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Joined November 2018
Four DGX Spark vs Two: Is a Local AI Cluster Worth It? I grew my local AI cluster from two NVIDIA DGX Spark-class machines to four and re-tested speed, Blender and cost. Here is what the second pair buys. hwbusters.com/systems/four-d…
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Micron Kills Its Own 4F2 DRAM After 20 Years, Calling the Density Edge a Myth Micron won't commercialize 4F2 DRAM, calling its density edge over 6F2 a myth, and is betting on 1-delta, vertical HBM and 3D DRAM instead. hwbusters.com/news/micron-ki…
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Lisa Su Pushed the Ryzen 7 5800X3D Revival as a "Final Gift" to AM4 Owners, AMD Says AMD's Travis Kirsch says Lisa Su helped push the 5800X3D revival as a final gift for AM4 owners, planned before the DDR5 memory crunch. hwbusters.com/news/lisa-su-p…
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Micron Strike Begins in Taoyuan After the Taichung Union Signs Its Own Deal - The Taoyuan strike runs 24 hours from 09:00 on October 22, a day after Micron signed a separate profit-sharing deal with its Taichung union. hwbusters.com/news/micron-st…
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FADU's File-Semantic SSD Moves the Filesystem Into the Drive, So GPUs Can Skip the CPU - FADU's file-semantic SSD runs NFS inside the drive so GPUs and DPUs read files with no host CPU. Early tests show 460K ops/s, with real caveats. hwbusters.com/news/fadus-fil…
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HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 Is Taking Linpack to the Moon, on a Fanless Box Riding a Rover HPE Spaceborne Computer-4 will ride Astrolab's FLIP rover to the lunar south pole to run Linpack, HPCG, LLM and LiDAR workloads on a fanless box. hwbusters.com/news/hpe-space…
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AMD Overclocking Driver for Linux Puts Ryzen Power Limits in sysfs, but Ryzen Master Isn't Coming With It AMD's Linux overclocking driver patches expose Ryzen PPT, TDC and EDC limits plus an SMT toggle in sysfs. No GUI yet. hwbusters.com/news/amd-overc…
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The Octopus PSU 🐙 Look at the amount of cables on this new AI PSU. I expect all PSUs to end up like this because of AI. Reviews & lab tests: hwbusters.com #PSU #AI #PCHardware
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AI “hacked” my TCL TV. I ran 144 app-launch tests: six apps disabled, 0.5× animations and a separate Projectivy trial. No dramatic speed-up. Video: youtu.be/6AvKURrAKkw Results: hwbusters.com/software/ai-tv…
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AMD Folds ZenDNN Into oneDNN, Giving PyTorch One x86 CPU Path Instead of Two - AMD and Intel make oneDNN the default x86 CPU library for PyTorch, with AMD merging its ZenDNN optimizations and taking a UXL Foundation steering seat. hwbusters.com/news/amd-folds…
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Linux 7.4 Retires Old Drivers Over an "AI-Generated Fixes Frenzy" and Adds a Taint Flag for Bot Fuzzing Linux 7.4 orphans four old EDAC drivers over AI-generated fixes nobody can test, and adds TAINT_FORCED_BIND for bot-fuzzed bug reports. hwbusters.com/news/linux-7-4…
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Hobbyist Transplants a $120 DDR5 SODIMM Kit Onto Desktop PCBs and Runs It at DDR5-7800 A hobbyist moved the chips from a $120 DDR5 SODIMM kit onto blank desktop PCBs and tuned the result to DDR5-7800 CL38 for about $175 all-in. hwbusters.com/news/hobbyist-…
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Corsair RM1200e (2026): quiet, but the hot OCP settings need work. Real per-pin and over-voltage testing, plus the electrical results. youtu.be/xaxY0h57M64
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Corsair RM1200e (2026) 1200W ATX v3.1 PSU Review Quiet, efficient at light loads, and equipped with per-pin 12V-2x6 protection. Here is where it performs well and where it needs work. hwbusters.com/psus/corsair-r…
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JAXA's MMX Lifts Off for Phobos, Aiming to Bring Home the First Samples of a Martian Moon - JAXA's MMX Phobos sample-return probe launched on an H3 rocket and is headed to Mars, aiming to bring at least 10 grams of the Martian moon home in 2031. hwbusters.com/news/jaxas-mmx…
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Custom VBIOS Without Flashing: Panchovix's Vix Loader Pushes an RTX 5080 to 500W From the Registry - Panchovix tools load a custom VBIOS without flashing on RTX 30, 40 and 50 cards via the driver registry, and an RTX 5080 hit 500W. hwbusters.com/news/custom-vb…
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