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And we went over this already that there are actually 40 lanes to play with. 16 from the CPU and 24 from the chipset. Unless the motherboard manufacturer totally screwed up filling all the slots should pose no problem.

I guess the moral to the story is that if you basically tread water in your product development in terms of IPC performance for almost a decade even AMD can eventually catch up.

Because that's all they put on the CPUs. You still can't seem to put together any sort of specific hypothetical use case where it's going to actually pose a noticeable limit to yourself though. Or even, how about some benchmarks showing where it's a real limit vs. the Intel CPUs with more lanes?

He's not going to notice that either.

Yeah, but what actual use case are you going to push more data than that simultaneously? Even a 10GbE copy to or from a NVMe x4 drive isn't going to hit that (presuming it actually all has to go through the CPU and can't be handled DMA style directly by the chipset).

And the Z370 chipset for Coffee Lake has 24 more lanes. So there are 40 total to work with in a Coffee Lake system. The 16 from the CPU will go to the graphics card. The 24 from the chipset will support the rest of your crap. Again, you're creating a problem where there isn't one.

Of course it will work. However, I don't think you understand what you're talking about. The CPU has PCIe lanes and so does the chipset. For example, the Z170 chipset has 20 lanes and the CPU has 16 lanes. So the graphics card connects to the CPU's 16 lanes. That leaves 20 from the chipset...

For what? I have a feeling your "need" doesn't actually exist. You're not running a 3-way or 4-way SLI setup, so...

It's simply Intel's response to AMD's high core count CPUs. Even the typical power user can't take advantage of either, but Intel already had the CPUs being sold as Xeons, so they disable ECC make an i9 SKU and sell them for big money to the high end enthusiast market. More money for Intel...

If you mean the host OS, no.

I beg to differ. It's bad for any sort of scrolling too.

Don't lose the keys and what do expect from a cheap appliance on wheels?

I watched it tonight. It was dark and rather depressing. It certainly wasn't a typical uplifting feel good X-Men movie. It had the vibe of a bad episode of The Walking Dead where they're lamely killing main characters off for the sake of reminding the audience that no one is safe. (FWIW, I...

With current software for the typical user there's very little benefit beyond 4 cores. My main desktop has 8 cores / 16 logical threads and it's only well utilized with video compression and when mass converting audio files.

That sounds like your place of employment, not work.

So this one arrived in my mailbox over the weekend. I think it looks quite sharp in person. It's a little on the large size, but I knew it would be a little bigger than my reworked G-Shock MTG-520. After reading the English manual for the functionally identical European version since the...

No, I haven't. I've been meaning to watch it, but I was holding off until I watched X-Men: Apocalypse because of the order they were released in and thought it might have been like watching movies in the other MCU universe out of order when they build off one another. However, after watching...

I haven't seen it yet, but heard the same thing. I have the Blu-ray, but haven't watched it. I watched X-Men:Apocalypse last night for the first time (in 3D from Blu-ray). I thought it was kind of meh... I mean it was okay, but I wasn't sucked into the plot. I didn't really have much...

One that hasn't been released yet? The 1180/2080?

Isn't Deadpool in the other MCU, the one with the X-Men, not the one with the Avengers/Dr. Strange/Shield/Hydra/etc.?

Of course it's not going to flicker. It's not a CRT. A LCD is a sample and hold display. It just updates less frequently.

And last night I watched Dr. Strange for the first time. Also in 3D from Blu-ray. I enjoyed it, but it feel a bit like a 2 hour introduction to magic in the MCU and not so much a standalone movie.

At my stage of life I'm not really interested in tinkering around with any of my computers with any frequency. I'm good with building them so they'll be well suited to do what I want, but after that I expect them to be very reliable and just work.

I finally got around to watching Ant-Man tonight for the first time. I watched it in 3D from Blu-ray. It was quite enjoyable and I thought it was pretty good.

That all depends on what your priorities are.

100TB RAID-1 would be pointless?

I haven't reinstalled regularly since Windows 95/98 days. Windows 2000 and later have been pretty robust.

I'd better get a couple then.

Will you have to hold your pinky finger to the corner of your mouth when you say the price?

So you'll miss about 1 octave of little sparkle and sheen on the very top end. I wouldn't expect that to be so bad that you'd want to stop listening to music, but I'm not in your position.

eMMC isn't really an embedded SD card (not sure if it uses eMMC).

That stops you from listening to music? Do you have something other than normal age related high frequency loss?

What new music or new to you music are you guys listening to these days? I spun Lindsey Stirling's album Shatter Me the other day and found it rather enjoyable. I also recently picked up a few Gareth Emery albums and a couple of Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep albums also. I'm looking forward to...

Maybe you can get it vaccinated.

That's pretty typical. The highest output mode of most lights step down after a fixed length of time due to thermal concerns.

The benchmarks I saw seem to show they can reach the max clock speed with single threaded performance in the 15W mode.

I finally got around to making my first steak in the sous vide last night after not using it for several months. I bought a whole tenderloin from Costco, cut it up, seasoned the steaks, and individually vacuum sealed each steak. All but one went into the freezer. I cooked the one I didn't...

I think that's also unlikely. Perhaps the 8650u was used in laptops configured for the up TDP of 25W. My experience with Intel Turbo Boost is that the temperature of the chip has pretty much nothing to do with the clock speed as long as you're not right at the very limit for CPU temp...

Those results don't make any sense. Single threaded is only 5% faster max presuming you don't hit the TDP. Multi threaded will be TDP limited with both. There can't be a greater difference between the i7-8650 and the i7-8550 than the i7-8550 and the i5-8250.

But I didn't say anything about ionizing radiation. I seriously doubt there is any health benefit to carrying a device around on your body that is constantly transmitting in the 600MHz-2.5gHz and 5.0gHz range.

Why did you automatically discard the i5-8250U? It's a real quad core. It just lacks hyperthreading. From my quick look, I certainly wouldn't pay more money for a 8650U over a 8550U.

Case by case basis. Might be in a pocket, might still be where it was before. Its still not in a pocket an appreciable percentage of the time. Perhaps you should refresh your understanding of the word radiation.

Usually on my desk at work, the counter at home, or a side pocket on my laptop bag in the car. I figured you for someone concerned about the radiation of your phone and would be against keeping it on your body.

Do you wear a 3 piece suit with your phone on a chain slipped into a front pocket of your vest too? I don't, so getting at a phone in my pants pockets while sitting wouldn't be easy.

I don't keep a cell phone in my pocket. Additionally, it's easier to glance at my wrist then wrestle a cell phone out of a pocket then have to put it back in. Finally, we're back to the hours / days of battery life situation with a phone.

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What condition precludes wearing a watch? One more thing on "smart" watches... I have this crazy idea that a watch should have a battery life that's measured in years, not hours or days. One of the Casio watches I bought and mentioned in the OP is solar powered and long as it gets regular...

I don't know about "many", but some... I tried a smart watch that was given to me as a demo unit at my last job. I didn't find it to be remotely useful or worth even a fraction of what it cost. I left it on my desk when I left the company. What's your point?

Okay, so maybe we do need one of these... I don't have any really expensive luxury watches. Just a few nice Casio watches. These three are post Christmas eBay pickups (bought new). Casio Ediface ERA500DB-1A Casio Ediface EFM502D-7AV Casio G-Shock G-STEEL GST-W110D-1AJF - Haven't received...

I'm right there with you on IoT things. I generally avoid "smart" appliances and other devices because I'm pretty sure having them isn't real smart. Up until it died unexpectedly I was happy with my current Weathermatic electronic controller. I see no value in "smart home" integration like...