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Philosophy of upgrade cycles... cutting-edge, mid-range, or trailing-edge?

Just looked today for another thread, there are Haswell i7 4790 machines from Dell on eBay going for <$300. Buy, drop in SSD and maybe more RAM, send her away happy on the cheap.
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- Post #16
- Nov 2, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Can this CPU be upgraded?

Four options as I see it. First, look in your BIOS options. On the "Z" chipset boards, the non-K chips from that era could still be overclocked by 4 speed bins (4 x 100mhz) over their stock setting. So, if your board supports it, you should be able to set your chip to run at 3.8GHz on all 4...
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- Post #23
- Nov 2, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Let's talk Keto

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29199027?dopt=Abstract Ten year study good enough for you? Granted, it's a small study (ten children), but none of them had elevated cholesterol, triglycerides, etc after ten years on a ketogenic diet. Including one child who had dyslipidaemia (high...
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- Post #25
- Jun 12, 2018
- Forum: Health and Fitness
Let's talk Keto

Local group? LOL do a little research bud. From Wikipedia: There's no way they'd risk their reputation with a statement like that without solid evidence backing it up.
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- Post #23
- Jun 11, 2018
- Forum: Health and Fitness
Eating plants for longer and healthier living?

http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org/content/63/2/139.full.pdf+html
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- Post #49
- Jun 11, 2018
- Forum: Health and Fitness
How do you keep motivated to continue working out?

Ketogenic diet + intermittent fasting = weight loss with no exercise If you can throw in some exercise (of any kind) it's a bonus. BTW, I run for an hour every day on elliptical at the gym. The only way I make it through that ordeal is with music (very long, upbeat playlist) and books (Kindle...
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- Post #42
- Jun 11, 2018
- Forum: Health and Fitness
Let's talk Keto

If you couldn't tell, I'm pro-keto. I've personally been on keto diet now for a bit over a year, am down nearly 50 pounds (248 -> 201 this morning, was 197 three days ago before a cheat day). My bloodwork improved, cholesterol dropped from 181 (3 months before started the diet) to 128 about...
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- Post #21
- Jun 11, 2018
- Forum: Health and Fitness
Let's talk Keto

Ketosis doesn't flush minerals out of the body except at the very start. Your body holds extra water to keep glucose dispersed/diluted, this gets released when you switch into fat-burn mode, along with some minerals. This typically has either minimal effect (my case) or causes keto flu (as...
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- Post #20
- Jun 11, 2018
- Forum: Health and Fitness
What are you playing now? [Chat + Discussions]

LOL this is me too. Last game I played seriously was Grim Dawn right around the official launch time, grabbed my attention for several months. Since then, just mobile games, on couch with TV + girlfriend...
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- Post #102
- May 11, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
Are Graphics Cards superior to CPUs or is it all just smoke and mirrors?

So, here's the rub in all this. Yes, you're getting the equivalent of a "decent" GPU essentially free with your CPU purchase. However, that "decent" GPU is only equivalent to the very bottom end of what's available in the dGPU world. Although, depending on your particular uses, it may be...
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- Post #39
- May 11, 2018
- Forum: Graphics Cards
New Grim Dawn expansion Forgotten Gods coming in 2018

Same, haven't played since beta/initial release days. So two expansions should create a whole new experience.
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- Post #5
- Mar 21, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
Fixing a P4 build for a family friend. Need cheap graphics card used.

Be careful, that old of a system is likely an AGP video slot, not PCIe. Meaning you're going to have a hard time finding any cards that will even fit it. And none of those are likely to support much modern hardware encoding/etc.
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- Post #11
- Mar 9, 2018
- Forum: Graphics Cards
On Socialism and Nazis

I run for an hour every night at the gym, watching CNN on one screen and Fox News on the one next to it. It's almost humorous to see the opposite spin put on every story that comes up for discussion. The one thing that bothers me is the gleeful attitude at CNN/ABC/NBC/et al anytime anything at...
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- Post #85
- Nov 1, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News
Is an ingame A.I. revolution coming?

LOL every time I hear someone talking about game AI or see an Intel/nVidia/AMD commercial featuring AI features, I cannot help but think of SkyNet. That's how it all gets started, self-cognizant AI. And, if it's already in the proverbial cloud when it's established, there will be no way to...
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- Post #21
- Nov 1, 2017
- Forum: PC Games
Grim Dawn: Ashes of Malmouth release date announced

So, for those playing, how is the expansion? I haven't played GD since late beta/early release days, I would imagine big changes from that point to today?
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- Post #24
- Oct 19, 2017
- Forum: PC Games

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