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  1. I did a case sidegrade to the MetallicGear Neo Mini V2 to support a kinda-bad-value-and-not-worth-it GTX 1070 -> RTX 2070 upgrade. At least the card itself was only $355 (after tax/shipping; manufacturer refurb) and I netted $165 on the GTX 1070 flip on eBay. Also added a couple of Noctua NH-P14s redux PWM fans, and an Intel 660P 2TB NVMe (PCIe) SSD because it was like $180 and I couldn't resist. ?
  2. I work at corporate (headquarters) for a Fortune 100 retailer. Everybody in tech gets MacBook Pros, generally the 15". It's not always quite the latest version, but usually that but lagged a bit. In 2018 a bit after the refresh I got the 2017 model with the integrated Intel HD 630, but I know people with 2019 models right now, even with the Core i9. Other users get Dell Windows laptops, some Latitudes mostly I think. Though I've seen some with a very small bezel that was maybe an XPS 13 or something. I don't really pay attention to it. Most things I run that are relatively intensive would be in the cloud, though, or on-premises servers and clusters. The MBP is I guess useful for having a decent screen, webcam, and audio, which we actually use a lot given that other members of the team and other teams work in other offices.
  3. Most files people interact with, like documents, have no need to be nearly so large, and their size hasn't been growing in the last decade or so. There's no need for music to be gigabytes large per file. Configuration files, other things that are basically text don't get bigger. It's not that there can't be TB and let's say PB "files" (raw data for databases get chunked into smaller pieces than that), but many files you measure in KBs or low MBs will still be around. It's basically high-res image (video) type data that is large, plus digital and other transaction / IoT records that take large amounts of space and will keep scaling up. Not everything will.
  4. Electronic engineering is a discipline of electrical engineering. Computer engineering overlaps with electrical engineering but not as much with electronic engineering. You can think of computer engineering as maybe something in between and drawing from electrical engineering and computer science, focusing more on computers / computer systems / digital design compared to EE and more on hardware and systems compared to CS. Electronic engineering is about analog and digital circuits (arrangements resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors, and so on), power delivery or signaling on boards, digital logic, etc. Computer engineering contains a lot of areas like signal processing, computer networks, processor architecture, compute, integrated circuits, digital communications, cryptography, computer vision and robotics control, and so on. Many schools have electrical and computer engineering combined in one department, and others electrical engineering through computer science in a department.
  5. That's not going to happen if they're not in the area. It's maybe possible to get a line added to your place if they're servicing the area but not your specific location (and are close by). But why does it need to be Comcast specifically, and not Cox or CenturyLink or whatever other ISPs are in whichever part of the Vegas area you're referencing?
  6. I work in the tech department for a large retailer (Fortune 100) as a data scientist. We build production applications for different parts of the business that leverage machine learning to improve upon their processes (greater automation, accuracy, new features). Mostly that means writing code for back-end work, database and data manipulation, understanding business problems and data sources, exploring data, and modeling. In terms of time spent, it's mostly the data prep and backend stuff rather than the data analysis and modeling, which is pretty common.
  7. Sure, even if you want to spend the money, it's likely better off upgrading peripherals, displays, audio, or anything else about the setup.
  8. Powered or not? Is this for a desk setup, living room, or what? Do you have a receiver or other speaker amp, subwoofer, or anything like that? There are some decent powered studio monitors for that price, like a pair of JBL 305P MKII.
  9. There's a decently wide range of performance seen across monitors using IPS (and PLS and similar) and especially VA and TN based on the electronics, processing, bit depth, backlighting, QC, etc. Never mind between general consumer monitors and some niche, very expensive professional monitors, or let's say TVs. Most of the VA in monitors these days seem to have different characteristics than those we saw more commonly 5+ years ago, frequently with worse contrast but better viewing angles. Also some differences in black crush The response times are still a weakness, but the VA panels with relatively poor contrast are significantly better than the TN and IPS panels in this regard. With the push into HDR delivery, VA makes sense given the targets for contrast ratios, even if there are sacrifices there. By the way, response times are not uniform across different pixel colors. With VA what's absolutely horrible is black -> dark grayish colors. Other response times are more in line with IPS (worse than TN) usually though of course everything depends on the specific panel and a lot about the overdrive implementation. With IPS there's the frequent issue of IPS glow especially when quality control is not perfect for a given sample. Manufacturers may be concerned about potential returns from dissatisfied customers of IPS models getting an average or poor sample. For general-purpose content consumption, VA can be a decent compromise. Certain gamers and image/video-related content creators should look elsewhere.
  10. Technically lossless h.264 encoding is possible, but yes. Practically speaking, the MPEG-2 encoding already has nontrivial quality loss, and some more on top of that can be negligible. Also, past a certain point, really, the quality of the deinterlacing is a bigger deal than some really small deviations from source from the encoding.
  11. It really depends on the fans and the heatsink, fan speed used, and so on. Pressure optimized fans won't necessarily be better. Some heatsinks would work better with say a Corsair AF series over a SP series. Especially when the fin spacing is relatively wide and the stacks not too thick, there's not really as much restriction as you might think, and the fans won't be operating that far down the P-Q curve where a pressure optimized fan with worse performance in free air would pull ahead. Eyeballing it, the Ereboss is not particularly dense, but it definitely doesn't have notably wide spacing either. The Ereboss comes with a slim 140 mm fan with mediocre static pressure, for what it's worth. But based on the design you don't want something with terrible static pressure, I'm sure. I'm not sure which fans fit on the Ereboss, though. The mounting mechanism may or may not work with 25 mm thickness (standard) fans. I don't know offhand.
  12. Not IC Diamond or something else that's abrasive, when working with a bare die like on a graphics card. If you want to spend for it, Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut I guess. Hydronaut is just slightly worse but cheaper and easier to spread, so that may be better. Otherwise, whatever something cheap you can kind like Arctic MX-4, Arctic Silver 5, Noctua NT-H1, etc.that is plentiful and popular.
  13. Should be fine in terms of load, below 240W with some decent margin. Chicony/Hipro is a big OEM and I wouldn't exactly freak out.
  14. 4U would be 178 mm spacing, but that includes the panels, spacing between the bottom and the motherboard, the motherboard, etc. I'm certain the NH-D15 would not fit. Some of the shortest 120 mm fan tower coolers include the Thermalright True Spirit 120M and the Cryorig H7, which are 145 mm tall. I think that would fit but am not sure. It may depend on the exact 4U unit.
  15. Silent Wings 3 is pretty good, though not as good acoustically as you might expect given the company. If you can get this actual price, the Corsair ML140 is a bit better, and there's a listing for a reasonable price on a twin pack at wootware: https://www.wootware.co.za/corsair-co-9050044-ww-ml140-140mm-pwm-premium-magnetic-levitation-fan-twin-pack.html
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