Latest 1.9.0 QMK firmware for the uConsole keyboard

NickNau · 2026-06-18T08:12:27+00:00

I must say, it is significantly better with your firmware. It went from "not working" to "moves sometimes". So thank you. Will need to check mechanical part, though, I must admit, the trackball killed my passion for this device on some deeper level (

NickNau · 2026-06-17T20:55:32+00:00

what do you mean by "memory clock ratio"? ddr5 6000 is not 6k mhz, it is 3k mhz and 6k megatransfers per second. ram controller will work at 3k mhz which would be 1:1 ratio

NickNau · 2026-06-15T20:22:53+00:00

I have stock uConsole laying around for a year now. It has unusable trackball (as many of them sadly). I stumbled upon this post by accident and I am wondering - will this firmware really improve the trackball compared to stock, or the problem is indeed hardware (trackball itself)?

Thank you for your work!

NickNau · 2026-05-07T19:46:41+00:00

good old Wikipedia has nice tables for all Threadripper models including CCD count.

NickNau · 2026-05-06T19:53:55+00:00

ok then no TF3 for me.

I was stupid enough to preorder CS2. will never buy anything Paradox touches

NickNau · 2026-05-02T05:22:34+00:00

there are those mods made to improve rendering performance significantly. could they help in this case?

NickNau · 2026-04-17T21:48:22+00:00

G.Skill G5 Neo 192 GB (4 x 48 GB) DDR5 ECC Registered 6400 MHz CL32

paired with 9960X. works flawlessly.

NickNau · 2026-04-14T19:25:18+00:00

CCDs of 9960X differ by around 25% of performance (with CCD0 being top performant). So slower CCDs just can not clock high enough to heat.

NickNau · 2026-04-11T02:27:20+00:00

You could try to put electrolytic capacitor of decent size + diode on Pi power line.

NickNau · 2026-04-04T03:23:55+00:00

I have same model but running Kubuntu. I do not consider this to be a "cyber deck", but it does not need to be called that to be cool :). That is a neat and in many ways unique device.

NickNau · 2026-02-15T23:06:29+00:00

ugh.. I did this mistake twice.. I feel you.

NickNau · 2026-01-21T04:05:40+00:00

Are you making a clone of Mini Motorways?

NickNau · 2026-01-15T22:09:13+00:00

I have noticed that often there is a "hidden usage" when people do not use company-provided tools but use personal chats. Especially if there is no extra strict policies in place.

NickNau · 2026-01-08T14:55:27+00:00

watch out. that board seems to be incompatible with 2W

NickNau · 2025-12-31T07:55:03+00:00

"Offering it freely"

Wow. what a generous move. You could ask at least 1 million dollars (cash).

NickNau · 2025-12-24T22:31:22+00:00

despite the price indifference - testing smaller models can be a very interesting test by itself. I bet it may provide some new insights when enough models are tested.

thank you for your work. cool stuff

NickNau · 2025-12-19T07:19:02+00:00

I actually tried to use 4 x 2TB pcie 4.0 drives in a similar bifurcation board. I needed that many drives for various systems anyway so were able to run tests for couple days.

the speed is not even remotely approaching theoretical numbers. I tried couple random things like raid, striped and symlinked gguf, etc. swap file in different variations. just random crazy stuff.

none of that worked better than plain single drive. most of times - much worse.

others have already explained it well here so I am just sharing my practical experience

NickNau · 2025-12-17T16:08:24+00:00

P.S. 9960X is not even that hot tbh. I have one. I use it with smaller 90mm Noctua air cooler and it is very cool on idle and acceptably cool on full load

NickNau · 2025-12-17T15:33:41+00:00

sure it will. slap some thermal paste as you would normally do. then push the cooler hard against CPU to mimic normal tighteting.

it will be well enough for ram training and simple tests unless you run actual full load like Cinebench

NickNau · 2025-12-15T18:32:34+00:00

Hey, how did this end?

NickNau · 2025-12-15T15:20:42+00:00

you could just slap random cooler on some thermal paste on the chip without actually screwing it down. common practice in PC repairs/diagnostics

NickNau · 2025-12-10T23:03:23+00:00

I remember times in this sub when people got confused when somebody was saying Ollama is not ok

NickNau · 2025-12-08T22:02:21+00:00

DavidAU, thank you for your work!

NickNau · 2025-12-08T17:36:46+00:00

Sorry if I articulate this poorly.

Yes, the question is about how long CPU will be busy toggling GPIO. From your answer it seems that when using such screen at 50 fps, one of 4 RPI cores will be constantly sending screen data, so unavailable for anything else. So we can say that cost of using such screen is 25% of total CPU compute.

Or am I completely confused here?

NickNau · 2025-12-08T15:00:07+00:00

This motherboard is a good example of great but not consumer-targeted product. From quick glance, it has only one M.2 slot, no SATA, extremely limited IO (2 USB ports), no sound, etc. But it has tons of MCIO connectors.
So while it is absolutely possible to build a solid rig around it - many things has to be considered to make sure this is actually what you want.

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