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Butts. I may have to just use the AOD then, I just kept mine off for battery reasons.

I went to my local Best Buy to see if I could play with the phones. They had them but the demo stand wasn't charging them so they were dead. I'd definitely be happy with the feel of the 6, it's all of 1/2" taller than my P2 and only slightly wider. The Pro looked 3/4" taller. Tomorrow I'll go to...

The wait for these phones has been hard, and seeing some of the issues makes me sad. I bought Pixel 2's for my mom and I in Nov 2017, and my sister got one shortly after seeing ours. All three phones had been awesome for so long, and there hasn't been a Pixel worthy of replacing them until the...

I started playing Centipede, Jumpman, etc as a kid on the family 286. 386 I had to turn off Turbo mode and it was still too fast for my Jumpman and Centipede. It did let me play some early Carmen Sandiego and other cool side scrollers though, so progress was made. Then came Doom/Doom2... The...

Bring it on. My X58 system has been a trooper for 12 years meow. It's had upgrades like a hex-core Xeon but retirement is overdue. I'm lacking the instruction sets for some newer games so I keep playing older ones. Hopefully Alder Lake is successful and DDR5 is at least on par with good DDR4...

We just moved into our new build. Upgraded cables wasn't a listed option but when I asked they offered CAT6a for $50cdn extra per drop. The bulk cable is double the cost, plus the different hardware, so it was delightfully cheap to upgrade. Best time to get cables run!

My understanding is that VA tv's and VA monitors aren't in the same league. Bigger pixels are easier to produce and TV's pay the bills, monitor tech lags behind as a niche that's harder to deal with. If I was to (finally) retire my 12 year old Panasonic plasma I'd be out looking at VA. For...

I backordered a 2nd LG 27GL850 at a sale price, so I'm cautiously optimistic that there won't be a better option for the price in 2021...but if there will be I need to know soon haha.

Well after probably 2-3 years of infrequent freezing at Win10 login screen, and only occasionally giving me a blue screen during those freezes, it's finally made a couple minidump files. Code 0x9C, it could have told me earlier but nooooo. "0x9C = QPI/VTT most likely, but increasing vcore has...

Yup, and this has been stable for years too. My 920 overclock degraded from 4.2 to 3.8 before I went x5670, and this has been going at 4.0 for years (I could only get 4.2 anyway). At some point hardware just goes. PSU is a 10-11yr old Corsair HX1000, mobo is 10, etc.

Death Stranding was on sale a few weeks ago, but looking at the requirements I was surprised to see AVX specifically mentioned. We don't have that instruction set sadly. Are we finally getting to the point where we won't be able to run modern things? I'm getting tired of the random freezing and...

My LinX score matched close enough to my GFlops from 2015 so I didn't think about it.

I just built an i5-4670k machine for work from used parts, figured I'd compare it to my trusty daily 5670@4GHz. Same 1600MHz 16GB DDR3 (different brand/timings, but close enough). 5670: Cinebench R15: 908 Cinebench R20: 1857 HyperPi 0.99 1M 19x: 22.x seconds LinX 0.6.5 8192MB, problem size...

My x5670 6c12t @4GHz just got 1857 on R20. Stock i5-4670k I just built for work got 1409. The i5 blew it out of the water on HyperPi 1M though, 12sec vs 22sec. And Linx 173GFlops vs my 72GFlops at the same settings.

It's taken Intel until Coffee Lake to have a mainstream processor to adequately replace my X58 Xeon hex, and soon it'll have the same performance. Great, haha.

My 980 with a bit of overclock sits at 60fps vsync on Ultra at 1920x1200. I set the FOV to 90 before I started, 75 didn't sound right. The graphics may be more of the same, but it looks awesome and considering the age of my machine I'm thrilled that I get to still play new games. The story...

But it'll be the best in the world because it won't kill us all? I hope our new robot overlords will be kind.

No, it just prevents me from giving myself a protected title to try and make myself sound more important than other people.

I have an electrical engineering degree from a good Canadian university. But because I haven't gone through the long post-grad process to become a Professional Engineer, I cannot legally call myself "an engineer" at all in Canada. The term is protected federally, and regulated by provincial...

Someone should have wrapped up the station. Now it has space aids.

Wow, finally a game that I want to play that my 980 won't be enough for at 1200p@60Hz. Thanks for another great review guys!

One day Intel/AMD will finally give me a reason to upgrade from my X58 Xeon. Either that or this 8 year old hardware will finally shit the bed.

Having recently built a Ryzen B350 system for my parents, I look forward to seeing an out-the-door mature platform that may finally replace my X58 Xeon hex system. The Ryzen processor is impressive, but the platform experience has left a sour taste in my mouth.

You'll wonder why it's there, but they will still somehow find a way to turn on that check engine light.

Another gap to next series? It's been so long since series 9 that I forgot when the 10th was going to start, and my fb feed so devoid of 10 talk that I didn't know it started until the series was over. Now over a year wait again?

The onus is on her to say no. Cya later, life.

The new site loads quite quickly on my old Galaxy S5. I really like not having to load another page to read a piece of news, I was shocked at how quickly it displays the content. Looks great so far! :)

One of my best friends and his wife refuse electronic toys for their 4 year old son. They both went through elec/comp engineering with me, so they're not luddites, they just know the risks. Her mom is retired and stays with them for daycare. Little dude runs around and plays with cars and Duplo...

If you're going to stay X58: Don't bother with trying to stay triple-channel, the benefit just isn't there. Dual channel kits are cheap and plentiful. A couple years ago I went from 3x2gb to 2x8gb as I was running out of memory in games, it was a great upgrade and made things nice and smooth...

Steam's browser works, Origin's is slow and annoying. At least ME3 is ok with alt-tab when I need to check something.

My first one died when my cat puked on/in it. My 2nd one is still running as the main router at my parent's place (wired mode only), feeding a gigabit switch and a basic Asus N router (as AP) at the other end of the house. They worked well on DD-WRT/Tomato, stock firmware couldn't keep up to...

I just ordered the 4TB Deskstar NAS drive. I couldn't remember if my X58's SATA ports would work with 2.2TB+ so I took the 3TB Green out of my external enclosure and tried it out (success). Hopefully Newegg doesn't destroy it, at least with the retail packaging it should have adequate protection.

I'm always guilty of that last point, but my upgrade patterns lean towards buying better gear for longer term use. I don't leave my machine on all day, it's only on while I'm using it or occasionally if it's working while I'm away.

My X58/ICH10R doesn't support SRT, unfortunately. I know I'm missing out on a lot of modern features by continuing to use this platform, but the gains per dollar just aren't there yet. :( So far the only downside of a NAS drive is the TLER is lower and expects the controller to take over...

How do the Deskstar NAS drives compare to the 7K4000 series or WD Blacks? Newegg 4TB for $210cdn.

Shortly after WD took over HGST they spun off the shite factories to Toshiba and kept the good ones. Toshibas apparently aren't very reliable as a result. :(

Well after 6 years my trusty WD Black 1TB Black is calling it quits. I have everything backed up, but the bad sector wormhole is growing so it's time to go. This is my intermediate drive, between my SSD and WD Green, and is used for my documents/Outlook.pst/photos/games. I keep any current...

System is back together properly, and 10 installed and activated without a single hitch! :) What are you guys using for chipset drivers? Thank you guys so much for helping me through these last few weeks, it's much appreciated. :)

Tentatively SOLVED. Tentatively as in I have to rebuild my main machine to spec and get on with it. I just got home 30 mins ago from my motorcycle course, thought I'd try the mouse swap with the E8400/P45 machine. It was freezing as usual, so I booted it up without the Spawn mouse plugged...

I haven't done an install with more than the one drive plugged in for 3 weeks and change. Cleared out all partitions to unallocated space, hit "next" to let it create its own partitions.