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  • Option “q” for sure.

    When you populate all four slot it is harder to hit high speeds at low latencies in the first place, and with not-identical sticks it’s harder also. I don’t think you can hit even the lower of the values, so 3000 MT/s, with that mix installed.

    Even if you could, running only the two fast sticks at 3200 MT/s will help you more for the games. I don’t think you’ll find a situation where a game is not happy with 32 GB of RAM in the system, and could derive any benefit from the additional 16 GB on the older sticks.

    Also you neglected to mention any latencies, but they are important to hit too, not just high clock rate. The stick with the highest latencies will be the bottleneck for your memory controller.

    (For my comment I’m assuming you mean MT/s not MHz, because everyone keeps treating them as the same, even though they are different by a factor of two. If you actually mean your RAM ran at 3000 MHz so 6000 MT/s then I’m impressed you got that with non-identical sticks, and think it will be even more impossible to hit 6000 MT/s let alone 6400 MT/s with the new ones in the mix)









  • My dad who retires today and who has been a Windows user since roughly 1993 has set up multiple Pi-Holes and OpenVPN in the last few years and recently even installed Ubuntu in WSL so he can run bash scripts locally too. He’s not in a tech job, he’s a doctor.

    A year ago my friend who has been using Windows for his gaming for the last 22 years asked my to help him set up a Fedora dual boot. Just to play around with, even though he doesn’t have a tech background. He didn’t really use it much. But today his work had him blocked by their own fuck-up and he decided to use the time to try it out again.

    This evening he told me about how he upgraded his Fedora back to a current version using GUI tools. Then he saw that Windows wasn’t the default boot in his grub boot order anymore. He tried to find an app for editing grub, realised this was the kind of thing people do with CLI. So in the next two hours he learned enough CLI using a free beginners lesson he found online somewhere, until he found the history command, where he found the grub command we used during the original setup. He was so excited about this success!

    I think the CLI criticisms are way overblown, and non-programmers can use CLIs perfectly well if they want to.







  • 9 years and 4 months ago I bought an Acer laptop with a 4 core Intel Skylake with hyperthreading (i7-6700HQ) and a Nvidia GTX 960M, because the laptop I had was slow for compiling in my classes at Uni, and I wanted a discrete GPU for the occasional game when away from my Desktop PC (winter break and such (still use it for that btw)). I regretted that three times:

    • First when I wanted to install Linux instead of just using VMs. In early 2016 the kernels on live system ISOs didn’t properly support Skylake yet, so I fucked around with Arch a bunch, but didn’t end up keeping it installed. Don’t remember why, probably got busy with schoolwork.

    • Then a while later, after I had installed Ubuntu or Fedora at some point, the next issue was that cooperative mode of Bluetooth and Wifi on the included Intel wireless chip wasn’t well supported (even found an Intel Bluetooth dev saying as much on a mailing list), and it hung sometimes, so I had to make a script to turn the chip off and then rescan the PCI bus, that worked as a workaround but was still annoying.

    • Finally when we had Machine Learning classes I thought I might be able to use CUDA locally, so I tried installing the proprietary Nvidia driver and was greeted by a black screen on the next boot. Had to boot from a live system and chroot in to remove the proprietary crap again.

    On my Desktop PC I have used AMD GPUs for quite a while and dual booting Windows and Linux has always been a breeze.