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  • 0x129 (plus turning off XMP) was enough to stabilize my 13700KF for now, and hopefully 0x12B will be the final nail in the coffin for continued degradation.

    However, polling users here for experiences isnt going to give a good perspective on how the CPUs are actually doing. Until it’s pretty far gone users may not even notice, and the small sample size of folks who’ll reply here is probably not going to accurately reflect the actual state of the CPUs.

    Level1techs has done some really good work investigating this at large scale on datacenters, and the takeaway there is that these problems are going to take a while to show, so its generally not a good idea to buy these CPUs til 0x12B has been out for a few months and we know the effects, at which point Arrow Lake will probably be a better option.

    tl;dr if you’re going to buy right now, buy AMD 7000, but if you’re willing to wait til February or so, it’ll be a decision between the new gen of Intel CPUs and current AMD CPUs (only 9000 series will probably be available by then).



  • The molecular mechanical modeller NAMD and its viewer use TCL as the CLI interface, and it’s…fine. I would prefer BASH or python, but it works just fine.

    Also Tk is how most LaTeX drawing is dealt with, so trying to modify, say circuit diagrams or chemical structures drawn directly in LaTeX (I.e. chemfig) requires using some Tcl. Again, it’s…fine. No huge complaints.

    Edit: bad memory, the drawing program in LaTeX is TikZ not TkZ, its unrelated to Tk.









  • Yup. Most of the mems devices will essentially shut down the device if they go out of tolerance. This is a pretty common-knowledge fact among folks who work with large magnets, or with helium or hydrogen gas.

    Funnily enough, it also happens with equipment microcontrollers which are unlikely to have a MEMS unit in them – for instance, any benchtop centrifuge made after the mid-90s will shut down, and I’m pretty sure those are still on quartz clocks. It also effects things like on-chip thermometers.