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Zealot

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    London, UK
  • Biography
    Portuguese in London
  • Occupation
    Analyst

System

  • CPU
    AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
  • Motherboard
    Asus M4A79T Deluxe
  • RAM
    16 GB 1667 MHz (2x8) DDR3
  • GPU
    2 x AMD R9 280X DirectCUII TOP
  • Case
    I can't even remember anything other than Zalman, but only the HDD area is toolless
  • Storage
    1 x Kingston V100+ 256 GB SSD, 1 x WD Black Caviar 1 TB
  • PSU
    Corsair AX860
  • Display(s)
    Viewsonic VX2433wm (24" & 16:9)
  • Cooling
    Zalman CNPS5X Performa
  • Keyboard
    Logitech MX5500, but I SO want to get rid of it!
  • Mouse
    Roccat Kone XTD Optical
  • Sound
    Check the motherboard specs if you want to know, I know I don't :)
  • Operating System
    Windows 7 64-bits Ultimate

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  1. Fixed it for you. You're being woefully naive Patrick. There are loads of markets throughout the world where AMD isn't allowed to compete, like laptops in my native Portugal. Last time I checked there were no Kaveri APUs inside any laptops, there were only old Richmond and Trinity obsolete junk. Even here in the UK it's really hard to find a Kaveri laptop that isn't low-end junk, precisely to protect the margins of the Intel high-end laptops. PC Laptops are part of "Inteldom", and you can't even find an AMD discrete card with it even if you wanted, bar the unappealing expensive option to serve as evidence of the market's business of "nothing to see here, no anti-trust, it's users who are to blame, please move on and don't ask any questions". I understand that this is highly subjective evidence, but you're invited to take a look on market behaviours outside the USA if you want. Yeah, kids these days don't even know about the horrible practices from Intel, and how AMD's management failed AMD by accepting a measely one billion US dollars as a settlement. I say measly because in a duopoly market you can't have one company sabotaging the other, making 3 billion dollars profit for the next 5 years due to that sabotage, and then only pay 1 billion as a one-off payment, leaving AMD without the funds for adequate investment, something AMD is "reaping" now. The dollar devalued a lot as well since then, it was just a bad deal for AMD, but the Executives saw MONEY, grabbed their share of the fresh stuff and bailed, leaving AMD no money for R&D in CPUs, little money for R&D in APUs, and a massive loan to pay for the purchase of ATI, and an expensive deal with Global Foundries that AMD couldn't really support during its lean years of Bulldozer.
  2. Idiot alert! Blames AMD for Sony and Microsoft both buying designs from AMD that don't satisfy his whims, instead of the console makers themselves for being cheapskates.
  3. It seems that very few of you know that with the large majority of TVs having a high input lag (>45 ms), it makes no difference to have more than 30 FPS with those televisions. TVs aren't like monitors. I don't think there's an accurate survey of people's TV regarding input lag when connected to a console, but from what I noticed when shopping for a new TV in 2013, most TV's input lag were around 100-133 ms across most price ranges. So yes, 60 FPS are a must-have for PCs connected to monitors, but for consoles (or even PCs) connected to TVs, it's fundamental to buy a TV with less than 45 ms if you want to even notice 60 FPS.
  4. Yeah in that case I think we need to nudge Linus into reviewing his opinion on the subject. Anyway, obrigado pela resposta.
  5. Really? It's all about marketing? The shame.
  6. Rorgash how come laser has become so popular with mice for the past years if they're that bad?
  7. Since I have the PC in the living room, which I share with my son and wife, noise must be at a minimum at all times.
  8. If I'm not mistaken, those speeds are only for national traffic, not international traffic. I.e., good for connecting to Japanese websites and servers, not that good for international websites and servers.
  9. This hilarious graph of Netflix speeds shows the importance of net neutrality "Speeds on [Comcast] have been decreasing steadily since last fall, but following the deal, Comcast restored all the speed that Netflix had lost and much more in the space of a couple of months." Source: http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/this-hilarious-graph-of-netflix-speeds-shows-the-importance-of-net-neutrality/
  10. MUST. HAVE. ONE. (caps and italic added for dramatic effect)
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