image source Back in the FM1 times, I was so lucky to own this great motherboard. This was one of the very few boards, which was able to use two digital ouputs at the same time. I’d like to share with you the latest, publicly never available beta bios, which I’ve got from the ASRock […]
Have you ever heard about Coreboot? Coreboot is an open-source firmware project for various motherboards, notebooks, SBCs and so on. It has many: contributors: some of them works full time and some of them are just hobbyist forks/derives: libreboot, Heads supported ISAs: x86, AMD64, ARM or Power ODM use-cases: System76, Chromebooks, Purism Sometimes I can […]
Intro I used to use top-down CPU coolers over the time, to keep the VRM and memories cooler with a little bit of airflow. Image source: Optimized CPU Cooling with Top-Down Heatsinks In the past on my AMD FMx platforms the cooler was a Cooler Master GeminII M4 along with a super silent Coolink Swif2 […]
Have you ever wondered how could you play your favourite song using a dirty cheap SBC? Okay… OPI SBCs are not that cheap, as it appeared in the news. Most of the OPI boards are using some Allwinner SoCs. The common ones are uses the 32bit H3 and 64bit H5. Thankfully for the SUNXI project, […]
Discalmer It might be risky to upgrade the firmware in any device. You can easily end up with a unusable device(aka brick). I personally not recommend to do it, if a system is stable you wouldn’t win much with a newer FW. I told you, it’s your responsibility if something goes wrong during the firmware […]
Manufacturers always tries to maximize the profit reduce the overall cost of their products. Industry practices Back in 2014 Kingston decided to switch away from the blazing fast 19nm Toshiba MLC NAND in the V300 Series SSD. Nearly one year after they introduced this – consumer/value level – SSDNow Sandforce series, they just bumped the […]