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I made this video about the evolution of Intel CPUs for a school project, and I thought it might be interesting for some of you here on the forums to watch The video covers Conroe to Sandy Bridge in detail and includes "apples to apples" (as close as I could) benchmarks for everything from Conroe to Ivy Bridge. Enjoy

I find it astounding that the silicon industry is still managing to push the existing limits of it's technology. The latest technology to push the fold is EUV Lithography.

It all started back in around 2008 when I was able to finally convince my parents to buy me my very first computer, after spending hours of time at the school library afterhours just to play runescape, and getting in trouble for installing Warcraft3 on a science lab station computer. I was finally indulged by my very video game disapproving father with a 199$ notebook from Costco. I played League of Legends when it was in Open Beta, I played the alpha version of Mine-craft and even picked up playing Team Fortress 2 at a competetive level a good three years into owning the 25FPS laptop setup (I only got to silver in highlander). But it just not that enjoyable of an experience, I ended up hating the situation that using the small and clunky keyboard that was with the thing I could use and my roller ball USB mouse was a nightmare to utilize, and it was way worse than you could think it was, I ended up making the laptop a psuedo gaming tower by turning it heat sink side up, hooking a VGA monitor to it and using a USB keyboard and mouse on a desk made of couch tables. So I had worked my way onto craigslist and ended up trading my Laptop for a solid Full ATX sized Gaming computer in 2012. with reasonable specifications and hardware for a gaming computer, in my mind. Unfortunately I was vastly mistaken, I had ended up inheriting a computer that was made around the same time my laptop was, and while the computer was probably rock solid back in 2007, it was 2012 dude. The AMD Quad core was rocking a ,to this day, unknown chip-set with an amazingly fast 4 GB of DDR2 RAM, A Radeon HD 5870, 2 500 GB HDD from Seagate (in raid 0, which I only found out was the case just recently as I upgraded the beast, more on that later) and a stupidly overkill 1000W Server Power Supply from Great Power (See image Attached) and had this relatively low to mid tier setup for around 2 more years untill I finally turned 16 in 2013 and worked my first job at a roller rink. Where I spent all of my first 4 paychecks into buying an Nvidia GTX 970 SC from EVGA. While this enormously improved the quality of GPU centered games. I would have horrible mid game crashes due to CPU bottlenecking and have weird situations where in games would be running fine for hours and then not be able to run more than 20 FPS until an entire system restart was preformed. And now, as a full time enterprise communication helpdesk worker, I was finally able to put the parts that I wanted and made this frankenstein of a computer. Full list of PC parts and Image of final setup below. Case - Antec Twelve Hundred V3 Power Supply - Great Power, 1000W Semi-modular Server Power Supply Mother Board - ASUS H170-Plus D3 CPU - Intel Core i5-6400 Cooling - All-in-one Closed Loop Corsair H75 Water Cooled Heat Sink Ram - PNY Anarchy 16GB Kit (2x8GB) DDR3 2133MHz (PC3-17000) Storage - 1 TB Seagate Hardrive, and a 128 GB ADATA SSD (And a Blue Ray Optical Drive) With this set up (Running at 1080P 60Hz) I have never run into a single game that I cannot run at Ultra setting with AA and MSAA under 60 FPS, and I cannot be any happier. I would love to get some input on what I can do to this setup to make it a "better build" and I love to hear any feedback that more experienced PC builders may have for a new builder like me. Cheers! Update #1: I do just want to make it clear I did not purchase either of the case or the PSU, they both came inside of the older computer package deal I traded my laptop and tablet for on craigslist, should I be looking to change the power supply/case?

I'm looking for 1440p ips displays and I was originally going for the ASUS PB278QR but I found this: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Perfect-Pixel-QNIX-QX2710-Evolution-II-2560x1440-27-LED-PLS-Monitor-Glossy/141491366098?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107090050%26meid%3Dbbeba92c7e1240f686999c91ccc62527%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D140932730742 It's about $250 cheaper than the PB278QR and it can be overclocked, although it doesn't support hdmi, but that's not really too much of a problem and display-port apparently works with an adapter. Is it worth it? Or should I go for the PB278QR?

Hey guys - I'm working on an assignment and my chosen topic is Evolution of Software (Windows). I just need some dot points... 1. Factors affecting the evolution process: 2. Why is software evolution necessary? Thanks in Advamce

Hey guys! I'm a fellow high school student who had to discover a topic that i hold interest in and develop a small research paper for it. I just wanted to ask you guys my question that I formulated and read your opinions and/or ideas. My question that i formulated(which you guys should be familiar with): To what extent does Moore's Law predict the evolution of computing? To answer this question i will be looking into the history of computing and using some computer science to formulate my assertion. REMEMBER i have to use history and computer science together to create the assertion. Therefore, i will look at the data of integrated circuits throughout time and elaborate upon subjects like quantum tunneling when the integrated circuits get too small. Also i ask that your input is valid and if you have sources that would be great. Thank you guys. If you wish to help me privately, email me at jerkingman@gmail.com (Its an old email... i use to do keep myself anonymous... please don't judge me)

Hi all, I have recently been looking for 3dvce but it seems to have been lost/discontinued. you can no longer find the website on google and all links that lead to it come up with a server that is not hosting the site anymore. I have come to a conclusion that It has been lost or discontinued so I am hoping that someone might still have a copy that we can spread to bring it back into the internet community here is a video of this very cool software in action: This was a great program and should continue to live through the internet as much as possible. Basically I am asking if we can set up something to host an unofficial version of this program if someone still has it and maybe even continue updating it

What are people's thoughts on the current IPS monitors from Korea on eBay. This one has particularly caught my eye: http://www.ebay.ie/itm/QNIX-QX2710-LED-Evolution-II-DP-Multi-True10-27-2560x1440-10bit-Monitor-Matte-/201051547487?pt=Computer_Monitors&hash=item2ecf9b275f

http://www.cosmosontv.com/ I've been watching this on Vudu. Even though it's a little bit more theatrical than I would particularly like, it's nice to see a series on television that has actual scientific knowledge. Unfortunately, a lot of what has been shown on the History Channel, for example, is nothing more than conjecture and conspiracy theories. I especially enjoy it because it was my very close second favorite subject in school. Grasping some of the more complex aspects of it was not one of my strong suits. Neil deGrasse Tyson does a pretty decent job with this series. If you have not watched it yet, you should. If you are the least bit interested in science, the series is pretty awesome so far.

https://humanism.org.uk/2014/09/01/evolution-now-part-english-primary-national-curriculum/ Apparently evolution will now be taught to Year 6s as opposed to waiting for Year 10 to start teaching evolution, creationism can now no longer be taught as a scientific theory in any public school around the country. While I do think this is a great thing I was surprised it hadn't happened sooner. Creationism has no place in a science class or any class for that matter outside those revolving around religion.