That’s what has kept my partner on x. They also go on way less frequently than they used to, but there’s still some fandom stuff that is only there.

it’s the new gaming king! Still riding high on my 5800X3D personally, that was a GOAT purchase. I know the AM5 counterparts are beating it out on all the charts, but videos like this highlight how it is still better than the majority of CPUs when it comes to gaming performance.

like what was the tech that caused such a leap? They talk about how they switched up the x3D cache configuration - it used to be stacked above the main part of the chip with some sort of insulation in between, but they found a way to remove the insulation and put the 3D cache on the underside of the chip. I’m no expert and i watched the video yesterday, so sorry if that explanation isn’t clear. Effectively, they found a way to bring the 3D cache “closer” to the cores, which shortens the time it takes for the cores to communicate with the cache.

##chaoticgood

love to get science confirming things that we mostly already suspect. like genuinely, it’s nice to have evidence to back up things that we want to believe.

On an unrelated note, the VR device they created to test this is kind of fascinating. Like…

The rat is harnessed in the VR system, designed by Shinsuke Tanaka, a postdoc in the Lee Lab. As the rat walks on a spherical treadmill, its movements are translated on the 360-degree screen. The rat is rewarded when it navigates to its goal…In the second task, the “Jedi” task—a nod to Star Wars—the rat moves an object to a location by thoughts alone. The rat is fixed in a virtual place but “moves” an object to a goal in the VR space by controlling its hippocampal activity, like how a person sitting in their office might imagine taking a cup next to the coffee machine and filling it with coffee.

They made an interface that allows a rat to control a virtual avatar with brain activity alone? I did not expect that to be how this test worked.