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I've slept in some very nice beds, certainly better than any I ever owned, but also some that were pretty rough and for a good reason. Some of the most rewarding experiences in life come from stepping out of the comfort zone, both physically and emotionally. Although it is no longer possible to...

In parts of the 80s and 90s I lived like that from one assigment to another. I'm way too old for that lifestyle now.

Theoretically the video will only be at power for brief periods of time in bursters during file processing. It's not used continuously as in games or emulating proteins, preparing cryptobionic monies, etc. I have a 140mm rear case fan that is tied to CPU temperature. There is a slowish 200mm...

I threw out a lot of old stuff during the Pandemoneic times. The last thing I would like to do is remind myself about the old 32-bit computer days. :( I do have an XP laptop or two and a 5th gen NUC with Windows 7, but they take little space. I also have a drawer of old PCIe cards that...

Which ways do the cards blow from the three fans, in or out?

If CL is the same then there is a little improvement with speed, but it is not so sensitive. I prefer CL14 at 3200 (or C16 at 3600) for Ryzen 3. Howerver, I would not pay a while lot more over C16 3200 for a budget build. FWIW, I built a µATX 5700G system for a family member in late 2021. The...

I just assumed that was because the Amazonian sellers have numerous bogus tags in there that cause their useless junk to appear in unrelated searches.

Is it just me or is the Amazon becoming inhospitable? Half the time I am asked to read some illegible codes and can't get it right sometimes. Alternatively there is audio, but that requires computer sound and no other sound. It's ridiculous to do this ten times a day.

What sites show those numbers? I'm really hoping for some improvements over the 3060 Ti.

The EVO 4TB is on sale at $300, which I don't recall from last weekend. Maybe I'll get a couple for now.

The WD and Sandisk TB are backordered. Some people say they are the same drive and both out of production. :( You might say that I have massive needs. The problem is that there are few NAS with over 12 bays or they are expensive enterprise stuff. One can assemble a mid-range SMB NAS with...

What is up with the 4TB SATA SSDs becoming hard to find? I don't know why they never made any newer generations of the 8TB after the early QLC Samsung. If you open up the 4TB TLC drives there is plenty of room for 8TB of flash chips, so the low capacity is just bogus. Is it a scheme by Amazon...

So there is a big difference between the 40 series and 30 series, but not so much in the different ones in each line. I will never be getting the dual encoder types. Which benchmarks are best representative of the DXO, Topaz, PTGUI for example?

I'd like to see the difference in speed between the 4070 Ti and the 4070. The 4070 Ti will be a tight fit, but the 4070 may or may not be much smaller. It looks like there are only a few 4070 Ti that are less than 3+ slots wide and not in stock. It's also a bit strange that many of the same...

So do I need a strong video card for video or is it just for processing files (GPU accelerators) and playing games? I'm really needing to decide what to buy.

You know I did not finish film school. :(

If I decide to get a 4070 Ti, and assuming it doesn't blow up the power, is it enough in the long haul for maximizing the 2560 displays and computing images? I don't forsee getting a 42-43" display during this AMD AM5 era (4th or 5th Geeration RYZEN). They don't seem to be made for 3D...

No it wasn't. That film was stupid even at the time. After The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bostwick was never the same. There were many fine films in 1982 like. Das Boot, Bladerunner, Sophie's Choice, Fanny and Alexander*, The Verdict, etc. If you are from SoCal, of course Fast Times at...

The only connection to the internet would be for the web and emails. PDfs, Docx, Xlsx, etc. would be local over the NAs. We are not into MS, Adobe, Amazon, or the Google.

My phone has now achieved the Androids level 13. I'm not really seeing any difference on the GUI. Is it a worthwhile update, not that I have a choice?

If you were mostly clueless about programming, which kind is best? I need modern hardware support, some kind of Office functions, a bowser (FF?), and an email that will interact with the IMAP. Thanks.

Are you viewing it without glasses? It seems to me that the pixel level viewing distance would require a lot of neck/head movement and the difference between center and edges to eyes would vary a lot. I suspect that at about 0.75m the size would be just OK for full viewing, but would require a...

32" are typically 4K, so the pixel pitch is too small (~0.17mm or 149 ppi) to easily judge images or see the non-scaled graphics in many older applications. For whatever reason they seem to be geared towards the videos, with extra wide diplays 4096x2160 like the CG319X which isn;t the best for...

27'" WQHD is about 109 ppi. That is about the highest resolution where I can see the pixels and read graphics of older applications that don't scale. That's one of the reasons I will not go to higher resolution, besides needing a crazy humongous video card.

I'm seeing up to 230W on CPU bunchmarks, but more like 200W in heavy actual use. My measly RTX 3060Ti only allows 200W, so that's 400W at least. I think the RAM, NVME NAND flash, chipset and PCI cards are maybe another 100W or so. Maybe the total could be 600W at the outlet, but most likely...

I wouldn't know. IIRC in the 1990s you had to buy a Kodak DCS series to get a Canon EOS mount on a digital camera and mostly newspapers and news orgs owned them. Canon did not have FF until Thanksgiving 2002 and I got one 1Ds around March of the next year. I found some download of Canon...

My display that does 23.75-30.5Hz and 47.5-60Hz was about $2500 a few years ago. I could not justify much more money than that for the 27' 2560 display. How is the 120Hz on TV any different from 120Hz on a computer, just because the intermediate frames are faked?

No idea what the number is for me. I don't have any monitors that go over 60 Hz anyway. Maybe something higher would seem more "continuous" to me but I won't know unless I experience it. Also, since I'm using an APU, I doubt I can get over 60 Hz regardless, except maybe with all the settings...

I will defer to your younger eyeballs. I think 60Hz is normal. Years ago I watched TV with the 120Hz setting and after a while it was nauseous. I read about the FreeSyncs if that is similar to what the competitors are doing. I measured my new build and it is limited to 3 slots at the most...

I have no idea what programs you are watching and how your eye can see anything at that speed. It reminds me of Trinton Azeleth. ;)

92°C is with 16T, it's just running into the 95°C thermal throttling at 32T.

I also have a long drive there. The reason to go to a B&M is availability and not having to wait around at home all day for the UPS/Fedex.

I'd prefer a 2-fan card or one that is less than 10' long though it may not happen. My power concerns are mainly about overloading the UPS. Wouldn't a MAC give you the best power efficiency?

DPP doesn't leave any weird files. It's not like that awful LR database and the sidekcik files. :( None of the programs are good at corrections as DPP. Even DXO, which supposedly has some deconvolution processing per lens, was disappointing with some of the Canon zoom lenses. Most people...

After further analysis, it was observed that the maximum reported power is ~230W with SMT enabled and ~215W disabled. I also tried playing around with different lower power limits in the BIOS. Under those conditions the performance was less with SMT, but I have read that some software takes...

Is it ADHD?

I don't find the plain RTX 4070 yet, only speculator commentaries. Does it exist or not?

Never in the history of the world did that stop everyone. Especially since there is no peer review nor quality review of the boggers.

I'm not surprised that heavy drugs would be required for an adult to suspend disbelief in such a ludicrous premise. LOL

People like that probably need medications.

I surely hope that the actual records are kept on some controlled computers somewhere else and the local junk is just for access and office work. I have a countdown clock for Windows 10. After that I'm hoping I can mentally gravitate to

And I don't forgive Sigma from years ago. My 120-300/2.8 and 300/2.8 were the worst and nobody wanted them used. Since my lenses are all on Canon, one of the issues is that there are no lens profiles in DPP. Maybe DXO has them for some lenses but DXO is poor for conversions that require...

I think they look like Windows 11. Maybe in an Intel thread?

Is anyone else finding that the Ryzen 7950x CPU is faster in 16C/16T mode instead of the default 16C/32T (SMT) mode? Is that due to thermal dissipation or thread logistics or what?

Did Canon make power zoom SLR lenses years ago? IIRC Minolta had some motor-zoomers but I did not start using Canon until 2000 (after the 1999 IS big teles changed the game).

I still have those 3x2TB M.2 drives. What are thoughts on using the MS Botlocker for protection? When I put the drives in USB 3.2 enclosures, the 'crypt tools suck the STDs out of them. :(

I'm hoping it's not State Farm. :ROFLMAO:

I find that S*ny sucks 8 different ways, but you like those generic party lenses. :) The most ridiculous part is that they don't make a 500/4 or a single tilt-shift lens. :o I've had so many problems with Sigmas lenses for over 30 years, it's just awful. Ever had a lens that was held...

I used to patronize the FRY's (not the supermarket). You could buy just about everything for electronics and computers. :(

I tried the a7r4 as well and found it too damned noisy, not to mention that AF was rather weak with the 200-600. That was not long before pandemonium ensued and South America and Africa were cancelled. :(