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  1. Sakkura
    It's not just mass that warps spacetime. It's any contribution to the stress-energy tensor, which means even the energy of massless photons contributes. If you somehow manage to pack enough photons together into a small enough volume, you can generate a black hole. That's called a Kugelblitz.
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    Yes, though that is separate from rest mass. It has (as far as we know) a rest mass of zero. Its energy is still equivalent to mass and contributes to the stress-energy tensor (and thus a photon does exert gravity, just incredibly weakly).
  3. Sakkura
    Photons have no rest mass. But they do carry energy, which contributes to the stress-energy tensor, so they do exert a (very tiny) gravitational effect. They also travel through spacetime and are thus of course affected by gravitational distortion of spacetime.
  4. Sakkura
    Try Half Life Alyx, then it'll technically be VR sickness rather than motion sickness.
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    As long as they can add PCIe 5.0 later, when it's needed, this all sounds good to me.
  6. Sakkura
    There hasn't been any significant change in how AIOs work or are manufactured in the last 5 years. You were probably unlucky back then and more likely to get a better one if you buy now, but that's purely by chance.
  7. Sakkura
    It depends on the resolution and even more so on what games you run, but generally a GTX 1060 is a bit less than you'd want for a high refresh rate monitor.
  8. Sakkura
    I don't believe those limits are accurate. In any case, a motherboard can be configured differently or have a secondary controller that effectively (sort of) adds more lanes.
  9. Sakkura
    Just depends how the manufacturer allocated the chipset resources, and whether they used any secondary controller chips to provide more connectivity.
  10. Sakkura
    They're using a more expensive motherboard and CPU, though you're right that the CPUs are pretty comparable in performance. You also haven't included a CPU cooler and Windows key. So maybe the prebuilt tax is more like $500 Canadian in this case. Still shows you why prebuilts are not normally recommended. There may still be better prebuilt deals around, but this certainly isn't the worst you could pick.
  11. Sakkura
    At 3600 MHz those are really good timings.
  12. Sakkura
    Not that realistic as it's dried. I'm thinking of a proper goopy thermal paste between the pins. That's gonna be really annoying to get out, just flooding the place with solvent isn't a good solution to that either.
  13. Sakkura
    I don't see any reason you couldn't have a better latching system with PGA, just AMD has picked a pretty flimsy one for some reason. Also, I completely disagree that it's easy to clean an LGA socket if you get thermal paste into it.
  14. Sakkura
    Yeah most likely. Lots of small files could slow it down but your HDD should be able to transfer faster than 20 Mbps (2.5 MB/s) on average.
  15. Sakkura
    Just depends whether it can be reinstalled in the new location. Steam and some other stores can do that.
  16. Sakkura
    It's funny because the US whines loudly when EU countries try to tax US corporations on money made in the EU.
  17. Sakkura
    Traditionally, a core refers to the integer unit. FPUs weren't even part of early x86 CPUs. So from a technical perspective the judgement was wrong. But since it was about misleading consumers, you have to take into account what an average consumer knows about CPUs, and then I guess it's fair that a 4-core Bulldozer chip isn't comparable to an Intel 4-core chip.
  18. Sakkura
    It has 4 integer cores, but only 2 FPUs. Sometimes that gets counted as 2 cores with hyperthreading, but that's inaccurate.
  19. Sakkura
    You did remove the slot covers at the back of the case, right? Can you show some pictures maybe?
  20. Sakkura
    Each "channel" on a DDR5 DIMM is 32 bits wide. A DDR4 DIMM is 64 bits wide. So they are effectively the same in that regard, even if the underlying technical details differ.
  21. Sakkura
    Slightly faster than a 580. Still pretty marginal for Boneworks; it's a demanding game.
  22. Sakkura
    It's the compute version of the original Titan X, which would average around 50W drawn from the PCIe slot at full load. Don't have data to confirm the M40 does the same, but it's likely.
  23. Sakkura
    If you mix memory, your face will end up looking like James' avatar.
  24. Sakkura
    Condensation is what would make it dangerous. The way to avoid that is to not bring your laptop from a cold environment into a warm, humid environment and use it straight away. Give it a while to warm up first.
  25. Sakkura
    It's most likely a memory issue then. AMD doesn't really make memory. They do make the memory controller in the CPU, but not the BIOS code that controls things. So basically three possible culprits, only one of which is AMD.
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