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  1. Dimwitted
    How much was the total build worth? Luke: what did you think of that Lian Li case? It looks great when finished but it seems to be a real PITA while you rebuilt over and over again. Was that just you? Would going down to 2 way SLI fix the micro stutters and issues or is this a Titan X issue?
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    Hard to say. What do you know about Pok3r? Are they a manufacturer or just a rebrander? What switches do they use? Knockoffs or name brands? Ducky has been in the biz for years and they make a good product. I would trust them over a Chinese knockoff brand.
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    It won't affect anything. There are enough resources available that will bring another competitor out. On the cpu side, Samsung, any one of the flash guys, the Atom guys, yadda, yadda, yadda. So no change there. And NVidia still has to contend with the largest gpu manufacturer out there. They certainly can't sit on their laurels and watch their market share vanish just because a competitor went tits up.
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    Whenever PCPartPicker doesn't have pricing it means that the product is out of stock. More than likely to be discontinued. It makes sense, the 300 series cards superseded the 200 series. There must not have been a lot of 280x in the supply chain. BTW, for those that keep recommending 200 series cards as cheaper alternatives to the 300's, it's a temp situation. Grab them now while you can.
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    Another excellent reference guide is http://www.realhardtechx.com/index_archivos/PSUReviewDatabase.html for checking up on any particular psu. It's handy to see who the OEM is for each unit and they keep this fairly up to date which is nice.
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    The FD is nice but pricey. The EVGA is only $50 vs $65 for the Corsair and $110 for the FD. The EVGA is a HEC unit, the Corsair a CWT (of course!) and the Fractal a Seasonic. The biggest deal is that the EVGA isn't modular vs semi mod for the other two. Pays your money, takes your choice! For those putting up those wattage figures remember he's going to overclock the piss out of the chip. That's what it's there for but normal draw does not apply and you have to take that into account. 550W gives you just that little overhead that's reassuring.
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    Actually, Cannonlake is delayed. And it was just a tock, supposedly a new process size of 10nm. Buuut that's been put on hold and Kabylake will go in its stead. What differences between Kaby and Sky actually are remains to be seen and is waaaay too far in the future to worry about.
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    I would go with a 550W just for surety. XFX makes a good unit. If you're going to stick with a little watt unit I would recommend an EVGA 430W over the Corsair.
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    Dimwitted replied to Jerakl's topic in Networking

    TekSavvy is a good niche isp. Caveats... they run off of Bell out here and probably Telus out there. So if your wires are crappy now, they won't improve with TS. As an ISP tho, they seem pretty much on the ball. Very self serve. You buy the modem. You install all your stuff. You choose your apps. If you need the pablum that the telcos serve you won't like TK but if you don't want that sort of locked in ecosystem, TK can work for you.
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    Linus needs to give John more credit! And we need to see the builds better. Luke's build looked really interesting and was basically glossed over.
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    Go to Carey Holzman's site and watch him build computers. He just uploaded a file of him building various builds for over 10 hrs. If you don't know what goes where by that time you need help before you try to attempt a build.
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    Since this is going into a prebuilt I wouldn't be going too wild on the psu. First you need to make sure that it will fit. Measure carefully. For that sort of machine I would look at the Antec Earthwatts series. Good quality, excellent pricing, but they don't look "cool". They also aren't modular or any sort of jazzy that is so attractive to the modder crowd. That said, they work. A 380W would do you just fine and it's in the old style with the fan in the back which might work better with that HP case. I doubt HP puts vents with dust screens in their cases for the psu like the regular case manufacturers do.
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    Are you planning on O/Cing? If so, then I would up your psu to something better. Even plain, I'd still go better with the psu, minimum gold like a XFX 550W or an EVGA 650W GS. Both will serve you well and won't break the bank.
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    If you're O/Cing, that 550W is way too weak. It's a good psu, just over its head. I would recommend either 750W or 850W and make sure it's a good one. Gold, minimum. EVGA G2 or GS is the way I'd go.
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    How the hell is he going to get the sugar out after he does the bends? Luke's little rad is so far superior it isn't funny. Does anyone know what cpu Linus has? How much tdp does he have to move? This is so great to watch!!!!!!!! BTW, if John doesn't answer the door Linus is screwed on the blocks. What then?
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    Even with brilliant engineering it would be marginal because of its age. I doubt it was brilliantly engineered. I would be using something much more modern. Even something as simple as an Antec Earthwatts 380W psu is far better than that.
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    That's tricky. 4 ghz isn't much of a speed boost. That's more like Turbo which is built into the Intel spec. The way I see it, the difference between the "Turbo" speed and the official rating is the amount that Intel has improved during production. And that Turbo speed isn't hard on the chip at all. You get it for nothing. Once you go past that, up to max clock then things get interesting. Increase in voltages, increase in heat, more stress. The whole point of the K chips though is their capabilities to carry that load.
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    On the topic of size, it's getting very interesting on die size. It used to be that the die shrink gave power efficiency which was nice for you, but it also meant that there were more chips per die so it got cheaper to manufacture. We're now at the ragged edge in tech for shrinkage. Broadwell was the first mass market 14nm cpu. Copperwall will be the first mass market 10nm chip. The difference between Haswell and Broadwell is not huge. Better TDP but that looks like at a cost of overclocking. There's just no way that those tiny traces will support monster voltages that it takes to get high chip speeds. And just as interesting is where all this extra real estate is going. It looks like the GPU side of things. Iris 6200 looks pretty good and you basically get it for free with every cpu. Zen better be spectacular.
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    In the latest Intel nomenclature notice the suffix. How long it holds is unknown but so far, Intel is making it easy to keep it straight. Anything ending in well is basically the same architecture. Anything ending in Lake is the same architecture. Since the "Lake's" are coming after the "Well's" they are a newer chip. How good that is is open to conjecture. The Lake series hasn't debuted yet. Now, to add to the confusion, the -E series is also available. Well-E are a different slot size, chip size and a different chipset. So a Haswell and a Haswell-E are completely different chips, platforms and pricing. Yet are assumed to be in the same "family". Oh joy.
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    I'm not a great fan of CyberLink. If they had kept it simple and efficient it would be good but it's blown up to be unwieldy and unstable. I'm also using Aiseesoft Bluray utility and it's great. I did get it at the Giveaway of the Day website but it's not showed up again. It doesn't have too many bells or whistles but plays what I put in the player.
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    I would rate them just about equal. Same tech, same build quality and pretty close to the same price. The Be Quiets look a lot better though.
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    I disagree. I'd take a CWT Corsair over anything Sirtec. That's damning with faint praise because there's a lot more units I would pick before I got to that Corsair. And even worse, what OP posted doesn't seem to jibe with the list which has stood me in good stead for a couple of years. I don't know what he posted but I wouldn't trust it.
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    According to my psu list the V2 series only comes in a 550W and 700W version. It's made by Sirtec and it doesn't look to be very good anyway. You'd be much better to stick with the Hale 82 which is Seasonic or Hale 90 which is SuperFlower.
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    The big problem is generating fresh content that is relevant to the mags demographic without it being stepped all over by the 'Net. Notice the huge rise in the Tech YouTuber. Jay would be a columnist in PC Mag 10 years ago. Maybe one of the editors. Someone that is there month after month, and you buy the mag because of him. Now, it's far more dynamic, way more intense and far more current with excellent cross references while you consume the content. Hard to compete with that. Funnily enough I was talking to 2 of my friends about this today and their consensus is that they don't read. Almost period and don't feel deprived. The fact that the ad supported publishing industry is failing apart doesn't bother them the slightest.
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    It's worth exactly what you paid for it. Look at the XFX line. Frequently on sale and for $50 you can get a damn good psu.
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