ah, well, shit. kind of surprised no one’s done a Best TVs & Monitors for Gaming: Input Lag Database style study for radio performance of consumer devices. though likely there are not-insignificant variances between two devices of the same model, too, given the manufacturing tolerances necessary to produce these things at scale
amusingly “experimentally vet the outlandish claims of network equipment vendors” is on paper a significant part of my current day job, think I’m beginning to connect the dots of my origin story
Nice, I finally got all my new computer parts in, and I’ll be seeing if Windows will let me get away with this too when I finish building tomorrow.
I actually just applied thermal paste for the first time too. I was going off of the instructions included with this Noctua CPU cooler I got. Compared to the wordless, minimal, deeply ambiguous instructions that came with every other part of my PC, that Noctua manual was a work of art. It even showed me a diagram for what paste pattern to use on my particular CPU. Bless those nerds. I’m still nervous I underapplied it though.
Noctua does a good job making you feel good about buying them. Seems like they put some of that extra cost into un-shaving the pennies and giving you the extension cords, adapters, and good manuals everyone ought to have.
Got a free first gen threadripper with a motherboard, case, cooler, and 64GB of memory. I’ll know what model it is when I clean the paste off it. What the hell am I gonna do with this thing?
just did a little smoke test with some VR stuff, including some VRChat worlds that made my system chug, and Hitman 3 VR, and it’s definitely an improvement in performance - many fewer stutters and an overall more consistent frame rate. I am now officially GPU bound again, whee!
Open Hardware Monitor is reporting a peak of 79.5W for the CPU package, and peak temperature of 82ºC - not too bad for a several generation old slimline cooler intended for another vendor’s chips
noctua stuff is so good, my ryzen was cooking itself on the stock cooler, i swear it was idling at 70 or something vs 35 now
though i had an absolute shitter of a time mounting it and needed way more force than i’m comfortable with to get the screws to bite (but when i used the same model cooler in my nephew’s build it was effortless??)
I did have some trouble getting one of the screws to bite too, but not as bad as what you’re describing. Mainly I just feel weird about how huge and heavy this cooler is, just hanging off my motherboard. But I’d better get used to it because the graphics card is even heavier. It feels like these things ought to be suspended like whale bones in a museum, but I guess motherboards can take the weight.
yeah, I wound up opting for a battery replacement in my X (same CPU) after 3.5 years but that’s because my upgrade pathway is to a Pro, so it was like $75 against $1400
I’ve been kind of holding out hope for the return of touchid under the glass or something in the next models, I wouldn’t be sad about a slightly bigger screen and I would definitely appreciate a better camera
Since I’m at home 100% of the time these days the battery thing isn’t intolerable
Also semi talked myself into an 11” ipad pro if they keep compatibility with the same keyboard cases in the fall refresh. I love my air 4 but 64gb was way too small
