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The Asus Zenbook line is available and light, if you want more pawah, the Dell XPS 13 (non-touch) has an i5 with a decent battery. But if battery life is all you care about, the TP x260 with the biggest battery can't be beat. However, it does get a bit bulky with the huge battery in place (the battery is hotswapable tho). TL;DR: For not very demanding tasks, the Core M devices can't be beat with their great battery life/weight ratio. Therefore you should look at Asus' Zenbook UX305 or Xiami's Notebook Air.

Don't know of any TB3 Macbook

Aren't there thunderbolt 2 PCIe adapter boxes already? Also don't forget that Thunderbolt 2 is PCIe 2.0 x4 max.

I don't have any personal experiences with chromebooks, so I can't tell how much they need internet to actually work. On another note, a worthy laptop is Xiaomi Mibook Air, but I have no idea when will it arrive from china, or when those guys will get it.

Is Chromebook a viable option for you? They tend to be cheaper and a lot more effecient.

Nice. Gigabyte had 970 board with 8+2 power phases, it was even blue, so it would match the build perfectly. It was also very cheap. Also, why don't you want an UEFI GPU?

Good work on the Otoy guys part. I have some experience with Blender's Cycles, and Cycles just crash when it can't fit the scene into VRAM. There is also a developer branch that supports memory paging, but people say it is very taxing on performance.

The main reason is VRAM. That's also why you see 24GB VRAM on Quadro cards. And once you start memory paging, the performance advantage of GPUs is lost completely. That's also the reason why AMD started to experiment with high density flash on graphic cards (Radeon Pro SSG), they only had it done in a very useless way on the prototype.

Looks great! Haven't heard of Liquid Extasy before tho. You should update 1st post too now that you have the block on hand.

That would actually suggest the benchmarks are real. (unfinished drivers)

So I have it now. I tested the LOD and if was high (didn't test further), I proceeded to flashing a firmware update I got from Darko (FnaticGear has the best customer service I ever encountered), this didn't fix the issue. I can't tell whether it helped or not, but I tested the LOD further. the mouse was tracking without problems at 2 CDs. I added more, which produced jitter, and at 5 CDs it stoped tracking altogether. If you can't stand LOD, this might not be the mouse for you (as of today). I might try the tape trick, but the LOD isn't troubling me enough to do it immediately. Otherwise I the mouse is perfect and even the /\ shape is fine, because it has really grippy rubberized sides. Besides, there isn't a cheaper 3310 mouse out there.

I'll be getting the Fnatic Flick today. I'll post here on how it goes.

I'll be picking my Flick today, I'll tell you how it does. I got a firmware update from Fnatic's support, so I'll see how that goes. If all else fails, I'll just use the tape trick.

Last time I looked at 3D printing metals, it was either just colored PLA or metal dust in PLA. Maybe they print a mold...

I meant making them yourself if you have a CNC or getting someone to CNC it for you.

Actually carving the copper for the combs might be better. 3D printers don't really print metals, laser cutters work only on thin materials and plasma cutters leave burnt edges and don't have any real details. Anyway a great looking build!

Wants tu buy a 4K monitor. Is afraid of his PC taking too much space.

Actually that PSU is sorta decent. I wouldn't worry that much about it. Anyway, have you looked at Linus' video?

550W for single GPU (unless it's a 980ti/390) but 600w to be safe. It is more important for it to have most of it's power on 12V and to actually be decent. There are some programs that try to auto OC, but I would never recomend them. (they tend to result in too high voltages for clock) Linus made a video on how to OC Skylake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjIweExETlI

Do you have the monitor? The dual 970s might be able to cut it. 3.5 GB of VRAM is not optimal for 4K, but does cut it. Definetly no reason to upgrade CPU/MB/RAM, as higher resolutions reduce load on CPU. Your best option would be to get the monitor you want now, and see if the 970s work at least a bit. Then after new GPUs are released, either go for dual 980tis(They will be a lot cheaper) or whatever AMD/nVIdia release.

So if you disconect all drives (USB/SATA), you can't get into the BIOS?

You don't like proof of concept stuff, do you.

I don't want to, but I had to. I would rather spend £10 more for an EVGA 600B. It would be pointless, but it shouldn't have any problems at 4K or in VR may you (or OP) decide on that later.

EVGAs are usually very cheap for what quality they bring. PCI and PCIe aren't compatible. If you're lucky, they won't even fit into each other. PCI is old and not used anymore. It is still included on boards for legacy support, but should be avoided these days. There is no need to buy a new card if that's what you're worried about.