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GTX 1080 or Titan X for video rendering?

If it's costing you money / holding up work right now, I would probably take a mild gamble and get the TitanX as I doubt the difference will be large. If it's not holding you up / costing you money, I would wait two weeks because without independent reviews from the more tech-heavy sites, I...
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- Post #3
- May 21, 2016
- Forum: Nvidia
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Am I alone in thinking AMD's Hawaii GPU has aged really well?

Pretty much this. If you think about it, there has to be something else at play than the AMD card improving with age to keep up. :) NVIDIA has long gained an advantage by throwing huge amounts of development resource at making games run well on its hardware, persuading studios to incorporate...
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- Post #48
- Mar 11, 2016
- Forum: AMD
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Do you regret making the upgrade to Win10?

Thank you. I will try this.
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- Post #117
- Oct 12, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Do you regret making the upgrade to Win10?

I do not regret installing Windows 10... yet. Though I may yet revert it to Windows 8.1. I updated one of my laptops to assess it and hated it much less than I expected I would. That may have something to do with the fact I have a Pro licence and have a bit more control over it. I find it a...
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- Post #115
- Oct 12, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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I'm gonna kill MS Word. Display ONE page per window?

Um, everybody? This thread is from 2013. I would imagine the OP has written their own word processor by this point. But just in case it's useful to anyone, this problem doesn't exist in current versions of Word. You just go to the (as you might expect) View tab and click "One Page". You can...
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- Post #25
- Oct 12, 2015
- Forum: Windows
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Help me understand PCIE lanes.

Thank you for that. It was an interesting read. It also confirms what I suspected (nice to be right for once). x16 at PCI-e 3.0 is significant overkill for current graphics cards. x8 at PCI-e 2.0 even seems to be largely sufficient though I suspect we're on the cusp of that no longer being true.
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- Post #12
- Oct 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Zen Features Double the Per-core Number Crunching Machinery to Predecessor

Nice info. One thing I read in another article is that it's going to have 46 PCI-e lanes. I don't know what their source for that is but as someone obsessed with high-speed storage and lots of it, that's another strong positive.
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- Post #4
- Oct 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Help me understand PCIE lanes.

Do graphics cards even need x16 anymore? Genuine question but it seems to me that with PCIe 3.0, capacity has exceeded need. Though if it's not really getting the full x16 PCIe 3.0...? Any reason we wouldn't see graphics cards with a x8 length connector at some point? Is it just for when it's...
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- Post #10
- Oct 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Should AMD release an updated 8 core FX (improved cores, smaller process)?

I would. I'm currently waiting to see how a few things play out before spending the large amount of money necessary to upgrade from where I am (an FX-8350). A compatible but upgraded 8 core using the technologies refined for Carrizo would make a moderately priced nice little bump in performance...
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- Post #46
- Sep 30, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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How do I make an executable bash script?

Whilst I can't know that your script is running without seeing it in action, my strong suspicion is that it's running fine. You could test by adding a line that wrote to a file or similar. Now ask yourself what you would expect to see if your script were running... (no seriously, ask yourself...
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- Post #9
- Sep 15, 2015
- Forum: Open Source
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Legality of charging for Linux?

There are formal audits of much Open Source code. GNU/Linux runs most of the world's Internet backbone with IIS making up the rest. You think nobody ever professionally audits that software? Like most software, it depends what it is. As to security and bugs, "Open Source" is no more nor less...
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- Post #36
- Sep 15, 2015
- Forum: Open Source
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Legality of charging for Linux?

You have to make available the source code for any GPL software you provide. So it wouldn't have to be on the disc, you could have it publically available on your website, guarantee to send a copy of the source code promptly on request, and so forth. But you're in violation of the GPL if you...
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- Post #35
- Sep 15, 2015
- Forum: Open Source
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How long do you estimate games will need more than 16GB RAM?

Possible but unlikely. You don't even need 4GB today and could do 4K gaming with 8GB reasonably well. So unless the next generation of consoles have enough processing grunt to do 4K resolutions (doubtful to me), there's little reason to outfit them with the amount of memory you would need to do...
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- Post #11
- Sep 8, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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SQL Server - Inserting Records into Table Produces Different Ordering

As another poster has already explained, you have a fundamental misunderstanding. The records DO NOT HAVE an order. The INSERT is not "ordering your records". That statement is absolutely not correct. Your response is a little like someone saying "okay, I get that a cockatoo is actually a bird...
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- Post #9
- Sep 7, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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6700K or 5820K?

Databases and VMs. I want the cores, I want the threads. So 5820K it is. And I would go to the 8 core model if prices were remotely sane. :(
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- Post #169
- Aug 23, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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My first build with an AMD FX-8350 I am hoping it will be ok for encryption

That makes it look pretty good to me - which is unsurprising due to the high number of cores and that this task doesn't have a great need for non-integer calculations. Your chart puts the FX-8350 up in the top third of the graph alongside the i7-4820K for example. Also, to reinforce my point...
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- Post #17
- Aug 3, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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My first build with an AMD FX-8350 I am hoping it will be ok for encryption

Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Assuming what you want is to have your local harddrive(s) encrypted, this processor is fine. You'll see a minor performance hit on SSD's with encryption (but all chips will have this) and a smaller performance hit on HDs (because SSDs are faster than HDs the...
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- Post #16
- Aug 3, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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My first build with an AMD FX-8350 I am hoping it will be ok for encryption

For encryption / decryption, it's not the number of cores you are looking for. This WOULD be relevant and technically could be, but it is nothing compared to what you really care about, which is whether the processor has built-in hardware support for encryption. Which the 8350 does. I swapped...
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- Post #11
- Aug 2, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Win 10 updates can't be disabled

I'm not so bothered about security updates being unblockable (whilst understanding and agreeing with the reasons of people who are). But I am bothered by feature updates being unblockable. That's a big negative to me. Suppose the Windows 8 UI changes had been an upgrade to Windows 7 itself. You...
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- Post #17
- Jul 18, 2015
- Forum: Operating Systems
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If Fury is overpriced, why is a $1000 Titan-X acceptable?

It seems to me that AMD are in a situation a little similar to what was true for women in the workplace (thankfully largely changed in most industries now): you have to be twice as good to get equal respect. It's not quite that bad for AMD, but it's pretty clearly the case that as far as many...
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- Post #157
- Jun 26, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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8GB 290x or 4GB Fiji?

Can't properly answer this until we see benchmarks and costs for the new card. But if offered the choice between the two right now, I wouldn't hesitate to grab the new one. It's still going to be at least a couple of years before you suffer in any meaningful way, imo, from not having 8GB...
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- Post #27
- May 31, 2015
- Forum: AMD
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Do you think that HTTP is antiquated and should be replaced?

Ah, chrstrbrts weekly essay question. I do wish you would at least tell us what marks we're getting from your tutor when you hand these threads in! I'm guessing there's a good chance you're joking as we're on the AT forums but I don't know you and I know that the OP might not pick up on this...
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- Post #20
- May 4, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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How does the server scripting engine know to whom to send a new page?

Okay, then let me rephrase things in less uncertain terms: "You do not want to do this." There are things you know. There are things you don't know. Then there are things you will regret knowing. Just trust me, get the hang of the normal way of doing things first. A piece of advice that will...
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- Post #18
- Apr 27, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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What role does server software play?

Having answered several of your previous questions here on disparate areas of tech, I'm starting to side with others in that this feels like your homework questions. You could at least tell me what mark I got on the database module! I'll be charitable and answer this one briefly. The server...
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- Post #9
- Apr 27, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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Upgrade now or wait for Skylake??

I personally would wait... but then I have no pressing need to upgrade right now. What are your actual needs? Are you a gamer, a programmer, spend your day posting on Anandtech forums? If for example, you're a gamer, then the 4790K is probably going to be adequate to your needs for a good long...
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- Post #3
- Apr 26, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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How does the server scripting engine know to whom to send a new page?

@OP. I think you've basically got it by now. Stay away from the concept of server pushing to the client. There are ways to do it, none are standard, all are a minefield resulting from the fact that they're working against a basic design principle of the web. Client asks, server provides. I get...
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- Post #15
- Apr 26, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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SQL and MySQL

I would dispute that. If you were to phrase it as "you don't need Postgres for 90% of cases", then I would agree. But assuming someone has equal knowledge of both MySQL and Postgres, I don't see why one wouldn't use Postgres for those cases, either.
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- Post #11
- Apr 23, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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SQL and MySQL

Community Edition not acceptable for some reason?
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- Post #8
- Apr 23, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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Why more Vram is always better

I like to future proof. But a graphics card is a package of multiple elements. If I want that card to still be viable in 2017 it's not a case of making sure that one element of it is still viable, they all have to be. I don't need 8GB of VRAM right now, 4GB of VRAM is plenty. In two years time...
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- Post #29
- Apr 23, 2015
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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When will we see Skylake E?

Occasionally getting out of bed, looking at AMD's market share and financial woes, then going back to bed. (And occasionally having bad dreams about ARM. ;) )
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- Post #8
- Apr 23, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Azure versus AWS for webhosting

I am moving away from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) which is managing all my own VMs just as if I had my own datacentre and all the headaches that go with it, and moving wherever possible to Platform as a Service (PaaS), which is "here is a database, here is a webserver, etc...." Once you...
- h4rm0ny
- Post #3
- Apr 23, 2015
- Forum: Programming
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SQL and MySQL

This is correct. SQL is a language. Many different database systems use it. MySQL simply happens to have it in its name, that is all. To get started, you want to pick a type of database (such as MySQL) and download it and install it. You'll then have the software running and you can start...
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- Post #6
- Apr 23, 2015
- Forum: Programming

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