kevinisbeast707

The next screwdriver will be electric and will happen in about 7 years, when the arthritis starts to set in 😋

Hi.
A small suggestion for the next iteration of the screwdriver. By alternating the position of the top and bottom holders, you could put even some bits with normal size in and still be able to fit 12 bits.
 

 
Was this considered at some point?

There is no way I would run that little cooler and expect good results. Maybe on your 3400, but not a 5900. You will want to run something a little more... substantial.

Yea, intel is centered, but with AMD doing the split chip designs, the center is the IO or SOC and the 2 CCX's are off set, in the case if you look at the chip straight with reading the text, the CCX Cores would be on the right side of center. 
 
For visual reference, this is an xray image of a 3600, but gives you a visual representation of where.
 

3440x1440 isn't easy to push. I could see that 1080 struggling. 

Well upgrading the microphone is a better upgrade then upgrading a interface. So Id say get a decent interface first time round then upgrade the microphone down the line. Its not upgrading if you replace every component.
Sadly hes American so makes importing a European only microphone into America a waste of money as by the time you add shipping and import duty you up near $100

Agree, on a $150 budget I wouldn't even think about buying anything Focusrite. They're good interfaces, but the performance improvement over the Behringer is unlikely to be something you'll notice in this application. For $80, there's nothing better.
 
 

The why of those one eludes me.

There isn't much difference between the Solo and the 2i2, except for the extra Input. My use case is kinda different than what most people use it for, so I needed the 2i2 (I use the 2i2 for a Guitar, but most of the time I use it as an interface between my turntable and my Speakers when listening to vinyl). However, I have heard mixed opinions, as some of my friends swear that the 2i2 is better for Headphones than the Solo, and that the Mic Preamp is better. I tried both, they seemed the same lol.
 
Another good option you can look at is https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/audio_interfaces/ur_series/models/ur22mkii.html
 
 

I'm biased, I admit, but I would go for the Scarlett Solo. I have a 2i2 2nd Gen and it's been running beautifully for the past 6 years.

My current microphone has broke and I have a $150 budget if possible I would like to get an xlr setup because of the upgrade options 

Thanks for the explanation! It seems like my best option after all, isn't it?

https://blog.jdslabs.com/2019/11/jds-labs-element-ii-official-release-benchmarks/
 
This is the best thing that I've found but I really don't understand a lot of the performance comparison. The Dac between the two, the usb controller it's different and the amp is more powerful on the 2. Other than that I'm too noob to understand

Yeah I think the Element 1 is starting to be my best option. Do you know how much worse it is compared to the element 2? I couldn't find many comparisons
Thanks

Ah that's unfortunate. And yes that is a  pretty good combo. But if you have to have optical in then it might be worth it to go for the d30 and wait or to see if the modi 3 will come back in stock.

I'd like to have optical in if in a future I'll get a console (I play only on pc rn) but I'm not spending way more just for that, if it's a small price different I'd go with the optical option.
The problem with Drop is that you have to wait for the drop shipping for some items (usually like a month after the end of the drop) and then 3-6 weeks to ship to europe. It's way too much time!
The objective 2 amp is in stock only with medium gain, standard gain is out of stock so is a no.
Grace sdac ships June 12 so nope.
So what you suggest is a topping D10 + jds Atom= 109 + 123 (or 172) + 20 = 252€ if lucky or 301€ if unlucky, but the most probable outcome (customs)
 

3600 is more woth it. but if its at same price or under 20 dollar difference then get the 3600x

So I recently purchased a Dell g7 with a gtx 1060 max q and an i7 8750h. As I began playing gta v, I noticed that when I overclocked the gpu I would thermal throttle both the cpu and the gpu. The cpu would throttle to between 3.6 and 3.8Ghz and the gpu would throttle down to 1607Mhz. I remembered that I had heard something about messing with voltages and turbo boost times/powers to optimize mobile cpus. I had tried this on an i5 7200u and it was totally pointless. I decided to give it a shot anyways, and wow. Running just cinebench by itself, I was initially disappointed by my 100mv under volt since there were no thermal differences. However, clock speeds stayed near 3.9Ghz for the entirety of the run. I noticed that the cpu was power throttling still so I decided to under volt it by 150mv. That run I stayed at 3.9Ghz for the entire time (if i ran consecutive runs it would power throttle). So I set the turbo boost power max to 75w and the turbo boost short power max to 80w. No throttling this time and temps were still reasonable. The most remarkable thing though was the performance gain. I went from a multi threaded score of 919cb to a whopping 1205cb only by under volting and adjusting turbo boost power limits. That's a 31% performance improvement for giving the cpu less power. Awesome. I'm going to keep messing around with the voltage and see how low I can get it!
 
Update: at -175mw and 55w max turbo I was able to get 0 throttling with it remaining at a steady 3.914Ghz during GTA v gameplay. The temps went down from 99 to the mid to high 70s - low 80s. The GPU now is up to 1776mhz from 1607mhz and occasionally boosts to 1860mhz?.
 
Just thought I'd share that with you guys and let me know if anybody else has any experience with optimizations giving you huge performance gains in either raw power or temperatures.
 
 
Also idk why it thinks I have windows 8... It tried I guess...
 
 
Could a mod move this to the cpu thread. I forgot to place it in there initially because I'm dumb...

Why the PCIe 4.0 NVMes if you are running on Z390 and not X570?

So I recently purchased a Dell g7 with a gtx 1060 max q and an i7 8750h. As I began playing gta v, I noticed that when I overclocked the gpu I would thermal throttle both the cpu and the gpu. The cpu would throttle to between 3.6 and 3.8Ghz and the gpu would throttle down to 1607Mhz. I remembered that I had heard something about messing with voltages and turbo boost times/powers to optimize mobile cpus. I had tried this on an i5 7200u and it was totally pointless. I decided to give it a shot anyways, and wow. Running just cinebench by itself, I was initially disappointed by my 100mv under volt since there were no thermal differences. However, clock speeds stayed near 3.9Ghz for the entirety of the run. I noticed that the cpu was power throttling still so I decided to under volt it by 150mv. That run I stayed at 3.9Ghz for the entire time (if i ran consecutive runs it would power throttle). So I set the turbo boost power max to 75w and the turbo boost short power max to 80w. No throttling this time and temps were still reasonable. The most remarkable thing though was the performance gain. I went from a multi threaded score of 919cb to a whopping 1205cb only by under volting and adjusting turbo boost power limits. That's a 31% performance improvement for giving the cpu less power. Awesome. I'm going to keep messing around with the voltage and see how low I can get it!
 
Update: at -175mw and 55w max turbo I was able to get 0 throttling with it remaining at a steady 3.914Ghz during GTA v gameplay. The temps went down from 99 to the mid to high 70s - low 80s. The GPU now is up to 1776mhz from 1607mhz and occasionally boosts to 1860mhz?.
 
Just thought I'd share that with you guys and let me know if anybody else has any experience with optimizations giving you huge performance gains in either raw power or temperatures.
 
 
Also idk why it thinks I have windows 8... It tried I guess...
 
 
Could a mod move this to the cpu thread. I forgot to place it in there initially because I'm dumb...

Decided to go big or go home. Brought my girlfriend along so I built a micro atx Threadripper 1900x system with 32GB of ddr4 that I split into two gaming vm's using Unraid. My half of the system gets an rtx 2080 and her half gets an rx 480.

Yeah no overclocking.
 
Haven't used this in a long time but on my old laptops I just used throttle stop to lock the cou to it's boost clocks. That's about all you can do. 

Laptop ASUS GL703GS (BIOS 309)
CPU i7-8750H (iGPU disabled)
GTX 1070 8GB (vbios 86.04.7c.00.24, Samsung VRAM)
Windows 10 Pro 1903
Desktop res: 1080p (1920x1080)
Screen mode: 144Hz + g-sync
Hard disks: NVMe Samsung, SSD Crucial
USB Blu-Ray 4K drive: Verbatim 43888 (Pioneer BDR-UD04)
 
What I've learned since I started many months ago with repaste/undervolting (UV) i7-8750H:
1) UV less than -150mV or so for CACHE may seem stable but it only depends on the games you play: play something really demanding like Rise of the Tomb Rider, Forza Horizon 4, Lords of the Fallen at Ultra 90+fps and you'll see some freezes with audio in loop. Play other 30 games and it seems perfectly stable, yes, including benchmark tools.
SAFE place is -125mV CACHE for i7-8750H, CORE can be -145mV or more (but too much will reduce max frequency 3999-4100 to 3500).
2) some lucky users reporting incredibly low temps like 70-80°C when you play AAA titles at 90fps+ may have a faulty mobo with underpower issue. This explains the very low temps. Sad but true, from my direct experience with ASUS GL703GS and a friend of mine with ASUS GL704GW, we both initially got incredibly low temps so were super-excited… but… after a while we started to see problems: in my case USB ports had not enough power sometimes and caused random external faaast drives disconnections (SSD 550GB/s connected through USB 3.1 SS) and very rare freezes + sound in loop even with stock clocks and no UV. The friend of mine after 3 months got the PC completely DEAD: from night to day power button did nothing, with or without AC PSU. In both cases ASUS RMA replaced main board and they returned with higher temps but totally stable in any circumstances.
So beware if your gaming laptop has suspiciously good temps (about -10°C) at default clock without UV compared to commonly reported temps (up to 96°C under heavy load without UV for the 8750H)….
 
Just my two cents after 6 months with these beefy new gaming laptops….

Why would ever one thought of saying "mew two"? Not even after hours of Pokemon content, that's just not how the language works