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When tr+ launches, how much do you guys think threadripper 1 prices will drop by? Expecting fire sales?
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The week before the refresh I saw a TR cpu for a little over $300 at microcenter. I'm assuming it was the lowest end model. I only saw the CPUs because that is where the ram used to be. Now the ram is locked inside a glass case in a different area. Thank you for reading. If you enjoyed this post please click the subscribe button below and let me know what you think in the comments.
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May 11, 2018 18:14
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Bloody Antlers posted:The week before the refresh I saw a TR cpu for a little over $300 at microcenter. I'm assuming it was the lowest end model. I only saw the CPUs because that is where the ram used to be. Now the ram is locked inside a glass case in a different area. Thank you for reading. If you enjoyed this post please click the subscribe button below and let me know what you think in the comments.
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May 11, 2018 18:51
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Bloody Antlers posted:The week before the refresh I saw a TR cpu for a little over $300 at microcenter. I'm assuming it was the lowest end model. I only saw the CPUs because that is where the ram used to be. Now the ram is locked inside a glass case in a different area. Thank you for reading. If you enjoyed this post please click the subscribe button below and let me know what you think in the comments. Hurry up August, guess that was a 1900x. GRINDCORE MEGGIDO fucked around with this message at 22:25 on May 11, 2018 |
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May 11, 2018 19:38
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Don't they have money for a tripod or something? I'm drunk and that video is painful to watch.
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May 11, 2018 21:50
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Devian666 posted:So how are we supposed to benefit from the 128 pcie lanes on Epyc? What sort of performance could be squeezed out of the hardware? Where I work we're really interested in AMD's offerings for GPU/storage servers, because we could hang 8 GPUs or a shitload of NVMe drives off a single socket without needing to put switches in the way.
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May 11, 2018 21:59
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Ihmemies posted:Don't they have money for a tripod or something? I'm drunk and that video is painful to watch. half their gimmick is feeling like a reality show
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May 11, 2018 22:35
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The other half is being incompetent.
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May 11, 2018 23:13
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Sormus posted:The other half is being incompetent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wJQEHNYE7M&t=784s
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May 11, 2018 23:28
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Sormus posted:The other half is being incompetent. The huge raid 0 array data loss episode was still peak schadenfreude though.
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May 12, 2018 02:06
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:The huge raid 0 array data loss episode was still peak schadenfreude though. It's even better than that. It was a RAID-0 of RAID-5 arrays (of SSDs, which are of course known for failing gracefully and not just randomly bricking out of the blue when they wear out). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSrnXgAmK8k Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 03:23 on May 12, 2018 |
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May 12, 2018 03:14
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RAID-50 in itself is valid, though.
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May 12, 2018 03:36
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I will admit I love ltt videos. The amount of gently caress ups in whole room watercooling was incredible.
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May 12, 2018 03:49
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LTT is great, in a unique way. Linus shows you the dumb poo poo people actually do when they get an idea in their head. The man has zero shame, and is simultaneously smart and stupid enough to make content that is really entertaining for a lot of people. You could almost call him a metaphor for AMD CPU design.
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May 12, 2018 03:52
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When I think of LTT I [Close video ad in 5...] "Hi, I'm Bill, and I'm an engineer here at Intel. Today we're working on making it so the user doesn't..." think of videos that are like this: "HEY GUYS today we're looking at the CORE i9 series of PROOHCESSORS" [SPONSORED BY INTEL] I kind of haven't been able to take him too seriously ever since he took money to do a video in his usual style promoting a line of CPUs while unable to remark that several of them were completely irrelevant because of Threadripper. That's kind of suggestion is what people are going to your channel for in the first place. If I wanted sponsored content I could just watch the Intel ads that also prelude his pieces.
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May 12, 2018 04:01
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Actually I go to his videos to watch someone use toothpaste as a thermal interface or to see someone try to hook a watercooling loop to a room heating rad. Do people actually go there for tech advice?
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May 12, 2018 04:27
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I watch his videos for tech-related amusement. Kind of like the Dude Perfect of tech videos. If I want actual hardware poo poo, I head to other channels like GamersNexus. edit: upon further reflection, I confess to that not being strictly true. My laptop is starting to make angry noises, and seeing as how it is May in the northern hemisphere, I'm looking at a repaste of my laptop. And based on their results of using liquid metal in a laptop video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdTsra-uLBI) I am strongly considering doing so before it gets into the hot months. I already have the conformal coating and Kapton tape from my other electronics projects. If not that, then I am actually considering getting some of that graphite TIM material they tested on their channel. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpphKzmDiJM) I am still afraid of using liquid metal for anything and everything owing to lack of experience, and while its thermal conductivity is not as good as liquid metal, it is still well far and beyond the capabilities of modern pastes. (Looking at 73 > 35 > 8.5 W/m*K for Conductonaut, the IC Graphite, and my nonconductive paste of choice, GC-Extreme, respectively.) I feel like LTT is the only place I would have ever found the former video, and if not for LTT, I might not have heard about the product in the second. SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 05:15 on May 12, 2018 |
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May 12, 2018 04:32
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Actually I go to his videos to watch someone use toothpaste as a thermal interface or to see someone try to hook a watercooling loop to a room heating rad. Do people actually go there for tech advice? Pretty sure that's a JayzTwoCents video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQ5MYrGIbs
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May 12, 2018 04:33
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SwissArmyDruid posted:I feel like LTT is the only place I would have ever found the former video Well yes, that's because Liquid Metal is a really bad idea for mobile devices. If you don't apply the perfect amount it will break surface tension during transport and spill a highly conductive drop of liquid metal over your laptop's mainboard, memory, battery. LM is also bad at filling air gaps/pockets that can be caused by mainboard/cooler flex because it doesn't stay liquid, though that may not be a case if your laptop case is solid. Any other non-conductive TIM would be a better choice and check the datasheet that it is rated for high temperatures. Some pastes like Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut are rated only up to only 80°C for long term use and dry out quickly if you put them in devices like MBPs which run into Tjmax under load.
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May 12, 2018 08:53
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Measly Twerp posted:Pretty sure that's a JayzTwoCents video... I think ltt tried it at some point too.
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May 12, 2018 09:01
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theres few things i want to see less than a 50yo white guy who calls himself jay z making wacky faces at a camera
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May 12, 2018 10:46
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Your mistake then. He doesn't call himself Jay Z. As for his face... Well...
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May 12, 2018 12:18
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3peat posted:theres few things i want to see less than a 50yo white guy who calls himself jay z making wacky faces at a camera It's not Jay Z Two Cents. It's Jay's Two Cents. The faces are dumb and the dick jokes are cringy though which is why I don't go to that channel much anymore. Mostly stick to Glorious Hair Man's Nerd Porn.
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May 12, 2018 17:33
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Deuce posted:Mostly stick to Glorious Hair Man's Nerd Porn. This is good advice. If you want to watch someone who knows his poo poo talk about PC hardware, even if the presentation is kinda dry, watch Gamer's Nexus. If you want to see a dipshit do dumb things with PC hardware but in a reasonably entertaining way, watch Linus. Almost everyone else (I'm sure there's probably a couple occasionally worth watching) is about as entertaining as Gamer's Nexus and about as informative as Linus and I have no idea how they have an audience.
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May 12, 2018 18:04
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Gamers Nexus got a lot of kudos from me recently for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C6GtZ6U_S8 My favourite tech YouTuber by quite a way at the mo.
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May 12, 2018 18:11
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Gamers Nexus is by far the best tech channel on YouTube
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May 12, 2018 20:16
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PerrineClostermann posted:Gamers Nexus is by far the best tech channel on YouTube What's wrong with Level 1 Techs? They're more Enterprise oriented, but they still do great content on consumer products occasionally.
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May 12, 2018 21:06
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L1T seems to not have found their identity yet. Branding, yes, identity, not quite. Which is kind of a shame, since the TekSyndicate breakup was, what, two years ago now?
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May 12, 2018 22:53
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SlayVus posted:What's wrong with Level 1 Techs? They're more Enterprise oriented, but they still do great content on consumer products occasionally. I don't think there is anything wrong with L1T, and I think their content and GN's content are just about as good as each others, but I do see why GN would come up first. Mainly because I think that GN's content is more mainstream, L1T's content tends to be more niche and in some cases more in depth, but because it's more niche they are not as popular and not as many people mention them.
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May 12, 2018 23:20
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SlayVus posted:What's wrong with Level 1 Techs? They're more Enterprise oriented, but they still do great content on consumer products occasionally. Their news segments are tainted by them being unfunny lolbertarian dude bros.
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May 12, 2018 23:20
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Measly Twerp posted:Their news segments are tainted by them being unfunny lolbertarian dude bros. I just switched off an L1T video after 5 minutes of the guy saying "ree" and pretending to be a fanboy. I can not abide. E- wouldn't be surprised if his analysis of ryzen+ latency was on point, but I'll never know now. GRINDCORE MEGGIDO fucked around with this message at 06:51 on May 13, 2018 |
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May 12, 2018 23:43
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:I just switched off an L1T video after 5 minutes after the guy kept saying "ree" and pretending to be a fanboy. Yeah, they kind suck as people, complaining about SJWs and trans people issues.
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May 13, 2018 00:00
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Theris posted:This is good advice. If you want to watch someone who knows his poo poo talk about PC hardware, even if the presentation is kinda dry, watch Gamer's Nexus. If you want to see a dipshit do dumb things with PC hardware but in a reasonably entertaining way, watch Linus. Almost everyone else (I'm sure there's probably a couple occasionally worth watching) is about as entertaining as Gamer's Nexus and about as informative as Linus and I have no idea how they have an audience. I find GN entertaining precisely because they are no-nonsense straight to the point without all the overdramatic cringey bullshit everyone on YT tries to pull these days. And consumer PC hardware is just so slightly above reaction videos in the no-effort vlogging scale.
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May 13, 2018 02:18
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I'd like to think that there's room for reaction videos in your heart.
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May 13, 2018 02:28
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Linus has certainly found a niche. I felt his childlike joy at blowing the side panels off a case using an industrial cooler.
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May 13, 2018 03:28
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:Linus has certainly found a niche. I felt his childlike joy at blowing the side panels off a case using an industrial cooler. Yeah, thats why i like watchin his vids. He's your friend that will build a mineral oil computer despite it being a bad idea, and then screws it up, but the whole process is fun and dumb anyway so who cares.
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May 13, 2018 04:15
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Same here, the dude is a complete idiot but man is the crap is does entertaining. I loved his SSD RAID failure video. .. very cathartic.
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May 13, 2018 04:17
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Manufacturers are moving Epyc 1 systems with loving crazy discounts right now, holy Jesus If you've been contemplating a transition away from Intel but need to do so in bulk because you're locked into a common environment processor generation / aren't on microservices yet, right now is the time to call your VAR. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 05:33 on May 13, 2018 |
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May 13, 2018 05:31
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Linus is awesome. Some of his humor has been a little cringy at times (it's gotten to be a non-issue at this point), but he basically takes all those dumbass ideas in your head you have about computer poo poo just before you doze off for sleep at night and actually tries them. Most of the videos are shot in a tone where whatever stupid poo poo is being tried is automatically expected not to work at all then you get to see his boyish giddyness when it does. I remember me and my really tech savvy friend having some stupid loving nerd argument about how gpu riser cables can technically result in lower performance. A month later, Linus daisy chains something like 9 riser cables between a PCIE 16x slot and a 1080ti, runs benchmarks, and performance is basically the same +/- a few frames. Add anymore than 9 riser cables, and the card wont work but I guess some engineer on staff had some theory about as to why, and possible ways to potentially overcome that limit. Why you would ever want to or need to do that I have know loving clue, but his videos at least answers questions that would go unanswered otherwise.
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Hardware Canuks is good too. I like his presentation style a lot better than Linus, but he doesn't have the financial backing, fanbase, or ancillary staff yet to crank out a 10-15min video/review every single day.
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