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There are capacitors and there are capacitors. There was a time a while back a lot of motherboards died from swollen caps that leaked because of cost cutting. Capacitors from 1980 and capacitors now are very different things. And cheap chinesium caps and nippon-chemicon caps are also very different beasts.
 
I've had lots of hardware suffer from this that has needed capacitor surgery to get working again. Just because you haven't experienced it doesnt mean its not a problem at large. Their advice is sound, old G hardware from the last decade which most likely hasnt seen a firmware update in almost as long is objectively crap hardware. It can still work to some standard (up to you whether thats good enough), but objectively, for most people inthe space it is crap.

This is next level scary. Please never do this.
 
Would you trust using windows 2000 or XP for your daily needs not having updated in 7-15 years? Probably not. And thats a platform with lots of interest from security researches and a lot of exposure. Router <x> from <y> from 15 years ago is not at all under the same scrutiny.

Most embedded routing hardware is indeed pretty 'crap', compared to whats out there and what more network people are used to. Keep in mind for them, gigabit speeds have been around since the turn of the millenium, so anything boasting gigabit speed is pretty uninspiring.
 
Embedded hardware is usually full of OEM quirks, pretty slow and have significant ROM and RAM limitations. Are the specs *good enough* for pushing gigabit over copper and most common internet speeds over wifi? Absolutely.
 
Consumer routers have a very very huge propblem when it comes to firmware however. Everything is dumbed down and simplified to the point of breaking specifications and causing significant performance problems. Consequently, a lot of options and control is removed from these routers, and trying to use anything that isnt 'default' can often result in significant bugs. And thats before you consider security. If you're running a home-brand router for more than 2 years, theres almost definite odds youre vulnerable. And in pretty bad ways too. Theres no shortage of news on these security problems, but manufacturers are still very reluctant to fix their devices - let alone actually support them with software.
 
Now if you go and install OpenWRT/LEDE/dd-wrt/tomato/whatever you can get a reasonable router considering the cost. Problem is that these projects are often very WIP and in a constant state of flux, with fixes and issues being resolved all the time - so yes, unless you have yesterdays build, it is probably 'crap' in that its at best a hairs breadth away from not working correctly (for a lot of hardware).

This is next level scary. Please never do this.
 
Would you trust using windows 2000 or XP for your daily needs not having updated in 7-15 years? Probably not. And thats a platform with lots of interest from security researches and a lot of exposure. Router <x> from <y> from 15 years ago is not at all under the same scrutiny.

I believe that half the bashing is coming from nVidia failing to deliver on the Raytracing compute power they marketed the cards for (known as false advertising, something that is illegal both in Canada and the EU) with the other half of bashing because the cards really aren't delivering much more performance for the money over the previous generation cards.
 
Don't get me wrong - top tier cards are indeed capable of top tier performance, but the price to performance curve drops off as soon as you hit top tier card land, making a second tier card (1070 Ti or 2070 Ti) a much better value for 4K, and a third tier card (1060 / Ti 6GB or 2060 / Ti) a better value for 1440p60 or 1080p120/144 gaming. Plus, in Canada, retailers often fail to sell computer hardware anywhere close to MSRP, resulting in artificially inflated pricing.

If I recall correctly, in previous years the new cards would be priced right around the msrp that the previous cards started at, then the previous cards would drop down a bit lower in cost before they get phased out.  Now they're priced even higher with the current cards barely budging in price.  And they're shipping without being able to use all the advertised features at launch (RTX). 

America != western countries.
 
We've had decades of more computing per unit cost, and thats what has made the entire field work as it has. If we still paid something like $500 forr pentium 2 amounts of performance, computing in general would not be where it is today and games, applications, the internet etc would not exist as they do period. nVidia is squeezing everyone for more money because they know that cash grabs will work on people who will buy their products no matter what it costs because of status or their own internal preferences (read: fanboy).
 
For once a lot of the media and youtube is on the ball and calling this BS out, but tbh I don't think itll amount to much but that could just be the pessimist in me showing.

this was a vote for what should be brought forth to the negotiation table for a new bill to pass, this isnt law. not even close. im no expert but thats what i have gathered so far.

Please let this lead to more angry Linus

Please let this lead to more angry Linus

Please let this lead to more angry Linus

Please let this lead to more angry Linus

Source: https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3330-gt-1030-ddr4-vs-gt-1030-gddr5-benchmark-worst-graphics-card-2018
 
Remember GT 1030 2GB with GDDR5?
NVIDIA recently released their new GT 1030 2GB but with DDR4 this time.
 
Why? Well, for $10 less it comes with a huge middle finger in the box.
 



 

 


 
Check the article or video for more benchmarks.
 
 
 
I don't know what is NVIDIA doing but imo, they are going way overboard with this. This is lying to a consumer, there is absolutely no reason why this card should be called GT 1030 when the card with the same name manages only 50% of the performance at best vs the original one.
I really hope that NVIDIA will not get away with this otherwise I fear what they will dare to do in the future.
 
Don't forget that they started their shenanigans way back with the GTX 970 and then with 1060.
 

It'll be nice to see the downloads to Floatplane Club renamed to the actual title instead of the resolution you're using, for instance, if I want to download a lot of videos in one go, I'll have to go back and manually edit all the titles in my download folder to the titles which are really a big inconvenience. 

Do you care about driver open-ness in the slightest? If not probably an nvidia card. If you want an open driver for 2D stuff, just use the intel integrated stuff they have these days. If you like having open drivers and all the benefits that brings, get a GCN 1.0 or 1.1 based ATI/AMD card.
 
From what I've seen all three can have the odd hiccup, and theres an argument to be made that nvidia hurts the community some with their driver/blob policy. For gaming though they are probably going to offer the best end user experience. AMD cards just dont have the same performance as comparable nvidia cards because of drivers but will run circles around the intel graphics. Intel graphics are solid, but pretty slow for most modern games.

In which case the AMD recommendations arent far off the mark. Performance is good, just not excellent like the nvidia driver, the amdgpu/radeonsi drivers have modern GL nowadays and are open. Running them daily here they are very solid and reliability is good with one minor caveat: Audio over HDMI can be hit and miss because DC/DAL is still waiting to be mainlined in the kernel so if thats important you'll want to use the optional hybrid AMDGPU-PRO stack. An intel card is fully open but you'll pay the price in performance. I'm pretty sure they'd handle 4k/60f video but I dont know how much of that would be dependent on a good CPU.

FWIW: As far as I have seen, the HMDI audio thing is only relevant on GCN1.2 and later. A GCN1.0/1.1 card like my old 7770 is 100% solid out of the box. Likewise for my even older 5xxx series card.

Mostly anecdotal but IMHO, stability for gamers past a 'it runs well enough for a good while' level is fine. At worst, a slightly unstable system will occasionally crash in game and make you lose progress or nearly crash and cause glitching. In recent years, that become the industry standard criteria for releasing games so sometimes I dont even know if its my system or a buggy game.
 
For work though, I can't afford to lose 5-10 days of computation because a crash messed up some massive simulation. There, I'll take a 5-10% slowdown instead of a 5-10% chance of around doubling the time it takes to complete. And then theres the minor issue of what if an unstable system didnt crash my workload but caused an error in one of the values that has propagated and screwed everything down the line? I either have to risk making some very expensive decisions on bad data, come to the wrong conclusion in a paper, or run multiple times, hence negating the small performance gain.
 
In games though, consequences of a crash are minor, if annoying, and 5-10% more fps can make a sizeable difference to the experience.

It is indeed. I never run more than a very mild OC on my home machine for just this reason, I often run various bits of code while doing other stuff. The few % extra is welcome in the odd game, but if its a majorly important bit of maths, its run on the non-OC home server, I hit the BIOS up and return to stock speeds.
 
Thats usually only what happens when I have an impending deadline and 'just-plenty-enough'(tm) time. My uni machine is dual opterons, as are all the 1U servers in the server closet for when I need to do looooots of maths (they are loud AF). Xeons are generally faar to expensive for students to pickup, whereas a 8 opteron cores, and 16GB of ECC DDR2 ram, the chassis and everything is often around the £40 mark.
 
Only downside is booting them up one at a time to avoid tripping the 13 amp breaker they're on... And they can't run in summer because with the door open, it gets above 40C indoors and they all shutdown >.>

Okay so this a plain door and by plain I mean like *plaaaain*. So no detail, no holes, hinges, handles or anything. Its pretty much just a slab of wood *stuff* (wood frame and panels filled with what appears to be some fire-retardant wood-material like stuff). Exhibit A: http://www.diy.com/departments/flush-ply-veneer-internal-unglazed-door-h1981mm-w762mm/42692_BQ.prd
 
Not the exact one I got since I had just moved in and needed a door so I popped down to the local wickes and found this one on sale but it gives you an idea of what you can find.

Now I dont normally comment on stuff outside of the odd floatplane thing... But this made me curious if anyone does what I do for a desk, especially since I do all kinds of stuff on my desk - like stuff that might catch fire all kinds of stuff and heavy stuff.
 
So my "desk" is actually a cheap, plain wood fire door (not the super thick ones), they're <£30 at times from wickes/B&Q in the UK. Prop that up on a filing cabinet (one of the 3 door ones) or one of the ikea desk things (the alex(?) is actually pretty sturdy for the hate ikea stuff gets) and on the other side I have a truss type thing that holds my tower made from a bunch of screws and some cheap wood I bought along with the door.
 
Result: 180x60cm of fireproof, solid, plain wood surface (that can be sanded is you ever mess up with epoxy or whatever) that has drawers and space to hold my machine for under £50 (I had the filing cabinet).
 
Of course, given that much space its a total mess so no pictures, but its a door on a wood frame type thing and a filing cabinet so...

I bought some plywood and had my carpenter cut it for me, my setup looks like this:
 

Side note on using a door: Check if you want one thats hollow or has an internal frame. Hollow is obviously less strong, but should usually be fine for actual normal desk stuff. Just had a skim on that link and its a hollow door so theres that. For what its worth, mine is 1.8-2m tall, is not framed and only has some MDF type stuff inside and I can stand on it (I weigh about 80kg) provided I dont have all my weight in the middle. Though I don't test it too often given my machine is under it and my screens and things on top. But whenever I need to get a spider/change a bulb I have no reservations standing near the ends instead of getting the stepladder (lazy)