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I'm confused and it seems they are too. HGST is WD. The Hitachi Deskstar drives that they like are now sold as Toshiba, not HGST (a WD company).

My 4770K isn't stable at 4.5gHz. I found 4.2gHz was about the limit for what I'm using it for. I see spikes with that test up to around 80C on the hottest core, but they're only momentary. The average is in the 50's. Running 8 copies of another CPU Burn-in test it gets up to the mid 60's on...

What burn in test?

Doesn't it automatically adjust the voltage based on a variety of factors? My Haswell certainly doesn't run at a constant voltage.

That's not how they work. They use blue lasers to excite yellow phosphors creating white light. The white light is not collimated. It's very similar to what a white LED does except they're using a blue laser to excite the phosphor instead of a blue LED.

They exist. They're called UHD TVs.

It's not quite like that. ;)

The power brick is probably the size and weight of the machine itself.

Yes, just like Plasma. IMHO it's not a suitable display technology for a computer monitor. People's OLED displays in their phones experience burn-in and they're not on as many hours as a computer monitor.

Samsung marketing++ QD doesn't really address any of LCDs shortcomings. However, LG's OLED TVs aren't at a point where I would buy one either. QD tech can also be used on OLEDs.

Perfect for burning in and ruining in short order.

What sort of motherboard controller are you looking at? The Intel "RAID" controllers are compatible from generation to generation. You can take an array from an Core2 vintage EP45 ICH9-R to a new Z97 motherboard and it will stay intact.

This article won't give you a warm fuzzy feeling about the prospects of a typical computer user avoiding malware and the like.

Sometimes it depends where the data is in the partition. If there are files on the drive past the 128gB point on the HDD it may not clone to the smaller SSD (depending how it clones).

2.5x on systems with 16gB. That's 40gB!!! There's no way you need 40gB of swap for any sort of desktop usage. If somehow you were actually using that much swap you need a lot more RAM. Frankly, my ideal situation is to have enough RAM to where I don't need any swap.

Why don't you get that one working again? My suggestions is to take it all apart, backup your data with another PC, vacuum / blow it out, and re-seat / re-assemble it starting with the bare minimum. CPU, one stick of RAM, use the integrated graphics (if it has it) otherwise the low power...

So before Christmas my employer announced they're basically going to set up a cloud based man in the middle attack from zscaler on any internet access from their computers. Notes to self: 1) Don't use the work computer for anything non-work related on the Internet because any personal...

Must be the North Koreans.

Oh, it's definitely a gaming rig. That much was clear from the rest of the signature.

The "6x 1TB Samsung 850 pro" is the strangest part to me. I can understand the rest of it if you were a hardcore gamer going for UHD (3840x2160) resolution. But to buy 6 of what's arguably the fastest SATA-III SSD's for storage?!?!? :scratch:

I think I found someone with a crazier PC than DD. From their signature on another forum. "4.5ghz 5960x, Rampage Extreme V, 512GB XP951, 6x 1TB Samsung 850 pro. 32GB DDR4 Ripsaws 4, 3x 980 Classifieds, Caselabs STH10 Gun Metal, Asus ROG Swift"

So I got motivated to test it. Here's what I got on a Haswell based laptop running Windows 7 x64. 32bit CDM & 64bit CDM Results:

But she can live on in your VHS, DVD, and Blu-Ray collections forever!

Why's that bad? He has a lot of expertise and experience when it comes to typos. Who better to catch you? :-P

I picked up a Sandisk Extreme CZ80 64gB stick for $28 during the black Friday promotions from Amazon. I haven't benchmarked it myself yet, but the CDM screenshots in the customer images at Amazon show it's quite respectable in the writing department.

FWIW, I'm very happy with my ASRock Z87 based Extreme 6. I've never had good luck with Asus. I bought a lot of Gigabyte boards in the Core2 days though. Those were generally okay.

I tried OpenELEC 5.0 on the CI320. It runs it just fine and played pretty much everything I threw at it. I didn't try any UHD or HEVC/H.265 though. Audio over HDMI worked fine also including bitstreaming the HD audio formats (TrueHD & DTS-HD MA). It passes the same audio formats in Windows...

Canon has a good selection of mid-grade pro lenses. Nikon traditionally did not. That had gaps in the middle of their lineup. For example Canon has a 70-200mm F4 IS ($1300), as well as a F2.8 IS ($2200). Nikon used to only have a 70-200 F2.8 flavor ($2400). They've only recently come out...

So Classic Shell helps a lot. Now it's about the same as Windows 7. The new Task Manager is pretty trick. Now if I could just get the last of the stupid windows updates to install I'd be all set. It's rather ridiculous that you have to install about 2.5gB of required and optional updates...

You can get a 6D with a kit lens for under $2k via eBay. Not sure if they're gray market or simply unauthorized though.

I'll give that a shot after it finally finishes installing all the Windows updates.

Did anyone else grab one of these Zotac BI320 systems when Newegg had them for $139.99 as a Shell Shocker just before Christmas? It has a Celeron 2957U (Haswell), 2gB of DDR3-1600 RAM, a 64gB SSD, and Windows 8.1. It has an unused 2.5" drive bay inside and a 2nd SODIMM slot. It's pretty...

I'm confused. What is he using for his full time photography if he needs a DSLR too? Ultimately you're buying into a family of lenses. Pick the lenses you want to use (Canon or Nikon) and then buy the appropriate body to use them. Based on your apparent landscape requirements I'd tell you to...

Are you sure you can't do better than that on the battery? I got a brand new genuine Lenovo 6 cell battery for a T410 for $40 on eBay. I found a seller with a surplus of them.

You can toss 6 of those since they're not flatbed scanners. Frankly, the Epson looks like the only viable choice.

That's the whole idea behind being a counter culture person. You get in on the fads before they're fads.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I hope not since I really like their SSD reviews.

I've looked there on rare occasion. I use my normal browsing suite of ad and script prevention though.

I'm pretty sure you can't watch the theatrical release from the Extended Edition disc by picking it in the menu. I can't say with absolute certainty since I don't have the EE discs for The Hobbit. But, that's how the LoTR EE discs were.

Now, why would you go and do something like that?

You are talking physically right? :wink:

Yes, because using a device that has a technological limitation where the charge slowly leaks off the gate of the flash cell and has a lifetime rating in years as a long term backup seems like a good idea. :skepo:

So I watch The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies last night with a coworker after our company Christmas party. It was a big pile of meh. It felt even more stretched out than the first two installments despite being shorter. This is somewhat ironic since there seemed to be at least one gap in...

No, there are 4. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Extended Edition The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition

IMHO, there should be a condensed edition that does the opposite and rolls the three Hobbit movies into a single nice right sized ~3.5 hour "tome".

So, the battery has a 12/2013 date code on the sticker and didn't show any signs of physical wear, but it wasn't in a sealed package. I had my coworker plug the battery in his T420 yesterday to check it out. The information the battery spit out via SM Bus says it was made 12/5/2013. It had 0...

It works fine if you resize the source partition to the size of the target drive before cloning. However, that's an extra and often time consuming step.

Your old fashioned way seems reasonable unless I'm missing something. I'm not sure how it would get easier.

I don't think I would buy a refurb DSLR. The S100 came with a 1 year warranty despite being a refurb. It was only $110 so I'm not going to cry if it doesn't last a long time. The Sony was a lot more at $390 with a 32gB card and some sort of case and 90 day warranty. I've been waiting for a...