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IIRC, one of the big advantages of HBM is the lower power draw than GDDR5, but I'm not sure if it's lower power than DDR4. I know some budget laptops use DDR3 instead of GDDR5 simply because of power consumption, and that within the power budget, using DDR3 frees up some watts and allows higher cor...

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As a retro computer collector, years form now I hope to be able to buy the stock of these chips really cheap off of eBay to make a retro time machine. Your i7-2600K does give you certain retro credentials but don't give up the day job. You need the one in my sig to get your retro card A Plextor SCS...

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wingless wrote:
As a retro computer collector, years form now I hope to be able to buy the stock of these chips really cheap off of eBay to make a retro time machine.

Your i7-2600K does give you certain retro credentials but don't give up the day job.

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Or wait a few years, and you'll be able to pick one up on eBay. :lol: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cray-XT4-Supercomputer-In-Rack-w-Modules-AMD-Opteron-Quad-Cores-Full-of-RAM-/201843045494 "AMD Opteron Quad Cores" - Okay! :o "Full of RAM" - So more than 640K but not sure by how much!...

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I think latency and minimum frame rates when gaming are noticeably better with more recent platforms but whether you think the extra smoothness is worth it is not for me to guess.
I'd buy the monitor and wait for the dust to settle on the upcoming platforms and not rush into it.

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Plenty of Haswell Celeron and Pentiums with ECC Support starting from around $45 - http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&FilterCurrentProducts=true&SocketsSupported=FCLGA1150&MarketSegment=DT&CoreCountMin=2&CoreCountMax=2&ThreadCountMin=2&ThreadCountMax=2&ECCMemory...

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At idle, the temperatures are hovering between 45-55, and they usually hit around 70 before my computer restarts. What are you using to measure the CPU temperature? If it is running at 70C that is nowhere near high enough to crash the system as the CPU is rated for 95C or so. CPUs tend to throttle ...

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He Loved Him Madly by Miles Davis (Bill Laswell Remix from Panthalassa; original version from Get Up With It.) I think it makes good music for a requiem so this one is for you Nelson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgM8907oEbA The original version is 32 minutes and personally I skip the first 11 mi...

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Good to see AMD having the balls to turn up so welcome although I can see more downside for this than upside; having a marketing guy talk to tech enthusiasts is a risky proposition. With AMD’s difficulties in the CPU area and the perception (from my experience) that they have been prone to delays fo...

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Miles Davis – Agharta. Miles Davis’s recordings during his extraordinarily creative period of 69 to 75 are very varied. This is a live double CD from a concert in Japan in 75 and a second live double CD Pangaea recorded on the same day was also released; afternoon and evening sets respectively. The ...

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Derek seems to have taken the George Harrison path through life with his interest in Indian/Pakistani music. Since I'm fond of that style, it works for me. You might want to look into some of those Hellborg albums too, then. :wink: Gracias. Is this another Djam Karet? Michael Brook is worth checkin...

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For a really good West/East combo album, look no further that Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and A Meeting by the River . I love that album and Ry Cooder in general. I was fortunate enough to hear him play live in 81 when he was promoting Borderline. Fantastic band with 3 male backing vocalists...

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I’m listening to He Is Invisible He Cannot Be Seen (Left Brain) from Controlled By Radar right now and liking it. Ahh... if you're liking that track, I would also suggest some of Jonas Hellborg's various albums: Ars Moriende Good People in Times of Evil Octave of the Holy Innocents Kali's Son Zenho...

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Saw him with Crimson once, and in an all-acoustic set with Patrick Moraz (Music For Piano and Drums tour). Annoyed that I've never gotten to see Earthworks live. I own practically every recording he's ever played on. Wish I'd been old enough in the early 1970s to see that incarnation of Crimson, Re...

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(I guess I generally tend to favor stuff where guitar plays a significant role; even the Garbarek one features David Torn quite prominently.) Thanks for all the info. They are all people that I’ve listened to although not necessarily the albums you listed. Speaking purely of the guitarists I know T...

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The follow-up to the Rypdal/Vitous/DeJohnette album (titled "To Be Continued...") is also quite good. http://www.allmusic.com/album/to-be-continued-mw0000540119. I was aware of its existence but have not heard it. I like allmusic.com as a resource for music and it is usually my first port...

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Terje Rypdal - "If Mountains Could Sing" He’s a blast from my past and haven’t listened to him much for about 30 years. I used to have the album he did with Vitous & Dejohnette on vinyl. I used to love a lot of the stuff that ECM put out in the 70s and 80s but fell out of touch with i...

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I moved to a rural setting in November and I hear the birds from about 4 AM to late evening outside of winter. I’ve lived rurally before but these are really loud; much more Ted ‘Big Tit’ Nugent than the Small ‘but flat chested’ Faces.

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Stones Ginger Wine.
I'm in the UK but its cold.

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A minor issue is websites that reset preferences when you change one parameter. E.g. You have selected to sort by price and then change from say 4 to 8GB and they default back to another sort order. In the same vein are websites that have an option called something like Best Results (Dell) or custom...

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More cores gives very little benefit because few real-world applications are capable of using more than one or two. Always go with a smaller number of faster cores. Do keep in mind that the 4670K and 4770K are both quad core chips, the i7 just throws in a mostly useless marketing gimmick and a not-...

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ronch wrote:
"I knew Haswell was gonna be a disappointment all along. That's why I went ahead and got an FX-835 0late last year. Get the FX. More cores, more speed, less money."

- ronch, Tech Report reader and loon

MOAR cores - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SArxcnpXStE

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Speaking of disappointments, has anyone here seen the boxes for Haswell chips? I've seen them on Tigerdirect.com and quite frankly, I think it's a little freaky, with that human head. The read just screams "70's" or "80's", not sure which. I can't believe these are Intel boxes. ...

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If it’s true than an architecture can scale by a single magnitude in terms of power used then a range of roughly 8 to 80W covers what Haswell offers nicely. So I don’t see it as a compromised design for desktop usage just one that fits into the TDP limit that Intel has been using for the mainstream ...

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I'm going to say 16GB will be standard for a system without integrated RAM in 2-4 years simply because of manufacturing advances and chip density. Servers will be the big factor pushing this, and desktops will get what trickles down. 64GB of RAM will become standard when SDRAM gives way to NVRAM. I...

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Waco wrote:
"640KB is enough for everyone"

That 'joke' needs to be recompiled as it no longer runs under Windows x64 post Windows 7.

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4 years out 64gb ram will be mainstream as virtually all software goes 64 bit. Regardless of cost I hope that 64GB isn’t mainstream that soon as that would likely be more to do with software bloat than necessity. Most applications don’t really benefit much from being 64 bit and those that do have g...

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"What are the measurable benefits of HMC HMC is a revolutionary innovation in DRAM memory architecture that sets a new standard for memory performance, power, reliability, and cost. This major technology leap breaks through the memory wall, unlocking previously unthinkable processing power and ...

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I strongly disagree with the 50-100% more IPC on the CPU side. 2-4 years is just one or two product cycles, and the pace of new hardware is definitely slowing down especially as manufacturers are starting to run into the physical limits of silicone. 50% may be possible over 4 years if Intel release...

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You can upgrade from XP to Win8 using a custom install which will give you a clean installation. The way to do it is to boot from the Win8 media whilst having the activated XP drive accessible to the installer. The question is whether the Win8 installer whilst checking the activation status of XP on...

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