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lawrencep93

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    lawrencep93 reacted to Pomfinator in Wired in-Ear Headphones for Galaxy s7   
    Yes
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    lawrencep93 reacted to Valentyn in Youtube finally has an official dark mode! (and more!)   
    It's fantastic! Takes up the entire width of the window.


     
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    lawrencep93 reacted to tlink in Youtube finally has an official dark mode! (and more!)   
    source: https://www.youtube.com/new
     
    well i don't really know what else to say, they also reworked some design and moved some feature options to the menu at the top right and basically reworked its framework. that top right menu is also where you can activate dark mode. you first have to sign up for the new youtube trough the link i provided as source though. i have been using shitty extensions until now, it finally is here way to late tbh. some screenshots below.




     
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    lawrencep93 reacted to Pomfinator in Wired in-Ear Headphones for Galaxy s7   
    Driver size really doesn't matter in anything except speakers.  Some of the best dynamic IEMs use 8mm drivers.
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    lawrencep93 reacted to Briso in Gigabyte Aero 15 - New thin and light 15" king?   
    So Gigabyte just released their new thin and light flagship 15" laptop and its got some beefy specs...
     
    Specs:
    NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 GDDR5 6GB Graphics Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700HQ (2.80 GHz) X-Rite™ Pantone® Certified Display Ultra-slim 5mm bezel RAM 16 GB DDR4 Memory 512 GB M.2 SATA SSD 15.6" Full HD 1920x1080 WVA High-Res Display 14.00" x 9.80" x Slim 0.78" with weighting in at only 4.62 lbs. 1 x Thunderbolt 3, 1 x Mini DisplayPort1.3, 1 x HDMI2.0 (Up to 4 external display simultaneously) 8K experience with mini-DisplayPort 1.3 Slim 150W adapter with USB charging 94Whr Battery with Long Battery Life up to 10 hours 16.8 million color Island-Style per-key RGB backlight keyboard (macro programmable) Aluminium build $1.9k This laptop is basically taking aim at the XPS 15 and the Razer Blade, and outmatches both in most specs...
     
    https://unlocked.newegg.com/article/review-gigabyte-aero-15-laptop
    https://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2017/05/02/gigabytes-new-aero-15-laptop-takes-aim-at-the-razer-blade/
     
    Perhaps LTT could do a review?...
     
    Thoughts?
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    lawrencep93 got a reaction from 8uhbbhu8 in CPU-Z changes benchmark code (Ryzen suffers)   
    I really want to see some decent premier pro work load orientate bench marks for the CPU's as I think the 1700/1800x is more so going to be used as a multi core workstation alternative to over priced Intel 2011-3 x99 platform
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    lawrencep93 got a reaction from sinkesnnj in CPU-Z changes benchmark code (Ryzen suffers)   
    I really want to see some decent premier pro work load orientate bench marks for the CPU's as I think the 1700/1800x is more so going to be used as a multi core workstation alternative to over priced Intel 2011-3 x99 platform
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    lawrencep93 reacted to dizmo in Wired in-Ear Headphones for Galaxy s7   
    Bass.
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    lawrencep93 reacted to Pomfinator in Wired in-Ear Headphones for Galaxy s7   
    If you can get an ATH-LS50 or LS70 instead, that would be much better.  Better built, has detachable cables, and a much more balanced sound while still keeping a slight V-shape.
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    lawrencep93 reacted to Droidbot in Info on Skylake-X   
    Well, from what we've heard it's an upgrade, but not much - been really, really silent. 
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    lawrencep93 reacted to Droidbot in Info on Skylake-X   
    hah! no. Raid0 for SSDs is super unsafe for any critical data
    Remember - EP and EX architecture is workstation/server, so this won't happen. There needs to be support for literally EVERYTHING on the UEFI. 
    Depends - DDR4 is stable now but X-series have always had issues with higher end memory. I'd say it'll stay the same - the point of this architecture is NOT consumers, it's mostly for Xeon and Xeon-WS (big business)
    Die size I hope they do something with, that's a bloody good point. 
     
    IMHO Keep X79. Drop in a Xeon E5-2670v1 or v2, and you're golden. They're like $70 used on eBay for 8 physical cores and ECC support. 
     
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    lawrencep93 reacted to AnonymousGuy in Info on Skylake-X   
    There isn't going to be a 4Ghz 6 core Skylake-E part. 
     
    2 4 core Kaby Lake X parts
    6,8,10,12 core Skylake based X parts.
     
    All on the 2066 socket that's inevitably going to be more expensive than Z270, all support 4 channel DDR4 except KBL-X.
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    lawrencep93 reacted to AnonymousGuy in The quest for 24x7 5.5ghz: one man's descent into a world of sex, drugs, and madness (in that order).   
    3/21 Status update:
     
    I've spent the past few days working on getting the chip stable at 77F water, which is where it's actually going to live 24/7.  Of course I *can* run chilled water 24/7 but especially during summer electricity pricing the rent is too damn high!
     
    The chip seems happy (passing 8 hours of RB stress test) at:
    5.3 Ghz, 1.45V (1.464V with LLC) vcore.  Auto for the other voltages (IO 0.95V, SA 1.05V) Max temperature: 76C during RealBench 5.0 Ghz uncore 4133 Memory 18-19-19-39, but there's some benchmarking discrepancies going on so I need to verify that it isn't pulling secondary timings way down to make it stable on boot.  
    The Gigabyte board has been really good at recovering itself from failed overclocks.  It sometimes will shit itself and completely forget all the profiles I saved if it fails hard, but complete system shutdown + restart gets it back.
     
    Next up I need to test whether the backside waterblock actually does anything or not, as well as replacing a barb that isn't sealing well to the block (EK, in their usual sucking-a-dick fashion didn't tap the threads on the VRM waterblock all the way through).  I also need to try dialing the vcore back a tiny bit (it crashes at 1.425 and passes at 1.45, so the limit is somewhere between there)
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    lawrencep93 got a reaction from DrMikeNZ in House multiple (50) PCs in one case   
    If you need to browse to bookies through a web browser then I would make a raspberry pi cluster.
     

     
    And you can install linux on each one, need minimal cooling, total cost will be around 3-4k need a few fans and a switch to plug all the lan cables in or you can use wifi but I see issues arising having 50 connections to a cheap wifi router.
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    lawrencep93 reacted to BloodyWaters in House multiple (50) PCs in one case   
    A raspberry Pi cluster is a bunch of $35 mini computers, each with enough power to do basic web-browsing. There are hundreds of how-to videos on YouTube to show you how to do it. It probably be cheaper than getting 50 PCs or an extreme virtualization PC. 
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    lawrencep93 reacted to cc143 in Selling out on Nikon and going Sony?   
    Well then don't buy an a7sii! 
     
    Go with the a6500, low light is not as good but certainly better than your d7000 and get a cheap manual adapter for you nikon glass. Maybe buy a native multipurpose or ultrawide with the money you are saving from not going with the a7sii.
     
    And tbh, you seem to be invested quite well in the nikon system. The a7sii is in some ways superior to the d500 or d7500, which may be closer to your budget, but that doesn't mean you should just go with it. The glass you have seems fine, the 1.5 crop for stills is ok given your glass and the additional crop for 4k on the d500 and d7500 shouldn't be that big a concern provided you can get the desired FOV.
     
    Sony lacks tremendously in the glass department and aren't that good imo. They do provide features which Canon and Nikon don't but that doesn't mean you should spend quite a lot of money to just jump ship. 
     
    Also, the a7sii doesn't come with a kit lens if I'm not mistaken, lenses on the Sony side are quite expensive and your gear wont fetch enough on the used market to cover the cost of the a7sii (even half of it) + 2 lenses. 
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