Intel Purley platform, Skylake-SP, Xeon “Scalable” processors (Platinum, Gold, Sliver, Bronze) are here. All 58 of them! Hopefully this post will help you to decide which of these (excellent) processors may be of use for your applications. I trim the list do to just a few of my favorites and break them down by use-case.

HTC Vive Compositor Error
In this article I will share my experience of getting a disruptive VR error when setting up an HTC Vive for a family VR event. The VR issue I experienced was “Compositor is not fullscreen”. This article will cover why the issue occurs and the troubleshooting to do to find a solution.

Case Study for Klip Collective
Klip Collective uses Puget Systems PC’s powered by NVIDIA Quadro cards to create and deliver large-scale projection mapping events.
ARM for Supercomputing a view from SC17
ARM for HPC? Supercomputers using ARM processors? Yes! I was at SC17 last week and ARM was a hot topic. There are new ARM processor designs that are fully competitive with Intel and AMD CPU’s for high performance computing.

Coming from MacOS? Your Shortcuts Will Not Change Much
As more people switch from Mac to Windows, we’re seeing increased amounts of questions on how to use basic shortcut keys in Windows.

This is the most OVERKILL PC I\’ve ever dreamed of owning!
We partnered with Barnacules Nerdgasm to build his new Ultimate Gaming PC desktop computer designed to be the fastest Adobe Premiere rendering box currently possible. This machine has a 14 core Intel i9 processor with 128gb DDR4 memory and all NVME Samsung 960 Pro M.2 storage topped off with a pair of Titan Xp SLI (Pascal) graphics cards.
Managing Kids and Technology
I attended high school during the mid-80s. Around this period, Apple had just released the Macintosh and IBM was beginning to blitz the world with their PC Jr. Both models were still too expensive for my parents to purchase, so my only access to a computer was at my school’s computer lab, where I took a class in BASIC.

TPM Firmware update
We are seeing an issue surrounding current TPM modules and numerous motherboard manufacturers including ASUS, ASRock and Gigabyte.
Skylake-X 7800X vs Coffee Lake 8700K for compute (AVX512 vs AVX2) Linpack benchmark
Which Intel CPU is for heavy numerical compute workloads, Skylake-X core i7 7800X or Coffee-Lake core i7 8700K? They are priced nearly the same. The 8700K has high core clock frequencies and good power management but the 7800X has AVX-512. I show you which one comes out on top using an Intel optimized Linpack benchmark.

So You Want To Update Your BIOS?
We often get inquiries here in our Support department on whether or not to update motherboard BIOS. This article has been created to offer a short history lesson on what the BIOS actually are, to help users understand our viewpoint on whether or not updating the BIOS is a good idea and to provided step-by-step instruction on how to perform BIOS updates (when necessary) on some of our most commonly used boards.




