Recent content by AdrianBc

I have no idea about the purpose of the pads with a distinct shape. However, where there are lands on the LGA package for which there are no pins on the socket, those are usually test pins that are contacted only in special sockets used during manufacturing. All the non-contacted lands may not...

Looking at the Intel Ark specifications, I see that Emerald Rapids has a new feature that has not been mentioned. For all models at which I have looked, it is possible to split the cores into a smaller group of cores running at a base frequency that is higher than the nominal base frequency and...

The motor control algorithms will be run by the FPGA, which does not need any operating system and which ensures perfect real-time behavior, not by the weak ARM cores (Cortex-A53). The four Cortex-A53 cores run a Linux just for control purposes, as you have assumed. The FPGA also includes 2...

The AMD Phoenix CPUs support ECC DDR5 SODIMMs (also the previous AMD Rembrandt CPUs), but it is unlikely that any of the existing small computers or laptops have PCBs that include the extra traces required for ECC support. Otherwise the vendors would have bragged about it, like for the desktop...

Intel's announcement does not explain clearly the purpose of these instruction-set architecture changes. The purpose of APX is the increase of the number of general-purpose registers from 16 x 64 bit to 32 x 64 bit, aligning the Intel-AMD ISA with the competing ISAs, like ARM Aarch64, IBM...

When the SimplyNUC Moonstone R9 CBM3r9MS becomes available, supposedly at the end of this month, a review of this computer would be very interesting for comparing it with the previously reviewed products: Intel NUC13 Pro, which uses exactly the same case and peripheral interfaces, and Minisforum...

Thanks for the info. The problem is that AMD is particularly bad in documenting the hardware capabilities of most of their products. So if one is not willing to lose money by buying a possibly useless product, anything not mentioned expressly in the official AMD specifications cannot be...

All the AMD pages with the detailed specifications of Rembrandt products show only 1080p decode capabilities, for instance: https://www.amd.com/en/product/11546 Even for the new rebranded Rembrandt, e.g. Ryzen 7 7735HS, the same information is shown. If in fact Rembrandt is better than that...

At least according the specifications published by AMD, the new GPU of AMD Phoenix is not only significantly faster than the GPU of AMD Rembrandt, mainly due to higher GPU clock frequencies and dual operation issue, but the video encode/decode block is hugely improved. While Rembrandt is able...

The problem with the SKU variety is not that they exist. The problem is that they make it very hard to predict the performance of the actual SKU that you might be able to buy. Everybody publishes benchmarks for the top Intel SKUs, which might match or even exceed the performance of the...

Normally, it should be possible to update the BIOS through IPMI even without an installed CPU, but IIRC Supermicro charges a fee for a tool doing this, and that is why it might be not possible with the MB as received. In any case, a Celeron G6900 should have a price in the range $50 ... $80.

As others have mentioned, with such a MB you not only do not need a GPU, but you also do not need a VGA monitor, because you can do everything via IPMI. I have dumped all my VGA monitors many years ago, and I assume that this has also happened for others. If you use third party IPMI tools...

While Intel has better support for ECC in the CPUs where that is enabled, including the latest Raptor Lake CPUs, e.g. by having better Linux EDAC drivers, the support for ECC in AMD CPUs has become more official than before. Unlike for earlier Ryzens, now both for the laptop Ryzen 6000 series...

While you are right, NVIDIA themselves refer to two of their newest products as "RTX 4080 with 12 GB VRAM" and "RTX 4080 with 16 GB VRAM", even if the differences between those 2 boards are much greater than the differences between the 2 Orin Nano modules. The two "RTX 4080" boards use...

Thanks for the link. However, it does not seem that there will be a single board compatible with both Xavier NX and Orin NX. On the page from that link it says that you can order now a carrier board for "for the Jetson Nano, TX2 NX or Xavier NX". It also says that "Orin NX will be available...