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  1. I am finally going to get fibers! This calls for an update of my network equipment. What would be ideal: DD-WRT/OpenWRT/Tomato support, or a good control panel - I am interested in QoS, some nice stats Wi-Fi range - current Tenda AC11 is doing okay, the signal has to go a single storey up and down, but I can just add an access point if it's necessary ability to handle 20-30 clients, about 10 connections from things that actually do something. I plan to connect 2 PCs using RJ-45, that's the reason why I'm writing here, I wasn't able to find a 2.5 Gbit/s compatible router yet. Everything stops at 1gbit and while that's the offered Internet speed, both PCs are 2.5 capable and we do transfer files between them. Did any of you look into this subject? The limit would be around $400 for a device or two combined, cables and other stuff I can buy and install separately.
  2. It is weird to talk about WCCF in the OP so much, there were other sites posting the same information, perhaps later, but I don't like their flexing. This means supply is not going to grow for now, but the big question is at where does the demand stand. The lower end GPUs can help that part of the market too using less substrate/happy user.
  3. If someone's wondering like me, PMR = CMR I am always surprised that they do CMR in top sizes at the same time they do SMR, Wouldn't it make sense for SMR to be bigger?
  4. Probably an extremely low non-zero chance. Imo it's worth waiting a bit until this is investigated further.
  5. Sure, the game perf drops when the single core speed drops, it is still very important, but going over 8 threads really does matter, usually the fast 6/12 CPUs are where the difference starts to disappear. Some examples in spoiler: I initially thought I was going to have to pick examples, but just 4 first results worked and there are plenty more.
  6. There were many rumors regarding N6, including PS5 and/or DG2 getting on it. Zen 4 IO die and Rembrant cores are ones of the more likely it seems. Some even say out of compatible N7 and N6 nodes the latter is going to be more utilized in 2022.
  7. They do have multi-actuator in Mach 2 tech, but what you've shown in a pic would be even better. So, the total time it takes to read a HDD of whatever size is just how many circles of data there are from the middle to the edge of the platter, divided by rotations per time unit and adjusted for the aforementioned time to lock on a track, a drive with 7200 rpm, 6000 'circles' and 1.(6)ms to lock would take 8.(3) ms to complete a circle, ~10ms to complete a circle and switch to another one, which rounds up to a nice 100 circles/second and a minute to read the whole drive(I pulled numbers from my butt to get this result). Now, a circle will have different circumference depending on how far it is from the center, but let's ignore it and go with an average. Let's even call it x cm because I don't care to check how big the platters are. Now they say they can fit y bytes per unit of length or surface, that influences how much data fits in that average circle, but also how many circles there are, 10% denser is 10% more bytes/circle, but also 10% more circles/drive, which is why HDDs are faster at growing in size than in speed. If life was so easy getting 9x the size of a drive means 3x the circles and 3x the amount of data per rotation, so 3x as fast sequential speed, equal seek time and 3x longer to write the entire drive. Now we know Mach 2 nearly doubles the speed, the tech from the above post could do that once more, meaning 200TB drive with 4 actuators could take the same time as single actuator 20TB drive today. There is of course question of what clients need, not every use case cares greatly about taking 4 days to write an entire drive and would gladly take 4 days and have cheaper storage than pay more for the speed they don't need. For example I have collected 50TB of data over the years, at once I move maybe 200GB of it, Taking 5 days to write everything I have onto a single drive that I could keep in a different physical location is not an issue at all, many archives are just like that, 1TB copy but you could fit 200 of those on 1 drive, getting that 1TB copy would take a bit over an hour in case of a drive that is 200TB and takes 5 days to write in entirety(depending on position on the platter probably more like from an hour to two and a half), for many that is acceptable.
  8. I refuse to believe they base it on ambient temp. If it's the brains, you could move them inside of the house, if it's the transmitter, you could go to lower power operation maintaining connection with lower speeds, but mostly that's because the correlation between ambient temperature and the actual device temperature can be very different in varied air pressure, humidity and wind. sazrocks' comment suggests that something could've been wrong with that individual device. I want some more info about this.
  9. 50C seems really low, I wonder if that's being overly careful or something really can't deal with such temps.
  10. GPU Software functionality comparison: are you required to log in to access features? Radeon Chill? FidelityFX CAS? overclocking? ShadowPlay? ReLive? and so on quick lineup of the multitude of options and what they do, how well do they do it, what cards support it, some might be too much for a quick glance in such vid, but honestly, I need this. Some of those are really cool on both sides and there's no time to include this in a GPU review. Many users probably don't know they can do lots of cool things thanks to the GPU manufacturers.
  11. Just get an extender from the bathroom/kitchen to your PC xD You should have ground somewhere, the issue is, getting the wire from place A to place B can be costly because going through walls etc.And as mentioned before, the chance of using it is extremely low. You could make builds where you have ground and test it there too, that'd leave only the probability of surge getting introduced later in life of a PC which is even less likely.
  12. Some laptops can even discharge while being connected, though I'd call that a fuckup on the manufacturer's side.
  13. You could actually provide an example to make this easier. Afaik Apple is actually cheap for the screen quality they offer even in the low tier MacBooks, thermals were always a problem, but you do get a good screen, ssd, quite solid and nice looking machine with great touchpad. It's a norm that normal laptop will be lacking in one of those departments, combine this with system running well before getting bloated and it's easy to see why they are popular.
  14. Yeah, hard as in non-volatile I guess. How did we even end up in place where hard drive=magnetic storage?
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