2023 GPU market: Ai is the new mining

Less than a year after Ethereum transition to proof of stake plummeted demand – and therefore cost – for GPUs, the new Ai boom gives nVidia another reason to gimp performance and…

B660M Gaming X AX review and comparison – performance issues

We did a round up of 12 gen DDR4 motherboards power and performance earlier this year on italian channel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKAe39WsieM + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbW20l4c-QM Back then, Z690M Plus D4 from asus had the…

Maxwell Bios Editing Guide

Maxwell is the last GPU architecture that allows for vBios tweaking without breaking drivers / uefi boot; while it does perform worst than AMD GCN with DX12 and has the nVidia driver…

Breaking the GPU market with Tesla M40

video on youtube on Miyconst channel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_JSHjJBk7E During these crazy times of inflation and mining driving GPU prices up to the moon with the dogecoin, a “Xeon 2678 v3” of the…

Less is more: NVMe SSD

It is quite easy when dealing with computer parts to assume that spending more money will get you the best overall result, and having higher number of cores or highest nominal frequency…

(in progress) Talking about DAW performance

In this article, i will try to explain some basic principles of DAW performance. This article will be updated at will, to track down new informations and components releases. Please note that…

List of Apple Extended Repair Programs

Apple MacBooks, even the “pro” ones, have always been designed with form over function approach. During the years, durability, ease of service, proper cooling – with stagnating performance-per-watt in Intel cpus –…

Z490 Pro Art, QTB1 and Undervolting

Asus Z490 Pro Art is a weird motherboard: with dual Thunderbolt, it’s aiming straight at the Gigabyte Designare / Vision “creator” focused segment, wich has been a staple for the hackintosh community.…

GPU Bios Modding recovery

When undervolting GPUs with bios editing you could end up stuck in very bad situations that seem impossible to recover, as the machine crashes before you are able to flash back a…

vBios and HW modding HD3850

Half a success story on this old ATI/AMD card – a nice RV670 / HD3850 512mb by Sapphire – this came in a pc sold as broken, and got inside a very…