Articles
Reviews, tutorials and notes on hardware, operating systems, development and AI.
- Reviews
Corsair Dominator Titanium 96GB DDR5-7000: tuned, and stable at CL34
2 min readA 96GB DDR5 kit is easy to buy and hard to make stable. Hand-tuning timings and voltages held CL34 at 7000 MT/s on a 13900KS — here is what it measured and what it survived.
- AI
Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC: eighteen months as an AI workstation card
2 min readBought in August 2023 and used since for local LLMs, Unreal, video work and the occasional game. What a 4090 is actually like to live with when gaming is the side job.
- Reviews
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB: the fastest drive on this bench, and two of them in RAID 0
2 min readSamsung's Pascal controller and V7 NAND put the 990 Pro ahead of the SK Hynix P41 and the WD_BLACK SN850X in testing here. Then two of them went into RAID 0.
- Software & OS
Ubuntu 23.04: a Flutter installer, GNOME 44, and nine months of support
2 min readCanonical's 38th release rewrites the desktop installer in Dart and Flutter, moves to kernel 6.2 and GNOME 44 — and, like every interim release, gives you nine months before you have to move again.
- Gaming
Dawn of Ragnarök: why one "recommended spec" is not enough
2 min readUbisoft publishes a minimum spec. That tells you whether the game launches, not whether it plays well. Three resolution targets are a more useful way to spec a machine.
- Development
Angular 13: View Engine is gone, and that is the whole story
2 min readIvy becomes the only compiler and renderer, View Engine and IE11 support are removed, and TypeScript 4.4 and RxJS 7.4 come along. A release defined by what it deletes.