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Box got a little damaged in shipping, but who cares, they still work
 

Just bought a macbook air base model for school. So far the battery life is amazing and typing on it is actually really good for a laptop! So far I didnt know how much id like it but so far im loving it!  (M1 chip)

Just picked this up
 
 

Funny story with this one. I backordered this monitor on december first and after a month I emailed them whats up? Why isn't the monitor shipping? 2 days later they ship it and I get free overnight shipping. (Dont mind the mess in the photo. My computer doesnt have a gpu, who would've thought, so I plugged it into my parents one to see if it had any defects, it doesnt.) Btw free game on epic every thursday so if you forgot here is a reminder.

Funny story with this one. I backordered this monitor on december first and after a month I emailed them whats up? Why isn't the monitor shipping? 2 days later they ship it and I get free overnight shipping. (Dont mind the mess in the photo. My computer doesnt have a gpu, who would've thought, so I plugged it into my parents one to see if it had any defects, it doesnt.) Btw free game on epic every thursday so if you forgot here is a reminder.

Funny story with this one. I backordered this monitor on december first and after a month I emailed them whats up? Why isn't the monitor shipping? 2 days later they ship it and I get free overnight shipping. (Dont mind the mess in the photo. My computer doesnt have a gpu, who would've thought, so I plugged it into my parents one to see if it had any defects, it doesnt.) Btw free game on epic every thursday so if you forgot here is a reminder.

Funny story with this one. I backordered this monitor on december first and after a month I emailed them whats up? Why isn't the monitor shipping? 2 days later they ship it and I get free overnight shipping. (Dont mind the mess in the photo. My computer doesnt have a gpu, who would've thought, so I plugged it into my parents one to see if it had any defects, it doesnt.) Btw free game on epic every thursday so if you forgot here is a reminder.

Funny story with this one. I backordered this monitor on december first and after a month I emailed them whats up? Why isn't the monitor shipping? 2 days later they ship it and I get free overnight shipping. (Dont mind the mess in the photo. My computer doesnt have a gpu, who would've thought, so I plugged it into my parents one to see if it had any defects, it doesnt.) Btw free game on epic every thursday so if you forgot here is a reminder.

Funny story with this one. I backordered this monitor on december first and after a month I emailed them whats up? Why isn't the monitor shipping? 2 days later they ship it and I get free overnight shipping. (Dont mind the mess in the photo. My computer doesnt have a gpu, who would've thought, so I plugged it into my parents one to see if it had any defects, it doesnt.) Btw free game on epic every thursday so if you forgot here is a reminder.

Funny story with this one. I backordered this monitor on december first and after a month I emailed them whats up? Why isn't the monitor shipping? 2 days later they ship it and I get free overnight shipping. (Dont mind the mess in the photo. My computer doesnt have a gpu, who would've thought, so I plugged it into my parents one to see if it had any defects, it doesnt.) Btw free game on epic every thursday so if you forgot here is a reminder.

Funny story with this one. I backordered this monitor on december first and after a month I emailed them whats up? Why isn't the monitor shipping? 2 days later they ship it and I get free overnight shipping. (Dont mind the mess in the photo. My computer doesnt have a gpu, who would've thought, so I plugged it into my parents one to see if it had any defects, it doesnt.) Btw free game on epic every thursday so if you forgot here is a reminder.

Right, that title should do it. I've been a bit tiered of seeing the same misunderstanding of how TDP is defined so I thought I'd have a go at extracting some different information out of it, combined with other published specifications.
 
To recap, on the Intel side at least, TDP is the cooler rating you need for the CPU to operate at least at its base clock. I'm sure there's more to the definition, such as ambient test temperatures and such, but let's focus on what we do have easy access to. We know the TDP, we know the base clock, we know the core count. We can use those three values to determine a kind of efficiency rating. It is recommended but not enforced that the CPU limits to the TDP power in the long term. Since we are looking at the base clock, this is the case for the calculation.
 
So we have a CPU limited to a known power (=TDP) and will result in a minimum base clock. It may be higher, but this is the minimum specified. We have a certain number of cores. To make comparison across models easier, we'll look at how one core behaves. If you give one core 1 W of power, what would its base clock be?
 

Above is the result for selected models of Comet Lake. For each of the 900/800/700 families, I show the T (35W) sku (left 3), normal (65W) sku (middle 3) and k (125W) skus (right 3). The 10850k is by itself at 125W, and is considered a lower binned 10900k. I decided to plot the clock efficiency against base clock. Those more experienced, especially in overclocking, will know that generally speaking you need more voltage as the clock increases. Thus the efficiency drops at higher clocks, and that is exactly what we see in this chart! Other features can be seen as expected, that T is more efficient than normal, is more efficient than k, before you start overclocking it and make it worse still. It can also be seen more cores = more efficient, for a given power limit. The 10850k is as expected a little worse than the 10900k.
 
There are also some lower skus, which I chose not to add. They would simply be worse than the same core count and TDP ones shown.
 
What about AMD you ask? I'm moving into dangerous territory here. Firstly, I've been unable to get a definition for AMD's base clock. I assume it works much the same as Intel's, but I don't know that for sure. Next, we know there are the cores, and separately the IOD. The TDP would be for the whole package. Could or should I separate out the IOD from the CCD? I think not, for the specific reason it is not meaningful to do so. It counts towards the socket power usage, and is unavoidable in use. Each core will take a share of the IODs power, so it isn't strictly only pure core power, but it is in a practical sense. So what do we get? Applying Zen 3 to the same chart we get the following:
 

Going from bottom to top, it is the 5800X, 5600X, 5900X, 5950X. Yes, the 5800X could be argued to be worse than the 5600X. This is in part due to the lower TDP of the 5600X. For the Intel CPUs, for each family (same coloured dots) you can imagine a line drawn through the points. That's where Intel can choose to put a product, and you can extrapolate a bit beyond each with caution. In clock/W efficiency terms, Zen 3 8 core is slightly ahead of Intel's 10 core, which itself is better than the lower bin 10850k and 8/6 core parts. The higher core count parts do run away though, although this is in part due to simply having more cores, and in part from process related efficiencies.
 
It should be stated that this only looks at clock in isolation, and doesn't consider IPC or other performance considerations. So don't read too much into it. Also remember these are minimums, they could be higher for a given sample. It would probably be an interesting exercise to go repeat this with other models, but I think I've spend enough time on it for now.

Check out that ASRock Rack M2_VGA Module at https://lmg.gg/5wcQF
Buy Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti (PAID LINK): https://geni.us/ZAwAeu2
 
The folks over at ASRock RACK have created a graphics card that fits in an M.2 socket. It’s a lot smaller than an Nvidia RTX 3080 - but can it run games?
 
 

Imagine the kids doing their work and all of a sudden, through the speakers they hear:
 
 

I finally have my 3090! It's installed and everything works. So happy, so excited! 😁

HIFIMAN Ananda Planar Magnetic Headphones
Retail Price: $999.00.
Open-Box Purchase: $550 + Free Shipping. 😘👌
 
An upgrade to my HIFIMAN HE-35X Dynamic Headphones (Retail Price: $120, New Purchase: $55), recommended by Den-Fi!  Other options were mentioned as well. The TLDR is I went with this purchase 'cos I was gently shoo'd away from Focal Elear's, I didn't want to gamble on Focal Elex's, I wasn't too keen on Sennheiser HD 660 S's, planar magnetics caught my attention, and, errr... discounts.
 
To quote one particular dumb-dumb:
It me. Impatient dumb-dumb is me. 😔
 
Impressions coming up in a few days. Want to get used to how they sound, first. 🤔
...Shush, I'm not procrastinating. 😩
 
In the meantime, have some unboxing pics:
Current Mood: 

Heading for the 50 year celebration. Me and the wife (girlfriend at the time) were there for the 25 year celebration. Same hotel we stayed at then but with kids now. 

I've had a bit of a desire to get an SMB setup for my PS2 working concerning the ability to play games on OPL. So I caved and bought a router at a thrift store for $9: I ended up with this Asus RT-N66R router.

And on another note, I finally caved and bought some leggings... they're rather nice...

Thank you

You have to partition the drive/s in order for windows to use the drive 
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition-bbb8e185-1bda-ecd1-3465-c9728f7d7d2e

His misaligned headphones were driving me crazy for the whole spring of 2020, every week during WAN show. Glad he fixed them.
 

That’s not actually using block chain, because steam’s payment processor is doing a fiat conversion at time of purchase.

Bose Sleepbuds 2




The Charging/Docking Case has USB C !
 
So these are Active Sound Masking In Ears which are purpose built for sleeping and winding down. They can't play music nor any sounds from a video, they only play calming sounds which you can download and customize through the Bose Sleep App. I've just been using normal use once Ear plugs from 3M for years and now I have the perfect final solution to my problem. I've been meaning to get the first gen of these but they had to recall and stop producing them due to Battery problems. Now they are apparently more performamt and efficient thanks to the upgraded Tech inside and the shape of them outside.

By not doing them Christmas shenanigans  

Post Christmas tight budget here ... how are you guys buying stuff still ??
 
I'm looking for a GPU (still), but I might buy something new (when shortage stops) instead of a used 1080 like I wanted a few weeks ago!