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The questions seems vague or ambiguous at best. Are we talking about "As one who plugs stuff in..." or "As one who designs connectors..." or something else?

I just came across this listing on the Nvidia store and almost decided to get an unplanned video card because of the price...$860 for a hybrid 2080Ti? OK! Clicking on the 'buy now' -> Amazon link presents one with a very confusing situation: So is it a 2080Ti, and 2080, or a 1080? Anyone feel like causing a headache for Nvidia and/or Amazon?

This is super helpful, thanks!

Is this the wrong forum or does nobody know the pinout for this type of cable? I've consulted google but learned nothing.

I'm trying to mod a monitor to be able to have it's backlight brightness controlled by something like a potentiometer or even a home-lighting style dimmer/fader. The specific panel is an LG LM240WUA-SSA1 and it's specs can be found here: http://www.panelook.com/LM240WUA-SSA1_LG%20Display_24.0_LCM_parameter_23652.html My current roadblock is that I cannot find any pinout information for the 6-wire connector that connects the single LED strip to the rest of the panel: If anyone has any knowledge of which wires do what, that would be great- I'm only familiar with LED strips that have fewer wires. Also if anyone is aware of any reasons why this might be a terrible idea, that information would be appreciated as well- I'm pretty new to the world of monitor backlighting. I have three of these monitors and it doesn't really matter if I trash them. Plan B is to replace the backlight LED strip with something more typical that is designed to be easily controlled.

Howdy, A little while ago the Quadro RTX 5000 disappeared from the Nvidia store (gone, not 'out of stock'), and if you go to the card specific page it shows an option to pre-order but the link is a dud. Does anyone know what's going on with these?

If you live near a University they often sell and/or auction their used equipment. I recently saw an R530 with 32gb, 8x1TB, and a couple of 2630 v3's go for $200, among other things.

Thanks for the info. That does help to clear things up. I do still wonder though- where is the line drawn, or are there any actual guidelines for what defines something as i7 or i5. Maybe just 'Within the realm of low power but not-that-beefy CPUs there are i5s and i7s', repeat for the realm of 'sorta-beefy mobile chips' and 'pretty-beefy mobile chips' and for 'not quite as low power' etc. It just seems so complicated that now, even within a single cpu generation, looking at things from less powerful to more powerful you will get i5 > i7 > i5 > i7 > i5 > i7 etc. I guess gone are the days of 'a 6th gen i7 is more powerful than a 6th gen i5'. IMO a dual core i7 is not an i7- if I want an ultra low power laptop I would expect to look at i5's. To me, 'i7' means 'the most powerful', maybe I need to change that way of thinking.

It's been a while since I last purchased a new laptop, and in doing some research I've noticed that the line between a mobile i5 and mobile i7 seem to have become a bit blurred to me. It seems like it used to be that an i5 had 4c/4t vs the i7's 4c/8t, and maybe the i7 would have more cache and higher clocks. An example of blurred lines: i5 6287U vs i7 6500U. Both are 2c/4t, both have 4mb cache, the i5 has higher base and turbo clocks (3.1/3.5 vs 2.5/3.1), as well as a better igpu (520 vs 550). the i7 does have a lower tdp of 15w vs the i5's 28w, but this does not make the chip perform better. I could see this 'adding value' in that it can be used in lower power/lighter devices, but the 6287U should outperform the 6500U in any scenario. So I ask: what makes the i7 6500U cost $100 more than the i5 6287U? or more generally, what makes a mobile chip an i7 nowadays?

Thanks xgn, My current ram is some pretty nondescript micron ecc ddr3 1333, I was probably just going to get some more cheap ecc ram off of ebay- Trying to keep costs low and my priority is ram capacity rather than quality. I may just bite the bullet and hope that mismatched capacities work as long as everything is the same within each channel.

Hey all, I inherited a dual 1366 setup that has actually proved to be quite useful, so I'm thinking of throwing some more ram in there- currently each cpu has 3 x 2gb sticks. My question is: does giving each cpu a different ram configuration cause any problems these days? For example if I pick up 3 x 8gb sticks, then could I run one cpu with 6 x 2gb and the other with 3 x 8gb? Even if it is *possible*, are there any downsides? I haven't had too much luck googling this situation. Thanks in advance fwiw: mobo is a supermicro X8DTT-F cpus are 2 x X5570 chasis is a fedex box