As some of the best graphics cards makers get ready to roll out their GeForce RTX Lite Hash Rate (LHR) add-in-boards (AIB), designed to limit the mining capability of the cards, enthusiasts are eager to push them to their limits and see how much cryptomining performance is really hindered. This week, a Zotac GeForce RTX…
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Amazon Prime Day is reportedly set to happen on June 21st and 22nd 2021. Whether you’re shopping for instant pots or Amazon Echo speakers, you’ll find significant discounts on mainstream consumer gadgets on those two days and in the period right before and possibly right after. But what about PC hardware? Fortunately, there’s plenty to…
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If you think Intel was done with Tiger Lake, then you have another thing coming. The chipmaker has unceremoniously posted four new Tiger Lake chips (via momomo_us) in its ARK database. Apparently, the processors are bound for a second-quarter launch. Given that these chips are listed on Intel’s ARK pages, you could argue that they’re…
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Graphics cards might be hard to get ahold of (at least without parting with a small fortune) but you can still build a gaming PC with the help of our favorite SBC, the Raspberry Pi. Jay from Print ‘N Play has done just that with his latest creation: a mini RGB gaming desktop. This project…
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A seven-year-old flaw in DRAM chips is making another comeback. Google revealed this week that it’s discovered a new technique, Half-Double, that can be used to exploit the Rowhammer bug thought to have been fixed with the release of DDR4. Rowhammer was discovered in 2014 when researchers showed that it was possible to manipulate data…
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The world grows stranger every day. Case in point: The BBC today reported that West Midlands Police discovered a cryptocurrency mining operation comprised of “about 100 computer units” while they were searching a suspected cannabis farm. Mining cryptocurrency isn’t all that different from growing cannabis. Both can lead to surprising amounts of profit, both rely…
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There are now a slew of RP2040 powered boards on the market. From the smallest, Adafruit’s QT Py RP2040 and Pimoroni’s Tiny 2040, to the largest, Adafruit’s Feather RP2040 and our Editor’s Choice Cytron Maker Pi Pico. The Raspberry Pi Pico itself is a $4 microcontroller, that offers lots of GPIO pins and a programmable…
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The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) this week announced its new supercomputer that will combine deep learning and simulation computing capabilities. The Perlmutter system will use AMD’s top-of-the-range 64-core EPYC 7763 processors as well as Nvidia’s A100 compute GPUs to push out up to 180 PetaFLOPS of ‘standard’ performance and…
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Marvell has introduced the industry’s first SSD controllers for NVMe 1.4b-compliant drives that will feature a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. The Bravera SC5 controllers are designed primarily for bandwidth and performance-hungry servers used in cloud data centers. They will provide up to 14 TB/s throughput as well as up to 2 million random read IOPS,…
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After months of build-up, we finally see a GPU-Z validation (courtesy of Matthew Smith) for Nvidia’s looming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card. Barring any last-second surprises, the information from the validation entry should be the final specifications for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. If you haven’t been following the rumor mill, the GeForce RTX…
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