Category: Misc Computer

A feature on modern PCIe implementations is “Resizable BAR” AKA “REBAR”. This basically means that instead of allocating 256MB of address space for a PCIe device to have it’s memory[...]

I previously blogged about buying a refurbished Hisense 65u80g 8K TV with the aim of making it a large monitor [1] and about searching for a suitable video card for[...]

HP z840 Dead Slot I just had an issue with the HP z840 system I’m using as a build server [1]. I had to take it to a site that[...]

For at least 12 years laptops have been defaulting to not having the traditional PC 101 key keyboard function key functionality and instead have had other functions like controlling the[...]

There are many negative articles about “AI” (which is not about actual Artificial Intelligence also known as “AGI”). Which I think are mostly overblown and often ridiculous. Resource Usage Complaints[...]

To run a SMP system with multiple CPUs you need to have CPUs that are “identical”, the question is what does “identical” mean. In this case I’m interested in Intel[...]

I’ve been looking at computer hardware on AliExpress a lot recently and I saw an advert for a motherboard which can take 256G DDR4 RDIMMs (presumably LRDIMMs). Most web pages[...]

It seems to me that we haven’t had much change in the overall design of desktop PCs since floppy drives were removed, and modern PCs still have bays the size[...]

I recently had someone describe a Mac Mini as a “workstation”, which I strongly disagree with. The Wikipedia page for Workstation [1] says that it’s a type of computer designed[...]

On the 18th of May I blogged about my new 5120*2160 monitor [1]. One thing I noted was that one Netflix movie had run in an aspect ratio that used[...]