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See subject: Thanks again - I never knew you did! Personally? I think that the version I put out is well, "OK" & does the job - but I am about making it BETTER by far & so far, so good.

However, my persona can be as nice as the next person's UNTIL I am attacked. That's all. Only human (as I said to others here in this very thread, & I have limits is all)...

See - There IS a LOT of trolls around here, you have to admit that (others here have, tepples being the most recent to state it to me when I asked him the same albeit he called them "miscreants", lol) - they can "get under your skin"... so I sometimes do the same in return but I wait until they fuck up big to do it. Then yes, I will toss their bullshit back in their faces to humiliate them. They can downmod me ALL DAY, & I'll keep coming.. do unto others as they did to you is all I can say, but I do it purely in defense of myself... I don't post with bogus fake names and have a reputation of a REAL name & WORK WITH IT TO DEFEND IS WHY. It was my career. Bad press can affect it adversely & I will NOT have that even though I am largely "semi-retired".

Man - some are REAL idiots & those I WILL RIDE STRAIGHT INTO HELL when they tell lies about me (I mean wtf: Calling me child molester? Yes, it's happened AND I AM NOT ONE - in fact,& I don't like hating? I HATE THAT KIND OF ANIMAL, a real pig, scumbag that hurts innocents...) OR saying other less than nice stuff about me... why?

I, 99% of the time, don't start crap. I know better. I've seen what happens if you do. It's not worth it. I also know that if you sit back and take shit, you will be shit on the rest of your days... screw that. Defend yourself, IF you're righteous in it, that is.

Anyhow/anyways: CRUZAN aged Rum (not "the captain" as I said earlier, but I thought the commercials would be "common rum ground" is all) - it's good (not $100++ a bottle, around $25 iirc, but good) - mixed with (of all things) Mountain Dew VOLTAGE (it's really tasty).

APK

P.S.=> No, wasn't you... I haven't taken a drink in months, but when it gets that "WET COLD" (snow doesn't happen in way, Way, WAY subzero or near zero, don't know if you know that or not) during night snows like tonite? I figured "What the hell! Why not!" - glad I did. Going to play Doom 4 now on (yes it's old but still fun, original DOOM I/II maps ported to it too, very cool nostalgia) MODERN hardware:

Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Loading up off Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.32 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Temp ops coming up off that GigaByte IRAM 4gb I noted too (fully tuned rig with it all).

IT FLIES ON MODERN STUFF & is some fun so... I haven't done that in a bit either. Should be fun a bit 'buzzed'... apk

See subject: Thanks again - I never knew you did! Personally? I think that the version I put out is well, "OK" & does the job - but I am about making it BETTER by far & so far, so good.

However, my persona can be as nice as the next person's UNTIL I am attacked. That's all. Only human (as I said to others here in this very thread, & I have limits is all)...

See - There IS a LOT of trolls around here, you have to admit that (others here have, tepples being the most recent to state it to me when I asked him the same albeit he called them "miscreants", lol) - they can "get under your skin"... so I sometimes do the same in return but I wait until they fuck up big to do it. Then yes, I will toss their bullshit back in their faces to humiliate them. They can downmod me ALL DAY, & I'll keep coming.. do unto others as they did to you is all I can say, but I do it purely in defense of myself... I don't post with bogus fake names and have a reputation of a REAL name & WORK WITH IT TO DEFEND IS WHY. It was my career. Bad press can affect it adversely & I will NOT have that even though I am largely "semi-retired".

Man - some are REAL idiots & those I WILL RIDE STRAIGHT INTO HELL when they tell lies about me (I mean wtf: Calling me child molester? Yes, it's happened AND I AM NOT ONE - in fact,& I don't like hating? I HATE THAT KIND OF ANIMAL, a real pig, scumbag that hurts innocents...) OR saying other less than nice stuff about me... why?

I, 99% of the time, don't start crap. I know better. I've seen what happens if you do. It's not worth it. I also know that if you sit back and take shit, you will be shit on the rest of your days... screw that. Defend yourself, IF you're righteous in it, that is.

Anyhow/anyways: CRUZAN aged Rum (not "the captain" as I said earlier, but I thought the commercials would be "common rum ground" is all) - it's good (not $100++ a bottle, around $25 iirc, but good) - mixed with (of all things) Mountain Dew VOLTAGE (it's really tasty).

APK

P.S.=> No, wasn't you... I haven't taken a drink in months, but when it gets that "WET COLD" (snow doesn't happen in way, Way, WAY subzero or near zero, don't know if you know that or not) during night snows like tonite? I figured "What the hell! Why not!" - glad I did. Going to play Doom 4 now on (yes it's old but still fun, original DOOM I/II maps ported to it too, very cool nostalgia) MODERN hardware:

Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Loading up off Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.32 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Temp ops coming up off that GigaByte IRAM 4gb I noted too (fully tuned rig with it all).

IT FLIES ON MODERN STUFF & is some fun so... I haven't done that in a bit either. Should be fun a bit 'buzzed'... apk

http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

Intel figured out that high clock speeds bring all kinds of other problems like clock propagation delays across the chip and high power consumption.

The mobile computing revolution simply did not warrant that kind of clock speed - so here we are at around 4GHz.

If you're wondering what a Wraith Cooler is, here's an image.

Maybe you should actually learn about AMD's product lineup: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

Yes, in the year 2012 it was a futuristic feature. Then 2013 happened. Where have you been?

> Do Skylake et al. really require substantial modificaitons to existing OSs?
Speedshift requires Windows 10 to work:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

Maybe there's other stuff too, I don't know.

Didn't I read about this already like 2 years ago?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

Technically, the last Seagate 8TB drive was the Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v5, which is PMR, not SMR.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9577/seagate-announces-a-trio-of-8tb-drives-for-enterprise-applications

If you're not doing anything storage intense, the PCIe bandwidth is not going to make much of a difference. Same with NVMe, main advantage is at big queue depths.

Actually besides queue depth, a lot of the benefit comes from reducing host CPU usage, contention, latency and context switching. AHCI has a single global queue (of pretty limited depth) and so multiple threads doing IO need to either block or else incur the overhead of bouncing the IO to another thread. For your hypothetical enterprise application actually saturating on 16 cores with 32 threads, Amdahl's law starts to actually become an issue. In NVMe, each physical CPU core has its own personal NVMe command and completion queues, that it can issue to without waiting/snooping/blocking any other cores.

Finally, there's just a lot fewer driver layers needed. AHCI is bulky and complicated by comparison. Less work for the host driver means more cycles for your enterprisey applications.

[ And of course, you're right about the sports car analogy ... ]

And now you have x265 that's not hardware accelerated on anything but the most modern GPUs (and even then, only partially -- certainly not suitable for any set-top-box, tablet or mobile phone. Heck, even a laptop that has partial GPU supporting (or none) will burn through tons of battery watching it on a flight with no power plugs.

Netflix has to support all those platforms (and probably worse ones) -- and then you enter the idea of having multiple copies for every asset :-(

July 24, 2006: AMD buys ATI, stretching their credit to the limit
July 27, 2006: Intel launches Core 2 Duo (Conroe)

To get an idea of how quickly AMD was in trouble, here's Anandtech in November 2007 at the launch of Phenom:
If you were looking for a changing of the guard today it's just not going to happen. Phenom is, clock for clock, slower than Core 2 and the chips aren't yet yielding well enough to boost clock speeds above what Intel is capable of. While AMD just introduced its first 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz quad-core CPUs today, Intel previewed its first 3.2GHz quad-core chips. (...) Inevitably some of these Phenoms will sell, even though Intel is currently faster and offers better overall price-performance (does anyone else feel weird reading that?). Honestly the only reason we can see to purchase a Phenom is if you currently own a Socket-AM2 motherboard; you may not get the same performance as a Core 2 Quad, but it won't cost as much since you should be able to just drop in a Phenom if you have BIOS support.

Up to July 2006: K8 > Netburst
July 2006 - November 2007: K8 < Core (AMD sales tank)
November 2007 - October 2011 K10 < Core (successor lagging behind)
October 2011-2016? Bulldozer < Sandy Bridge (late and underperforming)

Why didn't AMD have the cash to burn in 2006-2009 to come up with something better? Oh, a $5.4 billion purchase of ATI. It sucked all the R&D out of CPUs and into APUs and "synergies", but even today you see no major differences between an APU and pairing a CPU + dGPU unless you've written very special code for just that situation.

That's odd... actual benchmarks seem to disagree with you - iPhones are significantly faster than anything else out there:

http://cdn.bgr.com/2015/09/iph...
http://cdn.bgr.com/2015/09/iph...
http://blogs-images.forbes.com...
http://images.anandtech.com/gr...
http://images.anandtech.com/gr...

That's odd... actual benchmarks seem to disagree with you - iPhones are significantly faster than anything else out there:

http://cdn.bgr.com/2015/09/iph...
http://cdn.bgr.com/2015/09/iph...
http://blogs-images.forbes.com...
http://images.anandtech.com/gr...
http://images.anandtech.com/gr...

The antenna was not the entire case, but the band around the edge of the case.

No. This is incorrect. You can order the cellular antenna as a part. The wifi antenna was separate.

That antenna is strictly for CDMA. The only two providers (almost in the entire world) that use CDMA are Sprint and Verizon. But I was wrong. IT was two antennas, not three. See for yourself

SSD endurance is fine. All good brands last a long time and even the supposedly cheap and short lifespan Samsung TLC drives last well beyond what most people will ever get out of them.

SSDs don't see to be any worse than HDDs, and for laptops that get moved around a lot are probably even more durable.

See subject: You get HUGE jumps in power/performance & a far better 'bang for the buck' (been doing it since 486 days here) if you DO NOT GO for "the very top end (insert component here)" but rather go for the next one to it (usually only what? 10% slower?? Not even humanly noticeable & overclocks can get you that back along with OS + game tunings)!

E.G./I.E. with examples of performance gains in the hardware alone I've gotten over my last machine's major components (CPU, Video, disks):

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.32 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

* :)

(So, utter agreement here, albeit with minor "caveats" only as to how often to do it...)

APK

P.S.=> I've found that holding off to doing it once every 4++ or so years on average works out the best & you also got the best out of your last one that way too... apk

See subject: You get HUGE jumps in power/performance & a far better 'bang for the buck' (been doing it since 486 days here) if you DO NOT GO for "the very top end (insert component here)" but rather go for the next one to it (usually only what? 10% slower?? Not even humanly noticeable & overclocks can get you that back along with OS + game tunings)!

E.G./I.E. with examples of performance gains in the hardware alone I've gotten over my last machine's major components (CPU, Video, disks):

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.32 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

* :)

(So, utter agreement here, albeit with minor "caveats" only as to how often to do it...)

APK

P.S.=> I've found that holding off to doing it once every 4++ or so years on average works out the best & you also got the best out of your last one that way too... apk

See subject: You get HUGE jumps in power/performance & a far better 'bang for the buck' (been doing it since 486 days here) if you DO NOT GO for "the very top end (insert component here)" but rather go for the next one to it (usually only what? 10% slower?? Not even humanly noticeable & overclocks can get you that back along with OS + game tunings)!

E.G./I.E. with examples of performance gains in the hardware alone I've gotten over my last machine's major components (CPU, Video, disks):

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.32 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

* :)

(So, utter agreement here, albeit with minor "caveats" only as to how often to do it...)

APK

P.S.=> I've found that holding off to doing it once every 4++ or so years on average works out the best & you also got the best out of your last one that way too... apk

Here is the display section of Anandtech's iPhone 6S and 6S+ review.
http://anandtech.com/show/9686...
There is something for everyone there, depending on what metric you think is most important. It seems as though the iPhone 6 has one of the best screens in terms of accuracy, but probably the Samsung Galaxy 6 Edge is the best overall screen.
Here is the Anandtech iPhone 6 review from last year:
http://anandtech.com/show/8554...
At that time, the iPhone had easily the best display on a phone in display accuracy and was quite good at every other characteristic.
The lesson here is that it is probably a good time for Apple to jump off the IPS train.

Here is the display section of Anandtech's iPhone 6S and 6S+ review.
http://anandtech.com/show/9686...
There is something for everyone there, depending on what metric you think is most important. It seems as though the iPhone 6 has one of the best screens in terms of accuracy, but probably the Samsung Galaxy 6 Edge is the best overall screen.
Here is the Anandtech iPhone 6 review from last year:
http://anandtech.com/show/8554...
At that time, the iPhone had easily the best display on a phone in display accuracy and was quite good at every other characteristic.
The lesson here is that it is probably a good time for Apple to jump off the IPS train.

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

See subject: It lasted me from 2010 to earlier this year (& still runs, a ramchip went 'out' was all) - was a great system for it's time (one of the best I ever owned in fact).

HOWEVER - I stepped up to this setup (& it's literally 35% faster on tasks I run typically that are heavy string processing off file on disk into memory - hosts file data via -> APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-2 32/64-bit http://start64.com/index.php?o... )

ASUS B85-E Motherboard
Intel Core I7 4790k CPU (vs. my last CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX video OC stock-oem (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my last vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - strictly OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )
Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb (SATA II) - strictly for backup & programming data
Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching raid sata 1/2 controller (SATA 1/2) - for backup WD Velociraptor
GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based SSD (SATA I) - strictly for PageFile placement
Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb (SATA 6) - strictly for downloads
HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i Burner (SATA 3)
8gb Kingston DDR-3 RAM (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file location, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

APK

P.S.=> It all yields FAR BETTER performance locally vs. that 920 (great machine though it was) - just something to consider between now & then (especially as prices drop): Still, I see YOUR point though - "wait it out" for the REAL boosts in speed (especially regarding SSD's I see coming that are going to blow away what we have now - & speeding up the slowest parts of systems are where the TRUE speed gains really show themselves)

... apk

Better article.

Also summery is wrong: its on the 14nm process (the previous gen one was 22).

Really the memory looks like the only interesting thing here.

If you run at stock speed, you are right.

If you have the right motherboard and the right CPU, you can get some pretty good overclock on these CPUs (if you are into overclocking). I've got a few X5650s setup at home. I can get 4.2 GHz on one and 4.6 GHz @1.34 volts on the other 24/7. With 6 cores (12 cores /w HT), water cooling is almost a requirement at these speeds (unless you are really lucky with the CPU). Max temps for both is ~75 C in a 20 C room. I got each CPUs on eBay for $60 a piece and I already had the MBs.

These days the most expensive part could be the X58 motherboard unless you already have one. Some of them are selling for more used than their new MSRP. One drawback is most X58 boards don't have USB3 or SATA3. You could always get PCIe cards for those, but the bill of material (BOM) would increase.

If anyone is interested, there's an Anandtech forum thread that has a lot of information on it: http://forums.anandtech.com/sh...

... Nvidia has just made a SoC Chip that has about equally fast iGPU than what Intel has ...

http://techgage.com/article/intels-skylake-core-i7-6700k-a-performance-look/

http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

I am confused - none of the benchmark articles above mentioned anything about the impressive "GPU power" of Core i7-6700K from intel

Could you kindly provide us with proofs that Intel's Core i7-6700K comes with impressive native GPU performances?

Thanks !

The key points to get from the graphs above are that for some reason the Snapdragon 800 SoC in the Nexus 5 only ends up using 3 of its 4 cores most of the time, with the frequency on the other three Krait 400 cores oscillating between 1GHz and 1.6GHz. The Snapdragon 805 in the Nexus 6 keeps all four cores at their max frequency for about twelve minutes before they all throttle down to 2GHz and remain there for nearly two hours. Meanwhile, Snapdragon 808 can only keep its two A57 cores at their peak frequency for two minutes before throttling both down to 633MHz and putting the A53s up to their peak 1.44GHz. After twelve minutes the A57s are just shut off entirely, and you're left with a cluster of 4 A53 cores at 1.44GHz. I didn't bother running this test as long as I did for Snapdragon 800 and 805 because the events at the two and twelve minute marks tell you everything you need to know.

Part of the blame is probably the 20 nm TSMC node that apparently had problems with leakage at higher voltages, but that's unlikely to be the only issue.

The FX 9590 is an eight core CPU with a TDP of 220W while the i5 5675C is quad core with a TDP of 65W. Four extra cores and 155W more for a 20% speed increase is ridiculous, if it's even truly faster.

Take a look at this. As you can see, the FX 9590 gets its ass handed to it in more than half of the benchmarks vs the i5 4690. It even sometimes loses to the i3 4360.

Recent Anandtech review link about Nvidia NVS 810.

AMD does fine at low power, at least after Carrizo release:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

E.g. in HP EliteBook 725 G3, 7+ hours on battery:
http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/...

First, the RPi2 is lower power compared even to a very new NUC. The entire RPi2 uses at maximum 420mA * 5V = 2.1W. The NUC uses between 6W and 30W.

Second, according to the summary it should be possible to add a couple of cheap chips to the RPi2 and have Gb Ethernet + SATA for a very modest increase in price. WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, etc. are totally unnecessary if all you want is a NAS or a small/cheap server. It'd be more like $60 for the mutant RPi2 vs $140 for the NUC you mentioned.

Clearly a NUC will curb-stomp an RPi2's performance. But there's definitely a "knee" to the curve between performance and price. If a mutant RPi2 can deliver the essential features at a very very low price... well, that's what the RPi is all about.

Beating test cycles by engineering to the test is hardly a new phenomenon, and it is the bulk of why current EU tests are being replaced by new standards currently in development that are harder to game. Even with this improvement, expect some level of optimization for test conditions while either ignoring or even harming real world performance.

The relentless cycle beating has had a myriad of harmful effects beyond just not accomplishing the purpose.

• * Regulators start to believe their emissions goals can actually be met, even when they realistically cannot while maintaining adequate driving performance. People just don't baby the throttle the way the NEDC does.
• * Somehow, the problems the controls were intended to alleviate aren't getting any better, so they crank them down tighter. The engineering gets even more optimized for the test. The cars get nice "green" certifications, and everyone wonders where the smog is coming from.
• * Often, this engineering means smaller engines and turbos, which inevitably don't last as long as the larger displacement engines they replace. It also means increased mechanical complexity. Guess who picks up the tab for this? Us.
• * The smaller, boosted engines may do just fine in emissions testing, and even performance testing on the dyno, but often they are not as good as the larger, naturally aspirated engines they replace for real-world tasks. This is particularly true with trucks, where you'll see V-8s being replaced by turbo-4s. They may still have the same or even better power on paper, but they now have spool-up lag and have to operate in a higher RPM range to haul cargo and/or passengers, and really can struggle with towing loads due to the lesser torque.

It remains to be seen that diesels with urea injection "cannot realistically meet emissions goals". VW wanted to avoid that system on these cars for various reasons.
Meanwhile, it's immensely clear that emissions are hugely cleaner than they were pre1970; performance is as good as or better; and today's little engines working hard last 200k easily while the big lazy v8s of the day would be lucky to hit 100K.
And big rig diesels have always been mainstays of turbocharging, other than the GM Rootes blowers, precisely because they are driven more on highways and run at a narrow range of rpms for long periods of time compared to passenger cars and turbo lag isn't encountered very often, and the increase in efficiency is worth big bucks, and diesels are more efficient that gasoline engines which are not direct injected. http://forums.anandtech.com/sh... And torque is not less with a turbocharger, http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aut... http://image.fourwheeler.com/f... http://www.gizmag.com/bmw-adds...

APK System 2015:

CPU = Intel Core I7 4790k (vs. my old CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Motherboard = ASUS B85-E

Video = EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX OC (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my old vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Primary SSD = Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Secondary "True SSD" = GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based (SATA I) - for PageFile placement

Storage HDD = Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb HDD (SATA 6) - for downloads

Backup HDD = Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb HDD (SATA II) - for programming data

Controller 4 Backup = Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching controller (SATA 1/2) - for WD Velociraptor

Burner = HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i (SATA 3)

RAM = 8gb Kingston DDR-3 (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

---

NTFS timestamps, all perf counters, & excess services off.

Less work done on MAIN OS & Programs bootdisk = faster main drive doing less bs vs. REAL work + reduced fragmentations.

I place my custom hosts file on a software ramdisk by redirecting it in the registry (for performance + security):

HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters

(Via "DataBasePath" parameter - acts like a *NIX shadow password system)

I increased hosts' priority to its load/read too:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
"Class"=dword:00000008
"HostsPriority"=dword:00000005
"DnsPriority"=dword:00000006
"LocalPriority"=dword:00000007
"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000008

---

* SHE'S A RUNNER & SMOKIN' FAST - not just hardware wise but also how it's setup software-wise too...

APK

P.S.=> I was never in "my mother's basement" fool, lol - bet you ARE though (lmao) - I've owned a home for years now - do you?

... apk

APK System 2015:

CPU = Intel Core I7 4790k (vs. my old CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Motherboard = ASUS B85-E

Video = EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX OC (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my old vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Primary SSD = Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Secondary "True SSD" = GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based (SATA I) - for PageFile placement

Storage HDD = Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb HDD (SATA 6) - for downloads

Backup HDD = Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb HDD (SATA II) - for programming data

Controller 4 Backup = Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching controller (SATA 1/2) - for WD Velociraptor

Burner = HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i (SATA 3)

RAM = 8gb Kingston DDR-3 (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

---

NTFS timestamps, all perf counters, & excess services off.

Less work done on MAIN OS & Programs bootdisk = faster main drive doing less bs vs. REAL work + reduced fragmentations.

I place my custom hosts file on a software ramdisk by redirecting it in the registry (for performance + security):

HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters

(Via "DataBasePath" parameter - acts like a *NIX shadow password system)

I increased hosts' priority to its load/read too:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
"Class"=dword:00000008
"HostsPriority"=dword:00000005
"DnsPriority"=dword:00000006
"LocalPriority"=dword:00000007
"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000008

---

* SHE'S A RUNNER & SMOKIN' FAST - not just hardware wise but also how it's setup software-wise too...

APK

P.S.=> I was never in "my mother's basement" fool, lol - bet you ARE though (lmao) - I've owned a home for years now - do you?

... apk

APK System 2015:

CPU = Intel Core I7 4790k (vs. my old CPU Core I7 920 -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Motherboard = ASUS B85-E

Video = EVGA/NVidia GeForce 970 GTX OC (+140mhz) 4gb GDDR5 RAM (vs. my old vidcard 470 GTX -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Primary SSD = Intel 530 240gb Flash SSD (SATA 6) - OS & Program disk - latest 3.0 firmware & trim tools (vs. my WD Velociraptor -> http://www.anandtech.com/bench... )

Secondary "True SSD" = GigaByte IRAM 4gb DDR2-Ram based (SATA I) - for PageFile placement

Storage HDD = Western Digital 7,200 rpm 8mb buffer 1tb HDD (SATA 6) - for downloads

Backup HDD = Western Digital 10,000 rpm 8mb buffer Velociraptor 150gb HDD (SATA II) - for programming data

Controller 4 Backup = Promise Ex-8350 128mb ECC ram caching controller (SATA 1/2) - for WD Velociraptor

Burner = HP DVD+-RW Dvd 1265i (SATA 3)

RAM = 8gb Kingston DDR-3 (1gb for 64-bit NTFS Compressed Software RamDrive = webbrowser cache, hosts file, print spooler, %TEMP% ops, + %COMSPEC% location)

---

NTFS timestamps, all perf counters, & excess services off.

Less work done on MAIN OS & Programs bootdisk = faster main drive doing less bs vs. REAL work + reduced fragmentations.

I place my custom hosts file on a software ramdisk by redirecting it in the registry (for performance + security):

HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\Parameters

(Via "DataBasePath" parameter - acts like a *NIX shadow password system)

I increased hosts' priority to its load/read too:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Tcpip\ServiceProvider]
"Class"=dword:00000008
"HostsPriority"=dword:00000005
"DnsPriority"=dword:00000006
"LocalPriority"=dword:00000007
"NetbtPriority"=dword:00000008

---

* SHE'S A RUNNER & SMOKIN' FAST - not just hardware wise but also how it's setup software-wise too...

APK

P.S.=> I was never in "my mother's basement" fool, lol - bet you ARE though (lmao) - I've owned a home for years now - do you?

... apk

And since this is a "die-shrink" to 10 nm

Really? Because the Samsung A9 is done with a 14 nm process and the TSMC A9 is done with a 16 nm process, as some smart people have found. So what are you talking about? The gorilla glass thickness? Or the thickness of the rose gold layer?

No. I didn't read an article correctly.

I now see that Samsung has just now produced some prototype 10 nm parts, and expects to be in actual production with 10 nm by the end of 2016.

That's what I get for posting on Slashdot while trying to work, too!

And since this is a "die-shrink" to 10 nm

Really? Because the Samsung A9 is done with a 14 nm process and the TSMC A9 is done with a 16 nm process, as some smart people have found. So what are you talking about? The gorilla glass thickness? Or the thickness of the rose gold layer?

Actually, according to Anandtech, there seems to be a significant upgrade to Apple's IO on the 6s and 6s+--it looks like they took the SSD controller from a laptop and crammed it in there: http://anandtech.com/show/9662...

"Previous writers on the site have often spoken of Apple’s custom NAND controllers for storage in the iPhone, but I didn’t really understand what this really meant. In the case of the iPhone 6s, it seems that this means Apple has effectively taken their Macbook SSD controller and adapted it for use in a smartphone."

Sequential reads and writes are crazy fast on those two devices; they far outclass even the iPad Air 2, and certainly any Android devices. (Things fall back into line with the random read/writes, though.)

1. Javascript benchmarks. They should be outlawed, period. They test the software (browser) more than the CPU. Also they are probably single threaded or close to be.

2. On-screen 3D game benchmarks. Because they favor phones with low-res display such as iPhones.

None of the benchmarks in TFA even consider RAM size and flash memory speed, which both have real-world benefits.

I'm sure that ALL of these benchmarks are done by Apple shills.

Right.

Oh, and whiner, I found this and this about the memory subsystem in the iPhone 6s. Glad you asked!

IIRC, didn't Apple crow about increasing the CPU - RAM bandwidth by a fair bit?

There's a great article covering just that.

rated at 460,000 random read, 290,000 random write (4k) IOPS.

No, they're not. They're rated at up to 460,000 random read, up to 290,000 random write 4k IOPS.
Which is a major difference between consumer and datacenter SSDs, consumer drive specs list burst performance, DC list sustained.
And that difference is quite significant.