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Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket — price hikes force hobbyists to weigh up performance versus power consumption

The price of a Raspberry Pi now has parity with Intel N100 mini PCs at just over $200, with flash memory price spikes continuing to push prices up across the board.

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Raspberry has only just launched its new Pi 500+ but one modder has already improved it, making it support an external RX 7900 XT graphics card for top-tier gaming

If it can be done, a modder will do it. If it can't be done, a modder will do it anyway.

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Inside Open Sauce, a science festival for makers, with over 500 projects on display

Open Sauce brings together science, YouTube, and little mayhem.

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Turns out a bit of pixelation won't cover your back (or front) as it's actually very easy to de-censor videos

'Think twice' is still good advice.

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World's fastest Arm PC put to the test — 128-core Ampere Altra Max CPU claims 128-core Cinebench 2024 world record

Maker and influencer Jeff Geerling describes the recently released Thelio Astra from System76 as 'the fastest Arm desktop computer in the world.'

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Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard PC has been modded with an NVMe M.2 slot leveraging the device's conspicuously empty PCB header

Raspberry Pi 500 gets a hard-modded NVMe slot addition thanks to existing empty headers on the Pi 500 board.

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Raspberry Pi 5 successfully accelerates LLMs using an eGPU and Vulkan

A Raspberry Pi 5 hooked up to an AMD Radeon-powered eGPU has been demonstrated using the graphics hardware to accelerate a Large Language Model (LLM).

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Raspberry Pi 5 teams up with Radeon GPU to run Doom Eternal with RTX on at 4K — the combo also tackles Crysis Remastered, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4

A leading Raspberry Pi torchbearer has demonstrated games like Doom Eternal, Crysis Remastered, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4, running at 4K on the humble $50 SBC.

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The Snapdragon X dev kit that we thought looked pretty cool turned out to be so bad that Qualcomm ended up cancelling it

The few that had already bought one will get their money back, at least.

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Qualcomm’s canceled mini-PC could spell trouble with consumers down the line

Consumers could be getting the short end as Qualcomm officially cancels its Windows on Arms-powered mini-PC.

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Jeff Geerling finally unlocks Raspberry Pi external GPU support, and yes it runs Doom... 3 at 4K!

Raspberry Pi wizard Jeff Geerling has demonstrated 4K60 gaming on his Pi 5 setup. Crucially, the Raspberry Pi was given a considerable lift in the GPU department via the use of an M.2 to OCuLink adapter and an AMD Radeon RX 460 desktop graphics card.

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Snapdragon X Elite pushed past 100W shows us what the CPU can offer on the desktop — almost 4X more power for 10% to 30% more performance

Benchmarks performed on the Snapdragon X Elite dev kit show that having a lot more power doesn't always mean having a lot more speed.

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AI takes YouTuber's voice — alleged offending videos have now been unlisted: Updated

Another voice has seemingly been cloned by AI, and YouTuber Jeff Geerling joins Scarlett Johansson on the list of impersonated voices

Tom’s Hardware

If you put hot dogs and pickles against an AM radio tower, they act as speakers. Also, don't do that

Acts as a speaker, yes. Also catches fire at an astonishing rate.

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Pi Expert Jeff Geerling benchmarks new D0-stepped 2GB Raspberry Pi 5

The expert who delidded the new D0-stepped Raspberry Pi 5 CPU has released benchmark results for the inexpensive SBC.

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Raspberry Pi 5 2GB delid uncovers 'Dark Silicon' and improved power performance

The D0 SoC runs at a lower temperature, consumes less power and still delivers the full Raspberry Pi 5 experience

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Raspberry Pi 5 and external AMD GPU used to play 4K open-source kart racing game — Pineboards demos SuperTuxKart using Hat uPCIty Lite board

Pineboards, known for its accessories that expand on the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi, has managed to get a popular 3D racing game to run reliably on the Raspberry Pi 5 using an external graphics card.

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Raspberry Pi 5 hits world-record 3.4 GHz with thermoelectric cooling and firmware tweaks

In the "let's see how far we can push this puppy" scene, Jeff Geerling has managed to max out the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU to a speedy 3.4 GHz.

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Add-on board lets you use four NVMe SSDs at once with Raspberry Pi 5

The Raspberry Pi 5's PCIe interface sees an ever expanding selection of products and this new board from Geekworm offers up to four M.2 NVMe SSDs in one convenient package

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Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is in Development, CEO Eben Upton Confirms

The recently released Raspberry Pi 5 is coming to the Compute Module 4 form factor.

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Raspberry Pi 5 successfully uses external graphics card

Jeff Geerling has managed to get an external graphics card to successfully run on a Raspberry Pi 5.

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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet

A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.

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An Inside Look at How Raspberry Pis Are Made

Jeff Geerling shares an inside look at how Raspberry Pi 4s are manufactured at the Sony Tech Center in Wales.

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Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton Discusses Stock Updates, Industry Prioritization

YouTuber Jeff Geerling travels the Atlantic for a face-to-face with Raspberry Pi CEO, Eben Upton

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