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Probably a dumb question but I ordered the ASUS P8P67 and it comes with two 6.0 SATA ports and two Marvell 6.0 SATA ports. Since I'm only going to be using 3 hard drives I can just use the 6.0 ports and be fine correct? Also what's the deal with Marvell ports and are they better than the regular ones?
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Instant Sunrise posted:My concern isn't so much the speed of it as it is continuing to being able to find replacement / compatible parts for a 4 year old platform or games having a hardcoded check for a CPU id string and not letting it run on a 2XXX series CPU. Why the worry about a game locking out a CPU like that? The only thing that has happened is that games have locked out based on the number of (virtual) cores the processor has and that's just because those game devs are lazy. I say if it ain't broke don't worry about and just upgrade when/if you actually need to.
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The XTU service is supposed to run on startup automatically but I read that sometimes wouldn't so I setup a scheduled task on my laptop to run the service on login if it wasn't already running. You can google around and find out the steps for that but it's pretty straightforward.
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Jan 17, 2018 14:12
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6C/12T + a bigger Vega iGPU on there and you've got your 300 watts.
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Jan 24, 2018 15:20
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No -.150 is a common limit when undervolting that generation CPU. Dude is way off on a -.9 undervolt being possible. Also I love it but deadfire uses way more power than it has any right to. Just turn off all graphics options and even turn down the frame rate from 60 if that isn't enough. Hopefully they can optimize things at some point.
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Furism posted:Ok I'm glad to know that this limit is correct. Maybe the other poster meant -.09? You can also try turning off the intel turbo boost, it won't really effect the performance in this game at least. If you check out point 2.4 here: http://www.geeks3d.com/20170213/how-to-disable-intel-turbo-boost-technology-on-a-notebook/#_22 you'll find a .reg file you can run to add the option to turn it off and on in power management. I've been using it for awhile and it works just fine.
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It's only a matter of time, the writing is on the wall. We're going to keep having more and more of these exploits coming out. I'm sure Apple will be next to disable HT by default and then Microsoft will follow suit just to keep from being seen as the (even more) insecure OS.
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May 17, 2019 15:40
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You're probably more limited by the ability to transfer heat to the cooler than the coolers ability to disperse the heat.
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Dec 6, 2019 14:24
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Ok Comboomer posted:I’m in the market for a refurbished office PC to turn into a Linux/python learning environment, general use desktop/word processor, and ideally to one day slap a cheap GPU into for the purposes of playing some steam games (Battletech, Stellaris, maybe NMS or Witcher, possibly the occasional shooter like Halo) at “budget but solid” levels on the 22” 1080p display I have arriving on Friday. Generally none of those office PCs have the power supply to handle a 1060, you need something that just needs power from the PCI slot. I think that's maybe certain models of the 1050ti at this point? Someone else probably knows for sure. I think you'd get a much better deal if you can wait few months. I get the feeling that a LOT of companies are going to be ditching their desktops and going with laptops for everyone the first chance they get and when that happens the refurbished market you're looking at will bottom out.
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repiv posted:I found Anandtech's comparisons and there's a pretty obvious hole in them - they use the default, lowest-common-denominator compiler target for their SPEC builds which means it only uses ancient SSE2 instructions, no AVX, no AVX512, not even SSE4. That's interesting, this is the first time I've heard about this in all of the A13 vs Desktop chips comparison. What are some common desktop applications that really take advantage of AVX/SSE4? I could see a future where all consumer devices run ARM while servers were still on x86 but maybe I'm missing something big (besides (legacy) application support for ARM of course) where still keeping x86 makes more sense for desktop/laptop.
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Apr 28, 2020 20:01
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Isn't that just a (credible) rumor at this point?
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There won’t be a switchover in 2-3 years but there will be a strong push on the windows side. Microsoft would absolutely love to ditch all the legacy cruft that’s slowing them down and OEMs would love to buy cheaper and simpler SOCs and lower their costs. I think apple is going to come out strong with good performance and excellent battery life and just make their offerings straight up better than things on the windows side, as long as you’re not trying to game on them or need some software that Mac doesn’t have.
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Some Goon posted:The legacy cruft is Window's main advantage over any potential competitors, at least in the highly lucrative business space. It is but even if it were dropped tomorrow businesses aren’t going to switch to macs or chrome books or linux. Windows would still be the default if only for AD and everything around that. Microsoft wants you to ditch desktop apps and use azure for everything anyways.
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Jul 25, 2020 19:41
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Going dual channel on the RAM isn't going to make that big a difference. The intel 620 is more or less a rebrand of the intel 520 iirc and that came out in 2015. I don't think intel gpus actually advanced any until last year maybe?
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Aug 12, 2020 20:31
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Guys the laptop I game on just has a 620 with dual channel ram. All I’m saying is realistically you don’t gain a whole lot. Like diablo 3 isn’t going to jump up to 1080 60fps here. You just need to temper expectations here.
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Aug 12, 2020 22:39
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ARM is a better instruction set if only because it’s not locked behind 2 drat companies. Intel and AMD can always pivot to making ARM chips, you can’t say the same for making x86.
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Nov 26, 2020 02:13
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DrDork posted:It's not, but there are very legitimate questions about how high it'll be able to clock--it's pretty damned good for the laptop power envelope it's designed for (and by semi-extension, servers), but how much of that translates over to desktop power envelopes remains to be seen. 2021 will be an interesting year for CPUs, if nothing else. I mean in benchmarks isn't already beating everything with the exception where it's competing against double the cores? No need to jack up the clockspeed when they can just slap on more performance cores and win that way.
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Dec 31, 2020 20:12
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Why on earth are there so many small cores? I figured they'd set an upper limit of 4 on the things since they'll mainly be used for background processes and the like.
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I’ll be impressed when they can clone the MacBook Air. Where’s my fanless speedy laptop intel/amd?
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I'll go against the grain a bit and say I'm actually surprised how well Windows and Edge works on low end hardware. I got my kids a couple of laptops to do their schoolwork on, they have 4gb of ram and a Pentium Silver N5030. It's a quad core 1.1 base 3.1 boost in a fanless laptop. This thing handles the web without a hitch including youtube and even plays Stardew Valley, Untitled Goose Game, and A Short Hike without any slowdowns. Not like those are demanding games or anything but for what I consider bottom of the barrel specs I'm nothing but impressed. I will add the caveat that the laptops are running LTSC which is based on 1809 and not whatever the current version of Windows is, I was concerned about ram usage more than anything with that choice. Plus I'm not a fan of being Microsofts beta tester for updates, I do enough of that doing QA at work, but that's a whole different conversation. I think the problem with corporate laptops is all of the absurd security programs they throw on there. I think mine has 3 different ones running at all times. You need all of the power you can get just to compensate for that nonsense.
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Apr 19, 2022 22:01
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shrike82 posted:Seems like a Chromebook would be better if you're going that low end and if it's for school work Well they were Christmas presents so I wanted something that could also play some low end games so they’d be excited about it. Mainly stardew since they loved playing it on my laptop. Besides that I’m not familiar at all with chrome books and don’t really feel like learning them at this point. Long term I think it’s a good idea they experience and get used to working with windows since it’s likely they’ll be using it for work when they get older, I feel like chrome books are a dead end in that respect.
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Hah, guess I'm not the only one reading along that decided to pick one up. Got mine installed about an hour ago and am doing my best to fill it up with games. Coming from a 512gb it's so nice not to have to worry about running out of space.
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I thing Agile is fine it’s just when you get into dumb things like “Roadmaps” and “Deadlines” that everything falls apart.
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