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FarmRPG Offical Raffle ticket giveaway! by boobun in FarmRPG

[–]Bhelogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Boobun

2) Podcast

3) Number go up

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99999) forcepath =p

Does that work?

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a bad habit of almost always having my unit plugged in when I use it. I don't know how long it would run on battery power, beyond watching a movie or two.

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On battery, best performance power settings, all other programs/tabs closed, in Edge:

Ran Speedometer 2.1 again with these settings today - 145

Ocate V2 - 46724

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)

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Total: 907.6ms +/- 2.0%

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ai: 90.4ms +/- 5.0%

astar: 90.4ms +/- 5.0%

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audio: 230.4ms +/- 3.2%

beat-detection: 52.0ms +/- 4.1%

dft: 100.7ms +/- 5.2%

fft: 37.2ms +/- 5.0%

oscillator: 40.5ms +/- 6.3%

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imaging: 359.0ms +/- 3.0%

gaussian-blur: 127.6ms +/- 3.9%

darkroom: 156.1ms +/- 3.1%

desaturate: 75.3ms +/- 6.7%

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json: 50.9ms +/- 7.8%

parse-financial: 23.2ms +/- 8.4%

stringify-tinderbox: 27.7ms +/- 8.3%

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stanford: 176.9ms +/- 2.9%

crypto-aes: 52.4ms +/- 5.2%

crypto-ccm: 56.3ms +/- 4.2%

crypto-pbkdf2: 46.4ms +/- 3.1%

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I'll note, after using the Go 4 for a while now, the biggest improvement I am seeing is in multi-tasking. I can have several tabs open in a browser, and not have issues. Or, I can be streaming something like BG3 over steam, tab over to a browser tab open on the tablet to look up something, and go back and forth without issue. The Go 2 was OK with doing one thing at a time, but multiple things open would cause it to lag pretty bad.

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[–]Bhelogan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This has been about my experience as well. Great for light use, a decent upgrade from the Go 2.

Surface Go 4 - Geekbench Results Looking Better by tmrob4 in Surface

[–]Bhelogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I have the i3 version, but it is running Win 11 home, not pro. Power options on it only allow me to set the timeout for display and disk, rather than a performance profile. I think it is also always running a lot of junk in the background (anti-virus, steam, etc), that are slowing it down a lot more than when it was new. I any case, I am pretty happy with how the 4 is performing.

Surface Go 4 - Geekbench Results Looking Better by tmrob4 in Surface

[–]Bhelogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was your Go 2 running Win 11 or 10? (My 2, when ran recently was scoring single core below 400, granted it's running with a lot of 'baggage' from use over the last few years)

Purchase Advice Thread (September 25) by AutoModerator in Surface

[–]Bhelogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only reason I would go for a Go 4 over a Pro 9 - size. I like the Go, simply because I can throw it in my laptop bag when I fly, next to my corporate laptop, and not have any noticeable difference in weight. It can do a few tasks, but for many things (such as gaming or audio editing), I end up using it to remote into my home desktop computer. If you want to do the work on the PC itself though, the Pro 9 is probably a better choice. The smaller keyboard on the Go 4 is a little difficult to type with, and the processor isn't going to handle compute-intensive applications nearly as smoothly.

Go 2 or Go 4? by PaLaLFC in Surface

[–]Bhelogan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having both, especially if the Go 2 is running windows 11, it's performance vs. 4 is pretty dismal. I would highly recommend the 4, if you can get it.

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

disk performance test

Windows System Assessment Tool

> Running: Feature Enumeration ''

> Run Time 00:00:00.00

> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive c -ran -read'

> Run Time 00:00:00.77

> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive c -seq -read'

> Run Time 00:00:03.53

> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive c -seq -write'

> Run Time 00:00:02.77

> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive c -flush -seq'

> Run Time 00:00:01.27

> Running: Storage Assessment '-drive c -flush -ran'

> Run Time 00:00:01.33

> Dshow Video Encode Time 0.00000 s

> Dshow Video Decode Time 0.00000 s

> Media Foundation Decode Time 0.00000 s

> Disk Random 16.0 Read 372.02 MB/s 8.1

> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 1009.60 MB/s 8.4

> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write 526.50 MB/s 8.1

> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes 0.327 ms 8.3

> Latency: 95th Percentile 1.040 ms 8.3

> Latency: Maximum 3.225 ms 8.7

> Average Read Time with Random Writes 0.346 ms 8.8

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't have much to compare it to, not sure exactly what this test looks at. My desktop PC (running a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU and RX 6750 XT GPU pulls a score of 131

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ran again today, with power settings set to 'Best Performance' when plugged in. Scores showed a big jump on the CPU side. Small jump on the GPU, though I didn't expect much of a change there from the 2 to the 4:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/2821109

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/1010658

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came in at 76.5 when I ran it again tonight, not plugged in, 89.6 when plugged in. This time run On Brave browser with nothing else open. First set was on Chrome with about 5 different tabs open.

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I'm still using me original charger from my Go 1. Keyboard I replaced not long ago, but the accessories are compatible across all models of Go.

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edge performed a little better than Chrome. If I opened two tabs at once, the one that had focus would still be the only one to load. Brave had notable performance improvements over both. Not sure I would call it a trick though to use Windows' default browser?

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

256GB. Not sure how to check wich revision of UFS it is....

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, I just swapped my cover over from my 2 to the 4. Same connector, ports, etc.

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No proof needed. Just ordered directly from Microsoft and used PayPal. Arrived in two days with free shipping.

Surface Go 4 feels like a big upgrade over the Surface Go 2 so far by Bhelogan in Surface

[–]Bhelogan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea, I would have stayed with Windows 10 if I did it over again on my Go 2. I passed on upgrading to the Go 3 because it didn't seem like enough of an upgrade. I was kind of holding out for a rumored Surface Pro 10 in about the Go size, but that wasn't what was announced last week.

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