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SenKa

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  1. I dont see those two things as directly related. Me, personally, i am 100% a hardware enthusiast. I work on hardware for a living, super specialized board level stuff sometimes. I am exactly the kind of person most PCMR stereotypes would dictate as an Android user from what i know. I also own and daily *deep breath*: 2014 Macbook Air 13" 2020 iPad Pro 12.9" Apple Magic Keyboard Apple Pencil Apple Watch Series 4 44mm Stainless Steel edition Airpods Pro iPhone 11 Pro Max iPhone 6 Plus Modded 6th Generation iPod Classic (battery mod, flash modded) Im not a fanboy, but it safe to say for my personal devices i have a preference... I of course have my pc's, but those only get used for gaming. Even video editing is done on apple.
  2. Word is theyre quite good, though my radwagon (i did end up deciding on getting one) hasnt arrived yet. I know Louis Rossman praises them. No way to be correct or incorrect about subjective opinion, also, i paid less than that for my radwagon because of preorder pricing. I will admit that the value proposition is there with the envo going down in price and the radwagon going up, but i felt the higher cargo capacity of the radwagon and overall accommodations (the radwagon being designed as an ebike) were worth it since i intend to use the bike for work as well as commute.
  3. While it is overclockable, only do it for fun. You wont see much out of it.
  4. Depends on what the price per share is. Stands to be some good quick money if you catch it early and then sell when it over-inflates from initial hype.
  5. I got a little in my board as well, you should be fine. AM4's socket has a very tight tolerance beneath the socket itself, meaning thermal paste bridging pins underneath the socket is near impossible. Even if it is a conductive paste, it should not cause issues as the pins already conduct to the socket itself.
  6. Not only that... linus very rarely if ever writes his own videos. Pay attention to the credits people
  7. As others have said, its entirely subjective. Cherry MX Blues or Browns both feel very good to type on. I have used both and settled on browns personally.
  8. This is a little bit of a touchy topic, as AMD and Intel measure thermals differently. What are you using to measure your temps? In HW Info you have CPU, CPU Die, CPU CCD1, and CPU CCD2 on a 3900x. CPU is the number more comparable to intel, CPU Die is just CCD1 + CCD2 divided by 2, and the individual CCD numbers are higher than CPU. Picture provided for reference. Between the stock cooler, a Dark Rock Pro 4, and a 280mm Liquid Freezer II, my temps literally did not change. However, with each upgrade power draw and performance went up as the CPU boosts higher. That is just how AMD's boosting algorithm works, those temperatures are more than safe and acceptable. And another note, CCD1 will almost always be warmer because those are the threads 0-12 (on the 3900x). Those are the ones loaded first by the system.
  9. It is the most convenient way to ensure that the person servicing your device does not have access to your data. Removing the drives grants physical access to the media, which is a no-no. However, if ***you*** remove the drive prior to sending it out, they will not deny the service. Or, they have not in the past.
  10. Not scamming. Apple's service centers are required to wipe customer data.
  11. Apple service centers wipe your storage to comply with data security laws. That is what they were referring to.
  12. macOS can read but not write NTFS. Windows cannot read HFS+ without external software. exFAT is your friend.
  13. Gotta hand it to western news outlets for twisting the story. British-occupied HK and the PRC (Mainland china) forged the Sino-British Joint Declaration. This declaration, signed in 1997, stated that HK would remain capitalist and function under the "One Country Two Systems" system until 2047. China has debated the legitimacy of the document publicly since 2017, but has never acted against it under threat from the British and later the US (for some reason). Public denouncement of the law by PRC officials doesnt go much deeper than China's own borders regardless. The G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) have voted to uphold the Sino-British Joint Declaration. This encompasses the 7 most influential countries in the world, minus China itself. Annex II of the SBJD created the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group, which were to be in charge of handling democratic matters between the HKSAR (Hong Kong), and the PRC. This group mutually dissolved in 2000, and thus (as the PRC argues), the declaration is invalidated. If this were tried in the US, there is a high chance the PRC would be sided with for this reason. Though my sample size is small, i have several friends in HK and none of them understand the point of the protests and consider themselves Chinese people. HK *is* chinese property, nobody who has read the laws should disagree with this.. While the PRC did arguably act out of line in their handling of the protests, it is just as arguable that those who partook in them had stepped out of line, *especially* since the bill that sparked them did nothing but allowed HK and Taiwan residents to be extradited to mainland china for crimes committed on the mainland. This is a decades if not centuries old concept, and one nearly every western country practices. This is very on edge of the political conversation rule, and thus i have done by best to stick to simply explaining the facts of the situation rather than my own opinions.
  14. Ahh, thats one of those super weird Socket 775 DDR3 boards. They have always been a little finicky. https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-EP45T-UD3LR-rev-13/support#support-doc Reference the memory support doc, this is one of the few boards where I would actually follow them.
  15. SenKa

    I have received my Financial aid award letter f…

    Here in FL its in person until Thanksgiving, then online. That is the current plan anyways.
  16. SenKa

    I have received my Financial aid award letter f…

    Nice! Mine has yet to be officially decided.
  17. SenKa

    Of these two MacBook Pro configs, which do you…

    MB #2, but you know how i feel about the dual TB3 macbook pro
  18. First and foremost, LTT is not known as a channel that specializes in data analysis for a simple reason. They aren't. While a lot of their data is probably fine, minus CPU Coolers (where i would not trust anybody who isnt GN), thats just not what LTT aims to be. However, as others have said, their data is more than good enough, especially if you compare within LTT's data set, which you should be doing anyways. In terms of thermals measurements in this industry, everybody does it differently. Do not cross compare if you want to draw an accurate conclusion.
  19. It has not been released to the public yet, that might have something to do with it... https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1558675-REG/intel_bx8070110700f_core_i7_10700f_processor_16m.html
  20. Small correction. nVidia has removed the differentiation at the driver level between GTX/RTX and Titan cards. The only difference is raw core count, clocks, and memory capacity/bandwidth. Also, Quadro is more "work" and Titan is more "enthusiast"
  21. The Titan Black is a rather old card, based on the Maxwell (GTX 700 series) architecture. However, in raw performance, it does beat the 1650 super by a decent amount. I would only be worried about driver support in the long run.
  22. I can't take all in one computers, or monitors. Its a simple logistics issue with inability to properly dispose of them if i end up having to. But, other than that i haven't ran in to anything else I've had to turn down. Laptops, phones, tablets, desktops, ect...
  23. Basically as everybody else said. However, if youre within the US I would like to plug myself. I run a small local business refurbishing devices and giving them away to kids who cant afford them, have been out of stock almost consistently since COVID started and nobody is getting rid of anything at the moment due to the economy.
  24. Sounds like it. Is this an all new build, or was the boot drive transferred from another computer? I would also avoid polaris mining cards all together. had nothing but bad luck with them.
  25. Depends on what model RM power supply. Old RM? New RM? RMi? RMx?
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