Recent content by bobkn

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    News Someone cooled AMD's $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with a BMW M4 radiator and some fans from a Toyota Highlander — 1,200 liters per minute pump s...

    I would have preferred a private email response, but I didn't spot an address. 1200 liters per hour is 20 liters per minute, or 1/3 liter per second. Still a high flow rate. (Aside: what sort of person would do that to a BMW M4?)
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    News American lab is developing a BAT laser that could enable 'beyond EUV' lithography, provide 10X power efficiency boost

    Should I have to read the source article to rationalize the stuff here?
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    News American lab is developing a BAT laser that could enable 'beyond EUV' lithography, provide 10X power efficiency boost

    It's fairly common for journalists to confuse watt hours (energy = power X time) with watts (power). I wonder if that is the case here? 6GW (6000MW) run 24 hours a day for a year would use roughly 54,000 GW hours. That'd be over 5000 of the current CO2 laser based EUV machines. (That'd make...
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    How much PSU for 970+970+Titan X ? 3 GPUs.

    The GTX 970 is rated at 145 W TDP. The Titan X, 250W. All together, 540W, as Karl_oh wrote. The I5-4690 adds 84W. 624W. I don't know what to expect for the voltage regulators on the motherboard, so say 80%. That's 780W from the PSU. I guess that you'd want at least a good 850W PSU. I'd go...
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    need help/suggestions about psu i should get

    I'd expect that the problem with an inadequate PSU would have more to do with reliability than performance. The a10-5800k is a 100W CPU, and the GTZ 750 ti is a 60W graphics card. If your 450W PSU isn't a bad one, it should have lots of margin. Don't expect the system to run differently with a...
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    Are these parts compatible?

    http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/B85M%20Pro3/ CPU compatibility: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/B85M%20Pro3/?cat=CPU memory compatibility: http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/B85M%20Pro3/?cat=Memory No Crucial ram on Asrock's list, but...