weapon against their spouse or children. On a sniff test there's no way this passes the GDPR, and I wouldn't let this onto any machine I use. Hell, I feel queasy...

I’ll second suggestions to snag an FX-8320, and suggest an 8320e could be a steal at the right price. Even an OEM FX-8300 might do the trick.

Not trying to be confrontational in saying this: why would you pay Microsoft full price for a Windows license when it has no impact on how infested the experience is with advertising, dark patterns, and dead-eyed encouragement to give Microsoft money for their services every year for the rest of...

Seems like few of these make it through [H]ardForum these days... If anyone's looking to sell one, let me know what shipping to 75080 would be. Looking to spend around $500. Thanks.

Bump for a really lovely deal.If only I could.

I love dry wit.

Weird thing is, looking back at my posting history on these forums I've gone off on the Volaris at least twice prior. Something about being promised a legitimate third contender in the GPU space back then and being handed trash that worked with heinously low reliability rubbed me wrong. Probably...

Well… other than the hallmark reputation of being Nvidia’s biggest faceplant release so far, the FX series did support a few things later cards didn't that were useful for specific legacy 3D tasks. It was the last line of cards that supported palettized textures, table fog, and other features...

Bump for a killer deal.

It’s somewhere between a 1050 Ti and an RX 570 in general, has a hell of a video encoder and generally modern feature set, and has the option of running without a PCIe connector, though the models that have one are certainly faster under sustained heavy load. The Linux drivers have shaped up...

Ah, yeah, I remember the Volaris. I was in touch with someone in their U.S. office and had the opportunity to beta test drivers on hardware they'd have provided me free of charge, but I passed on the opportunity after an extended family member passed away and I was trying to finish my undergrad...

If you run them all at once in the same room do your eardrums explode or does it herald the apocalypse

TRADED FOR A 16GB ARC A770. THANKS FOR LOOKING! What it says - I want to sell this immense slab of an RTX 3070. It is in good working order and a stalwart, capable performer. I’d like $290 shipped within the continental U.S. This was never mined on. I have positive Heat under FreonTrip. Let me...

I’m pulling for Intel at this point - AMD’s GPU development may have been intractably stunted by their starvation days, and their software team just hasn’t been able to scale to broad competitiveness. I’m not downplaying how good their hardware team has been or the improvements they’ve worked...

Quoting, because I had an MSI-manufactured one that I flat-out adored. Within its limits the card was rock solid, and I loved running all my old games with angle-independent anisotropic filtering and antialiasing forced on. I think I sold it around the time PCI Express became standard, but I...

Much respect for evangelizing your preferred filesystem, and if it works for your use case I'm happy to hear it. ZFS is an interesting choice here, and I'd like to hear about how its capabilities stack up versus NTFS on flash storage, especially since the latter's Master File Table is a...

I’m not sure the DX7 path used bump mapping either, but the DX6 path definitely didn’t. DX6 also forced downsampled textures and I’m pretty sure dynamic lights were borked. There are videos on YouTube of various older cards struggling to manage the game; the Kyro II and Voodoo5 6000 struggle for...