There has been some immature name calling in the tech industry over the years, but in the past few years Intel was very quiet about competitors, as there really weren't many... or none at all... Now Intel came out with some quite questionable slides:
In this slide Intel tries to point out that all new generation AMD processors are based on the same Zen architecture, in the form of 4-core and 8-core dies... and they are somehow inferior, as they are glued together to form 8-core, 16-core and 32-core processors.
Well, all these allegations are mostly/partially true, but Intel forgot to mention that these AMD products are in fact not far behind in performance and efficiency - in some sectors are ahead of Intel ... and the price ... AMD prices are at about half of Intels's'.
Some tech journalists (including myself) argue that AMD's new "glued together" chip design is the future, as it enables manufacturers to throw out less partially defective dies. Rumors are circulating about a 99% yield on AMD's new chips, so I can see how that's a bit worrisome for Intel.
This so-called "gluing together" is called the Infinity Fabric, which allows all cores to communicate with each other ... improving multi-threaded performance... and Intel's processors can't do that (yet).
Long story short, shame on Intel for such immoral propaganda. It's not like they don't have the money to spend on R&D and come out with far better products.
, which was fried in an incident involving bad grounding. It's almost a perfect port donor:
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. To make a USB 3.x extension cable you'd need very good soldering skills, and you also need to connect the cable's shielding in an appropriate manner. 
Quad Core processor generates slightly more heat than I expected, so I had to increase the speed of the 12cm fan in the PSU and added another 
to the top-front of the case, also pulling out hot air at medium speed (7V instead of 12V).
, so I left it they way it was, and I connected the two 12cm fans to the controller and put the temperature sensor on the CPU's heat sink, as that's the biggest heat generator in the case.
for 180RON (~45 USD, including VAT) 3 years ago. At first I abused it with downloads and frequent Windows/UBUNTU reinstalls, generating 10TB of writes in the first few months. After that I became wiser and upgraded to Windows 10, which is much better than the old 8.1 I was having frequents troubles with. I also installed a second drive, a 
, for downloads and games, taking the strain off the SSD. These two steps resulted in cutting the wear in half, generating another 10TB writes in the past 2-2.5 years.
it'll spin for about 8 hours, while my enhanced 2-cell 4400mAh battery pack (from the first picture) could power it for up to 20 hours.
, which also connects to a USB port.
headphones and 
. Bass boost doesn't do much for the speakers, but the headphones sound flat without it. I need loudness equalization for all the different audio and video I watch/listen too ... which may have lower or higher volume the entire length or just in certain places. Loudness equalization pretty much evens everything out, so you don't have to touch the volume dial in Windows or on your speakers.
device or tap into the unprocessed digital signal coming through the video card's HDMI port.
25MHz computer. It didn't have all the fancy features to digitally connect an 
, but it managed to generate some very impressive sounds (for that time) and I even connected it to a joystick once, through it's MIDI/GAME port.
on that PC, it ran really well, but some of the more sophisticated games ran about 30% slower if sound was enabled, so for competitive gaming (like the first Command and Conquer on two computers, linked through a serial COM cable) we usually switched off sound completely ...
Carrizo and 
mainboard. I had several issues with cooling and airflow in my computer case, but I'm finally getting to the bottom of the main problem.
has let CPU temperature go up to 61-62*C at 100% fan speed.
, revealed at the recent Apple event, has "80% more efficient cooling" and is configurable with some very impressive processors, while the GPUs won't be too powerful.
did some announcements and clarifications about current and future products, but the most important of them is about the Model 3. Production is about to begin any day now (initially only for Tesla and Space X employees), then by the end of July reservation holders will get an e-mail with an invite to configure their Model 3.
cells), so that's what customers are hoping for, but it might be less than that, like 70kWh in the first year of production. Don't get me wrong, that is still a lot of energy. For comparison the Chevy Bolt EV has a 60kWh battery pack and has a 230+ mile range. These first Model 3s will most likely exceed that - if I had to guess, I'd say they'll have a 250+ mile EPA rating.
will eventually come with all-wheel-drive option in late 2017 or early 2018. To be clear, early production Model 3s will not be upgradable to dual motor AWD. If you'll want AWD you can return your Model 3 to Tesla for a fair price and order a new Model 3 with the additional options you need.
dual core processor with a 54W TDP, and it was very silent, there was no need for the fan to speed up beyond ~1500RPM. So when I decided to upgrade to the 
quad core processor, which had a 65W official TDP, I thought the RPM may go up slightly, but nothing noticeable, as the Cooler Master Hyper TX2 can handle up to 125W TDP processors. That was nice thought ... but in reality, my new AMD processor can go up to 90W TDP, twice the TDP of my old Haswell Celeron.
Carrizo CPU was getting really hot, as the FAN profile had a target of 70*C. While gaming, the temperature stayed around 65*C, which I was very uncomfortable with.
motherboard doesn't really react to the TDP setting. The main difference I have noticed between 45W/65W is that the CPU gets hot quicker with the 65W setting, but temps and fan RPM stay at almost exactly the same level as with the 45W TDP setting, maybe 1-2 degrees higher.