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Have you or are you gonna get the new remaster? Any good?

Awesome. Gives me bunch to look into over the next few days. Rad. So rad. Excited.

Awe man dope! Roger that on biocide. I've got two 140's SW4 pro's on an AFII and WOW. Definitely on the list for maybe 120's of them for a 360. I'm thinking a 360 is maybe overkill for the CPU, but also maybe not because of unlocked PL1/PL2 ratios... Hmmmm. What's the general consensus on flex versus firm tubing? The obvious is flexibility if you're not measured things I assume, but are there performance and/or quality concerns with materials involved via flex versus firm? I'm gonna spend a good amount of time this weekend looking at AC and Bitspower. Might you or anyone offer 2 cents on whether or not it might be better to source all parts from one vendor instead of mixing? I'm thinking that's likely a best first-timer move, but not sure. On my AIO experiences (have had several including the *IIRC* the first Antec Khuler?), generally speaking I used all fans on RADS as intakes (whether top or front mounted) with various intake/exhaust options per build/config (some needed cooler internals, others not as much). But, with a "quote" (LOL), real watercooled PC, I'm guessing that since I'm aiming for CPU only this go then I'd be opting to exhaust that head out instead of in. So, in my mind (visually), either front or top exhaust. I'm really diggin the Thermaltake CTE500 full tower. Not so much the connections from the top, but the vertical mounting position with no GPU sag. Looks dope IMHO.

I am about to embark on my first WC parts collection to build my first loop for CPU only. 10850K since I have parts to begin a second build. Goal: Familiarize myself with WC parts and so forth; researching parts for correct fittings/cases, etc; and giving the CPU the max headroom for clocking. Whatever the results end up - good or bad - I am aiming for a learning experience over performance. Though, performance will be the secondary goal obviously. What the community can provide: I hope anyone and everyone could chime in with their subjective and objective opinions on parts or theory or anything. I'll likely use this thread as a starting point and being a new build-log thread and try to make it pretty/presentable. What I have & what I need: I have CPU/GPU, mobo, RAM, storage; I need a case, PSU and CPU cooling parts. Let me see if I have the basics: CPU block Pump Radiator Fans Coolant mix (still researching but looking at 50/50 mix, or 25/75, OR in between those two) For all of the available companies that offer watercooling solutions (custom build), EK, and such, who stands out in the crowd? I don't need to go to extremes with the highest of tiers, but I am inclined to at least buy middle-upper end parts because I do believe quality succumbs to all other variables (whatever they may be). Thoughts from all of our beloved EXHW community?

Ooooooh I finally have something to post: I don't know if I'm going to kick myself in two years having gone with this over the 7900XTX, but because it was same price point ($999 msrp, man am I a dunce), I figured the RT and otehr features (productivity etc, encoding) was worth it now. Plus I couldn't find an available 4090 at the $1500 mark so.... pretty impressed with this going from a 6800XT that was massively clocked.

I am hoping a kind soul out there will have some personal subjective expertise in the vast land of computer mice. Like many enthusiast, advanced, and gaming users, I myself seek a specific type of mouse. What kind exactly is more of the issue.... thus my questions: 1. In terms of build quality that isn't accessible say at "Best Buy" (USA here), is there a company that makes a mouse that feels well built? 2. If there is, does said company offer a mouse that can do 2Khz polling rate and has a decent selection of styles that fit different grips? Any and all suggestions/feedback appreciated. I'm a oldie so I like the MS IE 4.0, G5, Viper 8K, etc. The 318.... those all fit my hand well enough for my uses. Thanks thanks!

I dunno I dunno... I mean it's tempting for 6.2Ghz on two cores for about 30 seconds. Tempting. Plus with 85% less smoke, I think the canaries will live this time.

Tesla knew this. Frequency and "vibrations" is the "key" to the universe. Meaning, particles create the matter, but it's the frequencies in which distribute how they interact with other particles. At least that's my take away........

@cellarnoise Keith and his sister are friends of mine. He's FREAKING AMAZING. So are the YD.

SWING A LITTLE MORE!

I'm more along the lines of sci-fi style cybernetic a-la Cyberpunk 2077 style devices/biologically linked or otherwise, that enable us to do things sensory and thought based but say with enhanced abilities. Or for computational assistance, or say for a combination of computational plus rational thought experiments, etc. And all the other sci-fi applications already published lol... I mean whether we create tangible things that resemble sci-fi ideas (HAL, iRobot, Minority Report, etc etc) or not, the inspiration is at least somewhat imparted by sci-fi just as our own human inventions also inspire sci-fi. I mean, not that it'll manifest some of the crazier ideas out there in my lifetime .... lol..

Yeah true. True true. I hope it doesn't go that route... If Neuralink inspires (I'm sure others are trying, if not governments/very quiet private equity investments) real machine-abled and/or knowledgeable database sets entirely accessible within normal human brain functions... I'll take that over robot overlords. I've always asserted that we as (humans) a species must embrace saving at least some biological fucntion of ourselves otherwise we cease to exist. Meaning, let's not completely upload into the void. When that ability (if ever) becomes a reality, I hope we decide to maintain some of our natural biology.

I second this. And not in the sense I think most people would be apprised to consider (say, sex dolls etc). No, I see it instead like a friend - almost - like a really smart two-legged dog friend. Always ready to go, always happy, but with compensatory knowledge to be a 'useful' companion. Like, "Man I wonder what the newest take on wave-particle duality is" and your companion happily springs up and begins to share all the newest relevant information and you have a hour-long discussion about philosophy of the underlying mechanics of how a wave is both particle and frequency..... Maybe ... Maybe not. Maybe just a smart robot dog. LOL

Holy smokes. If a true reality, man this tech and our leaps are coming faster than expected, IMHO. Wow...

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Seems like an odd decision on the surface.

I can't wait to see a video of Usher made like a bobble head in his superbowl debut this year. What a half time show it would have been it he'd been a bobble head.... it wasn't a bad show but... with a bobble head it'd have been legendary.

Heeeeereeeee we go!

To add into this very topic on ever increasingly new information (credit geekwire link, don't know orig source, didn't reat far enough in lol), and seemingly the possibility of fighting discourse in a socio-economic fashion, coupled with a completely unstable global market right now, who knows where this is going short term (pre-2030). It'll be more interesting to see (as sustained far-reaching workforce layoffs will absolutely continue, like it or not and regardless of new opportunities) what transpires via US election year (think oval-office + megacorp persuasion economically), where this is going to land very short term. 7 Trillion seems like a lot, because it is an unfathomably large sum of money for an indidvidual. Even a billion dollars (with NO reference to any current socio-economic spigot of FUD) is near unfathomably large for an individual. But the things a company, government.... oh what they could do. Think about it for a while. It's really interesting.

I've said it previously, maybe even on here. I think the next round of true AI inferences becoming incredibly powerful tools will happen once systems are able to be linked, offering new applications that will exceed the inspirational applications being envisioned (and taught!) today. Example: TinyML is receiving an incredible amount of interest due to the possibilities afforded in such low-energy, low-resistance, high-functioning opportunities. Think of an application with TinyML sensors tuned in a greenhouse - linked to a completely non-human intervened system, using TinyML sensors that detect and rationalize how other sensors are also reporting information. Thinks like barometric pressure, moisture content in the air, etc, etc. If those systems are linked and able to drive other robotic/machine driven things like seeding, planting, maintaining air quality, soil, water, etc - that's a HUGE potential game changer in a very small subset of possibilities to execute ideas like this, in other industries for other applications. I envision a future where independent but highly-accurate systems are linked together, creating what I guess would a be a digital-neural network of interconnected (LLM, VLM, ALM, TinyML) applications - running seamlessly together. Kind of like a human brain, in some very light respects. More along the lines of how a central piece of the brain essentially links to help all other connected systems operate; that's the similarity that I see. I think this is exactly what OpenAI is seeking investment for. I think behind the scenes they fully understand the far-reaching (short term, not long) applications prospects. It's incredibly mind-bogglingly plain to see, in my humble opinion.

This is, to say so loosely and with sheer smiley'ole rigor, the best thread. LM*O.

I'm shocked! LOL

I tried that once in person with a xbox controller at a Walmart. (don't judge me, I'm not usually a corrupter LOL) I was mighty impressed the dude checked the serial number on the receipt to the controller. LMAO.

I think the nail on the head is explaining the frame buffer piece. The essential general agreement that you want to be 'on the brink of GPU bound". Even without reflex, it's obvious that's where you want to be. Reflex answers that. Will it be common that this could potentially become driver bound across both NV/AMD?