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    Essence_of_Darkness got a reaction from ErrystioT in What's your 'sweet spot' for ultrabooks   
    For $700-$800 - Link
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to Hiya! in Need help on improving sound quality on college PC (earphones)   
    Set the EQ to flat or play around with it. U do know how sounds work right?
    Or buy external dac.
     
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to Sfekke in Bios and HWMonitor show different voltages   
    Probably the BIOS.
    It might be lower in Windows and HWMonitor reporting if Intel speedstep is enabled.
    Try HWiNFO and see what results that brings you.
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to bomberblyat in Bios and HWMonitor show different voltages   
    id trust more bios since its part of hardware
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to porina in Intel Optane Memory   
    You can run the module as a rather small SSD in any mobo with M.2 slot. If you want to use it for cacheing capability, of course the Intel solution will not work, but 3rd party ones might.
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to crimsoncodr in Needing Recommendations on a Entry Level Gaming Build for my 10 year old son, who is interested in building a PC.   
    Wow, everyone here is just awesome!  Thank you so much for all the recommendations.  I told my son after school today that we had the basic system configuration and we are about to start ordering parts (probably still going to make that trip to Virginia just for fun).  It would be an understatement to say he is excited.  I have bumped up the budget a bit to make RGB a little easier.  I will definitely be taking pictures as he builds and post the finished product giving credit where credit is due, you all! 
     
    Thank you again, I appreciate it and hope over time I can return the favor to others.
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to Theguywhobea in VM is REALLY slow   
    I find VirtualBox is generally pretty slow at running any virtual machine. Try using VMware Player. The full version of VMware Workstation costs money but you can get the basic version for free.
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to GDRRiley in Xeon E3 line to be renamed to "Xeon Entry" (Coffee Lake)   
    Wtf is up with this naming change. You don't need to change the name every gen intel 
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to 2FA in Xeon E3 line to be renamed to "Xeon Entry" (Coffee Lake)   
    Sooooo RIP bronze, silver, gold, and platinum? I don't even understand their branding anymore.
     
    EDIT: Okay so the metals remain but why different naming schemes within Xeon?
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to NemesisX in [$500]Suggestion For Upgrading My PC / Making A New RIG   
    Sure i will do that rn and will tell you that
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to Matt_98 in Some one make a dual socket motherboard   
    pretty much impossible the different architectures wouldn't play well together not to mention the windows issues
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to Lean18 in Flashing AMI BIOS onto MB which has Award BIOS   
    Actually yeah, that might explain it. TL:DR - If you want your board to suffer and then die, rather than just let it die, its the way to go.
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    Essence_of_Darkness got a reaction from benchmarker in Recommended water Cooler for i7 8700K OC   
    AIO : Corsair H100i v2
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to phongle123 in Delidding i7 8700k   
    Yes, allows more OC headroom as well as MUCH lower temps.
    Yes, anything can go wrong. But low chance if you're using the right tools.
    Liquid metal
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to Sakkura in Can you Overclock an RX 570 4GB to match an RX 580 8GB?   
    You can overclock it to match a stock 580. But then you could overclock the 580 beyond that, so the performance gap remains.
     
    VRAM does not really factor into this.
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    Essence_of_Darkness got a reaction from FSKeith in what video card should i get for my pc   
    1060 for ultra on 1080p 60-120 hz, 1070 for ultra on 1080p 144-240 hz
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    Essence_of_Darkness got a reaction from FSKeith in what video card should i get for my pc   
    Idk whats the point to throw money at 1080 ti cause its overkill for that monitor resolution. Even GTX 1080 is overkill for that resolution.
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    Essence_of_Darkness got a reaction from FSKeith in what video card should i get for my pc   
    If you want to stay 1080p 144 hz then GTX 1070, if you want to upgrade later 1440p 144 hz or 4k then GTX 1080 Ti roles in.
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to Princess Luna in what video card should i get for my pc   
    Because it is 180hz that is a crazy high refresh rate, some people prefer the high fps for "smoother more natural feeling" gameplay, unlike me who prefers image quality .
     
    Also I am basing myself off OP playing Triple A at ultras and such since the rest of his system is actually very capable.
     
    Also I do think that replace his display for something beefier would be easier than replace GPU should he get something like that 1070.
     
    Cheers.
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    Essence_of_Darkness got a reaction from 3 Lions in Upgrade? my build?   
    i7 4790 used from ebay.
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to MysticalGnome in How fast is the LTT member's internet connection?   
    FTTH so got nothing to complain about I guess.

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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to Jonathan Harder in How fast is the LTT member's internet connection?   
    Just upgraded from 100/20 to 1000/500
     

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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to DefinitelyTech in A ~$500 All New Budget Build   
    I would agree but with the TG case, which was honestly my biggest want in this build, so I went with a aesthetically pleasing cooler. Also, It is one of the best down blowing out there.
     
    Motherboard was not included either.
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to EPPHO in Older AMD CPUS over new ones?   
    I would rather pick n used 3770K system with proper motherboard and overclock the shit out of it and get better performance than both of these AMD CPUs would
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    Essence_of_Darkness reacted to Damascus in Older AMD CPUS over new ones?   
    The 1300x thrashes an 8370 at any frequency, the ryzen cores have 52% better IPC than FX
     
    That means that a 1300x at 4ghz = 6ghz  worth of FX horsepower while taking less power and getting you an upgrade path.  Why not spend the same $30 extra for a 1400?
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