a laptop is a waste because the screen is too small.
I can use recycled parts to build a ryzen pc for under $250. I only need cpu mobo and ram. I have all the other parts.
can't hit that price target with any laptop.
even my old i7-6700hq plays AV1 4k24 no problem though, but with 50% cpu load.
for me, the bar needs to be 4k60 AV1, now that youtube and netflix are pushing for av1.
I'm itching to build a pc for my mom, who uses an ancient athlon64 x4.
She uses the pc 12 hours a day, and the pc idles at 77...
i don't know much at all about cpu tech.
but rocket lake will still be 14nm, right? does that matter?
My main objective is to keep the lowest electricity bill with everyday pc usage conditions.
for everyday internet browsing and video watching, no more than 50% average load, do 14nm intel...
i wonder how intel Xe will compare to cezanne vega.
obviously you're not gaming for shit on either one
i'm disappointed that cezanne won't be future proof with lack of AV1 hardware decoding
4k60 av1 videos are brutal on the cpu.
i'm leaning toward intel now because of av1 support
I was looking forward to zen3 apu, but i might have to settle for a rocket lake budget cpu because intel xe will be the first to support av1 hardware decode.
if intel keeps the $180 price for the i5 11400, that could be a better bargain than the upcoming $150 ryzen 3 5000g with 50% more cores...
It's weird. I have a new 860 evo 500gb, and I don't even see SLC cache speeds.
in CDM, it will benchmark at 500+MB/s write
but if I copy a 65gb iso file from my nvme drive to the 860, when I look at windows task manager, it immediately tops out at 440 MB/s and holds there until 30gb when it...
Any explanation why?
My asus GL502vm laptop has pcie 3.0x4
These are the results, me vs them (reviewers with same drive).
after installing samsung driver, speed improved a little bit, but still significantly slower than in the reviews...
depending on quantities ordered,
Regular usb-c controllers cost $3-5.
Thunderbolt 3 controllers cost $5-8
http://ark.intel.com/products/87401/Intel-DSL6340-Thunderbolt-3-Controller
If the price difference is so little, why aren't more laptops using thunderbolt?
Just add the $3 to the msrp.
eh?
Any electrical engineers or geeks.......
my klipsch computer speakers use a 4 gang b50k pot to control master volume to 4 satellite speakers.
4 gang pots are impossible to find.
Can I substitute one b50k dual gang pot and wire it to the empty pin holes that the 4 gang used to occupy?
all my other laptop hdd's do not spin down if i set it in windows.
Toshiba, seagate.
But these WD's have it built into their firmware, I learned.
I can confirm that this WD Blue spins down in under 2 minutes, because if I try to read or write right at the 2 minute mark, I can hear it spin up...
I just researched this last night, and WD green drives have an 8 second spin down time out !
Fortunately this is a storage drive. I suppose I could get used to the spindown
Are 2.5" hdd's designed to spin down even if you set Windows to make it never spin down?
I just bought a 2.5" WD Blue wd10jpvx as a second internal drive in my laptop, and even though Windows power settings set the hdd's to never spin down, this WD Blue still spins down after about a minute and...
if AMD was so sure their cpu would perform well in the future, they should have demo'd a piece of software that could take advantage of their "highest possible instructions per watt".
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