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christos_thski

You have a perfectly serviceable GPU atm. I would wait to see how navi pans out (hell, I might even wait it out for intel Xe, unless I HAD to game at 4K. I know you said your use case only supports amd gpus, but if Xe is succesful, it will drag all prices down with it. perhaps there will be a macos ...

christos_thski

I was just watching a YouTube video showing God of War on the PS4 and realized how good it is, not just graphically. Makes me wonder what makes consoles so much more efficient than personal computers. The PS4 is using only AMD Jaguar cores. You can't have that sort of performance from those Jags in...

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I'm trying not to get overly optimistic over this, but everything seems to point to intel breaking at the very least the mid-high end discrete GPU market. And that's more than enough for me. The equivalent of a GTX 1660 (or whatever covers that place in 2020, when Xe releases), from intel , will be ...

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34.833 hours and 41,98TB writes on a Samsung SSD (that 840 line, too). Might have had mechanical drives with more hours but they either crapped out on me, or were replaced for lack of space.

christos_thski

Thank so much for the informative answers, and apologies to the op on piggy-backing this to his thread!

christos_thski

Thank you! Unfortunately I seem to be in possession of an odd duck. It is a dual rank 8GB dimm stick. Patriot PSD48G240082H.

So does this advice still hold, or does the dual rank complicate things?

christos_thski

I don't mean to hijack the thread -apologies to the original poster- but while you're at it, one small question. I have 8GBs of ram on a system with only two dimm slots. And I can't find my particular brand/type of DDR4 "Patriot" ram the system came with, any more. Will it work in dual cha...

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Krogoth wrote:
It is the Geforce 3 all over again expect the entrance price was a mere $349-399 instead being north of $599.

May be the GeforceFX...

christos_thski

I ate simply too much of the stuff, baked in large oven pans, while serving in the army (the draftees called it "godzilla meat" as in "mystery meat")... Got over the aversion to it only recently, many years later... and now I even voluntarily eat it ...sometimes. Mainly when I ha...

christos_thski

I know you weren't responding to my post, but if I remember correctly, the pentium pro was already breaking down x86 instructions into "risc-like" microops while apple was playing up their imagined "x86 is doomed" record for the acolytes (which we're about to see a repetition of...

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The way I understand it ARM processors are decent for performing one task at a time, and to do a different task they need to be switched to do a different task in software. Not a good way to multitask. For raw horsepower, I don't think ARM will be able to beat the x86 design, based on, well, the wa...

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It's WindWalker. He looks at the fact that x86 processors are actually useful for tasks that don't include viewing Apple-Approved content and picking from curated Apple-Approved ideas as the greatest thing that's wrong with the world today. x86 processors are not particularly useful for any task, t...

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30 euros in Greece.

christos_thski

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320333 Ha - this is the one I bought last night after searching around - good to know someone else around here likes it - thanks for the link! @JBI - I see what you mean, a 2nd router offers no advantage - not sure why I thought it would - e...

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How about some powerline homeplugs? They're as plug and play as you can get and I've been impressed with the minimal impact on ping/lag. Much better than wifi. These should do just fine, for example http://us.dlink.com/products/connect/powerline-av2-2000-gigabit-pass-through-adapter/ Unless you're v...

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Houses in that area do have some extra lumber support going on, but for the most part it's just rinse and repeat with damaged property. A discussion could be had about whether the cost and upkeep of trying to make waterproof indestructible houses would be less than repairs, but I'll assume that the...

christos_thski

First of all, good luck to all people threatened by this... hope people get away from this as unscathed as possible. I have a question, and I'm not trying to troll or flamebait, so please don't take this the wrong way. My folks' home -as most- withstood a 6,6R scale earthquake in Greece, back in the...

christos_thski

By the way... the oligopoly itself is pretty upfront about running a cartel. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/China-to-take-3-to-5-years-to-pose-threat-to-memory-chip-industry "For Taiwan's leading memory chip maker Nanya Technology, China's ambition to build up a competitive semicond...

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Even corporate press is now more and more referring to the chip makers "lax" attitude to upgrading capacity and more cautiously and less often towing the party line about "process switch" and the rest of that crap. The oligopoly and its practices are now eating into the viability...

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I don't think this is a very smart move with Ryzen 3 coming soon. On the other hand, if it props up AMD sales it may end up good for the consumer -in the long term. Short term, it does kind of suck, but that's the exact reason we need competition in the cpu market..

christos_thski

Perhaps buying a few units of every kind of useless piece of crap "cryptocoin" as it appears, for pennies, and then sitting on that until the libertardians discover their next "stick it to the fed/down with fiat money" fad, would constitute a better scheme rather than overloading...

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I have to agree with just brew it, and Rage Pro's experience only reinforces my antipathy towards Samsung. This company does not respect its customers. Some of its low end TVs are positively bottom quality, a friend of mine had a panel burn out on one (a few months past warranty) and they offered to...

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Three systems: Fractal Define R5 + EVGA Supernova G2 550W Corsair 380T + Seasonic S12II 520W Phanteks Enthoo Pro M + EVGA Supernova G2 650W These are three of the largest cases you can get in their respective "classes". The Phanteks and the Fractal both push the bounds of a "midtower...

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Primary PC : a Thermaltake GTS-10 (which is the last case I'll buy from them, as I'm unhappy with their customer support) and a Corsair CS750M PSU (which is certainly not the last PSU I'll buy from them ; great tech support when I needed it). Secondary PC : a small Corsair Carbide SPEC-M2 tower and ...

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Since the thread has been necroed and all... https://www.amazon.com/DB4010-Oral-B-Advance-Battery-Toothbrush/dp/B004EFXO28/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1494430625&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=oral+b+advance+power It's cheap, it's cheerful, it still does a much better job than manual br...

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ClickClick5 wrote:
christos_thski, what are your core/ram speeds?

Updated: http://linserv.biz.tm/dat/TR_Super_Bench_Results.xlsx

The core is running at 1050Mhz and the HBM RAM at a 'lowly' 500Mhz (I guess the insane HBM 4096 bit memory bus more than compensates for that, but I still get a chuckle out of it).

christos_thski

Not exactly a state of the art system (the i5-3470 is maybe getting a little bit long on the tooth for torture benchmarking, only 8gigs of ram), but my R9 Fury came through for me. Better than I expected.

christos_thski

Linux needs a better installation process. Sure, there are "download and play" repositories in various distros, but insofar as the non technical user is lost trying something as simple as installing an app outside of those repos, linux will not be perceived as more user friendly than wind...

christos_thski

Aranarth wrote:
southrncomfortjm wrote:
Is this somehow due to Ryzen launch? Or is there some other reason?

Yup it is intel's fault!
Another grand conspiracy!

More like collusion between the memory makers and it's not the first time, nor will it be the last. Ah, the joys of "free market" oligopolies.

christos_thski

Linux needs a better installation process. Sure, there are "download and play" repositories in various distros, but insofar as the non technical user is lost trying something as simple as installing an app outside of those repos, linux will not be perceived as more user friendly than windo...

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