As I alluded to before, I have been working on solving a problem I experienced with the custom workstation I have built last year. That problem is heat. I solved it as per the photo below.

I did not realize it initially, but the heat generated by the two 1080 Ti cards coupled with the Phanteks Evolv case caused the two cards to thermal throttle pretty much for anything I do that uses GPU power. The GPU temperatures would quickly run up to 84˚C, and the cards would start dropping their clock speed to stay within the thermal limits. This basically nerfed the 1080 Ti cards' performance half way back to the 1080 I originally had. Kind of pointless to spend $2000 on an upgrade only to lose that advantage due to excess heat.

For this article you need to watch this video from MKBHD. He is reviewing the iPhone 8. In this review he makes a remark about the weight of the iPhone 8, but this remark is so horribly wrong that I could not help but highlight this often made mistake - people saying things without doing their research first.

And it is just a bit heavier feeling because glass is after all, a heavier material than metal.

Check out this table of the weights of various different materials, as well as this one and Corning's Gorilla Glass.

There is something about the timeline of the Big Bang theory that has been bothering me for the past month or so. If you are vaguely familiar with the widely accepted theory of how our universe (multiverse?) got its start, you will know that according to theory, a lot happened in the first second.

My problem is with relativity - I cannot find a good explanation anywhere what 1 second means? Surely the mass of the singularity had to be insanely large - much larger than a typical black hole. We know from Einstein's theory of relativity that gravitational time dilation occurs near heavy objects. So is 1 second in the Big Bang theory measured from within the expanding singularity? It surely cannot be outside of it as spacetime evolved from that singularity; speaking of space outside of the expanding singularity is just nonsensical. So the "observer" had to be squished inside the expanding singularity, meaning if 1 second was relative to that location, that 1 second would not be the same as 1 second we experience here on earth. Not true? It had to be an eternity. Time is relative, is it not?

We had an 86.9% solar eclipse just now, 21 August 2017. Not as cool as a total solar eclipse but I had the luxury of seeing it from my own back yard.

Just something I need to clear up before someone goes up in arms about my rants - in general many of these Youtubers and other reviewers produce acceptable content most of the time. It is just sometimes that they fall of the cliff edge like lemmings when they speak about a subject that they do not have sufficient expertise in, but claim they do.

Just like I would never try and teach other people how to put nitrous oxide in your car to make it go really fast (as I have no clue how to do that), people should stop proffering advice on topics they have inadequate knowledge of. When that happens and come across my way (and knowledge domain), I'll speak up.

For this one, please review the following five videos: Video 1/5, Video 2/5, Video 3/5, Video 4/5 and Video 5/5. Sorry, this is a very long one but there is a lot of content to go over. There is also one other, related video I'd like you to review - specifically where he speaks about the Mac Pro being the 2nd most overpriced tech.