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    Sweet Baby Jeebus Alienware 55" 4k120 OLED Displayport

    The Alienware unit is most likely an LG 2019 series OLED Television with an additional DisplayPort 1.4 The 2019 LG OLED TV series will have: - full HDMI 2.1 (incl. full bandwidth, VRR, ALL, the works) - 120Hz OLED refresh rate and input (via HDMI 2.1) - 13 ms lag The reason why this is not...
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    Has the gaming monitor market become stagnant ?

    Yes, there is stagnation for now. Most people are waiting for some of the following or combination of thereof: - True HDR with 1000 nits peak brightness with quantum dots or 500+ local dimming zones - Full REC.2020 color space and nice calibration out of the box - True 120Hz+ refresh rates -...
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    Archival Disc, when?

    Announced in Q1/2016 with the first 300GB "Freeze Ray" aka "Archival Disc" standard discs for commercial data storage installations. Apparently Facebook is one of the first test and/or production customers: freeze-ray: Optical Disc-Based Data Archive System | Panasonic Let's hope it catches on...
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    Worth waiting for Broadwell-E?

    Did the following for my X58 Nehalem i920: - Xeon X5675 hexa-core off eBay + new cpu-cooler. Hopefully will get 4.2-4.4GHz out of it. Let's see. - Lycom DT-120 PCIe x4 + Samsung SM951 AHCI - should be bootable and c. 3x faster than SATA-3 on this - ASM1142 based USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C + Type A...
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    Worth waiting for Broadwell-E?

    Great find, thanks! Already have 1 850Pro 1TB, could easily buy another one and RAID those. Would finally have enough space on the system drive for all the apps and games :-) Had not checked the StarTech M.2 interface, bummed it is SATA3 not nvme. Ah well. Currently I cannot find any PCI-e nvme...
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    Worth waiting for Broadwell-E?

    Thanks. Hunting down x5680 now locally first, then on eBay. Hopefully will get beyond 4.5Ghz. Am thinking of upgrading the CPU cooler and de-lidding the Xeon to get down the temps. Next stop: Find a way to build M.2 RAID 0, perhaps using this M.2 RAID Controller from StarTech: 2x M.2 NGFF SSD...
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    Worth waiting for Broadwell-E?

    Where did you read this? Can't find any info on Skylake-E or the new HEDT chipset (X99 successor) roadmap. I'm almost pulling the trigger on LGA2011v3 with Broadwell-E in H2 2016, when they hopefully chip, BUT: - Still no M.2 RAID 0 booting on X99 (minor letdown) - nVidia Pascal and AMD...
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    Worth waiting for Broadwell-E?

    In the same boat. Running i7-920 Quad (8xHT) at 3.5Ghz/12GB RAM/SATA-3 SSD Samsung 850 Pro/GTX970. Pretty much everything runs, and fast. Browser runs from RAMdisk and is insanely fast. However, when I do a lot of things at the same time, I can saturate primary core and often multiple cores...
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