![]() a software that may be consume a lot of resources of your computer may be causing heat up issues).Īfter launching Temperature Taskbar, you can configure the warning and critical temperature levels for changing the taskbar color. By receiving a constant temperature display on your taskbar, you can easily monitor the system temperature and identify the cause for system heat up (e.g. This can be quite helpful for keeping an eye of the system temperature that can randomly increase due to the usage of a specific software, high room temperature and fault wiring that may cause issues with the system wiring and power supply. These colors change your taskbar color according to CPU (average of all cores) temperature. ![]() You can assign custom colors and temperature levels for easy monitoring. Clearly there is a desire for a high end machine.Temp Taskbar is a portable tool for Windows 7 that allows monitoring system temperature from the taskbar. Make it a box, but very quiet box, a big cylinder if some nitwit demands that as the tradeoff, but make it robust.ī has a a very interesting survey highly relevant to the above points: 63% prefer a tower form factor, 62% prefer six or more CPU cores, 34% prefer 128GB or more memory, few users want AMD GPUs (NVIDIA strongly preferred), 73% want support for at least two displays, 39% want 5K support, 43% want at least 4TB of internal storage. Why not? Apple could re-establish itself as a serious player for high-end performance. Nice to have: 4 USB3 ports to keep connectivity hassles down with useful legacy devices (mouse, keyboard, camera card readers, USB3 drives, etc).Space for two internal hard drives, thus allowing 20TB internally in addition to the SSDs.Internal SSD options of 1TB or 2TB or 4TB, option for 2nd SSD with same capacity options, running at 3 GB/sec.Two 16x PCIe slots for optional 2nd or 3rd GPU and/or extra PCIe SSD, etc.Support for three external 5K displays. ![]() 12 Thunderbolt 3 ports, split across 3 busses.Stretch goal: 12 or 16 memory slots for up to 384GB. A choice of 4 to 18 CPU cores, or whatever the limit is currently.I bet that it would be a best-seller Mac Pro: In particular, Apple could go back to a real “pro” desktop by making it a big box again, with features like this. This perhaps is the “standstill” point-that’s only 5% faster than the 4.0 GHz iMac 5K that sits on my desk today-at the cost of a 95 watt TPD.Įven if CPU performance is stuck in 3rd gear for now, all is not lost. The i7-7700K 4.2 GHz (turbo boost 4.5 GHz) shoudl be suitable for an iMac.The i7-7920HQ 3.1 GHz (turbo boost to 4.1 GHz, 4 real CPU cores) might be suitable for a MacBook Pro.But whether the power draw is viable on a laptop is unclear (meaning what we could expect from Apple, given the rationalizations seen with the Nov 2016 MacBook Pro). My understanding is that the Kaby Lake 'H' series supports 32GB memory, thus making a MacBook Pro with 32GB of DR 23000 DRAM possible.Update 04 Jan: are at least a few reasons why the Intel 'Kaby Lake' release is significant: The i7-7700K is the first desktop Intel chip in brave new post-"tick-tock" world-which means that instead of major improvements to architecture, process, and instructions per clock (IPC), we get slightly higher clock speeds and a way to decode DRM-laden 4K streaming video. ![]() The Intel Core i7-7700K is what happens when a chip company stops trying. With identical performance to Skylake, Intel brings desktop performance to a standstill. All while most software continues to make poor use of CPU cores, so a double whammy from two different directions.ĪrsTechnica comments on the CPU situation in Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU dead?: SEND FEEDBACK Related: CPU cores, GPU, laptop, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, memory, SSD, videoĪs I wrote in Computers Are not Getting Faster in a Meaningful Way, GPU is Half-Baked Tech, Too Many Software Developers Suck, computer performance has hardly changed in 3+ years.
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