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AMD just launched Bergamo as the new Epyc architecture, which is 35% smaller than standard Zen4 and offers up to 128c/256c at up to 3GHz. There's some expectation that we'll start seeing a mix of big and little cores in future Ryzen offerings, just like 12th and 13th generation Core products.

That feature is not well documented by the OEMs and they all use different naming conventions for the flash file, but the short version is that the MB will power on and will display video during the update process if there's an onboard port. I've done this on Asus, Gigabyte and Asrock boards but...

I spend a lot of time worrying about write endurance, probably more than anything else, which makes cheap SSDs unappealing. I'm tempted to just buy something like a barebones Lenovo SR630 with either 10x 2.5" SAS/U.2 combo or EDSFF bays. I'm a little daunted at what I might be getting into for...

My servers in production are Broadwell or Haswell Xeons, either Dell R630s or Lenovo RD550s. They have crap tons of RAM and most of them are SMP, ~2.4GHz/core systems that are perfectly adequate for the load. They're old, old enough to be E-waste for corporate systems, but they're also perfectly...

I feel like it compares well to the average middle aged dude's weekend lawn care routine. 😁

It is definitely the pastime of the bachelor. Also, step one is almost certainly "Make friends and keep up with people who were and still are working at a strip club over a thirty year period and somehow don't do anything creepy to anyone in all that time."

This is a valuable lesson that absolutely explains why putting Linux on a laptop 20 years ago was hardcore masochism. On the other hand, getting Suse or Mint on a 2022 or 20223-model PC is universally easier than installing Windows 10 on the same hardware. Which is completely hilarious, IMO.

As someone who takes a lot of pictures of butts, this is wonderful news. I'm not even joking.

I'm really impressed with the Lenovo Flex 14. The one set before me has a 6c/12t R5 5500U, 8GB RAM a 1920x1200 touch display that flips for tablet operation and the whole thing apparently cost less than $350. If it didn't have soldered RAM, it would be absolutely awesome for the money.

Actually, what IS eVGA doing now? They don't make video cards or motherboards. What's left? Cooling setups? OK I went and looked and... Liquid coolers, PSUs and gaming peripherals. The margins on a gamer mouse might actually be higher than a mid-range GPU and that's crazy.

IIRC, there were single-sided and double-sided DIMMs, with double-sided working fine on AMD but only only showed up as half capacity on an Intel PC. This is still something that happens; I have some high capacity DDR3 modules that do the same thing on older Core i-whatever but are fine AMD...

It looks like nVidia 4000-series GPUs are getting big markdowns. 20% off puts their price almost at the point of sanity. Apparently sales of graphics cards are the lowest they've been in actual decades and pretty much no one is happy with that state of affairs.

Weirdly, the places I'm most likely to run in to Macs are law offices and small software developer shops and one-offs for VIPs who use them as glorified Email and Powerpoint terminals. I do some work for a commercial and graphics press and even they're 100% PC. My office has an M1 iMac because...

My almost 23 year old domestic partner will say with absolutely no sense of irony, that she grew up poor and therefore only had Android devices until she was able to buy Apple once she started earning an income. Her high school used Google for Education and Chromebooks as well, and to her...

The RAM on their SoCs is just DDR5. The architecture is obviously different, but I think the only difference is the width of the bus between RAM and actual CPU. It's not a miracle. I understand that CAMM modules mitigate some of the issues with using wider, faster buses for newer memory...

Apple Silicon Macs always seem like lightweights in the RAM department. I know it's part of the SoC but even with the greater memory bandwidth, you can't magic away large data sets. It seems like there should be an option to add CAMM modules or something, if only to make that machine more...

Apple very specifically doesn't want send users to deal with the concept of files, let alone worry their pretty little heads about concepts like bitrates or formats. It just works if you send it to another Apple thing!

New Mac Pro with an M2 Ultra dropped today. It's a weird system. $7000 base price, maximum of 192GB RAM. Has PCI-e 4.0 for, oh, something-or-other that isn't GPUs, no access to socketed RAM and no CPU configuration that's particularly better than the Mac Studio. I guess the intention is to...

This morning, an acquaintance asked me to look at his iphone 14 Pro Max. 1TB model. It was full, with 880GB of 20 - 25 second long video clips that had been recorded in 4k. I had many questions. The clips are recordings of him demonstrating dance moves. They are very short because those are the...

That sounds like a massive pain in the ass, but it should be do-able. I do know that the Thinkpads of that era, the ~T20 at least, did support USB boot. I'm not familiar with the C400. You could also get a PC Card drive for it, just for the fun of playing with something old enough to be a...

Users can and probably should turn off LAN access by UEFI or disable the @App Center Download. The mitigation is fairly straightforward for people comfortable enough to get in to the firmware interface.

I don't think anyone is making a combined BT / Wifi 6/7 USB adapter. Those do exist for m.2. Some desktop boards, especially mATX and ITX models, have a vertical m.2 slot for mounting such a card. If yours doesn't have one of those slots, you'll probably wind up using two USB ports to get all...

This is someone whose Youtube channel I follow but the title is entirely accurate.

The trial ISO I got from MS didn't give me the opportunity to use another key during install, hence the workaround. I've always done trial and put in the key at the end as well. I'm not sure I'd do that with a production server though.

Here's a REALLY random something: Somebody's dissertation-length analysis of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, written probably two decades after the game was published.

The answer to that question is yes. I do maintain images with Home and Pro licenses and I check them against desktop and mobile platforms as I encounter new chipsets. I've never had a problem with Windows 10 or 11 activation on brand-name systems.

You're talking about telephoto ranges and I'm thinking about standard ranges. A lot of the Z series primes under 200mm are 1.8s at best.

I suspect that Microsoft considers Windows Server the way it considers Office Professional: it's not something that consumers are ever supposed to have. Office 2021 was the first release of Office Pro 2013 that had a single user perpetual license SKU. 2016 and 2019 were not available to end...

To its credit, Canon also has a full line of pro lenses AND a decent range of long zooms and most of the stuff that's still on its roadmap are pretty niche. Sony doesn't really do long zooms and Nikon doesn't have much in the way of fast primes in Z mount, unless you really want a 50/1.2. Yes...

Corporate IT is a very different animal from anything that makes sense for any other context, but on the other hand, simplifying the environment is the biggest favor support people could ever have to deal with.

One tiny and weird hitch for using Server 2022: the trial version is considered a separate SKU from Standard Server or Datacenter. A valid product key for one of those doesn't work with the trial software. There's still a fix, which is to remove your existing trial key with a publicly-known...

The thing that gets sold in a Wal-Mart or Best Buy will sell 100x more than the $3000+ bodies that get paired with $2500 RF lenses. Those places only have the kit lenses and MAYBE the RF 50/1.8 as available options, too. I look at the low-cost options as improving the floor of what we see in...

You forgot Transmeta, Chewy, but I'm surprised you remembered Rise. I can't fully tell if the tech Transmeta developed actually went anywhere and was just licensed by every tech company under the sun, or if it just died on the vine, but apparently the company that held all its assets died in...

I understand why it's consolidated as much as it has, but at the same time, I wish there were more than the same few options. Pour one out for Abit.

As a counterpoint, getting 20+ megapixels and fantastic contemporary lens designs mean that many, many people can be very well served with a relatively entry level camera, especially compared to crappy phone cameras. I'm sure that's the proper comparison point for the R100.

Gaming is not the only reason to want computer with expansion capability. It's not really useful for fleet systems, but for home users, there's a whole world of unknowns surrounding the needs of a user and there's a good argument for having places to plug in a drive or expansion card. We don't...

Apropos of nothing, does anyone else think that it's completely insane that premium desktop motherboards are selling for north of $500 these days, like $500 B550 boards? For a pair of 2.5GbE ports and some extra aluminum around the VRMs? I had an occasion to stop in Microcenter today, looking...

I think we all use different processing applications. Numbers for Adobe software may not have a meaningful correlation to DXO or Capture One. It's also true that improvements are coming very quickly. I do feel like Intel has gotten written off in GPU discussion. I've seen A770s sell for under...

The only thing that's REALLY weird about it is the lack of a touchscreen. The touchscreen has been something that Canon absolutely nailed all along. It's incredibly friendly to new users like, hey, exactly the people who get $500 cameras. I'm glad to see a true low cost RF option at least.

The people who make this hardware work to shave fractions of a penny off the costs per unit, and it's not like GDDR6 or 7 is exactly cheap. For nVidia especially, gating the additional texture memory to high end products is a way to ensure that there's a limited lifespan for the cheaper parts...

Usually the XY00 AMD and X0Y0 nVidia card are approximately on par, up to about the x080 level on the nVidia side. AMD's high end usually doesn't reach the ridiculous high of whatever the x090 can do, but AMD's top end is also far cheaper. AMD sometimes adds some extra SKUs to fill in between...

AMD released the RX7600 today, which has an MSRP of $270. It keeps pace with the corridor of Arc 770 - 3060Ti but it only has 8GB RAM and doesn't have either Intel's driver support for content creation or nVidia's AI, but given that it's priced reasonably, it's at least worth consideration.

Right now it's just learning. None of my customers are a good fit for Azure, which is absolutely the end goal of everything Microsoft is doing now. I totally understand why you aren't messing with it any more. A lot of SMB systems expect a Microsoft environment and even though MSSQL and .net...

Just today, I'm finally getting around to doing something with Windows Server 2022. I upgraded things to 2019, and no one has any real interest in upgrading for no reason, so it hasn't been on my radar. Server 2022 does not have a mandate for Microsoft accounts, nor can Windows Store software...

The 4060TI was released today. It has almost nothing going for it, and that's the 4090, 4080 and 4070 ALSO really had nothing going for them given their pricing and power draw.

nVidia has apparently continued its bold new direction of shipping GPUs that aren't worth buying. Hope you wanted good ray tracing at 1080p in your $400 or $500 card because that's the only really compelling feature it brings to the table.

One of my customers closed their office during the pandemic and I just brought it home. Their setup is a just VMs in my datacenter now. Which are also sitting on an RD550. I added a second PSU and switched the single CPU for a pair of bigger boys (I think I went E5 2670 v3 to now having 2698s...

That system is kind of weird though. It doesn't support being an iSCSI target, so you'd be doing SMB or maybe NFS. That's definitely less than ideal for running VMs, and it's not like the local CPU could manage such a thing. All SSD media storage is cool from a bragging rights perspective...

Microsoft admits it can't fix Windows 11.

What's the application for that particular range? I completely understand the 100 - 300/2.8 as a sport lens but 200 is too long for sport and too short for wildlife. Is it entirely meant for the teleconverter?