Recent content by cygnus_1

Looks identical to my CalDigit TB3 mini dock that I've had for many, many moons.

Wild haired future prediction: Apple eventually starts selling their last gen ARM silicon to 3rd parties (keeping newest for themselves) and ends up replacing Intel in the Wintel duopoly with Windows on ARM.

The difference with WindowsRT is in the app stores. Apple already has an incredible amount of ARM based iOS apps that they've already done the ground work to make work in MacOS. I think if they're going to release an ARM powered MacOS device, they will not do it until they can offer the vast...

It's not the end of the world. YOU GUYS are new to Patreon too so I'm not shocked to see it. But that's why I wanted to point it out to others that might also be new to it. Also, that's why I've set myself a reminder to come back to this thread on the 1st and go subscribe :)

I like Patreon, and I plan to pledge for TPU. But not until Feb 1st. And just my 2 cents, you should've held off on this post until Feb 1st. You see, Patreon always bills on the 1st of the month. No matter when you pledge/subscribe, you're next charge will be the 1st of the next month. For...

Oh boy, 33% more power usage and 25% more cores... and it ONLY gets 30% better performance??

I mean, Google might be one way. Check the device IDs on the details tab of the device.... Really though, without knowing the exact model of that laptop, it could be upwards of 10 years since it was released. It's nearly ancient in terms of computer hardware. Did it come with XP or Vista from...

Ok ok, can't be too too mad at Amazon, the monitor has now shipped. So once I've got it setup, I'll write up a quick review and post it here. Any particular aspects anyone wants me to focus on?

I wonder if the question was really geared more toward the issue with the hardware random number generator.

And yet I still don't own a single system with DDR4 in it, all still DDR3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ edit: unless you count the GDDR5 on my GTX 1070. But I don't count that.

Well crap, Amazon just moved the shipment way out. Now says November 23rd to January 14th delivery. So if it hasn't shipped and I see something decent come along for Black Friday, might end up canceling that order. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wasn't so much worried about which gen mode it would run, more how many slots on the card would actually be functional if you put it in an x8 slot on a board that does not support bifurcation. Based on what others have mentioned, I think best case would be a single nvme slot of the card would...

Can anyone speculate how a card like this would behave if plugged into an x8 3.0 slot of an older Xeon E5 system? Any chance it has a switch chip and you can still use all 4 SSD’s? Or would it basically only connect 2 of the SSD’s? Or since the older chipset probably doesn’t support bifurcation...

My GTX 1070 handles my current 16:9 1440p 144hz monitor pretty well. The 5700 XT is more like a Super 2060/2070 speed, so I'm betting it'll handle a 21:9 1440p 100hz monitor just fine too.

5.5 years old isn’t *that* old.... sheesh. They were only discontinued 2 years ago.