Quake in 276 KB of RAM
Porting the original DOOM game to various pieces of esoteric hardware is a rite of passage in some software circles. But in the modern world, we can get better performance …read more Continue reading Quake in 276 KB of RAM
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Quake in 276 KB of RAM
Porting the original DOOM game to various pieces of esoteric hardware is a rite of passage in some software circles. But in the modern world, we can get better performance …read more Continue reading Quake in 276 KB of RAM
New 2 GB Raspberry Pi 5 Has Smaller Die and 30% Lower Idle Power Usage
Recently Raspberry Pi released the 2GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 with a new BCM2712 SoC featuring the D0 stepping. As expected, [Jeff Geerling] got his mitts on one …read more Continue reading New 2 GB Raspberry Pi 5 Has Smaller Die and 30% Lower Idle Power Usage
Overclocking Raspberry Pi 5’s SoC To 3 GHz and 1 GHz GPU
Overclocking computer systems is a fun way to extract some free performance, or at least see how far you can push the hardware before you run into practical limitations. The …read more Continue reading Overclocking Raspberry Pi 5’s SoC To 3 GHz and 1 GHz GPU
The Tale Of The Final EVGA GPU Overclocking Record
It’s not news that EVGA is getting out of the GPU card game, after a ‘little falling out’ with Nvidia. It’s sad news nonetheless, as this enthusiastic band of hardware …read more Continue reading The Tale Of The Final EVGA GPU Overclocking Record
Pi Pico Gives Its Life for Overclocking
How fast can a Raspberry Pi Pico go? Well, apparently the answer is 1 GHz if you freeze it and give it over twice the voltage it normally gets. Oh, …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Gives Its Life for Overclocking
PC Overclocking with an Air Conditioner
We never insist that a hack be practical. [Tech Ingredients] is living proof as they modded a computer case to use a window air conditioner for overclocking a computer. They think they haven’t hit the ceiling yet, and got their …read more
Adventures in Overclocking: Which Raspberry Pi 4 Flavor is Fastest?
There are three different versions of the Raspberry Pi 4 out on the market right now: the “normal” Pi 4 Model B, the Compute Module 4, and the just-released Raspberry Pi 400 computer-in-a-keyboard. They’re all riffing on the same tune, but there are enough differences among them that you might …read more
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Die Lapping For Better CPU Performance
CPUs generate their heat in the silicon die that does all those wonderful calculations which make our computers work. But silicon conducts heat fairly poorly, so the thinner your CPU die, the better it will conduct heat out to the heatsink. This theoretically promises better cooling and thus more scope …read more
Overclocking In An SNES Emulator
The bsnes emulator has a new overclocking mode to eliminate slowdowns in SNES games while keeping the gameplay speed accurate. We’re emulating old SNES hardware on modern machines that are vastly more powerful. Eliminating slowdowns should be trivial, right? For an emulator such as bsnes, which is written to achieve …read more