At this point, fuck it. The whole thing is a gigantic mess.
Yeah, Anandtech's article (I know you read it, linking for prosterity) was a really good read.
I'm thinking that Ryzen 2 is very good, all around generation. It's not the best at gaming nor single threaded applications in general, but still competitive. It also seems more stable in the sense a single setting (in this case, forcing HPET) won't wreck havok on performance. (For balance, Ryzen's HPET isn't as precise as Intel's.) All their chips support overclocking as opposed to only k variant chips for Intel. (To be fair, they don't overclock nearly as well.) They're also very good from a cost standpoint.
Well, it depends on the numbers and where they're coming from, right? At first, I thought they were using FCAT (Frame Capture Analysis Tool) and analyzing the video after the fact. This would allow them to see how many frames were rendered without having to worry about timing. (Of course, FCAT was one of their tests with RotTR, rather than something they used on all their game benchmarks.)
It also sounds like, so long as the HPET is enabled in the bios, a program can access it. So a game / performance tool could still use it to measure time, even if it's not the system default.
Lastly, even if computer time desyncs from real time, it should still be reasonably accurate for shorter durations - it just gets worse the longer a test is run.
I'm thinking the results should still be reasonably accurate, outside edge cases.
Not a lot of people use FCAT for all of their benchmarks because FCAT isn't supported by all games / benchmarks. Digital Foundry for example though utilizes FCAT very heavily but they also spent quite a lot on the capture devices and separate machines in order to do.
It's hard to say though without someone actually rebenching everything utilizing FCAT or any other frame counter.
In one week I am interviewing for an entry level IT internship, full-time (or near it) at a, for now undisclosed, location, whose upper brass come into my coffee shop. One of their vice presidents basically told me today about it and said if it was something I was interested in he thought it would be a perfect fit. I talked with the guy who will interview me, (another guy that I've already met) and he was all positives!
I'm beside myself with excitement. This is so wonderful. Things like this are what I need in my life right now.
Good luck with that @DeltrusDisc
I'd like to buy a house, but prices here are pretty crazy. I also have this bad feeling that we're in for another bubble bursting soon, which makes me very wary of dropping that kind of money... of course I'm the very cautious and frugal type, so that doesn't help my hesitation, either.
Good luck on the interview, @DeltrusDisc!
At my sister's house and she has some insane internet. 244 Mb down a and 193mb up.
I am also working on getting my computer working again. Getting a Ryzen 2600x, I just need a motherboard and some ram though. Which is honestly more expensive than the cpu is.
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
Using my ANCIENT Gateway 22" 1680x1050 monitor for about a week until a new A/C adapter arrives from Amazon NEXT TUESDAY.
My dad wonders though if maybe the old monitor or its power adapter was overheating and shutting off, but shouldn't it turn back on without being completely unplugged from the wall, first? Things to test!
Pretty well! Very calm, casual. The A-VP of the department wanted to bow to me in my suit. haha I was told that bringing me on was basically an idea by the VP of the IT department and the COO. Oof. That feels pretty incredible, honestly. I could really use some good news in my life right about now, and just to know that they see me that way and want me working for them, means a lot to me.
The hiring guy said he just has to talk to HR and do some paperwork and then I should know by next week for sure. I think that's fairly positive, wouldn't you agree?
Got to see the IT department's area and they have a big nice new HP 4k IPS panel that just came in. It looked lovely, as they tend to. I think it was a 32".