Summary of the week of April 24, 2023

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The Ryzen 7000X3D burns easily

Several users have seen their Ryzen 7000X3D burn, destroying the socket when overclocking. It looks like it's a failure with Asus and Asrock motherboards.

Seagate ventures into 30TB

Seagate has crossed the 30TB border with a new batch of HAMR disks. The company also plans to transition to heat-assisted magnetic recording technology for the rest of the models in 2024.

Chromebooks expire sooner than expected

Although Google gave Chromebooks an update period of 5 to 8 years depending on the model, the company seems to be abandoning support earlier than promised.

Linux 6.3 available

Torvalds has presented version 6.3 of the Linux kernel. Progress has continued in support for Rust and obsolete ARM board drivers have been removed.

Analysis of Ryzen 7000X3D pins

A few days ago it was discovered that overclocking the Ryzen 7000X3D could result in the destruction of the chip and the motherboard. In this post, they analyze the processor pins. The affected part seems to be the pins that feed the CPU cores known as VDDCR.

The RTX 4070 drops below the recommended price

The low demand for graphics cards in Europe has caused the RTX 4070 to reach a price that is below the one recommended by Nvidia. Despite the drop, prices are still higher than those of previous generations.

Wine and DosBox application manager

ExeCute is a tool that allows you to launch executables directly with Wine or Dosbox. It also installs the necessary dependencies for DirectX to work on Vulkan and the GPU has support.

About the Transmeta Crusoe

The Crusoe was Transmeta's big bet at the beginning of the century that promised an x86 alternative to Intel and AMD options. But some hardware failures caused this model to fail. In this post they talk about the history and peculiarities of this micro.

780,000 more files indexed

This week another 780,000 files have been indexed, totaling 4,563,890 with a total size of 494.94GB.