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Yey, I am top 100 for once!....
 
 
 
 
 
 
... because there is less than 100 people that signed up for the event.

Yup a bit less more like 230 but I have 17 more coming from Ebay.. Chrome Remote Desktop hasn't complained yet. List getting slow to populate however.  My NEMA 14-50 is just about maxxed.
@Bums_2 a NEMA 14-50 outlet in the garage i split into 120V circuits, i have 8x120v now 6 utilized i have maxxed it out. I have a fan to cool it just in case and concrete helps. Modern house, lots of circuits.  Undervolting by rolling back BIOS to pre-PlunderVolt junk so Throttlestop works, -140mV ideal, has really helped noise and heat. has photos in description. Trick with Optiplexes is that you have to reset BIOS defaults after downgrading otherwise lock it still there. Prodesks/Elitedesks not needed.
Too bad Folding is like .13MPPD per i5-8500 and Gridcoin Magnitude for Folding is thus junk too but they have plenty of biological work to do on BOINC for now unless SiDock and WCG dies. But I now have installed FAH on each Coffeelake, the older ones no. ProcessLasso configured to set affinity of FAH/BOINC to 0-2,3-5 cores or maybe i have that backwards. With all my BOINC projects there r like 10 executables Folding has 4 (0xa8 0xa9 0  x   22 0  x23)and i would have to check if they get renamed after updating occasionally.  I would have to go thru each 1 and enable FAH then configure FAH and BOINC to use only 3 cores. Unless i go pure Folding. I'm happy with BOINC also in that it has a queue so all these being on WIFI they can sometimes be iffy, no biggie they submit on time and stay busy. Whereas Folding is more serial. 
PS: Chrome Remote Desktop has been rumored to be limited to 100 devices. It's 200+ I haven't reached the limit yet.
 

Given free option I'd agree, since hitting 1080p120 is much easier than 4k60 in terms of GPU cost.
 
While it can help as a player, I'm not sure it adds as much value for a viewer. So in that area, If you offered me 1080p120 or 1440p60, I'd take the resolution.
 
Nope. Interestingly, Chrome never finishes loading when I try to view it (maybe a conflict with one of many plugins). Edge displays a message from the site saying it is unsupported. Firefox did play it.

Anything that will be attached to the electrical grid in most of North America should be CSA, UL or ETL certified. Unfortunately there are many cheap products sold through various marketplaces that are not certified and they can be really bad. They are also often just blatantly forged. The CE designation is basically useless as it's self-certification. You may see TUV Rheinland as well which is a good certification but that is more in the industrial side of things. This YouTube video does a decent job of explaining it. There are some slight differences between the Canadian requirements vs. the USA requirements and require different labelling but they are very functionally similar.
 
The company I work for had to recall some poor phone chargers nationally (Canada) because they weren't certified and the government required us to have them pulled from the market. It is something I personally watch out for even before that recall occurred.
 
Generally, for electrical components the saying "You get what you pay for" is very much true. Good quality and well-engineered products almost always cost more for a reason.

The point of the video was showing what was possible today for a fraction of the price you used to have to pay.
 
Yeah the samsung wall is better but its also 12x the price, smaller AND is multiple tvs which needs calibration which isnt always included in the pricetag. Its also a thicker system.
 
If you wanna spend 150.000 on a tv instead of 13.000 ish then go ahead but for like 95% of the experience of the wall you can get the tcl.
 
Microled and such is awesome but these tvs are at a size where legitamatly just the local dimming zones on the tcl could be classified as micro leds as it has such an insane amount. Like these tvs are THE TOP END this is as good as it gets on non oled.
 
The wall is also priced that high simply because there isnt anything in this space to compete. Now tcl is here and maybe eventually it trickles down.
 
Also that panasonic 152 inch was an extreme limited run product meant for marketing purposes only basically. Id be suprised if they evem had 1000 made as the costs to do so would be insane.
 
The wall and the tcl are actually meant to be commercial products for niche use cases hence why the wall is on version 2 already

I think the've recently updated PrintScr to automatically open SnippingTool because I just tried it and it does work like that.
 
But I have the same issue as @PowerPCFan that I have to use Fn+P because of my small keyboard to open it. May as well just stick to my muscle memory 😄 

Until the current system is no longer adequate for your needs. 

🤷‍♂️ I guess this is the thread for feedback now, unless LMG posts something official later.
Having a quick look here's some of my first impressions.
 
Taking the Intel Arc A850 page for example. https://www.lttlabs.com/posts/sparkle-intel-arc-a580-orc-oc-edition
 
The graph for thermal performance is very odd. Goes from 90°C to 2°C within 4 seconds. I hope this is just random data filled as an example and not actual labs test data.

  The line graphs (Efficiency) are difficult to digest with the overlapping colours. Assuming this is fake data, hopefully real data is more consistent and isn't overlapping as much and is more easy to digest. Hovering over a single line to have the others fade is about the only way to make sense of it without it straining my eyes.

  In the Productivity chart there is a large block of empty space above the chart. This void is not present on the Gaming charts.

  Instead of having two separate charts for Ray Tracing / Non-Ray Tracing results it should just be a toggle button to show ray tracing results since you already have drop down menus to change the game and resolution on the chart. If Ray Tracing is toggled on grey out the games and resolution that don't have test data for ray tracing.

  The Productivity charts are split up in to individual charts on the page. This is inconsistent with the Gaming charts which has the data compressed in to 2 charts. The productivity charts should be a single chart with a drop down menu to select between the different productivity benchmarks, consistent with the gaming chart having each game in the drop down menu.

  Having a large image next to the table of data in the Hardware tab is annoying and makes it harder to read the table. It's also inconsistent with the Functionality tab. You should remove the large images from the data tables and just put the tables side by side (separate elements and make them stack vertically on mobile devices and expand to the width of the section for situations of odd numbers of tables).

Instead of this:

Do this:

 
 
Product images should be displayed in a single carousel. Not split up in to multiple carousels or single images.
  Images in a carousel should be more obvious that there are multiple images to scroll through. Right now it's difficult to see that there are multiple images in a set, made worse by the inconsistency with there being multiple images shown on the page in various sections with some having a single image and some having multiple.

 
Having to expand each of the sections to view the data is annoying. I would rather a long page that I scroll through rather than having to click to open everything. It's fine to give the option to collapse the sections by clicking on it, but it would be better if by default they are expanded.
If you follow the above suggestions of removing large images from the data table and condensing Performance charts in to a single chart there's really little reason to collapse all of the sections.  
 

 
Key Specification data is inconsistent in both what is shown as key data and how it is rated. The Arc A580 key specifications has memory bandwidth, release date, and memory size. The RX 7600 has Memory Size, Slot Width, and Card Length. The A580 has 8GB of memory marked with a red X. The RX 7600 has 8GB memory marked with a green tick. Is 8GB good or bad? The RX7600 has a key detail of 20.5cm length which is marked as bad with a red X. The A580 has a length of 22.4cm which isn't listed in the key features. If 20.5cm length is such a bad thing that it's considered a key detail why isn't it listed for the longer A580? The "Key Details" section seems far more subjective than the rest of the report which is only objective data. I would be hesitant on mixing subjective opinions in an otherwise objective report, you don't want to end up like userbenchmark where it's littered with negative comments about AMD from the editor.
 
 
The "Test Bench" section which specifies what hardware was used in the benchmarks should not be in the Gaming section. It should be its own section at the bottom of the page.
I would also recommend including the date that the test data was collected or the date that it was first published, along with assigning space for a changelog for any revisions or corrections made to the page.
Bonus points if you include the models of testing/measuring hardware that was used (thermal probes, oscilloscopes, etc).  
On the comparison page when comparing two cards the performance graphs for the cards are shown as two separate graphs that the user has to slide between to view. It would be much better if it just created a single new graph that only included the data from the cards in the comparison cart.  
 
I didn't watch the WAN show so if any of these have been addressed already oh well...

Dan is The procedure of the Wan show. And I have a 5 yrs old autistic son a 14 yeah step daughter with severe anxiety and a 19 yrs old step son who is convinced he is god's give to everyone! Hehe 😆 so yes I have bigger issue so it's nice to focus on silly trivial stuff oh and I'm really old.. 😉 😂 

Do you have any reason to suspect your computer isn't performing as it should? If not, then don't worry about it.
Don't be the type of person I talked about in this post: 
 
If everything seems to be working fine, then chances are everything most likely works fine. If you're getting like 300 FPS then I don't even see why you would be questioning your performance numbers.
First of all, if you are getting those kinds of numbers then clearly everything is fine. Computers generally don't "partially work" like a car can do. If you had some issues with some component then you wouldn't be getting those numbers, or you would experience things like crashes. 
Second of all, even if computers could be in a state where you might only be getting partial performance out of it (let's say things are thermally throttling) then why does it matter if you are already getting 300 FPS? Even if there was an issue (which it doesn't seem to be), you don't even have to fix it because you are already getting ridiculously high-performance numbers.
 
Stop worrying about your PC and enjoy the games instead.

I hope lootboxes and daily rewards get banned everywhere, they are both shitty things that shouldn't exists.

I hope lootboxes and daily rewards get banned everywhere, they are both shitty things that shouldn't exists.

china: doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
 
laws against promoting addictive behavior in video games are very necessary, but their focus on online gaming as the source of the problems their youth are facing is probably at least slightly too shallow.

Comission members is elected by members of the other EU bodies, who has members that is elected by people in EU countries in different ways, some directly and others indirectly.

In Potplayer, going to Colorspaces in preferences and selecting RGB 32 in "Output color space" might also be an option that works, but I dont know how that compares to that above, especially when it comes to videos that are not the same as movies usually is (aka for example Full RGB instead of Limited RGB).

If you have a 10 bit monitor (or 8 bit+FRC), you might notice that when playing movies in programs like Potplayer or MP-HC or MP-BE, blacks are showing as grey.
This is at least the case when the display is set to 8 bit in AMD settings, I am not sure about other situations.
 
The Fix is to install MadVR, a video renderer, and enable it in the video player you choose.

Before:
After:
 
If you dont know how to do it, here is how:
Dowload MadVR from http://madvr.com Place the folder in a location on your computer where it can stay, you can not delete the folder after setting it up, so you might want to move it out of the dowloads folder. Run the "Install.bat" file in the folder as administrator. (Right click then press run as administrator) Wait for the installation to complete. Enable the Video player to use MadVR:
Potplayer: MP-BE (Probably the same as MP-HC):
Restarting the program might be needed, but other than that, Profit!  
There are options that can be configured in MadVR, but its not needed if your only goal is to fix that the blacks are grey.

I have no idea why its required when the monitor is set to 8 bit in AMD settings, but it apparently is. If someone else know why, maybe they can explain it down bellow?
 

Those are usually for HDD mounting I believe.

Those are usually for HDD mounting I believe.

So basically since I haven't bothered turning anything off I just sign up and keep it all running? Sounds easy lol

My experience has been much the same over the years. Whenever I sign up for a new project, I have to do it on the project site first and then use those credentials in the BOINC manager.

I think the time to upgrade is when you can't run a game, that you really enjoy, as well as you'd like. Or sooner, if you just fancy spending some money.

Right so an update, We have had 307 people qualify for the event, the hope is to have all prizes allocated and a blog post out today or tomorrow

I only folded on my RX 5700 XT, but I will be back next year and maybe I will have a better GPU then, can only wait and see.
 
I didn't do 24/7, still don't live on my own and had an exam week in the event. (Plus wanted to game some).
But I managed:
23,2 million points
167 WUs
 
Based on day 34 I am above rank 250, good enough for what I have.
 
I will get a new folding month badge tho, that is nice 🙂 (nowhere close to point badge)

Disappointed that there's a lot of "see you guys next time" WHEN WE FOLD ALL YEAR ROUND BABBEEEEE, ITNOS NEVER STOP RUNNING

I only folded on my RX 5700 XT, but I will be back next year and maybe I will have a better GPU then, can only wait and see.
 
I didn't do 24/7, still don't live on my own and had an exam week in the event. (Plus wanted to game some).
But I managed:
23,2 million points
167 WUs
 
Based on day 34 I am above rank 250, good enough for what I have.
 
I will get a new folding month badge tho, that is nice 🙂 (nowhere close to point badge)