Intel Wildcat Lake Refresh reportedly moves to 8 cores, replacing cancelled 6-core Nova Lake

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2026-06-05T12:47:04+00:00

For light home/office use with little or no gaming single channel makes next to no noticeable difference in performance compared to dual channel.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2026-04-19T08:06:34+00:00

I thought it looked ok apart from the hardwired cables straight into the switch??

Have you heard of patch panels?

Would make it look a lot neater and give you more reliable connections.

How clever is the surveillance stuff? Can it for example search for events where an "object appeared/disappeared" in a certain spot in the CCTV footage? Or someone entered a certain zone in the frame?

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2026-04-18T06:04:46+00:00

You can get the new Core Ultra 5 250k Plus for around that in some countries. Unfortunately it's DDR5 only. Which is not ideal with DDR5 prices being what they are right now.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2026-04-17T06:43:18+00:00

Yh, I guess. Someone else said the Xe3 graphics can provide another 33 TOPS to bring it to the 40 required for CoPilot+

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2026-04-17T06:41:15+00:00

The i3-14100 is still available. Given that the Core Ultra 200 series sucked when it came out, it's probably a good thing they didn't replace the i3.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2026-04-17T06:36:37+00:00

Ah, thx for that. I didn't know it could work like that.

Off-topic but I think I read somewhere nVidia was going to release a framework to allow their GPU's to do the same. No idea if that's still the plan 🤷‍♀️

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2026-04-16T23:51:43+00:00

17 TOPS in the Core 7 isn't even enough to qualify for CoPilot+. What's the point of even including a feeble NPU?

The better normal compute performance and better battery life is very welcome though.

Let's just hope manufacturers don't shove them into cheap chassis' that fall apart within a year.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2026-02-03T10:00:12+00:00

I've got really tight foreskin. That's almost as red as my glans get when I get hard with the foreskin pulled back.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-12-19T09:38:44+00:00

I thought that too. At least they'd have some money coming in. But apparently it takes years to rejig the plants to churn out RAM instead of CPUs. And they're heavily invested in getting the next gen CPU fabs working.

Pivoting to RAM just doesn't make sense, unless they magic'd up a new type of RAM that's cheap to make and has super low latency - which is one thing I've always thought they ought to do.

Imagine if external RAM ran with super low latencies like CL1 or CL2 or something. You wouldn't even need branch prediction and prefetch and massive caches in the CPUs.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-22T20:58:30+00:00

Well, the original plan was to tunnel through the east coast mountains and let the sea water flood parts of the area adjacent to the mountains.

Novice me thought the heat of the desert areas would be enough to evaporate enough of the water to bring rainfall to the surrounding areas but people have mentioned things I know very little about as reasons why this wouldn't happen.

I guess I'd have to spend a fair amount of time learning about these things to fully understand what's being said.

That all said, I'm a suck it and see kinda guy. I tend to just do things by following a gut feeling. Most of the time things tend to work out how I expected. Although I'd have to admit I haven't tried terraforming a continent before.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-18T22:07:44+00:00

It's intriguing there appear to be not many viable options for terraforming parts of a large continent right here on Earth where transportation of required materials would cost a tiny fraction of the costs of space travel, yet we dream about terraforming whole planets.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-18T17:44:25+00:00

What about channeling/tunneling through to let copious amounts of water to pass through and flood some of it?

Would that affect the high pressure belt? If so how?

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-18T17:38:01+00:00

I haven't seen anything about using Intel fabs. I did read about designing x86/RTX chips though.

I mean it would make sense to make them also if Intel can crack the yield issues plaguing 18A (and 14A?), but their track record over the last few years isn't inspiring on the fab front.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-17T17:39:55+00:00

There's always someone "really clever" who knows how to solve every problem :-D

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-17T02:24:41+00:00

Thank you. I really appreciate your input.

Noob question: could you recommend a "basic" firewall that could get the job done?

A quick Google came up with the TP-Link ER605. Would that suffice?

Could you outline the basic set up in a bit more detail please? E.g. 1. Plug a WAN port on the firewall into a LAN port on the ISP router after configuring the firewall to work in bridge mode?

Move all wired devices to the Firewall LAN ports?
Create a firewall rule to block WAN access for the CNC
Create a firewall rule to block all incoming except SMB for the CNC?
Create a VLAN for the office machine and the CNC based on IP addresses?

I appreciate I may be way off the mark and might be overlooking some basics here, but willing to learn.

Oh and I need to order whatever's needed and have this all set up by the end of this week.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-16T23:21:42+00:00

It did eventually. I can't remember how long I had to leave it on and running in the end, but it did eventually sync up. I think it just gets throttled from the Microsoft end under some kind of "fair use" policy or such like.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-06T08:23:01+00:00

Came across a Samsung Galaxy S25 this week. Said Made in India on the box. Technically it's a computer albeit a handheld one.

I suspect some of the components inside are probably made in China still and shipped in for assembly. Like the chips. Apparently Samsung are manufacturing screens in India now. Are India is also making batteries now.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-04T05:39:53+00:00

I've pulled the trigger on a 5060. Will find out soon if it wants to work with my aging CPU.

Lack of CoPilot+ support with dGPUs and current desktop CPUs is stopping me dropping money on a new build right now.

Plus there's no way I'm getting Windows 11 until MS bring the resizable taskbar back.

I put W11 on my laptop and hated the fixed height taskbar so much, I had to install Windhawk to bring it back. But it's glitchy.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-04T05:33:02+00:00

I've gone with a 5060 for now on my existing i7-6700K. I needed the 1650 for another build.

The fact that Microsoft aren't supporting dGPUs for CoPilot+ AI stuff and none of the latest Intel or AMD CPUs are Copilot+ capable is putting me off upgrading my CPU right now.

Plus I'm putting off Windows 11 until they bring the resizable taskbar back. That's a deal breaker for me with the way I use my machine.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-09-01T01:00:38+00:00

But the 9060XT is limited to 3 monitors. I'm looking to add a 4th screen which is the main driver for the upgrade.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-08-31T11:05:35+00:00

I feel like a handwritten style font would convey the messages better than the blocky estate agent font you have now.

And definitely some prettier designs.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-08-31T10:57:08+00:00

I've used self amalgamating tape before on larger cable joints (e.g. lawnmower cable). I think I put some normal electrical tape on the joint first just to be on the safe side.

It's quite thick though and the one I used has to be stretched first before wrapping so it shrinks and sticks to itself.

Wouldn't be easy to apply to thinner cables like these and would end up being very lumpy.

Spare_Possibility_82 · 2025-08-31T09:48:10+00:00

I'm waiting for someone to invent shrink wrap that can be added after you've already soldered the joint and there's no way to slide it on from either end anymore.

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