Robert Hallock
@thracks.bsky.social
👔 Channel GM @ Intel
❤️ Turbos, PC gaming, watches, donuts, Linux (archbtw), and TTRPGs
🚩 I have an unhealthy relationship with candles
❤️ Turbos, PC gaming, watches, donuts, Linux (archbtw), and TTRPGs
🚩 I have an unhealthy relationship with candles
VERY cool article from @tomshardware.com on obscure microprocessor history. But, also, history I wish I'd learned years ago!
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster
This pioneering microprocessor was a classified military secret from 1970 to 1989, as a vital part of an advanced fighter aircraft’s control systems.
www.tomshardware.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
VERY cool article from @tomshardware.com on obscure microprocessor history. But, also, history I wish I'd learned years ago!
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...
Reposted by Robert Hallock
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
GAME OVER: $25k+ of tech stolen from Kent arcade
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of vintage video game equipment was stolen from a Kent arcade this week.
www.kiro7.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out.
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...
"We have created the world's first luxury domestic robot. It can free you of all manner of domestic chore."
"How much?"
"Prices start at five-hundred thou--"
"HALF A MILLION DOLLARS?!"
"It can fold and put away laundry."
"Oh... Y'all take wire transfers?"
"How much?"
"Prices start at five-hundred thou--"
"HALF A MILLION DOLLARS?!"
"It can fold and put away laundry."
"Oh... Y'all take wire transfers?"
November 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"We have created the world's first luxury domestic robot. It can free you of all manner of domestic chore."
"How much?"
"Prices start at five-hundred thou--"
"HALF A MILLION DOLLARS?!"
"It can fold and put away laundry."
"Oh... Y'all take wire transfers?"
"How much?"
"Prices start at five-hundred thou--"
"HALF A MILLION DOLLARS?!"
"It can fold and put away laundry."
"Oh... Y'all take wire transfers?"
Reposted by Robert Hallock
I love video games.
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I love video games.
It is 2:16 AM. The jet lag is having the last laugh. There's only one solution: time to fire up a marathon Stellaris session.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It is 2:16 AM. The jet lag is having the last laugh. There's only one solution: time to fire up a marathon Stellaris session.
Super cool! Looking forward to watching.
The Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) has officially named its first four cities—Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Boston—marking a historic step in bringing professional women’s baseball to the national stage.
Four Cities, One Dream: WPBL’s First Four Teams Announced
The Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) has officially named its first four cities—Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Boston
www.womensprobaseballleague.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Super cool! Looking forward to watching.
Congrats to Sergmann for his new DDR5 WR OC set on Arrow Lake-S! A very spicy DDR5-13010.
hwbot.org/benchmarks/m...
#overclocking #hardware #processors #RAM #overclock
hwbot.org/benchmarks/m...
#overclocking #hardware #processors #RAM #overclock
sergmann`s 6504.9 MHz score: Memory Frequency with aDDR5 SDRAM
The DDR5 SDRAMscores getScoreFormatted in the Memory Frequency benchmark. sergmannranks #1 worldwide and #1 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.
hwbot.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Congrats to Sergmann for his new DDR5 WR OC set on Arrow Lake-S! A very spicy DDR5-13010.
hwbot.org/benchmarks/m...
#overclocking #hardware #processors #RAM #overclock
hwbot.org/benchmarks/m...
#overclocking #hardware #processors #RAM #overclock
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends. ❤️
October 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends. ❤️
I remember when Serious Sam games were an indispensable part of hardware benchmark suites. Iconic franchise! Super cool to see a 20-year update.
Think I just felt my joints ache typing that...
Think I just felt my joints ache typing that...
Serious Sam 2 - 20th Anniversary Update www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUQr...
Update notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/204...
Update notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/204...
October 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I remember when Serious Sam games were an indispensable part of hardware benchmark suites. Iconic franchise! Super cool to see a 20-year update.
Think I just felt my joints ache typing that...
Think I just felt my joints ache typing that...
r a l l y
October 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
r a l l y
What game do you wish you could re-live as though you were playing it for the 1st time?
Perhaps because the gfx amazed, or it was a genre-defining title, or because it was just what you needed at that time All answers welcome!
Mine is EverQuest. Nothing since has awed me like my first days in EQ.
Perhaps because the gfx amazed, or it was a genre-defining title, or because it was just what you needed at that time All answers welcome!
Mine is EverQuest. Nothing since has awed me like my first days in EQ.
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
What game do you wish you could re-live as though you were playing it for the 1st time?
Perhaps because the gfx amazed, or it was a genre-defining title, or because it was just what you needed at that time All answers welcome!
Mine is EverQuest. Nothing since has awed me like my first days in EQ.
Perhaps because the gfx amazed, or it was a genre-defining title, or because it was just what you needed at that time All answers welcome!
Mine is EverQuest. Nothing since has awed me like my first days in EQ.
Always a fun day when /boot, somehow, joins the choir invisible. Chroot and fsck to the rescue. D:
October 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Always a fun day when /boot, somehow, joins the choir invisible. Chroot and fsck to the rescue. D:
I'm a simple man. If I see someone reviving or modding a VooDoo GPU, I click.
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
September 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm a simple man. If I see someone reviving or modding a VooDoo GPU, I click.
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
I switched to Linux full-time in 2021.
At first, I was frustrated by how "involved" it all was. But, after forcing myself to be patient and learn, I've come to admire the involvement. It gives me much greater flexibility to configure, mod, or fix however I want.
Past ~18mos: Arch + Hyprland!
At first, I was frustrated by how "involved" it all was. But, after forcing myself to be patient and learn, I've come to admire the involvement. It gives me much greater flexibility to configure, mod, or fix however I want.
Past ~18mos: Arch + Hyprland!
September 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I switched to Linux full-time in 2021.
At first, I was frustrated by how "involved" it all was. But, after forcing myself to be patient and learn, I've come to admire the involvement. It gives me much greater flexibility to configure, mod, or fix however I want.
Past ~18mos: Arch + Hyprland!
At first, I was frustrated by how "involved" it all was. But, after forcing myself to be patient and learn, I've come to admire the involvement. It gives me much greater flexibility to configure, mod, or fix however I want.
Past ~18mos: Arch + Hyprland!
New update for Intel Application Optimization (APO)!
community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tec...
Please join Intel's Aaron Mcgavock at 1:00 PM PDT to hear more about the update. www.twitch.tv/intel
HOWTO: Download and install the latest IPF & DTT drivers, available soon on your mobo's support page. :)
community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tec...
Please join Intel's Aaron Mcgavock at 1:00 PM PDT to hear more about the update. www.twitch.tv/intel
HOWTO: Download and install the latest IPF & DTT drivers, available soon on your mobo's support page. :)
Intel Application Optimization: New Titles and Better Gaming Performance
Your system’s secret weapon just got stronger – Intel® Application Optimization (APO) is stepping up its game. With the latest update, Intel is expanding APO support to include 15 new game titles, del...
community.intel.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
New update for Intel Application Optimization (APO)!
community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tec...
Please join Intel's Aaron Mcgavock at 1:00 PM PDT to hear more about the update. www.twitch.tv/intel
HOWTO: Download and install the latest IPF & DTT drivers, available soon on your mobo's support page. :)
community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tec...
Please join Intel's Aaron Mcgavock at 1:00 PM PDT to hear more about the update. www.twitch.tv/intel
HOWTO: Download and install the latest IPF & DTT drivers, available soon on your mobo's support page. :)
Happy Labor Day. 🌹
September 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Happy Labor Day. 🌹
I still maintain that The Division 2 is one of the best co-op games of all time. Perfected vision of the loot'n'shoot genre; satisfying combat; diverse character builds; TONS of content. I keep coming back over and over.
August 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I still maintain that The Division 2 is one of the best co-op games of all time. Perfected vision of the loot'n'shoot genre; satisfying combat; diverse character builds; TONS of content. I keep coming back over and over.
Reposted by Robert Hallock
On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, officially creating the National Park Service to protect and preserve America’s natural wonders and historic treasures “for the enjoyment of this and future generations.”
August 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, officially creating the National Park Service to protect and preserve America’s natural wonders and historic treasures “for the enjoyment of this and future generations.”
Oh no. AUR is down.
a cartoon of spongebob and patrick in front of a television
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob and patrick in front of a television
media.tenor.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Oh no. AUR is down.
Intel dominates in LLM performance. Some other vendors are even trying to use NPU+GPU at the same time to catch up, and they can't
Llama2-7b
Llama3.1-7b
Phi 3.5 Mini-3.8b
Phi 4 Reasoning-14b
Lunar Lake sweeps TTFT & token rate vs. SDXE and Strix Point.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/mlperf...
Llama2-7b
Llama3.1-7b
Phi 3.5 Mini-3.8b
Phi 4 Reasoning-14b
Lunar Lake sweeps TTFT & token rate vs. SDXE and Strix Point.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/mlperf...
MLPerf Client v1.0 results show Intel leading
ACAnalysis testing Except for the rather complex Procyon test, until now there was no straightforward way to measure the AIPC performance. MLCommons and MLPerf Client have solved that problem, especia...
www.linkedin.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Intel dominates in LLM performance. Some other vendors are even trying to use NPU+GPU at the same time to catch up, and they can't
Llama2-7b
Llama3.1-7b
Phi 3.5 Mini-3.8b
Phi 4 Reasoning-14b
Lunar Lake sweeps TTFT & token rate vs. SDXE and Strix Point.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/mlperf...
Llama2-7b
Llama3.1-7b
Phi 3.5 Mini-3.8b
Phi 4 Reasoning-14b
Lunar Lake sweeps TTFT & token rate vs. SDXE and Strix Point.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/mlperf...
Intel and EA are teaming up to optimize BF6 for Arc and Core Ultra 👉 community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tec...
Scheduler, XeSS SR, XeSS LL, XeSS FG, GPU and IGP optimzations.
Scheduler, XeSS SR, XeSS LL, XeSS FG, GPU and IGP optimzations.
Intel and EA Announce PC Optimization Partnership for Battlefield 6
Intel and EA Announce PC Optimization Partnership for Battlefield 6 The two companies are working closely on performance optimizations for the upcoming entry in the legendary Battlefield series What...
community.intel.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Intel and EA are teaming up to optimize BF6 for Arc and Core Ultra 👉 community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tec...
Scheduler, XeSS SR, XeSS LL, XeSS FG, GPU and IGP optimzations.
Scheduler, XeSS SR, XeSS LL, XeSS FG, GPU and IGP optimzations.
I'm a simple man: I see Sega Genesis games, I upvote. Bonus that this game looks like it absolutely RIPS. 🤘 Can't wait to give it a try.
Earthion is a brand new Sega Genesis game in 2025 and it fucking slaps!! If you have ever been a shmup fan then you better check this out: store.steampowered.com/app/3597580/...
Earthion on Steam
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
store.steampowered.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I'm a simple man: I see Sega Genesis games, I upvote. Bonus that this game looks like it absolutely RIPS. 🤘 Can't wait to give it a try.
Reposted by Robert Hallock
i am so fortunate to have grown up with mister rogers
August 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
i am so fortunate to have grown up with mister rogers
Happy national thermal engineer day! The heroes that keep our framerates high and our temperatures low. 🫡
July 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Happy national thermal engineer day! The heroes that keep our framerates high and our temperatures low. 🫡