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I might spring for a 7200rpm 8TB drive with a fair helping of cache on the eventual scale, for now my 4TB seems to be holding out reasonably well. I'm willing to pay a little more for a drive that doesn't cause my games to stutter trying to stream in textures. :P All my stuff's installed and my...

I use a Kershaw OD-1 1775. Not the easiest thing in the world to sharpen but it gets the job done and has a nice, beefy clip for hanging in my pocket. The opening lever is nice for when I'm trying to open boxes one-handed. It's not in the best aesthetic shape but it's functionally and...

Finally able to play the PC copy of Shadow of Mordor I paid for back in August. At first I needed a better video card, now I just need better internet so I'm not waiting weeks straight for multi-gigabyte downloads to finish. :roll: Framerates at a mix of high and ultra settings at 1920x1200...

I'm with the majority on this one, I don't often watch movies but when I do I prefer them to be on disc. My internet connection is very unreliable and slow when it does work, so anything beyond 480p is a stretch to me. I got the N400 in the mail today and I'm actually somewhat pleasantly...

My optical drive doesn't see much use unless I'm watching a bluray (extremely rare), transcoding a DVD (less rare) or writing some kind of OS to disc for an old machine (easily the use case for which I bought the drive), but I use my hotswap bay a lot. I broke the acrylic window in the side...

With an actual, real GTX-series GPU, I'm making points hand-over-fist compared to how I used to. It just goes to show... With the Phenom II and the GT730 I was averaging 30k PPD. With this machine I'm clearing 173k. I knew the 960 absolutely wiped the floor with the 730 -- I'd have to be an...

I enjoyed my brief time with FF57, it seems to be a nice tradeoff between Chromium and old Firefox for me in regards to RAM consumption vs multi-threading performance, but the severe lack of addons really bites. I mostly just use flashcontrol and ublock origin on Vivaldi here, though I do have...

That's... unlikely to happen for logistical reasons, but sound advice nonetheless. :smile:

I had to take a break for financial reasons and they all entered repayment. It's not likely that I will be returning in 2018, looks like I'm on track for 2019 though.

I'm no electrician, and you honestly know more than I do by a very wide margin, but giving the requested once-over I can't see anything glaringly wrong with what you're doing. if I may, might I ask what you're doing running so many LED strips?

Finally got my insurance sorted for 2018. Hoping that being around people who smoke doesn't qualify me for "using" tobacco products myself, that's a pretty hefty tobacco surcharge at $25/wk. Plus I said I didn't, so they'd likely cancel my plan for fraud or something if it does. I need to get in...

Was it provided with one, no. Will it run one, absolutely. Battery does indeed hold a charge, for nearly four hours. I was kind of shocked to be honest. On the subject of RGB lighting, thankfully I managed to avoid that trash for my internal components (picking low-mid end components helps to...

I was recently given a Thinkpad X61 tablet. It's a neat little thing, but it needs some work, and I'm trying to decide if it's worth it or not. Conflicting information doesn't help either -- apparently Santa Rosa chipsets will handle 8GB but this thing supposedly has a 965 if Device Manager...

Anyone know of a completely free alternative to NetLimiter? I have need to control my internet bandwidth usage -- I'm nearly always doing something on the internet, I just need to throttle my bandwidth so it doesn't kill the experience for everyone else on our extremely limited connection...

Thankfully I don't see much of a reason to change the status quo as far as my machine's storage -- 120GB SSD for booting and productivity programs, 4TB HDD for games and user data works wonderfully for me. I'm apparently a pretty cheap date, so to speak.

Oh my god, yes. It's not uncommon to see 2x8GB non-registed non-ECC stuff for well over $100 -- that I got my kit for only $70ish is a steal by comparison. And I was only after 1600! I can't imagine the prices on 1866.

As tempting an offer as that is, I have an overabundance of storage and an underabundance of cash as it is.

Ebay prices for DDR3 RAM are ridiculous, but I think I managed to find a decent (sub $100 per kit) listing for a 2x8GB kit that should work with my board and have ample clearance for my CPU cooler if the sheet I cross-referenced is accurate. If it is in fact working with my board I'll grab...

Possible, but a major pain. Since the drive connectors are easily accessible from the side panel visible to me (it's set up with the side with the acrylic window up to the wall) I could pop the cover off and manually unplug what isn't needed, but I like having access to all my stuff no matter...

I'm finding Windows 10 to be a very dual-boot unfriendly OS. Every major update results in it usurping my bootloader (GRUB) to instead force itself into my MBR. Even on an entirely separate drive I can't escape it! It's infuriating to have to, every time it does this, reboot from my Linux...

With the migration to a machine with an actual GPU in it, I've taken to folding again. Estimated PPD is somewhere in the range of 1500-2000 due to the weak hardware, but something is better than nothing. Actually wrote my first simple initscript for OpenRC to do it -- nothing more than adding...

No, on 9x you'd have to enable DMA drive by drive under Device Manager. I know this for certain because I just did it yesterday. :frusty:

On the subject of PIO, for the longest time the Win98 machines I would set up would have awful IO performance compared to XP on the same machines because I didn't know what DMA was, so never enabled it. These days I know better. Until I forget. :joker:

It was my understanding that it was about on par with Haswell in terms of IPC, which is concerning as far as Intel is concerned because this means AMD is going to eat their lunch in a bad way.

I used to do that, and indeed I still do for certain things that took forever to find/I'm concerned about disappearing.

Not for the summer. I'll be picking back up in the fall. And if I've got to wait to put the last pieces of the puzzle together in regards to my build, I might as well up my specs a bit. I'll probably pick up another 16GB of RAM just because, and go up from an i5-7500 to i7-7700 and GTX1060 6GB...

Just to let you all know I'll be dropping off the face of the earth for the next month or so. I've moved into a place with no internet in or nearby it and I need to conserve my 4G data where I can. In other news I don't think I'll be finishing my desktop until the end of the summer or thereabouts.

Another one bites the dust... All I need to purchase now are the CPU itself and the GPU. Has anyone seen Merc? I'm starting to become seriously concerned.

The build is still hypothetical as I gather resources to build it. The only parts I've bought are the PSU, case and RAM. Everything else is subject to change right up until the time of purchase. I actually have found a 6GB version of the 1060 for $220 and will be purchasing it next so as to...

Looking at the benches I decided to skip team red this time around. Maybe on their next refresh we'll see them touting those "optimizations" but for now it looks like an i5-7600 (non-k -- I don't overclock, ever) is a good bet. The motherboard I picked out is cheaper than the AMD one I was going...

Drive doesn't fit. Well, it'll technically go into the port, but I can't close the bottom cover over the machine with the drive in. I'm sending it back for a refund. Here's a lesson learned for next time, caveat emptor indeed. The drive works as advertised when attached to my USB converter, I...

Things are still pretty tentative at the moment but I'm looking at finishing my gen ed requirements at a community college of some sort down there and finishing out my degree requirements probably at University of Central Florida. Since I had almost filled the 2TB when it died, I decided I'd go...

You've got it right. $10.50/hr, plus they pay my tuition which is why I was there in the first place. I can't afford to get fired or that aid will go away and I'll likely get kicked out of my dorm. That said, next semester should see things being a lot better for me. I'm planning a transfer...

Just to be sure I couldn't coax my old drive to work just long enough to recover my music from it (it'll be a pain to re-rip all those CDs, after all) I hooked it up to one of those cheap USB to SATA/IDE converters. Nothing I tried could get it working again, and I tried several other drives on...

Oh please, I could toss the thing against the wall and shatter it into a million pieces. Feels like it's made of papier mâché. Or Raditz. Seriously, the damn thing's lighter than most SSDs I've had.

Sprained my ankle Monday evening/Tuesday morning, and today my hard drive finally died. It gives me the dreaded click of death. Hangs up the BIOS on trying to detect it, even. This has not been my week.

I think I've found an interesting little distro that might just serve my needs perfectly, a Debian fork called Devuan. It offers quite a bit of choice as to the init systems you can use. It's still in beta but asking around in their IRC room tells me the only thing that has been broken in recent...

Hold that thought. Phone randomly stopped recognizing the SD card one night. Thinking it's kaput. Really don't want to have to return it, but I dropped forty bucks on it and that's not cheap for a guy like me.

Interesting. That isn't the behavior I noticed when I was running systemd, but it is interesting nonetheless. I haven't used it in a while so maybe this is some new thing? I've looked at both of them and find them a little lacking. I prefer the runit init system to pure BSD init scripts and...

PPC Arch is dead. Has been since 2013. Arch for ARM is only active because the RPi exists. I have a couple PIIIs and P4s I kick around for various things under Linux. I like to standardize on one distribution. With i686 looking at getting axed (second tier support == it'll be around for another...

Sometimes I want to put aside cash and build a no-holds-barred desktop... Something with an i7, 16GB of RAM at minimum, and a 1060 or better... Then I remember I have work and classes and no time to use it for anything, so all it'd do is contribute meagerly (compared to those of you with 980s...

My 128GB that I stuck in my phone does fine. It's no speed demon but the I/O is consistent at about 20MB/s going through my phone (it's formatted as part of the internal storage) for large files and I have had no errors yet -- although all I did so far was copy ~70GB of music to it (7.5 thousand...

Messing about with the NaCL client in Chrome. Silly thing estimates my PPD to be 40,449,400!

We got a dusting of snow in early December and we occasionally get flurries but no accumulation. It being 60F here almost every other day down here helps with that.

Yeah, I have a bad feeling about Merc being missing this long. Feels to me almost like when we found out about P5-133XL. Here's hoping it doesn't turn out like that. In other news my music collection has grown to the point that I need a 128GB microSD card to hold it all. I don't know if I...

I love how Rick handled this. It showed that somewhere, he has something resembling a heart. That said, the upgrade process is basically this. The ride never ends.

I don't drink and don't have any plans to, so I'm pretty useless in these sorts of conversations. My family has a history of moderation problems in several ways so I would prefer to not even get started on it.

So my uncle put me on his wireless plan so regardless of my income status I have access to a phone. Rather than just using the phone I already had with a Verizon SIM kit, he just bought me a new phone. I don't know where he's getting that I need anything as flashy or powerful (or expensive!) as...

I never really did any work on that FreeNAS build besides the initial putting together of the hardware and leaving it to rot next to my desk, so I decided to do the next best thing with it and install Windows 7 x86 on it for the sole purpose of running the Lockdown Browser my university forces...

At home my speed now averages under 1Mbps down, 0.2Mbps up. Here at the college mI get 20Mbps down 5MBps up for free, and I'm happy with that. It's the fastest internet access I've ever had to myself and it's way faster than I needed it to be. I'd have been content with 5Mbps down, 1 up.