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

  1. No one said they were ending support. When hardware gets made legacy that just means it gets no new features. It still works like it always did. It just won't do anything new.
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  2. It's fine. It wasn't bad to begin with.
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  3. I think the contractors working for Steve are already taking him for every dollar he has. He should have hired a consultant that knows how things work. Because what I'm seeing ain't it. I did a lot of commercial renovation. Steve even thinking any of those walls in that place could be load bearing shows his level of knowledge.
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  4.  @jonathaneriksson9273  it should not go over bid unless you ask for more. If the contractor did not know that's his problem.
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  5. I think Windows is the better choice for a lot of gaming. Not sure what NV surround is? Sounds like graphics adapter sound? If that's the case I like the sound my Linux system does.
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  6.  @nils_r  Linux supports multiple monitors. I am using two right now. They act like one big screen too. nv in the context of Linux means the Nvidia open source driver to me. You definitely do not want to use that. It's just there so you can load up another driver. Either Nosferatu (I hate its name and wouldn't use it either) or the binary one. If you want to game with Nvidia on Linux you have to use the binary. End of story. Basically as of now if you want to game on Linux you have to use the Nvidia binary driver period. Although I'm holding out hope for Intel's DG2 discrete graphics adapter. But we'll see. It is a less than ideal situation.
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  7.  @nils_r  that's because Nvidia does not use Xinerama and if you use Xinerama with Nvidia then it does not work. Nvidia uses their own proprietary system called TwinView. I've had it setup in the past where Quake spanned both of my screens. But what I did to manage that I can't remember. It was a very long time ago. The port of Quake I used to use got woke and went broke. All I can suggest is you play Doom. It's a better game. I'm going to go kill some demons right now. Play with the Project Brutality mod. Get a decent megawad too. Right now I'm playing Alien Vendetta Black Edition.
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  8.  @nils_r  I have not heard about nvidia-xinerama. Last I heard TwinView was different. That file you're referring to is pretty old itself. They're up to version 460 now. http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/aarch64/460.84/README/index.html I'm only on version 390.138 myself. Shows you how much I keep up. I think you're just going to have to keep editing your X conf file until you get something that works. It's going to be a game of blind Rubik's Cube. Is that it? I wish I could be of more help.
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  9. I've thought about setting up SLI but I have wondered if it actually improves performance. This video seems to confirm some of my doubts. SLI only works when it works.
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  10. I'm using wood from a bed I found on the side of the road that I screwed to some other scrap wood I had laying around. I did polyurethane it all though.
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  11. Just take a hammer to the glass panel. Problem solved!
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  12. Sew what?
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  13. After a bit I realized this review was a waste of my time.
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  14. Steve isn't a carpenter.
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  15. Troubleshooting is not hard if you know the rules. There's methodology to it. The problems most have stem from their own biases. They "know" what's wrong at the outset. And then they're wrong. At the outset you cannot assume anything. Test and observe what's in front of you.
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  16. Generations today are not what they used to be. So you have to expect a reduction in overall performance due to those limitations too. Moore's Law ended in 2005.
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  17. Let's look at clock frequency increases. In 1995 the top CPU was 200 MHz 10 years later in 2005 you could get a 3.8 GHz CPU In 2015 a i7 4960x ran in turbo boost at 4 GHz. So you tell me Sherlock how come we weren't running at 80 GHz in 2015? Because if process shrinks had kept pace that's what we should have been doing stock on air by then. Something obviously happened.
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  18. We did two things to make electronics faster, we shrank them, and we got them to run on less voltage. We pushed all of that as far as we could. That's why clock speeds have not risen lately. We've run out of where the speed increase comes from. Because we can't make parts much smaller or run them on any less voltage. If we could we would and you'd see speed increase. But that's not what we see today.
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  19. Whatever you want to believe. Facts have proven what you're saying to be wrong though.
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  20. die area size increase is a fact too.
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  21. If area is increasing then density is not going up. Just parts count is going up. When Moore formulated his Law he had node shrinks in mind. He also knew the process could not go on forever. Well here we are at the short end of the stick now.
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  22. It is obvious to me that you simply do not appreciate the difficulties involved in manufacturing integrated circuitry. There were substantial financial rewards for those that pushed the technology so progress was rapid. We are so far along now that even money cannot ease the journey anymore. You can plunk down 10 billion dollars today and not get a process shrink out of the investment. Intel with virtually limitless financial resources is two years behind their node advancement. Yet that tells you nothing.
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  23. I have not lost anything. I have just tried to show you what you cannot see. Unless you can see something 4,545 times smaller than the width of a human hair, that is. Which is about as small as we can make transistors today. It may be about as small as we'll ever be able to? That is slicing things pretty thin. It is only about 100 atoms across even.
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  24. Do you really think anyone can manipulate billions of transistors individually? Please. Try not to be so droll.
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  25. You're funny. You seem to think the laws of quantum physics do not apply to the real world. Keep the faith.
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  26. That doesn't always work. Then a product often becomes a specialty item as opposed to a common mass market item. With a special high price attached to it as well. It is an economy of scale thing.
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  27. Life should be about more than just providing for basic needs. We are sentient beings with all that goes with that. Even my cat and dog seem to enjoy the extras.
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  28. Not all of them. Many people manage to kill graphics cards. Which is a top reason why people find themselves in the market for new hardware in the first place. I've even killed a card myself. A bad PSU took that whole system out.
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  29. You should build a video card someday and see how much it costs you to do.
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  30. No they're all just spouting numbers. TSMC's 7 nm process was no smaller than Intel's 14 nm.
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  31.  @odisy64  what do ranchers and people living in the mountains or desert need the Internet for? I cannot see what cat pictures could possibly do for those folks.
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  32.  @odisy64  I never said I needed the Internet. I do not need the Internet. I do not think anyone needs the Internet. We all got along just fine before the Internet existed. In fact I'd say we got along better than we do today. I liked you a lot better before I ever heard of you.
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  33. It depends on sales what chips get sold as what SKUs. In the end the name of the game is to sell chips and make money. All manufacturers have low ball labeled product in order to cash in though. Which is where overclocking came from.
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  34. Wonder no more. Because that's exactly what Speed Step does. These CPUs are capable of monitoring themselves by the billionth of a second. Intel is tapping into that capability too. They have been for a long time now.
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  35.  @piotrj333  are you talking about p states?
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  36. I fail to see what the big deal is with an Internet connection during an install. It's how I install Linux. I use net image which is like 28 MB to boot up then get all the software I need off the net. Works good. It just doesn't make sense to get a full repo of packages when I don't want most of them. I'll never install them or even know they exist. When I install I get the most up to date packages too. I don't have to do an update right after I install either. Which is nice.
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  37.  @iClone101  Windows 10 runs without an Internet connection, doesn't it? So they're not forcing anyone to have an account. People are merely choosing to connect to the Internet. Just like they're choosing to run Windows. Decisions have consequences. Like Apple says, Decide better. OK maybe they never said that.
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  38.  @iamdarkyoshi  and you're all using thermal compound wrong to begin with.
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  39.  @tek_lynx4225  Dremel is a proprietary eponym for rotary tool today, like saying Xerox to copy something is. When you say Dremel everyone knows what you mean. I've had less than good luck with actual Dremel brand rotary tools myself. I've busted a couple of them over the years. I have a couple B&D RTX rotary tools now that I like better. I got them for $10 a piece too. So if one blows up no biggie.
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  40. Show me where it says Intel CPU uses 1000W
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  41. Are you sure those thermal pads were really 9mm? Three eighths of an inch is a lot more round a number.
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  42. I pay extra to get parts that don't light up.
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  43. We have cannons today with 150 mile range. They can drop a shell in a bucket at that distance too. BTW cannon shot was never lead. Cannon balls were cast iron.
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  44. You can hear it? Tough!
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  45. Shill Shack? Steve would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids!
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  46. Too late for what? Intel's doing things no one else is. Like supporting my OS platform. I run Linux and Intel has had drivers for Iris in the kernel for over a year now. But I need more performance than this card can deliver so I'm holding out for the DG2. If it can beat my 750ti then it'll be the first new graphics adapter I've bought in 20 years. I didn't get my 750 new.
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  47. Space... The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Gamer Nexus!
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  48. It is Steve and the people that follow him that don't get it.
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  49. I enabled XMP on my system and my RAM benchmarked slower so then I disabled it again. CPUs are on demand frequency today so what they're clocked at doesn't matter. It is going to change anyways.
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  50.  @nikoyochum6974  what does being tied have to do with the price of tea in China? There's a reason CPU speed is given as base and turbo today.
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