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Ram..!! 🤣

HHD Ram n dudes.

Back to work.

Mornin Ya'll High of 63 an Sunny... 🇨🇮


Anyone know how these COVID19 relief funds can be used for city's or municipalities? Like can they be used to purchase properties and clean them up and resale the land in silent biddings?:-k

Mornin' dudes... coffeed up, dog walked... chillin'... need to think about what's for breakfast and stuff.

Morning y'all.

Is there much of a difference between the i5 and i7 intel chips?

Yes a difference of 2. 🤔




[sarcasm]

I7 is better for graphics. I5 is fine for most things.

I’ve got three I5s and one I7 on my desk. The I5s are work computers.

And it is probably a bit better (the i7).

Should we assume the i7 is for graphic porn ?

Nope. It would be good for gaming if I had time for that chit. I totally overbought because I got a good deal at Costco but it should last a long time as a result.

It actually depends more on the numbers next to the I5 and I7 than the generation themselves. For example an I5 12600k is about 20%-30% more powerful than a I7 9700k.

Although, you only need good CPUs if you do a lot of programming, gaming, or statistics. It just depends on what you need the computer for.

I use it as a paperweight

MACS, I have i5, i7 and i9. Unless you are doing hard core computational stuff, the i5 is a workhorse at the right price point (Huzza makes a good point about the clock speeds). Are you planning on doing any autocad, working with giant spreadsheets (100-500MB) or video editing? If not, i5 will be more than fine. No need to spend extra coin on a processor you don't need. Spend the difference on a good video card if you plan to play some games. Also, because you asked in that PM you sent, the i5 will be fine for the virtual reality porn stuff. 👍

Pretty much anything you buy today, the average user won't tax the processor (surf the web, e-mail, word processing, spread sheets, home finance, etc...). I like to maximize RAM. 4 GB RAM is sufficient for most average needs, I like to have 8 GB.

Just bought an inexpensive Dell Dell Latitude 7490: Intel i5-8350U, 16GB DDR4, 256GB Solid State Drive for some simple CAD work. I installed Solid Edge on it and it works just fine.

Granted the CAD stuff I'll be doing to play with at home is pretty basic and the Latitude should be sufficient for making simple 3D models and designs of furniture. If I needed to run some higher level stuff like stress analysis and simulations it would probably be laggy and choke but for making simple design models at home it's fine.

Work will provide me with a machine that's more supped up to use AutoDesk Inventor for molding simulations, stress analysis stuff, and animations.

If doing heavy graphics intensive stuff (serious CAD, Photoshop, video editing, gaming), you should have a separate the video card. The video card will have it's own processor to handle the graphics stuff rather than a machine where the video part is shared as part of the CPU.

Edit: what Stogie said (was typing my reply and was late to the party before Stogie posted)

Hey Bucky the first thing you should do at the new job is add a longevity test the those plastic chairs your firm makes. They last one summer in the sun and fall apart. I see them on the curb waiting for the bulk pickup everywhere.

Part of the problem is UV light degrades plastic and leading to some brittleness. Other part is fat asses sitting on them and leaning back. Third part, when you break them, you buy another (steady stream of revenue)

You can't change our march to fat asses and you damn sure better not screw with the revenue stream. 🤐