Italian YouTuber Otto Climan modded an original Game Boy Color handheld to act as an Apple TV remote. Gizmodo reports: Otto Climan started with an original Game Boy Color handheld that they upgraded with a backlit LCD display because the GBC arrived well before Nintendo stopped using dim screens that strained your eyes. For the custom white case adorned with Apple’s…
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Raspberry Pi 4 Can Be Safely Overclocked To 2.15 GHz
szczys writes: When the Raspberry Pi 400 (a keyboard form-factor single board computer) was released last week, the company hinted at overclocking. Testing has now shown that the heat spreader used in that design does an excellent job. The chip was already clocked at 1.8 GHz, versus the stock 1.5 GHz in the original Raspberry Pi 4 Model B board. But…
New CPU Performance Testing Concludes AMD Beats Intel
An anonymous reader quote Hot Hardware:
If you’re looking for the best gaming CPU or the best CPU for desktop applications, there are only two choices to pick from: AMD and Intel. That fact has spawned an almost religious following for both camps, and the resulting flamewars, that make it tricky to get unbiased advice about the best choice for your next…
AMD Unveils the World’s Most Powerful Desktop CPUs
ZDNet reports: In the never ending war between the chip giants, AMD has released a salvo by unveiling what are the world’s most powerful desktop processors — the new 24-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X… These 3rd-generation Ryzen Threadripper Processors are built using AMD’s 7-nanometer “Zen 2” core architecture, and both chips feature 88 PCIe 4.0…
You Can Now Overclock a Raspberry Pi 4 For Some Nice Performance Gains
MojoKid writes: The Raspberry Pi 4 is one of the cheapest single-board computers around. The new 4th generation is a solid performance lift over its predecessor and good bang for the buck if you’re interested in learning Linux, working with embedded computing, or just want to kick back and play some retro games on an emulator. In addition, the latest version…