Daily Tech News 3 July 2022

• One of the things I want to do fairly soon is replace my four Synology boxes with one new one. They're from 2012 and 2013 and so are the drives - I rescued them when work was going to throw them out.
  
  I was planning on a new DS1821+ but when I looked there were none to be had anywhere. That was going to give me a nice topic for a rant but when I looked again they were available so now I'm just confused.
  
  It's not a perfect device - the default network configuration is 4 x 1Gb interfaces which is just irritating - but filled with 12TB drives it would give me the same capacity as the existing four units without the drive failures and performance limitations of decade-old hardware.
  
  
  
• Meta's Novi - formerly Diem - formerly Libera from formerly Facebook - is toast. (CNet)
  
  This was a technically promising crypto project backed by over a dozen industry leaders that withered and died because (a) all the industry leaders hate each other and (b) absolutely everyone hates Facebook.

• EVGA's 3090 Ti now comes with a free 1600W power supply. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It doesn't technically require a 1600W power supply. Not yet. I think.
  
  
  
• Benchmarks of 13900K engineering samples put it just in front of the 12900K on single threaded tasks, but far ahead in multi-threaded work. (WCCFTech)
  
  As much as 60%, which is more than I would have expected. They've increased clock speeds a bit and added eight more Efficiency cores, but the main Performance cores stay at eight.
  
  I'm a bit dubious about having mixed speed cores like this but at some point I might build a system to see how it really behaves. Both single-threaded and multi-threaded performance numbers are good, and while it doesn't support ECC (which Ryzen chips do, unofficially) DDR5 RAM at least has on-chip ECC.
  
  
  
• Intel's 13th gen chips will be accompanied by new motherboards, but will work fine in current boards. (WCCFTech)
  
  Also it will still support DDR4, which AMD has dropped. On the other hand, DDR5 now costs only 50% more than DDR4 rather than double, so that's gradually becoming a less compelling feature.
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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