If only Nomura hadn't wasted 10 years making FFXV
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05-29-2017, 11:54 AM
Hey does anyone know what kind of plastic is used to cover the front of the original 3ds top display? I'm looking into getting something to fill in the scratches that developed on it due to the bottom screen border grinding into it. Figured I should know what polymer I'm dealing with, but I can't seem to find any information on it so far with my initial searching.
05-31-2017, 03:05 AM
@Thorhian: It might be easier to just buy a new cover piece.
In other news, the future is here, Intel releases i9 processors: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-x...34545.html 05-31-2017, 03:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-31-2017, 03:27 AM by ThorhiantheUltimate.)
(05-31-2017, 03:05 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: @Thorhian: It might be easier to just buy a new cover piece. You might be right, but if I figure out what it is, then it is possible that there are a few options I have to fill in the scratches. I would laugh if it was some sort of acrylic with how clear it is, that would make things easy, since there are chemicals I can easily get to solve the issue. Plus, its about time they released something like an "i9". I find it ironic that it just happened to come around when AMD actually pushed forth worthy competition. 05-31-2017, 09:17 AM
It's not irony at all. It's causally linked. Intel has had a pseudo-monopoly for the past few years, so haven't had to innovate or be competitive against anything but their own previous products. When AMD came back with Ryzen, suddenly there's a really obvious, consumer-facing number (core count) that they're not leading on. They're obviously going to do something about it.
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Professional
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X RAM: 48GB GPU: Radeon 7800 XT 05-31-2017, 11:17 AM
I really hope Intel doesn't take having lots of cores too seriously and put less effort into making the cores they have better; at least to me, having lots of cores is less useful than having more powerful cores, since any program can take advantage of having more clock cycles, but only programs that are built for it can take advantage of lots of multithreading. Not every program can even use quad-core, so I shudder to think of what compatibility a 12-core CPU would have, but maybe that's just my ignorance and more programs can utilize it than I thought.
05-31-2017, 11:22 PM
Dolphin is by far the most demanding thing I use that can only use a single core (or two cores). (This is assuming Visual Studio runs its compiler on multiple threads, though, which I'm pretty sure it does.) Dolphin's demands for the games I actually own are easily covered by my processor, so I'm not desperate for something with much better single-threaded performance. Lots of games from the past couple of years are making much better use of multi-core processors, and I don't think there are many other consumer tasks which are likely to be CPU bound.
If it turns out that it's beneficial for CPU manufacturers to keep throwing more cores at their new products to the point that individual cores are worse than those of their predecessors, I feel it's more likely that we'll see heterogeneous x86 CPUs with around four strong cores and a bunch of weak ones than processors with just a bunch of weak ones. For example, no one expects anyone to run a system with just Xeon Phi co-processor cards, even though it's sort of theoretically possible to run a modern OS on one.
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Professional
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X RAM: 48GB GPU: Radeon 7800 XT 06-06-2017, 01:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-06-2017, 01:08 AM by ExtremeDude2.)
Knocked my USB head set off my desk and broke the USB cable, now I've got to get a new one... (cable that is)
06-06-2017, 02:19 AM
06-06-2017, 04:30 AM
New Pokemon Direct happening tomorrow, place your bets whether or not they will announce a Switch main series game.
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