Pachuca

there was a good episode from GN about answering this. It depends what chipset your using and if you plan to overclock. Some mobo/cpu don't even support higher than 2133mhz so getting the faster ram won't do you any good because they will actually run at lower speeds if you don't use xmp etc. 
 
 

How can it currently be below its current price?

wait till black friday. 32gb used to be 150$.

no, awful. please send it to me for repairs

The flat ones probably have little to no protection whereas the round ones have additional shielding and are better rated. A lot of flat cables that I see are also CCA which is generally pretty bad and much harder to crimp/make your own.
In terms of performance, Cat5e vs Cat6 for gigabit speeds, there is no difference. Just make sure it's not CCA cable (copper clad aluminum) and you'll be good.

Here's pics after 2nd Delid attempt. I cleaned the cpu before I could take a pic of how much LM was there, but it looked similar to the IHS. In the 2nd pic I added more LM to both the core and IHS. This actually decreased temps by another 5c, I guess the first application wasn't good enough. I'm now getting 15c decreased temps.

 
also I tightened the clamp more this time to make sure the glue would really get compressed and not leave additional space 

I would like to use nail polish to prevent anything from leaking and damaging the cpu, do you have any suggestions on what's good to get? I read somewhere that benzene derivatives in nail polish can harm the cpu, but I have no idea which nail polish is good for this. What did you do to prevent damage in case the LM spills inside the IHS?

both
 
edit: f*** windows defender

You should buy something that expensive. Or at the very least, consider it. Something that expensive will last. When I wanted to buy a backpack for motorcycle riding, I figured I could get buy with a $20 backpack. I don't ride all that much (maybe like 1000-1500 miles per year), but the backpack started wearing out within a year. It lost its shape, the rubberized coating on it flaked off. It also wasn't very comfortable to wear. So I got myself something else. It was more expensive at like $70, but I can already tell it's designed to be much sturdier and it can comfortably fit up against my body rather than hang off my shoulders.
 
And no, riding a motorcycle really had nothing to do with it. I've had backpacks throughout college that been through a lot but were still in much better shape than the $20 by the time I replaced them. Enough so that I donated the old ones, but the $20 one was the only one I threw away outright.
 
Also that brand is good (it's the company that makes the real Swiss Army Knife), but I'm also confusing them with SwissGear (which is also good) . If you need other brands to look at, I recommend Samsonite and Thule. I currently use a Thule backpack (it's too small for what you're looking for though), though my motorcycle backpack is an Under Armor one since I need something with a voluminous pocket. Another brand I used to buy was Targus, but they're like midrange.

Why would NVIDIA make their xx70 and xx80 cards based on a XX102 chip? Aren't those reserved for the Titan and xx80 Ti lines? Regardless, this is coming from WccfTech, which means that within a margin of error almost everything in that article is false / should be taken with a HUGE grain of salt.

I see, but I think it should be ok with 8700 in there for thermals. 

thanks for the list, that's going to be very useful. 

Even at 1440p it's still not really worth it on a laptop imo, for the same arguments.

I've recently moved across from membrane keyboards and I love mechanical keyboards now. It's mostly the 'click, click' that I enjoy - it's incredibly satisfying. 

During the summer I worked at a small IT shop doing basic installations of computers for clients. Since 99% of the computers went to random places, things such as volume licensing or AD weren't an option for easy installation and setup.
 
Microsoft kept rearranging the Control Panel & Settings application in every update, so it was pretty infuriating to try to do anything and had to keep searching for basic settings,  so I decided to create a simple program/GUI in Autohotkey. I call it Panel, the missing GUI for Windows.

Source code and compiled exe's are available in the Github repository

It's made with Autohotkey and the installation functionality uses the Chocolatey package manager.
 
Features
- GUI with buttons to quickly access settings, folders etc. (that do not constantly move or rearrange. Hint hint, Microsoft)
- Ninite-style GUI for installing applications via Chocolatey
    - To use the installation feature, you need to have Chocolatey installed or install it with clicking the CMD- or PS Install buttons, which will run the command to install Chocolatey.
- KDE-style alt+drag window moving and resizing. Original script by Jonny from Autohotkey script showcase
 
Hotkeys
- Global
    - alt+§ WindowShade
    - alt + left/right mouse button  Move and resize windows
    - ctrl + q Send alt-F4
    - ctrl + h minimize window
- Windows Explorer
    - F1 up 1 directory
- Panel
    - F1 cmd.exe
    - F2 Run… -prompt
    - F5 reload Panel
    - F6 reload Panel as admin
    - F7 run WUMT.exe (Windows Update Minitool, needs to be in the same directory as Panel)
    - F8 Run portable CCleaner (needs to be in the same directory)
    - F9 Windows Update
    - F12 Open Folders panel that stays on top of other windows
    - alt + q UAC settings
    - alt + w Control Panel
    - alt + d Task Manager
    - alt + F1 Turn display off



 
I didn't originally make it to be published anywhere, but since a lot of other people are also having the same frustrations with Windows, I decided to release it.
Any comments, suggestions or improvement ideas?

use DDU to uninstall the driver completely from safemode then reinstall the drivers.
 
edit: You probably have a bad update and need to reinstall the drivers. For some reason windows has a hard time uninstalling nvidia drivers correctly. I recommend using the DDU software provided in the link above. 

use DDU to uninstall the driver completely from safemode then reinstall the drivers.
 
edit: You probably have a bad update and need to reinstall the drivers. For some reason windows has a hard time uninstalling nvidia drivers correctly. I recommend using the DDU software provided in the link above. 

Actually I don't know. But the SATA bus also uses some Gen2 PCIe lanes and mining cards can work off a single Gen2 lane so I wouldn't worry about it

depends on how good you are in tuning the CPU and what kind of work you throw at it. 8700k wins when it comes to simple overclocking, i.e. increasing core clock multiplier and BCLK. To squeeze everything the 7800x has to offer out means increasing the AVX frequency as well and do AVX heavy task, in which it smashes the 8700k.
 
As for price, 7800x itself is cheaper than 8700k, but the mobo is so much more expensive it's eventually more expensive than 8700k. Not to mention X299 chips rely significantly more on RAM frequency because of the mesh architecture, which is different to the ring bus used by the 8700k and more similar to AMD's infinity fabric in comparison

Guys, he's talking about the 7800X, lol.
 
Well, the 7800X is marginally cheaper but needs a more expensive motherboard and has a significantly lower clock speed both base and turbo. 8700K wins.

ok, everyone. which one is king? ready, set, fight!

This was one of the problems originally for me. I didn't know how to find the private key when I setup the mist wallet. I made another wallet and have the public and private key for it. Is the private key available in the mist wallet? I only see the public key. How would I get that information?

The PCIe slot can provide up to 75 watts of power.  For cards that need more than 75 watts, additional power connectors are required.

@Pachuca
 
@knightslugger
 
In the Ethereum Wallet menu, you have File > Backup > Accounts
 
It should open the folder where you have the wallets, a folder called keystore.  Each file there is a wallet, file name starts with the time and at the end of the file name is your wallet address.
 
On my computer with Windows 7, the folder is  C:\ Users \ [ username ] \ AppData \ Roaming \ Ethereum \ keystore
 
In the same menu you have "Import" but you could probably just copy the files in that keystore folder and restart Ethereum Wallet and it should work (didn't try it though)
 
Note that you'll still have to remember the passwords for these, or Ethereum Wallet won't be able to use them.
And note that you probably can't import key files created by other wallet programs which use a series of words as "recovery code"

Your money is there, but mist (ethereum wallet) needs to synchronize with the network by downloading all the blocks until the current one.  Depending on your internet connection and your hard drive, it will take a few hours and you will need up to around 60 GB of disk space.
 
On SSD it will take up to 4 hours to start from nothing, with a mechanical drive it may take even 6-10 hours.
 
So just leave Ethereum Wallet open and let it catch up (it shows at the top of the interface how many blocks are left to download)
 
At the moment, there's a sort of quirk with how geth ( geth is a sort of "ethereum server" or service which connects to the ethereum network, and then programs like Ethereum Wallet / mist and others can connect to it to make transactions, create wallets, and so on) works :  when it starts it downloads all the data needed in a fast way and which takes less this space, but after a computer restart it will resume downloading and synchronizing to the network but in a slower way and which uses more disk space.
So if you want to reduce the amount of disk space it uses, you can remove all the data it downloaded so far and start from nothing, and this process will be faster.
 
If you want to do this, find geth.exe on your computer, go in the folder where it's located and open a command prompt window there.  (right click on some unused space in Windows Explorer while pressing Shift key, select "Open command window here" ) and then do this:
 
geth.exe removedb
 
It will show you a path ending with "chaindata" , press Y to remove that (that's where the blocks are downloaded, which contain the transaction information users made)
 
After it's done, type this:
 
geth --syncmode fast --cache 2048 --nousb
 
where
--syncmode fast tells geth to download the blocks in a faster way without some extra information you don't need as a regular user
--cache 2048  tells geth how much ram it can use to cache disk reads and writes while it downloads this data and processes it. You may want to use 1024 or a value lower than 2048, with 2048 geth will actually use up to 7-8 GB of memory at some moments! (I have 16 GB but if you have only 8GB or less, use less memory)
--nousb tells geth to not search your usb ports for hardware wallets like ledger nano s, trezor etc ... if you have one of these don't use this parameter
 
Now leave the window open and let geth download all that's required , in total there's around 4.850.000 blocks, you'll see as it downloads it will constantly show you at which block it's at.
 
You can open Ethereum Wallet while geth runs in background and you will see Ethereum Wallet will also show exactly what geth shows you in the command window (what block it's downloading, how many blocks are in total etc).
 
There's also a "light mode" which can be used to connect to the Ethereum network, where geth doesn't need to download 40-60 GB of data to connect, and only needs to download around 1 GB and then only 50-100 MB per month or something like that.
You can enable this mode from mist / Ethereum wallet from the menu  Develop  > Sync with Light client (beta)  but note that it's beta and there's very few nodes online making it harder to sync so again, you may see your total amount as 0 until you're synchronized.
So it's best to just suck it up for the moment and let it use gigabytes of data until the next version of geth and ethereum wallet is released, when maybe the "light mode" will come out of beta.
 
// also be careful, Ethereum wallet also has a sort of bug ... if you're not connected to any peers (which can happen especially if you use the light mode where there's fewer nodes online), the software will use some default values when it calculates transaction fees. 
For example, the default will be something like 0.5 ETH for a transaction, when in reality the cost is something like less 0.0003 ETH for a transaction smaller than around 2-300$ worth of ETH.
Again, mist / Ethereum wallet needs to sync with the network (catch up with the latest blocks made) and be connected to peers in order to estimate how much should you pay for transaction in order to have your transaction processed in a reasonable amount of time so just let it catch up and those values will be corrected