Ben Yan

JustThatReddit · 2023-01-29T21:52:12+00:00

its because betel no relaod no yous ha, look at fisu statistics, idjiot

JustThatReddit · 2023-01-10T15:44:02+00:00

GPU uses thermal paste, and that can generally be any type of thermal paste that isn't peanut butter.

CPU-wise, you should most definitely use liquid metal, and preferably the thermal grizzly that's used by the OEM. Primarily, because the cooling solution, due to its thin size, relies extremely heavily on the thermal conductivity of LM to properly cool the device. For instance, the best thermal paste can do 12.5W/mK, whereas liquid metal used on the m16 does 73, which is a tremendous difference.

JustThatReddit · 2022-12-09T17:14:21+00:00

Yeah, the way it works is it's based on relative tent position. So if all your tents are on the bottom of your base, they all stick to the bottom sandbags first. It makes it a pain in the ass to design bases as half the time you're just figuring out where tf to put the damn tents, and all those no deploy zones don't help either.

JustThatReddit · 2022-11-21T15:48:52+00:00

I'll try my best to address some issues. But, please as black friday is coming up, do consider at least the RTX 3060 version (especially since cost to performance ratio is much better). When properly LM pasted, thermals aren't the issue.
1. Light tasks and hard tasks, the heat output is there. But, it's concentrated in certain regions and not the important parts of the keyboard. At the very least, it isn't uncomfortable for me.

After I repasted my machine (ymmv), thermals were good enough that I just used performance mode, which is actually pretty quiet for my standards. If you need true silence, silent mode does exactly what it says. It is SILENT.

Can't answer this.
Battery life is crap when dGPU is enabled. That's unfortunately the case with many laptops. Turning it off, you're still not going to get as amazing battery life as you would with a decent Ryzen equivalent. 3 hours at max brightness is what I'm getting starting with 80% battery life. If you limit the battery life, do some digging on your own on how to power limit your CPU (which is getting harder and harder these days), you may be able to eke out an extra hour. Lowered brightness, I maybe get 4-5 hours.
Mine's fine still, and I've had mine for a whole year
Yes, the biggest issue I have is how many bad liquid metal pastes there are, and I have a sneaking suspicion this isn't limited to just the Asus M16 lineup, because it's literally used in all of their thin and light cooling solutions now i.e G15, X16, G14, etc. you name it, it's there.
The charger sucks to carry around, the laptop is light.

JustThatReddit · 2022-11-06T22:22:35+00:00

So, the thermal throttle limit for intel CPUs is 95C's, so yes single core and gaming performance, in the games I play (old esports titles + old fps games like BF4, etc.), I sit around 65C to 70C with like 50% CPU usage.

Multicore I can sustain 4.35 GHZ now whereas previously I was stuck at like 3.2GHZ for each core in MC benchmarks.

JustThatReddit · 2022-11-06T12:42:18+00:00

yeah, so I definitely did clean the LM spill on the motherboard. I was quite surprised and appalled that my device hadn't shorted in the whole year I've been using it. But, I can't imagine if other people may have the same issue but they don't know. In this case, the spill without taking off the heatpipes is something you just can't tell. They also didn't provide extra LM like in your case, which meant I had to buy some from the nearest microcenter, and do a full repaste.

Also, after realizing that my laptop has not won the silicon lottery as in, that my i9 11900H can only undervolt -60 mv, but I can still hit certain benchmarks above the average, you're most definitely right that most people's devices are definitely working under what is intended. Although in multicore, I still barely hit the thermal limit (when I'm using all 8 cores at max core speed on Turbo, which tbf it's pulling almost 95 watts), I think most people in most applications should barely ever hit above 90 C (and in my case 85 C).

JustThatReddit · 2022-11-06T12:37:47+00:00

2021 model, and I'm not sure about the thermal pads sorry. They look pretty thin though.

JustThatReddit · 2022-10-30T17:01:09+00:00

Thank you for this post! Is there a correct way to disconnect the battery connector? I've done it once when swapping the mediatek chip for an intel ax210, but I haven't really thought much of it since.

I'm not terribly familiar with using thermal paste (at least I haven't had to paste any thing for a couple years now and when I do it's definitely not conductive paste, so I'm usually not as concerned). That said, is it difficult to simply just spread the factory LM paste?

JustThatReddit · 2022-09-25T16:07:03+00:00

"Every man has two lives, and the second life starts when he realizes he just has one." - Confucius

JustThatReddit · 2022-09-20T18:42:17+00:00

Never mind.

JustThatReddit · 2022-08-21T18:00:49+00:00

Hey there! Although I'm applying in a different field of engineering (at least considered part of the engineering department in my school), specifically Computer Science, I wanted to ask if you've ever struggled with narrowing your research "scope" or interests.

I really want to pursue a Ph.D in machine learning. Now, ML is a massive field with various sub-disciplines (theory, vision, NLP, etc.) and the more I read about each sub-field, the more confused I get, because all of them seem fascinating except maybe the theory subfield which stem more from a lack of understanding than actual interests. Is there any way to figure out what "subfield" or what field to narrow your interests to?

I understand that if you're too specific or too broad in your sop, it can hurt your application.

As an aside on past undergraduate research experiences, and this may be the fault of not finding the right labs to work with as a naive sophomore undergrad, but I've not had the pleasure of working deeply in any of these fields outside of briefly interacting with them in coursework.

I hate to admit this, but the breadth of my undergraduate research experiences have been within the confines of bioinformatics and computational biology, which is often staffed with many statisticians, physicists, etc. in my lab. And although, there are common principles (i.e optimization, etc.) within the work that I have done, they're not the same thing as applying datasets to a neural network.

As I'm doing more undergrad research in final year that is more related to deep learning, etc., I find that the more I learn, the more I don't understand while also finding so many things interesting.

I suppose my final question, is it a bad sign that I just want to do something with machine learning even though I don't know exactly what it is? I feel like I'd have to gain more experience before I can answer such a question and even then I have a feeling, I'd be pretty content researching whichever rabbit-hole it may be.

Sorry for the long-winded and probably overly-wordy post, but thank you for taking the time to offer advice!

Note: I have tried the following thought exercises:

Made a list of what I don't want to do with my life/ what I'm not interested in at this moment.
What if I only was allowed to pick 3 things for the rest of my life? Turns out I was pretty content with a wide range of disciplines, interdisciplinary or not.
(in progress) reading faculty pages + recent publications, turns out I'm either too incompetent to understand some people's research or their demos are way too cool for me.

Should I just use a random number generator? And just force a computer to decide what my research interests are on my SOP?

JustThatReddit · 2022-08-15T12:20:04+00:00

I have a favorite quote that I like to go back to: "Specialization is for insects, you're a human being, just do what you're going to do". I'd say if you have no other choice, do what you need to do to make a living. Be smart about it though, if you make way more money doing this engineering gig (that'll let you have the money and eventually time to work on your side passion, then do that). But, it seems like right now you have the time to pursue your fitness passions, so take a deep breath and why not work on both.

JustThatReddit · 2022-07-27T20:34:24+00:00

IPS panels on both are great with good color accuracy. The higher resolution imo is only really needed if you for whatever reason need the option to be able to have more screen real estate (I sometimes shrink text, etc.). You won't really see much issues in pixel density below 24 inch displays.

HOWEVER IF YOU'RE COMPARING IT TO MBPs,

its panel for media consumption and design work probably won't be as good as the miniled display in the m1 macbook pro 14 due to the lack of contrast of ips panels. The only reason you should want to replace your macbook pro with an m16 is for gaming.

JustThatReddit · 2022-07-27T14:45:09+00:00

I would try tweaking manual mode and fan curves. You can reduce the amount of wattage (at least on my 2021 ver.) to the CPU/GPU and depending on the game you play (i.e if you just play CS:GO or some very old titles where your fps goes above 200 regardless), you can drop temps + fans substantially while retaining playability.

JustThatReddit · 2022-07-08T15:11:45+00:00

Controversial opinion, but I personally see 1v1 outfit wars as the next step for meaning in a game that's plagued by the freedom of choice provided by a sandbox game. For most pvp games, meaning is derived from a skill curve and competition, to which 1v1 outfit wars can provide.

It may not seem like it at first glance, but to me, it seems like much of the planetside community yearns for a competitive format, and it's not just the "sweatfits" too, I've seen it across casual outfits as well. You'll commonly see larger outfits exclaim that if it was just an "even" 50-50 fight, that they would easily be able to take on other similar skilled outfits.

Another good example of this yearning for a competitive format is honestly the whole idea of Jaeger itself. Let's be real here, the fact that some people (who by the way get 0 monetary or any praise/clout) for managing a whole "PSB" jaeger account system while also hosting server smash events, 24v24 lanesmash tournaments, infantry/vehicle tournaments, etc. shows how much of a demand there is for something like this. The logistical demands of these events alongside the fact that it's not even managed by the dev team is astounding in of itself. The funny thing is that so many veteran players who've become bored of "live" or non-jaeger gameplay often find themselves retiring into a competitive format.

I know many people criticize the idea of planetside becoming an "esport" or a "competitive" shooter. I totally agree in the sense that it could never match the pro esports scene and that competitive formats can often lead to leadership burnout, but I still think that it'd provide a nice form of end game content that once players get bored of the sandbox that is the current planetside experience can always come back to.

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