Chris Pratt

I do live the U.S. but the things I said are not born of that. I'm not some boob that believes the U.S. is the center of the world. It's actually kind of hilarious some further replies have assumed that to be the case, based on I don't know what. If anyone here actually knew me, that assumption would be ridiculous.
 
I fully understand politics are not the same every where, but when it comes to tech, they are. I'm not ruffling under some U.S. based bias, but the regulation of tech in general by people who are not technologists.
 
Even then, what I said was in response to the specific user I was replying to, and specifically to the assertion that the Austrian government wouldn't do something like this if there wasn't something to it. That is a foolish faith in any governing body and needs to be called out as such.
 
My real point, and the one that still stands, is that GA isn't in violation of GDPR or any other similar regulation, because it doesn't collect PII. The fact that bad actors may collect PII on their own initiative is not the fault of GA, nor limited to GA. Therefore the pursuit against Google here is one born of either ignorance, laziness, or ulterior motives. That bugs me on a fundamental level, despite who the specific characters are.

I've used GA since it came into existence on multiple different properties. I know how it works, unlike the Austrian government, apparently.

My hot take: this is further overreach by the EU. By definition, Google Analytics can't be in violation, because the data is anonymous. GDPR covers PII and specifically what can be done with data *tied* to a particular user.
 
GA collects no PII. PII does sometimes end up in analytics data, but that's down to usage by websites in passing in additional data that they shouldn't be. GA3 admittedly doesn't have much control over this in order to explicitly take steps to block it, but GA4 does, and Google will in fact suspend your GA account if they catch you collecting PII.
 
That is actually probably a direct response to legislation like GDPR, but that's all the more to the point: they are complying.
 
These continually moronic governing bodies seem to not be able to understand that a company can't necessarily control everything their users do. They can have terms of service, suspend your service when they do catch you, and make good faith efforts to sus out violations, but it's far too much data to catch everything. That doesn't mean the company is in violation. It means we live in the real world where nothing is perfect.

First off, don't trust anything you see on YouTube.
 
Ideally, yes, your RAM clockspeed should run 1:1 with the FCLK. The "sweet spot" for that is anywhere from 3600MHz to 4000MHz. Lower and you'll be leaving some amount of performance on the table. Higher and you have to run async. 4000MHz is borderline. Theoretically, Zen 3 can hit a 2000MHz FCLK, but in reality that's exceedingly rare. However, you can simply downclock it until you can hit the maximum FCLK. If you do end up running it async, that can carry a performance penalty of up to 25%, but it's highly dependent on the use case. Depending on the game, you may notice nothing, or it could be significant.
 
For what it's worth, since the 5600X is a single CCD design, running 1:1 is not as important. It still effects communication with the I/O die, but you don't have to worry about communication between multiple CCDs with higher end parts like the 5900X or 5950X. 
 
 

Sorry, but this is ridiculous. It's fairly obviously a joke. That's dBrand's style. They act like a-holes as a gimmick.
 
Frankly, the complaint didn't deserve a better response, anyways. The LTTStore gets these same kind of complaints because people can't seem to comprehend that shipping is actually expensive. When stores do free ship thresholds, they're eating a certain amount of shipping costs hoping to make it up on volume. The threshold is necessary to ensure that they don't lose an excessive amount of money. Honestly, if you can't be bothered to spend more than $25, you shouldn't expect free shipping from any retailer. There's just no profit margin there.
 
I vote LMG does more dBrand sponsorships just to spite this lame rant.

Throw the case away and get one that wasn't designed by the drunken dropout from Joe Bob's School of Engineering. There's literally no intake. That poor little lonely 120mm fan is trying to suck air through glass, which isn't exactly a permeable medium.

Throw the case away and get one that wasn't designed by the drunken dropout from Joe Bob's School of Engineering. There's literally no intake. That poor little lonely 120mm fan is trying to suck air through glass, which isn't exactly a permeable medium.

U12S is the better cooler, but not really better enough to warrant almost double the cost in your case. The Duo is still a good cooler. I'm not sure about the ease or not of installation with it, as I've never owned one. Noctua's SecuFirm installation is second to none, though. Either should be capable of cooling something like the 5600 when or if you eventually upgrade.

Yes, it's single rank. The spec sheet lists that it's 1RX8 (single rate, 8bit)

It seems to be okayish. Multicore is a bit higher than simply removing power limits but not as high as a good OC can potentially reach. Single core seems to fair better, outpacing or match some of the highest numbers for that.
 
I can't speak from experience on the 12700K, as I don't own one, but my 5900X fairs better on multicore (though, with four extra threads) but not nearly as good on single core. That lines up about right with E cores making up some of the 12700K multicore performance while having stronger single core performance overall than the 5900X.

As far as I'm aware, there are no games. Last I heard, the first expected to use it are coming in 2023.
 
You have to realize game development takes years, and something like DirectStorage is fundamental enough that a game needs to be designed around it. If a developer started right when DirectStorage SDK was finally released (March 22, 2022), even 2023 would be an extremely optimistic time to start seeing games using it.

As far as I'm aware, there are no games. Last I heard, the first expected to use it are coming in 2023.
 
You have to realize game development takes years, and something like DirectStorage is fundamental enough that a game needs to be designed around it. If a developer started right when DirectStorage SDK was finally released (March 22, 2022), even 2023 would be an extremely optimistic time to start seeing games using it.

As far as I'm aware, there are no games. Last I heard, the first expected to use it are coming in 2023.
 
You have to realize game development takes years, and something like DirectStorage is fundamental enough that a game needs to be designed around it. If a developer started right when DirectStorage SDK was finally released (March 22, 2022), even 2023 would be an extremely optimistic time to start seeing games using it.

I can hear the silence of the LTT screwdriver critics. @Imbadatnames care to enlighten us with your amazing wisdom on magnetism of how crap LTT's is? 

RAM capacity doesn't matter unless you don't have enough and start paging to the filesystem. You seem to be getting close to that if you're using 10GB of your 12GB already, but assuming you're not paging yet, then adding more RAM will have not have an impact on your performance.
 
You should monitor your RAM usage, especially while gaming to verify that you're not exceeding your capacity and not paging. If you aren't, then you're safe to hold out, as adding more will do nothing currently. Now, that doesn't mean you won't start exceeding it next week, since you're getting close, though. So, you can either continue to monitor occasionally or just go ahead and add more to have some safety overhead. Just know that it's likely not going to make a difference in your performance.

Probably, but it's not the lack of RAM really that you're feeling. The CPU is doing work and needs to be essentially fed in order to keep doing that work. The RAM is what is feeding it, so ultimately it can only work as fast as it's given stuff to work on. If your RAM is exhausted, the system must start to page data in and out of RAM using the vastly slower storage of your machine. Even the fastest Gen4 NVMe SSD is order of magnitudes slower than RAM, so this has the net effect of slowing down that feeding process of the CPU. That then obviously affects the ability of the CPU to work as quickly as it can, resulting in things like stutter. It's the CPU that's causing the stutter, and you'll see that regardless of how much RAM you have if it's just not fast enough in general to keep up with the workloads being handed to it. Exhausting your RAM just makes it worse.
 
 

RAM capacity doesn't matter unless you don't have enough and start paging to the filesystem. You seem to be getting close to that if you're using 10GB of your 12GB already, but assuming you're not paging yet, then adding more RAM will have not have an impact on your performance.
 
You should monitor your RAM usage, especially while gaming to verify that you're not exceeding your capacity and not paging. If you aren't, then you're safe to hold out, as adding more will do nothing currently. Now, that doesn't mean you won't start exceeding it next week, since you're getting close, though. So, you can either continue to monitor occasionally or just go ahead and add more to have some safety overhead. Just know that it's likely not going to make a difference in your performance.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Censorship is about preventing information from becoming public. The problem is that people have broadened it to apply to any sort of drivel one might want to excrete from the lower hole in their head. The whole point of moderation is to keep a platform useful for its users by culling unnecessary and/or useless content. Moderation is *not* censorship. There's a whole host of unquestionably valid reasons to remove/prevent content on platforms. As such, your real problem is not with censorship, but with the definition of unnecessary and useless. You can debate that, but calling it censorship is inflammatory and completely incorrect.

The problem is people don't understand censorship. Stopping your ability to complain incessantly about something a company has already publicly acknowledged is not censorship. It's simply culling noise that adds no value to the platform or anyone using it, as they explained in the post.

Should be fine. Install each kit in a separate channel, though. Don't mix the 8GB and 16GB sticks in the same channel.

Should be fine. Install each kit in a separate channel, though. Don't mix the 8GB and 16GB sticks in the same channel.

My only problem is with the use of censorship. It's simply not censorship, in any form or fashion. It's a moderation choice. You can disagree with that choice. That's fine. You can argue that these types of posts should not be moderated. Fine. I disagree even there, but you're entitled to your opinion. However, calling it censorship is factually wrong, and it dilutes the gravity of actual censorship, which is real, and already far more diluted than it should be.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Censorship is about preventing information from becoming public. The problem is that people have broadened it to apply to any sort of drivel one might want to excrete from the lower hole in their head. The whole point of moderation is to keep a platform useful for its users by culling unnecessary and/or useless content. Moderation is *not* censorship. There's a whole host of unquestionably valid reasons to remove/prevent content on platforms. As such, your real problem is not with censorship, but with the definition of unnecessary and useless. You can debate that, but calling it censorship is inflammatory and completely incorrect.

The problem is people don't understand censorship. Stopping your ability to complain incessantly about something a company has already publicly acknowledged is not censorship. It's simply culling noise that adds no value to the platform or anyone using it, as they explained in the post.

My only problem is with the use of censorship. It's simply not censorship, in any form or fashion. It's a moderation choice. You can disagree with that choice. That's fine. You can argue that these types of posts should not be moderated. Fine. I disagree even there, but you're entitled to your opinion. However, calling it censorship is factually wrong, and it dilutes the gravity of actual censorship, which is real, and already far more diluted than it should be.