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Speak for yourself, I'm here for the Top Gear of PC hardware.

I mean, good old fashioned police work was and is dependent on legal tools to compromise security mechanisms as well. Just think of search warrants. The idea that any investigative service can be effective with only informations and means available to the open public is ridiculous.

Don't mess with the thermal paste, most of them are good enough and the third party ones that would actually be better tend to be more expensive than I feel you're willing to commit to it.

Now, this is basically why I'm going to wait for EA to add it to Origin Access in like 6 months.

Heh, I do have IPS on my ultrabook and have to say I quite like the viewing experience on that so yeah that makes sense. Also thanks for outlining your own experiences with the Asus. Really useful, thank you. And yeah I know about the 780 being crap at 4k, a Volta or Navi upgrade is on my buy list down the road but one major expense at a time hehe. Thank you all for your help, the consensus it clear and has convinced me to go for the 58.

Hey all, So after spending several years on a 24 inch 1080p TN panel I have decided that it's time to upgrade. As my budget is somewhat limited but I do want a monitor that is reliable in the longterm my eye has fallen on the sub-$500 4k screens around. As it stands I mostly use my rig for gaming (I realize my gpu isn't going to pull 4k but I'll game at a lower resolution until I upgrade to Volta/Navi), additionally I regularly edit videos for my YouTube channel in Premiere Pro and actively use After Effects. Finally with a new gpu and once the support in apps like Netflix is decent I'd also want to use it to watch 4k conten. I've found the ASUS PB287Q for about € 400 which flaunts 10 bit colour(admittedly the fake kind) and does advertise itself as a monitor for prosumers as well as gamers, however with it being released in 2014 and only a TN panel I'm not sure how well it still performs comparatively. It definitely got great reviews at the start but I haven't found more recent ones. A second option I found are actually two monitors, the LG 27UD58 nd 27UD68, they go for about respectively € 340 and € 440, Both are IPS and seem fairly similar. Both have fake 10 bit and seem to mostly be different when it comes to factors like brightness. adjustment possibilities and a built-in DAC. Both however seem to suffer from backlight bleed and a fairly bad anti-glare coating. So I'm at a bit of a loss, considering my use cases. Which monitor would be best?

Completely different target audiences. You don't get a Macbook Air or any kind of Ultrabook because it's particularly worth it price for performance. You get it to have a lightweight device with good build quality and excellent battery life so you can use it on the road. For that it is well worth it despite the specs. If you want to game on it just use Steam in-home streaming and let your pc do the heavylifting

You probably aren't but it's on them for not even using basic htaccess or vhost settings to lock it off.

Do you not have an SSD?

Rockstar has been console-primarily for a long time, after the amount of hacking on the GTA V pc version in on-line I wouldn't be surprised if they stick to walled gardens again for RDR2.

It's no secret that Asetek and Cooler Master haven't exactly been cordial recently, following an earlier court battle in the US. A Dutch court has now ruled that the European Asetek patents are invalidated in the Netherlands. The court has also ruled that Asetek has to pay compensation for legal fees to Cooler Master to the tune of € 113,000. The case related to Cooler Master's Nepton 120XL, Nepton 240M and Seidon 120v ver. 2. The court held that as there was already a similar design to Astek's patented one in China back in 2003 by Cooler Master the patent cannot be considered valid in the EU. While the ruling only affects the Dutch market (a Dutch court has no jurisdiction over the entire EU), further legal action against Cooler Master is rendered essentially impossible as its European operations are headquartered in the Netherlands and traditionally European courts in other countries have been inclined to uphold rulings from different member states. As such it is not out of the question that in the short to long term the Asetek patents will be invalidated throughout the EU. --- Personally I've always been skeptical about CPU cooler patents, while true innovation does of course need protection a lot of these patents mostly have designs that aren't exactly revolutionary and more incremental improvements over what they themselves or the competition were already doing. As such I feel it is a good thing that the Dutch court has established that the Asetek design is not innovative enough to justify patent protection. While right now the patent is still valid in the EU, it seems likely companies will now release their own products that could infringe the patents due to it being unlikely that other courts will uphold the patent. English Language Source: https://www.eteknix.com/dutch-courts-rule-asetek-patent-suit-vs-coolermaster/ More Detailed Dutch Source: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/129815/rechtbank-verklaart-octrooi-van-asetek-voor-waterkoeling-ongeldig-in-nederland.html Ruling: http://www.ie-forum.nl/artikelen/nederlands-deel-octrooi-vloeistofkoelsysteem-voor-pc-s-vernietigd

Because being dead would fucking suck

See: demographic crisis

I mean honestly, at this point Intel could get a chip that outperforms Ryzen in both core count and performance and I'd still go AMD just to keep competition going.

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No, it's a perfectly solid reason not do it. People are going to be buying those games anyway, For the companies it just means fewer expenses with the same revenue. Their job isn't to push technologies. They're not going to intentionally break multi GPU scenarios but they are also definitely not going to go out of their way to fix issues that don't appear in single gpu scenarios.

1. Game development is one of the most labour-intensive jobs there is, read any of a thousand stories from people in the industry and you will find out all about the crazy hours and burnout related problems it's plagued by. 2. The industry, like every industry, wants to make money. Multi gpu support means dedicating resources that can't go anywhere else. With the very low (and decreasing) amount of people that have more than 1 GPU that means dedicating labour to something only very few people will get to benefit from. As a result the industry deems it wasteful and will instead focus on something the majority of their players actually benefits from.

Get a treadmill and run really fast 24/7

I game whenever I get the chance. Busy week at work and plans to spend the weekend with the gf? No more than a few hours that week. Quiet week? Several more hours.

No

You're about a couple of days and several threads too late. @Ryan_Vickers

Dude, it was a Holy Shit episode, not a product review. If people fail to understand that entire series of videos isn't meant at least slightly humorous that's on them. Not LTT.

Over the past few years I've used Bitdefender, Eset and Kaspersky but I always keep returning to the latter. Great piece of unobtrusive but secure software.

Shit, if you don't want pictures just tell her that. You didn't need to have to be a dick about it.

A company designs a product with a specific goal and figures out the hardware they want it to work with. That's what they support. Other hardware can work with it but it's not supported as you will lose any company support by using it(and to be quite frank, when you have to actually cut pieces of metal and leave your GPU exposed I'd barely call that working in the first place). In turn it is the responsibility of an employee to reference that official support in interacting with customers. It is not Dell's job to verify hardware works in every combination possible. Working tech support for an ISP myself, we use standardized ftth and dsl protocols, in theory any modem or router with the required specifications could work but if the R&D guys were to test every single product on the market the price for a subscription would go up a lot. That's why we only tell our customers that we support the hardware we provide. Can they get the other tech to work? Sure. However it's on them to deal with any issues that might arise.