Tech Corner

[Pol]

As of the above problem, it's more complicated but it's relevant only to old devices without HEVC (H265) support. The previous AVC (H264) won't help you here. But what will?

#1 - First check list of supported devices, for AMD HEVC is supported from the Carizzo APUs and up. But my Kaveri is out of luck. My GPU RX570 is however in.
#2 - There's Microsoft HEVC codec available for a small fee, believe it or not, to some actually helped. Visit microsoft store and look up HEVC.
#3 - Reinstall your GPU driver. This should come as a first.

As of my previous post, it actually helped but added strange behaviours for some videos, where there were mini loops, instead of proper playing forward. The core of the problem is indeed combination of APU and GPU, where first one doesn't support it and the second it does. For whatever reason, the first messed up the things.

[Pol]

AMD finally started to pushing out their new APUs. (Which were promised like three years ago and slightly delayed for at least two years).

APU is CPU with integrated GPU, usable for causal gaming.

I'm curiuos for price tags and NB variants. So far, there are only "reviews" like this one: https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/halo-strix-revealed

Hinting even better models. Good example as of now would be Ryzen 7 8700G.

As for the announced ones, peek here, to see some tests:
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-8 ... 00g-series
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... non-x-skus

[Pol]

They are out! And graphic performance seems to be very solid.


AMD Ryzen 7 8700G Full Specs

This is finally solid performance from Zen 4 (Raphael) architecture. The only downside can be, that Zen 5 is expected in Q2 2024. Both of them will be desktop only. For notebooks is planned next gen Medusa: Zen 6 + RDNA 5.

Possible PC build with Ryzen 7 8700G:

• ASRock B650E PG RIPTIDE WIFI
• Patriot Viper Venom 32GB (2x16GB) 7000MHz šedá

Or this ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI with much better sound (also price, chipset and such..).

[Pol]

Strangely prices of some stronger AMD CPU (Ryzen 9+7, APU seems to be not affected) are slowly ramping up, cause it is another crypto currency madness - QBIC mining uses in AMD set of instructions AVX-2 and AVX-512.

[Pol]

Today I bought myself AMD Ryzen 7 7700 tray with Scythe Choten for a very low cost 282,42€. I will also add board, likely MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk, with getting the rest later.

Reason is, that prices and availability for all these parts is rather random. And the price of stock Ryzen 7700 is usually around 300€. Around May there should come new Ryzens based on Zen 5 but it's really unclear if it will affects prices of Zen 4 Ryzen, as their availability is dwindling.

The motherboards are actually the same case.


PS At least here. In USA it can differ and indeed do, microcenter offers the cpu for $260.

The prices are much more volatile in EU.

PSS I would also like to complete it with 48GB RAM 6000Mhz or more and be quiet! PURE BASE 600 including 600W CPU. GPU I have from the past, same with drives.

[Pol]

https://wccftech.com/latest-windows-11- ... s-laptops/
New Win 11 update, new problems
& solution.

[Pol]

Wintoy is an interesting app, allowing you to tweak important windows settings from one place.

Among others, there are two interesting performance options:
* Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS)
* Network adapter onboard processor

If you can, enable them. Depending on your configuration and apps, this may brought you better life.