Summary of the week of June 27, 2022

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Valve does not recommend expanding the SSD of the Steam Deck

One of the developers of the Steam Deck has warned that the console's M.2 slot is very sensitive to increases in power consumption, so he does not recommend expanding the SSD.

Watching Youtube on a Commodore Pet

Someone has managed to play Youtube videos at a rate of 30fps on a Commodore Pet. This computer comes with a MOS 6502 at 1MHz.

A card with 64TB of SSD

Rocket 4 Plus Destroyer 2 is a PCIe 4.0 card that has the possibility of mounting up to 64TB in M.2 drives that can be configured as RAID. The 8TB version costs €1500.

Drivers for the Voodoo 5 are updated

The drivers for the Voodoo 5 5500 and 6000 have received an update to support modern screens, that is, panoramic resolutions.

The challenge of cooling processors with a TDP of 1kW

The power of processors in supercomputing centers is such that, today, it is already common to see CPUs with a consumption of 700W like Nvidia's H100. TSMC is researching how to increase that power up to 1kW without going out of liquid cooling.

Firefox and Thunderbird 102 available

Mozilla has stepped up with Thunderbird 102 and this version comes with a renewed interface and a new address book among other things. On the part of Firefox 102, it comes with some ergonomic improvements in the interface.

Core i7-1185G7

Magog has brought us a Core i7-1185G7. It is a portable Tiger Lake with 4 cores and a TDP of 28W. Lacking other modes, it has a performance quite similar to the i7-7700K and is in position 76 of the general ranking.

AMD raises the price of Threadrippers

Threadrippers have become prohibitively expensive since AMD is only going to sell the Pro version with models ranging from 2400 to 6500€.

On buying GPUs from mining

In this video they explain that you should not buy Radeons 7 or RTX 3090 from mining since they are models that tend to deteriorate more than usual with intensive use.

Mozilla publishes its offline translator

Mozilla has published a complement for Firefox that allows translations without the need for the Internet. The complement is part of the Bergamot project and has been financed with community money.