General computer talk/advice

Thanks, that helps me a lot with my future upgrade path, I would like to run 10 cars, so need to double the budget I had in my mind

 

BeamNG will likely be unstable with 10 cars. I wouldn't suggest buying anything better than an I7 7700k unless you have a very good reason to get anything faster, since beyond that the pricing goes ridiculous.

With 10 cars your GPU will likely be just as big a bottleneck as the CPU.

 

Like aljowen said and I can attest to, my CPU can easily handle 12 cars, likely more. However at 10 my GPU has trouble handling all of the spawned cars. Even on low settings I can't hold 60fps.

Another major problem is that the game itself can't really spawn more than 10-12 cars without crashing, seems to be worse depending on the complexity of the vehicle too but in my stress testing 10 cars is border line the limit. If that doesn't crash it alone there can also be other weird things like cars refusing to spawn past a certain number.

 

So I may have just purchased a Pebble Time Steel...

Yeah, Pebble may now be defunct, however fitbit have said they will be pushing updates for 2017 that will allow the device to function 100% standalone, rather than cloud syncing the watch will sync to the phone apps internal storage. I am ok with this. What might be really cool is if some people start doing 3rd party stuff for the watch, but whether that happens is not too big a deal.

I guess the general idea will be to download all the apps and watch faces I may want to use, and enjoy the watch. Especially since it was fairly cheap for what it is.

Then hopefully it will last me a few years. My current smart band (Xiaomi Mi Band) has served me well for 1 year and I do love the thing, however being able to get notifications beyond flashing red for an email, blue for a text message would be kinda useful. Especially since a 1-2 day battery life is a non starter for me.

 

I'm thinking about going lga2011-v3 or 2066, depending a bit how funds/time ratio goes. I like my customized Win8 too much, even Kaby and probably others will work with it despite no official support, I'm kinda leaning towards lga2011-v3 before 2066 launch and getting used CPU after 2066 launch when prices of used CPU's come bit down.

i3 Skylake is incredible in how much it does with so little power usage, but there are many situations where I'm finding it being bit slow. Kaby Lake does not interest me also because of heat spreader issues and it is still just 2-3 times i3 performance at best without upgrade path to anything more powerful.

 

Problem solved which the connection wire has been blazed so i have to replace it.

 

Cool but in future when you ask for help is useful to say what the problem is, because before you did the equivalent of this:

I own a 1999 ford focus. It has a problem. Fix it.

You gave us your specs, said you have a problem, didn't tell us what the problem was

 

Android 7 is coming

 

OOoooOOOooohhh, I got it this morning too.

However it seems to be downloading at around 100KB/s :/

 

Android 7.0 is very nice. Split screen + display scaling = very nice experience

 

only problem I have is that I can't set it on vibrate while in the 'ring' modus :/

 

Yeah, apparently that is by design. I had heard about it before the update. Still think it is a little stupid though.

The new notifications system is also very very nice too. Much more information and inline responding to messages from within the pull down is pretty slick.

 

Not sure if I did stupid deal or not, but got 8GB (2x4GB) ram and Skylake 6700 for 150, thought that can't pass that even plan is to upgrade to HEDT?

 

Can we have a non gibberish translation?

 

I prefer to have my gibberish

 

1. What ram.
2. Do you have a mobo that supports skylake?
3. 150 usd?

 

AAAA my Moto Z Play is getting Nougat in March and I'm not happy about that!

 

Currently running skylake i3, Kingston 2666Mhz Hyper X.

150 euros, customer had installed cpu and ram, but returned to shop, has full warranty though.