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You left off who the shipper/seller is... Is this one of those people who purchased up the initial stock and is reselling?

As a part of the list of features that the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update lists as being removed or deprecated, Microsoft decided to update this list on 8/17/2017 to remove the ability to create new ReFS partitions outside of Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 Pro for Workstation. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/microsoft-to-remove-full-refs-support-from-windows-10-pro-push-workstation-sku/ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034825/features-that-are-removed-or-deprecated-in-windows-10-fall-creators-up While I can understand that this is a feature that MS wants to tout as being for the Enterprise environment, I don't think that MS should be removing it as a feature from the consumer Windows 10 Pro as there are probably users of ReFS out there with a standard Windows Pro license. Especially odd move if MS wants to see any sort of wider spread adoption of ReFS outside of the enterprise space... Just as a note, I didn't see any of this mentioned in the prior Fall Creators Update thread or Windows 10 Pro for Workstation thread...

I think that this was probably the first post on Intel's 8/21 event. It came out around the time of the TR unboxing and reviews...

I think one of my questions is how much is this GDDR5(X) and how much of this is HBM... Unfortunately the article isn't very specific except mentioning lower tier NVidia cards that use GDDR5.

Bionik Laboratories has begun testing an integration of Amazon's Alexa AI into it's Arke lower body exoskeleton as a mechanism to help use it. Currently this is limited to being within range of an Amazon Echo device and to voice commands such as "Alexa, I'm ready to stand" or "Alexa, I'm ready to walk', however, I would think it's not too much extra work to integrate an Echo device right into the suit. Just to be clear, the Arke exoskeletons are currently meant for people suffering from disabilities related to spinal injuries, strokes or brain injuries, where motor control has become impaired so no walking robot suits yet. https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/16/exoskeleton-amazon-alexa/ Integrating personal assistant AI into these kind of suits will definitely help with long term care for people who need them and it's only a matter of time before we see more come out of it. Of course, this leads to whether you can change the voice and name to JARVIS...

Doubt it'll make much difference, but here are some US sources: https://www.hardocp.com/news/2017/08/16/amd_sampling_different_vega_64_gpus63 https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-radeon-rx-vega-10-chips-differ-physically-and-quite-significantly.html According to a response that HardOCP has on their little blip:

Just as an update, there has been a new driver release that upped the Mining Performance of Vega from 30 MH/s to between 34 and 36 MH/s, which pushes it just beyond the 1080TI in this graph from Hot Hardware: https://hothardware.com/news/amd-radeon-rx-vega-mining-block-chain-ethereum Although I doubt that anyone who actually wants one of these cards will be able to find one with the Mining Craze going on...

Just as a question, how would your local city council be able to actually dictate what the ISP has to do? This is the whole reason for the FCC to exist is to help with regulating and providing the requirements for interstate communication (which seems to be what the Internet is used for as we can see from the diverse locations of people on this forum). If I have any issue with an ISP, I'm supposed to be able to petition the FCC about the misconduct of said ISP and have them hold a hearing as is the case presented in this article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/fcc-seemingly-forgot-about-a-net-neutrality-complaint-filed-against-verizon/

This is the part that I find to be the funniest in all of these Intel/AMD/NVidia threads recently... If I want a pure gaming system with the highest raw performance, then I would go with an Intel/NVidia system. On the other hand, if I want a system that I can do more multi-tasking compute work and gaming on then an AMD CPU with one of the new Vega cards actually looks fairly decent, especially if I like to keep some spare money in the bank...

Here's a link to the TechCrunch article on the launch which includes the YouTube Video of the rocket launch and Stage 1 recovery. Lift-off in the video is around the 13:30 mark.

Just to toss another review out there, Techgage ran Vega 64 through some Workstation/Compute testing... https://techgage.com/article/a-look-at-amds-radeon-rx-vega-64-workstation-compute-performance/ While still power hungry, some of the results on the workstation side appear to be stronger than NVidia cards for a lot cheaper of a price.

I honestly think that part of this experiment is because NASA is running out of places to find 386s to replace any of their existing dead ones on the ISS.

This is for NASAs High Performance Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Computer Systems experiment where they want to '1) run compute and data intensive applications in a changing radiation climate, 2) monitor power consumption and dynamically tune the power consumed, and 3) determine effects of solar radiation on the systems while running.' Here is the link to NASAs experiment page, which also has some computer graphics of what the case looks like: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2304.html#overview They sent up two identical computers and have another two identical ones running on the ground as control computers as a part of the overall experiment.

Looks to me like marginal IPC gains, if any over Kaby Lake with just two more cores... If these scores reflect reality, then there really isn't much reason for me to even consider upgrading from the 6700k any time soon...

Just going to leave this link to some photos of the Vega 64 Liquid Cooled version that I saw on HardOCP... Honestly, I do like the look of the liquid cooled version. https://www.hardocp.com/news/2017/08/11/sapphire_rx_vega_64_liquid_edition_pictured_up_close

Spent 5-minutes on Science Daily and found several other studies that don't appear to concur with this... Playing Action Video Games can boost learning: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141110161036.htm Violent video games found not to affect empathy: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170308081057.htm Video games can change your brain: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170622103824.htm I think the take away is that there is not enough data on any of this to form any kind of solid conclusion...

Purchased a Windows 10 Pro license with a digital signature so I can easily swap it out to a different computer when I upgrade... Hate having to go through upgrade installs and didn't want to have to put up with the 7 to 10 upgrade stuff...

I would stick with one of the upper two x16 slots as those will have guaranteed PCIe lanes to the CPU and the third one gets it's PCIe lanes through the chipset.

NASA is working together with Hewlett-Packard Enterprises (HPE) to launch a 1-teraflop computer to the International Space Station (ISS) to study the effects of space on higher power computers as part of their research into future deep space travel. As it stands the ISS is running on i386 processors and has a lot of support from Ground Control, however, NASA figures the latency from deep space travel will make this current method impractical and those missions will require more powerful computers, potentially with AI, in order to properly maintain the spaceships systems and navigation. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/spacex-is-launching-a-supercomputer-to-the-international-space-station/ Any chance we can get @LinusTech or @Slick to catch a ride on this rocket and provide the first LMG video in SPACE!? Or even maybe just get a hold of NASA and get a tour of their ground based control? Official NASA Experiment Page: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/2304.html#overview

Power draw is one of those things that I think everyone is measuring differently and under different loads... Some measure at the EPS cable, others are measuring wall draw and I think they are using different benchmarks to get the load values... Would be nice if everyone did it consistently though.

Probably one of the more interesting things in any of the articles on this I've read today is from Anandtech when they are discussing reaching out to Intel and AMD on where the 1950X sits competition wise. I'm wondering if Intel may revise their assessment and suggest that the 1950X is more in competition with their upcoming 7960X as being competing 16-core CPUs...

Both PCPer and Anandtech have decent sections in their write-ups concerning the NUMA vs UMA modes, why they exist and the benefits of each mode. PCPer: https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-Threadripper-1950X-and-1920X-Review/NUMA-and-UMA-memory-locality-concer AnandTech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11697/the-amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-and-1920x-review/3

As I've seen chess brought up several times, let's just combine the computer 'sports' and chess and have them compete in Battle Chess... In case no one remembers the original Battle Chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess

That would be the main reason that I would see... The B250 chipset doesn't allow OC-ing of your processor and the VRM doesn't have any form of passive cooling (although without OC-ing that isn't as big of an issue). You are also limited to only 2 DIMMs of RAM on this B250 board and only a single full length PCIe x16 slot (the rest appear to be PCIe x1). I guess one of the questions you may want to ask is what features do you want/need from the Mobo chipset and layout.

Is the ability to overclock the processor important to you? If so, then you need a Z270 board with that processor... Also, what form factor do you want in your case? The B250M is a Micro ATX board and the Z270 is a full size board.