Are you sure the power light is not part of a larger circuit? I've seen designs where the indicator was actually required to be within a certain tolerance for a design to work properly, and LEDs can certainly interrupt that if that 12V was actually AC...
This is how my Buffalo router's wifi chips died. First, normal (for ~2 years). Symptom #1 was sustained transfers dying over Wifi, quickly followed by total inability to stream even 1 Mbps video without Wifi dropping out. By the end it wouldn't even stay connected well enough to get to Google. Inter...
It simply doesn't make sense from a technical or sales standpoint. I'm sure hardware vendors love it. I know that prior to my oversight, there were people at work that would buy whatever the vendors proposed...regardless of whether the hardware was actually needed. It wasn't their fault, they just ...
Eh, you can try it ofc -- but it drives a tendency to keep mucking around, and geeks then often end up down a rabbit hole of trying lots of different things that might work, because "this should work", and lose a whole lot of person time. Silly, IME, when a system restore is almost zero p...
Even if your time has less value than whatever intrinsic value you ascribe to having the newer driver, consideration should be given to the fact that by mucking around in this way it's possible to use up the system restore space and cheat oneself out of the easy/guaranteed option. :facepalm: A syst...
Before doing all that hocus-pocus, I would go to device manager with the 360 pad plugged in and "uninstall this device" making sure you tick the box to "also remove the driver software for this device". Then, once the uninstall is complete, right click anything in device manager...
A handful of kilowatts? An in-rack UPS is probably the easiest and most economical solution. This is just rack-scale UPS, which is a pretty sorted problem.
Besides power and distance, there's no difference. The physical layer has nothing to do with the logical layer.
I disagree on 40 GbE being basically 4x10 GbE bonded - it's a single link that can be saturated by a single stream. The same is rarely true of bonded links.
Thunderstorms tend to disrupt I/O, not from power loss (though that happens) but from the sound of thunder itself. It's fun watching throughput indicators when construction is being done. It's not fun watching the disk fallout associated with it. Ultra cheap and **** NVRAM cannot come to market fast...
I guess I am spoiled. If ever I created a subwoofer that didn't have at least 95dBSPL/1W I would consider it a waste of time. I am currently drooling over a subwoofer project called "Tuba HT". It may be a little overkill until I build my basement theater to contain the sound. Eh, efficien...
There are several rabbit trails there, but yes, with an efficiency in the 90dB+ range you can do considerably better than the average subwoofer, especially for just near-field listening (versus the whole-room listening I've seen many computer setups used for, including myself in times past). RMS r...
It's not like 20 watts isn't enough for an efficient subwoofer to be obnoxiously loud... This re-states one of the enduring misconceptions about audio, unfortunately. The power requirements are not for low-level continuous listening, which is often only in the range of a few mW to a few W even at f...
I also wonder if Intel's SMT has improved much over the generations. Reviews usually test the new i7 against the previous i7, it's harder to see if the IPC differences between the i5s and i7s is growing each generation. I had a rough ballpark figure that HT was worth about 30% more than a single co...
Unless the second thread is sitting idle most of the time (i.e. the game is really single-threaded for all intents and purposes), I doubt an 11% clock speed advantage would allow a single core with HT to outrun two real cores. It depends, really. Game code tends to be quite branchy, and that's wher...
4K30Hz should be selectable...does the TV get detected correctly (or is it a generic HDMI monitor)? I had no issues with a 7870 pushing a 4K screen over HDMI at 30 Hz...
Well finally made it to my moms to check on the Intel 535 SSD, and look up info. Purchased newegg April 17th, arrived 22nd, and according to windows update installed on May 11, 2016 Mom uses the PC for email and checking sears outlet, and tries to turn it off when not using it or at night at least....
From earlier this year, but only the keyboard has changed (along with more wall-art as I retire more cool looking boards): http://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/12888605_10102468843345068_1160536570658142484_o.jpg The backlight is RGB, so I can cycle it based on my mood. :P Monitor is a 4K 4...
Krogoth is right, in theory- but in practice, HT helps far more than it ever hurts. Just keeping stuff in the background, like a poorly written webpage refreshing (basically anything with news) from overriding a running game's focus can be enough to smooth things out where they otherwise wouldn't b...
That's the crux of the problem. There is hardly any mainstream games and application that scheduled and thread correctly to effortlessly handle HT. It will remain the case since it is a PITA to code and not worth the cost (mostly QA) for mainstream coders. The userbase that has HT-hardware is prima...
You couldn't be more wrong. HT does nothing for games and it usually causes performance issues with threading that end-up impacting frame-timing. Scheduled properly, HT helps keep everything else out of the way without impacting performance at all. I don't think I've seen any i5 versus i7 compariso...
Sony's in on the act: http://www.sony.com/electronics/walkman/nw-wm1z "The NW-WM1Z is fully encased in a high-grade gold-plated oxygen-free copper chassis. Widely used in instrument manufacturing, the copper lends the player its unique natural, acoustic sound. Its conductivity and raw strength...
I also agree with Chrispy about the Green HD. I owned two of an earlier generation of those, and they both had to be RMA'd inside a year. My best experiences have been with the Blacks (admittedly they are more expensive and the extra RPM isn't needed for data drives, but in my systems they have be...
I second Krogoth's recommendation, i upgraded from 3.6GHZ Q6600 to 4.8GHZ i5 4670K, the difference was not notable on day to day activities. Yes, i agree gaming performance had improved but i cannot say average 10 FPS difference as massive. I would say that it depends on what games OP is playing. I...
