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    EK in hot water again?

    If you're taking the stand that "AIO will do 90%", why bother with the AIO at all? A Peerless Assassin / Phantom Spirit will do 85% and be more reliable than cheap AIOs.
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    EK in hot water again?

    My split is currently: Either go Peerless Assassin / Phantom Spirit for <$40, or grab a D5 and a good rad and you'll have the core of a WC setup basically forever that will outperform those aluminum AIOs.
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    EK in hot water again?

    Unless you really need the simplicity or preconfigured disco lights, my usual answer here is "none". Go grab a D5, a radiator that matches your desired case size (I like full tower cases with a 420mm rad myself), a tube rez for easy filling, and a waterblock. Much higher quality in the end...
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    Windows 10 users: Get ready to be bugged about creating a Microsoft Account

    I’m sure that integration is all great if corporate security doesn’t lock you out of it all. Even if I was one of those guys willing to buy a personal MacBook to use in parallel with my work one for all the integrated features with my iPhone / whatever, it still doesn’t solve the issues that...
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    Windows 10 users: Get ready to be bugged about creating a Microsoft Account

    I really don’t know how people tolerate MacOS. It’s stuck on an ancient version of bash and command output doesn’t match Linux meaning you can’t do local development for a Linux environment, and compatibility with other desktop software isn’t there. 2 weeks ago we had a client call using MS...
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    Apple Plans To Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips

    I presume the tablet is screen extended over the network? It’s neat in theory, but completely useless when using VPN for work. The SSH case is valid though, for needing almost no hardware - VPN in, ssh to your real host with access to everything, and off you go. Could almost use an old 2010...
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    Samsung Readies 290-layer 3D NAND for May 2024 Debut, Planning 430-layer for 2025

    Fine with me, especially if they go back to lower latency NAND. I’d much rather have a 1Tb latency optimized SLC NVME drive than a 16 TB QLC drive. A low latency drive really improves the use case I want a NVME drive for. For bulk storage, I’m still fine with spinners
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    Apple Plans To Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips

    The problem here is that I strive to never use any of those HIDs, so they hold almost no value. For work, I'm using a windows laptop because WSL is where it's at - my servers are Linux, so I want to actually be using Linux for anything local. At home, I dock my laptop and use a full sized...
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    AMD Confirms Zen 5 will Get Ryzen 8000 Series Branding, "Navi 3.5" Graphics in 2024Z

    I'm most interested in running Distributed Computing projects on my host while also using it for other things. If I'm not gaming my GPU is running Folding@Home and I'm almost always running 28 threads of something like Universe@Home. I think a 7950 is the best solution for my use case, but...
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    Best options for folding on multi rtx 4---- cards?

    As I've been thinking about it, if I were going to try to fold with 4x cards, I'd probably build one system now with 2x 4090s and use it as a learning experience - a benefit is I think you can get away with running dual 4090s on air in the right case, you don't have to worry about exotic power...
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    Distributed Computing on Raspberry Pi

    Anyone been playing with raspberry pi 5s on raspbian bookworm?
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    Best options for folding on multi rtx 4---- cards?

    I didn't see any suggestions for power limiting the cards. Basically all of the Nvidia cards going back to the 980 have the maximum efficiency at 55% power limit +/- 5%. My 3080ti kicks out dramatically less heat at 55%, and bumping it up to 110% really cranks up the heat but adds less than...
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    NVIDIA rumored to be preparing GeForce RTX 4080/4070 SUPER cards

    Based on the 4070ti Super, it might be the L2 cache makes a larger difference than initially expected. Edit - to expand on this idea: 4070ti super -> 4080 super: 25% increase in L2 cache, 18% more performance. 4080 Super -> 4090: 12% increase in L2 cache, 13%more performance Probably need...
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    Sweet, sweet music to my ears! :D Next year I'm going to begin the recruitment earlier and buy more hardware to try to pump those numbers even higher, as now there is a target to beat. Might be a good idea to keep some discussion going about software to track the race and see what we can make...
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    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    I read through the linked article in post one. It mentions apps like Apple TV, Apple Arcade, Zoom calls - all things that are very stationary, or contained within a single room. All the same tech for those use cases would likely be best served NOT in the headset to lighten it up and increase...
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    There is one or two batches of WUs that pay really poorly right now. I’ve seen 11m WUs on my ti super.
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    The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale in the US on February 2 for $3,499

    I have a hard time believing that we need 10-20 years. A 4090 for each eye should be plenty of processing power - I think the mistake at the moment is trying to haul the whole PC around with you.
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    AI Accelerator Cards in Desktops?

    Like make Siri not pause my ESPN stream every time I get in the car to play “baby sleep white noise”? Seriously, I don’t care that I’ve played “baby sleep white noise” for 20,000 hours, there is no situation ever where I want to play it as soon as I get in my car.
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    NVIDIA rumored to be preparing GeForce RTX 4080/4070 SUPER cards

    Blackwell may be delayed. If it’s significantly delayed then what Makes sense changes. https://www.thefpsreview.com/2024/01/30/rumor-nvidia-planning-geforce-rtx-4090-super-ti-24-gb-and-new-titan-rtx-48-gb-following-delay-of-geforce-rtx-50-series/
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    AI Accelerator Cards in Desktops?

    3 under 8 - how could you tell :D
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    AI Accelerator Cards in Desktops?

    Green eggs and ham. I will not eat them in a box I will not eat them with a fox I will not eat them Here I will not eat them There I will not eat them anywhere I do not like them Sam I am I do not like green eggs and ham
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    Speaking of showing up for the beatdown, did anyone tell [H] the contest has started? Should we remind them?
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    For anyone following along, the first day on the 4070 ti super was approximately 14m points.
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    Best I’ve seen is 1m ppd on the iGPU on a 7950
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    Just checked another WU - 15.4m PPD. I've got too many systems attached to my account for a clean reporting for PPD, but I've been around 30m ppd for most of the month, so I'm hoping the Ti Super pushes me up at 45m (ish) ppd by the end of the week.
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    I’ve only seen 1 WU on it so far, so I’m hoping 12m is the low and the high is closer to 17m. I’ll know more once it’s had some time to run.
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    12m ppd so far in Windows 11. I’m hoping it’s going to pickup to something higher on a different WU
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    Asus TUF 4070 Ti Super. The 4080 Super is almost certainly the better option, but if I waited I couldn't use the new hardware on the race. As it is, the Ti Super is dramatically faster than the 1080ti that I was using on that box.
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    I’m 27th? Gotta be kidding me. Good thing I just drove over to microcenter for reinforcements. Bye bye 1080ti
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    Look at that - TAAT is going to pass [H] tomorrow in total team points.
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    AI Accelerator Cards in Desktops?

    Gonna be an issue when some college kid comes in that coasted though school on AI comes and rocks with the best AI answers.
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    Annual Folding@Home bigadv EOL 5th Anniversary Challenge

    The contest, to my understanding, is team overall scoring. I'm tracking the Team Anandtech total output per day and I'll be posting in our F@H forum thread. If no one else is doing it, I'll probably post the overall standings somewhere as well, but I won't be tracking individual users personally.
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    NVIDIA rumored to be preparing GeForce RTX 4080/4070 SUPER cards

    Based on Tech Spot's averages at 4k, the 4070 S and 3080 are pretty close. Looks like if you want an upgrade from a 3080 and don't want to wait for the 5xxx series, you'll need to start at the 4070 Ti Super.
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    NVIDIA rumored to be preparing GeForce RTX 4080/4070 SUPER cards

    The business side of this isn't hard to understand. If you're selling out of a product (including but not limited to Video Cards), make more. If you can't make more, raise your price. Keep making more and raising your prices until you still have stock - your product is priced appropriately...
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    NVIDIA rumored to be preparing GeForce RTX 4080/4070 SUPER cards

    Kind of annoying that they are releasing them from the bottom up. I'm in the market for a card to replace a 1080ti, but have by far the least interest in the 4070 Super. Would much prefer to see how 4080 Super inventory shakes out before having to decide if I want to drop down to a 4070 ti S
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    NVIDIA rumored to be preparing GeForce RTX 4080/4070 SUPER cards

    Hahahaha- good joke. We all know that the actual price of the 3080 was at least 1200, because you had to pay a scalper to get one, or spend $600 of your time trying to get lucky. The crypto market set the price, and ai will continue to set the price going forward. We won’t see 699 80 series...
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    AMD Ryzen 8000G Processors Launched for the AI PC Era + 5 series updates

    It might make sense for that one off build, except you have to pay for it every time you build a new machine. Presuming she has an existing system, you could just carry over the GPU from that into the new system and costing you nothing, instead of paying for iGPU transistors. I've been moving...
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    AMD Ryzen 8000G Processors Launched for the AI PC Era + 5 series updates

    Yes, the 7xxx series has the iGPU. I currently have a 7950 sitting next to me with the iGPU disabled. It's literally wasted transistors - any use of the those transistors would be more useful to me than an iGPU. As I think about it, you know what I want more than Cache? Use that same...
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    AMD Ryzen 8000G Processors Launched for the AI PC Era + 5 series updates

    I'd much rather they dump the iGPU and use the same number of transistors for a L4 cache. Would be more useful that an iGPU I'm always going to disable and never use.
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