During summer 2015, Microsoft started heavily back-adding telemetry to Windows 7 via various updates. In this post is a link for a fully-updated June 2015 ISO of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 that pre-dates that telemetry back-adding by Microsoft, as well as resources for creating your own custom Windows 7 installer ISO that only has the updates that you wish to have. At the bottom of this post is an archive containing all security-only updates released from October 2016 - October 2017.
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After getting an upgrade to a GTX 1080, the honorary benchmarking run went into effect as soon as I got the system up and running. My choice for benchmarking is 3DMark mostly because I have my results tracked on Futuremark's website. Still, the results do tell me enough about my systems across the years to see what improved or what didn't.
3DMark 03
I remember when I first ran this benchmark on a Athlon XP 2500+ and a GeForce FX 5600. And that machine chugged along, barely getti
Note: This is a repost since where I had it originally on the forums got buried within a few hours.
I spent the last week and some change looking up how DirectX 12 and Vulkan work and how NVIDIA and AMD are handling it. Most of it was that I felt there was a lot of misconception going on with people thinking how the APIs are supposed to work. So here’s what I found out:
What does “low-level” API even mean?
What is this “asynchronous compute” I keep hearing about?
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PC Gamer writer Jared Walton recently posted an article describing how Total War: Warhammer performs on DX11 and DX12 with AMD and NVIDIA cards. The summary of the article is that Jared observed with the DX11 render path, NVIDIA scored quite well against AMD. But when you turn on DX12, AMD and NVIDIA score the same... but not in the way you think. AMD's best card, the Fury X, goes from about 75FPS to 95FPS. NVIDIA however goes from 135 FPS down to 92FPS. The rest of the article goes into calling
Back in 2008, there was a controversy stirring up in the neighborhood with supreme underdog of the x86 world VIA was being reviewed. The one thing VIA did that AMD and Intel don't, was it left its CPUID open. The CPUID is an identifying string that tells programs what kind of processor it is and what features it has. The result was that when you changed VIA's CPUID from "CentuarHauls" (a carryover from when VIA bought Centaur Technologies) to "GenuineIntel" or "AuthenticAMD", its benchmark resul
I'm going to be edgy and start off with the exact opposite headline from my last blog! Okay seriously...
If there's one thing I like about console gaming development is that it challenges the developers to do creative things. It brings out the best in those developers and I salute them for that. Heck, even in the early days of PC gaming, this mentality was around and about care of the likes of John Carmack and Ken Silverman. But lately, because of the relatively long life cycle of co
I forget where I read this, maybe it was on Reddit, but I recall someone saying that NVIDIA is screwed because consoles will heavily be using compute and since it's AMD hardware they're running, asynchronous compute. The belief is since the PS4 and XB1 are now more or less PCs, developers are going to use all the technologies advantageous to AMD hardware and when they port the games over, said advantages will come over. This is doubly true now that Vulkan and DirectX 12 are touted to offer "cons
@Hackentosher Gave me another idea for a project. Designing a case. This would be awesome for learning CAD and to use sketchup. I also forgot to add Eclipse Engine to my project list!
Project 5: Custom case
Project 6: Eclipse Engine I
So I've changed the projects from my original thread. Here are my new projects:
Project 1: FM transmitter
Project 2: FM reciever
Project 3: 8 bit adder
Project 4: Pi smartwatch
Those are going to be my original project for electronics. Here are my few projects that are electronics but not related at all to engineering.
Project 1: Custom painting monitor, keyboard, case, CPU heatsink, and motherboard.
Project 2: Updating garage setup w/ ITX build
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You want some bleeding edge technology, but it's overpriced due to limited stock? You came to the right place. Good builds with balanced prices.
650$ RX 480 value build
1000$ i7/1070 build:
1470$ Enthusiast Grade
'Till next time!
Dell OptiPlex 3020 Small Form Factor with Windows 7 Pro, Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB memory and 500GB hard drive for only $499. Plus, free shipping
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So I totally forgot about this blog! here is a link to my google drive with pics of my current setup https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_HGP6-H6_CMWDlQVG5rVGhCQ2c
I'm still considered a young frog in this pond, but even young ones like me still learn fast and know what they know, even if that knowledge is incomplete. So, give this young frog a bit of time with your ear. The era between the i386 and Pentium 4 for the most part precedes my birth, but I was here for Core 2 Duo/Quad, Athlon X2/4, the first Core processor from Intel, Bulldozer, Nehalem, Piledriver/Vishera, Sandy Bridge, the birth of the APU, Steamroller, Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell, Excavat
Here are some solid gaming rigs for very little money:
140$ Light Gaming Rig
220$ Low-Mid Range Gaming Box
515$ High End-Mid Range Gaming Computer
'Till next one, peace!
Most people describe Beats as either overpriced or that they sound awful. Two things statements in that sentence, "overpriced, and "sound awful", need to be addressed. Consumers say that Beats is overpriced, but compared to what? You can't say something is overpriced unless you can compare it to something that has a better value than what you are calling overpriced. Secondly, people say that Beats sound terrible simple because the music they listen to doesn't fit the sound signature that Beats i
So, most of people don't need peripherals when choosing the PC only. But, some people just have a laptop and no peripherals what so ever. So here are some of these:
420$ Internet Ready!
680$ All da fans
1740$ Powaa Ready!
So I got a PowerBook G4. Yay! Only problem is, Mac OS X 10.5.8 is just borderline useful in 2016, especially on a PowerPC machine with 512MB RAM. That, and I grew frustrated with the way how Mac OS X is designed. So, I decided to install Linux on it. Here's how things went down:
Downloaded Ubuntu MATE 15.10 PowerPC ISO
Wrote it to an 8GB flash drive using LiLi
Tried booting to it, it wouldn't boot
Tried using the Mini ISO instead
Mini ISO was missing a lot o
