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SenKa

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  1. I would argue the issue is more with the execution of those adapters being overall very poor, rather than the actual prospect being bad, as the 12v1 line *should* be quite robust. However, the adapters utterly suck, and OP's old gateway sure isnt running a high quality PSU from the factory.
  2. Thats a LOT of dough to play with... I'd go AMD for sure. The build I am posting should be able to game fairly well due to the 4.5GHz boost clock of the CPU (before overclocking). Dual GPU's is included because you can actually use them. I went to the higher end of your budget. Could of course dial it back a bit. PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hmhBJb CPU: AMD Threadripper 3970X 3.7 GHz 32-Core Processor ($1899.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Floe Riing RGB 360 TR4 Edition 54.42 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($249.99 @ Amazon) Motherboard: Asus ROG ZENITH II EXTREME ALPHA EATX sTRX4 Motherboard ($849.99 @ B&H) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory ($389.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($449.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($449.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1448.99 @ Walmart) Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1448.99 @ Walmart) Case: Lian Li O11D XL-X ATX Full Tower Case ($420.99 @ Amazon) Power Supply: Corsair 1200 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($399.99 @ Newegg) Total: $8008.90 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-04 18:22 EDT-0400 EDIT: Forgot exhaust fans. I'd buy fans to match the AIO
  3. SenKa

    Sold my 2070 before my 2080 super could arrive.…

    @Pascal... Amazingly, it can do 1440p low in most of the games I play very convincingly. Not at 144Hz, sure, but I was shocked it could even do it.
  4. Unfortunately I no longer have a mac to test on, but I cannot find anybody else saying that the command i gave you doesn't work under catalina
  5. Sold my 2070 before my 2080 super could arrive... Guess I'll be GTX 670 gang until that happens.

     

    Oof.

    1. soldier_ph

      soldier_ph

      Return of the Kepler.

    2. SenKa

      SenKa

      @Pascal... Amazingly, it can do 1440p low in most of the games I play very convincingly. Not at 144Hz, sure, but I was shocked it could even do it.

  6. Odd, thats supposed to work. What version of macOS?
  7. the character after T in the second word of the command, are you writing an L or a 1? It needs to be the former.
  8. SenKa

    i'm getting a Surface Pro 3 after looking at th…

    Very true, just feels less polished than macOS in terms of a mobile OS. Of course with macOS you pay the price of apple hardware sometimes, as you know @Twilight
  9. SenKa

    i'm getting a Surface Pro 3 after looking at th…

    I just dont feel like windows handles itself well as a mobile OS. The way it handles updates just sucks, and when you're a lower power device where the resource impact of Windows Update actually matters... eesh. @Twilight
  10. SenKa

    i'm getting a Surface Pro 3 after looking at th…

    Great choice! I had a pro 3 and a pro 5, loved both. Just don't much care for Windows laptops myself.
  11. My PC is a pretty good space heater as well. Little over 650w at full boar, and a "steady state" consumption of 350w. 3900x @ Stock with PBO enabled (Maintains 3.9GHz in an all core synthetic) RTX 2070 @ Stock (due to poor binned die, cannot OC at all. Memory OC's well but offered no performance benefit GTX 670 @ Stock (F@H Compute card) The 2070, and CPU cooler (Dark Rock Pro 4) are on their way out of the system. Unhappy with the 2070's performance at 1440p, and unhappy with my CPU thermals. In their will hopefully be a 2080 super and Arctic 280 CLC
  12. Happy to see dual cores totally removed from the Core iX lineup, i5's return to relevancy, and the moving away from random half-step components that just cut hyperthreading and made 0 sense to buy. Kind of sucks that Intel is *still* dragging their feet about putting more than 10 cores in their mainstream socket though. It seems like the exact same fight Intel v AMD had back in the Pentium 4 days. Intel holds supremacy in clocks, while AMD demolishes in cores. The difference is that this time, games are preferring cores. Prices are also quite low on the high end for Intel, though pricing their 10 core part up to bat with AMD's 12 core 3900x isnt very wise. Low end prices are utterly stupid, and Intel will continue to get demolished in this segment unless the performance is double what AMD has to offer down low. No buyers remorse for 3rd gen Ryzen owners, but happy to see Intel finally wising up and playing chess with the rest of us rather than mahjong. Sucks 10nm *still* isnt ready, as well. That 125 Watt "Thermal Design Power" (Roughly an all core synthetic at base clock) has me INCREDIBLY worried as for what type of cooler those high end chips will need. Also, still UHD 630 intel? Really?
  13. MBP is MUCH easier to use IMO. The majority of what I do could be uploaded on YT, though it is more prerecorded newscasting type stuff. I would 100% reccomend something like a 14" MBP (if its any good when it comes out), or a 16" if you have dough to spend. The current 13" isnt worth much salt, especially with a refresh any week now and the 14" in a couple months. FCPX is much more newbie friendly than DaVinci or Premier in my opinion, coming from a certification in FCPX and Premier and lots of years of using DaVinci,
  14. EVGA uses an asetek AIO with a modified coldplate, so it wont be any louder than a normal AIO. That is more than quiet enough, and will be quieter than a triple fan air cooled card.
  15. Trying AMD OSX for the first time in years... Lets see how this goes

  16. I assume the apple route wasnt mentioned because LMG doesn't use Apple workstations for editing, but atleast in my experience as a "one man band" editor, FCPX + Affinity Photo does everything I need to do for my professional and personal editing. Though admittedly, I do switch from FCPX to Resolve and back quite a bit. My productivity between the two is roughly equal, and I cant say i have a preference.
  17. Youre describing solder, so yeah. Thats what the S stands for in KS. As to the exact properties of their solder, i'm not sure.
  18. On the left is an EPS cable, and on the right is a PCI-E Cable.
  19. You basically just described how AMD handles its IHS, and how Intel does on their KS chips. The only difference being, rather than raw tin, it's an alloy with a lower melting point.
  20. Was wondering why I hadn't heard anything of this, The Villages is out a good bit away from me. Really cool though, I hope this sees more wide spread adoption.
  21. Almost certainly, seeing how they've reviewed every other iPhone since the 4s. Canada tends to get these things a bit late, and then of course the review itself takes a while. Be patient. Though, my prediction as to the summary of the review is: "Battery life is its weakest point, power users probably can't make it through a full day of use. Everything else is great other than the dated looking bezels and no headphone jack, but this price bracket is so thinly spread between phones in 2020 that there wouldn't be much else to reccomend even if it sucked. Word is there is some competition coming soon from OnePlus, so maybe some android fans on the fence should like and subscribe for that video."
  22. Had to google which ones the WH-1000XM3's are, because theyre awfully similar in name to the WF-1000XM3... Totally not confusing at all Sony! Over ear vs in ear really is a big debate and up to preference. In air (Airpods Pro in this case) are MUCH more portable. But, the WF-1000XM3's have more battery life and better sound quality (especially with bass, where in ears are just too small to get as much done.) I own both Airpods Pro and WH-1000XM2's, so I can give general advice here, though I have heard that the XM3's have fixed some of the issues I had with the XM2's. Airpods Pro- Rated at 4 hours battery life, 3.5 with ANC on, and 3 hours talk time. I find these numbers under-rated for what I get, as I get closer to 5 or 6 hours constant use with Transparency or ANC on. Charge case holds an additional "24 hours", and charges the airpods in ~20 minutes. Transparency mode (mics bring sound in so that you can hear everything around you) is a GODSEND for people who listen to music while they work such as myself. While sony has this feature, i found it much worse in execution. BT 5.0 is a nice to have. I find the ANC actually works better than the Sony's Auto-pause when the Airpods are removed is another really good nice to have. Sony WH-1000XM2/XM3 Rated at 30 hours. I call BS. I probably got ~12h on my XM2's, though the XM3's are more power efficient. I found that they got uncomfortable to wear after a while due to relatively non-breathable materials used on the pads. Surprise surprise, larger batteries take longer to charge. 3 hours down time if you forget to plug them in. ANC was overall meh, the headphones has issues blocking things out that my Airpods can. "Transparency" honestly sucked, the microphones used were so poor that they were easily peaked by my dogs howling. This produced a nauseating amount of audio distortion. Of course, bulkier. This is a downside to a lot of people. The app sucks. Overall I would say Airpods Pro hands down, doubly so if you are an iPhone owner. ESPECIALLY wearing them outside, you dont wanna be that guy stuck in 2006 wearing over-ears in public.
  23. Yeah, thats a distro plate. Disconnect the tubes going to/from that, and support the GPU as @W-L said.
  24. Nah, if you're worried about tubes pulling out of fittings there is a really small chance of that happening. The back pressure caused by your D5 moving water through a fitting is probably greater than what could be exerted by a vehicle driving normally. If you have a distro plate, which I assume thats what you mean by a bitspower plate, maybe disconnect the tubes running to that to avoid lateral force cracking the plastic. That is the ONE thing I could think of happening, and thats because there is a lot of mechanical leverage against the plate should your pc fall over or you hit a pot hole or something.
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