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Mobile Graphics Compared to Desktop graphics
 
660m vs 660

Thanks everyone for replying. I think I wont worry about upgrading the rest of my PC yet and will just stick to the GTX 1080 upgrade.

I was just browsing through Google's Newsstand app and came across this in my PC tab. Forbes occasionally does PC stuff, and this time Jason Evangelho did a build for gamers who wanted decent performance on a budget. Not that the parts are any good...
 
"Build a 1080p/60FPS Gaming PC for $750"
 
 
 
 
 
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant   CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($128.99 @ Directron)  CPU Cooler: Cooler Master GeminII M4 58.4 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($27.99 @ Newegg)  Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($98.88 @ OutletPC)  Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($49.99 @ Newegg)  Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($48.89 @ OutletPC)  Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($71.89 @ OutletPC)  Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card  ($185.99 @ SuperBiiz)  Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($49.99 @ Newegg)  Power Supply: Corsair CX 430W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($41.98 @ Newegg)  Total: $704.59 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-16 06:57 EDT-0400     Some of these choices are really poor. Kingston SSD? Corsair CX430 PSU? Seagate HDD? A 960 with an FX? A Cooler Master GeminII?  
 

Anyone watching the WAN show right now is most likely also aware of the new bot Linus has.
 
However one of the ban words is a kappa face. Even if used only once in a sentence.
 
This is kind of ridiculous in my opinion and I hope it is fixed. People are being autobanned every few seconds.

lemonade 

Looking back, you can see how much Luke has changed over the years.
 
And by that I mean not at all. He's still injured. Just emotionally now.

to make people feel better?

So will HDDs. SSDs are not un-reliable today, that might have been a problem in 2009

The rage, lolololol.
 
Dude it's launch night, calm your milk jugs.

The SV650 is everyone's on /r/motorcycles favourite bike

The sv650 is on my list of bikes to try. Its LAMs approved here in Aus which is awesome. Its very popular in southern states but not so much in my area.

The SV650 is everyone's on /r/motorcycles favourite bike

I tried it again and got this 
Very marginal difference
 
They never estimated up and down values but found this page on their website http://www.internode.on.net/residential/adsl_broadband/easy_broadband/performance/
Its quite sad really that they can only give the percentage of customers that achieved a certain speed in 2006. This is 2015 and I live in the CBD of the city of I live in. I expect a little more.
 
I think I'll give them a call tomorrow.
 
Speedtest recognises my IP as iiNet but that isnt the case. I have internode. Funnily enough they have a large marketing campaign featured around games. Even though I am sitting here unable to watch twitch streams and play csgo with a ping of 100ms.

Ubisoft is the Kanye West of gaming world.

NCIX: http://bit.ly/1sjTwta
Amazon: http://geni.us/Bdc
 
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Good luck everyone!
 
 
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As you all may or may not know, google had their keynote for Google I/O today, where they announce everything from a preview of the next version of Android, L, android auto, android TV, android wear, and a whole host of changes/new stuff to pretty much all the services they have to offer
 
If you have not watched the keynote address, I highly reccomend that you do. It is 3 hours long, but there is so much that they discuss that it wont feel like a 3 hour presentation.
 

 
At this stage, there isnt one single thing that i could say was my favourite part, since there was so much information to take in, even with day 2 to come.
 
What i will say is that it has me so excited about where android is going more so than ever.

One thing that stood out during their keynote today was that they didnt bash the opposition, yes they said  'here's what we have done, what we are doing to make it better, and why you should use it and be apart of our eco system'.

edit, they did say that widgets etc has been around for the last 4 year, a perfect jab at Apple, but other than that it was extremely professional the whole way through.

Apple at their conference, take every chance to rile the opposition for no real good reason, and what do they have to show for it, very little IMO.

With Google and what they showcased today it certainly makes me want to be more involved and apart of the android ecosystem going forward.
 
This may make me look like a  Google/Android fanboy, but since owning a Galaxy Nexus, A Nexus 7(2012), and now a Nexus 5, I have come to really appreciate what they have built,and improved.
 
The experience is so great for me, that it would be impossible to consider another platform as the other competitors just dont have anything appealing to offer me
 
they are also offering a developer preview of Android L, the next version along with an updated SDK from tomorrow sometime, for the Nexus 5 and 2013 Nexus 7 as far as i am aware from what i have read. more here
 
http://developer.android.com/preview/index.html
 
To me, today was a showcase of real innovation, and that has me excited for android in the future
 
What are your guys thoughts on it, if you have watched or read anything about it today???
 

This review will be about the Ducky Shine 3 Tenkeyless (DK9087) UK Layout Cherry MX Brown with Blue LEDs. I have pre-ordered this

keyboard from Overclockers UK last week and it arrived at aprox. 2 PM today. I have chosen to go with the tenkeyless model mainly because

I have never used the numberpad and I wanted a smaller keyboard. Right so It came in a standard cardboard box and with the 'air bags' to

keep the main box intact.

 

Unboxing

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The box itself is pretty nice soft touch. I took the shot of the base of the box so that you can take a read of the features this keyboard has.

Nothing much to talk about here apart from it does look quite high quality.

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Next up the inside of the box is divided into two sections. One large one for the keyboard to sit in in a separate box inside of the main one and

then the other accessories lay on the left compartment in plastic bags which is a little disappointing and you will see why I think so in the images.

Also the keyboard itself is covered with a nice, quite solid transparent plastic cover which is very nice to use as a keyboard cover when you

don't use it and don't want it to collect dust.

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The space bar didn't survive the postage. It was the one with the Ducky logo and lines either side. The snake one installed on the keyboard

is thankfully fine, either way I wanted to use the snake one. I'll try contacting the retailer and see if they could send me a replacement.

 

One of my favorite features of this keyboard is the lighting and the fact that all of the setup takes place on the keyboard itself using key

combinations. For all of you interested here is the manual. I will retake the picture of the second part of the manual tomorrow since I ran out of

sunlight today Also the feature of having the basic 3 audio adjustment function keys is very handy (as you can see on the Del,End and PgDn

keys) I will find myself using the quite often.

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Next up the shots of the keyboard itself. My camera seriously doesn't do the justice to how sleek and high quality this keyboard is. The shell of

the keyboard is very soft in touch and matte finished in sort of a extremely fine grain effect. However the the keys are sort of a smooth

finish with a glossy touch to it yet still matte looking. The keyboard has a very solid weight to it and I assume you could knock someone

out with it if you got a good swing. Also the keycaps are about 2mm thick around so the are quite good and to be fair I can't tell much difference

between thick or thin keycaps. Overall a very solid and high quality keyboard which is to be expected from Ducky and for the money you pay

(£108) Lastly as you can see in one of the images the switch is mounted on the backplate and every key is done the same with the exception

of the RGB LEDs under the spacebar which are PCB mounted and there is a whole cut out in the backplate for the LEDs to shine through.

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Other shots of this keyboard are a the back and the side with and without the kickstands. The kickstands don't have any rubber on the to

grip to the surface but it's not much of a deal since the grips and the front of the keyboard grip insanely well and once you sett your keyboard

still it will not move an inch when you type. there are also three ways for you to route your cable which see a little pointless for me since they

all lead out to the top and not to the sides which I think would make more sense but I'm sure some people would use the once that it has. I

just use the standard center one.

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...and lastly there is the dip switches on the back to disable and enable different functions. You can read about what they all do in the 2nd part

of the manual.

 

Backlight

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So as you can see the letters look very sharp on the keycaps when lit up and the space does stand out especially when you disable the center

blue LED so that only the RGB once are lit up. The keyboard is extremely bright so I only use the highest settings during the day since they

don't blind me and at night I usually have it at the 2nd to lowest setting just so that the keys are nicely lit but aren't distinctive. All together there

are 7 brightness modes and even at the darkest mode the letters are quite nicely lit and if someone wants to have as little distraction as possible

then the lowest setting will do the job and will still light the keys more than enough for you too see the characters at night. The ability to have

up to 9 preset colours for the RGB LEDs is very nice however it would be cool if you could program them each separately but it doesn't bother

me too much.

 

Sound Test

For any of you that would want to hear how this keyboard sounds then here is a sound test. The microphone was placed approximately 10cm

away from the keyboard. At first I click my mouse a few times so that you can adjust your volume so that the mouse click in this sound test are

as close in volume to your mouse.

 

Enjoy: SOUND TEST

 

First Impressions

Overall I've been using this keyboard for the past few hours and I have written all of this article on it as well as played some games and I must say,

it is one of the best products I have bought ever since my Corsair M65. It is very high quality feels very sturdy and it is a pleasure to type and

game on.I have found myself mostly adjusting over from my bulky full sized membrane keyboard and really starting to love the tenkeyless

layout. The lighting on the keyboard is very vibrant and the keys are illuminated very nicely. The amount of different effects is kind of nice however

I don't really see myself using many of them. I have my keyboard currently full lit and turned of the blue LED in the space bar so that I can have

one of the RGB colours on it and make it stand out. As mentioned in the unboxing the keys and the 'shell' of the keyboard is very nice in touch

and really feels high quality and definitely another league compared to my previous worn out £8 keyboard. I am very happy with the fact that I

went with the Cherry MX Brown switches since they feel very nice and are lest noisy compared to the Blues that I have tried out on my friends

Razer Blackwidow 2013. It was all a gamble and it looks like I've hit the jackpot The only disappointment was the spacebar being cracked

but hopefully I will be able to get it replaced.

 

I would rate this keyboard 10/10 so far since it is exactly what I have expected it to be. We'll see what I think of it after a month or so. I will write

a impression after that time or so.

 

My Photography Setup

Most of you have probably figured out that it isn't anything too good since I could not capture all of the detail that I wanted to. So as you can see in

the images below I have took 6 A3 pieces of paper and taped them together and then set them out on the table to use as a white screen. It mostly

did it's job and in some places I had to edit out the random grayness or any other unwanted effect with either Photoshop or Paint.NET. For the

shots I have used the Samsung ES75 which isn't too good of a camera but it was the best I had at the time. I would have used my dads Fujifilm

S2000HD but I couldn't find it at the time Also the for night shots I have used my friends Sony Xperia Z1 since I couldn't get the Samsung to focus

and get the detail I wanted. Feel free to have a go at me for the suckish pictures, but keep in mind I'm an amateur in every meaning of that word

Also for the light source I have used the sunlight during day

 

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The Replacement Space Arrived With a Little Something

So today I have received my replacement spacebar that was cracked in the original box as well as a key ring! I have messaged the Ducky

Keyboards UK Facebook page to ask about a replacement for the cracked spacebar and they have told me to email their RMA email with all

of the required details (fault, address, keyboards serial number,etc) and 3 days later I have received them. At first I thought I will have to wait for

them to respond yet they haven't and just sent me them free of charge. I will let all of the photos below to do the talking. As you can see the Ducky

green keycap is very nice but with the backlight it looks a bit odd since it only lights up the top part of the keycap so I have decided to place it

instead of the console key (the one on the left hand side of 1) and turn of the backlight for it. Also to take out the spacebar I have took off the Alt

keys and put my index fingers under the either side of the space bar and slowly started to pull them up until I could feel that it has came off the

stabilizers and then I could just pull it of from the switch.

 

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Well, in essence, doesn't this fulfill the same purpose as anti aliasing? By shrinking the picture you reduce the size of the jaggies

A solid argument if I've ever heard one.

Did you see the video showing the MW2 ending and the Ghosts start?

Really? :huh:
 
I think you are reading into it too deep, the saying "if you buy bleeding edge tech you're bound to get cut." applies to the 780 just like it applies to the 780ti and the r9 290x and all other new release technology.  It is an appraisal of how early adopters becoming the guinea pigs that suffer through the teething issues.  I was not recommending anyone hold off or that anyone is kicking themselves. :rolleyes: