UPDATED ON: 2026-03-03 According to well-known and trusted hardware leaker [MooresLawIsDead] Amd’s CPU’s based upon Zen 7 will be almost surely AM5 compatible. As a consequence of this fact we will observe Windows 7 coexistence also. Yay! So, don’t ditch your old x670 mobos, we’ll have a good chance of upgrading to Zen 7. And there is not much sense in all those x870 and the upcoming motherboards, because they won’t bring DDR6 to the system due to massive craze around chip shortages.

Basically i am doing the same stuff, but with a previous generation Ryzen 7950X and top-of-the-line 3090Ti. AMD RYZEN 9950X RUNNING WINDOWS 7

Somewhere down the line, if I’m still kickin’ and still sticking to my Windows 7 addiction, I’ll try to build the most powerful Windows 7 rig possible. It’ll be based on the latest Ryzen 11950X/12950X or maybe a Threadripper 10995WX/11995WX [or even Epyc], paired with 128GB of dual-channel or 192GB of octa/twelve channel memory, depending on the platform. The system drive will be an [Intel Optane P5810X 400GB] for ultra-fast access to small files, and the main data drive will be something based upon 15Gb/s PCIe 5.

The most insane machine that make the most advanced computer chips ever. Favorite comment on the thread: We literally mastered creating 50,000 mini-supernovas a second just so I can watch this video on the toilet. Humanity has peaked. THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT MACHINE

░▒▓█ A self-done drawing █▓▒░ Ok, so it’s Friday the 13th. I don’t like the number for sure, but I like the day of the week. We finally made another one, so congratulations to all of you who are reading this! Today’s topic is a modern hardware like CPUs, NVME drives, or whatever for Windows 7 users. Of course, we’re talking here about AMD stuff, processors that have real cores, not mobile ones.

This website is well-known for it’s non-prepaid nature, which reflects my personal real life conclusions without any fear of being unpopular, because of the fact that i’m not sponsored by any organization and i don’t care about people’s opinions. I always counted that cable reviews are just a placebo thing, but now i’ve changed my mind. So, without further ado, let’s get into the reviewing process. ▀ TESTBED Cable was tested on [HiBy R8 II] digital audio player running [Neutron] software.

Because i just don’t trust snake oil company A&K, which is notorious of selling ultra-high-end devices at astronomical prices without proper confirmation the quality of their products. [fishy behavior during repair services] [stupid restrictions of not being able to install Android applications] not the best convenience and speed of interface [sometimes even buggy] ugly shape design [pretending to be cool, but actually such devices are pain in a butt to hold and operate to] and so on and so on … That is why i choose something different.

Some day, if i have an opportunity i’d like to visit this [audio show] in Singapore. Why Singapore? Because it is the largest expo in terms of represented audio manufacturers in the entire world. I am dreaming to listen to a bunch of devices like: Luxury & Precision P6 Pro Luxury & Precision LP6 / LP6 Ti Lotoo PAW Touch GT2 Cayin N30LE [Mysticraft Hex & Subtonic Storm] Hope that the dream will become true.

UPDATED ON: 2026-01-19 Aside from Windows 7 obsession i have another passion called high quality portable audio, especially IEMs. Here is a couple of recent awesome findings with outrageous prices, i’ll surely bought them if i was a millionaire. [MYSTICRAFT HEX] ► 13 drivers first Hex-brid IEM [DD + BCD + BA + Planar + EST + Piezzo] ~9000 USD [SUBTONIC STORM] ► 9 driver IEM [7BA + 2EST] ~5200 USD

No jibber-jabber here, just watch the review. In my opinion worn effect looks pretty cool and this should be noted by keyboard manufactures for sure. I am not even saying anything about form factor of the keycaps, because there are obviously groovy and have some charisma.

During ChatGPT investigations i find out that my DAP [Hiby R8 II] can be described as 88% of one of the most quality audio board on PC: [RME ADI-2 DAC FS] . [Empire Ears Raven] scored around 90% of [Sennheiser Orpheus HE-1] top of the crop electrostatic hi-end earphones. Not a bad result for portable devices considering substantial difference in the price and size! I totally understand that it is a synthetic comparison, but at least now i have understanding approximate audio quality of my setup versus top-notch professional hardware.

Full-fledged cameraphone benchmarks are aimed on screens > 1280px width. So almost any desktop or laptop should be fine. Smartphones are not supported, in favor of pixel-peeping convenience. CURRENTLY TEST IS NOT OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE VIEW! IMAGE WIDTH > 1280px IS RECOMMENDED! ▒ DIRECT COMPARISON Today’s rival is [Huawei Pura 80 Ultra] , equipped with nearly the same sensor size on its periscope camera as found in Nokia 808. Despite my earlier promise that [no more photography benchmarks] would appear on these pages, it seems I’ve broken that commitment.

While mulling over a possible move and travel plans in general I’ve come to a crystal-clear realisation: Mini PC is about to become the go-to powerhouse for digital nomads! Mini PCs aren’t the newest kids-on-the-block, but they’re becoming increasingly powerful making them more and more appealing to content creators. In my humble opinion, these compact marvels are destined to replace laptops for content creators and anyone who craves serious performance in a portable form factor.

UPDATED ON: 2025-09-24 Since 2025, every reputable cameraphone has featured a 1-inch main camera module. Based upon my personal statistics main camera is used in less than 15% of cases, since everything in the a close range have largely been covered through previous shoots. The true innovation lies in periscope cameras with their ability to bring faraway objects closer to our eye. Moreover, most of [selling photographs] today are captured using these telescopic lenses.

Previously i was quite satisfied with the [iBasso DX240] / [FiiO FA9] conjunction. But after some evening conversations with [DeepSeek] and [Qwen] , I decided to purchase the [FiiO FA19] . The main problem is that I did not stop there and decided to go completely crazy and dive into the [HiBy R8 II] / [Empire Ears Odin] configuration. Now to the main essence of things. FiiO FA7 has lots of bass and quite lush, mushy mids and trebles.

I thought it would be nice to showcase a video review of such an unusual device for the time. The early 2000s were pretty good too, enjoy!

Warning! You are about to enter highly theoretical zone. This small article is a result of a late night chat with ChatGPT about theoretical and practical limits of performance achievable using conventional lithography, so consider it a first collaborative effort of myself and AI. Also i will try to extrapolate this topic to Windows 7 environment. If you’re a user of an old operating system, that doesn’t mean you don’t want to have a good system performance.

I am mostly used to my triple screen desktop configuration and was wondering how this idea could be implemented in the laptop realm. The result of my internal discussions was the purchase of two portable 14" screens. They come as a single unit.As for branding it is [KEFEYA 14" S3] . Despite the rather low price of ~250 dollars for a pair of displays, they have a very good quality.

Despite the fact that i am a complete dummy when it comes to repairing computer boards i like to watch this awesome guy saving legendary machines one by one. Also, I know that a substantial amount of visitors to this website come here for Amiga related stuff and that was the primary motivation for this post. Moreover, it turns out that computer repairs are quite meditative and help me to distance myself from real life rave events happening behind my window and keep my brain clean and busy for yellow press “news”.

Not so long ago i stumbled upon a very nice [sadly abandoned] YT channel dedicated to retro hardware. In showcased video author reviewed [Rendition Verite] , a deeply flawed card which had the distinction of being the first “programmable graphics processor” or GPU for the IBM PC compatible computers. It was also pretty much the only card that could compete with the Voodoo1 when it was released. Also make sure to check [other videos of the channel] , they are very high-quality in terms of material presentation.

Just a quick note to point out an interesting fact of computer history. Amd recently announced it’s server beast CPU [Epyc 9965] . Built in 3nm lithography, it supports 384 threads, a 12-channel memory controller and has a whopping 500W TDP. Windows 7 256 thread barrier is finally broken. As for an Intel, they are definitely can send their technology to the museum.

Brilliant high quality review of a really interesting and compact SCSI card for those of you who want to keep your Amiga up to date.

Bring your museum 4.7Mhz XT machine up to the performance of an AT 286 machine. In those days, productivity gains were measured in times, not the measly percentage units that currently are common practice in the marketing world today. Adrian has done a very interesting review of such a rare accelerator. Thanks fly out to him, enjoy!

I already marked stand-from-the-crowd [Neo Geo console] of the early 90s. Now it is time to mention a Japanese computer that is definitely made with love and effort, just look at it’s design! IMPORTING AN X68000 FROM JAPAN TESTING OUT THE IMPORTED X68000 SHARP X68000 MIDI AND RAM UPGRADES

It’s been a while since i watched Chyrosran22 YT channel. If you are interested, here is one more unusual video unpacking of pretty obscure keyboard.

It looks like we have reached the very last driver for the Nvidia 3XXX series of graphics cards. They promised that the final revision of the driver will see the light of day in late September. As of early October, the latest version of the driver is [v475.14] , released on July 9. But I have a feeling that Nvidia will release another very final version later on, if this is true I’ll update post accordingly.

¶ INTRO WORDS Numbers, numbers, numbers … i say NUMBERS!!!! It’s been a while since i ran into the craze of pointless benchmarks. And now I’m back with the absolute procrastination stuff. Are you happy with this? Take a note that 3DMark 03, 3DMark 05, 3DMark 06, 3DMark Vantage [2007], 3DMark 2011 and 3DMark 2021 are not marked by ▒ sign, showing the fact that these programs lost the soul of demoscene and just providing comparison numbers, nothing else.

[HighTreason] is not that active these days, so i have to find a solid substitute for my retro hardware cravings. And, oh boy, that was not an easy task to complete, i can barely find a solid reviewer among hundreds of sellouts, boring and just plain ignorant vloggers. But in the end of the day i found him! Yeah, it is [RetroSpector78] from Belgium. His speciality is producing reviews of obscure and rare pieces of computer hardware [primarily from 80s-90s era] with episodic dives into the software field.