General computer talk/advice

Actually, the 960 has slightly better price/performance:


970 is still a better buy if you have the money though, performance is much better and it can run almost anything maxed out in 1080p 60 fps.

 

Yeah, the 970 just has more power and therefore makes more sense if you know you'll have $100 more in a short period of time.

Different topic: Everyone, what are your thoughts about everyone saying that the Xeon E3 1230 v5 is "a really good CPU for gaming" and gives you the "capability of having i7-performance for the price of an i5 by overclocking it"? Only works on server boards, by the way.

 

Xeon's are work horses, not race horses.

 

Bullshit.

HT is pointless for gaming. Very few games are CPU bound, and those that are require single threaded performance, not more threads. And the Xeon isn't better at that.
A 6600K has 4c/4t with a boost clock of 3.9 GHz. E3-1230 v5 has 4c/8t with a boost clock of 3.8 GHz. Small difference. Except the 6600K can be easily overclocked to ~4.5 GHz with decent cooling. Xeon on the other hand has a locked multiplier, you have to use the BCLK, not good.

You also need a server board. Which is both harder to find and more expensive. You can get a decent Z170 board for ~$90, C230 starts at over $150.

So you end up spending $50-60 more than you would on an i5. You get a CPU that is harder to overclock and performs worse on games (because of worse ST performance). Absolutely pointless.

Btw, same thing was said about the E3-1231 v3 in late 2014, also proven false, the 4690K is and always was a better gaming CPU for the money.

 

Good. I wonder why everybody was so hyped about those CPUs though. Magazine people tend to just copy-paste stuff when in a hurry and do a bunch of shit apparently. And by the way, the cheapest good C230 mainboard is an Asus for €185 and up.
Why bother hyping people when those who are most interested in things like that know better anyway? I mean, if it's a budget server CPU, they should hype everybody about their "new i5-cheap super server CPU for extreme bang for buck". People would be absolutely losing their mind about how Intel has done it again.

 

Good to see that the pant's on this Toshiba are running cool.

 

Another time, thoughts? https://jolla.com/jolla/

 

What the heck is a Pant and why is it part of the motherboard?

 

Funny thing is, a low-end i5 is a better server CPU than a Xeon is a gaming CPU.
You can get an i5 for a lot less than the cheapest Xeon, and as long as you don't need things like ECC memory it's good enough for small servers, like dedicated game servers for 10-20 users, or network storage for a home network.

 

Kinda hilarious. Which means that low-end Xeons are the new AMD FXs.

 

Not really. If you can afford a Xeon, it's a better server CPU.
But there's no Xeon under $250/£200, and server boards are also expensive. So if you can't afford a proper server a low end i5 (4460 or 6400) will do for a small server.

Also

Doesn't look bad, but it's doomed to fail. Running Android apps is worthless without Google Play. Only decent Android app store.
Also, unless their system is very efficient with resources (which I doubt since it runs Android apps) 1GB RAM isn't enough. No mention of CPU specs or display resolution.

Honestly, every single phone in the market right now sucks. All of them.
I'm still waiting for a proper power user phone. Something with 2 or more hot-swappable mSD slots, a large (removable) battery, maybe dual WLAN. An actual keyboard (no touchscreen keyboard crap). Dual boot (ie Android + WP) would be awesome if it's possible. I don't want a thinner or lighter phone. I want something I can actually work with.

 

yes

i'm still using my GS3 because everyone seems to be going in the "Asthetics>Function" route lately, including samsung

also on the dual-boot comment:

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/ph...-you-dual-boot-android-and-windows-10-1291863

don't know what happened to it as there doesn't seem to be any news on it since then, but hey, it's there, possibly.

 

Most important things for me would be a physical keyboard (touchscreens suck) and dual hot-swappable micro SDs.
Also, a video output (micro DP?) would be nice.

Dual boot is mostly for development, better than having two devices.

 

So Guys I Updated My BIOS Gigabyte Motherboard From F4 To F15 Started Up My Windows And My Screen Resolution Is 1024x768. So I Changed It Back To 1920x1080 (My Monitor Original Size) Then No Signal To My Monitor. Resetted The Computer And Stays At 1024x768. Can Anyone Help Me?
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Nevermind I Fixed It!
All I Had To Do Was Go To Intel Graphics And Media Control Panel And Change It There.

 

Well, the price difference isn't too big, so I guess the Xeon might be better for something like that anyway. For a moment I'd almost thought low-end Xeons would totally suck at anything. Glad that's not true.
[QUOTE="BlueScreen, post: 323185, member: 55022“]Doesn't look bad, but it's doomed to fail. Running Android apps is worthless without Google Play. Only decent Android app store.
Also, unless their system is very efficient with resources (which I doubt since it runs Android apps) 1GB RAM isn't enough. No mention of CPU specs or display resolution.

Honestly, every single phone in the market right now sucks. All of them.
I'm still waiting for a proper power user phone. Something with 2 or more hot-swappable mSD slots, a large (removable) battery, maybe dual WLAN. An actual keyboard (no touchscreen keyboard crap). Dual boot (ie Android + WP) would be awesome if it's possible. I don't want a thinner or lighter phone. I want something I can actually work with.[/QUOTE]
Well, if it can run basic apps, it's fine to me. A test said that it has a Snapdragon 400, 2 x 1,4 GHz, Adreno 305 and similar performance to an LG L9 II. Problem is, I have to find someone who knows what that means.

 

sweet, the Galaxy S7 is going to bring expandable storage back, all the way up to 256GB

only 32gb of internal though, which is frankly fine with me since micro-sd cards are very cheap

no removeable/replaceable battery though, so it's still unibody

 

I coulda told you that XD
Aunt already has one. Works for samsung.

 

I've yet to use 16GB of storage on my phone. And I have all my music/pictures on the SD card, no streaming.

 

I think it's hatd to exceed 10GB with Android apps.

 

I have like 2 apps I use that aren't part of the OS :/