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Thread solved... had to remove washers from cooler in order to make sufficient contact, even though the use of washers are required in the manual.  Card only goes up to 60c now without washer attachment and felt more solid contact-wise. Weird.

That's awesome. So within 10 years we will be playing VR games that are dynamically created in real time. Almost like the universe hmmmm

I thought you meant development models of the PS2

Thread solved... had to remove washers from cooler in order to make sufficient contact, even though the use of washers are required in the manual.  Card only goes up to 60c now without washer attachment and felt more solid contact-wise. Weird.

Card has absolutely no physical damage. In fact it and the Titan X are 98% identical in board layout. only for a few different resistors near the chokes. So if I can mount this on a Titan X, it should 100% mount fine on this Tesla.. all the VRAM and Chokes are covered with the included thermal pads.

I'd check your mounting pressure-- an Accelero IV should be able to handle that card without issues.

The Blade is a nightmare and worse quality than most Chromebooks. Seriously avoid blades like the plague, the amount of problems they have is insane for that price.
 
The G15 overheats, avoid it.
 
The Omen is good, recommend either that or the Lenovo Legion 5

You make a very good point. Date your cameras, marry your glass. I recently had my portrait taken for high school and the photographer had a fairly recent Nikon full frame body but used a 35 year old lens. He printed it out on an 8x10, sharp as a TACK. So I may invest in better glass and work on my ability to physically get a better grip on my camera rather than spend money on a new body. Thanks for the dump.
 
Well I guess I know what I'm saving my money for now. Quality glass here I come. Thank you for the advice!
 
I mainly do portraits/street. The max I'd spend is $200-300 for a lens, I emphasize sharpness the most. So probably in the 15-40 range.

I can directly empathise, I started with a Canon t6i (roughly the d3400's equivalent, at 24mpix APS-C sensor).
 
I'd like to suggest with picking up some superior lenses before upgrading bodies as an upgrade path, and here's why:
 
A body upgrade might give you features such as better weather sealing, faster AF, or a larger sensor. But for most, everyday scenarios, these features aren't necessary. Better camera bodies aren't going to offer a major step up in complexity as far as controlling the light with aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. 
 
Superior quality lenses can offer you a marked increase in capability and quality. Look at getting a fast 85mm for portraiture, and whatever the Nikon equivalent to Canon's 16-35 f2.8 III is. Not only will you be able to see more of the detail that your sensor can offer, but you'll be able to achieve different creative effects depending on your lens choice.
 
Build out a library of quality lenses and work through the creative opportunities those afford you before moving on from bodies, I collected L lenses for years with my t6i before moving to a full-frame. You won't regret it.

If you like the Canon ecosystem better, go Canon.  Personally, I'm a Nikon guy.   Only you can make that choice.  Both manufacturers have goods and bad bodies and lenses.   Just remember, once you start investing in glass, the harder it is to switch.
 
What do you mean by explored the limits your your camera's manual and priority modes?  It's hard to go on vague terms.  Do you want better AF, better high ISO performance, better camera ergonomics/buttons, etc?  If you can provide more details about what you want, that makes it much easier to help you. 
 
What's your budget?  Used cameras are also an option.  Assuming youre not photographing squirrels on crack(where stupidly good AF is needed) a D700's output still looks awesome (you can easily print 8x10s with it too).  In fact, while I have a nice new camera, I'm still lusting over a D4s...  There are some real gems to be had in the used market.
 
As general saying is that you date your cameras but marry your glass.   A good lens will stick with you while bodies come and go much.  Either lenses everything is a trade off.  Assuming everything is the same, having a 24-70 and 70-200 will give you better results that a 24-200 for example.  Things like longer zoom range, weight, size, f stop, all are variable can make it harder to make a good IQ lens.  That's why primes are still popular today because zooms still can't provide the image quality of a good prime (mainly lower glass count).   You might not care a lot about IQ (which is fine), but being aware of the lens trade offs is never bad. 
 
Sorry for the info dump. 

so shall we call new Intel CPU Core2Quad++++++++++++++++++++ ? :D

Yeah, like good luck finding 4.10 Nvidia driver on majority of the Linux repos. Last time I checked, the most up to date ones are like driver 396.xxx something. For AMD, driver is open source and in the kernel so all you gotta do is install the newest bleeding edge kernel. 

$13 USD for a very overclockable CPU.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Xeon-X5650-2-66GHz-Six-Core-BX80614X5650-Processor/153252398063?epid=82160987&hash=item23ae8e03ef:m:mTaNEShPxs-OJnnRSu01n6w:rk:3:pf:0&LH_BIN=1

Rawtherapee.
 
Just a warning, it's harder to use than for example LR.
Another thing, if you use it and don't want Noise reduction on a photo, don't turn NR completely of, have it on but have the sliders at 0.

No, 120gb is the bare minimum.

Barely, you can't really install many programs and eventually windows updates will make it fill up and you will probably need to clean install.

My case is just a black box with no LED-lights, no see-through side-panels, no fancy fan-controllers or anything like that. My keyboard is a no-nonsense Logitech mechanical keyboard with simple white backlight, the mouse is similarly understated and designed to fit my hand well, not to draw any attention, and so on. This is to say, comfort comes first, value-for-money second and there's a couple of other points in between with looks coming in towards the least important end of the spectrum. Hell, I'd happily use a horribly ugly, banged-up case, if it performed well and was easy to use.

2920X doesn't launch until October, so currently "no" is the answer. I fully expect they won't sell that many 2920X either. 
 
I think this is more of a clearing stock move. The 1900X & 1920X never sold that well, while the 1950X sold really well. But, because these are Zeppelin dies, AMD will be producing them for a good 3-4 years. (Server parts.) They can replenish stock if it becomes necessary without too much issue. (The 1900X probably EOLs the last of the TR1 or TR2 generation for this fact, along with AMD having no reason to ever replace the SKU.)
 
When the 1900X & 1920X hit holiday sales, that's some dang nice home server/NAS platform for a good price. 

The 1920x is a killer deal, to the point where I wonder if it would even make sense to "buy up" to the second gen 12 core...

Corean War. I like that.

Haha. I just read that article too Idk what kind of drugs Intel are on but it looks like they're on a pretty bad trip.

Corean War. I like that.

Haha. I just read that article too Idk what kind of drugs Intel are on but it looks like they're on a pretty bad trip.

Corean War. I like that.

AMD: Nvidia is going to hurt us in the GPU market, so let's make Intel our punching bag