Summary of the summer of 2022

[cobito]

The front page will be on vacation until September. Until then, don't stop visiting and participating in the forum and also don't stop taking a walk to the rest of Hardlimit's pages:

· If you have any PC out there that you haven't put through our benchmark, what are you waiting for? Even if the CPU is already in our database, it doesn't hurt to have results with other brands of memory, motherboards and other modes.

· In addition, you have the video section that has received content shovel-full in recent months. A fan of the Source engine has been going through a good number of titles based on it, including Half-Life 2 along with various mods. You will also find a good collection of videos related to free software, development and gaming on Linux among others.

· And if you like retro and want to stay fresh, the museum is a must-visit place for this summer. I also can't help but recommend the selection of chapters of The Computer Chronicles that our team of translators has subtitled, where they talked about what was happening in the hardware and software of the early years of personal computing. And already, for the fans of the computing of the past, why not spam my channel?

On another note, last week some actions were carried out to increase the capacity of NAS, a process that has been much slower than planned, so the server has been a bit slow for a few days. In addition, the works were taken advantage of to update the Peertube version.

As the last few weeks have been a bit weak in terms of news, I have decided to combine the summaries of July in this end of term:

The RTX 3090 Ti from EVGA comes with a power supply as a gift

The RTX 3090 Ti from EVGA that costs €2500 comes with a 1600W power supply as a gift. Curiously, the power supply they give away doesn't come with the new 12-pin PCI-E connector, so an adapter is needed to use it with said GPU.

The first RISC-V laptop

DeepComputing and Xcalibyte have presented, with a bit of tacky marketing, the first laptop powered by a RISC-V processor. It comes with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD.

A 30% drop in motherboard sales is expected for 2022

Hard times are approaching. Sales of motherboards from manufacturers like Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI will drop between 20% and 30% compared to last year.

Overloaded server

In the last few hours, a large number of very heavy videos have been uploaded to our video section, so new publications will take several hours to appear. It is expected that in less than 24 hours the situation will normalize.

It seems that the GTX 1630 has turned out pretty well

The GTX 1630 is a graphics card with no less than 2 fans that is on par with the classic GPU with passive cooling of €50, only this one costs quadruple.

Core i7-1195G7

Someone has brought us a 4-core Tiger Lake laptop. The Core i7-1195G7 can reach 5GHz and despite achieving the 19th global position in single-thread, its TDP of 28W prevents it from even entering the top 100 in multi-thread.

New security flaw in Intel and AMD CPUs

A new security flaw has been found in processors from Intel and AMD (the latter especially affected this time) whose solution involves an increase in load from 12 to 28%.

Nikon wants to abandon SLR cameras

Nikon wants to abandon the production of SLR cameras to focus on cameras for mobile phones and mirrorless cameras.

TSMC warns of bloated inventory

The semiconductor manufacturer TSMC has announced record profits in the second quarter of the year while warning that chips are piling up.

Exploring game maps

On this page you can explore the maps of a selection of PC and console games from the browser. It only works from the computer.

Sales of hard drives drop 33% in a year

Mechanical hard drives are in a delicate moment of their existence. In the last year, sales of these units have been reduced by 33%, which amounts to a total of 45 million drives. This veteran storage technology reached its peak in 2010, with 651 million units sold.

Have a great summer!

[_Neptunno_]

@cobito Feliz Verano Jefe!!