I would get the 600w plat over the 600w gold at the very least, the efficiency is quite a bit better
700w is not likely to be necessary, but if you look right now, it’s relatively easy to build a top end machine (say for comparison’s sake 5900x + 3080) that spikes around 500w from CPU and GPU alone (spikes being the keyword; CPU TDP figures have been pretty wild lately), and a lot of current and upcoming USB hardware likes to draw 10-20w…
Ahhh, sure.
Okay, Corsair Platinum it is, thanks!
for what it’s worth I don’t expect that ceiling can go too much higher in current form factors because there is a hard limit on how much heat you can dissipate with off the shelf cooling, even the asetek AIO water loop for the Dan A4 is for like a 100w CPU max, so I do think it’s unlikely you’d regret the 600, but I can see an actual desire for the headroom.
That was my thought re: the high end CPUs. You’ve got to have $500 of custom water blocks and loops by that point.
Is there any benefit to additional headroom if I’m comparing 600 vs 750 platinum? (Going to be an 8700k and 2080 Ti for now)
I can actually get the 750 for MSRP so it’s only a bit more.
if the 750 is in stock and it’s like $30 difference, I’d just get it
I’ve seen the FormD/Meshlicious case designer assert that SFX-L is a dying format now that plenty of SFX power supplies offer high watts and more and more small cases don’t support SFX-L.
fwiw, i’ve always went with the Impression that the max W numbers given are outlier cases, and looked for a medium range PSU, and as Felix mentions, went at least for better efficiency.
That has slightly changed now that i’ve seen the VEGA64 drawing 1-2w less than max spec, i.e. 250w are already accounted for. Since I went for the 1800X i was already a bit cautious … so 500w would be absolute minimum/sensible planning right now.
talking about CPUs, i finally got my hands on a 3600 to test drive it in my NAS rig, and thinking about whether i should move the 3400g in my asrock a300 tiny-PC thing
These marked down 10th Gen Intel parts seem like a good deal until you realize they can draw literally twice the power of comparable 7nm Ryzen
they effectively quadrupled the iPad Pro ram in less than 3 years, they’ve gotta be planning on expanding its multitasking / window management / multi-monitor capabilities with the next OS update, right?
I keep waiting for the fully kitted out keyboard + pencil situation to feel like a good buy and they’re really taking their time with this one
they’re kinda trapped, because any expansion of the ipad’s ability to be useful just invalidates the macbook, especially now that they all use the same inhouse parts. the ipad pro is more expensive to make than the macbook, because it’s now better hardware unless you absolutely need the extra power you’d get from having fans. so they just gut the software and keep the price high. if this was any company but apple they’d be forced to merge the things to give you something worth the price, but apple has never been in the business of justifying their products. they just justify the brand and call it a day.
yeah we’ll see. there are almost enough reasons to just get both, they work together in a few ways however arbitrarily, but I’d want to see more secondhand availability of the M1 hardware before I’d really consider that
I think they’re adding desktop features to iPad as fast as they can nowadays, but it’s just a ton of work and getting the app ecosystem to go along is even harder. So it’ll take years to get there
They got serious about this way too late because they smugly watched Windows 8 fail and badly overlearned that lesson
I think they would prefer to cannibalize the MacBook if they only could. The problem with Mac OS X from Apple’s mindset is that the architecture of the OS gives too much control to users and to third-party developers. It’s just that iOS’s “advantages” in this sense also hamper it from becoming a desktop replacement
i am an iPad OS believer, give me an unmodified sourceport of InDesign
i excitedly await the fully thriving hackintosh ecosystem of the m1 ipad that awaits me in 2025 when i buy one
any day now
I got a logitech pro superlight mouse a while back, and the charging mousepad thing, and now my thumb is just completely wrecked. karaoke in yakuza is untenable cause it already feels like I’ve been doing that for hours on end constantly. maybe I should of got the mouse with a thumb rest that looks like a michael bay transformer instead
Sometimes being on the beta channel is good
I ran apt install gvim and it appeared in my Start Menu. Truely it is the year of Linux on the Desktop
One plus is they open-sourced all the protocol enhancements to the Remote Desktop protocol, because that’s what they’re using to get the app windows from Wayland to Windows
I use the same mouse and I’m the princess and the pea 
i’m unraveling in some way because i have been looking at old Macs on ebay and like
i need to get a mac lol
not a functional mac, mind you. i will get an M1 at some point because those look good
no, this is pure vanity. i want some old piece of shit beige monstrosity or clamshell ibook or whatever, i don’t fucking know
i just need a mac
what is the cheapest mac you can get that doesn’t need like some unobtainable bespoke monitor or isn’t broken in need of fucking unobtainable parts/repairs or whatever
i really just want a mac
I’ve got a 2018 Mac mini I’ve been meaning to sell…
If you want to go “vintage” I think either an old Intel iMac or Mac mini are the way to go. Both are easy to upgrade RAM on, have integrated power supplies, and come with normal I/O.
I also have a soft spot for G3/G4 PowerMacs. A late model G4 should have DVI ports. Most Macs from the mid aughts have DVI because the aluminum Cinema Displays did.
I got a blue and white G3 from a thrift store when I was 17 and used it as a NAS, good stuff.
how do you always have something you are trying to get rid of that i want lol
how much you want for it?