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    Making sense of mobile CPU&GPU specs and models

    I'm trying to understand how specs and models of mobile CPUs & GPUs work. That's basically to get a rough ballpark of how different devices compare to each other given their SOCs. 1.) So first thing I'd like to clarify is if I understand Mali GPU specs correctly. Mali models indicate a core...
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    Motherboard specs/signs that indicate lower power?

    Heya, I've just been scouring a few mATX and some ATX motherboards. What I don't know how to look for is a spec/sign/hint about their effective power consumption. I'm not actually sure if such a thing exists. Is there a quick rule-of-thumb or ballpark way to determine which among two...
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    Level of GPU performance to match Xbox 360 and PS3

    What level of GPU performance would be enough to play a game on a PC such that it is no worse in performance and graphics quality if played in an Xbox 360 or PS3? If you wanted to play "console quality" (performance + visuals, Xbox360/PS3) in a PC (I'm not sure what consoles do, something like...
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    Death of an FX-8350

    I bought an FX-8350 as a drop-in replacement to my 1090T just a little over 2 months ago (July 1). It died about a week ago, making it last almost exactly 2 months. I'm sure it is the CPU because I am typing this on the exact same PC, just with the old 1090T swapped back. Short story: With a...
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    Intel TSX Presentation at SuperComputing 2013

    This is still a few months away, but I got tired of waiting so posting now. Evidently, for real-world HPC apps (as Intel themselves describe), TSX can be good for as much as a 40% speed-up: Source HPC is an integral part of my crypto research, so now I'm really torn between getting a 4770K vs...
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    A4-4300M Benchmarks (or "What APUs can do now")

    I recently purchased a Trinity-powered laptop with an A4-4300M. (For the excruciating details, here) I mentioned in linked thread above that I wanted to see how this lowest-end A-series performs on my Steam games. I didn't choose the games at random - they are simply the ones in my library that...
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    Minor issue: What is the "correct" Dev Guide title?

    Howdy. When writing a dev guide (for a product, API, language, database, framework, etc), what's the most "correct" way to name it? For example, if the product is XYZ, is it: 1. The XYZ Developer's Guide 2. The XYZ Developers' Guide 3. The XYZ Developer Guide 4. The XYZ Developers Guide I've...
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    Efficiency of power bricks?

    I'm interested in learning how efficient power bricks are (such as in laptops or mini-ITX rigs) in general or, if possible, how to find out the efficiency of specific power bricks (this is doubtful as I tried the manufacturers' site - HP and ASUS - and of course speccing the efficiency of the...
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    Surprising battery life from cheap laptop

    I was a victim. Victim of an impulse-buy-inducing ridiculously cheap laptop, that is. There I was, almost a month ago, my past self just walking around the mall, doing my usual thing, wondering: "How do I save the world? What's the best way for me to rid the world of evil, save the innocent...
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    Any rule of thumb for stacking cases?

    I'm looking at purchasing ~4 units of Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced (link). If not available when I make the purchase a few weeks down the line, I'd settle for ~4 mini towers such as the Elite 343 or similar (link). I'm not looking for advice regarding what mini ITX or mini-tower cases to...
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    Password Storage Lessons from the LinkedIn Hack

    LinkedIn was hacked and the hackers got 6.5M passwords, half of which was posted in cleartext (i.e., already "decrypted"; I used quotes because no real decryption actually happened). What's funny was that just two weeks ago, I was talking about this very same topic, 'how to do password storage...
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    ASUS: P67 Sabertooth vs Maximus IV Gene Z

    Howdy mates. I'm planning my next build, and the only component left is the motherboard. It boils down to 2 ASUS boards: -P67 Sabertooth -Maximus IV Gene Z The CPU will be a 2600K, overclocked to whatever it can give me with high-end cooling, and 16GB of regular DDR3 RAM. The most glaring...
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    1.2A on CPU fan header

    I have a 786GM-US2H that I just managed to kill last night while testing my brand-new Thermaltake Frio OCK to replace my dual-fan Hyper 212+ on an overclocked, overvolted 1090T. The good news is that there was >10C difference between the two. The Frio OCK is much louder (still better than AMD's...