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Hello, about three years ago I ordered PSU cable sleeving supplies from this website. I had a positive experience since everything went well. However, last october (!) I ordered some more supplies (in order to custom sleeve a third GPU cable for a possible upgrade to RTX 3000 series), but I am still waiting my order to be fullfilled. I never received any shipment confirmation. If I use the "Track Your Order" function on the website the status of my order is "Awaiting Fullfillment"; I tried to contact them, both with the contact form on the website and directly with an email, but I never received any answer. Despite this, the vendor seems to be still active (e.g. they now have a summer sale 10% off for this week advertised on their homepage). I am looking for someone who had a recent experience with them / someone who is in the same situation as myself / someone who knows a way to contact them Thanks

Bottom line more or less same/comparable performance in traditional rendering, but with $50 more for the 3080 over the 6800XT you get -Better Ray Tracing -DLSS 2.0 -Overall better performance in non-gaming task For the moment I would still go with nVidia if you ask me, this sums it up pretty nicely: Credit to Optimum Tech's video. Curious to see how the platform will evolve in the future for gaming, especially considering that both new consoles have an AMD card.

Looking for reccomandation - ideas. In the market for a Laptop under $700, but feel free to push up to $1000 if the idea of having it on sale at Black Friday is realistic (e.g. likely laptops with Ice Lake or Zen+ CPU). Laptop will be used only for web browsing, mail, word, excel. No apple and no tablets / hybrid products. Therefore, pretty much any hardware will fit, but priority is on buid quality. Size anywere from 13 to 15, although 15 with numpad would be preferred. I am tempted to go for the Huawei Matebook D15 series, they are quite cheap and they get very good reviews in terms of build quality. Perhaps it would have been an instant buy but I just don't get why would they leave the numpad out of a 15.6" laptop (when they have 13" and 14" models as well), so looking around for something else. Asus Vivobook looks competitive. I also like Lenovo a lot on my experience but they have such a jungle of products that is hard to choose. What about Acer Swift 3? Lot of offers on these at the moment. Anyone got experience with these products?

Unboxing and quick test on ShortCircuit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfS8afbILm8

To be honest I am both super excited and super skeptical about these products and I am looking forward to see actual reviews and performance test. For the moment it just seems "too good to be true". I am not saying that these results are technically impossible to achieve; It just feels reasonable to think that if you would really have something that is SO MUCH better (in any way!) than the what your competitors have you would either sell it for a much higher price (new MB Air is $999 while 5950X alone is $799..) or cut it down and save performance gain steps for future releases.

This means that Razer has now 5 (!) different models on their 13" lineup and despite this it feels like every version is somehow a compromise. I really like Razer because they build using aluminium, I own a Blade Stealth myself, but to me this is really nonsense and at this point it would have been much better to just have a laptop configurator, especially considering that the RAM is soldered to the mainboard and therefore not upgradable for all these models! To sum up (without considering "older" 10th-gen Intel CPU models still on sale at a discounted price by Razer) Book 13 -i5-1135G7, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, FHD 60Hz, $1'199 -i7-1165G7, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, FHD 60Hz Touch, $1'599 -i7-1165G7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, 4K 60Hz Touch, $1'999 Blade Stealth 13 -i7-1165G7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, GTX 1650 Ti, FHD 120Hz, $1'799 -i7-1165G7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, GTX 1650 Ti, FHD 60Hz OLED Touch, $1'999 Differences i can spot so far The Razer Book has a 16:10 screen that looks way better than the 16:9 with huge lower bezel found of the Blade Stealth, but the two version of the Stealth offer either a 60Hz OLED panel or a 120Hz. Both panels from the Blade Stealth are really good in color accuracy, especially the OLED one is great, while Razer is not advertising yet the specs of the new panels (since the size is different it is possible/likely that the manufacturer has changed). The Razer Book also has 4K display option, it was previously available for the Blade Stealth but it was removed from the lineup with the late 2020 update (the update which added the 11th-gen intel Chips). In my opinion a 4K display is overkill on a 13" laptop and with that screen size you get more disadvantages (cost but especially battery drain) than advantages (good image quality/sharpness). The Blade Stealth has a GTX 1650 Ti while the Book has no discrete GPU. The Razer Book has a HDMI 2.0 port and an SD card reader on the right side, where the Blade Stealth has an additional USB Type-A port. I don't know if this is possible because the Book has no discrete GPU and therefore more room to fit these components, but assuming it's a quality (fast) one, the SD reader is a great addition. The color of the finish is different and that is subjective; personally I prefer the black from the Blade Stealth, the "mercury" grey from the Book is fine but I think the white keycaps are horrible, it would be better to have black ones that would also match the screen bezel color. Anyway I believe they switched to mercury finish also to address the fingerprint "issues" of the black finish.

Here is de8auer's video, (as usual) one of the most interesting in my opinion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEFQxsgZ20

Nice catch, interesting. I actually remember that Linus said in a recent video that he wanted to do some "home tips videos", I may be wrong but I think it was the video about him installing the Ubiquiti cameras on his house.

Developing and training such networks to make sure they are able to produce reliable result is complex and expensive. In addition to this, you need specific hardware (this is not necessarily expensive) on the end user side to achieve this kind of real time AI upscaling. This is why you don't get it advertised by (say) Netflix. Moreover, they rather invest their money in content creation than in upscaling technologies because for most users the (amount of) entertainment content matters more than the resolution - and anyway ISP in most countries already provide enough bandwidth to deliver high res content (given the compression they use). Finally, they could rely on hardware manufacturer to upscale the content for them. In contrary, hardware manufacturer are quite a lot into that. nVidia Shield is using AI upscaling to go on their latest device, they can upscale 720p/1080p to 4K at 30fps in real time. Samsung developed a comparable technology (MLSR) to upscale content for their new 8K TV lineup, LG and Sony are on board as well. And this is just a small percentage of the applications that are based on deep neural networks. Most of those company have large resources that can be browsed to understand their researches, if you are interested on it. A sample AI-based upscaling software (which therefore takes ages to render) that you can investigate and try is Gigapixel AI by Topaz. They upscaled old movies with that with good results.

"Moving 3D graphics that are far more complex and even have 3rd axis" that you see while gaming are a series of rendered images (-> frames) With DLSS 2.0 the shaders in RTX cards are free to render those images at a (aliased) lower resolution (i.e. 720p to target 1080p, therefore more frames produced in the same amount of time). Meanwhile the card's tensor cores are then used to upscale the image using an AI convolutional encoder in real time. They don't make "details out of thin air", they have an exhaustively trained deep neural network that learns by comparing the results of it's processing to high quality 16K reference images. I suggest to not underestimate AI and address it like it is something that "it is impossible and will never exist" because a lot of companies (including nVidia) have already understood AI potential and are shifting their focus and resources towards that.

The videos from Roman are always original and super interesting, he is one of my favourite content creators at the moment. That said I think in the end is actually a pretty sketchy solution, if the goal is to have a second system for video capturing and streaming then I think it would be better to get a two-system case. In this configuration the NUC does not have a PCIe slot for capture cards so you are forced to use either USB or Thunderbolt (unless using an M.2 adapter, not sure if it is possible tho), there are no chances to upgrade or swap parts since the CPU is soldered to the mainboard, and I am also pretty sure that you can build a (way?) better and cheaper ITX based system.

I have the X27 (and tested the PG27UQ) and I find that the difference compared to HDR400 and even HDR600 monitors is huge. I bought this monitor because I play 4K HDR games at maxed out settings using 98Hz refresh rate with G-SYNC. In my opinion this is the use case that makes these monitor "worthy" (to be clear it is still a crazy, hard to justify purchase), because at the moment you can only accomplish this using one of these two monitors. That being said, there is not an incredible amount of (gaming) HDR content yet and if you are looking for 4K high refresh rate it's probably better to sacrifice HDR certifications and get something with a lower response time.

Desk Right Left And yes the headphone cable is not long enough.

You could use that but you need to cut away the unused pin for each header. There are Addressable RGB splitters with 3-pin header on sale, EKWB makes one but is for 6 devices which may result in a cable mess, this one for Cooler Master is for 3 devices https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07HQBCX9L/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_3J86Eb4Z2SZ8H EDIT: BTW I believe you should check if you can daisy-chain the ARGB header of the fans (I am not sure)

Have a look at Rosewill, the RSV-R4000 or RSV-L4000.

Yes, it it supposed to work that way.

Is the SSD visible in the BIOS?

This board looks astonishing to be honest Gigabyte B550 Vision D

To my knowledge -Your CPU supports only dual channel memory. -There are no Z370/Z390 mATX motherboards with Thunderbolt 3 included. Some boards in this form factor (mainly from Gigabyte) have Thunderbolt 3 support for a PCIe card but then lacks either SLI support or the required PCIe slots. -The Gigabyte Z390 Designare is the only board that comes with included Thunderbolt 3 and 2-way SLI support. It your case it would be super convenient because it also has WiFi and Bluetooth and also has a front panel USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C header in case your case is equipped with that. -Thunderbold 3 PCIe cards are compatible only with specific motherboards since the board need to have a TB header. -You should look into the different Thunderbold 3 PCIe card from motherboard manufacturer (ASUS ThunderboltEX 3, ASRock Thunderbolt 3 AIC, Gigabyte GC-Alpine Ridge or Titan Ridge) and compare the listed compatible motherboard models to see if you can find a board that you prefer

(I have the same PSU). The continuous output rated temperature is 50C so there is basically nothing to worry about, and by looking at my measurement I found out that the default Zero-RPM Fan Mode (beware it's possible to change the fan configuration using Corsair Link) is well calibrated to keep the PSU around that value. According to the specification/manual the fan will start to spin only once the power output is greater than 300W. According to my measurements this is true only to some extent and is where you get confused because -I am not sure if the power threshold that triggers the fan activation is based on the +12W rail power draw alone or on the PSU sum draw. -The value seems to be a bit higher (more like towards 350-400W).

The SSD will work on your motherboard. M2_1 is connected directly to the CPU while M2_2 is connected to the X570 chipset, but I never saw any performance difference between the two slots (there was significant degradation in X470 due to the fact that the chipset was distributing only PCIe 2.0 x4 lanes). PCIe is backward compatible - a PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD will work in a PCIe 4.0 slot (the opposite is also true meaning you could use a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD in a PCIe 3.0 M2 slot - of course that would make no sense since you will be limiting its bandwidth). In my opinion it makes no sense to partition a solid state drive if not purely for organizational purposes - in which case partitioning will not hurt anything anyway, so do as you wish.

Put the socket cover on and then throw it in the dishwasher (without adding soap/detergent)

Yeah would be ideal but I am not sure about that, for the moment it looks like "X570 is one year old and B550 is the new thing". B550 will hopefully drop in prixes after some time.

Today at 1300 UTC the embargo regarding B550 was lifted. The motherboards are officially on sale (even if most of them does not appear te be on stock at major retailers right now) and we already have the first VRM cooling measurement. Sources: -der8auer's video featuring two ASUS boards. -Hardware Unboxed video featuring two Gigabyte and two MSI boards. -Linus' video for additional knowledge Screens My take Despite Asrock is missing from these videos (and that is significant after they fiasco from the first Z490 tests - but it seems their boards will be released on june 19th) it seems that manufacturer are taking VRM very seriously - perhaps because it is what gets constantly more "benchmarked" nowadays and what the community is looking into but also maybe because seeing recent power and cooling requirements It is nice to have B550 boards performing very nice since most of the boards will still cheaper than X570 (at the price of dropping PCIe 4.0 from the chipset and therefore some I/O flexibility) which for most part was incredibily expensive (our most recommended board was the X570 TUF which offered good value and VRM comparable to boards that were much more expensive - now there are many possibilities to compete with that board.). At the same time B550 are getting quite expensive especially compared to what B450 was (perhaps because the chipset and the VRM are much better and expensive), a pity considering that they should be targeting "budget" builds. For example the most expensive B450 board from the ASUS ROG Strix series was the B450-E priced at approximately $180 while now the least expensive board from the same series is the B550-F priced at approximately $190, with the "equivalent" B550-E now priced at approximately $280. Is a bit of a headache to understand where the market is going since X570 is still technically superior but on the other hand B550 was released so late is also getting a bit expensive and for example ASrock is launching the B550 Taichi.

There are a few things to take into account. The performance are very similar, in a few games the RX 5700 XT performs even better than the RTX 2070 Super and, if you ask me, for a $1,000 build I find it very hard to justify the additional $100 needed for an average performance increase of less than 10% - probably is better to spend that money elsewhere. That said, the RTX 2070 Super offers RTX and is up to you to decide if it's worth it and if you need it (this essentially depends on which games you play). It also offers DLSS; version 2.0 gives massive performance improvement but it was released just a few months ago and is currently implemented only in four games. You should also take into account that new nVidia GPUs are rumoured to be released in the upcoming months. You can find many benchmarks around and for simplicity I would recommend you this recent video from Hardware Unboxed