During this pandemic, many of us find themselves working from home. Where before often internal policy forbade it, suddenly it became the only possible way to continue working at all. Lucky who has a gaming rig at home already, a dedicated place to now also get work done. For those without the needed equipment yet, let’s have a look at what is necessary and what might be useful. The PC If you h…

Usually old processors go out of production as soon as a successor is available. But AMD decided to do something different. Instead of ending the production of old processors when Ryzen 3000 got rel…

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, released today, performed excellent in the reviews. With 64 cores and 128 threads, it was completely reasonable to assume this monster of a processor would only be …

This AMD launch did not work that well. So here is what happened: AMD released the RX 5600 XT with a different VBIOS than originally planned. The new VBIOS raises core and memory clock, resulting in…

Over the last weeks the recommender got a couple updates I will summarize here. Most important were a couple hardware releases not properly covered in this blog. But they are in the system! We got …