@tereško Sorry, but it looks like you don't want to be near a person who makes you uncomfortable because if think they're ugly and that's nothing to do with health.
Here's your example: Govt banned nearly 90% of food sold on school cafeterias here, to prevent obesity. And guess what, it caused more anorexia than it fixed obesity, because the amount of people that are obese are very, very little compared to people who are thin.
So... let's change the subject. Despite stalled renovations, I may be able to start putting together Astaroth by next week, just in time for Assassin's Creed Origins.
@djsmiley2k no. School usually starts very early so children rarely have breakfast, and they can't get proper lunch or breakfast on school due to the anti-obesity laws preventing actual food from being sold
@tereško I agree. I'm in the boogie2988 camp (except I'm far, far less obese than him)... he's a fat person (and I'm a fat person) who doesn't want to be fat, and is trying to lose it, but it's been a very difficult battle. We're like smokers who hate smoking and want to quit. The smokers who love smoking and want to go on smoking are the ones who need to be culled ;p
s/culled/re-educated/
I'd gladly take any help I can get to lose it, and I actually did take some help with Weight Watchers and dropped 20 lbs
@allquixotic I actually read recently those new "shit transplants" (there is a proper name for that operation, but that's what it actually is) have been proven to be extremely effective for weight loss, since it changes your gut microbiom
@tereško yeah, you know, I had tons and tons of ear infections as a little kid due to the shape of my inner ear, and that caused me to be on a near-constant (OK, not literally near-constant, but very often) dosage of flora-wrecking antibiotics
maybe having like 10 doses of antibiotic regimen, in a single year (and repeating that performance for 2-3 consecutive years), literally killed all of certain types of bacteria that are helpful
my ear infections dropped off to about one every 2-3 years since adulthood
If Coffee Lake is available, though, I might pick that for a pure gaming workload. The i3-8350K (4C/4T @ 4.0 GHz) is going to beat the Ryzen 3 pretty easily, especially when overclocked, but it does cost more, both processor and motherboard.
This assumes a very constrained budget, though - the Intel processor is unquestionably the better pick when performance matters and you're not that limited.
To me, I'd step up to a GTX 1060 before going to the faster Intel processor. The processor is unlikely to be the bottleneck until you go up to a 1070 or faster.
@tereško I'd actually prefer 2560x1440 at 144+ Hz.
> You may install varying memory sizes in Channel A and Channel B. The system maps the total size of the lower-sized channel for the dual-channel configuration. Any excess memory from the higher-sized channel is then mapped for single-channel operation.
That's new.
The main laptop has 24 GB of RAM, installed as 4+8 GB on each channel.
(2x4 GB Super Talent from the OEM, 2x8 GB G.SKILL aftermarket)
So guys... After all this talk about Astaroth over the last few months, I think I will finally be able to put the dream PC together next week, just in time for Assassin's Creed Origins. This is my first fully-custom PC build, and it will be a very high-dollar build (~$3,500), though Mother will reimburse me for a substantial portion of the cost so this isn't an issue. I'm comfortable working with the guts of a PC, but again, first build. What do I need to know before I start building?
@JourneymanGeek They still skimp in some places. I opened up one of the newer staff machines (equipped with an i7-4700) and found that the PCH has no heatsink on it.
@bwDraco some mobos require you to punch out pieces of metal that are loosely connected to access the expansion ports; if yours does, be very careful because it's liable to cut you really bad if you do it wrong (use gloves or a screwdriver)
make sure your case is compatible with your GPU, because it's very easy for (especially cheaper or smaller) cases to be incompatible due to length
and make sure your selected CPU cooler has enough clearance that it doesn't bang into your GPU, HDD bays, or provide no room for cable routing
(personally I generally only use compact CPU coolers just to be safe, and because I'm on MicroATX)
and don't rush; when building a computer it's important to take your time... I failed to do a proper CPU or RAM seating multiple times and ended up going to the store to buy a replacement (to try different parts) for no good reason, when the original parts I got in the mail were actually fine, but I wasn't getting something seated all the way
the hardest thing for me is knowing what amount of force is acceptable -- obviously too much will eventually break stuff, but too little won't actually complete the "seating" of various things, especially RAM and GPU are hard for me to tell
and it's hard to tell if that's because you've got it lined up wrong, or it just needs an extra oomph to get it in there
RAM sticks with heat spreaders are easier to slot because they help you distribute the force more evenly across the chip, which makes it less likely you'll snap off a piece of chip in the socket
they still care about the orientation you put them in; one side has a notch and the other doesn't
as far as cable management, I don't generally do cable management, but I currently own a case that separates down the middle between the "PSU and HDD/SSD side" and the "Mobo/CPU/RAM/GPU side", which makes cable management a bit easier
your SATA cables don't have any chance to get tangled with, like, fan cables or GPU external power cables
and you just route power cables from the PSU side through a hole to the mobo side
the build looks fine if overspecced - personally I'd save money on the GPU and get a 1080, and get a more mainstream mobo for about half that price, and then spend that money either on storage or on future upgrades, like the next generation GPU 2 years down the road
future proofing a system is really hard these days, the sweet spot is to not go all-out and upgrade every 2.5 years because there's no substitute for having the latest kit
unfortunately, tiered storage is the most affordable way to do storage, and Windows doesn't properly support tiered storage in software, only ZFS on *NIX does
so I ended up getting a $1000 hardware RAID controller to do tiered storage right
in the long run, even though I spent $1000 on a RAID controller, beyond a certain capacity, it's cheaper than going all SSD, and faster than going all HDD
and easier to manage and faster than having separate volumes for different purposes
For starters, photos don't need to be on the fastest storage on the machine. (Remember that I'm a sports photographer and I need to deal with dozens or hundreds of photos at a time.)
I'd rather have that space for the OS, apps, and games.
well, I have *two* volumes and a total of 6 storage devices: 2 x 8 TB HDD (bog standard HGST blah) in HW RAID-1 2 x 1 TB Samsung 850 Pro in HW RAID-0 2 x 256 GB Samsung 850 Pro as read/write MaxCache for the HDDs
