gotta say, having two separate computers next to each other is pretty productive... separate CPUs, etc. Like watching movies on one, and doing stuff on the other during the ads and boring parts :P
@nhinkle I don't have multiple monitors anymore, I'm too nice to other people. I still have one, and I could use it with my laptop, but it no longer produces sound.
It was easier than I remember, other than some of the cables NOT quite reaching, and the lack of a 'proper' USB 3.0 front panel connector on the case, and the motherboard not having an additional sled for it
going to get a windows 8 install disk set up before I boot it up
What is the essential difference between Windows 7 smart moving (files) and the regular Windows file moving?
In Windows 7, even renaming a folder would cause the OS using smart moving, which is not desired. Since back in Windows XP, renaming a folder or move a folder to another place (in same...
Tried BIOS reset? Check (if it has a BIOS reset jumper) that it's not already crossed
Along the same vein, check all other jumpers on the board are at defaults, you might have a board that someone had previously returned to the supplier and it's not actually at default
@JourneymanGeek 'Powers up then goes dead' - usually some failsafe, make sure you have the cpu fan header connected to the right connector
Lol i tend to do some frantic reading when purchasing to make sure it does everything i want... Usually read reviews rather than official docs for the 'gotchyas!'
@Bob Damn, things are easy these days... USB headers that are already wired?! :D
we don't have to reboot for updates on Linux. we have much more advanced TCP flow control / active queue management algorithms. the entire stack has lower overhead because you don't have to weave your way through a quarter-century's worth of backwards compatible libraries to open a network socket.
also, licensing isn't an issue. you don't have to run a GUI on your server to do administrative tasks (granted, with Server Core, you don't have to run a GUI on Windows either, but almost all tutorials provide info on how to do things from the GUI)
I remember one time when I was little, I was installing a brand new system with my dad and the package of the CPU specifically says "do not touch pins" and my dad taps them with his finger as he's holding it, and I'm like "DON'T DO THAT!!!" and he's like "what? it's fine!" and runs his fingers over all the pins... I'm like, omg, RMA time
somehow, somehow that CPU booted and it continued to operate throughout its useful lifespan, but wow... that was luck
Anyone remember those horrible Celeron Slot 1 processors? Had loads of failures of those, most of them not DOA, usually a week or so after install... Then again had more than 1 bad batch of AMD K6's
@allquixotic Lolz it's the oils from your fingers causing the copper to oxodise on the pins making the connection poor which is the scare, never had a problem with it myself
@allquixotic F00F and Sandy Bridge are after my time
I stopped building PC's (OEM reseller) around the same time Vista was coming out (I changed jobs)
@allquixotic Some are better than others... The bigger the reseller the nicer the build, but then the more obvious the problem... Had a batch of Dell's with the IDE connector FORCED into the floppy connector
it's funny, we cause a huge stink about a mainboard flaw or a CPU flaw, but almost every single ATI chip released has errata 60 pages long :D anyone ever play a 3d game and notice while walking that some random triangle gets drawn on screen as if a character or a tree or something has a limb with an "infinite" size? raises hand
AMD's catalyst 12.10 "stable" driver was released and WHQL certified while having a fatal bug causing spurious TDR bounces while doing almost any 3d rendering on the HD7900 series cards
@JourneymanGeek Wow, if you purchased by card you'd be covered for 60 days at least as the product purchased is faulty and 'not fit for purpose'/doesn't function as intended - but that all depends on your local laws
@Bob the reseller can't disallow you to avail yourself of any manufacturer's warranty, so as long as you have a warranty from Intel, nobody can stop you from using it
@Bob yeah, all except the "professional" GPUs (Nvidia Quadro/Tesla/NVS or AMD FirePro) have a non-trivial amount of error built into the GPU and actually consider that acceptable
Quadro/Tesla/NVS/FirePro have ECC VRAM and scrub every value so that nothing is rendered or calculated erroneously... everything is checked to make sure that invalid values are discarded and re-run
it slows them down a lot; they also run at lower clock rates
but the enterprise/professional cards are way more expensive because every single calculation they do comes back to the user 100% correct, so you don't get those issues
I just bought a brand now asus p8z77 motherboard with a intel 3770. Its currently not booting - the system powers up for half a second and then powers down, and the CPU error light shines. I've tried switching ram between slots, switching PSUs, updating the bios (which can be done sans motherboar...
it's sold as being current-gen HD7***, but in actual fact it's just a previous-gen Northern Islands chip
as far as hardware support for actual capabilities, the only difference between NI and SI (Northern Islands is HD6000 series, Southern Islands is HD7000 series) is that SI supports DirectX 11.1, while NI only supports DirectX 11.0. But even more significant than that is the die shrink of 40nm -> 28nm and the first major steps to HSA which are present in SI, reducing latency and contributing to its future-proofness
the other thing: NI and older, while being technically capable of executing OpenCL, gets horrific actual performance on OpenCL workloads (also DirectCompute et al)
SI and later are actually among the very fastest available GPUs for GPGPU/OpenCL
if you look at the difference in texture fill rate alone between the HD7670M and the HD7970M, it's from 4.8 gigapixels/sec for the HD7670M to 27.2 gigapixels/sec for the HD7970M.
even the 7870M is still three times faster at 12.8 gigapixels/sec
NI runs hotter, has poorer power management, uses more energy for the same result, takes up more room per-transistor, lacks DX11.1, and lacks hardware-accelerated video encoding (it does have decoding in hardware)
I'm sorry you can't afford or source the part, but I would very strongly recommend that if it's not too late, that you try to get at least a low-end SI part
more out of curiosity than anything, since I've already got this one
though, this is more basic usage. anything particularly graphics (or GPU) intensive is going to the desktop computer with the now-slightly-outdated GTX 560
for a composited desktop with a hardware-accelerated web browser (Chrome, IE, etc.) and most 2D GUI apps (even some light 3d like Google Earth), a Sandy or especially Ivy Bridge IGP is more than sufficient
but if you're going to buy a discrete GPU... may as well make it a good one
Over here I a) Know the shops usually give 1 year warranty. b) If they do not and I can in all reasonably expect a 1 year warranty and I did not get a very clear message that this was not the case I will just get the default warranty.
I almost always deal with the manufacturer warranty when I have a problem, except in rare cases when I know the vendor is extremely reputable and will handle my claim responsibly
E.g. a very expensive washing machine of a well known brand might get 3 years warranty, but that does not prevent me from claiming a free replacement if it massively fails after 5 years of normal (say once per week) use
for my smartphones, I deal with the carrier (Verizon) for issues rather than the manufacturer (Motorola) because I actually find Verizon's customer support to be superior to Motorola's -- Motorola isn't scaled out to talk directly to customers, they just make devices
I suspect they got added to local law because it is not always clear what you buy via a website. People abuse that. Things did not regulate itself. Law got changed to 'fix' things
Usually there is a process over here with "hey, that is wrong. Why do'nt you fix it. then a few years pause, followed by 'Fix it or we will put it in a law'. A few years more nd than a law gets proposed
AMD have been idiots about discontinuing extremely recent GPU generations in their drivers of late, too... I hope you don't get caught without support in the last year or two of life of your laptop
they dropped all future support (except for critical security updates) of Radeon HD4000 and older. thing is, laptops shipped new from manufacturers, as recently as December 2011, contained HD4000 ASICs
except that you probably will need to update if you want to run new programs, because most new programs use features or rely on bugfixes from new drivers... hope you're okay with running the same software (and no new games) for 4-5 years
why do you think every single game in existence has as the first troubleshooting step "update your drivers" :P
honestly it's not the API support level that worries me; it's the fact that the implementation of said API contains bugs that are only exposed when a game developer tries to use those APIs, and rather than not use those APIs, the developer uses them and then leans on AMD to release a bugfix in the next Catalyst
even DX9 still has plenty of corner cases that need bugfixes
in fact, it's probably got more bugs for NI/SI than it does for older ASICs
NI, SI and later are starting to remove some of the fixed-function hardware that older 3d rendering APIs such as DX9 and older relied upon, and these things have to be re-implemented anew in software or in shaders due to the absence of being able to bang on fixed function hw
you may find it tiresome to consider but it's just a sad fact -- it's taken a team of 10 people over a year to implement basic OpenGL 2.1 (DX9 feature level) for HD7000 in the open source Mesa graphics stack, and the #1 complaint from the developers is "we have to re-implement everything from the ground up because the hardware is no longer there"
before I got tired of trying to help because the drivers are still too immature, I reported like 12 bugs about basic OpenGL 1.0/1.1 features on that hardware
I just hope that ATI doesn't pull a HD4000 again... that would suck for a lot of people if they dropped HD5000, HD6000 in the next few years. They somehow think that dropping support and laying off engineers is a good business strategy
What is the essential difference between Windows 7 smart moving (files) and the regular Windows file moving?
In Windows 7, even renaming a folder would cause the OS using smart moving, which is not desired. Since back in Windows XP, renaming a folder or move a folder to another place (in same...
