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Intel Debuts 9th-Gen Core Chips, Including Core i9 and X-Series Parts, With a Few Twists (pcworld.com)
Intel unveiled its 9th-generation Core desktop chips, with the notable omission of a key feature: Hyper-Threading, at least on all but the most exclusive Core i9-9900K for mainstream PCs. Hyper-Threading has also been reserved for a new iteration of Intel's X-series processors, which includes up to 18 cores and 36 threads. From a report: In a livestream Monday morning from its Fall Launch Event in New York, the company announced just a single Core i9 chip, the $488 Core i9-9900K. Later, the company privately revealed two others in the Core i7 and Core i5 families. Intel also announced a new series of X-class chips, ranging from 8 cores and 16 threads through 18 cores and 36 threads. Prices will range from $589 to $1,979.
It's certainly fair to say that Intel surprised us all with the unexpected shift of its upcoming 28-core chip to the Xeon family, as well as the announcement of the X-series chips, too. And what's the deal with hyperthreading? Intel's announcement certainly adds some new topics to talk about in the months ahead. Part of the confusion was due to what Intel was expected to announce: a family of new 9th-gen chips, from Core i3s up through the Core i9, and how it did so. On the publicly available livestream, the company revealed only the presence of the Core i9-9900K, as well as the presence of the new X-series parts. Later, after the livestream had concluded, Intel fleshed out the remaining members of the K-series parts, and disclosed the price and performance of the X-series parts.
However, Intel didn't even mention what many enthusiasts wanted to know: why only the i9-9900K, out of all of Intel's mainstream parts, boasts the Hyper-Threading feature. Further reading: Intel claims best gaming processor with 9th Gen Core unveiling.
It's certainly fair to say that Intel surprised us all with the unexpected shift of its upcoming 28-core chip to the Xeon family, as well as the announcement of the X-series chips, too. And what's the deal with hyperthreading? Intel's announcement certainly adds some new topics to talk about in the months ahead. Part of the confusion was due to what Intel was expected to announce: a family of new 9th-gen chips, from Core i3s up through the Core i9, and how it did so. On the publicly available livestream, the company revealed only the presence of the Core i9-9900K, as well as the presence of the new X-series parts. Later, after the livestream had concluded, Intel fleshed out the remaining members of the K-series parts, and disclosed the price and performance of the X-series parts.
However, Intel didn't even mention what many enthusiasts wanted to know: why only the i9-9900K, out of all of Intel's mainstream parts, boasts the Hyper-Threading feature. Further reading: Intel claims best gaming processor with 9th Gen Core unveiling.
Hyperthreading is at least partly to blame for the serious security flaws in nearly every processor produced over the last two decades. The 9900K still has it because some people value speed over security. https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
I come here for global warming and trump articles, not tech news.
From someone who buys lots of CPUs from both Intel and AMD: Intel is still the single thread champ. Know Thy Workload and always use the best tool for each job.
Theyâ(TM)ll add hyperthreading back for the 10th Gen, which will be the 5th variant of Skylake.
I'm not buying unless it's overpriced, has both Spectre and Meltdown flaws, and the built-in Intel Management Engine backdoor.
These are the features I demand as an Intel fanboy who pays more for less so I can merit putting the Intel Inside sticker on my desktop case for all to see.
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Until they fix it Im buying AMD. If they are unable to fix it then thats too fucking bad for intel.
Apple.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Yeah, but which one is the best? Certainly i9s are a waste of money on gaming related scenarios?
More to the point, which current offering is the i7 2600K of years past (not too expensive and overclocks like crazy?)
Until alll chip manufacturers can get their small nanometers working reliably and Windows 7 support is restored there is no reason to upgrade. Removing features has been going on for a while now. Look at how many computers still come with 32GB storage when back in 2004 40GB hard drives were considered low end. Any true performance increases will be eaten up by millenialscript apps anyway..
...what kind of housefires are these things gonna be? They almost certainly went back to solder because toothpaste wasn't going to cut it for these chips to even work. The last AMD processor I bought was an X2 4200+ something like 10 years ago, but I think they're going to get my business back because I'm not paying a premium for a hotplate running the zillionth tweaked version of an architecture we've had for the better part of a decade.*
No computers come with only 32gb of storage. Windows wouldn't even fit.
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The peak power generation is reduced but the mode remains the same when you turn off the hyperthreading. It all improves further if you remove the hyperthreading logic altogether. This helps improve margins for silicon lifetime. Your Apple ][ might work well after 35 years, but running a current gen 14nm at full load is warranteed for 10 years. Reducing the peak load extends the worst case, full load lifetime.
This is not simple engineering. There are many factors that go into identifying the distribution of lifetime of a circuit and it's done for every circuit.
TL;DR - These non-hyperthreading parts are more reliable than their hyperthreading brethren, when driven hard.
The important question is how will this affect the price of current processors, and whether those will come into effect by the time cyber monday rolls around and I'm buying a new gaming PC. Inquiring minds want to know. And so many places are pushing AMD now, but my gut is telling me to still stick with Intel, even though AMD is slightly cheaper.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Man, like many slashdotters, I used to be firmly AMD prior to the Core-series of processors. Since then, my last 3 desktops since ~2007 have been Intel.
. The fact is that at this moment, the single thread performance of Intel's chips, and their performance per-core is unmatched. If you're doing anything with multimedia, such as x265 encoding, video editing, whatever, Intel is still the best.
But the fact is that AMD is coming with more cores, and higher clocks, and lower cost. And they are rapidly reaching the tipping point where 24 of their cores for $500 bucks make a lot more sense than 6 of Intel's for $500 bucks.
All I am seeing from Intel's 9th generation is an upward-rebrand of all their parts, eliminating the Celeron. And, a continued artificial scarcity of cores and PCI bandwidth to push customers up into the Xeon lines...
, this coming from a company that apparently can't get to 10nm until next year, and is facing major supply issues....
Well, all these things do not bode well for Intel.
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In this charged political climate amongst charges of sexual allegations; Intel has decided to strip out a feature that was key to helping fight global climate change. Democratic senators are currently reviewing their options to bring allegations against the once former tech giant.
How did I do?
Chromebooks come with that much storage.
Trivially proved wrong - lots of windows laptops ship with 32gb. Google âoehp laptop 32gb eMMCâ.
Canâ(TM)t tell if youâ(TM)re trolling, but Windows 10 happily fits there.
Grr! Apologies for forgetting about the unicode support / ios quote mangling here.
Your gut is wrong and no doubt influenced by marketing and shilling from Intel.
You can buy a Meltdown invulnerable CPU from AMD *today*. These new CPUs from Intel are still vulnerable and it will be years before they sell one that isn't.
Go AMD.
that show Ryzen doing better than Intel in modern games due to the better multi-core. Intel will crank out higher avg FPS but has much, much worse 1% lows. If you're already hitting 120+ FPS then for a lot of games the Ryzen's a better experience, especially a Ryzen 2. Right now a passmark single-thread score of 2100 seems to be the sweet spot for everything except Total Warhammer & Ashes of the Singularity.
Now, if price isn't an object then you just go with Intel's $1000 or $2000 part and get the best of both worlds, but if you're on any kind of budget whatsoever Ryzen's probably the way to go. But you're right about "Know your workload". That changes if you're a heavy strat gamer.
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All my Win7 VMs run nicely in 20GB. The trick is getting rid of the WinSxs folder garbage.
More to the point, which current offering is the i7 2600K of years past (not too expensive and overclocks like crazy?)
Amusingly enough, it's probably the 2nd-gen Ryzen5 2600X.
Happily until you try to do one of the major feature upgrades... Then there's not enough space to apply update and you have to install from scratch.
Intel has lost the plot and are in damage control mode, even crippling their own hardware in an attempt to stay relevant. AMD is the future, we wont miss you Intel!
Lots of cheap machines come with only 32 GB of storage because they get cheaper Windows licenses this way.
Ezekiel 23:20
Slashdot can do unicode. But unicode is so broken as to be actively dangerous, so it gets blocked.
Funny how this experience, along with other people's experiences (*cough* spotify *cough*, among others) hasn't stopped the unicode evangelism. Because somehow the basic ASCII apostrophe is not good enough.
That people still insist on using non-ascii "improved! with more unicode!" extra special snowflake apostrophes probably is because it's not them that's insisting, but the "improved! with more unicode!" fashionable apparatuses they insist on toting around along with their fancy coffees with the overlong names. And they're just not smart enough to turn the "smart quotes" feature off in those same fashionable apparatuses.
Question for the reader: Does that imply that the snowflake coffee makes stupid?
Almost as good as Ryzen processors.
Only way I'd buy a NEWER cpu? Clean up the Spectre/Meltdown/IME issues (AMD analogs included). As is, I'm happy w/ relatively "midrange" performance of the CPU I have (not happy w/ having to use my router to blunt ports IME accesses & being unable to stop Spectre/Meltdown afaik), which is an Intel 4790k @ 4.1ghz o/c'd.
I say "midrange" vs. TODAY's "state-of-the-art" NEWER cpus based on benchmark tests I see on Linux @ Phoronix (starting to REALLY like Mike Larabel's site actually too).
* Intel (AMD partially too) REALLY needs to look into fixing that imo (& yes, the opinion of others too - I haven't read that of others' here on /. YET, but based on many articles noting this all today, it always figures in w/in the content of said articles, everytime...).
APK
P.S.=> Hell w/ performance when it comes to security (or accuracy as well) - performance takes a "back seat" to those things in my book)... apk
he's building a gaming pc.. he's not running banking transactions on it. What matters is raw performance.
and no doubt influenced by marketing and shilling from Intel.
My gut also says to avoid AMD. Not because of anything Intel has said, but because of years of being burned by ATI.
Don't get me wrong, I know it is not a rational hatred at this point. But it will take a lot to ever get me to consider AMD again. And no, these vulnerabilities from Intel are not enough, because it seems to me that if you aren't running random code that you found somewhere online, then there is nothing to be worried about from them.
That doesn't make him wrong.
Let's agree on:
1. They ALL suck.
2. Some suck more than others.
3. Intel have been consistently evil bastards in the last decades.
4. Evil bastards suck more than plain old assholes.
QED
No ECC /w only 16 lanes = No sale
It has nothing to do with single-core performance, and everything with the game Mafia developing for the ridiculously underpowered consoles and their precise core count
Well, consoles developers had 8 (underpowered) cores at their disposal for 5 years now (more if you count pre-release dev kits), so consoles aren't anymore the multi-core development roadblock they used to be. I guess that leaves two possibilities: either the multi-threaded gaming load balance is a hard nut to crack or the industry suffers from rampant incompetence.
Your “curly apostrophe” is the correct apostrophe, and the “ ' ” is merely a substitute character for the limited abilities of keyboard layouts of the ’90s. The 1890s, to be exact
Thankfully, there are vastly better keyboard layouts nowadays.
I would say, “The ’90s called”, but that meme was already outdated in the ‘90s. :)
Sad.
There, now it has a meta-Trump allusion.
I'm not hearing about all those Unicode hacks that you suggest should be happening everywhere.
Unicode is extremely simple to deal with. The UTF-8 encoding system is beautifully simple and elegant.
And if it's decoded into 32-bit Integers, then all you have to do, is say which ranges you allow. Since it's separated into planes and then into blocks, and on top, all code points are associated to certain character classes, it’s just a matter of allowing all the classes and blocks you deem OK. Usually, it’s enough to filter the "magical characters" character class(es). (Although they only ruin things if you are a shitty CSS coder, and can't use the overflow property properly, nor separate the style contexts.)
Every other site on the net can do this. Don't you think that if Reddit had problems with it, there would be hacks all over the place, ruining the layout?
My hypothesis is, that it's because Slashdot has been dead a loong time now, and nobody wants to touch the write-only Perl spaghetti script code that is SlashCode.
What am I missing here that's new? Hyper-threading... 18 cores/36 threads... what are they releasing that's they don't already have on the market?
I just built a ryzen 2600/vega 64 system. There's literally nothing wrong with it. It never crashes. the CPU gets 1300 cinebench, and games better than my i5 haswell did(ryzen has faster single-thread than the i5 too). the vega is rock solid and trades blows with a GTX1080/RTX2070. Witcher 3 runs fluid smooth at 4k max settings. I mostly game at 1440p though so this should last me the next 5-6 years. You may have PTSD from ATI, but AMD has been good for GPU's since the 290x, and good for CPU's since ryzen.
Yeah, you'd be amazed how many xb1 and ps4 games run on one or two threads.
Every time you open a page in your browser you are running "random code that you found somewhere online".
Anyone making emotional decisions when buying computer hardware will probably wind up being disappointed. Explaining to people today why they should chose AMD when they reference "being burned by ATI" is probably a wasted effort. Since you know, ATI hasn't existed in about a decade as an independent company.
AMD is a proven viable option on at least the CPU front (and really not that bad on the dGPU front, if you can find a decent deal on RX Vega 64). Anyone who doesn't know that today has their head in the sand.
Windows 7 support will never be restored.
Ever.
MS does not want you to use it. Stop crying when you get burned by a closed-source operating system being pulled out from under you after you become dependent upon it.
Someone might run the code for you.
You understand that ATI hasn't been around for over a decade now right? Get over it. You're not still buying spinning hard drives when you can do M2 flash are you? Not still using CRTs because they were always more reliable than LCD which gave way to LED. Things change, no point being stuck in the past.
While AMD has their missteps with drivers as someone with an Intel laptop with Nvidia quadro built-in I can confidently say they all suck as building proper drivers. AMD display with AMD CPU though, you're good to go.
No computers should come with 32Gb of storage, but low end laptops frequently have SSD drives with that amount of storage. And yes, updating Windows is extremely painful on such systems.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Tell me how to disable the meltdown software patch in Windows then.
Not dependent on it, just unwilling to go to that pile of shit Win10.
Go AMD.
Meltdown and Spectre are completely irrelevant to 99.9% of computer users out there in scope and risk they present to users.
Go AMD anyway because of awesome price performance ratio.
He's too retarded to know the difference between Intel's unsecured IME and PSP, lol. WHAT A DUMB TRUMP FAGGOT LOL.
No computers come with only 32gb of storage. Windows wouldn't even fit.
Windows 10 has a minimum storage requirement of 16GB. Bonus points if you use that machine there's not enough free space to download windows updates.
Plenty of devices out there come with 32GB of storage.
A current model CPU games better than a 5 year old competitor. Well that's a glowing endorsement...
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
You know that there are other languages out there that don't have characters represented in this character set, right?
Unicode has been in the HTML spec for like 20 god damn years now. If there were major security implications behind supporting Unicode (and not being unbelievably shit at coding web applications) I think we would have seen them by now.
Demanding drivers be written for Windows 7? Why not demand drivers for Windows 2000 - it would be just as useful.
Microsoft isn't selling Windows 7 licenses any more, so it's market share is as high as it will get until it dwindles to where Windows 2000 is. Nobody is going to spend the resources to do that.
Yeah yeah I know, get off your lawn. Uphill both ways. Etc.
Are you sure? Many gaming platforms require CC info as part of registration/payment
See subject: About ME ("there's nothing you can't do") https://youtu.be/z5LOE_5icNA?t...
* You WISH you were me... (that BOY's good).
APK
P.S.=> "I'm from the Empire State that's..." ALL I have to say - they said the rest... apk
That's just your gut flora talking. Change your diet and in a week or so you should notice adjustments in how your guts feel about AMD (and likely other things).
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" /v FeatureSettingsOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
/v FeatureSettingsOverrideMask /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management"
> The important question is how will this affect the price of ...
Microsoft licences.
18 cores on a per-core basis is ...
1) Hyperthreading is a source of certain security leaks they don't want to expend the effort (cash) to fix, so they disable it. They figure that the top-end purchasers have already spent so much unjustified money on a tiny bit of performance that they will act like Apple fanbois and ignore the issue.
2) Without hyperthreading they can eke out a small increment of single-thread performance, which is what all the intel fanbois focus on anyway, and try to retain some sales against the more performant AMD options.
Sad.
There, now it has a meta-Trump allusion.
not enough Russia
if you aren't running random code that you found somewhere online
I take it you have Javascript and Webassembly disabled?
That's why piracy is a thing.
It's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... & you WISH you were me, lol - "There's nothing I can't do"!
APK
P.S.=> Quote Jay-Z "That boy's GOOD"... apk
Reply to undo accidental moderation. Was attempting to mod up when the bus hit a bump.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
Like computer games? Get the best Intel CPU when building a new PC.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I'm not here to preach OSS but I use it. And I've used Win 10 before I retired and no matter how hard I tried, yes, it is a pile of shit. How? Look at the intellectual horsepower that company has. Don't scoff-you know it does. But look at what they produce. I feel sorry for those folks who have to eat Redmond's dog food. Back O/T
What about creating this law : if you're a dude and you can prove that you get fucked in the ass at least once a week you can get preferential treatment when getting hired or joining a university or attending vocational education.
I'll let the politicians and jews deal with passing the law and enforcing, I'm merely interested into being a certified ass fucker.
It kind of overclocks itself in fact (not much worth messing with it yourself). It's not too different with the Intels that run at some 4.x GHz already, like the 4790K and i7 7700K. and now the 8700K, 9700K, 9900K. You can mess with settings to gain some +5% performance or something but not something like +30%. Or use faster memory which is attained by.. buying faster memory.
If you really want to mess about you'll need to get the Ryzen 2600 not 2600X but then you'll about match a 2600X.
Nerds can get these machines usable - even the 16GB ones - by installing Windows 10 LTSB, which might be trimmed a bit further by uninstalling, disabling or deleting things.
Current processors will be sold out as long as they last and the new processors, which are essentially the old processors with new id-numbers are then replacing them and sold with the same price. As Intel kicked out most of their R&D, they can not produce anymore anything new, they are just exploiting old inventions as long as possible. Their previous big design upgrade is from 2014, after that nothing has really changed.
LOL :-)
I've bought ati/amd 3 times, and I've been burned by software support 3 times. Two graphics cards and a APU with "final" driver versions breaking significant features of the hardware. Never seen the same from Intel/nVidia. They typically support their hardware for longer and while they might stop supporting new features, they'll fix major bugs.
Would take a lot to go back for a fourth time.
Ok, granted hyperthreading runs two threads in close enough coordination to permit information leaks between them.
Seems like the OS, not the chip should be the place to fix this.
If two threads are in the same process, then running then as hyperthreads is fine.
If two threads are in different processes, then not.
GIven this, is there still a security hole making it necessary for Intel to throw this preformance away?
Alexander Peter Kowalskijust can't stop with his unmedicated delusions. Like how he claims the Chinese copied him but can't produce any evidence.
How about when he states that hosts does port filtering but again can't backup his statement which was shown to be false.
There is also his list of "experts" who support him but it turns out they don't say what he is claiming.
This also ignores his out of context quotes he uses to lie by omission.
The problem with APK is that his entire reputation is built upon the lie he told years ago that hosts is an effective security solution. It has been exposed numerous times as being a lie and when exposed APK fails to argue logically and instead will try to deflect criticism, change the subject, move the goal posts, return to a previously disproved statement, demand you prove you did better than his file concatenator, or just call people names. He will continue to lie by stating that he won or "dusted" you while failing to refute anything you said, will never provide real evidence, and generally try to dodge the issue.
Face it APK is one of the most detested individuals here for good reason. When ever his poor behavior, awful logic, over statements, and horrendous writing are called out he has a fit and has done so for years across the internet. He is a spammer, and is an abusive insecure little man who is washed up and never amounted to anything. Until he produces actual verifiable facts supporting his case, which he can't, nothing he says should be taken seriously. Because he can't actually refute anything he will now repeat all of his previously disproved lies because he is a retarded loser. By doing that he will prove he is a retard for all to see.
Intel is still the single thread champ.
Before Meltdown, maybe. Today, Intel owners need to decide whether to lag behind AMD also in single core performance, or leave the machine wide open to attack.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
he's building a gaming pc.. he's not running banking transactions on it
Is he ok with sharing all his passwords with any random driveby hacker? Because his Intel gaming PC is wide open to exploit even by Javascript on a web page. Or in case that isn't clear:, you own Intel, you surf, you lose.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Am3+ FX CPUs are beyond decent and an 8 core is going for $69 right now. Most people, including us, wouldn't notice the difference between an FX and a Ryzen.
So you don't run a script-blocker.
Horseshit; you'll always see greater FPS by going AMD and spending the savings on a better vidcard.
See subject & 3 questions you won't answer: 1.) Do hosts stop threats served by hostname (the way threats are done most) by blocking them? Yes. 2.) Do hosts speed you up 2 ways in adblocking (preventing more infection/tracking/slowdown) & via hardcoded favorite sites resolving faster + protecting vs. dns down or redirect poisoned? Yes.
My hosts program's the only 1 that does the latter @ TOP of hosts cached in RAM (for best performance) & only 1 of its kind on Linux/BSD in easy to use flexible configuration GUI form.
(I also did that latter part LONG before the Chinese & 1st http://theregister.co.uk/2017/...
APK
P.S.-> Lastly: 3.) Have you done work that's that effective doing more for less faster in kernelmode speed w/ less complexity for exploit + excess overheads vs. solutions KNOWN to be security-issue riddled (like addons (souled-out to NOT work by default OR easily detected & blocked that are BYPASSABLE & EXPLOITABLE), DNS & Antivirus)? No... apk
"classic Windows hosts trick to block the Coinhive or Crypto-Loot domains" - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-new-player-joins-coinhive-on-the-browser-cryptojacking-scene/ - BLEEPING COMPUTER
ZD NET http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-a-hosts-file-to-improve-your-internet-experience/ "Hosts files really shine by letting you block ads, spyware sites, malware sites, & tracking sites"
SANS ("A related approach to the DNS issue is to create a hosts file on each system that sends requests for spyware to some place else" hosts by myself & RAMU right @ START of "malware explosion" mid 2005 on) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di...
Aryeh Goretsky/ESET/NOD32: hosts = good security http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7442373&cid=49747129/
Oliver Day (SYMANTEC/SECURITYFOCUS) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491/
Spybot S&D uses hosts.
APK
P.S.=> Malwarebytes' hpHosts hosts & RECOMMENDS my program http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi...
"It's working: Neville... it's working!" See subject & results from the past month https://it.slashdot.org/commen... & https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... + https://it.slashdot.org/commen... https://it.slashdot.org/commen... that's only recently while I've been on Linux (few months now only) & 100's of times vs. MANY other botnets/malwares etc. in the past circa 2006-early 2018 while I was on Windows: CONCRETE VISIBLE UNDENIABLE REALITY (see those links as proof).
P.S.=> ... & that's ONLY what /. reported on (there are FAR more)... apk
Arstechnica = losers who stalked me (as you do now anonymously unidentifiably) to NTCompatible.com & Windows IT Pro magazine forums to their public dismay in Jeremy Reimer & Jay Little + Jarrett DeAngelis (who posts here on /. until I drove his ass off too) when their websites were REMOVED by their hosting providers in Shaw Canada & CrystalTech (for both email harassing me caught on a tracking ticket + stalking me & posting lies about me on them).
Right AFTER I destroyed them both PUBLICLY @ Windows IT Pro on Exchange Servers memory being freed UNHALTING them (which tells you Exchange is HEAVILY POINTER ORIENTED linked list driven, which leads to memory fragmentation that CAN halt a serverware).
Jay Little the "self-proclaimed 'EXCHANGE EXPERT'" HAD TO CONCEDE IT from MICROSOFT'S OWN DOCUMENTATION proving it FOR me there (where they as usual stalked me AS YOU ARE NOW)
Peter Bright/Dr. Pizza (alias GOITERMAN, lol) can tell you what happened to his IRC server after that (lol).
"The great arseHOLEtechnica" (not) RUN OUT of their own server chatrooms hahaha (by "yours truly").
In effete retaliation they edited my posts & impersonated me on their little private playpen of UNDERACHIEVER losers.
APK
P.S.=> ABOVE ALL ELSE: Thanks for outing yourself as 1 of the "few, the defeated" from arseHOLEtechnica - always a pleasure exposing your lame asses (that are nothing more than do-NOTHING "ne'er-do-wells" THAT CAN'T STAND THEMSELVES for it (lol, no shit) & that you are REDUCED to STALKING ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous too... lmao!)... apk
sk him WHY his false accusation of an old ware of mine was 1st taken down to NO threat & CA sold off the SHITTY antivir he sold (as a paid pawn of theirs) & they are GONE, done. dead... lol!
Lookup "CA Accounting Scandal" on Google - scumbags & THEIR BIRDS OF A FEATHER just go down vs. me everytime!
APK
P.S.=> He's a FAT lying LOSER from podunk idaho... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* SEE SUBJECT & TELL US: How does EATING YOUR WORDS taste?
APK
P.S.=> You're already VASTLY OUTNUMBERED but many more are coming
Apk has the answer for that - really... kill automatic updates by adding a hosts file entry setting updates.steam.com or whatever to 127.0.0.1. You have to find the right hostname for each software you want to block updates on by raymorris (2726007) on Friday July 06, 2018
APK your posts on this and the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error and/or bad advice by BlueStrat (756137) on Wednesday June 21, 2017
I support APK's stand on the hosts file and can't see why it's not used more than it is. My hosts file is 144247 lines long (4,332 Kb) it & a firewall serves me very well - by Trax3001BBS (2368736)
ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything APK reminds us about fast turtle September 17 2013
You need APK's hosts file - by Teun (17872) on Wednesday August 06, 2014
APK
P.S.=> You EATING YOUR WORDS != GOOD NUTRITION... apk
Actually, APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock." - by chihowa on Saturday May 16, 2015
APK solution STILL relevant Thud457 June 11 2015
In a footnote, I would like to note that I find your hosts file admirable - by vel-ex-tech (4337079) on Tuesday November 24, 2015
APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good at the moment - by Culture20 on Thursday November 17
you're right about hosts files - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26
APK, I know people give you a lot of shit regarding hosts, but please don't ever stop - by nasredin (958927) on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:34PM
APK
P.S.=> Are you ENJOYING the taste of EATING YOUR WORDS yet?... apk
APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works. - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015
get around to 'installing' a hosts file list, not sure which one, likely the one from someonewhocares.org. If it works as well as what I used for a while about ten years ago, I'll be happy. And grateful to APK for the lesson and the reminder. - by kermidge (2221646) on Wednesday March 27
I actually went and downloaded a 16k line hosts file and started using that after seeing that post, you know just for trying it out. some sites load up faster. - by gl4ss (559668) on Thursday November 17
dammit MS, you proved APK right about something by lgw
APK
P.S.=> Your words YOU'RE EATING: You choking on them yet?... apk
(APK) is still right a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream OrangeTide February 10 2016
the Host File Engine performs exactly as promised - by mmell (832646) on Thursday February 16, 2017
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I've never tried to belittle (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good - by BronsCon (927697) on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:48PM (#51491263)
APK
P.S.=> You still haven't said how EATING YOUR WORDS tastes? apk
I say the following as a caring human being who agrees with how useful HOSTS files are: Your zeal is to be respected - by dave420 (699308) on Monday September 08, 2014
But I love APK!The power of the hostfile compels you! by ratboy666 (104074) on Friday January 29, 2016
APK was right all along! C:\WINDOWS\HOSTS is the solution ;) - by sabri (584428) on Friday October 21, 2016
No complaints from me, I like APK's spam. Reminds me to use a host file. Also, his stuff is free. - by aaaaaaargh! (1150173) on Tuesday November 17, 2015
I'm a fan of apk. Yes he trolls, but he only trolls where it's contextually appropriate. I respect that - by Noah Haders (3621429) on Wednesday July 29, 2015
APK
P.S.=> YOU'RE OUTNUMBERED DOZENS TO 1 - toss on 100,000++ users of my program worldwide too... apk
I mostly game at 1440p though so [a Vega 64] should last me the next 5-6 years.
No GPU exists 5 - 6 years without turning down settings significantly over time.
Plus, you're missing out on 4k. It's more than 2x the pixels of 1440p, which not only helps with anti-aliasing, texture resolution, object detail at distance, etc., but allows for users to use bigger screens/monitors, and bigger is better (if DPI is all you care about, just hook your PC up to your phone screen... bet it'll be a great experience).
I don't see YOU signing your posts you hypocrite pussy punk. If you fools wouldn't start w/ me 1st I wouldn't EMBARASS you afterward.
* c6gunner IS a punk & a do-NOTHING zero pussy like you who impersonated me + ALTERED /.ers words https://linux.slashdot.org/com... & had it coming.
APK
P.S.=> So do YOU pussy - hence WHY you hide behind UNIDENTFIABLE anonymous posts. Let me tell you something, asshole, no joke: IF I ever got ahold of you in PERSON? I'd fuck you up & hospitalize you @ the VERY LEAST because I cannot STAND pure SHIT like you (neither do most people & I know you can't STAND yourself either pussy)... apk
Some GPUs really stood out e.g. 8800GTX, the closely related and cheaper 8800GT, or Radeon 7970. The latter still is usable to this day.
GTX 1080, 1070 seem like they will perform well for a while. Vega 64 isn't anything special but basically as good (if more power hungry than a 1080). Its direct predecessor the Radeon Fury sucked more and is kind of obsolete (power hungry and "only" 4GB RAM) but should still be more than usable anyhow.
980 Ti is getting old.. but with 6GB RAM and specs that were so high, it's a completely current graphics card.
I don't know about "lots". Low-end laptops still ship with 5400RPM hard drives. As you move up eventually you start seeing the models with 256 GB SSDs. The big exception for this seems to be Apple (lol), where most of their models start with a meager 128 GB, and yes you pay dearly for this. The other exception are some of the tablets-with-keyboards, probably because they don't want to cram a hard drive in there but still want to keep the cost down.