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Over here at least, due to poor price positioning compared to other enthusiast offerings and the fact that at the moment new-topology Ks aren't much use as they simply cost more (much more, factoring in the enthusiast-grade chipsets needed to support them) compared to locked CPUs of the same gen while offering poor OC ceilings for early adopters due to the usual new topology blues - the silicon let alone the BIOSes haven't had time to mature yet and get rid of some of the kinks.
For people looking for value "K" is a very dirty letter especially as OC trends continue toward lower percentages; for the bleeding edge 4 physical cores is considered built-in obsolescence and for the ranks of enthusiasts that walk a line between these two camps the new Ks offer less potential for more money than their own predecessors. Long term this will change, assuming the i7 has its kinks worked out as Skylake matures, but at the moment the early adopters are once again being giggled at
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Thats the potential issue with the NBP, it could bankrupt some WISPs which would leave some areas "dark" for an interim period. Long term though you have eircom, Siro and the DECNR all firing on all cylinders to roll out FTTH into rural areas.
It will bankrupt a lot of them as they were never really raking it in in the first place and a lot of their cachement areas they hold monopolies over will fall to either fibre or 4G.
But I live in the north-east, which is a different kettle of fish. The chance of anyone living outside a town getting fibre here is vanishingly slim. Some people might get fibre accidentally as a collateral effect of cables being run up to various Richies and TDs' country getaways but everyone else will be waiting til long after 2020 to even find out if the government will actually pursue the NBP to its gory conclusion or not. Given the last 20+ years track record the government has in relation to commitments and the north-east, most people living up this end of the country would laugh themselves silly if someone made outlandish claims about Dublin actually fulfilling any infrastructure promises here.
At least one that doesn't involve "helping" us by building Brit pylons through our towns and villages and hooking up biotox incinerators and offshore wind turbines (in the middle of the countryside!) to them to supply our British overlords with cheap electricity :rolleyes:
Its very likely that the NBP will get to the north-east last and government will step in saying "ah well who cares about those illiterate peasants, sure 4G is more than enough for them" completely ignoring that the terrain here causes countless large "rainshadow desert" areas that will never have 4G reception, just like they didn't have 3G reception. And most of those areas are full of homes who are hooked up to incorrect exchanges that are villages away over 5-10km of old, dodgy copper and have no ADSL access either. The death of monopoly-holding WISPs will cause large swathes of the north-east and other remote areas ignored by the NBP to be relegated back to satellite or dial-up.Its kinda frustrating that the low power Atom series chips have octas but the mainstream still hasn't gone that way. The primary consumer line has been quad core for forever. We can probably blame the lack of competition for that though.
That may change, but things will get worse before they get better. I suspect we're heading toward the absolute nadir of the CPU "long cycle" as Intel runs out of headroom with its existing processes and topologies and reaches the end of its "tick, tock, broken clock" cycle where its forced to completely discard existing design philosophies as it has done with 486, Pentium and Netburst before. We're heading toward the point of maximum stagnation where Intel is virtually moribund but AMD has not yet caught up in order to apply pressure. When it does, we'll see Intel desperately vomiting out dodgy 150W TDP 4.8GHz hex-cores like there was no tomorrow and a lot of consumers switching to AMD just like every "broken clock" phase they go through until they manage to get the dev clock fixed and release their latest Pentium/Itanium/Core2 rival-killer.
That's still some ways off unfortunately, and while the current dev clock struggles on through its last death throes Intel will be keeping innovation to a minimum and consumer price water-torture to the maximum while it throws everything into all of its R&D departments to help find a new design philosophy to push its next major CPU evolution
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Digital Solitude wrote: »Try one of the console forums?
Elgato is the only one I've ever heard of
Better here, it's probably an internal capture card I'd be looking at this go round.
wotzgoinon mate I'm laughing here... what you're talking about is possible on pretty much all new cards going back two years or more, not just 'the 290'...
nVidia has Shadowplay, AMD has one too and then there's OBS which most recommend, not sure if that uses GPU side though. 0 -
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