I learnt my lesson the hard way and back up now on a semi regular basis by doing a system image of my current disk.
Looks like AMD has got intel running scared. With the approach of the Ryzen 3Ks, it's being claimed that intel are going do drop their prices.
While not quite matching intel's pure performance the AMD chips are beating the pants off them on a bang per buck basis.
And speaking of Ryzen. the mother-in-law found her Dell with the spinning rust was too slow so back to Costco it went. Now has one with a Ryzen 7, 16GB ram and 512GB SDD. Much much quicker due to the SSD though personally I don't think the screen is quite as good even though they're both same model range from Dell - the first one had a touch screen.
Though don't think either of the dell screens are as good as the IPS panel on the wife's Asus Vivo book.
While not quite matching intel's pure performance the AMD chips are beating the pants off them on a bang per buck basis.
And speaking of Ryzen. the mother-in-law found her Dell with the spinning rust was too slow so back to Costco it went. Now has one with a Ryzen 7, 16GB ram and 512GB SDD. Much much quicker due to the SSD though personally I don't think the screen is quite as good even though they're both same model range from Dell - the first one had a touch screen.
Though don't think either of the dell screens are as good as the IPS panel on the wife's Asus Vivo book.
Hey in terms of actual processor technology have we hit a limit yet on what speeds we can get?
I think we're pretty close at what is possible with the current generation of tech, 7nm, okay, 5nm okay, below that, no idea, creating reliable CPU's is getting harder and harder, the smaller the production node the more fragile they become, old Pentium chips had a 10 year warranty on them, scientists say that those old CPU could last about 30 years or more in constant use.
But there are new technologies explored so who knows what happens next.
But there are new technologies explored so who knows what happens next.
But isn't it the smaller the transistors get they start having effects that hinder performance?
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Just because I like to push my hardware, I decided to see just what the Ryzen could handle on a typical day, if everything was needed at once.
So I started up Plex, had a few movies running on a few TVs that way.
Then I started up VR, and ran a simple VR game.
Started GTA V in highest settings.
Ran a system diagnostic across the board.
Loaded up my favorite image editor and started working on a 100 MB image file.
Opened all of my web browsers (I have three), and loaded about two dozen tabs in each, all on various websites.
All at the same time.
The computer handled it all like a champ. No freezing, no slow downs, the movies kept playing without a hiccup, too. Have I mentioned how much I love AMD and couldn't wait to switch back to it after years of having to stick with Intel? (I still love that little FX-6300 chip and am going to donate a system to a family in need, so they get to enjoy it too!) If not, let me say it again: I love AMD, have been an AMD fan for all of my adult life, and am so tickled that the Ryzen's just one HELL of a chip.
That is bigly impressive.. Ryzen looks like it's very versatile and powerful.
I'm still using an FX 6300 because it is all I can afford at the time and my 4 year old GPU runs nearly everything on high at 1080p
I think you have that the wrong way round as a general principle. Small things lose heat more easily. Surface area scales as R^2; volume, mass and total heat capacity as R^3. Therefore, the larger an object, the slower it cools down. Small animals have trouble retaining their body heat in cold climates.
I guess it is because they usually cram even more transistors into that smaller spot which makes it a problem? That is about the only thing that I can think of.
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Found this.
https://www.overclockers.com/cpu-die-size-the-cooling-challenge-ahead/
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Found this.
https://www.overclockers.com/cpu-die-size-the-cooling-challenge-ahead/
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Yes, that does make sense.
or just google it for yourself.
SSD prices have been on the drop for sometime now but that's probably going to stop for the near future (with prices to possibly rise) courtesy of supply n demand.
A FAB facility in Japan producing NAND chips suffered a 13minute power outage that had resulted in a quarter's worth of production now being little more than scrap.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1459...d-production-partially-halted-by-power-outage
A FAB facility in Japan producing NAND chips suffered a 13minute power outage that had resulted in a quarter's worth of production now being little more than scrap.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/1459...d-production-partially-halted-by-power-outage
How convenient! Isn't it?
Same kind if "accident" happened halfway '90's with RAM chips, a factory of epoxy resin suddenly was destroyed in a fire and RAM prices surged.. coincidently Windows 95 came out JUST THAT YEAR! which needed 8MB RAM while most computers had 4 MB or less.. I still have so called topless simms in my collection, they supposed to use less resin.
Same kind if "accident" happened halfway '90's with RAM chips, a factory of epoxy resin suddenly was destroyed in a fire and RAM prices surged.. coincidently Windows 95 came out JUST THAT YEAR! which needed 8MB RAM while most computers had 4 MB or less.. I still have so called topless simms in my collection, they supposed to use less resin.
some of the posters who responded to the article on anandtech did wonder about the convenience of it though some of them brought up the flooding that screwed up HDD production a few years back.
Before Windows 95 there was was a big spike in ram prices are few years prior that pretty much killed off OS/2.
