It matters to the GIGGGAHURTZZZZZ krew, but in reality - no.DDR3L RAM has gotten kinda cheap since the last time I looked at this. Was going to upgrade my laptop to 16Gb, but I'm not sure what the frequency speed should be. Does it make a difference? Other than opening the thing up, is there an easy way to find out the speed that is in there?
As best I know, it should be these https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/compatible-upgrade-for/MSI-(Micro-Star)/ge70-2pe-apache-pro
Switch it out with your bathroom rig
It's been years since I needed to shuck a harddrive. I didn't know WD actively tries to prevent people from doing this.
So dumb.
wow.@Jehannum
The new AMD Rome Epyc processors are ridiculous.
Their top end 64 core (true cores, not phi-like cores) beats intel's by 60%-100% in all workloads, and the part is 40% cheaper
I wonder if this is an opteron like resurgence
AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
www.anandtech.com
If it were even just 6 years ago, that would have kept our hackneyed 1995 architectures afloat for another 10 years.yeah., gpus are kinda trashing everything cpu these days. even ASCR gets most of its flops from the gpu's in it, not the cores.
it can play crysis.But can it play Quake?