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    husseinHr got a reaction from DrMacintosh in Wife's New Laptop   
    Just adding a worthwhile consideration here about buying second hand or refurb to get much more for your money. 🙂
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    husseinHr reacted to DrMacintosh in Wife's New Laptop   
    I know you asked for these things, but I gotta tell ya, Apple Silicon Macs were almost specifically made to be video editing beasts. Needing a dedicated GPU to get faster than real time encoding is a thing of the past because of their hardware accelerated video encoders. In my professional opinion, I think an Apple Silicon Mac is the only type of computer someone interested in video editing should look into. 
     
    If she can get away with 13", you can get a M1 MacBook Air with 512GB of storage for $1,199 which will encode video extremely well. I'm talking 4K video streams that render faster than real time in a fanless body. 
    https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air/space-gray-apple-m1-chip-with-8-core-cpu-and-7-core-gpu-256gb
     
    For active cooling, which brings better performance, you can get a refurbished 512GB M1 MacBook Pro for $1,229:
    https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FYDC2LL/A/refurbished-133-inch-macbook-pro-apple-m1-chip-with-8‑core-cpu-and-8‑core-gpu-silver?fnode=e3ba5fa47debeb4b4e6a4cb2865c3524489cc5161dd9e0a830105218784b61ec7f93fa7598d7e9445325f1a0156c05311f8007994b09edb724b86eea546d35d88cd7bfc2b983d7bce81a691eea896140
     
    These machines are crazy powerfu, get exceptional battery life, and weigh less than 3lbs. But don't take my word for it:
     
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    husseinHr reacted to TylerD321 in Performance or Looks   
    I’d get the ddr5 laptop. Half and inch screen size doesn’t matter, but I don’t see the benefit of having a higher resolution screen on a laptop long term. A lower resolution screen laptop with better specs will last you far longer.
     
     
    The only real upside to the older laptop in my opinion is the higher storage but that is an easy upgrade.
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    husseinHr reacted to 191x7 in Performance or Looks   
    With 1080p on a 15" screen you'll probably have to use scaling, having an even higher resolution would be even worse.
    I'd go with the newer model.
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    husseinHr reacted to Kilrah in KFC releases it's own Gaming Console, possibly faster than XBox or Playstation... oh and it warms Chicken   
    But... April 1st is still quite a while away 🤔
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    husseinHr got a reaction from MEC-777 in What song are you listening to right now.   
    Cold Chisel (one of Australia's greatest rock bands) recently released their album Blood Moon, and it's got some really good melodies in it. 
     
    The opening of Killing Time is very good in my opinion. I like composition and have been playing the violin since I was 9, so interesting melodies are really juicy for me.
     
    Jimmy Barnes has a fantastic quality to his voice, which I just love. 
     
    Lots of other great tunes in this album! Underappreciated for sure if you ask me!
    What do you think?
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    husseinHr reacted to dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd in Google settles for 170 million USD for violating children's privacy   
    Don't be evil
     
     
    Google has agreed to pay 170 million dollars to settle a lawsuit regarding their illegal collection and sale of children's data. 
    They knowingly collected the data and allowed advertisers to specifically target those young children even though the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act doesn't allow them to collect data on anyone under 13 years of age. 
     
     
     
    Source : https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/04/youtube-to-pay-170-million-in-ftc-child-privacy-settlement.html
     
     
    Attorney General James really shouldn't be touting this like a major victory just because it's "one of the largest settlements for a privacy matter in U.S. history".  $170M is chump change for such companies, they only start to pay attention once you start fining them billions.  They're probably laughing about how cheaply they got away with the whole thing.
    Alphabet's shares went up 0.4% after the announcement, so that fine probably paid for itself.
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    husseinHr reacted to Dedayog in Is Speccy drunk or am I seeing things? 4GB RTX 2070? 1600MHz DDR RAM?   
    Use HWINFO 64 instead.
     
    The RAM is right, as you double it for DDR, so that's 3200MHz.
     
    I can't explain the 2070 nor the temp of your CPU (yikes).
     
     
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    husseinHr reacted to Spotty in Is Speccy drunk or am I seeing things? 4GB RTX 2070? 1600MHz DDR RAM?   
    Your CPU is reading as 105°C. Either that's an incorrect reading, or your CPU is thermally throttling. Which CPU cooler are you using? Fans plugged in and spinning? Correctly mounted? Thermal paste applied and you removed the plastic peel at the bottom of the cooler?
     
    The RAM showing as 1600MHz is normal. That' means it's running at 3200MHz.
     
    You should download GPU-Z and post its specs for your RTX2070. Might give us more information as to why it's reading as 4GB VRAM.
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    husseinHr reacted to porina in Is Speccy drunk or am I seeing things? 4GB RTX 2070? 1600MHz DDR RAM?   
    At 105C if that is correct that's why you're not getting CPU boost. Check the cooling.
     
    For GPU, I'd download GPU-Z to check.
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    husseinHr reacted to LogicWeasel in Is Speccy drunk or am I seeing things? 4GB RTX 2070? 1600MHz DDR RAM?   
    I have heard statements that Speccy doesn't properly read GPU vRAM and it can be normal for it to show half of what it really is, just something to be aware of so you should be able to disregard that, it's likely just not seeing all 8GB of your RTX 2070.

    Your Ryzen temp however is horrifying and you should check that temp against other SW, if it matches, you better fix your cooling before you melt it to your thermal paste and cooler (assuming it's on there).
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    husseinHr reacted to Nocte in Is Speccy drunk or am I seeing things? 4GB RTX 2070? 1600MHz DDR RAM?   
    Speccy has been bugged since Ryzen release when checking for temperatures.
    Check with some more reliable software like HwInfo.
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    husseinHr reacted to flibberdipper in Is Speccy drunk or am I seeing things? 4GB RTX 2070? 1600MHz DDR RAM?   
    In my experience Speccy has been super hit-and-miss for reporting things correctly, even going back to Ivy-based shit. If you care about temp reporting, HWiNFO is my go-to. If you just want the numbers Mason (real 1337 gamers get that one), CPU-Z and GPU-Z are pretty much golden standard.
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    husseinHr reacted to chiller15 in Starting a PC company   
    Do you have the ability to support these systems, should something go wrong with them in say? Usually when someone buys a PC and it goes wrong - their first call is to the place where they bought it from.
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    husseinHr reacted to Alex Atkin UK in Any way to set up Windows 10 VPN without a client?   
    What do you want the VPN for?

    Hosting one yourself is only so you can connect to your home network from anywhere on the Internet.
     
    If you are wanting one so you get a more secure connection TO the Internet, then using a third-party server/service is the only option and you WOULD need a client as Windows AFAIK doesn't support secure VPN protocols.

    A good paid third-party service shouldn't be much slower than your normal connection.
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    husseinHr got a reaction from Crunken in Can't tell if I have RAM in dual channel or not? Help!   
    Here we are! Dual Channel. I'm such a noob. Thanks for the help everyone!!

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    husseinHr reacted to MkaiL in Can't tell if I have RAM in dual channel or not? Help!   
    Your manual clearly shows you where to put them on page 10:

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    husseinHr reacted to Constantin in Can't tell if I have RAM in dual channel or not? Help!   
    It must be those 2.

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    husseinHr reacted to Crunken in Can't tell if I have RAM in dual channel or not? Help!   
    If you download something like CPU-Z there's a tab that says if it's dual channel or not
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    husseinHr reacted to KarathKasun in Can't use Bluetooth headphone's mic   
    This is normal.  Bluetooth headsets switch over to telephone quality when using the Mic, this is how the standard works.
     
    This is why nobody games with bluetooth headsets.  And if they do, they use some other mic so the audio quality isnt garbage.
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    husseinHr reacted to Cokeman439 in Can't use Bluetooth headphone's mic   
    I recently purchased the Senheiser HD 4.40BT, but whenever i try to use the mic on the headphones I either hear nothing, or the quality is garbage. I've tried disabling handsfree telephony, but then i cant use the mic. I've set my default playback device as the non-handsfree option, but then i hear nothing. (The headphones show up twice in my playback options when handsfree telephony is active) When I select the handsfree option for playback, I end up with very low quality audio. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
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    husseinHr got a reaction from KzE in |||| |||| |||| |||| Wall PC Build Log |||| |||| |||| ||||   
    Bloody amazing! I hardly survived my own standard DIY PC building process with my amount of patience! Looking forward to seeing this when it's complete!
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    husseinHr reacted to tm82486 in PC Desk Build   
    Thank you !!! 
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    husseinHr reacted to nox_ in Good keyboard under £100? Between mechanical quality and chiclet style?   
    It's in the title.. under £100. 
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    husseinHr reacted to thx1138 in Which power option? AMD Ryzen Balanced or High Performance?   
    that is a good post. The only other thing I do is get "CPU CORE PARKING" because some Windows 'parks' some of your cores and hurts performance. I'm glad you found your answers.
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