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Someone I know is swearing up and down that network interfaces on modern consumer motherboards is actually done with software emulation on the CPU, and the "ethernet controller" is just doing bare-minimum QoS and establishing the duplex link. This is despite me being able to stress test my CPU (R5 3600) and transfer files at 100MBps+ on my home network simultaneously with very low latency/jitter. How much truth is there to this?

I thought of a better way to use that monster 500W Peltier cooler in a liquid cooling loop. Put a CPU water block on either side, then run the pipes so that the peltier chills the water going to the CPU and the hot side of the peltier is cooled by the water coming out of the CPU. This creates a zone of cold water for the CPU and conveniently deals with the hot side of the peltier with the existing radiator. You might need to use a 480mm radiator for this, but it should give you way better temps than trying to use the peltier directly on the CPU.

The 4960x is still a fine CPU, especially if you're overclocking to 4.5 Ghz or more, essentially matching an 8700K but with more cache and PCIe lanes. Until we get an actual Tick upgrade from intel that doesn't use a very slightly modified microarchitecture, you're still only one generation behind on the core. A 1080 Ti will love your CPU, don't bother getting a 2000 series.

My counterpoint is that Apple markets iPhones as being a no compromise alternative to the competition, but with the XS Max vs Note 9, you're getting a few hours less battery life and half the storage for $100 more in the base price. That is a significant compromise against the Note 9, and draws into question what exactly the 7nm Bionic chip and "improvements" in iOS 12 are actually doing. "Good enough" for apple doesn't meet it's good enough for the customer.

Or worse, depending on which Macbook i7 you choose

Forbes: Apple's New iPhones Have An Unfixable Problem Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6-eLoNwZQ Phonebuff has performed an extremely meticulous battery life test between the newest iPhones and the Galaxy Note 9 which produced some surprising results. The test involved using sensors to make sure the screen brightness and volume levels were set exactly the same, as well as a robotic arm to perfectly replicate navigation on both phones. The results showed that although the Note 9 only has a 20% bigger battery than the XS Max, it was still at 37% charge when the iPhone ran out. The article points out that the Snapdragon 845 is not a very efficient SoC, and Apple is claiming iOS 12 is their "most efficient" OS to date. The problem would be even worse on the regular XS. My thoughts: This seems quite fishy to me on Apple's part, given that this is the biggest battery they've ever put in a phone and there's usually at least some minimum to battery performance on iPhones, even when they had two different sources for the SoCs. Seems to me like Apple's "most efficient OS" must be doing a lot of stuff in the background now, whether you want it to or not, and good luck turning that off without jailbreaking.

The board was new but open box. The anti static bag still had an intact seal on it. Bios is latest revision. I don't see how the VRMs on a Z87 board can be worse than an H81 board??? I don't need longevity from this Pentium, it's only job is to infrequenty emulate consoles.

On my Pentium G3258, I have it comfortably hitting 5Ghz on an Asrock H81M-DG4 with Non-Z OC enabled, running at 1.45 volts. However, I recently bought an MSI Z87 G41 PC Mate motherboard to see just how far it can be pushed, but I've run into a 4.6 Ghz wall. Nothing I do will let the G3258 get past that stable. Part of the problem is the MSI OC settings in the BIOS being incredibly unintuitive compared to the Asrock, but a bigger problem is that it looks like the voltage settings in the BIOS are not getting applied in Windows. Using HWmonitor, the CPU voltage never changes regardless of what it's set to in the BIOS. Temps at 5Ghz full load are 69-70C using a CM Hyper 212 EVO with two fans, and nothing else on the mobo is above 40C in either HWmonitor or using an infrared thermometer. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

HP Pavilion DV6-2190us Core i7 720QM 8GB LPDDR3 GeFeorce GT 230M Windows 7 x64 I just bought a 12-cell extended battery for this laptop, which has just recently been given to me. The previous battery was completely shot and wouldn't charge above 25%, so I didn't really pay attention to the battery life, but after getting this new one installed, it has a two hour battery life when sitting idle. My BatteryBar app says the laptop is drawing 30-40 watts even in power saver mode on a fresh boot, and this is a completely new install of Windows 7, so there's not a whole lot going on in the background either. According to the power outlet watt meter, the laptop is drawing more power at idle than my desktop PC pulls at idle with massively better hardware. Does anyone have any ideas?

I know you solved this but I just want to point out that as a Haswell-based CPU, you might want to delid it and replace the TIM soon to get lower temperatures - I had to do this recently on a Pentium G3258 because it was idling at 60C, so it might be worth looking in to for your i7.