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Absolutely essential bookmark material: TechArp GPU comparison. The TechArp list isn't 100% of the whole story, since it doesn't describe some video acceleration features that are important, but if you want to know fill rates and bandwidths, it's all kinds of useful. Motherboards? I normally...

Yeah that sounds about right. The only reason I own a 3450 is that the day I went to buy a 3470, they were out of stock.

The members who have contributed thusfar have been very generous. The money in my paypal account right now will more than cover a CPU. We're working toward the motherboard now. I'll post a screenshot of my paypal balance and provide an accounting of monies spent. If there winds up being extra...

From a subjective standpoint, you really do have to be doing insane things to see the difference between an i5 and an i7. I found that my i7 2600ks could keep Handbrake fed at 100% CPU utilization while playing a certain giant robot simulator, losing about 2% on encoding frames per second; the...

I have a number of customers on Crashplan. I consider it a secondary backup since they're all too lazy to physically rotate media. The sales pitch goes something like this: "So if I pay like $13 a month, you'll quit bitching at me about going in that little room to connect and disconnect all...

As far as I can tell, there are at least three classes of communication: Emails from Facebook.com about Facebook things that only matter to people who use Facebook, invites and other from end-users who are on Facebook and want to tell me about amazing Facebook shit, and now business...

I don't really think that it is. I think everyone on the show is sort of a caricature of a person that exists to make Malcolm's Dad look good, and I couldn't suspend my disbelief that actual human beings would make the decisions being made or react in the ways that they were on the show. I...

Really all I know about it is what I read in the O'Reilly Backup and Recovery book.

For some reason, I don't think it's a big deal to screw around on internet forums all day if actual work is done, but I don't actually fire up any games. I went back and looked, and I know that I've opted out of communication from Facebook and Facebook users before. But the issue is that...

Update: SSDreuding has the obvious base covered, Handy, Will Rickards and myself are contributing cash toward a CPU. Hopefully we can get another couple contributors and hook the man up with a motherboard to go with the RAM he already has.

I'm actually kind of giddy to see the duet between Maximus Decimus Meridus and Wolverine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STv2Z0AB_TI

Apparently, the only way to completely turn off all facebook emails is to have a facebook account and use its account settings. There's no specific control for non-users that says "Do fucking not fucking ever fucking email fucking me fucking again fucking about fucking anything fucking spamming...

I'm glad you still stop by, good sir. Every so often, I see that you're visiting. It's good you still remember to post once in a while, too. ;)

Handy, I ditched the 10krpm cube fans in my 2U Supermicro machine for some (much) slower Delta fans, swapped the redundant 1U PSUs for a larger and quieter 2U one and ditched the Intel stock heat sink for a low profile heat sink with a fan. Then I stuck it in a closet and closed the door. It...

PAX is run by ReedPop, the same convention group that handles my favorite con, C2E2. From a convention-going perspective, C2E2 has never been anything less than completely satisfying: Exquisitely well-organized and full of compelling content. Since PAX is run by the same folks, I'm sure it's the...

Not really THAT bad. In my experience, about 5% of mechanical drives will go bad within the formerly standard three year warranty period. Samsung and Hitachi were far better in that regard than Seagate or most especially WD in that regard. My standard practice is to install SSDs only in systems...

I could not get into Lost at all. The other show that other people seem to like that completely mystifies me is Breaking Bad.

No. There's an i3-2120. The Pentium G-class CPU is 200MHz slower, doesn't do Hyperthreading and doesn't have the full Sandy Bridge GPU, but it DOES support DDR3-1600 and, for some reason, ECC RAM. And yeah, that sounds like a PSU issue to me as well.

dd has had better luck, reliability-wise, than I have. He's also experienced a lower percentage of failures than I have. I've had four Intel drives fail and four OCZ, out of perhaps 120 drives purchased in the last four years. OCZ's support experience is so bad that I decided not to even pursue...

An i3-2120 is basically enough CPU for most needs. It's dual core with hyperthreading and it's fast. There's almost no subjective difference between one of those and an i5-3450 for day-to-day computing tasks. The standard motherboard I settled on is an Intel DH61BE, which has a PS/2 and...

OK, it's time to do this thing: jtr needs new stuff. We need to get him running. He has a vastly different knowledge set than the rest of us and he's been helping us for years. If anyone wants to kick in even $10 or $20, I know you all have my paypal address. Let's see if we can at least get him...

I still don't think it's a great idea for a general-purpose Windows install to be confined to a small space. All it would take to blow out that 60GB is installing and working with some developer or content creation tools, or a blockbuster game or two. That being said, I have several machines...

It's not so much reading as the vast, vast quantity of works that reference, name-check or derive from his work in comics, movies and video games. In his life, Lovecraft connected his work to Robert (Conan/Tarzan) Howard and Lord Dunsany's, and a whole host of early science fiction authors took...

I do live in a weird place. My town is the convergence point for I80, I65, I90 and I94, all because of the steel mills. Everyone works in industries that support the mills or the people who work there. People who are educated and don't work for the mills pretty much leave. There's also some...

My boss stopped putting meeting invites on my Google Calendar because I kept rejecting the invitations. Now she just has a calendar she keeps for herself so I don't have to be bothered by it. :D

The work of HP Lovecraft is basic cultural literary at this point.

For all you know, they could be having trouble getting battery cells or the specific LCD panel they use. Stuff happens.

Losing a drive is still lame either way.

They are having trouble sourcing one or more of the components and they're feeding in logistics number from their suppliers. They're not going to go months without shipping any product.

It is actually kind of neat to see some of the weird stuff in the dictionary. Cthulhu is in it, but so is "Jay-Z", whom I understand is a rapper. Anyway, it's good fun.

My fun new game: Swype lottery. I email my friend a stupid/inappropriate picture and draw a squiggle in swype to pick the subject line. She does the same. Best random word wins. Today's winner: Cthonic

If you're too lazy to click the link: they peter out at around the lower end of Intel's mainstream lineup and they're still to hot to use in a lot of applications but the "free" mid-range GPU isn't anything to sneeze at. Does anyone get the feeling that AMD's target use case at this point is a...

I don't think you're going to see affordable 4k monitors any time in the near future. I think we'll see exotic 27"+ 4k screens soonish (probably Dell, Apple and HP offerings) and they'll be stratospherically expensive. 2560xwhatever screens are still well out of the mainstream even though...

Trends among the groups near my ZIP code: Libertarianism, Conversativism, RON PAULism (seriously? Two different Ron Paul groups), African-American Empowerment, Single Mother Support (somehow this is not stripper related? I guess?), Entrepreneurship , "Leadership Development", Horse-Ownership. My...

... yeah. I just don't have friends that I do stuff with.

I don't have the sort of social circle that works for that. I've never even been to a wedding. My in-person friends are all women. Nearly all of them are part of a couple, which means that there are a minimal number of occasions when it's acceptable to socialize without being disruptive to a...

Maybe the plan is to balance it with all the vintage filter crap that comes from Instagram so that the actual photos taken wind up looking, y'know, normal. ;)

As a data point, WD (Hitachi) released its 7200rpm 4TB SAS drive last Friday. Enterprise definitely lag consumer models for data density.

They're not going to be buying 10TB consumer drives for that application regardless. At least, not in 2014.

A $7,000 camera probably qualifies are "prosumer", right? I can't really think of anything else that could drive demand for 10TB drives. Even a single 4TB drive represents an absolutely mind-boggling quantity of compressed x.264 video. Uncompressed BD images, maybe, for the tiny percentage of...

I had that class when I was in my second year CS program, too. ;) From an audio standpoint, that video reminded me quite a lot of present-day minimalist composer Steve Reich's tape loop or synthesizer compositions...

Generally speaking, I try to match the tone in the profile. I write messages that are intended to start conversations and indicate that I have read the other person's available profile. I can cast a nation-wide net on multiple sites, including several that require paid membership, including...

Dan Savage is a Sex & Relationship advice columnist who whose work mostly appears in alternative weekly newspapers. He has a different way of describing the same phenomenon. He says that there is no one "The One" perfect person for everyone. Instead, there are tons and tons and tons of people...

You are missing something fundamental: There are no discussions. On sites that allow users to track visitors to a personal profile (I know that you're familiar with OKCupid, for example), it's actually incredibly unusual that a message, regardless of how formal, casual, conversational, florid...

I sort of see it as a failure of my basic humanity that I'm not appealing enough to be worthy of a relationship. That sort of mindset is the result of spending years and years and years of doing the needle in a haystack thing, but try spending four or five hours a week trying to make a...

Ask Handruin how he feels about ATI video drivers. :) Somehow I doubt that the low-level interface is the source of potential bugs.

AMD has a habit of supporting legacy sockets - AM3 CPUs in some cases will work in AM2 boards with a BIOS flash and willingness to accept slower hypertransport links, but it's disingenuous to suggest that a discrete card has no added value over and above onboard video. Most motherboards that...

Cooler Master Elite 120 Advance mITX. 3x3.5" or 4x2.5" drive bays, 5.25" bay, supports full size video cards, one front USB3 port, uses a standard PSU. And they're $50.

That sounds about right. 3TB drives have been around, what? Two and a half years? I'd be willing to bet that price pressure will have sub-$5000 4k TVs on shelves by then (currently around $25k), and I'm likewise sure that the usual suspects will have prosumer cameras as well.

The harm would be the loss of a stable full time job that I actually do like. The short answer there is that, in the short cast of characters in my life, her job often dictates the circumstances surrounding our interactions; her actual name isn't terribly meaningful and using it would probably...