Your unpopular (non-political, non-offensive) opinions!

[Stahlmann]

10 hours ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

Intel is STILL better than AMD

Depends on the exact product and/or price point. Both have good products. None of them is the one go-to option in the whole market.

[Lord Szechenyi]

52 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

Depends on the exact product and/or price point. Both have good products. None of them is the one go-to option in the whole market.

i guess, but overall, Intel is better.

 

(obviously that's my opinion, not a fact)

[Sauron]

17 minutes ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

i guess, but overall, Intel is better.

 

(obviously that's my opinion, not a fact)

Usually people have opinions on things that can't be factually determined

 

it can't really be my opinion that the sky is green

[Quackers101]

2 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

I thought so too. Had a LG 27GN850, which is a gold standard as far as 1440p monitors go. Always thought "why would anywone want 4K on a 27" monitor?". Then i decided to try it out, bought a 27GN950, which is basically the same monitor but with higher resolution. Now a 1440p 27" monitor looks blurry to me. Another story of how you can spoil yourself...

1080p is better than 2K in certain areas, since 2K will look blurry in some content.

Which I would say 4K is better and again gives more details, maybe too sharp at that point too in some areas

Since most content is done in a resolution that might be 720p or 1080p, it doesn't scale always that nicely with 2K resolution as it goes 1.5 instead of 2 pixels, so half of it might become blurry since it's dragged out. while 4K would not have this problem. Which is something I noticed between an older 1080p monitor I had vs a 2K one, were I kind of thought my 1080p one looked a lot better.

 

So if one are the most interested in a good resolution and if having poor eye sight, then miniLED 4K monitors would be the next step than 2K.

Sure it takes a lot more to run, but if you want the resolution over fps, it's better? Else one could just stick with an 1080 with higher HZ.

[whm1974]

12 hours ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

Intel is STILL better than AMD

That highly depends on a number of factors. Both Companies will often Leapfrog each other.

 

1) The AMD K6, K6-2, Athlon... Were great.

2) Intel Core series are also Great.

 

Disasters:

 

1) Intel's Pentium 4 Netburst. Need I say More?

2) AMD's APUs and FX Processors. What what was Management and Marketing thinking? 

 

See what I mean?

[Lord Szechenyi]

1 hour ago, whm1974 said:

That highly depends on a number of factors. Both Companies will often Leapfrog each other.

 

1) The AMD K6, K6-2, Athlon... Were great.

2) Intel Core series are also Great.

 

Disasters:

 

1) Intel's Pentium 4 Netburst. Need I say More?

2) AMD's APUs and FX Processors. What what was Management and Marketing thinking? 

 

See what I mean?

In terms of general use i always found Intel better.

For top of the line performance, it's complicated, but for cheap CPU that's multifunction, Intel is the best.

 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Quackers101 said:

1080p is better than 2K in certain areas, since 2K will look blurry in some content.

Which I would say 4K is better and again gives more details, maybe too sharp at that point too in some areas

Since most content is done in a resolution that might be 720p or 1080p, it doesn't scale always that nicely with 2K resolution as it goes 1.5 instead of 2 pixels, so half of it might become blurry since it's dragged out. while 4K would not have this problem. Which is something I noticed between an older 1080p monitor I had vs a 2K one, were I kind of thought my 1080p one looked a lot better.

 

So if one are the most interested in a good resolution and if having poor eye sight, then miniLED 4K monitors would be the next step than 2K.

Sure it takes a lot more to run, but if you want the resolution over fps, it's better? Else one could just stick with an 1080 with higher HZ.

Yeah with 4K I run scaling at 200% (on a 27” monitor) and you basically get the same crispness on an Apple “retina” screen (though they had 4K on 21.5” iMac). My unpopular opinion is that I’m spoiled by Apple and I like running things at 200% scaling and 32” is way too big a screen size for 4K. 32” should be 5K or even 6K. 
 

Obviously those resolutions aren’t realistic for gaming though...

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

but for cheap CPU that's multifunction, Intel is the best.

Cheaper Intel chips work great for Plex, because the iGPU can defiantly transcode a few streams. Also with having built in video it does make things a bit cheaper in a way. 

[Lord Szechenyi]

59 minutes ago, anodos said:

Spoiler

 

That was going to be my unpopular opinion, and as an AMD fan, it's hard to swallow. My other unpopular opinion is that many benchmarks (and maybe even most) are not useful, and Ryzen's real-world performance is much worse than it looks on paper.

 

I just did a number of tests with a T14 AMD (4750U), an X1 Carbon Gen 9 (i5-1135G7), and a mid-2014 MacBook Pro (i7-4770HQ), all running the same OS. If you look at the Passmark benchmark, you would think that the older i7-4770HQ would struggle behind the 4750U, which in turn would be behind the i5: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-1135G7-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-PRO-4750U-vs-Intel-i7-4770HQ/3830vs3740vs2399

 

I did some tests with Javascript performance in a web browser (Firefox), and Argon2 key derivation, both of which are important for me. I found that the Ryzen is very slightly faster than the i7-4770HQ, but generally on par with it in terms of real world performance, while the i5-1135G7 is double the speed of both of them. Subjective tests back this up, with software launching feeling significantly faster on the i5 than on the Ryzen, and the i7 actually feeling faster than the Ryzen as well. My guess is that Ryzen's fairly awful memory latency compared to the Intels is hindering it here.

 

While we could argue all day about other factors that go into these tests such as other hardware in each machine, whether the tests are truly real-world representative or not, I don't think it's that important. The point is that you would never have guessed by looking at the Passmark results that this would be the case. Maybe Passmark is just not a good benchmark suite.

 

 

 

That too, but i think generally Benchmarks aren't too bad, my real gripe is that i never had any issues with an Intel cpu, not the case with AMD.

 

27 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Cheaper Intel chips work great for Plex, because the iGPU can defiantly transcode a few streams. Also with having built in video it does make things a bit cheaper in a way. 

Cheaper intel chips work for everything.
I saw so many people telling me "4 core aint enough for gaming" while i'm using an i3-10100 (cost me around 110$) and it's perfect in gaming and browsing.

I could have gone with a much cheaper GPU, but i wanted something modern, compatible with lots of things, and i really like a super smooth browsing, which wasn't 100% perfect with my (server) Xeon processor (even though it was 3/4 of the performance of my current one).

 

49 minutes ago, Kylan275 said:

Yeah with 4K I run scaling at 200% (on a 27” monitor)

Damn! i have my pc hooked up to the TV (65 inch) and i'm sitting 3 meters from it, how far are you from your monitor to put it up to 200%?

[FakeATF]

On 4/20/2021 at 3:42 PM, Mister Woof said:

1. Any brand really. It's all good enough...if you're thirsty for it enough.

2. Yes, but I worked in prisons for years so I got used to the cheapest shit on earth. Is good coffee still good? Absolutely. Am I down for a cup of MRE light roast? You betcha.

Coffee Instant Type II or bust

 

Chocolate Milk that comes premade is disgusting. It's weird that it has thickeners. Much better it you make it yourself

[Mister Woof]

Just now, FakeATF said:

Coffee Instant Type II or bust

 

Chocolate Milk that comes premade is disgusting. It's weird that it has thickeners. Much better it you make it yourself

Let's get this on a tray

 

Nice

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

 

 

Damn! i have my pc hooked up to the TV (65 inch) and i'm sitting 3 meters from it, how far are you from your monitor to put it up to 200%?

 

A few feet, I suppose. I know it sounds crazy, but it works for me. I don't feel like I'm lacking screen space or anything. And text and everything look beautiful. 

 

 

[whm1974]

2 hours ago, Kylan275 said:

Yeah with 4K I run scaling at 200% (on a 27” monitor) and you basically get the same crispness on an Apple “retina” screen (though they had 4K on 21.5” iMac). My unpopular opinion is that I’m spoiled by Apple and I like running things at 200% scaling and 32” is way too big a screen size for 4K. 32” should be 5K or even 6K. 
 

Obviously those resolutions aren’t realistic for gaming though...

I'm using a 30" 2560x1600p Display and I have to increase Font size and Zoom Firefox so I can see more easier.

 

32" is to small for 4K. I read a few reviews of a 4K 43" TV that being used as a Computer Monitor and it quite well for that. With 4K you could have four 1080p Windows together. Programmers loved 4K since that increases Productivity.

[Bitter]

4 hours ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

In terms of general use i always found Intel better.

For top of the line performance, it's complicated, but for cheap CPU that's multifunction, Intel is the best.

 

I can't disagree with this. Overall it seems like when you just want it to work Intel always just works. If you want to screw around and tweak and play and have fun, AMD is the way for me with their CPUs and GPUs being much more receptive to messin around with than Intel or Nvidia.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, whm1974 said:

I'm using a 30" 2560x1600p Display and I have to increase Font size and Zoom Firefox so I can see more easier.

 

32" is to small for 4K. I read a few reviews of a 4K 43" TV that being used as a Computer Monitor and it quite well for that. With 4K you could have four 1080p Windows together. Programmers loved 4K since that increases Productivity.

I guess if you're running it at 100% scaling, yeah. 43" would probably be better for 4K. 

 

But after being a long time Mac user, I can't do 100% scaling anymore. Some laptops have 4K on a 15" screen. I guess most desktop users don't want to increase scaling, but I do. Which is why it's unpopular

[sub68]

phones are basically miniature Laptops with different OS and ARM processors

[Bitter]

3 minutes ago, sub68 said:

phones are basically miniature Laptops with different OS and ARM processors

And a worse set of input devices!

[sub68]

Just now, Bitter said:

And a worse set of input devices!

I forgot about that part

[whm1974]

46 minutes ago, sub68 said:

phones are basically miniature Laptops with different OS and ARM processors

Minus a Keyboard...

[it_dont_work]

All Zelda games are kinda shit, not fun, and generally a waste of time with no entertainment value 

[The_russian]

13 minutes ago, it_dont_work said:

All Zelda games are kinda shit, not fun, and generally a waste of time with no entertainment value 

Not going to try to convince you otherwise, but out of curiosity which of the games have you actually played?

[Bombastinator]

On 4/22/2021 at 2:43 PM, whm1974 said:

Minus a Keyboard...

Oh they’ve got a keyboard.  I’m typing on one right now.  It’s a terrible keyboard.  So bad that autocorrect on is actually better than autocorrect off. 

[whm1974]

9 hours ago, it_dont_work said:

All Zelda games are kinda shit, not fun, and generally a waste of time with no entertainment value 

I strongly disagree here.

[whm1974]

8 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

Oh they’ve got a keyboard.  I’m typing on one right now.  It’s a terrible keyboard.  So bad that autocorrect on is actually better than autocorrect off. 

I wasn't talking about the on screen keyboard most cell phones have. I much rather have a slide out one with usable keys.

[Bombastinator]

3 hours ago, whm1974 said:

I wasn't talking about the on screen keyboard most cell phones have. I much rather have a slide out one with usable keys.

The last slide out keyboard with really usable keys imho was the psion5 and that was pre 2000