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NewfieBullet

I'm curious about Optane as well, just bear in mind that I don't have access to the normal TR rigs for such testing. For $100 I could probably get a 32GB Optane module and a 512 GB Intel 660P and pit that against the 500 GB Samsung 960 EVO already in my rig, but that's about it. I mean, I'd get cre...

NewfieBullet

http://imgur.com/bacphlD.jpg Have you ever accidentally left your phone in a jacket or pants pocket and then washed it? This device is powered by a raspberry pi and detects any phone within a radius of a few meters and sounds an alarm. Never wash your phone again. BTW I might know someone who did t...

NewfieBullet

Surely you jest, ED is the standard text editor. There is no other. Surely you jest, I have not seen anyone choose a line editor over a screen based text editor where both are available (which is just about always assuming you haven't broken terminal emulation / capabilities reporting / database) i...

NewfieBullet

Captain Ned wrote:
NewfieBullet wrote:
Surely you jest, ED is the standard text editor. There is no other.

Oh dear. Heavy theology ahead.

Are you saying that ED is not the STANDARD? All other text editors pale in comparison to the MIGHTY ED.

NewfieBullet

DrDominodog51 wrote:
4. Which package management program is the best?
5. What shell is the best?
6. Which init system is the best?

Edit: #3 clearly is emacs. I'm not sure why that's even a question.

Surely you jest, ED is the standard text editor. There is no other.

NewfieBullet

New fast components
What would I become with these?
My PC daydreams

NewfieBullet

Is nVidia 3D vision dying? Was it ever alive? Home 3D never caught on. Even 3D cinema has had moderate succes. G-sync on the other hand will be huge. G-sync with die for the same reason 3D vision died - minor gain for most people, Nvidia only, and it requires a new more expensive monitor. Don't get...

NewfieBullet

Mar 27, 1996 Today is the day that we show what we're made of. Check out the 5 integer pipes and out-of-order execution baby. I bet that Pentium guy is feeling a little inadequate now. June 22 1996 What the heck is this talk about a quake that Pentium is faster at. Do we have to increase the clock s...

NewfieBullet

Here's my entry

NewfieBullet

I had done a run at stock 3.3Ghz and it was stable for 24 hours. When I tested 4.4Ghz down thru 4.2Ghz it began to get weird up to ~20 hours into the memtest run. :-? It would seem that I should want to run it for >2 days to ensure any kind of statistical confidence but I don't really have time to ...

NewfieBullet

I'll be running memtest again now that I've got a proper GPU installed in the box. Hopefully the issue goes away. I've been able to play plenty of games just fine on the machine: I don't think the PSU is the culprit here since it has no problems handling a much higher power load. I very much doubt ...

NewfieBullet

The best place I've found to research quieter computer components including fans is http://www.silentpcreview.com

Be warned that silence becomes an obsession for some.

NewfieBullet

Count me in.

NewfieBullet

Brian_S wrote:
Will NVIDIA's decision to try to make CPUs obsolete pay off?

If that is Nvidia's strategy they are doomed to failure. GPUs are good at a very small set of problems; they will never make CPUs obsolete.

NewfieBullet

Whenever I hear about NV vs ATI folding and the issue of optimizations come up I always think about this: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/september10/building-091008.html Conspiracy? Heck no! It's out in the open bribery :D Do you seriously think that this donation was in any way tied to...

NewfieBullet

Whenever I hear about NV vs ATI folding and the issue of optimizations come up I always think about this: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/september10/building-091008.html Conspiracy? Heck no! It's out in the open bribery :D Do you seriously think that this donation was in any way tied to...

NewfieBullet

ATI's folding performance is from poorly optimized hardware more than it is from poorly optimized code. Grossly incorrect. As far as I understand, the goddamn stupid program has been locked to using 320 "ATI shaders" ever since the HD 2000 days, and saw virtually no improvement since. Wit...

NewfieBullet

The situation could easily have been reversed though. If TSMC's process had been a little better yielding and a little less power hungry, maybe we'd now be talking about how nVidia gambled with an aggressive design and came out on top, while AMD played it safe and left too much performance on the t...

NewfieBullet

Brian_S, even ATI would lose money if they had to sell a Cypress-sized chip (which a 256-shader GF104 would be) at Juniper price points. They'll have to price it there though because that's where its performance would be. They didn't plan to lose money, so they'll do exactly what they did with the ...

NewfieBullet

It was more TSMC's engineering than it was Nvidia's engineering, unless you consider the GF100's memory controller which was entirely Nvidia's fault. I'm sure Nvidia would like to blame TSMC for their problems with Fermi but AMD used exactly the same process and did not have as much problem as Nvid...

NewfieBullet

The Corsair 450VX definitely should be sufficient for that system but do you have another power supply to try? You should also double check that you are using the correct PCI Express slot, the card is seated correctly and that the paddle card used to enable SLI is installed correctly for a single vi...

NewfieBullet

I wonder what kind of monster PSU you'd need to run 3 480's in SLI. This should do. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256054 That should not be necessary. Assuming that the AC power draw for the card is 300 Watts, the DC draw should be 240 Watts. PSUs are measured in DC power...

NewfieBullet

Well Brian will be delighted to hear that I am buying a GTX 480 here in Europe as soon as it comes out. Probably Zotac or EVGA. BUT... I am NOT buying it for gaming although it is a beast! My 5870 is still dear to me and will remain in my main rig. The GTX 480 will have to suffer the shame of being...

NewfieBullet

I agree the power/heat/noise of the 5970 are not a consideration to me, and that the 5970 is overall the fastest card out there. Whether it's "best" is debatable. It has no GPU accelerated physics games, and the future for them looks bleak. (Intel and NVIDIA won't be helping them) It has ...

NewfieBullet

They are actually sending me a GTX295 to replace my GTX285 as they didn't have my overclocked version of their 285 (the AMP! version) in stock. Now THATS customer service! Very nice case by the way...its one of the best on the market. Yeah, and it's even MORE impressive as the card I originally pur...

NewfieBullet

It's good to see you agree that GTX 480 is the queen of HD 5970. :lol: You're really trying to make a joke, twice, that a video card is a girl? :oops: My point stands- according to you, no one will buy or desire a 5970 because it shares similar power/heat/noise characteristics to a GTX480. I have a...

NewfieBullet

I wouldn't say it's "sad", there's no real detriment to the people who buy in this way. Now if Fermi rendered in B&W only, I'd be right there with you. That's not the case though. If every person on the planet bought a GTX480 instead of a 5870 because they thought the naked woman ridi...

NewfieBullet

GT200 was never scaled down, the lowest it went was the GTX260-192. Surely the 300 series is based more on GT200 than G9x. There are 200 series models with it too I believe. Confusing. But they are in a lot of notebooks now. I imagine they will be NV's primary notebook chips for most of this year i...

NewfieBullet

While I agree that a die shrink would definitely help, I also agree that AMD isn't standing still- Nvidia has to catch up, period. Further, the GT200 was larger than RV770, and on most accounts did the same amount of work (GTX260 to 4870), while drawing the same amount of power and producing the sa...

NewfieBullet

The 5870 is a pretty fantastic card. It's basically an OK card now. It offers 85-90% of the single GPU performance available, about 10% of the extra features, and is uses less power. For people that don't care about the power aspects, it's pretty barebones. I expect price drops on 5870s. You're rig...

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