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  1. meloz

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    PC Client shipments in free fall Q1.

    I think this is the new 'normal'. Everyone should get used to it. For sure we might have some quarters which are not as bad as this one owing to business and governments replacing their very old systems, but otherwise a constant -if unsteady- sales decline is the future of both notebook and...
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    Any word on Samsung 860 Evo release date?

    From this review, I would guess.
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    Samsung announce SM961 PM961

    I think that is more to do with very high queue depths used in these type of benchmark than any realistic workloads. I can see the value of high queue depth benchmarking for random read/write performance, but for sequential performance it is blatantly used as a tool for marketing by all...
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    Bush just dropped out.

    When was the last time that happened with GOP? Which year, and who was the candidate? Brilliant! :thumbsup:
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    TLC SSD == garbage?

    Not all TLC SSDs are equal. My Samsung 850 Evo has been flawless.
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    Abu Dhabi Fund Said to Be Exploring Sale of Globalfoundries

    But who on Earth will buy Global Flounderings? This is one of those companies that is unsellable, anyone who buys it at this stage of the semiconductor game runs the risk of bankruptcy. I laugh at the $15 billion estimate. Only possible buyer might be Chinese government (via proxy, indirect...
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    Where’s the Enthusiasm for Windows 10?

    People are not enthusiastic about being spied upon. People like their privacy.
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    SAMSUNG SM950 PRO NVMe SSD

    What are the expected capacities for the new 850 series drives, the ones with 48-layer 256 Gbit die? Will it double the capacities over current generation? Toshiba made that bold claim about >100TB drives in 2017. Or was it 2018? Anyway, I wonder how realisitic those claims are considering the...
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    What was your most significant CPU upgrade?

    Some amazing performance leaps in this thread. I once went from a Pentium III (Coppermine, anyone remember?) to Sandy Bridge i3-2100. Being senile I cannot recall the exact MHz of that olde Coppermine P3, but IIRC it was a very weak processor. Around 533 MHz or so, if not lower. So I used...
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    Intel, Aiming Beyond PCs, Launches Reality TV Show

    I got the same impression by following Brian Krzanich's keynote at IDF. Reeked of a foul mixture of desperation and aimlessness. Came off rather cheap, even by the low "CEO-presentation" standard one must apply to such events.
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    Intel optane 3DXPOINT SSDs in 2016

    These would make terrific boot drives and database drives. For affordable bulk storage (10-20 TB) Samsung and Toshiba's future V-nand products should suffice. Funny how 3D-XPoint will do to SSD what SSDs did to HDDs. Although for more 'consumer' workloads the added performance benefit of...
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    Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

    We have not seen any benchmarks about those mythical 35 watt and 65 watt processors yet. But from what we have seen, I am not hopeful. The PR narrative is that Intel is now focused on improving performance/watt, and that's where we are seeing great progress. Except we aren't. If you look...
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    Intel Skylake / Kaby Lake

    Don't know what is more disappointing: Skylake, or Anandtech's "review". I expected this website's quality to fall after Shimpi sold out, just not this sharply. I would go in detail about all that can be improved, but why bother. Would be an utter waste of my time. Besides you can always go...
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    AMD Fury X Postmortem: What Went Wrong?

    Sigh, just read the Techreport review. Maybe frame lag is not the correct term? What do you call this? And their conclusion is also damning. An excerpt:
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    AMD Fury X Postmortem: What Went Wrong?

    I cannot answer this, I am not qualified. I was summing up my feelings on the new AMD graphics card after a quick glance at the Techreport review. IIRC this stutter issue was also present in 1080p gaming with many titles, and how many of those games were running against memory limits? To me...
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    AMD Fury X Postmortem: What Went Wrong?

    IMO there is nothing wrong with not claiming the outright performance crown. As long as performance-per-$ is competitive a card will sell. What ruins the Fury X is the stuttering or frame lag issue. Techreport have documented this nicely in their review of the new card. This is a driver...
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    850 EVO, yes or no?

    My 250 GB 850 EVO has given me no cause for alarm. You must keep in mind 840 EVO and 850 EVO are very different drives. The newer generation uses v-nand which does not have the problem of 840.
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    Is this forum slowly fading away? Especially the FS/TRADE forum?

    All PC hardware forums that I visit have far less activity these days than, say, a decade ago. Or even five years ago. Which might seem odd when you consider every year millions of people are discovering internet for the first time in their lives. I suppose most of the 'new traffic' goes to...
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    Intel Unleashes Haswell-EX Xeon E7 V3 Processors

    I am sure some old timers on the forum will recall when they had PC with less than 45 MB RAM. Now there is a CPU with that much storage as L3 cache.
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    When will Intel develop a higher speed interconnect between CPU and GPU?

    True, but they are mving so slowly. dGPUs are much powerful then iGPU for now. Also, there is the thermal and die size issue. If iGPU is to be as powerful as current dGPUs the die would have to be huge. And the combined CPU+iGPU thermal budget would have to be >250 watts.
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    US stops Intel from selling Xeons to Chinese gub'ment

    lol no. They will just start a shell company, which will buy Xeons from one of many Intel resellers all over the world. Done. These type of sanctions and ban do not work.
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    Bad to do back-to-back burns on consumer DVD writers?

    AFAIK DVDs should not be burnt at slowest possible speed (that was optimal for CDs), but rather at their rated speed or highest rated speed. This has something to do with chemistry and how long the chemicals on the disc surface should be exposed to the laser for optimal burning. Forcing burn at...
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    It's 2015: Why does Onboard audio STILL suck?

    The simple fact is that a PC case is a very noisy enviornment. Electrical noise, I mean. It is not possible for a motherboard maker to assure you will get noiseless, pristine audio output, because they have no control over the kind of case, fans and PSU you will use. You might get rather good...
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    µBlock

    Well, I do not use Windows (Xubuntu user here), but I have been using µBlock with Firefox for around a month or so. I like it, much better than Adblock Edge.
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    What is Intel's 2016 strategy?

    Same as their 2015 strategy: more profits. :sneaky:
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    Intel Takes Lead In SV Diversity Push (What Will Happen To CPU Design)

    This is another stupid move by BK. Loser is trying to pander to the SJW crowd in the hopes he gets some plum pseudo-political post in Washington after he is done milking Intel. Intel already have a tremendous amount of racial and national diversity. They are THE company people aspire to work...
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    Predictions on SSD pricing / sizes?

    I predict we will see SSDs breach $0.25/GB barrier soon. In the next 18-24 months at most. I can see 1 TB SSDs retailing around $250. We just need IMFT to get their version of 3D NAND in the market and put some pressure on Samsung. Once Hynix and Toshiba also get going, watch out. I would...
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    Are you upgrading to Skylake?

    For me the decision to upgrade will depend entirely upon how much absolute performance improvement Skylake brings to single-threaded situations. If it is another 3-5% gain on the CPU side, I will skip. 15% or more, however, and I just might have to upgrade from my Sandy Bridge. Price of DDR4 is...
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    2015 GT-R Nismo vs. 2015 Corvette Z06 at Willow Springs!

    Z06 has so many advantages over GT-R Nismo (on paper): Better weight distribution. Lesser mass. More power. Way more torque. Much better brakes. Black glue for tires. Against all that, it only lacks AWD of the GT-R. Yet GT-R is quicker! Amazing, amazing. Oh, there's the...
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    Why have AMD APUs failed on the market?

    AMD CPUs are still weak. Bulldozer is a gift that keeps giving. AMD iGPU is not strong enough to matter in real world. The competetion is not Intel's iGPU, it is their and nvidia's entry level DGPU cards. People who depend on iGPU find modern (IVB & later) Intel GPUs 'good enough'...
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    [AMD] K12 will be on 28nm

    The reason they might be 'stuck' at 28nm is economics: AMD likely cannot afford to bid for expensive wafers on tighter nodes at TSMC (or Samsung, if we are daydreaming), and must wait until it becomes cheaper and more accessible to them via Global Flounderies. They cannot afford those expensive...
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    Samsung 850 EVO? (TLC V-NAND) Almost here!

    Price is disappointing, to me this is the biggest 'feature' that did not improve. Will wait for 250 GB to become more reasonable before buying. Why cannot Samsung match Crucial MX100 in GB/$. Maybe Samsung are trying to make all the profit while they can before the inevitable bloodbath with IMFT...
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    Samsung 850 EVO? (TLC V-NAND) Almost here!

    Samsung's 850 EVO solid-state drive reviewed (Techreport)
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    Samsung 850 EVO? (TLC V-NAND) Almost here!

    Thanks SSBrain! Performance looks rather decent. In most cases the 850 EVO keeps up with and even outperforms the 850 PRO at similar capacities. The biggest area of difference between the EVO and PRO is in the 4K random write. The stark difference between 120 GB, 250 GB and 500 GB 850...
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    Samsung 850 EVO? (TLC V-NAND) Almost here!

    The baseline performance numbers are so good, it makes you wonder what will happen to 850 PRO? Since Samsung are effectively bottlenecked by the SATA interface (until Skylake makes SATA Express mainstream), they cannot truly position the 850 PRO as a high performance alternative to 850 EVO...
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    [The Register] SanDisk vows: We'll have a 16TB SSD WHOPPER by 2016

    Reliability (durability) and performance/watt already favor SSDs. Density and cost are the only remaining hurdle, vertical nand promises to fix those. I suspect we'll see DC users jumping for SSDs long before they reach GB/$ parity with platter drives.
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    [The Register] SanDisk vows: We'll have a 16TB SSD WHOPPER by 2016

    The article is poorly written. I could not tell whether Sandisk plan to reach their goal of 16TB drive with some type of vertical nand, or write once storage. Anyway, one thing is for sure: over the next 24 months SSDs will see the biggest improvement in GB/$ ratio yet. While SSDs will still...