Recent content by Sycraft

Ya but continually saying "The schedular needs to rock," doesn't make sense if there's an easier way to solve the problem. If HT is not useful performance wise for a desktop these days, take it out. Particularly since, performance aside, it is NOT free as others noted. It costs transistors...

Also it hurts single threaded performance on the P-core. If you have it cranking hard on a thread, but then another thread is saying "can I please to have time on the core too?" it hurts that single thread performance. Now when CPUs only had 2 or 4 or 6 cores, maybe that was worth it. The...

They were probably trying to hide that it was just a Yamaha OPL2 chip, hoping other people wouldn't be able to easily clone it... which of course they figured out anyhow (was really obvious) and did.

The info says yes, they are cutting it entirely from all chips. More or less with e-cores, it doesn't make sense to do SMT anymore, save p-cores for heavy tasks, offload the easier stuff of e-cores.

I dunno, some people are willing to pay too much for stuff like this because they view it as a collatable. Of course it has no bids so far so...

If it is crashing everywhere and that fast I wonder if it is CPU related. Do you have a 13/14th gen Intel CPU? Some of them seem to have issues with UE games, which Survivor is, when they have an unlimited power setting which many motherboards default to. The RT crashing seems to only happen on...

Kinda depends on how much you want to spend, and what size you want. If you just want a nice 24" monitor with no frills, the Dell U series is still a good way to go. The U2424H is one we often get at work. $300ish dollars and looks and works well. If you like the 16:10 1920x1200 the older U...

Why are there Vatniks in a tech thread? :p

True, though that said there are some very accurate HT speakers (the SVS MTS speakers were pretty amazing) and it is easier to get one designed for a large room for not too much money. Most powered monitors are designed for nearfield which is great at the desktop since that's what you are doing...

Lots do actually, never ceases to amaze me how much people will spend on video and then just ignore audio. Not just computers either. I've seen people with new shiny $5k 85" OLEDs just using the integrated speakers. Also, I will say that while I don't like computer speakers, I've come around to...

Good luck to them with that. :P They were at least a decade behind the rest of the world, probably more, when it they finally broke up.

Pretty much. They'll start caring if AMD or Intel produce a card that people start buying instead. If GeForce cards start sitting on shelves not selling and people are snapping up cards from the competition, they'll care and lower prices. Otherwise, they won't.

I'm also guessing it is using the newer "12V-2x6" variant which has tightened up tolerances and made a few changes to make it less likely it can be not fully engaged and still deliver power.

They want to move more things to the local system. Probably not everything, some of the LLMs are real heavy on that first "L" (large), but some stuff. There's sort of two sides to the reasons they would do this: 1) From a consumer standpoint, local processing is faster and works even if there...

Ya thats... Ummm... Like why even do that? I mean I get not everything needs to be latest node, we make a LOT of useful chips for lots of products every day on older, cheaper, nodes. Your microwave has a PIC in it, they are not paying to have that fabbed on 3nm. But 350nm? That's so old as to...