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I didn't mean to imply that the XPS 15 was similar in size. It's obviously not. It's something like 2cm deeper and 6cm wider, although it is thinner. What we do know is the Surface Book has a 1GB Maxwell GPU. It'll probably be similar to a 960m if I had to guess. They're really not similar...

I'm in the same boat. I'd been wanting to get the XPS 13 since the first generation with the infinity display came out. The last generation XPS 15 was extremely expensive and fairly bulky. But now that the XPS 15 has gotten the infinity display treatment (and gotten cheaper) it's almost a no...

Another question occurred to me. How valuable is the 64MB eDRAM in the i7 part? I think I read something about it being able to be used as a massive "L4" cache when discrete graphics is being used, because the iGPU doesn't need it then? I believe they went with a powered lock primarily...

This is extremely intriguing. Laptop, tablet, touchscreen, pen and digitizer, massive battery life, discrete graphics, high PPI. There are a few concerns though, primarily due to the hinge not folding properly flat. I understand they made it like that to extend the depth of the base so it...

I agree. I had my swift next to a U3014 and the swift looks like crap in comparison, color wise. (Though to be fair, the Dell looks like crap in comparison, motion wise.) Dell for media and daily use, swift for gaming and extra windows.

The price with the Slickdeals coupon code was $295. 295-25=270 I remember missing that or a similar one in the past year by something like 40 minutes :(

I used it successfully last night, but I tried the same process just now and it appears you're correct. It's dead. In other news, Discover has a deal running with Adorama that you get a $25 statement credit on a $250 or more purchase, which brings the cost of these down to $270.

I'm pretty confident it's the logic board dying. Mine failed in several stages. The first stage I had the green shadows and blurry text. Changing refresh rates had no effect. Then one day it wasn't blurry anymore at rates other than 144Hz, but it had the gray line issue a bit. Then quickly...

As long as we're posting issues, my monitor died a week or two ago. It was right around 3 months old. For about a week or two I had the green line/blurry text issue, then it suddenly became just a textured gray screen with random hot pixels spread over it. (completely dead) ASUS support tried...

Just set this baby up after getting back home and it's a beast. Using the stock firmware for now, will probably flash DD-WRT sometime later this week. Greatly improved signal quality in my house, and holy crap is it fast.

My $200 Chromebook was pulling 120Mbps downstream from my new 802.11ac router yesterday while in the same room. It was pulling 90Mbps across the house. (My internet connection is advertised as 105Mbps) It's not just expensive devices. Plus, if you get an AC router you're substantially future...

I can't wait till every little Johnny SD loses money on their "resell profits" once eBay and PayPal fees are taken into account. Arbitrage and flipping isn't as easy as many seem to think.

Better practice: Get a FLIR camera and check both temperatures and hot spots :D You can get good ones for ~$1,000 now, and crappy ones for $500.

Do those load temperatures seem way too high for water at stock clocks to anyone else? What direction are your fans blowing? On non-fanned grills, how much passive airflow is there/how much pressure does it feel like there is in the case?

It's better than old TN panels, sure, but it's sitting next to a U3014 on my desk and looks blatantly washed out in comparison. I agree it's fantastic for gaming and I love the monitor, but don't try to make it into something it's not; the colors are poor compared to IPS.

Conveniently it's trivial to clean a computer of dust in about 30 seconds. It also doesn't hurt the computer to be moderately dusty, so I'm not worried about it. If you don't have one of these I highly recommend you get one. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001J4ZOAW

I don't have any case fans either. Just the single 140mm on my 4790k with NH-C14 and the blower on my reference 980. I don't go above ~60C CPU when gaming. GPU gets to 80C, but I could reduce my temp target if I wanted to. GPU fan doesn't generally exceed 60%.

Hell I can tell the difference between my SWIFT at 120Hz and my U3014 just moving my mouse on my desktop. The smoothness is real. The colors are noticeably worse but that's why I have both :D Actually, given how good it is for gaming, I'd probably still buy it even if it were monochrome.

Unless it's an egregious price difference, it seems that the smaller size and increased flexibility of a flex riser (pun intended) would be superior. Interfaces are finicky, and a solid PCB riser would need 2 separate boards with an additional connector in the middle, right? One board to go up...

I'm not talking about a total dud with a dozen stuck pixels, that's a serious issue and I can't believe it made it out of the factory. What I'm talking about is people cranking the backlight to maximum in a completely dark room then taking a photo at a long exposure and moaning about an uneven...

I've been playing with my settings a bit. I was running everything on low with ULMB for a while, then low with G-Sync, now I'm running maximum with G-Sync. Personally I prefer G-Sync to ULMB, even though in theory ULMB should be better for an FPS unconstrained game like GO. The motion seems...

My first and only SWIFT is pixel perfect, as far as I can tell. The backlight doesn't exhibit any terrible unevenness at usable brightness settings (30). It certainly doesn't exhibit the horrific backlight bleed in the corners that my U3014 (and any large IPS monitor) does. I still think it's...

We've already been through this regarding the ODD earlier in the thread. Having an ODD means we can't use top-end AMD cards due to length restrictions. That's unacceptable. It also means even NVIDIA reference designs will be pushing up against the front panel USB/power cables. It's a no-go...

The thread on nearly every product is filled with the vocal minority of dissatisfied or outright whiny buyers. I suspect that the vast majority of us are tickled pink with our SWIFTs. It's truly excellent for gaming.

Which gap are you guys talking about? Where did you hear this? It sounds like one of those theoretically possible but extremely implausible types of conjectures. Particularly in a home environment. A machine shop would be a different story. Obviously filters and positive pressure makes...

There is no backlight in an OLED display, the pixels themselves produce light. When they say blank the display they mean literally that, they make the screen blank by I assume setting every pixel to full black.

Ah, I assumed your response comment was focused on latency. That certainly makes sense.

That doesn't answer my question as to how much worse the 980 cooler is. It's different, yes, but we don't have any data to quantify it. You can't just dismiss it as terrible without something to back it up.

I'm not sure if you're being serious or not. Higher refresh rates in the 24->60->120 range are definitely noticeable, and more latency is always bad, but once you've gotten to 1ms response, you're more than 2 orders of magnitude faster than human response time. Does it really make a difference...

How far away can you guys hear the clicking? My fan is facing out. For me it becomes inaudible if I'm more than a foot or so away from it. I can't hear it at all on the other side of the case. Either way other fan noise dominates over that over that of the PSU. That's probably true.

You guys are way too worried about positive pressure. Just blow the case out once a week/month and it'll be fine. I'm actually running without any case fans at the moment. Just the 140mm on my NH-C14 which is effectively a case fan as it's so close to the side panel. Plus the blower on my...

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Ah, that makes sense. The fan is intake. People run it both ways. The logic is that A) With the fan out you're sucking cool air into the PSU or B) With the fan inside a side mounted 120mm fan will provide some airflow and reduce the PSU's fan speed or even keep it from spinning up.

I suspect it's due to the fact the fins are so short in the direction of airflow. Very little resistance, it's not like a super deep or dual tower cooler where the flow restriction is greater. Although I'm actually not sure those super big tower coolers really benefit that much from a second...

It shouldn't really matter, as long as you have the fan on top. Temperatures for one top fan versus top and bottom are effectively the same. See http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/noctua-nh-c14_5.html

Why are you so dismissive of the "fake titan cooler"? Has anyone does a test comparing the two as far as heat removal capability versus fan speed and noise? I can't imagine one big heat pipe is that much more effective than three smaller ones. Keep in mind the Titan has a 52% higher TDP than...

I've noticed this whine as well. Like you say, it's quite high pitched and seems to drop off quickly. Thankfully I can't hear it from my bed, and when I'm at my desk the computer is usually running, not off. I haven't actually been able to hear the fan yet, although I haven't tried very hard...

That's not always true. Electrical components can undergo physical stresses that cause resonances in the audio frequency range during normal operation. Ever hear the term "coil whine"?

This was the case for me as well. In other news, I'm not sure what my issue was with my 4790k, but updating the BIOS, cranking the fan profile, and turning off my XMP profile brought it down to where it should be (35C idle, 80C load) with the stock heatsink. I have to imagine it was some sort...

Whelp, not sure what was wrong before, but cranking the fan profile, updating my BIOS, and turning off my XMP profile fixed it. Idling around 35C now, really weird.