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    SSDs Lose Data If Left Without Power For Just 7 Days

    http://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/Alvin_Cox%20%5BCompatibility%20Mode%5D_0.pdf At 30 degrees C it is rated for 1 year. At 40 degrees C it is rate for 3 months. At 60 degrees C it is rated for about 1 week. Who keeps the SSD unpowered somewhere where the ambient temperature is 60!!!
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    Why are Nvidia's coolers so much better than AMD's?

    http://videocardz.com/images/2013/11/GeForce-GTX-780-TI-PCB-vs-GTX-TITAN-vs-GTX-780.jpg Case closed guys, they're all COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
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    Why are Nvidia's coolers so much better than AMD's?

    780 ti is 99% the same chip as titan (with different fuses blown)... so yes it's going to have aftermarket coolers. Relatively the 290x is a completely different chip compared to the 7970...
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    Why are Nvidia's coolers so much better than AMD's?

    If the temperature rises the fan speed rises, just like in every GPU ever. All that has been added is a fan cap which defines a limit for how noisy you want your GPU to get beyond which the GPU self regulates its temperature by downclocking. If you care about noise: This is a much better...
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    Why are Nvidia's coolers so much better than AMD's?

    AMD has a reasonable/cheap reference cooler so partners can have their own better/unique solutions that give better cooling and more performance. Due to the way the new AMD cards work, the best/only way to significantly improve performance on them is to improve on the cooling. In the past it was...
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    Full R9 290x and 290 specs revealed

    A lot of if not all features of OpenGL 4.4 overlaps a huge amount with dx 11.2 and Mantle, So I'd guess it'll be a driver update to make the cards compatible with 4.4.
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    Origin PC drops AMD graphics options

    It's illegal to pay another company to stop selling a competitors product. It's that simple. Intel did the same thing against AMD a few years ago, It fucked them over and they had to pay billions in fines years later, but by that time they'd already gotten a huge marketshare of the CPU...
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    Proposed i7 system - advice needed

    Hyperthreading makes little difference in gaming (sometimes 3% better, sometimes 3% worse, 95% of the time it makes no difference) If you cut down to 8GB of RAM and buy a 4670k instead, you could buy a much better graphics card with the same budget. You will have a MUCH better system. I...
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    Proposed i7 system - advice needed

    Jesus Christ! Someone make this man buy a decent GPU + monitor. This is possibly the worst and weirdest build I have seen in a while. None of the office applications will be faster because of the CPU, only an SSD will make them snappier. What will make you massively more productive is a...
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    intel hd 4600 iGPU good enough for flash?

    I very highly doubt she needs a processor that powerful (pretty much the only thing that can remotely test a cpu like that is games...and with no awesome graphics card...it'll never get pushed). If you're worried about graphics power, in terms of getting the most powerful non-discrete...
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    Quiet Gaming PC Build (~ $3000)

    It's rarely cost effective to go the buy X graphics card now, SLI/Crossfire it later- Do it at the start or don't bother. 1. You need to preemptively buy a more expensive motherboard. 2. You need to preemptively buy a more powerful/expensive PSU. 3. You need to make sure they're cooled...
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    SLI or New Graphics card for BF4

    Nvidias "new" cards already came out, and they're not exactly better. The 780 is a cut down titan. The 770 is a renamed 680. The 760 is a renamed 660.
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    15 year old with a build idea... help!

    You're missing a case, and possibly a dvd drive, If you plan on overclocking the cpu - a decent heatsink/fan would be useful.
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    Intel's Iris Pro:

    1. They have a process advantage that gives them significantly lower power consumption/higher clocks/more die for graphics. 2. An easy way to lower power consumption on GPUs is to increase die area and create more graphics units, they just clock them lower as using a higher clock speed uses...
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    Anyone concerned that 2gb Vram will become obsolete once PS4 and Xbox One launch?

    Or many more textures Or higher resolution geometry Or higher resolution shadow maps Or larger game worlds Or a huge reduction of load times as you can cache a lot of things Or better animations etc.
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