Quad core 1.8 to 2 GHz, eh? Sounds like an Atom, or a rebadged variant thereof (Celeron, Pentium).
It won't hold a candle to the higher-end mobile quad-core chips, such as an i7 or some of the latest mobile i5s.
The weather event of 2015 for me, being in the UK, was the way December was absurdly warm... breaking the record going back to 1659, in fact.
The most amazing thing was that it wasn't broken by a small amount, either; the old record was 8.1C and the new record is 9.7C. I daresay I'll never see anything like that again in my lifetime!
Try this link:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum...
(If you search Flyertalk - via Google - you'll find other snippets of info too.)
They do, the i7-5960X is a consumer, unlocked i7 chip. Loads of cache, no integrated graphics and a whacking great price because there's zero competition.
(Of course, the X99 chips are only Haswell, but as the IPC improvements are minimal with Skylake they're still worth considering - especially the 6-core i7-5820K, which is actually cheaper than the new quad-core Skylake i7 here in the UK. The X99 chips are essentially Xeons with some bits turned off and overclocking enabled. They have vt-d enabled, amongst other things).
...scrabbling around with a torch to get into your car (and check tyres etc before setting off for work) when it's pitch black because the council's turned off the street light right outside your house!
Thankfully Kent County Council have decided to restore night-time lighting by using LED lamps, so this winter won't be a stumble-fest.
(On rural roads it makes sense, although they tend not to be lit in the first place. For residential areas though I'm far from convinced it's a good idea, especially as they're still left on in the evening - KCC's switching to LED means that longer term it'll cost the same as the half-lighting that goes on now).
...by British Airways (BA).
BA's business class uses (heavily patented) ying-yang seating in order to cram in extra passengers - it has 8 abreast in its 777s, for example (2-4-2), whereas most competitors have 6 abreast (2-2-2) or even 4 abreast (1-2-1). As a result BA is doing very well for itself in terms of profits!
Just looks like the PDO's flipped back to positive to me - not exactly a mystery!
Sounds like a bargain in comparison to UK provider charges. Although Three offers "Feel at Home" free roaming in some places, in places where it doesn't (eg Canada), you'll pay $896 per 100MB. And no, that isn't a typo!
Calling a UK number. £1.40 per minute.
Calling a Canadian number. £1.40 per minute.
Texts to UK. 35p per text.
Texting a Canadian number. 35p per text.
Receiving calls from any number. 99p per minute.
Receiving texts from any number. Free.
Using internet and data. £6 per MB.
Using voicemail. £1.40 per minute.
Seems eminently sensible to me.
Here in the UK Three already allows you to use your contracted minutes and data allowance in some countries, including in the USA, at no extra cost.
http://blog.three.co.uk/2013/1...
I'll be making heavy use of it in a couple of months when I'm heading to Seattle (and Alaska), it'll be far more convenient than buying a local SIM as I did last time I was in the USA.
I'm quite surprised that there aren't already similar agreements for people from the States visiting Europe.
It's the third one I've had - and none of them have failed. They've all become outdated long before any failures had time to pop up.
Hurrah!
The lesson here is that people who own a cool, overclockable GPU in a gaming laptop may want to overclock it. Goodness knows what came over them when they removed it, but at least they've seen sense now.
FWIW, the GM204 chip runs cool and is easy to overclock. I overclocked my 980M from 1,038 MHz (core), 1,253 MHz (RAM) to 1,228 MHz (core), 1,373 MHz (RAM) and received an 8% boost in my 3DMark scores. The GPU temperature didn't go above 70C either.
It makes a noticeable difference playing games at 3K, which is the native resolution of the panel.
For those who are unaware btw, if the chip gets too hot it'll simply downclock until it reaches a stable temperature. In some brands of laptop that happens at stock speeds, whereas others (such as the Clevo I have) have plenty of headroom. It's not the sort of thing that's going to lead to warranty repairs.
FWIW, the sort of laptops for which this is an issue (ie high-end gaming laptops) typically have graphics cards on MXM modules, they're designed to be upgradeable to the latest and greatest.
The *price* of those modules, however, means it's not something most owners will ever do...
The cheap and nasty Acer will throttle when it gets to 70C, overclocked or not.
The water outside here isn't frozen. I'm in the southeast of the UK, where we've had a generally mild, largely snowless winter - it's 8C as I write this, for example. Not that that matters, as most of us have central heating and the temperature indoors won't be anywhere near as cold as it is outside!
The 2nd-gen Maxwell chips are known to run cool and overclock well, be they laptop or desktop form (in fact, it's the same silicon - just with a few bits lopped off and a lower stock speed for mobile). A cynic would say they're removing overclocking as it'll impact on their plans to release slightly faster versions of the same chip later this year...
The 980M in my Clevo P650SG overclocks by 125MHz with ease - and it won't even hit 70C while playing games in that overclocked state either. When you're playing at 3K (there's also a 4K screen available), that extra 125MHz makes a noticeable difference.
Removal of overclocking from the drivers is irritating at best.
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. -- Stanley Garn
