Daily Tech News 8 April 2022

• Made an offer today on house #4, the one with the built-in Pepsi fridge that's directly adjacent to a nature reserve, or as one commenter noted since this is Australia, a deadly hellscape.
  
  This one is "only" about twice the size of my current place, but that's what I need. I'm kind of wedged in at the moment and don't have room to arrange things more efficiently, and with this house I can pile everything in to one half while leaving the other half free to set things up properly.
  
  Plus gigabit internet access, plus only two neighbouring properties instead of eight. And up in the hills where this town is, they haven't been having F*CK ME IT'S POURING WITH RAIN AGAIN.
  
  
  
• Ahem. Anyway it will be great to get off the rental treadmill and own something, not because I mind renting so much as I mind someone else getting to set my schedule like this.
  
  
  
• AMD's new Ryzen 7 5800X3D is the fastest CPU in the world for playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  16% faster than Intel's factory-overclocked Core i9-12900KS.
  
  Exactly why you need to see Lara Croft's boobs at 231 FPS I don't know.

• Gigabyte has a new motherboard for AMD's Threadripper 5000 Pro. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A CPU which last I checked was only available via OEMs, and by OEMs I mean Lenovo. Who lock the CPUs to Lenovo motherboards.
  
  I presume this is an indication that this will soon change.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile AMD's next-generation Epyc Genoa is getting close to launch. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  With 12 memory channels and up to 12TB of DDR5 RAM per system, it supports up to 96 cores per CPU in a new 6,096 pin socket. Bergamo, to follow soon after, will go as high as 128 cores per socket.
  
  
  
• LG's Gram +View is a companion monitor to their LG Gram 16. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  LG's Gram series is noted for being amazingly light, and this 16" 2560x1600 monitor weighs just 660 grams, or 990 grams with the included cover/stand.
  
  Which means a Gram 16 and a second, matching screen together weigh just 2.35kg.
  
  Price is $349 which isn't bad for a portable monitor with 99% DCI-P3 colour.
  
  
  
• Crystal 1.4 is out. (Crystal-Lang)
  
  It seems like only a year ago that we got Crystal 1.0.
  
  Oh, wait, it was.
  
  
  
• SolidRun's LX2-Lite is an Arm development board like the Raspberry Pi but. (Serve the Home)
  
  But this one has eight gigabit Ethernet ports, two 10Gb Ethernet ports, and two 25Gb Ethernet ports, plus up to 16 Arm A72 cores and 32GB of RAM.
  
  It's two inches square, so all those connectors are on a breakout board. You drop your selected version of the module into it (8, 12, or 16 cores) and then plug in all your networks.
  
  
  
• Twitter has changed how deleted tweets look on the Web. (Thurrott.com)
  
  Well good luck with that guys, because your embed code still includes the entire content of the tweet.

posted by Pixy Misa at 06:29 AM

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