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Full disclosure, I'm on my 3rd Surface Book[one i5, 2 i7]. None of the defects were really all that specific to in game performance. . I kept getting WiFi issues followed by BSOD. Performance across the two i7s have been identical, but it is true that D3 and HoTS don't exactly push systems to...

Bag of Holding - Con-Survival Edition I'm just gonna leave that link here for those people who value a half sized card, but would rather replace their bag than . . "modify" an SD card mount to the point where McGuyver may be needed to remove it.... :D

I was really impressed with the i5 TBH. Diablo 3 1920 x 1080 med/high settings 45-55 FPS, Heroes Of The Storm runs nice @ 1920 x 1200 Frame wise @ med/high settings. In the back of my head, though, I had the same question: Would a few hundred Mhz and 1 MB L3 cache REALLY make a difference...

Just a point update: I'm on Surface Book #3. HOPEFULLY this'll be the one. [to be continued?]

SHOULDN'T be. I've run back to back transcodes on handbrake, and after 2 hours in a 72 degree room the temps never got higher than 86c. The 6600u is rated to 100c. If I put my little USB desk fan behind it, aimed at the clipboard, it brings the temps down about 10c [handy pro tip there for...

I give up. Keyboard is now freezing, the entire base becoming nonresponsive for a minute or so, then coming back. I guess I'm not the only one that has had to return multiple machines, but WOW that's some bad luck I did consider the possibility of operator error, but I use the thing for...

And now a few hours later, re-attached the clipboard and was greeted with the amazing frozen black screen >< This sucks, I can re-image in an hour, but SHEESH

So the new unit was fine.. for 2 days. Now when I switch the clipboard around [stand mode] I've started getting WiFi no connectivity issues [missing network protocol, etc] followed by BSOD when I flip it back to laptop mode. So far I've seen internal power error, irql not less or equal to, and...

From the documentation online, the E590 SHOULD do 60Hz over HDMI, though the D590 will not. If I were setting this up, I'd skip the whole thing and just go Mini Display Port. Actually if it were me I'd see if: Dealmaster: Get a Dell 3440x1440 curved monitor and a $250 gift card for $679 was...

Ok, so maybe they knew about it. From a BUSINESS standpoint, you're looking at a machine you have a lot of confidence is going to be seen as a "hot ticket item", you have a major commercial[read: exploitable] holiday RIGHT around the corner, and you look at it and say "yea, we have a few issues...

I can't specifically say for MS, but MOST companies [read: Apple, cell phone companies] require you bring your device in to verify that it is in perfect working order before selling you these plans nowadays, SPECIFICALLY to avoid people buying these warranties after the fact.

Apparently I had more issues with the old one than I realized. Whenever I changed screen res in HoTS and D3, I'd have to alt tab and go back into the game or it'd freeze and refuse to change resolutions. The new one doesn't do that, so I'm gonna go with hardware issues for the old one. As a...

Hold down the windows button and hit X, then hit P to bring up control panel. on the top right, change the view to "Large Icons", then find and click on "Device manager" expand the tree under "display adapters". It should show both the intel device as well as the Nvidia GPU. If it does not...

I'll be honest, I'm the slightest bit disappointed this morning. For about 5 days my i5 256 GB SB ran JUST ABOUT flawlessly. Two days ago, I had an issue where the WiFi kept dropping. I did a network troubleshoot, and it went away until that evening. Fast forward to last night, where I had a...

Now that you mention it, this HAS started happening to me within the last 36 hours or so. Nice to know I'm not going mad, I thought it was just me... Small addendum, seems to happen when I set the clipboard in reverse orientation on the base. It was fine all day, i flippex the screen around...

Completely understand where you're coming from, but I think you're being a little rough on MS. Granted, they seem to have a history of not doing enough real world product testing before launch, but they've been on top of pushing out updates to get issues resolved, and no matter how good their...

You know it's funny, I setup the whole MS account thing, so MOST of my stuff gets sync'd over [except email accounts, no clue why] Even so, Lately I've been ITCHING because I bought the i5 instead of the i7, and even while I *KNOW* intellectually i'm not going to see any kind of real world...

That VERY MUCH sounds like a hardware issue. My i5 8GB DGPU unit exhibits NONE of those symptoms. Almost sounds like it could be a connection issue between the base and the clipboard...

Wow, at the end of the day I was right. . AND wrong. It's "heat" throttling, just not from the sensor I'd suspected. And for the record: Setting a computer to run in excess of it's OEM performance configuration is "overclocking". Overclocking does not just refer to cranking things up with...

I go through a lot of machines. In our house we have three desktops, 6 laptops, several iPad varieties, 4 cell phones. . And that's just what's accumulated from the last year and a half. I have yet to find a machine.. ANY machine.. that doesn't have it's own distinct set of issues. From GPU...