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HP is stepping up their game again, this level of quality reminds me of when the ProBook line first broke out in to consumer market in 2008/2009. I loved my HP ProBook 4510s and it's still chugging along to this day as my backup programming laptop for Arduino's and random electronics stuff.

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Source To me, this says that AMD must be ready to go hard on RDNA2 for the mid to high range GPU market.

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Source Might be a little selfish to post this as it's from my hometown, but science is science!!!

Source It's nice to see the Known Issues down to only 4 issues, been a while since I remember seeing it that small. It seems like the AMD driver team has finally found their stride and I'm hoping they stick with the current setup till they are stable. The move from Catalyst to Crimson seemed really abrupt and from Crimson to Adrenalin seemed to be a weird rebranding and UI change with no real benefit. Not it seems like the focus has actually been on the driver itself which is great.

My Pixel 1 is still kept around the house for controlling Chromecast for guests and if friends are over with their kids and they want to play some random phone games. My Pixel 3 is my current daily driver and getting 2.5 days of battery life. I though I might look at the Pixel 5, but with no real new features or major camera upgrade, I think my Pixel 3 might be all I need for now. The Pixel 5 should hopefully shake up the market a little bit though which is nice.

Source If Microsoft can actually get some nice x64 emulation on ARM, running Windows 10 on something like an Nvidia Shield is going to be a pretty powerful proposition for budget computing or HTPC's and thin clients.

Yeah, at $699+ USD, I am more willing to recommend a newer thin-and-light and a high capacity Power Bank with USB-PD. Nothing from these two devices really stands out from other laptops in the same price range.

Source Aside from Google's usual foolish naming and bouncing back and forth, it seems like a pretty nice upgrade for Chromecast. I'm looking forward to the remote for some of my *cough* older *cough* family members who don't want to rely on using voice commands. Luckily my Yamaha A/V Receiver's remote is able to control my current Chromecast Ultra (Play/Pause/etc.) via HDMI CEC which is great, but having a included remote makes it more accessible for more people. The Lack of Stadia at launch is rather concerning though. I admit I joined the founder's program to get the nice controller and another Ultra for my house but haven't really used Stadia much at all since then aside from playing Destiny 2 from Linux through Chrome with pretty good latency and it was perfectly playable and high quality. I'm hoping Stadia can actually carve out a nice part of the market and stay affordable as a alternative way to play games on the go. It was nice a couple times while travelling for work to just plug my Chromecast Ultra in to the Hotel room TV and be able to just play some games without needing to have a powerful gaming laptop and HDMI cable and all that setup.

Source I'm really happy to see the Pixel 5 is coming back down to a high-end mid-range phone like the Nexus and Pixel lines originally set out to be. Seems like Google is dropping some ot the right things from the Pixel 4 that just weren't what people wanted from the Pixel line-up. IP68 is a nice increase over just IPX8, I still hate the notch camera though... Also not sure on the speaker setup, I really like my Pixel 3 for its dual front stereo speakers for enjoying video on the go. Then Pixel 4a with 5G seems like a nice compromise as well for those who want a 3-year support Android phone without all the bloatware and the Pixel Camera. You also get a headphone jack on the 4a, so that's nice for some people who still want their phone to be their primary media player and don't want to deal with charging wireless headsets/earphones/earbuds/etc.

Source My regular Google Home is serving me great, but I can really see the upgraded speakers and auto EQ functions being a benefit for those with larger open concept homes, or for outdoor areas.

Source The Surface Laptop Go seems rather underpowered for the price, I know from my Surface Go Tablet that 4GB of RAM and the 64 GB of eMMC was painful so I opted for the Costco special edition with 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of SSD and it's still really hard to use as a main machine and the only saving grace was the touchscreen and good battery life. I'm not sure the Surface Laptop Go will do that well. The ARM-based Surface Pro X seems like a niche product for sure as the article mentions, but again, I can't see the market myself for that device.

Source Lots of great new work for AMD GPU's happening still.

Source More leaks with some similar 20-30% generation improvements (mix of clock speed and IPC). Looking like a tasty upgrade.

Great news that you are getting a refund on it.

That's how I felt with air coolers once there were an abundance of the same style coolers, then it happened with CPU/GPU blocks, then it happened with AIO's. There is just far too much selection now that all do a good enough job that you don't really need to look very far for one that fits your needs and makes it tougher for the ones that might match your build the best to actually make it to the top of search results. I'm not a fan of the big TechN branding on the blocks, but at least with the AM4 one, it wouldn't be difficult to just put a vinyl wrap over it that fits the rest of my build <insert obligatory DBrand reference here> haha.

Looking forward to this, I'll try to join in a Discord Voice Chat to keep you company on the stream if you want ?

I was going to check what my GTX 1050 Ti would get versus my RX 5700 on the GPU PPD Database, but OCN is just royally borked right now: Here's the link for now at least: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1vcVoSVtamcoGj5sFfvKF_XlvuviWWveJIg_iZ8U2bf0/pub?output=html&widget=true It looks like under current numbers: - GTX 1050 Ti gets ~200k PPD - RX 5700 gets gets ~850k PPD So not really worth folding on the GTX 1050 Ti and better just saving that for Plex Transcoding. Now the GTX 1660 Ti on the other hand with its current ~800k PPD would get a 27% boost or so up to ~1mil PPD which makes it very attractive as a Folding@Home card. I'm kind of thinking of just removing my 10 gig network card in my Gaming rig and having the following Expansion Cards: - RX 5700 (Use as main gaming card and for Folding@Home when not gaming) - GTX 1660 Ti (Use for NVENC for Capture Card and for Folding@Home nearly full-time) - Elgato 4k60 Pro Mk.II (For capturing Nintendo Switch or Gamecube) Might need to upgrade my power supply for this, but it would let me get a little more life out of my X470 + 2600x without any other major upgrades until Ryzen 5000 and RX 6000/GTX 3000 stabilize on price and availability. The RX 5700 is all I really need at this point for Warframe, Emulators, RocketLeague at 1080p 120Hz so thinking just having a secondary GPU for NVENC and Folding@Home might be a better "GPU Upgrade" for my system. And before anyone asks about why I'm using 120 Hz, well it's just a lot cleaner to my eyes when I'm watching content that is 30 of 60 FPS while still playing nicely with 24 FPS content as well.

Source Some nice looking blocks, might have found the AM4 block for my eventual Ryzen 5800x

Thanks man, its almost where I want it. Aside form a little cable management, some 1U fillers and stuff, I think just some fans and temperature sensors. Telegraf for Windows seems to expose the minimum, but nowhere near the amount that Telegraf on Linux does.

That was an episode to record, at least we know the name of the host now and which derpy host is talking at a given time ? thanks @NavJack27

Source Please check out the full article over at Guru3D for the guide on how to use the software and software download. This is not the topic for asking for help or support with the tool.

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