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Mira Yurizaki

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  1. Seeing some more PS5 news made me think "can't wait for the so-called 'console killers' that people attempt"

     

    Because so far nobody's been able to make one that isn't a joke. (Well I mean, they're serious, but to me it's laughable)

    1. Sauron

      Sauron

      That's why I used to make "alternatives" rather than "killers" - until both AMD and Intel just gave up on low end CPUs.

  2. If you don't understand their situation, this is like telling a depressed person they can be cured of their depression by suggesting "have you tried not being sad?"
  3. Unless you have a monitor plugged into the iGPU (via the motherboard ports) and it's the primary monitor, the system won't use the iGPU for games. What tool are you using to check GPU usage?
  4. C# is useful for Windows based ecosystems, but outside of that I haven't really seen a use for it. Still, that doesn't mean it isn't a good language to learn. Also I feel it doesn't really matter what language you know, just that you know how to program.
  5. "MiB" is shorthand for "Mebibytes", which is 2^20 and is the actual scale most OSes report "MB" as.
  6. As other's pointed out, the H in IMHO typically means "honest." Which isn't any better, because it implies your previous opinions weren't honest.
  7. The reason why people say its bad is because the money you overpaid to the government could be put into something else that could actually grow. Even throwing the extra money in a bank savings account is better than giving it to the government and cashing out the next year, because the savings account still has interest.
  8. Because the higher end GPUs don't need clock speed as much. They get away with having more execution units (or CUDA cores in this case). Rendering images is literally applying a bunch of math to find the color of a pixel, then just do the same thing for every pixel you want to render. So you can improve performance by two ways: add more execution units so you can crunch more pixels at once, or make the execution units run faster so they complete the work sooner. The biggest reason why the higher end GPUs aren't clocked as high is because each of those execution units takes a certain amount of power. Power consumption is related to heat generation, and the more power the part consumes, the more heat it outputs. You could probably make these higher end GPUs run as fast as the lower end ones, but then you may need an impractically expensive cooling system to keep the GPU from roasting itself to death. It's basically a balancing act.
  9. Mira Yurizaki

    iFixit updated the 2019 Mac Pro teardown by tak…

    @Windows7ge I think you're right. The two chips marked yellow are DP to HDMI converters and the card only has HDMI outputs. A few DP connections are probably being routed back to the MPX slot to feed the Thunderbolt controllers.
  10. I mentioned it before, right click on the drive/partition in File Explorer, select Properties, then click on the "Disk Cleanup" button That's normally allocated in gigabyte chunks.
  11. That's fine. The M.2 slot on my motherboard is right above my graphics card slot and while my SSD can get toasty (around 55C), it doesn't seem to have a negative impact.
  12. You can use the Disk Cleanup tool by right clicking on the partition -> Properties -> Disk Cleanup No. They're actually needed, temporarily anyway. Some programs aren't good at cleaning up after themselves though.
  13. It's likely temporary files that are being generated or downloaded.
  14. To add to what @For Science! said, there's two methods of undervolting: offset and overriding. What was described was using offset undervolting. You can do overriding undervolting, but depending on the CPU, you may not get very far at stock clock settings before hitting stability issues. However, some processors may require so much voltage to achieve their maximum boost clock that you can dial down the boost clock a bit or set a fixed value and drop the voltage much lower. Unless you have absolutely top tier cooling, this may not result in a performance drop from sustained performance. For example, I set my Ryzen 2700X to a fixed 4.0 GHz but overridden the voltage to around 1.225. When running Prime95, The processor can remain at this speed for much longer than default settings, to where it drops to base clock speeds. Yes, but the problem is we don't know how long processors are supposed to last to begin with. The processor could be fine for 20 years on stock. The only practical reason to do this is just to generate less heat and consume less power.
  15. It takes up three slots total. You're only losing two slots by using the card. Otherwise as long as there's slots not being blocked by the video card, yes, you can use other cards that fit in the rest of the available slots
  16. From PC Partpicker, the cheapest compatible board with the 1920X is $240 USD. You'd also need to find an aftermarket cooler that supports it because it doesn't come with a cooler. In the end though, it won't be as good for gaming due to the issue that to use all of the cores in the 1920X, you have to use NUMA, which impacts performance for a lot of games and applications that aren't NUMA aware. If you want the cores, get a Ryzen 9. It'll also be better suited for gaming.
  17. The license is tied to the motherboard. You can swap out everything else except that and still be fine.
  18. Mira Yurizaki

    iFixit updated the 2019 Mac Pro teardown by tak…

    It may be a trick of the eye by the fact MPX boards are large, but here's a Sapphire RX 580 for reference:
  19. iFixit updated the 2019 Mac Pro teardown by taking apart MPX module for the video card.

     

    Holy bare bones board Cook:

    1SICkBJtfRPBUhoC.huge

    nLncSUoRBm4IWZlW.huge

    1. Mira Yurizaki

      Mira Yurizaki

      It may be a trick of the eye by the fact MPX boards are large, but here's a Sapphire RX 580 for reference:

      580np-11w.jpg

    2. Windows7ge

      Windows7ge

      Based on the position of both those connectors I would beg to guess the power delivery and most of the control circuitry for the display ports are on the motherboard.

       

      If that sounds accurate it's beyond me why any manufacturer would do that. But I mean, hey it's Apple, "Think different!" am I right?

       

      But then again it kind of makes sense. They wouldn't want you plugging their GPU in another vendors board. Best way of doing that, don't put all the components on the card.

    3. Mira Yurizaki

      Mira Yurizaki

      @Windows7ge I think you're right. The two chips marked yellow are DP to HDMI converters and the card only has HDMI outputs.

       

      A few DP connections are probably being routed back to the MPX slot to feed the Thunderbolt controllers.

       

  20. If you bought an OEM license, it's tied to the motherboard you installed Windows on. If it's a retail license, then you don't technically have to do anything other than make sure there's only one Windows activated with that license. You can also tie licenses to your Microsoft account and it'll follow you to whatever Windows install you sign into using your Microsoft account.
  21. Bandwidth doesn't work like that. If the SD card can transfer at 80 MB/sec and the interface can support more than that, it doesn't matter if it's a 100 MB/sec or a 1 GB/sec interface, the SD card will transfer at 80 MB/sec
  22. If a USB 3.0 cable is built well enough, then yes. What "version" a cable is rated for has no bearing on what it can actually support assuming it uses the same amount of wires and pins. It's just down to how well the physical wires can maintain signal/power integrity.
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