> The goal here is that where Intel has four cores with no hyperthreading, AMD can provide six cores with SMT, effectively offering three times as many threads for the same price and potentially smashing any multithreaded workload.
> Here we have twelve threads against four, at a 95W TDP compared to a 91W TDP (the 1600 is 65W, which looks better on paper). It is expected that for situations where a compute workload can scale across cores and threads that the AMD chip will wipe the floor with the competition. For more generic office workloads, it will interesting to see where the marks fall.
We already know what Ryzen 7 chips can do. Ryzen 5 sounds mighty interesting for a mainstream processor.
> We have confirmation from AMD that there are no silly games going to be played with Ryzen 5. The six-core parts will be a strict 3+3 combination, while the four-core parts will use 2+2. This will be true across all CPUs, ensuring a consistent performance throughout.
@bwDraco for office use? probably doesn't really matter, but generally... nope. you'd get absolutely nothing past the 4th core, and little to nothing past the 2nd
I think at the moment, yes, Firefox is somewhat behind in perf. But it's not exactly 'outdated' either.
(actually, used a bad example above - webasm is jointly developed as a standard. ff just happened to be the first to get it into a release build... IIRC chrome will be doing so in ~2 versions)
@bwDraco tbh most of this isn't what I directly work on
Chrome's single handedly been responsible for the pricing of the DRAM market over the past five years
@Bob Oh good I can plan on moving back to firefox once it hits version 60 then :-P
> Edge was disqualified because it seemed to bypass the hosts file and wouldn’t load pages from unique domains. I can do measurements so I might revisit this, but it wouldn’t have been a fair comparison as-is.
Better work stories time! "We got a complaint once from a guy that wrote in, saying that after 30 months of use, the bristles on his toothbrush were no longer straight."
PSA: Beware third-party Amazon sellers misrepresenting items! Just got burned by this: I ordered three "New" condition Dell U2417H monitors from "Better Choice Online" (Fulfilled by Amazon Prime), and received three new-looking Dell branded boxes, labeled "U2417H", with... P2417H monitors within. No MST, $40-ish cheaper than the U.
Gave them 1 star review, reported them to Amazon customer service who told me they will forward the complaint to their fraud investigation department, and I'm returning the items to Amazon's warehouse where they will look at the item, confirm that the seller misrepresented the items, and likely ban them from doing business on Amazon.
> As of today, there are 529 counts of negative feedback from people who also never received their purchases from one of the three fraudulent sellers (EVILLE, xkuehns, HJSGHUY)
@JourneymanGeek well, Dell charges shipping, and these MFers are heavy, and Dell won't even ship them until March 21st if I ordered today, and these came two business days after I ordered despite a snowstorm
ALSO... Amazon.com themselves sell the item first-party (Ships and sold by amazon.com) on their site, but they were sold out when I looked, so I went with the easier option that was $2.50 cheaper than Amazon per unit, and in-stock
I should've ordered from Amazon first-party and waited
speaking of which, I need to see if I still have any VGA cables left. I want to check if my old desktop works at some point, and I think the video card's digital outs might have died
@allquixotic tbh I've never been fucked over by amazon third party either, but the number of times I've had any issues with any party over Amazon I've had excellent service and quick refunds no questions asked
I've had plenty of shitty quality products, but that's what you get when you pay $5 for stuff
Free same-day delivery so half the time I can order tomorrow and still get it in time
Don't think I've ever been scammed on Ebay either, had a few "item not quite as described" but often Ebay either refund me or let me keep the item and refund me.
The only proper scam I've been victim to is this Paypal one in Melbourne last week, and they're being c*nts about it
@TOWMN 1. the fastest I've ever gotten an Amazon order (without paying ridiculous fees for next-day shipping) was ordering something at like 6 AM on a boring Wednesday and having it come Thursday afternoon (late; between 5 and 8 PM)
2. even though I'll get all my money back, it was still a massive hassle to open all those boxes, realize it's the wrong shit, then package it all up again, and have to order new
3. it's not an instant refund; they'll give me my money after they get the items back in the warehouse
so as far as cash flow I could be out the money for upwards of a week
