April 2020 - CrackedConsole

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti leaked specs teases an absolute monster GPU

April 30, 2020 by CrackedConsole

NVIDIA’s next-gen GeForce RTX 3080 Ti gets teased in leaked specs, packs an insane 8192 cores with Ampere:

A new rumor is coming from a now deleted tweet from ‘chiakokhua’ who has a history of predicting big movement of tech companies, where he said AMD would use a chiplet design for its new Zen design. He also drew up a block diagram of EPYC processors receiving 64 cores over 8+1 dies.

With that said, check the specs above: we have the GA100 powering the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with up to 8192 CUDA cores which is absolutely insane. These rumored specs see GA100 have up to 256 RT cores, up to 1024 Tensor cores, and GPU boost clocks of up to 1750MHz. All of the new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series cards will have GDDR6 at 16Gbps.

Novelty Zelda Wallet Only Holds a Maximum of $99

April 30, 2020 by CrackedConsole

NEW YORK — Upon returning from a shopping trip to the Rockefeller Center Nintendo shop, gaming enthusiast Amy Weiss was dismayed to discover that her new novelty The Legend of Zelda wallet only holds a maximum of 99 dollars.

“I felt like somebody had pulled some kind of magic trick on me,” Weiss said, recalling the events with a flustered look on her face. “I transferred all of my cash from my old wallet into the new one, something like $160 bucks in $20’s, but when I went to pay my cab driver later that night all I found was 99 dollar bills! I don’t know how to feel about it. On one hand I’m continuously impressed by the detail and quality of Nintendo products, but on the other hand, what the fuck Nintendo? Where’s my other $61?”

This add-in card lets you yank M.2 SSDs from your gaming PC while it’s running

April 30, 2020 by CrackedConsole

Depending on when you built your PC, it might not have an M.2 slot, leaving you unable to add a sleek and fast NVMe SSD to your setup. You could always upgrade your motherboard, but that’s not exactly a quick and easy fix. Icy Docks solves the dilemma with its new ToughArmor MB840M2P-B, an add-in card for M.2 drives.

Icy Dock is not the first to offer such a product, but this one stands out because it supports hot-swapping drives (via Tom’s Hardware). That means you can add and remove M.2 SSDs while your PC is still powered on.

This Abandoned Computer Store Is a Time Capsule of Early 2000s Tech

April 29, 2020 by CrackedConsole

In the era before Amazon and boutique custom built PCs, computer enthusiasts visited humble local computer stores to buy things like RAM, graphics cards, and computer games sold in big cardboard packages. They had names like PC STORE, Computer King, and Computer Factory Outlet. The last is the name of an abandoned store rotting away in a lonely strip mall in Norman, Oklahoma. Closed for a decade, Computer Factory Outlet is locked tight and somehow still full of merchandise.

It’s like a time capsule of the early 2000s personal computer industry. Dell and Gateway boxes press against the glass, turning yellow in the sun. Beige PC towers loom in ramshackle piles. PC copies of the Tiger Woods 99 video game gather dust on the shelves.

Arcade Coin Mech – The Easiest Repair on YouTube

April 29, 2020 by CrackedConsole

I take a quick look at the coin mechanism from inside that free arcade machine I got and figure out why it’s not working. I also take a basic look at how it works.

RetroPie 4.6 released with RaspberryPi 4 support.

April 28, 2020 by CrackedConsole

We are very pleased to announce RetroPie 4.6 with beta support for the Raspberry Pi 4.

It’s been some time since we last updated our pre-built images. However development has been ongoing in the background, and a lot of changes have been made since the last release. Note that we update RetroPie constantly, and you can update your system at any time. We wanted to wait until we were happy with the Raspberry Pi 4 support before putting out some new images though, but RetroPie has been working on the Raspberry Pi 4 for some time for those wanting to manually install or try a weekly development image.

Arduino Car Bluetooth Control by Smartwatch – yantRaviD

April 28, 2020 by CrackedConsole

Controlling a Arduino bluetooth hc-05 Car by smartwatch.

Why was the Nintendo 64 so hard to develop games for ? | MVG

April 28, 2020 by CrackedConsole

The Nintendo 64 was an impressive console. Silicon Graphics and Nintendo pulled off the unthinkable – the precision of accurate 3D hardware on a $199 consumer home console. Yet developers complained that the system was too complex and overly difficult to develop games on.
In this episode we take a closer look at some of the complexities developers faced when making games for the N64.

Nvidia has an ‘exciting’ graphics card launch on May 14 via YouTube

April 27, 2020 by CrackedConsole

Nvidia has announced that it will be holding the much-awaited GTC 2020 keynote online come May 14.

Specifically, the pre-recorded (not livestreamed) keynote will be available to view on the company’s YouTube channel on May 14 at 6am PT (9am ET, 2pm UK time). It was originally scheduled to happen on March 23, but was one of many tech events canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The firm stated: “Huang [Nvidia’s CEO] will highlight the company’s latest innovations in AI, high performance computing, data science, autonomous machines, healthcare and graphics during the recorded keynote.”

8-Bit Brawler Jay And Silent Bob: Mall Brawl Gets Its Own Switch eShop Release Next Week

April 27, 2020 by CrackedConsole

The game, which is an 8-bit companion brawler to Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch, actually started out as a free digital bonus for backers of that game’s crowdfunding campaign. It received a Limited Run physical edition for the NES last year but will soon be available to download on Switch. Here’s the official eShop description:

Play as Jay and Silent Bob in a retro 8-bit sidescrolling brawler. Go solo or team up with a friend. Pummel enemies with hard-hitting combos, dash attacks, and elbow drops as well as a random assortment of weapons as you battle your way out of the mall and back to the Quickstop.

You can see it running on Switch in the video below; the clip shows the development team’s first console test for the software.