Recent content by EMsky

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    News Best Deals on Tech and PC Hardware 2020: CPUs, SSDs, PCs and More

    Just some FYI: Some of these prices were a lot lower earlier this year. The 970 1TB evo nvmes were down to almost $50. The 980 2TB pros hit a low of $89. I bought a 4TB mx500 ssd for $169. Right now, the 970 1TB evo prices are the same prices that I paid during last year's black friday. AS...
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    News GeForce RTX 4060 Launches on June 29th for $299

    Ok. Let's be real. When you stop looking at the people who are paid to upsell the 40xx series cards and you get into real world results, the 4060ti was essentially a rehashed 3060ti with new video encoding processor and a reduced buss, which caused games to crash on 4k, while the 3060ti did...
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    Discussion When Did It Begin? 386 to i9-13900KS

    When did things change? Well being a programmer myself, I have been analyzing this myself for years. I think there are multiple places and mindsets that has enabled this terrible realm of computer programming. I have programmed on a 14 Mhz 8086 processor before. I had a massive 192 KB of ram...
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    News Asus Demos RTX 4070 GPU With Zero Power Connectors

    A neat idea. But what will happen with the GPU sag from a massive 4 slot cooler? Will it snap the connector, causing the power pins to touch each other, thus, turning into a mini arc wielder? How many people will assume that the connector would be the perfect thing to keep a 4 slot gpu from...
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    News Stable Diffusion Benchmarked: Which GPU Runs AI Fastest

    Thanks for the info. There are not too many benchmarks for AI out there yet, so I am happy to have this reference. Now I do have a question: what is the performance with NV Link and dual video cards? Lambada did NV Link tests with the 20xx series cards on deep learning, but not on any other...
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    News AMD K6 and FX-8350 Re-Visited Against Modern CPUs: Ryzen up to 910X Faster

    Back in 2005, I had a top of the line asus gaming laptop. it took about 10 seconds for windows xp to boot. Today, my processor is about 123x more powerful. I have 64x the ram. And my nvme is about 88 times faster than my old 7200 rpm sata 1 hdd. but yet, windows on my computer today takes...