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  1. moderategamer
    Thanks for that very useful.
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    Thanks appreciate the help
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    Hi I'm looking for some clarification on whether this mobo supports NVME drives. I've not really been following hardware for quite some time and must admit I don't know much about M.2. PC parts reports no compatibility issues but I thought I better check before making the purchase. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor £191.97 @ Aria PC CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler £24.99 @ Amazon UK Motherboard ASRock Z390M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard £102.98 @ Amazon UK Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory £65.58 @ Aria PC Storage Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £98.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £484.51 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-18 04:34 GMT+0000
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    Feel free to go somewhere else...
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    True I did make a point of stating that ARM chips have to play by the same rules just for the record I'm merely stating that ARM has less of a footprint limitation meaning it can physically have more cores without the need of trickery. It is useful for separate cores to communicate however but to what degree is debatable. I'm not saying AMD's solution is bad I know nothing about it and after all they are the chip designers so they obviously know more than me and they wouldn't do it if there was no benefit to it. However I do feel like it is kind of a hack to boast higher core counts when in actuall fact they have just put two cpu's on a single chip.
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    I'm having trouble here you seem to be proving my point while telling me I don't understand yes I'm aware L1 cache is blisteringly fast that is my point. L2 cache is in comparison very slow obviously not compared to system memory but as far as memory giving instructions to the CPU L1 speeds are pretty much required for useful operation ie two separate chiplets as he called them couldn't hope to communicate at similar speeds as the distance between cache and the cpu is directly responsible for speeds. So yes although the chiplet method provides better speeds than two separate cpu's it's ultimately not that useful. I have/am studying computer architecture/software in University.
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    Could you guys do a full video comparing desktop chicklet keyboards including the Dell KB216 and the Lenovo 4X30M39496?
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    My mistake I didn't mean bandwidth but you know what I meant. I don't follow AMD but I find it hard to believe they can achieve the kind of speeds comparable with L1 cache speeds which are required to provide any sort of useful communication. So unless they share L1 cache which for all I know they could then I stand by my comment.
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    Only problem with that is memory bandwidth if you have two separate chips sure you can handle separate loads individually faster but the two chips can't communicate with each other at useful speeds to help each other may as well just have two separate processors at that point.
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    It would help if you bothered to watch the video before asking me questions that are covered in said video, not a dig would just be nice XD There is absolutely a limit to how many cores we can have on x86 due to the high transistor count and trouble reducing die sizes. there comes a point where things are just too far apart. That's not to say ARM chips don't have to follow the same rules it's just ARM chips use far less transistors and are already on small dies they can just physically afford more cores plus the instruction set is better suited for parallelised tasks.
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    That is the current top of the line ARM processor holding it's own against a low to mid range CPU but in the video it explains that the next generation ARM chip will be 3.5x faster than the current snapdragon so it's not unimaginable that ARM chips could become quite fast enough to rival current gen Intel chips in certain work loads not to mention the fact that ARM has the potential to have greater # of cores.
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    Yeah the power saving is really the big calling card not to mention better parallelisation. Mobiles already run on the ARM Architecture so no need for anything to change their.
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    I'm not saying it would be easy but if ARM can provide a better path to compute times and the hardware can catch up which it's looking like they will the industry will be forced to do that. I mean Adobe have already created photoshop for ARM something they don't stand to make any real money from but are pretty much preparing themselves for the future. And it's not like they have to literally re write the entire operating system they have to re write the compilation of their OS sure it's not as easy as that but essentially it's very possible.
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    I think the main advantages are just the fact that it's better developed in terms of software and hardware. Although ARM has the potential to be faster the fact is that we have come so far under the x86 architecture that it will be a challenge to make the switch
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    Well Microsoft and apple are actively supporting RISC so it's not unimaginable that they could completely re write their operating systems and if that happens it would force the hands of other software companies. ARM can emulate x86 already it's just not exceptionally fast but at the same time it's not exceptionally slow.
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    It would seem that x86 chipsets are stagnating getting to the limits of what they can achieve through die shrinks and with the evermore popular parallel computing tasks it's looking like ARM RISC based chips could be the future with it's low power low transistor design. x86 instruction sets have become bloated and often complex instructions take more than 1 cycle to complete whilst ARM instructions often run in a single cycle. ARM chips are catching up with their x86 counterparts and with large companies like Microsoft and apple making a push for ARM does this spell doom for Intel and AMD x86 chips or will they prevail . It will take a complete over hall of current software to make such a change possible but it's looking likely that this task will be undertaken. Here is an interesting Video that gives some food for thought about this, what are your thoughts is it the end of an era of power hungry x86 CISC based computing or do we need to put away the tinfoil hats for when the aliens come?.
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    really, I mean our eyes have IR filters I think they would be talking about powerful IR sources like the kind you would get from a laser not the low light you would get from an IR LED
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    around 8 years ago I randomly had the idea to put Infrared lights behind cinema screens to stop piracy, I thought it was a pretty cool idea well at least I did till I searched it and found out that some Chinese cinemas had started to experiment with the idea around 6 months prior
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    I mean the card runs pretty cool why not just snap off the blade opposite it to balance the fan? It's already broken couldn't hurt to try
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    I mean I don't agree that 5G can be harmful to us but I do believe we should get complete 4G coverage before we start introducing 5G. Although it would be cool to be able to game on 5G anywhere.
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    Probly
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    He is working to solve the situation and so is the artist that made a bootleg and actually credited him, read his comment on the video.
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    TBH it's just luck of the draw I've never had any problems but there's definitely a chance.
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    If it's acrylic based then acetone should do the trick but I really have no idea what it's made of so you'll need to research it
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    are you talking about the official rechargeable battery for the controller? If so I don't see there being any issues with it certainly worked great for the xbox 360 version and batteries have improved since then. If you decide not to go for it but want rechargeable batteries just get some NiMh double A's and a charger and you'll be set.
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