Mac vs PC

I believe it is necessary to take a closer look at my benchmarking suite. Three things have led to this: Some previous experiments were...

Last week I finally got around to installing a "real" CPU cooler on the PC. When I first installed the 5700X I didn't have the cooler...

This experiment is a follow-up to the anomaly discovered in my original BCLK overclock attempt : it appeared as though manually...

Although my previous attempt at BCLK overclocking was a failure, I wanted to give it another go since I had heard other people were...

For this experiment I wanted to find out how much performance improvement could be achieved by conservatively overclocking the DDR4...

Because my " Any Old PC " has the lowest-spec AM4 chipset (A320) I have very few options for increasing the single-thread throughput on...

Today's post is based on the following hypothesis: SMT (Simultaneous Multithreading) results in slightly slower single-threaded...

In the last few weeks I have upgraded the linux PC's CPU and GPU to make a more substantial push towards at least matching the M2 Mac's...

I have tracked down at least part of the massive ripgrep performance disparity between Linux and MacOS. It turns out that my personal...

Trying to choose and configure the "best" memory for a PC can be very overwhelming. The manufacturer specifications for your CPU and...

I have started with the simplest possible PC upgrade in an attempt to start improving benchmark scores - since mypy is taking a...

I mentioned to some people at my workplace that I was considering building a Linux PC so that I could have the fastest possible machine...

While the title of this blog is "Mac vs PC", it needs to be understood that it's still in the context of my specific work situation - I...

This all started in late 2023 when I joined a large and rapidly growing python tech company, and they didn't respond to my queries asking...