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I got this laptop 3 years ago as a gift loved it, it was a msi ge70 2pe(16 gb ram, gtx 860m) i loved it at the time since all the games i got on it were from last gen (xbox 360, ps4) and it ran them on max at a nice frame rate never really knew about all this stuff so i cant get a definite frame rate. I also had a ps4 which ran games at the same level as my pc so it was always an issue where to get a new game but i mostly got it for my laptop since, i got a laptop for a gift was its portability since i moved from home to home and only had 1 hd tv in one house(in my room). So the question is this laptop was 1000-2000+dollars plus but recently learned that i see many laptops with much more vram for 1000 + or even less so question is is my laptop overpriced and how can i sell it to make a much more powerful desktop since i moved and now stay in one house and leave my laptop in one place staitnonry and i removed my battery. PS: Still love this laptop just it struggles with new games now such as bf1 and now im leaning more to the ps side thou i play some games on the lowest graphics with low res i really dont care about res and get high frame rate like in the witcher 3 i get 70 + with setting down and get 30 with high setting 1080 just like ps

So there I am, all excited that I just received my new ethernet crossover cable so that I can finally get some stuff off of my laptop and on to my desktop. I open the package and admire the cable in all of its glory. But I noticed that there is something else in the package. Something... a little unexpected: Yes, that's right. With my ethernet cable, I received an 80 calorie bag of Krave Chocolate Cereal as a prize. I've heard of prizes in cereal boxes, but never prizes in cable shipments - where the prize was cereal. Is this customary? I've ordered other cables, but never from Monoprice.

Say Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? The 2014 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists in Japan and the US for the invention of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs). Professors Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura made the first blue LEDs in the early 1990s Professors Isamu Akasaki: (85 years old) professor at Nagoya University (Japan) Hiroshi Amano (54 years old) professor at Nagoya University(Japan) Shuji Nakamura (60 years old) College of Engineering at the University of California Why is this a thing? Why did the committee bring this up now? As you guys know , Nobel Prizes were established to recognize developments that delivered "the greatest benefit to mankind". Although red and green LEDs had been around for many years, blue LEDs were a long-standing challenge for scientists in both academia and industry. Without Blue LED's our world would've been completely different as , the three colours could not be mixed to produce the white light we now see in LED-based computer and TV screens. something you take for granted as you're reading this in your color monitor right now..Working together and separately, Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura devised those bright blue beams from their semiconductors Furthermore, the high-energy blue light could be used to excite phosphorus and directly produce white light for the basis of the next generation of light bulb. This enabled a new generation of bright, energy-efficient white lamps, as well as Color LED screens. Making the announcement, the Nobel jury emphasized the usefulness of the invention, Nobel laureates will receive the title a diploma & a gold medal and about $1.1 million in award money.. Those who are still wondering why this is such a "Big deal", for scale it to 30 years of persistent innovation for the invention of Blue LED diodes As you can probably guess the guys who got nominated also was shocked to hear the surprising news, as they were not actually prepared for this prestigious Honor , the responded on the term "Unbelievable" , Humbly said..softly spoken.. So Next time when you line up you PC case with strips of blue LED's think of these three & how they changed your world for the bluey better Original: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29518521

Well guys the exams are just around the corner! Plus I have participated in this art competition in which I will get prize! So wish me luck for both of these things! (Can't wait to know the art's result!)

*NOTE: The following text comes directly from the article and has been specifically picked out to summarize the article, I do not own any of the written articles below. How to Build a Brain-like Computer: What if you could build a computer that works just like the human brain? The Human Brain Project kicks off Oct. 7 at a conference in Switzerland. Over the next 10 years, about 80 science institutions and at least 20 government entities in Europe will figure out how to make that computer brain. The project will cost about $1.2 billion euros -- or about $1.6 billion in US dollars.The research hinges on creating a super-powerful computer that’s 1,000 times faster than those in use today. If you’re keeping track, that’s an “exascale” supercomputer, one fast enough to model a nuclear explosion or the complex, planetwide forces that shape the climate. Just a few years ago, scientists started using “petascale” supercomputers like Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Illinois that went online last year.“Well-known manufacturers of supercomputers like IBM, Cray, Intel, and Bull, are committed to building the first exascale machines by approximately 2020. So we are confident we will have the machines we need,” Henry Markram, the director of the Human Brain Project at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, told FoxNews.com. Markram also directs the Blue Brain project started in 2005 that hopes to reverse-engineering the human brain by rebuilding the molecules. The brain is the least understood organ in the human body. We don’t really know how the brain controls our thoughts, our bodily functions, or our behavior. And, Markham says the lack of processing power in modern computer is the least of our worries. He says a computer brain will consume gigawatts of power, require new forms of memory, and force scientists to look at cutting edge storage techniques. But the immense technical hurdles will be worth the effort. Article: http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-build-brainlike-computer-131007.htm Original: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/07/how-to-build-human-brain-with-computer/ Nobel for Trio Who Took Chemistry to Cyberspace: Stockholm — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for developing computer models to simulate chemical processes, providing a revolutionary tool for drug designers and engineers. Martin Karplus, a U.S.-Austrian citizen, Michael Levitt, a U.S.-British citizen, and Arieh Warshel of the United States and Israel were honored "for the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems," the Nobel jury said. He said that it was "essentially" this programme that lay at the core of Wednesday's Nobel prize, and people benefitted from it to this day. "I was speaking to a doctoral student yesterday and he was able to do a calculation that used to take two hours and now takes a 100th of a second," Levitt said. "It makes a huge difference!" The three combined classical physics with quantum physics -- two previously rival worlds -- in computer models designed to predict chemical reactions.Such reactions can take place, for instance, between industrial chemicals or in biological functions, when an enzyme cuts a protein, a virus penetrates a cell or or a cell divides.The processes can happen in a fraction of a millisecond, defeating conventional algorithms that try to map them step by step. By including quantum physics in the computational mix, the number of permutations for calculation rises hugely, as they incorporate the possibility that an atom is in one of several of the famously fickle quantum states at any time in the processes.This also requires enormous computer power to crunch the data. "Exactly how far they can advance our knowledge is for the future to decide." Computer models had also radically changed the ways chemists do their work, the academy observed. "Today the computer is just as important a tool for chemists as the test tube," it said. The trio will share the prize sum of eight million Swedish kronor ($1.25 million, 925,000 euros), reduced because of the economic crisis last year from the 10 million kronor awarded since 2001. Article: http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/nobel-for-trio-who-took-chemistry-to-cyberspace-131009.htm Original: [uNKNOWN] Possibly this one ^

http://youtu.be/d0HQtOFRj0Y Hello beautiful members of the LinusTech forum, I am proud to present my first motion graphics competition with a prize fund of $400. Prize fund: $400 Medium: Motion Graphics 1st Place - $200 (+uploaded to my channel) 2nd Place - $125 (+uploaded to my channel) 3rd Place - $75 (+uploaded to my channel) Start: April 26th, 2014 Deadline: June 26th, 2014 Result announcing: July 10th, 2014 RULES: 1. The minimum length of your work has to be 20 seconds. The contest intro or any other introductory logos are not included in the time. 2. You have to use the full contest intro at the beginning of your project. Submissions with edited intros will be disqualified. 3. Add "[M2M MOGRAPH COMP #1]" to the video title and link to this page on top of your description. 4. You can submit numerous times, and collaborations are allowed. 5. You can take a part in other contest or as application to any team with your entry, but the contest intro must be first of all, at the beginning of movie. 6. You must be subscribed to my YT channel and "Like" my Facebook: OFFICIAL ENTRY PAGE - goo.gl/U6lLws OFFICIAL INTRO DOWNLOAD - goo.gl/MSNCnf Subscribe to Mannimedia's YouTube channel: goo.gl/q9lpH1 "LIKE" my Facebook Fans Page: goo.gl/h0tJqA Have fun, let you imagination run wild. Cheers, Mannimedia. PS: I apologize if I'm not allowed to post things like this on this forum, I'll willingly take it down if notified.

So as many (if not all) of you know PAX Prime 2013 was a few weeks ago, and i was able to go. I attended a HyperX raffle and won a great prize, a HyperX system built by Origin PC. Here are the Specs: Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600MHz Memory Kingston HyperX 120GB 3k SSD Intel Core i5 3570k Processor ASUS P8Z77I Deluxe Mini ITX ASUS DVD Optical Drive EVGA 500w PSU EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Graphics Card Origin Prodigy System Chassis Origin Frostbyte 120 Liquid Cooling Windows 7 home Premium I know it isn't the best build but i am extremely grateful i got this, especially since it is better than the build i have now. Origin is shipping it to me so as soon as it arrives i am going to do an unboxing of it and take video/pictures for the forum! Thank you all for taking the time to read this post!

INTEL NUC GIVEAWAY DECEMBER 28-31 Our friends over at Intel have been generous enough to provide us with 1 Intel NUC D54250WYKH to give away to the community! Think of it as an awesome belated holiday present from Intel to the community How do I enter? Leave a comment below to enter the draw. One comment (entry) per user. This is a worldwide giveaway. Entries close December 31 at 4pm PT. The winner will be selected on January 1, 2015. WINNER UPDATE The winner of the NUC is KendoSapion! Congratulations!

INTEL 5820K GIVEAWAY DECEMBER 19-26 Our friends over at Intel have been generous enough to provide us with 2 Core i7 5820K 6-Core Processors to give away to the community! Think of it as an awesome holiday present from Intel to the community How do I enter? Leave a comment below to enter the draw. One comment (entry) per user. This is a worldwide giveaway. Also, please mention in your comment what you would do with the processor if you were to win this giveaway! (This will not affect who wins in any way - winners are chosen at random, this is just a way to add a bit of cool community interaction to the contest) Are you a budding streamer or video editor who will use the extra cores for multi-tasking? Would this chip act as the missing piece for a set of workstation components that you've been eyeing? UPDATE 12/27/2014: The winners of this giveaway are: La Jolla Orca and elan2468 Both of you should have a message from me in your inbox. Congrats to our winners, and thank you all for entering!