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Download the nVidia G-sync pendulum demo, it has options you can change in real time to see the difference. It's most noticeable on the test pattern.

Acer XF270H 1080p144hz, DisplayPort 1.2, GTX 1070, Windows 10. Works just fine for me. Confirmed no tearing in Borderlands 2, no display blanking, no blur, no noticeable ghosting. Edit: Checked using G-Sync Pendulum demo, still no issues. Edit 2: Screen Blanks out momentarily when opening spotify desktop app.

Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. My monitor always just worked out the box. It's an Acer XF270H, I've ran it with an R9 290x and an Rx 550 and both worked flawlessly. I just upgraded a couple of months ago to a 1070 and I'm really missing free-sync. I don't know if they've tested any older free-sync monitors, or just ones that are currently in production.

I just watched a video, I think from ExtremeTech, where they showed off what using this on a non verified monitor looked like. The worst offender was the display blinking off kind of randomly for a split second. Something caught me by surprise, he said it would do it even if you used an AMD card, and that's where I started to doubt this whole thing, free-sync monitors should all just work fine with AMD cards. I think that nVidia is trying to force a certain window of compatible FPS that some free-sync monitors can't handle. If that's the case my monitor should work fine as it goes from 48-144hz. We'll see in a week I guess.

I mean, I gave you all of the information you needed to do it yourself. Say you have a synthetic benchmark and zen performed about 15% worse than skylake in a single threaded workload. Your scores would look like this: Zen - 85, Skylake - 100. But when you consider multi-threaded workloads, a 6-core zen cpu will have 12 threads, where a 4-core skylake i7(~$330) will have only 8. Thus your scores become: Zen - 1020, Skylake - 800. This is a direct IPC calculation though, and doesn't consider that hyper-threads don't scale perfectly, clock-speeds, system bottlenecks, silicon lottery, or even hard evidence that zen performs that well. With the information we have now, this is the best estimate.

Nope, by my math a 6 core zen will handily outperform a similar 4 core Intel CPU. Simply because the IPC is only expected to be about 10-15% below Skylake, and it has 2 more physical cores and 4 more threads. So yeah, a 6 core zen cpu would be worth about $350-$400.

No argument, it just supports that wireless headphones are a dumb idea especially earbuds.

Well, the only thing I can say is that they better put two USB-C ports on the device, because I like to charge my phone while I'm using the headphone jack, like in my car or when I'm just laying in bed. I do not want wireless headphones for the simple reason is that it's another thing I have to charge, and I forget to do things a lot. I have trouble remembering to grab my headphones, much less charge them. Now if we can push battery technology the point where I'd only have to charge them once a year, then maybe.

I mean currently there's no better way to do it, human nature pretty much assures that it's the only sustainable economic model. Even communist countries like China move more and more toward a free market because the alternative is that everyone is dirt poor and there's no incentive to work harder, or do harder jobs since everyone gets the same thing anyway. It has to be regulated though, we aren't tough enough on corporations as it is, we allow them to trample consumers under their feet. The problem isn't that competition doesn't exist, it's that it selectively exists only in some areas. Where I live the only option for an ISP is AT&T on DSL at 6Mbps (just got upgraded on their side from 3Mbps last week). I live three miles from the County seat and courthouse on a state highway. Within city limits there are Comcast and AT&T, both of which offer speeds over 100Mbps. So a US highway runs 8 miles between my city and the closest one to it, all up and in the areas around it, Comcast has 25Mbps, and the population density out there is far less than where I live, and this is all because Comcast and AT&T have decided to divide up the market that way so there are places they don't compete so they can deliver whatever they want and you have to pay for it. It's ridiculous.

nope, uses a 2.5 inch drive.and the blu-ray drive is bigger but there is a ton of empty space in there.

I'd rather just send Linus $20 a year to release his videos on Youtube at the same time, Vessel is pretty bad on slow connections and devours data.

They had Dead or Alive 5 pretty much banned from retail in the US. We really need to start knocking some heads and end this PC bullshit.

My guess is that even though it's a full A9 chip, it's clocked way lower than the one in the 6S, the A9 is a fairly efficient chip to begin with, that being said, anything less than 2000 on even a budget phone these days is pathetic.

Damn, I have an all AMD setup but only pre-builts are eligible.

via malware installed onto the pedos computers through the site.

Now I have to go home and change my pants, thanks.

The only ISP I can get is ATT "U-Verse" DSL at 3down/.5up, mind you I live on a highway ~3 miles from the courthouse of the county seat, and in city limits Comcast is at 150down/15up, they even run it into the middle of nowhere on the other side of town for miles to houses that have acres in between neighbors, but they won't run it 3 miles down a HIGHWAY, I can throw rocks over my neighbors' houses and hit the next one. It's been like this forever too, hell we just got DSL available here in 2009, and that was at 1.5down/.3up until 2013.

I know a guy that runs a used car dealership and he still uses windows 98 for that same reason. I done some maintenance and upgrades on it for him, luckily I had spare parts that old.

I just want someone to hack Donald Trump and transfer a small loan of a million dollars into my bank account, but no, we have to crash my tax dollars into the Pacific for shiggles.

Or in AsRock's case, swappable bios chips, which should be standard on all motherboards since bios flashes are pretty much necessary for some compatibility.

TressFX cuts my framerate in half on TR2013, I can run it at 3200x1800 without that, with less of a performance impact, I wouldn't know about HairWorks as it only works on nVidia cards, but if I had to guess, it'd work better than TressFX even on AMD cards.

This is more of a manufacturer seller problem than a problem with the OS, how do you optimize an OS for so many different hardware configurations? On PC you leave that to individual component manufacturers to create optimized drivers for their hardware, but on phones that should be the job of the phone manufacturers, which so far has been pretty much ignored, as they like to further bog down the OS by adding bloatware and custom UI. I think the best bet for an optimized android platform is the Nexus series, which unfortunately is still outsourced to third party manufacturers, there's really no theme to the hardware, no variables that can be locked down and optimized for. Samsung is pretty good about it on their custom chip exynos phones, but the U.S. usually gets the Qualcomm chipset variants, which are generic and proprietary, and can't be optimized for the way an in house solution can the way iOS can be for Apple A series mobile chips. Windows phone can run well on lower end hardware because it's really featureless, and really comes with the stock experience on every phone, and app development for it just wasn't a thing until "continuum". Even now, some popular mobile apps will not develop an app for the platform.

I think their problem is the same one that HTC and to some extent Samsung has with naming the phones they put out, they always try to ape the success of their flagships by giving them similar names, what they actually do is create a fragmented market and confusion among consumers, as well as cannibalize sales of their flagships. Take for example the HTC One series. The first flagship in that series was actually the One X, but then they released the ONE which is a much different phone, but released as the competitor for the Galaxy S4, it wasn't until the "M8" that the term "M7" was used to refer to that phone, and both of these phones had multiple lower end variants associated with them, with no real way to differentiate them from one another as they just used letter designations like "ONE V" or "ONE XL".

Other than the stock cooler that's a long shot, as the none of the R9 3xx cards were released with a stock cooler AFAIK.

It's just not worth $140, should be somewhere in the $90 range.