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    Tech Enthusiast reacted to Andrewtst in Looking for a high-end screen with 32 inch, 4k, 120hz+, hdr and IPS or better   
    Here my Short Review of Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 and also Neo G9. 😅
     
    https://linustechtips.com/topic/1466996-samsung-odyssey-neo-g9-and-neo-g8-short-review/
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    Tech Enthusiast reacted to SleepDeprivationTheITGuy in I need advice for future upgrades   
    OP, I think you may be overthinking this. It's always good be organized and coordinated but taking a simpler approach will likely be something that will make upgrading an easier process. Go through each component you are considering upgrading and evaluate whether or not you need to upgrade the part in question; PCs as a hobby can become money pits very quickly.
     
    1. The only reason you may need new case fans is high temperatures, and typically a better solution is purchasing a better cooler if CPU temperatures are high. If GPU temperatures are high, try undervolting and repositioning what case fans you do have so that they are more optimal for both CPU and GPU temperatures. 3-5 decent 120mm fans is the gold standard; 2 in front for intake with one exhaust in the rear, or 3 front 2 rear. If you already have a few, my guess is they could just be re-arranged if they're sub-optimally placed.

    The 5700G is a 65W CPU that doesn't overclock particularly well, so I wouldn't even consider water cooling it. If it runs at less than 90C under full load, don't even think about getting a new cooler because it's not needed.
     
    2. Are your current storage devices full or close to full? If not, then you don't need more storage. Unless you are absolutely, positively sure that you need more storage and will make use of 1TB-2TB more space, do not buy more storage.
     
    3. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. If you're not using all of your RAM under a typical workload, then buying more RAM will not make anything faster. If you are hitting memory limits and using pagefile, then buying more RAM would be a good decision sooner rather than later. Yes, applications will use more RAM if it is available, but if they don't use everything that is available, then that means that they do not need more and will not necessarily run faster no matter how much RAM you throw at them.
     
    4. The PC goes into the bottom and not enough airflow? Cut holes in that part of the desk. Never seen a desk like that where the tower slot is in any way structural so just yank the door off (if there is one) and cut some holes through the back side. Once that's done, second monitor is something I would do ASAP as it massively increases productivity at least for me. As for the microphone and headset, what are you unable to do with them currently that you could do on better equipment?
     
    TL;DR: Monitor and desk are the only things I would consider to be more urgent without any more information than is provided here. RAM maybe if you're hitting pagefile or other memory-related limitations. Pretty much everything else you'll need to do some investigation of your own on to determine if they are actually in need of an upgrade.
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    Tech Enthusiast reacted to xg32 in Looking for a high-end screen with 32 inch, 4k, 120hz+, hdr and IPS or better   
    i assume you are expecting a certain level of image quality, one model that matches them are obviously the AW3423DW if you can look past the 4k requirement (it really is that close to the pg32uqx, without the blooming too), it is less bright but in a dim room the it does the job. using an amd card mostly fixes the text issues out of the box, manual pixel refresh after long sessions, and some burn-in risks remain.
     
    For 4k options, the cheapest one is the gp27u, basically the more recent version with a more affordable panel then the x27 that was out in 2018, i don't own it, but there are some QC issues, but for 1k that's about what i'd expect, not a problem when buying from amazon. It also comes with hdmi 2.1 unlike the uqx. Higher pixel density at 27inch (it is noticeble between 4k 32inch and 27inch, the pixels are just smaller). use 8bit instead of 10bit 120hz with hdr on through hdmi if you have an nvidia gpu and let the gpu do the dithering.
     
    Not having Gsync is a positive, as both my x27s died relating to gsync module and/or fan issues around 3-4years after purchase. freesync+vsync does just as well without the additional point of failure
     
    the 32gq950 does not have local dimming, so thats out
     
    Onto the PG32UQX, a few things to keep in mind, the 32inch 4k panels are generally alot slower than 27inch models, so it's not really a 165hz or 144hz monitor, but it will do 120. Blooming exists even if it's mini-led. It has a slightly wider gamut than the gp27u and does not have a hdmi 2.1 port due to gsync. dp 1.4 DSC should be fine (but it's more janky than hdmi 2.1), overall i don't think it's worth the price premium at all over the gp27u
     
    TLDR it's between the AW3423DW and the gp27u, the AW3423DW provides the best viewing experience but if you need 4k and pixel density, go with the gp27u
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from Andrewtst in Looking for a high-end screen with 32 inch, 4k, 120hz+, hdr and IPS or better   
    Thanks. Will give it a good look.
    Not a fan of VA Panels or Curves, but if the end result is better than what LG offers, I don't mind.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from Dr_Whom in You think it's a big step-up from 25W to 45W charging? - You might be wrong!   
    At this point I am 100% sure the guy is just a really crazy troll that got us all.
    There is no way in hell this is serious. I fear for humanity if it is... no one could be this stubborn in his denial of reality. Apart from that one party in that one country, where it seems to be the common thing to do. 😉
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from Dr_Whom in You think it's a big step-up from 25W to 45W charging? - You might be wrong!   
    Ah, my bad. So charging is just a matter of energy flow and neither materials on both ends have any impact or losses due to heat, conversion, chemistry or something unimportant like that. Did not know that charging negates those laws.
    What do you think heat is?
    Same.
     
    It seems like you are thinking a power line --> charger --> battery is like a bottle --> hole --> cup. Which is simply wrong on about every possible end.
    Really should stop trying to argue that against all the people trying to explain why it is wrong. You are just making yourself look bad by googling random snippets from Wikipedia and forgetting to look at all the context (funnily like in that test lol).
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from Dr_Whom in You think it's a big step-up from 25W to 45W charging? - You might be wrong!   
    You really need to stop posting this crap.
    That is just not how charging works, and it never has and does not work like that for ANY phone or whatever else for that matter.
    Just like, 200 horsepower don't accelerate a car twice as fast as 100 horsepower do.
     
    Laws of physics are in place that don't match your expectations, but that is a "you" problem, not a Samsung problem.
     
    Samsung claims a 50% charge in 30 minutes, and they reach that under best-case conditions, fall short of it by 2-4% on worse conditions. Marketing has always been the best-case kind of thing, and people know that. And the best case recorded also matches their advertised improvements.
     
    YOU are the only one that reads 45w charging as "advertised 80% improvement". Neither does Samsung claim that, nor is it possible or sensible.
     
    Your example with Ryzen is baffling as well. You compare a CPU that needs to be spot on and every % counts to get a stable FPS in games in real time, ... and compare it to charging that is usually done HOURS before you wake up. OF COURSE, people care more for the former and can't be bothered to get all upset about the latter.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from Dr_Whom in You think it's a big step-up from 25W to 45W charging? - You might be wrong!   
    Since they did not state what their procedure was, we just don't know. No idea how that is not clear?
    It could be a 30min cooldown time, no cooldown time, ... hell, they could have put a torch to the phone before each test for all we know. 
     
    They don't let the readers know, so that is fishy. Usually, if you don't state HOW you conduct a test, you can expect an agenda behind the results. Nowadays, that is fine enough for some folks, as this debate prooves. It does not seem to matter if a result is valid, just that it is written down, without the need to know how it came to be.
     
    Really unsure what is there to debate here. No context has been given, so the results are up for random interpretation / useless. If that is enough for you, be my guest. If you don't understand why context matters, there is nothing I / we could say to change your mind anyway.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from Dr_Whom in You think it's a big step-up from 25W to 45W charging? - You might be wrong!   
    No. "We" would never expect that because that is not how charging works at all.
    You are the only one expecting this, totally ignoring all the physics behind this.
     
    There is a reason the fast-charging phones (100w and up) use two batteries to get these speeds.
    There is also a reason the first 50% of charging go by MUCH faster.
    There is also a reason the first 10 minutes of charging are even faster than that.
    And there is a reason all the tech outlets promote NOT using fast charging, to not grill the battery.
     
    The mentioned "tests" seem to ignore all that and just pretend the same nonsense you are pretending.
    You could make a 2000w charger, and it would not go any faster, due to physical limitations. A 7% or 12% gap in charge is accurately what would be expected with a jump from 25w → 45w. And a 1% gap is precisely what would be expected with an overheating battery. Fast charging is meant to help with short bursts of power need, and never to fully charge a phone all the time. It even says so in all the paperwork on every smartphone I have bought in the past 7 years (even before that, but I can't check anymore).
     
    Ignoring all that, ... I still don't understand why you are happy to trust a test that omits all the needed information. Ignoring the topic at hand, this seems like (sorry) a very dumb approach to about anything in life. Don't you want to know context? Don't you want to know WHY something shows up as X, rather than Y?
    A Porsche is driving exactly at the same speed as a VW Golf. This is also a true statement, but without context it can mean just about everything, ... the implied meaning of "a Porsche is not faster than a golf" is simply wrong. But missing context still implies that, ...
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from LAwLz in You think it's a big step-up from 25W to 45W charging? - You might be wrong!   
    You really need to stop posting this crap.
    That is just not how charging works, and it never has and does not work like that for ANY phone or whatever else for that matter.
    Just like, 200 horsepower don't accelerate a car twice as fast as 100 horsepower do.
     
    Laws of physics are in place that don't match your expectations, but that is a "you" problem, not a Samsung problem.
     
    Samsung claims a 50% charge in 30 minutes, and they reach that under best-case conditions, fall short of it by 2-4% on worse conditions. Marketing has always been the best-case kind of thing, and people know that. And the best case recorded also matches their advertised improvements.
     
    YOU are the only one that reads 45w charging as "advertised 80% improvement". Neither does Samsung claim that, nor is it possible or sensible.
     
    Your example with Ryzen is baffling as well. You compare a CPU that needs to be spot on and every % counts to get a stable FPS in games in real time, ... and compare it to charging that is usually done HOURS before you wake up. OF COURSE, people care more for the former and can't be bothered to get all upset about the latter.
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    Tech Enthusiast reacted to LAwLz in You think it's a big step-up from 25W to 45W charging? - You might be wrong!   
    I am surprised nobody has posted this yet:
     
     
    Here are the end results if you don't feel like watching the full video:
     

     
     
    You should watch the video though, because they go into more details and measured the wattage running through the cable.
    So in essence, the 45 watt charger works. It's just that the difference isn't that big. 
     
     
    Also, if you want a very quick and shallow primer on smartphone charging, here is a good Twitter thread about it that everyone should read:
    Andrei have made a ton of great posts regarding batteriers and charging on his twitter for those interested.
    OPPO's 40 watt SuperVOOC charger will degrade your battery health down to about 70% health in the same span a 15 watt charger would degrade it to around 90% health (Tweet), around 600 cycles.
    Here is a tweet regarding a test an Italian website did where they tested 255 cycles of 65W charging, and it degraded the battery health down to 85%.
     
     
    And as Andrei said:
     
    And if you want to know the fastest charging you might want to actually use, Andrei rates that at 1C (so 1 hour to fully charge).
     
    For the 3700mAh Galaxy S22, 1C means ~14,3 watts.
    The 4500mAh Galaxy S22+ charging at 1C is ~17,5 watts.
    The 5000mAh Galaxy S22 Ultra is, like the Pixel 6 Pro, a 5000mAh battery at around 3.88 volts, so around 19.4 watts charging.
     
     
    It's of course okay to fast charge your phone every once in a while, but I think Andrei's "don't do faster than 1C" is for your everyday charging, like at night, if you want to keep your battery healthy for as long as possible.
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    Tech Enthusiast reacted to wanderingfool2 in You think it's a big step-up from 25W to 45W charging? - You might be wrong!   
    What I meant by the statement though was that on one site you have 7% delta from 25W to 45W, and on the other site you have 1% delta.  If the AC was on or a colder climate, both "tests" if they were fair should see roughly the same delta.  Given a major difference in the delta between two people testing the device; one can conclude that it's not a statistical error but rather one of the sites made an error in their testing methodology (or there is something else going on).
    No, if you can't figure out that at 20 min charge a 6% difference can mean a whole lot then that is your inability to recognize that sometimes people want fast charging because they realize their phone is out of juice right before work and only have 5-10 minutes to charge their phone...having a few extra % is the difference between it lasting 7 hours vs 8 hours.
     
    It really bothers me that you think that GSMArena must the be accurate test because they did "5 tests" which they didn't (they only testing 5 scenarios, but that only counts towards it being a single test).  The fact is their 1% delta seemed fishy, and given there was another reporting 7%; it's calling into question their methodology (and that they didn't list how they ran their tests).
     
    If you are going to at least make this claim, at least take 5 seconds to google it.  Oh and guess what, I'm right.  GSMArena must have messed up their methodology.
    https://www.tomsguide.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s22-ultra-45w-charging-tested-heres-how-fast-it-is
    Toms Guide found a 9% change at the 30 minute mark.  So yea, the one you quoted the one that stated 1% is wrong...and here's the hint.  If an article is discussing how there is "outright misleading" (only article to mention it) and they literally got their testing wrong...well lets just say I don't put much weight in the rest of their quotes from that point onward.
     
    So yea, it's like what me and @Tech Enthusiast have been saying all along, the numbers don't mean much without knowing the testing methodology; and given the other sources on the net it's clear that GSM was completely wrong in their testing.
     
    It also brings me back to what I was saying; the use case for the quicker chargers is that you can charge your phone for 5-10 minutes and be further ahead than a 25W charger by multiple %.
     
    An example, https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s22-ultra the screen time for 100% charge running video with 75% screen brightness was 13 hours 35 minutes (815 minutes, or 8.15 minutes per %).  Assuming a linear scaling from 0% - 46% (which appears to be the case...it's the 20 min mark); that would mean the following

     
    So yea, 45W charger vs 25W chargers can make a massive difference for someone who only has the limited time to charge.  To the extent that 10 minutes of charger adds an extra 24 minutes to video playback.  For a decent amount of people I know, getting that extra 15% state of charge in a quick top up is crucial.
     
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from wanderingfool2 in You think it's a big step-up from 25W to 45W charging? - You might be wrong!   
    That is like saying a 200hp car should be twice as fast as a 100hp car,... in a town with a speed limit of 30.
     
    Heat is a thing. Actually the Nr 1 thing for charging nowadays.
    If you abuse the phone to empty its battery, and it is already burning... even a 10w charger will likely give the same results.
    That is why testing needs to be explained. Just showing these results can mean nothing, or everything, or something in between. We just don't know.
     
    All we know is: There is at least one possible condition under which a 45w charger is not charging faster, in a 30min test, than a 25w charger.
    Far from giving a full picture.
     
    I kind of expect two things here:
    1. The battery was on fire before the 45w test and could not charge as fast due to a save lock.
    2. A 10-15min charge would show dramatically different values.
    Bonus expectation: Put the phone on a brick of ice while charging and it would fly up much faster on the 45w charger.
     
    All things a good and fair comparison should test and point out. Only a full picture is a real help for the consumer, not a cherry picked and unknown one off use-case.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from Forbidden Wafer in Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy - BBC News   
    That is gonna be my favorite description for this issue going forward as well. Very well put and easily understandable. Can't count how many people I have talked to that think endless energy automatically mean big earth destroying boom at the same time.
     
    Now, once that thing is running we can obviously use that energy to build an actual weapon,... and obviously the USA will do that (for self defence, no doubt...), but the tech behind the energy generation is not unsave in itself. You can't control what people and countries do with the output tho.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from Quackers101 in Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy - BBC News   
    Well, there have been major breakthroughs,... that is not what "always 30 years away" means at all.
    We will get breakthroughs at an increasingly fast pace. That does not mean "it is done and works!", it just means another hurdle has been beaten.
    There is more than one challenge in getting theoretical infinite power.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from LAwLz in Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy - BBC News   
    A neutron bomb you say? Tell more!
    Yeah, the needed energy to to this test is pretty huge. You don't exactly flip a switch and try if it works.
    Again: Do tell the whole story. What would happen, if this reaction goes bad? Please go into all the needed detail to verify that claim, because it sure does not match what should happen. Do the laws of nature suddenly change for this?
    Ah, I will just toss out another "suggestion": A hot Ball of Plasma would burn trough a few layer of insulation, before the whole thing just does nothing anymore.
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    Tech Enthusiast reacted to Eaglerino in Linux Challenge actually helps Linux with a lasting impact: Debian and Pop_OS updating 'apt' package manager to make it more fail-safe for users   
    the fact Linux types believe it's acceptable for the option to delete your desktop exists at the end of an everyday app install is exactly why you're staying in 1-3%
    judging from my past experiences with open-source devs, I guarantee this got brought up earlier. it took a video from a big channel and relentless mocking to get it changed. hilarious
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    Tech Enthusiast reacted to da na in The new $999 stand? Apple releases $19 polishing cloth   
    It can only be used on Macs. It grows bristles that stab into any non-Apple screen, damaging it and encouraging you to buy an Apple monitor.
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    Tech Enthusiast reacted to leadeater in [rumor] nvidia is reducing shipments on purpose this holiday season to keep the street prices high.   
    So why would Nvidia care about higher street prices? They get nothing out of it, they sell GPU packages and memory to AIBs at whatever price they set so the street pricing effects them in absolutely no way other than AMD GPU street prices and the performance of those competing products.
     
    This is a dumb rumor.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from SteveGrabowski0 in DELL with a subscription of 10$ a month option "hidden" on prebuilt system page   
    Yeah, very likely only legal in the US.
    The country that screws over people left, right and center, just to please big companies that clearly need those 10 bucks!
     
    Pretty sure Dell would get a few billion on "subscriptions" in the form of legal trouble and fines if they would try that in the EU. 😉
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in Playing Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t going well for last gen console owners   
    Well,... who thought it would run, let alone well,.. on old consoles?
    It will run terrible on NEW consoles and we all know it. We knew it months and maybe years in advance actually.
     
    Just like Witcher 3 on the Switch. People ARE dumb enough to buy it anyways for...reasons I guess.
     
    The only thing that comes to mind really: "Stop using the wrong tool for the job!". Bleeding Edge graphics is not gonna work on any console, let alone an old one. Hell: Most PCs won't run it well for a while.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from Technous285 in GoG and EGS' Universal Ownership vision moves ahead as GoG starts community testing of its in-development storefront   
    You can find a tin foil theory around every corner. No doubt!
     
    This is amazing news and honestly totally unexpected.
    Sure, he said he wanted to push this, but I took that as bold words for publicity and not something they would really push towards.
    Let's see how this works out and if Steam joins at some point. Because, if we are honest, no matter how big the Epic growth has been... even if they grow at that pace for years, they would likely still be smaller than Steam.
     
    One question keeps bugging me tho.
    If they let you play games everywhere, no matter where you bought them,... how is GOG or even Epic gonna keep the people? Steam is a FAR, FAAAAR better platform for the end user. It just so happens to be more expensive usually.
    Who would run a game bought on Epic... on the epic launcher, if he could just as well use the steam launcher, possibly with workshop, forums etc.?
     
    Or maybe they want exactly that.
    Sell games cheap enough so people pay Epic,... and then be happy if the customers use Steams resources and servers any ways?
     
    Will be interesting to follow.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from poochyena in Former Facebook exec testifies before US Congress that the platform is designed to be as addictive as cigarettes   
    What else would a company try to do with their product?
    Make it taste like ass, so no one buys it?
     
    Obviously, Facebook is trying to make people like it as much as possible. Like,... duh!
     
    Plenty of reasons to be mad about Facebook, but this is certainly not one of it.
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    Tech Enthusiast got a reaction from AlTech in GoG and EGS' Universal Ownership vision moves ahead as GoG starts community testing of its in-development storefront   
    You can find a tin foil theory around every corner. No doubt!
     
    This is amazing news and honestly totally unexpected.
    Sure, he said he wanted to push this, but I took that as bold words for publicity and not something they would really push towards.
    Let's see how this works out and if Steam joins at some point. Because, if we are honest, no matter how big the Epic growth has been... even if they grow at that pace for years, they would likely still be smaller than Steam.
     
    One question keeps bugging me tho.
    If they let you play games everywhere, no matter where you bought them,... how is GOG or even Epic gonna keep the people? Steam is a FAR, FAAAAR better platform for the end user. It just so happens to be more expensive usually.
    Who would run a game bought on Epic... on the epic launcher, if he could just as well use the steam launcher, possibly with workshop, forums etc.?
     
    Or maybe they want exactly that.
    Sell games cheap enough so people pay Epic,... and then be happy if the customers use Steams resources and servers any ways?
     
    Will be interesting to follow.
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    Tech Enthusiast reacted to Cedimedi in Nvidia 30 Series unveiled - RTX 3080 2x faster than 2080 for $699   
    No one caring about RTX IO? Looks pretty neat
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