Been going through a pile of old tech in my house recently and found this survivor- Apple Powerbook G4 Aluminium with a 1.5 GHz PowerPC Processor Still works a treat, and the battery still holds charge- Impressive for a 12 year old computer.
I got fed up with stuttering and tearing so I ordered myself MSI RX 480 8G Gaming X. My monitor supports freesync so finally I can enable it EDIT: Well, maybe I should wait for Vega instead of buying Polaris now.
The capacitors vibrating at a high frequency. Most commonly the ones on a graphics card especially on menu screens in games that have no frame limit. For example the minecraft main menu would do it on a lot of cards since it would run at over 1000fps. Its fairly common on enclosed devices for manufacturers to use silicone (or similar) around capacitors that are likely to whine since it holds them in place and helps to prevent the noise. In computers this is fairly common in power supplies.
Doing what hasn't been done in four years. not sure if it mattered to cover serial number, but did it anyway. also kinda wish it had iOS 10, but obviously it can't be updated forever.
So how do you guys feel about the 1080ti? $699 for a 35% increase over the 1080 seems to be a pretty good deal. That's only $30 more than the 1080 I was looking at getting. http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti
For me it is out of my budget and my 970 hasn't been causing any issues. However it seems like a neat enough product, wait until the reviews.
Got my lg v10 in the mail. Worked for 2 hours before I got a whole column of dead pixels. Now I'm going into Manhattan to the actual retailer because I can't be without a phone. Great.
i think youo have the worlds worst luck with phones, first your Note 4 dies and a 2 hr old phone dies my ASUS Zenfone 3 still works fine, although it is nearly new, but so does my iPhone 5S (should do)
This phone is official then, I guess. Should be available midway through this month, apparently. Link
It's a shame because I actually like the v10 as much as the note 4. I bought it from B&H online and I'm in the train as I type this to have it exchanged at the retail store. Can't mail it back I need a Phone lol. My first non Samsung smart phone. Pretty sweet. Edit: the exchange went well. Really like this phone, it screams power use me please.
Ryzen 1800x single core is 156 points when Kaby Lake i7 is 191 points, that is not very fast, even Skylake i7 is 177 points. Of course current Intel HEDT are same level or even bit slower as 1800x, but certainly not my CPU as single core performance is so important for me. However 1800x is wonderful CPU from AMD and certainly good one for many, multi-thread operation is where that one shines. I'm probably blind, but no single core overclocking results? http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_7_1800x_processor_review,23.html More overclocking results, tests and experiences will be needed to make up anything about what kind of help that will give, but overclocked Kaby Lake i7 might still be best for single core performance, won't run as many cars as 1800x of course, so everyone has to evaluate which route to go. Much better than I was afraid of though, want to see more tests and experiences before locking opinion and digging into hole though
I need some help with the particle system in Blender :/ I was trying to make some sprinkles, but it just explodes.
Assuming you're talking about Cinebench, a single core score of 156 is WORLDS better than the FX-8350's single core score of an absolutely abysmal 98. I'm a content creator. The handbreak benchmarks specifically are what pushed me to purchase an R7 1700. I edit, transcode, and render 1080p video, hopefully eventually 4K. I eventually want to start streaming gameplay. The 7700K simply wasn't an option for me, and my 4690K is too limiting. I love my little i5, but I've out grown it. The Kaby Lake i7 is about 20% faster single core, you'd know this if you've done the math. This would put the Zen core right in line with Broadwell, which is conveniently the architecture that the current X99 CPUs run. That's not slow at all, and is in fact about 10-15% faster than my Haswell CPU.
Ryzen 1800X: Base clock: 3.5Ghz Boost clock: 4.0Ghz Single core cinebench: 156 156 / 4 = 39 i7 7700K: Base clock: 4.2Ghz Boost clock: 4.5Ghz Single core cinebench: 191 191 / 4.5 = 42.4 If you take a look at the score divided by the (boost) clock speed, you'll see that Ryzen is less than 4 points behind Intel's fastest single-core benchmark. Yet Intel's offerings are significantly more expensive. Intel got BTFO by Ryzen.
Put stable overclock of Kaby 7700k and 1800x against each other and compare in single core, that what matters, you can do all math you want but if you can't run CPU at certain performance level what's the point? Next summer/autumn will come intel's new HEDT CPU's and that will boost 8 core Intel's single core performance, of course Intel will be more expensive, but AMD is in competition now so there might be interesting pricing. However, AMD is not option if you want fast single core performance, it has good yesterday's single core performance, but most likely nothing to compete tomorrow's (well, next autumn's skylake and kaby lake HEDT). AMD is great bang for buck, but please don't try to make it look better than it is, sure it is great in multi core performance, but not so good at single core performance. 20% is a lot of difference in this, that is more than one CPU generation with this micro updates that has been happening recent years. Also it does not mean that AMD would be bad, it is bit slow on single core performance, so what, it is also with low price tag and fast multi core performance, also single core performance is comparable to current HEDT intel offerings as I mentioned, but it is slow for a new CPU that is just launched if you want to be that super fast intel killer which some did hype it to be. So no need to get into full defensive, just be realistic about performance. Update: Maybe I should of said that Intel 5960X and 6950X are slow in single core performance, because they are, if you look upgrading from Skylake i7 and especially if you look upgrading from KabyLake i7, new HEDT models from Intel probably get that 20% boost in single core performance compared to old ones, we will see, those are new CPU performance level, which is fast. Anything below 1800x and 5960X levels starts to be painfully slow in single core performance.
I see we've found the Intel fanboy. We are being realistic about performance, and the reality is that it's not anywhere near as slow as you think it is. The $1,000 6900K must be unusably slow to you then, because it runs Broadwell, a 2 generation old architecture. Zen matches this architecture IPC wise almost perfectly. Do you see where you're being an idiot yet?
