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Any drawbacks with these Xiaomi phones? Are they spying on us? Do they die after the first year? Do they break easily or can they stand -20C or lower temps? I'm still trying to decide whether to sell a kidney and go with samsung note 10 or something like pixel 3/a for a decent camera (low-light photos and adequately stabilized video)

Are you implying I have a problem with my lighting? It's perfect!! I relax and create best in comfy low light. Seriously though, the title is a bit of an exaggeration but I'm still in a market for a phone with fast camera, among other features like long support. Also my 5D mkII isn't really great for videos, amateur or not. Cat pics aren't everything I intend to do. ? Hard to try to describe the amount of light since everything is diffused led lighting but I can always take your suggestions and try to find comparisons against my current phone too. The Pixel intrigues me for it's cleaner launcher, but even our carrier shops didn't have those unfortunately

I think I have to confess, I only have a cheap kit lens and a cheap 50mm/1.8. 5DmkII isn't the best in indirect ambient lighting of my mancave and I use that camera more for walking around city, always ready in a bag to pick up with me. During summer I keep it on a table fitted with the 50mm because summer light is plenty enough for cat pics but winter is long an dark But if I were to go back to the topic, maybe I should add that the phone would be used to do other things too. And when it comes to cat pics, a phone that is pretty much always at hand will have a better chance to be ready to capture that moment which might last only a second and a half.

Yeah the Note10.. I visited three shops last weekend, did my rounds and in every shop I always went back to the Note 10, it just feels real comfy in my hand, though the screen extends a bit too far out the edges in my opinion.

Well I have a 5D mkII, it's old but suits my needs well. Though with that I'd need to get it out of the bag, set up lighting, choose the lens... yeah None of the shops I visited have had pixels on display so I don't know how it feels in my hands. But I'll keep my eyes open for that

A While back I got a Nokia 8.1 to use from work but I have to return it soon. I'm not looking forward going back to my old honor 7lite, so I'm in the market now. This Nokia has felt surprisingly good, I like the weight, pictures are decent when lighting is adequate, interface overally feels quite snappy, nothing to complain about a phone that costs 200-350€. Except during the moments when my cats are doing something I want to share with my crazy cat people friends, quick launch isn't quick and focusing time during low light is terrible. I was looking for a Note9 but for some reason they've exited this universe completely. Is there a phone that doesn't cost triple the amount I paid for my car, that can do well in taking pics of dark cats, is not an iPhone but has a long support still?

Have you ran memtest86 yet? If you test one stick at a time and check if it always reports the same sectors as faulty, you could possibly have a faulted solder and you could fix it in an owen. Worked for me a few years back

You haven't told us the clocks yet

When you click the processor precentage, what programs come on top of the list? You can check the details tab and sort by CPU precentage there too

Are you saying the sag increases its weight and weight distribution?

After 5 years of BIOS flashed overclocks and constant gaming temps of 85-90C, my old HD6950 resembled a banana. Nothing died, it's still working

Yeah I'd also just enable PBO, check what kinds of temperatures you are getting, then limit the power limits for PBO until you are happy with the temperature. At least on my board the PBO basically removes the limits and pushes everything it can offer without melting For now I disabled PBO from mine because the temperature, voltages and current seemed crazy. I plan on enabling it once I have time to update my BIOS from Zen2 launch BIOS for my board, but before that I have some critical projects I need to finish first, can't risk a failed BIOS update right now.

It's compatible with Ryzen 3000 series if you have the updated BIOS You can try asking for the shop to update the BIOS for you, they usually ask for a nominal fee, depending on where you buy from. It'd save you the hassle and troubleshooting if something doesn't work right out of the box. Another option is to loan an older Ryzen/Athlon CPU, from a friend or from AMD, but that would take more time of course.

Yes Ryzen Balanced power plan is recommended for better idle handling. You will still see high spikes in voltage but remember that the CPU will report the single highest voltage applied to one core and those spikes are usually very short, so if one core spikes to 1.45v and all the others are sleeping, you'll see the 1.45v in Ryzen Master. Same thing with temperature. I have noted that Asus motherboards in particular seem to apply more voltage than is necessary. I'm still hopeful that the quirks of this gen will be tamed eventually but for now we'll just have to get used to seeing this kind of behaviour ?

You don't need it then. It propably includes older network driver now anyways.