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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to Slottr in one of the threads of all time   
    u right
     
     
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to Skiiwee29 in can we have a quick question thread in general   
    You still need to post in the appropriate subforum section for which the question would best be suited. SEO doesn't care which section of the forum that the topic is posted in, only that it is and it is publicly viewable and searchable. 
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to GDRRiley in one of the threads of all time   
    Im Enjoying camping. Enjoy the other mods 
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    I am amazing this thread is still going and hasn't died yet... 
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to bmx6454 in In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are 60-68% lower than gasoline.   
    the other issue ev's have is how bad for the environment, and the miners/worker's health, it is to get lithium and make the batteries. producing batteries that aren't horrible for the environment to make, and won't cost half(or more) of the car's value to replace is something i hope they figure out how to overcome in the near future. also, i know people have mixed opinions on this, but if nuclear power was made more of a priority, that would massively decrease the carbon footprint to charge these, and overall for all power production. to be clear, i am a big fan of ev's, i just think people make it into a political thing, and ignore/forget the hurdles.
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to Taf the Ghost in In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are 60-68% lower than gasoline.   
    @Senzelianthat's about normal. The "normal" person simply doesn't understand the amount of energy used to move cars & trucks around. It's also why the "EV Future" is a good way to end up with the "EV Collapse of 20XX".
     
    Battery EVs are a useful but small segment of the transportation market. They're useful for people with Suburban homes with garages and a commute of less than 40 miles/70km. There's a reason Tesla sells luxury mid-sized cars. That's the market for Battery EVs passenger cars. There's definitely some serious space for Local Haul Battery EV trucks and some Super cars. But that's about the extent of the utility for Battery EVs.
     
    Reality is that true Hybrids are the actual medium term future. Batteries will not, at least in our life times, really approach the energy density of chemical fuels, and they'll never overcome the storage advantage. There's a whole long, separate discussion about why Hybrids went sideways for a long time, but that's still where things will head. 
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to Senzelian in In the US, life cycle emissions for EVs are 60-68% lower than gasoline.   
    With growing numbers in electric cars, the need for more chargers outside of homes will grow as well.
    Keep in mind that a electric car charger won't be able to "fill up" as many cars as one gas pump in the same amount of time, which in return will require more chargers.
     
    Interestingly enough I just found a masters thesis showing the necessary work that needs to be done to convert all gas stations at the A96 (Autobahn 96 (highway)) to electric charging stations. So this excludes the benefit of being able to charge at home.
    According to this thesis it would require 18 nuclear power plants of the powerplant "Grohnde" to power the current traffic just on that one Autobahn.
    The Autobahn 96 isn't even that large or particular outstanding in terms of its traffic.
    Of course, who knows how accurate this is, especially considering it came out in 2018, but interesting nontheless.
    https://opus.fhv.at/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/2773/file/Masterarbeit_Reitmair.pdf
     
    Edit:
    Here, so you can get an idea of how large the A96 is. Next to it on the right is Munich (München).

     
     
    18x this for one highway: 🤨

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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to Wh0_Am_1 in Where to usually find isopropyl alchohol 99.9% or like atleast 70%?   
    Don't know about the percentage, but you can usually find it at most pharmacies and some gas stations.
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to Shreyas1 in up and down: Twitter testing upvote and downvote buttons   
    Make the downvote button like a placebo button. It does nothing at all, but clicking it makes the person feel a bit better thinking that it does do something
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to TVwazhere in up and down: Twitter testing upvote and downvote buttons   
    Reddit has an upvote/downvote system too... That's all I'm saying
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to jaslion in up and down: Twitter testing upvote and downvote buttons   
    It's only on replies and considering how twitter is I give it a 70/30 chance of going well (70% chance it goes wrong).
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to MatyaSw in Cpu help.   
    I'd say a 3600 or 3700 would be a pretty decent match. a 5600x could work too if u wanna have some extra room to upgrade ur GPU in the future.
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to D13H4RD in Your Ryzen laptop is (probably) throttled quite heavily when on battery - and it's (probably?) not a huge deal   
    If you've been keeping track of Intel's notoriously petty and face-on-ground marketing, especially for Tiger Lake-based systems (especially when it came to the "Evo" branding), you'd probably see a slide not unlike the one below, where Intel was claiming AMD gets its battery performance claims because it's putting a muzzle on how fast it can go when away from the charger.

    This was on a Zen 2-based Renoir APU, and Intel rather cheekily (and quite obviously) left out the fact that its boost behavior does result in higher battery drain during such periods. Now though, with a brand-new lineup of Zen 3-based Cezanne APUs and lots of high-end designs that utilize the best of AMD, one question that some have is whether boosting behavior has been tweaked?
     
    Well, it hasn't, not by much anyway.
     
    Tests by Gordon Ung noted that while the Ryzen 5800U has shown to smoke the Intel Core i7 1185G7 in many tasks, many of which were while the laptop is connected to AC power. When running on battery, the script does flip, sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot.
     

     

     

     
    The delta isn't massive when in the "Best Performance" preset, with around a 20-25%-ish performance delta between plugged and unplugged, though the delta between plugged and unplugged when on the "Better Battery" preset is quite significant, though perhaps not entirely unexpected.
     
    It's also worth noting that the Intel machine doesn't keep that performance for nothing, as it does chug down quite a lot more watts in bursts in order to maintain that level of performance when off the charger.

     
     
    Interestingly, Daniel Rubino of Windows Central noted that the SSD is also throttled when on battery, due to a feature called PCIe Speed Power Policy (PCPP).
     
    My thoughts (this is going to be a long one, but you all need to read this!)
    The big question that I'm sure many would be asking right now is "Is AMD wrong in doing this?"
     
    And the answer is a big straight-up no. What AMD is doing is effectively not that much different from many older laptops, where off-charger performance is significantly hampered in an effort to conserve energy, particularly as processors of that era have not reached the level of performance-per-watt that current-generation designs have managed to achieve. In fact, some of the bench graphs show that Intel does also throttle performance a bit when off the charger, particularly in lightened workloads.
     
    And it is definitely worth noting that while these charts do indeed show a drastic drop-off especially in the "Better Battery" mode, it is important to note the context, in which these involve ultra-portable low-wattage laptops. It's more likely that a user would be doing tasks like browsing the web or doing document work on such a machine, where the additional responsiveness of Intel's boost behavior may not be as apparent, but battery saving measures, even at the cost of performance, may be more appreciated. Even Gordon makes that case in his article.
    Neither AMD and Intel have a straight up "wrong" strategy here, moreso that they are very different. Intel is very clearly focused on responsiveness at the expense of outright efficiency, whilst AMD is perfectly happy to ease off the pedal significantly in order to gain more work-per-watt. Depending on your priorities, you might find one or the other more appealing.
     
    With that said, here is where I get a bit more opiniated and personal. While I perfectly understand each company's reasoning for what they're doing, I am disappointed that there is no real way to fully adjust the way they behave through Windows' power settings. Intel's power consumption spikes are significantly calmer when in "Better Battery", but not usually by a big amount, whilst AMD's performance improves in "Best Performance", there's no real way to fully lift off the muzzle if, for whatever reason, you need all the CPU performance off-the-charger to finish off some work, such as editing photos on Lightroom.
     
    While neither philosophies are straight-up wrong, I'm disappointed that I can't really have the option of straight up gimping performance significantly when I need to conserve my watts, or going full-ham on battery when I need to finish off that landscape photograph on Lightroom.
     
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    Tested: Is Ryzen 5000 battery performance really that bad?
    Some AMD laptops reduce system performance for better battery life, but is that OK?
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to Arika in Your Ryzen laptop is (probably) throttled quite heavily when on battery - and it's (probably?) not a huge deal   
    I would say that most people probably expect the Intel method when looking at the "better battery" and "better performance" slider, but without looking at comparisons side by side like the, would assume the AMD method is how it would behave on battery anyway.
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    Crunchy Dragon reacted to the pudding in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Thanks! 
     
    Yeah they're nice cards, but it's really just a founders 1080ti with a  worse vrm and an extra gig if vram near enough, damn nice card still, but it's not worth the titan tax imo 
     
    Me too, though the loop is going to loom different than I'd initially thought mind you, I'm probably going to actually use the 10700k bundle I won in the raffle, the old xeons are good value for money but they do lack some in singlethreaded perf, and unfortunately war thunders engine near enough only uses one core lul, so an overclocked and water cooled 10700k will do wonders for that, hopefully I won the silicon lottery as well as the raffle 😜
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