Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Gamers Nexus" channel.

  1. Get better speakers.
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  2. You'd be none the wiser too.
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  3. I've worked in manufacturing. It's a job. Tedious work builds character.
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  4. Tech Jesus is casting the percentage changers out of the temple!
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  5. Actually there's plenty that is not Googable. The Internet is amazingly brain dead about the time before the Internet existed. Information that simply was not digitized. I have piles of electronic components that the Internet knows absolutely nothing about. Believe me I've looked.
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  6.  @knexfan100  indeed why should they? Anyone that wants the best needs to pay for it.
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  7. Asus owned AsRock 5 years ago so that makes sense.
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  8. You don't think it was the metal chips you got all over the board shorting everything out that killed it?
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  9. Some rats just can't resist the cheese.
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  10. @Zane White I hide cables with my solid steel side panels.
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  11. Yeah it is not like Intel has ever done anything new or different before, right? It is not like they invented the microprocessor or anything like that. One of Intel's founders only invented the integrated circuit. So screw them. FYI Intel has always been a manufacturing company. That's what they do. Intel actually makes stuff. Unlike some other pushy companies.
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  12. What condition is the planet in? It seems like it always has to me. My perspective spans over a half of a century now too.
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  13. This hardware has a github page.
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  14. More like people don't understand TDP and cry.
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  15. They didn't talk about Intel's prototype consciousness swapping device that they both tried out at the show. They're probably under some kind of a NDA with that tech.
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  16. If you study the advent of technology one thing becomes clear, it takes time to develop technology. More than a lot of folks really tend to appreciate. Where's my flying car? If you want to be frustrated become a nuclear physicist. The people that demonstrated fusion are all dead today. Where's that technology applied practically? We might all die too before that becomes a reality.
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  17. I could thumb it down for spreading green globalist propaganda.
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  18.  @amer-du6qh  and BTW you're wrong about peak efficiency too. That's more like at 80-90% of capacity.
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  19. I don't even over clock. I did once and it just wasn't worth it. There was hardly any performance improvement. I figure if I want to go faster I'll get a better CPU.
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  20. Wow AMD made $116 million dollars! It sounds like a lot until you find out that in the same time Intel made $17 billion dollars.
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  21. There's a lot of N2 in our air naturally. 79% of air is nitrogen. So they'll probably be OK. The greater risk is freezing yourself with contact. LN2 is -346F Which is pretty cold. I wouldn't mess with the stuff without some kind of protective gear on. I like my extremities. In fact I like all of my skin and internal organs.
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  22. I don't think the cold has that much of an effect on molecular activity. Not unless you're approaching absolute zero or something. Like you said it has more to do with the dew point of the air itself. That's why static is more prevalent in the cold.
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  23. You're damned right you can thank Trump supporters. We're trying to save this country before it turns into a third world shithole. Which is what our opponents want to happen.
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  24. What can anyone say past performance specs. Tech is at a level now where it cannot be easily examined. It may even be beyond our technology to examine integrated circuits after they've been processed into products? It is not like Intel can just waltz into a competitor's fab and learn all of their secrets. No one is going to just give up their technological advantages. Well, it has happened. I think companies are more savvy about that sort of thing today though. Fortunes hang in the balance.
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  25.  @davidbrennan5  to me cable management means no cable is getting chewed up by a fan blade. If I can get it that good then it's all good.
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  26. The only stupid questions are poorly formulated ones. No one knows everything so there come times when we all need information in the form of answers to our questions.
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  27. If a heat sink is not acting like a radiator then the heat sink is not really doing its job. 300 Watts is 1,000 BTUs an hour too. Heat is a big deal with electronics. That's why we have fans and heat sinks in computers. To deal with the heat and to try to dissipate it. If it weren't for heat we could all be merrily computing away in the Tera Hertz.
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  28. When I saw the price I thought, So that's what I'm going to be running 10 years from now.
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  29. I'd sooner believe the vibration of the drill bit on the board broke a connection someplace. Bond wires inside some ICs are weak. The electromagnetic interference of a power tool is not going to permanently damage electronics. It is not an EMP gun.
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  30.  @pinkchckn  yeah it is not like we're at the end of conventional process improvements either. You think it is easy moving forward from where the industry is at now? Do you have the slightest clue just how small ten nanometers even is? That is like 100 silicon atoms across. Being able to manipulate individual atoms is world record material too. That record is currently held by IBM BTW. They spelled out their logo using 35 xenon atoms with an electron microscope. That process is not practical for mass production though.
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  31. +mxn1948 indeed how dare we hit back? China has been manipulating their currency forever. We're going to do whatever it takes to survive. So excuse us for whatever that may be. Or don't. See what I care.
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  32. I'm waiting a few years.
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  33. 2020 will just be the beginning of Trump's second term.
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  34. I worked in a board assembly house and the only time we ever used ESD was when a customer visited. Other than that we'd stuff boards right on styrofoam sheets. That conductive foam stuff was expensive! Zero Fs were given.
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  35. You should have just built a whole false studio wall. Like a set. Do up the whole corner there. Metal studs are the way to fly in commercial construction too. The inside joke on a commercial site is to hold up a piece of wood. Because no one uses wood. It's all metal studs with chop saws and snips. On a chop saw you can cut a whole bundle of studs at once.
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  36. That's about the size of it. AMD comes up with the designs then they have fab plant make the chips. AMD cannot afford to build a fab themselves. A new fab these days would cost about 10 times what AMD is worth. That's something else that wasn't mentioned in this video. Intel hasn't really invested in building a new fab for themselves in a while now. But they have the cash. Heck Intel could break ground on 10 new fabs today. But it is still money. I guess they'd rather spend it on executive bonuses?
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  37. Fuck off. How's that French for ya?
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  38.  @russianbot8576  the only game I play is Doom. That's old school Doom 1 and 2. With mods and megawads. Runs great on Linux and the variety is virtually infinite.
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  39. I've operated the kind of machinery that gets things very flat. It is called a surface grinder. The cap on CPUs is stamped out sheet metal. That's not going be or stay terribly flat. Heatsinks are fly cut if they're lucky. Fly cutting is not nearly as accurate as grinding is. You don't see more precision machining of these components because one it costs a lot and two like you said you wouldn't get much out of it. So it would not be worth the added expense. That's why we use heat sink compound instead.
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  40.  Brad Viviviyal  for what? You should be happy Trump is the President considering the alternatives. If Hillary got in the world would be a smoking cinder right now. Global peace at last! Because everyone would be dead!
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  41.  @2masMusik  sometimes we subcontracted for a mil spec coms outfit. I guess when they didn't have enough in house workers to meet orders? But they had enough QC people to plant them behind us while we worked. I never asked how that worked. I just soldered. They didn't give a rats ass about static either. They were very particular about the soldering though. They always wanted to be able to see the form of the conductor under the solder. They'd carry on about it incessantly. OK OK less solder. I don't have a solder certificate. Don't want one. I know I can solder. I never thought there was much to it really. But I've seen other folks struggle trying to do it themselves.
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  42. Some things you're just better off not getting involved with.
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  43. AMD has nothing. AMD has not made a chip themselves in 10 years. They sold their fab in 2008.
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  44. Groups tend to have low collective IQ.
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  45. That's why the first AMD CPU is 14th on the list of top CPUs. The other 13 ahead of it are all made by Intel. Oh and Intel's CPUs use less Watts too.
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  46. Advocating consumerism is unconscionable. There should be nothing normal about it.
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  47. Better sound is achieved by using better equipment. There is really no replacement for good speakers. I also upgraded my amplifier and went to digital out too. That helped using the same speakers. I don't do Windows so I don't know what can happen there. I use the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). Which is free.
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  48. I wouldn't bet on it. AMD can't write a graphics driver to save themselves. I think they're more interested in CPU work for servers anyways.
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  49. Let's do some math. 200 Watts at 12V is 16.67 amps I = P/E. Split over 3 wires that is 5.5 amps a wire. 22 gauge wire can handle 7 amps in chassis wiring. With facts and brains you don't have to rely on your feels for these sorts of things.
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  50. You think cost scales linearly with performance? Where does that happen?
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