lol thanks @Ohmboy
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Poorly cooled is an understatement.
It sucks.
There is a huge aluminium piece available as a heatsink, there is a comical heatsink and the fan is near it moving air “in the aproximate area”.
Louis Rossmann has a business based on Apples shitty design. LTT did some tests to show the performance is crippled by cooling and power limits.
ARM for all good it does, is not suitable for the tasks most Apple Laptops see, even less so for desktops (imac or mac pro).
For phones, tablets, wearables and IoT, Arm is superiour to x86 or OpenPower due to its low power.
Sorta kinda.
Apple has submitted thousands of “bug reports” on Skylake for various things. Why they don’t got AMD (like they do for graphics since Nvidia sold them what were essentially faulty chips), is beyond me.
Maybe they just want out of x86 to make their mess of a software echosystem (speaking from developer perspective! NOT user perspective) more paletable.
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Davinci Resolve renders so fast when you throw GPUs at it (depending on what you did).
My “old” R7 1700x and 5700xt render 1080p60 in real time (~55 to 70 FPS). Super pleasant.
I did some tests with my 5700xt and R9 Fury which netted 70 to 95 FPS rendering, not worth the heat output though.
I’m curious…Nvidia sold Apple faulty chips? tell me more?
My planned system is designed for 4-6K footage. So I’m gonna need at least something like a 2080ti for that
Due to the recent “last Fermi update for MacOS” stuff, the articles are now burried.
Mid-2010 was when Nvidia was dropped as an offering for new imacs.
This here touches on it. There are a lot longer articles somewhere out there.
Mostly for the VRAM, I assume?
It is a shame that most of the “home workstation”-mobos top out at 128GB RAM
And that Supermicro does not have an AM4 board.
I’m a newbie to building computers and wanted to know how to get the best quality spidf out from the motherboard/soundcard to an external dac.
Just simply buy a half decent mobo they all now a days come with very good built in sound cards. Also then select the quality of ur DAC in windows and it should all come out fine 
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Thank you, i want to make sure to get all my bits and hertz and spidfs and whatnots hahah
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Yeah yeah u will, Just make sure to set it up to use the right Bits and Hz and u be good onboard sound is great on mobos tbh works fine for me and if u use foobar and the wasapi addon when listening to music it just passes it all to the DAP anyway. So windows doesnt touch it.
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Ok good to know thank you. So I just need to make sure my motherboard is a good one. I don’t do much gaming but stream movies in 4k so just trying to figure out where to put my budget at for sound quality.
I usually spend around £120 on a mobo and thats done fine for me depends what u doin. If u go Ryzen any B550 board will do. Also I really like ASUS boards so thats who I go with, Like their bios.
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If your Abit more casual the msi boards or astrock boards are awesome as their vrm cooling is generally really good for the price but their bios isn’t my favorite to work with. But has proven themselves reliable along with Asus stay away from gigabyte though especially if your running ryzen
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I tried MSI and hated the bios for a build i did for someone, but they are cheaper than ASUS boards.
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Are you doing this on a desktop? HDMI audio out from a graphics card works just as well as mobo spdif output and let’s you pass higher bit rates and full on Dolby & DTS surround if you’re in a HTPC environment
I pass DTS and Dolby through optical as my receiver doesnt have HDMI. Think its really optional but best to get a decent mobo anyway.
General curiosity question:
Do current spdif outputs on mobos support 88.2KHz sampling? My admittedly ancient mobo’s spdif does not handle that specific frequency. 44.1, 48, 96, and 192 are all fine, but it will just skip over any 88.2 track when using wasapi exclusive mode on optical output.
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Yes! I should have clarified. SPDIF can handle Dolby Digital and DTS codecs that the DVD standard offered. If you want Dolby TrueHD or Atmos or DTS HD or X, you need HDMI.
So currently using spidf from xbox1 to a dac and HDMI to 4k monitor for streaming movies and spotify. But i want to build a computer for more options of music streaming and music storage. I have good dacs and amps but there is a difference in sound quality going from my laptop usb to xbox1 spidf. My laptop is getting outdated and starting to fall apart haha. When I build my computer i want to make sure i do it right with the Audio.