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I kept my optimism thanks to drfish's posts here mainly due to his enthusiasm and glass half full attitude in spite of the red flags in the things he wrote. That optimism evaporated after I've googled the new owners and read the post/article about the site redesign by Renee. I'm sorry to say this, b...

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Jeezus, that's nuts. I was wondering yesterday about all those moderated down comments under various articles then clicked on one of them. Yikes! It's also mildly shocking how you don't put some of the tweets/comments that were out there in the open in context because you just don't go there in your...

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It's some silly Windows settings reset/change issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/9of8wp/aero_15x_transcend_nvme_drive_write_speeds/ The laptop is great, but the software support is abysmal. My one is an early unit with all the parts as in the review units (LG display, Toshiba SSD, Rip...

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Aren't those the video files for the Quantum Break game?

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You'll be fine with the GT1030 if you really don't want to spend money. I'd go for a non-Ti simple 1050 at least, but a $70 or so passive GT1030 is hard to fault. Seems like you'll be at the same level or faster in almost every game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLAs8S7x6PY

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Don't, it's not worth it for a website or API (not sure what that "something" is so I'll leave it). That "expensive cloud server" is in fact a $5-$10 per month VPS with someone like Linode or Digital Ocean for a website or an API.

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I won't repeat the ones that were mentioned already unless you are into a bit of "most recommended" then I can revisit, so here are some other ones: iZombie - if you enjoyed the style of Veronica Mars, but now with grown up people Brooklyn 99 - it's just great, like a Parks and Rec mixed w...

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HP Microserver and FreenNAS. Cheap for 4 HDDs, just add a RAM stick.

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I don't think you will be able to avoid some self hosting or some form of payment with the requirements you have. A Nextcloud install on the cheapest $5 per month Digital Ocean or a Linode instance will do the trick for example.

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So now that it's out, where is the link to some forum or comment section where Paul DeMone explains that this is the proof that Itanium is alive and well and it is a vibrant and thriving ecosystem for all involved?

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Realistically only two come into question - the two you asked about - VMware and Hyper-V. You can pretty much forget about the rest if you want to have a relatively uncomplicated life as an admin. I know Hyper-V developed nicely in the last couple of years, but the issues you've had with it are seem...

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Too power hungry for anything you could use it at home as a server. To be fair it is still a decent low-end PC for someone who does not have any and seeing that you would not get much for it in parts or put together I would suggest to donate it to someone who would appreciate to have a PC. They can ...

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Leave it be and upgrade when you encounter the first game or program that does not give you satisfactory results and you know from benchmarks and tests on the interwebs that a CPU upgrade will improve the situation.

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I'm not confusing anything. Of course you are. You keep comparing Ryzen against Kaby Lake. You see Intel has two lineups of high-end CPUs, one 'consumer' line-up that tops out at 4 core Kaby Lake with stunningly high clocks, and another HEDT lineup that is one μArch generation behind, with Broadwel...

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ptsant wrote:
Of course. But then, there is no Kaby Lake Intel 8-core part, is there?

So? The statement was that AMD has the IPC advantage. They don't. Even if I read into it what you are reading into it apparently - that the poster meant Broadwell - they don't.

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ptsant wrote:
IPC is defined per clock, don't confuse with single-thread performance which depends on clock speed.

I'm not confusing anything. The IPC is at best at Broadwell levels as per AMD themselves. They are 6-8% behind Kaby Lake.

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LASR wrote:
Now that AMD has the IPC and efficiency advantage...

They have what?

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Get the i7-7700K - faster clocks and the price difference is minimal.

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As it has been said already, don't run it from home. It makes no sense. Both Rackspace and Amazon are pretty expensive for this, much better options are the VPS providers, from my point of view the top choice there being Linode as well. The $10 instance should be enough for your needs, I would not g...

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Well, this will be interesting: Intel's Atom C2000 chips are bricking products – and it's not just Cisco hit Intel indicated in a January 2017 revision of its Atom C2000 family documentation that the chip line contains a clock flaw. Errata note AVR.54, titled "System May Experience Inability to...

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RAM is cheap. I got 32 GB so I don't have to worry about stuff like this until it's time to upgrade again. And I use Chrome. Small correction - RAM *was* cheap, up until last spring or early summer. Prices started to go up after that and now everything is at least double what it was. I also got a 3...

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Why not just try powerline stuff? It's typically fast enough and very stable. At $200+ you can get quite a few powerline adapters, including ones that could act as a WiFi bridge. Powerline is good when it's working. We've had it in our old place and was working OK in 2 out of 3 sockets (1+2 room sp...

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No reviews yet, anywhere to be found? It's already sold in stores. That's strange for a cpu that has excited such interest (I'm not bagging on techreport in particular here, I haven't found any reviews... anywhere) I don't think there will be a lot of G4620 reviews around. Some people already reali...

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You know guys, lets drop the VT-d arguments go back to discussing the merits of Pentium G4620 vs i3-7300 please. Now IMHO if you are going to a H170 or Z270 board, then get the i3-7300. But for the H110 and B150 chipsets, I'm sure the G4620 will be fine. Did you guys agree? True, except if you go ...

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For a cheap gaming machine both VT-d and AVX 2.0 make no difference. The more cache might down the line, but I find the $50 difference too much in this category. Saying that, the G4620 is not the one to look at here, the G4560 for $64 would be a better choice. That's half price of the i3-7300 and th...

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Oh yeah, there is definitely something going on in the background as well, but in this case I think it is also mixed with a healthy dose of messing up forecasts and some other selfinflicted problems. The fact that this is not predicted to stabilize for at least a year is already the price fixing ter...

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Prices on SSD-s are already going up. The reason for now is plausible to be shortage, but realistically it does not help that there is only a handful of NAND manufacturers left. As JAE pointed out, it's not a monopoly, but an oligopoly and that is the same bad, just with a bit more effort regarding ...

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The XFX R9 380X DD XXX OC card a few weeks ago. I needed something temporary with decent features, they've had this on stock and figured how bad can it be? Surely all cards are OKish nowadays. Big mistake. The card gets hot and the fans spin up quickly which means an annoying growling noise at aroun...

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Can also vouch for the HP Elitebooks regarding the keyboard. Bought a refurb 2560p (i5-2540m, 8GB, 256GB SSD) last year for $300 and the keyboard is excellent especially for such an old (4yrs?) specimen. Would be nice if it was backlit, but instead this one still has the little light beside the webc...

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Have: Intel X25-V 40GB - replaced the HDD in an old Acer Aspire One D150 Corsair Force F120 - replaced the HDD in an old Toshiba Satellite A series Samsung 830 256GB - OS/Origin drive in the gaming PC Crucial m4 512GB - Steam drive in the gaming PC As you can see none of these are new, rather a coup...

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