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I've been fortunate over the years to not have any damaged shipments from Newegg, but a number of things made them fall out of favor from a personal perspective. When they were one of the earlier outfits to collect sales tax nationwide, their price advantage went out the window. I don't remember how long it's been since they started instituting the restocking fee, but that also lowered them a few notches in my book. I live close enough to a couple of Micro Centers, and even though it's been 11 years since I built a new machine for myself, they get my business for CPUs and motherboards. They were excellent when it came to returns because I went through two Gigabyte Z68 boards that bootlooped in (and out of) my chassis before settling on the MSI I have. I remember the last time I ordered a new hard drive from Newegg and there was no package support other than some crumpled up kraft paper that wasn't substantial enough to do anything. Granted, hard drives aren't as high risk to shipping damage as they're perceived to be or used to be, but the packaging was really lazy and pathetic. Amazon generally at least tries to fill the empty space in a shipping box. I like the organization of the specs tab on Newegg's product page template, since we all know Amazon's product page can be a disaster with its lack of structure. Besides that though, Newegg is usually a third option at best when it comes to shopping for computer parts. I haven't bought anything from there since 2020 when I got an ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro PCIe SSD, and that was actually sold and shipped direct by ADATA themselves. Generally though, if I wanted to deal with third-party resellers, I would much rather do it on Amazon or eBay where their policies are consumer-friendly.

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I've been shopping for a new audio solution lately to replace my SMSL Q5 Pro amp since it's not all that great. My research and feature shopping has led me to currently favoring a Schiit Modius DAC and an SMSL SA300 amp. Schiit wasn't even on my radar last week, but they seem to be adapting rapidly and making better audio equipment with each successive new product release. Schiit gear also doesn't look like * (quite the opposite actually), which is a big plus considering an ugly piece of kit is a nonstarter for me regardless of how well it performs.

Wow, you more or less have two of my old builds still functioning. After my 1.46 GHz Thunderbird, I got an Athlon XP-M 2400+ Barton running at 2.4 GHz. I miraculously used that all the way up to 2011.

At this point, I'm just benching whatever is still available to be benched. My file server, an 8th-gen Core i5 Intel NUC. Also, I finally benched my sig rig and it still has the 5.0 GHz magic in it. It was a golden chip that I bought used in 2016 when I wanted to move on from the i5-2500K. This i7-2600K was confirmed by the seller to run at 5.0 GHz, but I always ran it at 4.6 and never tested it at 5.0 (or 4.998, whatever...still more accurate than Ford calling the 302 a 5.0) until now. Air cooled and the voltage speaks for itself. It's high.

For me, it bridges the gap from 2020 until whenever I choose to build a new machine again, hopefully later this year or early next. I got it because it's lightweight which will be a welcome change for traveling, whenever that will be, after using a heavyweight Lenovo ThinkPad W520 on trips since 2013. It just so happens that the Eluktronics is the fastest machine in my house right now and it's good for a fairly inexpensive gaming laptop, but I mostly just park it on my kitchen table. I've still yet to play any games on it since buying it.

I'm not very familiar with Asus laptops, but I can say that in 2020 when I was laptop shopping, their TUF 15 Gaming A15 and Zephyrus G14 Ryzen 4000 laptops were space heaters with poor cooling and ventilation. The TUF 15 Gaming chassis was so badly designed that some people took to cutting their own exhaust vents in the bottom panel because some of the vents were blocked off from the factory. Asus made some excuse about them being blocked off to better distribute the heat, but users reported less CPU/GPU throttling and lower temperatures across all the thermal sensors with their DIY chassis mods. I don't think very highly of Asus when it comes to laptops these days. I'm currently a fan of Tongfang chassis resellers (Eluktronics in US, XMG.gg in EU). but I don't know if any of the resellers are native to Canada.

That's nice. Can we get comment from a company that actually has some credibility?

This sounds a bit like the whole i3-6100 situation all over again. Don't be surprised if they start pushing motherboard manufacturers to issue BIOS updates to lock out the method der8auer found. Could Intel pull their heads out of their asses for once and shut up about their disdain for the consumer and stop shooting themselves in the foot PR-wise? It's incredible that a company can be so consistently brain-dead when it comes to the optics of their communications.

Is 6.5" and 45 Hz what passes for a sub these days? Sheesh, lame. My HT tower speakers can do 46 Hz.

Posting an update to reclaim a narrowly-lost rank. I'm getting this 4800H over 6000 points.

Just testing an old laptop that will be put up for sale. This one is almost in no man's land with an i5-3337U, but the overall score would place it on the slow-mo board. I'm also not so sure that Avacado's QX6850 belongs on slow-mo when its aggregate score is higher than the two slowest CPUs on the main leaderboard. It's more viable than an i5-4460.

Nice! I've been around ThinkPads since the mid-2000s because a friend had a T42 and a T43p. I eventually got a ThinkPad myself in 2009. It was a T500 that I upgraded from a Core 2 Duo P8400 to a T9900. I think the fastest CPU that came with the T500 was the T9800, but the BIOS supported the entire Penryn family. I had that laptop until last year when I finally sold it after it had been collecting dust for a long time. It had the Radeon switchable graphics and I maxed it out with 8GB RAM and installed a 500GB hard drive. The whole package fetched over $400 because it was in near mint condition and I had all of the original packaging. I still have a ThinkPad W520 that I bought in 2012 and have also extensively upgraded and used daily until 2020 when I bought the Eluktronics Ryzen 7 laptop that I submitted for the leaderboard. The W520 is now an HTPC but I almost never turn on my TV and home theater in the family room anymore. Like the T500, I upgraded to the fastest CPU for the platform that I could get my hands on, which for the W520 was going from an i7-2720QM to an i7-2860QM. The T43 was a used laptop that I picked up for my parents back around 2010 or so. It hasn't been used since around 2013. They then got a 3rd-gen i5 laptop before now using a Dell SFF PC with an i5-6600. The T61p in the freezer looks about right to me! I remember it was notorious for running hot because of the Quadro FX 570M. I chose between the T61p used and the T500, but ended up with a better deal on a new T500. They had the same body, so one of the things I did later was replace the T500 keyboard with one from a T61. Lenovo used a perforated backplate on the T500 keyboard presumably to save weight, but the T61 keyboard had a solid backplate that didn't flex as much. When Lenovo switched to the chiclet keyboards for the T/Wx30 series, I was done with them. I miss the TrackPoint as well. I always thought it was far better than the touchpads from the 2000s and early-2010s because the nub was easier to use left-handed while I could use a wireless mouse right-handed depending on which hand was free when I was eating. I will say that multi-touch touchpads in modern laptops mostly took care of the issues I had with older touchpads though.

Send it! You know, I wouldn't mind seeing a comparison of how my old Athlon Thunderbird would have done. I had a 1.33 GHz chip overclocked to 1.46 GHz though. When the numbers are in single digits already, I'm not sure how meaningful the results from older CPUs will be unless CPU-Z has precision down to more decimal places if the value is low enough. We'll find out it we can get a CPU that will register <1.0 on the benchmark.

I present the ThinkPad T43, the last model made by IBM before Lenovo took ownership of the brand in 2005. Here are the mainboard and memory specs too for anyone who wants to take a trip down slow memory lane. Intel Pentium M Processor 760 2M Cache 2.00A GHz 533 MHz FSB Product Specifications ARK.INTEL.COM quick reference guide including specifications, features, pricing, compatibility, design documentation, ordering codes, spec codes and... TDP listed as 27 watts according to Intel.

It took a few times reading this thread for the light bulb to turn on, but this post gave me the motivation to put a dinosaur I've been meaning to put on eBay through a benchmark test first before I finally list the damn thing. First, I need to see if I can power it on...stay tuned later this week.

Sort order, shouldn't my laptop be #14 by overall score?

I'm not sure why CPU-Z is showing Brand ID instead of Max TDP, but I think it's because CPU-Z doesn't know what to do with that field for this CPU. The Max TDP is something that AMD allows laptop manufacturers to configure on the 4800H. https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-7-4800H-Laptop-Processor-Benchmarks-and-Specs.449893.0.html Here's the reading in HWiNFO64. I'm fine with it being listed as 54 since reviewers have consistently benchmarked the 4800H in this laptop higher than other 4800H laptops. I'm sure Eluktronics maxed it out since it's the coolest and fastest gaming 4800H laptop on the market.

I'll gladly take the top spot for a Zen 2 Ryzen 7 and #2 overall Ryzen 7...by using a laptop chip!

There needs to be some more thoughtful effort put into electric cars, which is what you're beginning to see now from other car manufacturers. Tesla's a bad example for anything other than creating the initial push, because their execution in terms of the actual vehicles themselves has been crap. They're a technology marketing company that has been making things up as they go along with respect to manufacturing. The cars are soulless, poorly assembled, and lazily designed. Never has a car that goes 0-60 in less than 3 seconds been so uninspiring. Their level 2 autonomous driving solution should never have been called "Autopilot" because of the implication to the customer, but it's par for the course for X Æ A-12 Sr. to create chaos and let other people actually educate the masses and clean up his messes. People like to draw parallels between Tesla and Apple, but Tesla's closer to Bose home theater speakers or Beats headphones. Tesla ptiches products like Apple but what they actually deliver is closer to Packard Bell or eMachines. In other words, I would trust Sony with a creating an electric car more than I trust a company as reckless as Tesla.

Looks like the Intel Core i7 from that generation could possibly only have two cores. Is it a Core i7-6820HQ (4-core) or Core i7-6600U (2-core)? You would be better off with 16GB RAM, but at least the HP 650 G2 has removable dual-channel RAM, so you can upgrade it if you want. Overall though, it's an older laptop. Even though it's M.2, it looks like the SSD may be SATA-based and not NVMe. I think there should be far better laptop deals out there unless this one is crazy cheap. If it's a dual-core i7 though, hard pass. I forgot how bad the mobile i7 CPUs could be in the Before Ryzen times. The i7-6600U is slower than the i3-6100 I put in my parents' desktop.

Good point on the RAM. It's like I forget sometimes that I have 32GB on my Ryzen 7 4800H laptop now and I got 16GB years ago on my ThinkPad with a Sandy Bridge Core i7-2860QM. He'll definitely want at least 16GB for Photoshop/Illustrator and IDE software.

Not knowing what the laptop market is like in Egypt, I'd at least try for the following specs if possible: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 4000 or 5000 series GPU: Who cares RAM: 8-16GB DDR4 removable dual-channel Storage: 512GB NVMe SSD Screen: 15.6" IPS, 1080p+, 300+ nits, 72% NTSC/100% sRGB Those specs are closer to US$1000 though, maybe $900. Compared to what I listed in my previous post which were basically sub-$700 laptops, the screen is what's going to bump that price up the most, followed by removable memory. A 1440p resolution screen would be nice for the Adobe software because designing sucks on 1080p, but 1440p is pretty much premium laptop territory so that's more of a wish list item. Personally, I'd rather have a more color accurate screen than 1440p on a laptop.

I also have good experiences with EaseUS software. I used to use EaseUS Todo Backup Free to clone, but it looks like they took that away from the 2022 free version and made it a paid feature. An old version of the software should still have the cloning feature though. Looks like Macrium Reflect Free that UltraMega linked does the same thing now with cloning and partition upsizing.

I tried to keep it as low as possible since $500 is not easy to stay under for a laptop without making major compromises. https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/laptops/swift3amd https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Octa-Core-Graphics-Fingerprint-SF314-42-R9YN/dp/B086KKKT15 https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/laptops/swift3 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0866PQXKH The downside to the Acer Swift 3 is that the RAM is soldered. With the Intel models, you have the option for a physically smaller 13.5" but higher resolution 3:2 ratio 2256x1504 (and maybe more color accurate?) screen, but you're stuck with a quad-core Core i5 to stay under $700. With the AMD models, you can get either six or eight cores, but they all have 14" 1080p screens. Then after a Google search on the Swift 3 AMD, I saw a link to a YouTube video recommending the Lenovo IdeaPad 5 over it instead. Well, as it turns out, here's a better deal for a little over $500 in the Lenovo outlet. The RAM is still soldered though. The only thing I don't like about this particular IdeaPad 5 model by looking at the specs is the screen. 45% NTSC is pretty awful, but I believe the Swift 3 AMD has a lousy screen too, and there's going to be compromises at this end of the price spectrum. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/outletus/laptops/ideapad/ideapad-s500-series/IdeaPad-5-15ARE05/p/88IPS501393 If used or refurbished laptops are on the table, that opens up many more possibilities. Here's that Swift 3 Intel from the first Amazon link above, albeit with a smaller SSD, from the Acer recertified store. https://acerrecertified.com/acer-swift-3-13-5-laptop-intel-core-i5-1035g4-1-1ghz-8gb-ram-256gb-ssd-windows-10-home-sf313-52-526m/ Personally, for web development, I'd rather have a six or eight core Ryzen 4000 or 5000 CPU over an Intel Ice Lake or newer CPU that has fewer cores for the same price, but the compromise will almost certainly come with the screen. You can always connect an external monitor though. You can't upgrade a laptop CPU as easily. Just don't get a Ryzen 3000 mobile anything. Those were terrible. In 2020, a lot of ODMs put the Ryzen 4000 CPUs in a second-rate chassis. That's less likely to happen now because ODMs spec out their chassis a year in advance and they didn't expect Ryzen 4000 to be such a massive success back in 2019, but even now, Intel laptops tend to have more or better peripheral specs/features (e.g. screen, ports) than the same model with a Ryzen CPU.