New video! Battlefield 6 on AMD FX...it's possible I've been out to test whether BF6's minimum requirements are actually in place and made some interesting discoveries. youtu.be/bJf90cg6Olg

New video! Battlefield 6 on AMD FX...it's possible I've been out to test whether BF6's minimum requirements are actually in place and made some interesting discoveries. youtu.be/bJf90cg6Olg

I sometimes think of this book I read nearly a decade ago… just came across it in storage.

Dug out the mighty quad Opteron to see if I can restore the failed memory channels. Luckily there aren’t many socket pins to check lol

The RTX 5090 has 92,000,000,000 transistors - as many as: 30 GTX 580s or 13 GTX 780Tis or 11 GTX 980Tis or 7 GTX 1080Tis or 5 RTX 2080Tis or 3 RTX 3090s or 1.2 RTX 4090s

The BlueSky influx seems to be over, with daily likers dropping by nearly a million users since last month, though data might be incomplete. I hope the current user base is still enough to keep it going and gain traction in the future. bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Further in the light of Intel's tumultuous times and job cuts, it's mad to think Intel is about as big as AMD, NVIDIA and TSMC -combined-, employing over 125000.

250W remained the standard for many generations until Ampere and Ada

For extra context, here's the same graph with revenue since 1996 added. #intel

With the retirement of #Intel 's Pat Gelsinger, here's an Intel CEO timeline from 1980 to 2024 with stock value overlay..

It’s funny how we used to see the GTX 480 as the pinnacle of excess power consumption and heat, with a TDP of 250W. Yet today’s RTX 4090 has a 450W(!!) TDP but doesn’t have that same stigma. I suppose the 480’s loud and inadequate, grill-like cooler played a big part that…

Sold some cards recently which I had been sitting on - SLI setup of two EVGA GTX 285 SSCs

Here's an old pic of my 3-Way SLI EVGA GTX 570 2560MB setup for your enjoyment

@sniffpetrol.bsky.social you might enjoy this piece of parts bin cost cutting - 2015 Rolls-Royce Phantom EWB front heated seat switch vs rear heated seat switch... www.autoscout24.nl/aanbod/rolls...

You know I might switch to Mac sooner than I thought

I'd love to get a 1440p 27" OLED display, but as long as the text clarity issues remain, it's a big no no. 4K seems to have alleviated some of the inherent issues, but for me 32" is just too big for comfortable use.

For those still on Windows 10, what's your plan when it's EOL? Windows 11 is still infuriating, MacOS is looking more tempting with a base Mac Mini and Linux still doesn't have MS Office. I am at a bit of a conundrum. Perhaps switching to MacOS and only keeping a W11 machine for gaming...

#NVIDIA Quarterly revenue per market since 2015. Three years ago gaming was 45% of their revenue, now it's just 9% with 88% coming from the datacenter..

On this day in 2002, 22 years ago, Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire were first released. These games started the third generation and introduced 135 new Pokémon. It told the story of you stopping Team Aqua or Team Magma serebii.net/rubysapphire/

Important boxes

Citrix will be overjoyed with this. Also, is it just me, or does it appear we have now gone full circle on thin-clients?

I’ve seen a few of the new electric Renault 5s around they look ace. We need more affordable small electric cars and Renault is on it with retro designs… now for a reboot of the OG Espace…

With Intel’s recent struggles, the Alder Lake chips are aging like fine wine in comparison. As good as Sandy Bridge was?

In the light of Apple's move to 16GB of RAM it's honestly quite baffling how that has remained an OK amount of memory. 13 years ago I paid under 80 euros for 16GB of DDR3, common amount for a "premium" build in 2011. However, 13 years before that, in 1998, 32MB - 500(!) times less, was the standard.

Tonight’s PS2 mood is Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition

It's fantastic to see OLED displays continue to become more affordable. You can now pick up a quality 1440p 240Hz model for sub 600 euros. Only a year ago prices hovered between 800-1000 euros with far fewer models available.

The Central Plateau Unit

After paying for a tv subscription for a year and only watching the Olympics (which also could be done for free), I’ve finally decided to cancel it. There are so few interesting programs and so many ads it’s surprising people still watch tv at all really

So far this place feels very much like Twitter circa 2012 and that’s a good thing

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