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wotzgoingon · 15-12-2016 01:54AM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

So I only used windows 10 for 1 day, but what I used I did not even noticed no start. Its has pretty much same thing, just not called start.
Another thing is, that so far 10 made me even more lazy.
Press microphone, say: control panel. And it's open. I just do that now with everything and it's stupidly handy.

One thing I noticed that all prices in ms store are in pounds. Will that be an issue? I set it to Ireland when installing, but maybe it thinks I am in UK or something?

Control panel, Type region in corner, location change from UK to Ireland.

edit: damn too slow

ShadowHearth · 15-12-2016 10:23AM

Will cortana still work? Getting really fond of this voice thing.

TerrorFirmer · 15-12-2016 02:35PM

dunworth1 wrote: »

nothing wrong with the windows 10 start menu

I wasn't saying there was necessarily, but that most peoples issue migrating from Win7 is the black of a classic start menu.

Realistically most people don't even use or need the start menu, and the Win10 setup is miles ahead of the garbage that was Win8.

Blitz17 · 15-12-2016 06:09PM

I dont want to admit to how long this took

now for the two 8 pins and the 24 pin !

Serephucus · 15-12-2016 06:21PM

Cool colour scheme though. Finished build should look pretty schweet.

Blitz17 · 15-12-2016 06:38PM

Serephucus wrote: »

Cool colour scheme though. Finished build should look pretty schweet.

Hopefully anyway, but we know that these things never are finished lol.

wotzgoingon · 15-12-2016 08:34PM

Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »

Any one watch the new amd RyZen launch?

I watched it and tested my current PC with the blender test like they said to try in the demo. Anyone else try it?

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/new-horizon

The new Ryzen chip with turbo disabled @3.4GHz done it in roughly 36 seconds.
My current hexa core chip done it in 53 seconds.

K.O.Kiki · 15-12-2016 11:25PM

Great news for gamers

The "slow" Crucial MX300 is neck-and-neck with the Samsung 960 Pro in game loading times, despite costing much less.

ED E · 15-12-2016 11:51PM

We knew that though. Only reason to go above the 500MB/s mark is for dev/production workloads such as write intensive DBs.

ShadowHearth · 16-12-2016 12:31AM

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Great news for gamers

The "slow" Crucial MX300 is neck-and-neck with the Samsung 960 Pro in game loading times, despite costing much less.

That's what I ordered myself. 300mx 525GB purely for games and steam. I got already 256GB crucial, but older one and I could not fault it.
I don't know about all these super fast speeds of new ssds. What I get now is more then enough.

Serephucus · 17-12-2016 01:24PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I watched it and tested my current PC with the blender test like they said to try in the demo. Anyone else try it?

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/new-horizon

The new Ryzen chip with turbo disabled @3.4GHz done it in roughly 36 seconds.
My current hexa core chip done it in 53 seconds.

4790K (stock - 4.0GHz, turbo to 4.4) does it in 59.21 seconds.

Jacovs · 17-12-2016 01:49PM

3:16 with a fx6300. Slightly lagging

TerrorFirmer · 17-12-2016 01:59PM

Serephucus wrote: »

4790K (stock - 4.0GHz, turbo to 4.4) does it in 59.21 seconds.

6700K stock, 58.57

Lu Tze · 17-12-2016 02:03PM

3770 - 1:25

Serephucus · 17-12-2016 02:06PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

6700K stock, 58.57

Re-ran test: 58.44. :cool:

ED E · 17-12-2016 02:12PM

21.52 seconds.

Knew those puppies were good for something

Icyseanfitz · 17-12-2016 02:14PM

i7 6700k @4.4 was giving me 55sec. That new amd CPU could be very impressive if they price it sensibly. I won't believe it until I see concrete tests though, always to much hype on the amd front

K.O.Kiki · 17-12-2016 04:23PM

Xeon 1231v3

1:12

wotzgoingon · 17-12-2016 04:47PM

ED E wrote: »

21.52 seconds.

Knew those puppies were good for something

What chip have you got?

Digital Solitude · 17-12-2016 04:58PM

2:13 I think with a 4460

ED E · 17-12-2016 08:14PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

What chip have you got?

Pair of Xeons. 16c32t. Not quite a fair comparison with an i7.

wotzgoingon · 17-12-2016 11:00PM

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Great news for gamers

The "slow" Crucial MX300 is neck-and-neck with the Samsung 960 Pro in game loading times, despite costing much less.

I found this video on youtube tonight and it contradicts the findings of your video. As the NVMe was faster loading games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4zdft1HDbY

ShadowHearth · 17-12-2016 11:48PM

My SSD arrived today! Woot!

525gb should do nicely for my steam catalog.

Off tomorow too, so will have a chance to finally play around with Windows 10.

K.O.Kiki · 17-12-2016 11:58PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I found this video on youtube tonight and it contradicts the findings of your video. As the NVMe was faster loading games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4zdft1HDbY

Weird.
OTOH it was just 2 games, so I guess results may vary?

Either way they both trump the HDD by a mile!

Robert ninja · 18-12-2016 12:57AM

48.99s i74770k @ 3.5 (stock)

TerrorFirmer · 18-12-2016 12:36PM

Apparently there is a huge amount of confusion as to what settings AMD actually used in two different presentations, may have been 100 samples in one of them versus the 150 most people are actually using to bench against Ryzen.

48.99s i74770k @ 3.5 (stock)

With 150 samples? Curious about this one as that's faster than any Haswell/Skylake stock result I've seen....

Icyseanfitz · 18-12-2016 03:51PM

Over clocked my 6700k to 4.65ghz and getting 50.13s, Intel's xtu is actually quite decent

Icyseanfitz · 18-12-2016 05:59PM

any info on the successor to the 6700k? kabylake will be compatible with z170 right?

wotzgoingon · 18-12-2016 06:18PM

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

any info on the successor to the 6700k? kabylake will be compatible with z170 right?

Yes with a bios update. And then there will be new motherboards Z270, H270.

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-z270-and-h270-chipsets-specs-appear.html

Hello447 · 18-12-2016 07:08PM

Not sure if this is the correct place so forgive me if I'm not supposed to put this here. Recently my HyperX cloud IIs broke but apparently it's got a 1 year guarantee. I bought it off amazon so how would I go about getting that setup?

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