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I'm a bit disappointed by the lack of PCI-E lanes and USB 3 support. Do we have a rough date for the 1366 replacement?
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16 + 4 lanes in total, right? Main graphics interface + DMI bus. It would be enough assuming your only intended PCI-E card is a GPU, but I would like enough for a RAID card and a few spare on top as well.
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Sep 16, 2010 07:46
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MachinTrucChose posted:Overclocking is a stupid waste of money and shouldn't be done but limiting the option is a negative for the CPU riceboy types. What the hell? $300 CPU + $50 cooler is a waste of money compared to a $600 CPU?
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movax posted:I'm currently nearing the end of week-long training with EFI down at AMI, and I'd say even with tons of debug code active, we're seeing a reference board get to OS in ~20 seconds or so. I'm porting their reference UEFI BIOS to our new platform, so I can answer as much non-NDA'd stuff 'bout EFI as I can. I hope this doesn't come across as a loaded question, because I'm actually curious. BIOS as we all know is kinda slow, but what really kills it is all the "addins" that have their own screens, device enumerations, etc. before you hit the OS. By way oof example: basic POST -> OS = x seconds enable AHCI in BIOS = x + y seconds install a RAID card = x + y + z seconds configure the JMicron RAID = yet another screen and even more seconds added to boot time. Will EFI help with this crap? Will we ever get to a Mac-like grey screen -> OS in stupidly low amount of time?
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Gigabyte is generally the best for OS X compatibility, Asus boards seem to like to use odd sound codecs or ethernet controllers that are not well supported. Of course all this may change with real UEFI support!
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OCAU's FS/FT forum is pretty cool, you'll often see threads like "I'm selling this week-old 2600K because it only does 47x multi and I'm still looking for one that will do at least a 53x." Then the next week the same guy I'm thinking of will post another thread the exact same. Plus you can lowball the more esoteric or slightly-out-of-date stuff and geta good deal sometimes. 
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Dec 8, 2011 04:33
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Gigabyte is fine (and practically a requirement if you ever want to try OS X) and having serial/parallel/msata is a little fruity but doesn't hurt anything. That said I'd put another $50 on top for a -UD3 board rather than the budget level one you linked. Can never have too many USB ports or audio jacks.
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Jan 17, 2012 04:40
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USB3 ports don't work for me before the OS starts (Sandy Bridge Z68). USB2 is fine though yeah.
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May 1, 2012 04:49
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Man, I really hope they sort out this PCI-E passthrough stuff sometime in my lifetime. Being a Mac user would be so much more bearable if you could get a nice system running under a bare metal hypervisor in its own little world.
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Feb 18, 2013 04:18
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PUBLIC TOILET posted:The more I read about Haswell-E for 2014, the more I want to wait even further for it. Is that going to be the only hope for someone that wants 32 PCI-E lanes?
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Jun 18, 2013 04:34
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SIMM doublers are back (in pog form!)
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Feb 14, 2014 04:11
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Integrated GPU is invaluable in diagnostics and a cheap hedge against having no computer if you end up with a bum video card. Also you can use it as an extra monitor, or for QuickSync H.264 encoding.
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Jun 11, 2014 04:56
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PerrineClostermann posted:People resell computer parts? To add an opposite data point to the overprice poo poo on eBay and craigslist, I buy a lot of good stuff off OCAU (computer forum) for quite cheap. As soon as a new GPU or CPU come out the mad enthusiasts are selling off their perfectly good stuff to pay down their credit cards. As an example the last thing I bought was a GTX680 for half the price it was still selling retail the month after the 780 came out.
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Krailor posted:FYI - There's a 3rd party company selling the same model on Amazon for $80. I doubt they ship overseas, but got a link?
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Oct 30, 2014 06:05
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Maybe it just means that they can support USB3.1 devices at USB3.0 speeds.
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Feb 19, 2015 04:35
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We have HP Z8XX towers here and the driver support is an absolute joke. The users have no end of random intermittent problems with them. Not sure how to apportion blame between the SOE and HP, but it's probably at least a little on each side.
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Apr 24, 2015 04:28
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mobby_6kl posted:These are supposedly the Skylake models: Is this the first time that non-K versions have had completely different TDPs and frequencies?
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Apr 30, 2015 04:46
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Yeah, I'm really happy I convinced myself to upgrade in 2011-12, and as nice as it would be to have 1000MB+/sec solid state storage, the only place I'll ever notice it is faster level load times. The latest PCI-E SSDs take up so many lanes (and consumer CPUs provide so few lanes) that they steal bandwidth from your GPU anyway.
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May 27, 2015 04:22
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japtor posted:Hopefully they get inspired by the old GPU boxes, like have some monk meditating with a bunch of video gamey poo poo flying out of his head. Intel can have a sexy blue-haired anime babe (holding a gun) on their CPU boxes and AMD can have a sexy red-haired robot babe (holding a gun) on their CPU boxes.
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Aug 4, 2015 04:21
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Skandranon posted:It's better than it was in the early Core days. Core, Core Duo, Core2, Core2 Duo, Core2 Quad... WTF... Makes more sense than Pentium/i3/i5/i7. Just think of a 920 as a Core 3 Quad, 2600K as Core 4 Quad, etc.
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Aug 5, 2015 04:43
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Skandranon posted:I don't think so... i3/i5/i7 maps well to budget, mainstream, performance. It doesn't conflate confusingly common words (Core) with the name. Sure, the model numbers within (4790K wtf) don't help, but the numbers for the Core series didn't help much better (6600 vs 8300). Yes it does. "Core i7 2600K" Also i3/i5/i7 mean different things on different platforms. If it was a hard hard and fast rule where like i2 = 2C2T i2H = 2C4T i4 = 4C4T i4H = 4C8T it would be a lot better IMO.
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Aug 5, 2015 07:30
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mayodreams posted:When I had ThinkPads for work, disabled that loving thing in the BIOS. Unfortunately on Latitudes you need to run the lovely Alps software at startup to disable it (and the bonus mouse buttons.)
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Jul 21, 2016 04:29
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They got up to 10th gen, law of marketing says you have to rebrand now. See also: NVidia, ATi.
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Jul 31, 2020 14:18
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If it's anything like the sexy anime babes on GPU shrouds then it should be printed onto the LGA pads so it's upside-down after you install it.
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Aug 20, 2020 05:06
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The Hyper 212 was always a budget small/medium tower cooler. 4 heatpipes, fairly narrow and I presume you're using it with a single fan. Any big tower cooler with 6 heatpipes and more fin surface area and two fans will be quite a bit better. Make sure it can clear your RAM and fits in your case besides.
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Cygni posted:To add to that, if you saw those USB4 speed numbers of 20Gbps or 40Gbps and got happy, good news! USB-IF hosed that up too! USB4 20Gbps certified devices only have to transfer data at... 10Gbps. The other 10Gbps can come from data or the required displayport pass through support. So even if a port says USB4 20Gbps, there is no guarantee it will run at anything higher than 10Gb/s for actual data. There is also no branding standard to figure out which USB4 20Gbps ports and devices support what, so being cynical, I think its likely that device makers won't bother supporting anything but the required portions. I was trying to test some cables recently and you don't even have any way of knowing what rate your PC and the device are "syncing" at. If you have an eGPU you can do some VRAM fill rate test and that's about it. (Maybe someone should make a fake USB stick that writes everything to /dev/null for speed tests)
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Eletriarnation posted:There are advantages to PGA, too. While it's a pain to unbend their pins, it's at least feasible - good luck unfucking an LGA which has taken any damage at all. When LGA came out everyone was scared shitless of bricking a mobo but I have never actually done it, including at least one time moving a mobo around without the little plastic covering in the CPU holder and another time where one of the screws holding the retention mechanism came all the way out so the CPU wasn't in properly.
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It's also hard to tell before you actually buy it whether a product's LEDs default to on (OK you can probably guess they do), what the brightness is, if they colour cycle, does the hardware "remember" if you set the colour, brightness, or turn it off entirely? Some reviews may go into enough detail but I would say that most don't/
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Mar 30, 2021 05:28
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I know you already ordered the K but I for anyone else the K CPUs come with better coolers in the current XPS line, so it's probably worth it.
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I was in a discussion recently about an enthusiast server that needed a really high single core frequency. This seems like a job for a 10700K, right? Are there any oddball Xeons you can get off AliExpress for cheap that push 5GHz?
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Paul MaudDib posted:snip Thanks very much for the thoughtful post. The application is a games server, of course. It's currently a homebrew 3820K in a rack, so the overclocked Xeon might be the way to go.
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Jun 30, 2021 09:30
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It's a proxmox host with ceph, so it is probably worth getting a ECC capable solution. Although I just checked the current host and it actually doesn't seem to have ECC to begin with so...
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Jun 30, 2021 11:14
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That's basically what we do now with cinebench!
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Jul 28, 2021 02:29
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K8.0 posted:People hang on to PSUs too long anyway  Yeah, it sucks so much that I haven't needed to buy a new PSU for the last 15 years!
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Aug 2, 2021 03:55
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PSUs being ticking time bombs is loving snake oil. Prophylactically replacing "old" PSUs (how old? 10 years? 5 years?) that are working perfectly well is a complete waste of money.
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Aug 3, 2021 02:49
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No gaming computer is running at 800W 24/7. Heck, it probably isn't even running at 800W in the middle of a game, only during a stress test or benchmark.
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Aug 9, 2021 06:46
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TDP is only 105W, it's not any more of a heater than a modern CPU.
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Nov 3, 2021 05:09
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mdxi posted:ASRock would never design something so inelegant and wonky. ASRock would simply create a motherboard that has DDR4 and DDR5 slots. In the past it would have been 4x DDR4 slots and 2x DDR3 slots but these days it will probably be 4x DDR4 slots and 2x DDR5 slots.
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The United States posted:Intel Battlemage 3: The Darklight Awakening SSǝX
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Do we have any good goss on the Intel 12th gen laptop parts, especially the H class/45W?
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