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Ok this isn't tech related but one amazing story involving the other half of BS Mods!!! Bob is pretty freaking amazing and can pretty much take on any problem this tells a small part of his weekend searching for his aunt. 
 
 
http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/23841-great-grandmother-70-recounts-5-days-trapped-in-car-before-dramatic-rescue-this-isnt-real
 

This is a good thing. Why are people comparing that they are releasing patches which could prevent malware outbreaks? Even if you think Windows XP is old and should be abandoned, the fact is they machines are still out there running XP. Those machines won't get updated just because Microsoft stop giving out updates, that has already been proven. So why keep patches which are already developed to themselves. 
 
It's like having the cure for AIDS, but keeping it secret because "people need to learn to have safe sex. They won't learn if I give them the cure". 

Well go ahead and answer it: what specific performance and security features does Windows 10 has that cannot be implemented and patched into Windows 7? No, new features do not relate to better performance and security. New features should stand on their own merit for the consumer to decide. Performance and security however, better have a damn good reason to require an entire new OS.
 
I've never heard a good reason why they need Windows 10, other than Microsoft wants to sell new software. And despite your poisoning of the well we're not opposed to new features. Just not when they're forcefully shoved up your fucking ass to make you pay whenever you're ready to try said features or not.

they can go fuck themselves. 
 
which, btw sony, any video output can be captured. Even with hdcp 

Wow, this DRM will totally block out piracy all together

PCI-E is probably the only data transfer/connetor standard to actually be ahead of the needs of the devices. I wish every other standard committee would follow their footsteps.

So, Tek Syndicate is on fire right now. I am reporting this first hand.
 
This started with Wendell blinking SOS in the last episode of The Tek in which he appeared (two weeks ago). Then tonight, Logan made some VERY poor decisions regarding transparency, and where the money from the Tek Syndicate channel is going.
This spawned some shit.

 
Logan basically banned a bunch of moderators, after they started calling him out for deleting comments that did not violate community guidelines, but where difficult questions that he did not want to answer, about where the money from Tek Syndicate is going.
 
Exhibit A:

 
Alamar, and Eden, WHERE moderators on the Tek Syndicate forums. Alamar has been banned or "suspended" from the forums, as well as Eden, and all other moderators except for two (whom I will not name) have subsequently been banned or suspended.
 

 
A former moderator points out that Logan is trying to switch the forum to Read Only mode, which would allow Logan to ban and delete people at will. Also, Logan egging his own community on.
 

 
Logan egging people on again.
 

Pistol enters the fray.
 

Logan threatens everyone.
 

 
Pistol was banned from the private Discord chat maintained by members of the Tek Syndicate community after she flatout demanded admin rights on a server she has no affiliation with (the server is not officially affiliated with Tek Syndicate, merely maintained by a section of the Tek Syndicate community.), and then, when someone started sending her lewd comments, instead of reporting it to the admin, she decided to make it public, and tell that person to kill themselves.
 

 
Pistol claims that she can respond to trolls "however she damn well pleases" which is a great attitude for someone asking for admin powers to have.
 
There is more, a LOT more going on, but nothing that I have screenshots of. Currently trying to get Screenshots off of the Discord of Pistol behaving in said manner. This might not be possible as when an account is banned from Discord, all of their comments are deleted from the live instance of Discord (or so I have been told.)
 
The source? Me, and several other members of the Tek Syndicate community. There is even more on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/TekSyndicate/comments/502aao/for_everyone_going_what_the_fuck_is_happening_on/
 
TL;DR Logan refused to answer questions, Wendell, Qain, and Jennifer are leaving Tek Syndicate entirely (according to the Reddit post). There is a 4chan thread as well, but I dare not venture there. Several mods have been suspended, and the entire forum is down at the time of this posting.
 
Imgur album I compiled: https://imgur.com/a/5NgkZ
 
Edit: Wendell and Qain have been removed as admins as well. Which is funny because Wendell hosts the Tek Syndicate Forum Server (to my knowledge. He has physical ownership of the server the forum is hosted from)

Qain isn't bad. He took time out of his day to help me with a networking issue I was having with a school lab project. I couldn't get something to work, and he took at least two hours out of his day to help me, out of the blue.
 
He might have a strong opinion and not censor himself as much as some would like, but he cares and is helpful. More than anyone can say for Logan.
 
And Pistol? I'm just shocked. I thought she was better than this but apparently not.

Qain interested me the most, he seemed to have a lot of knowledge with networking, and i wish they used him more. Sucks he's gone now.

Hey now, it's not just "one of the chief engineers" it's John motherfucking Carmack we're talking about here. And if somebody snatched one of the most talented coders of the last 30 years from you well you'd be as salty as the lake in Utah as well.

but why? I never use it anyways. Opening a new tab and googling my question is faster anyways

they would not bought so many if it wasn't profitable

Still think the start menu is awful. I'll just have to replace it again.

If you're gonna copy paste at least remove the formatting after pasting...

There is nothing wrong with torrents. Torrents are good, it is just what some people use torrents for makes the "Bad". It is like banning cameras because people can record illegal stuff on them.

3 Alt - People make music more freely without ancient greedy middlemen stealing 99% of the cash from your music sales by fudging the records via Hollywood Accounting...

Oh great now people are going to go running away from self-driving cars again for another decade...

I'm not sure why it's important that autopilot was active, it's not like Tesla was touting it as a perfectly safe system or anything. They specifically say that it's not entirely reliable and tell people not to trust it with their lives. This is driver error.

Basically the 750 Ti had this issue but has it far worse. The RX 480 'potentially' exceeds PCI-E compliance while the 750 Ti in most cases did. By far. Like it says in that podcast, the 12V rail supplies 66W for the PCI-E power. The 750 Ti, without any sort of overclock (even without a boost clock), draws up to 70W at peak load, around 65W at gaming load, again with no OC.
 
Now to me that seems a bit ridiculous when you compare it to this RX 480 situation. The 480 'might' exceed it, AMD is still testing, but the 750 Ti clearly does, sold a lot more, and is a lot older. And no one even batted an eye, because they have nothing to hate on because it's not from AMD and everyone has to hate AMD for some reason.

idk why everything isn't just 4x DP and included adapters

Rumor has it the 460 pulls 1.21 gigawatts through its ISA connector. Be warned. 

On June 28, 2016 the Linus Media Group domain registrar account was compromised.
 
The exact methodology of the "hack" won't be disclosed for obvious reasons, but I can assure you that despite any claims to the contrary, the appropriate safeguards were in place on our side, and as I type this Yvonne is having a very heated phone discussion with the 3rd party responsible for the breach.
 
Anyway, the thing most of you are probably wondering about right now is what this means for your forum account or personal information, and the answer is very simple:
 
NOTHING.
 
The "hacker" simply changed the DNS settings in the dashboard and did not at any time have access to the linustechtips.com server. Any claims of a database dump are categorically false.
 
The compromised accounts - including Twitter - have been restored.
 
I hope this clears things up.
 
Linus

The first thing that pops out to me is the massive cooler mounts. Jeez. Other than that, this looks to be an exciting time for AM4.
Source: http://wccftech.com/asus-crosshair-vi-impact-am4-motherboard-leak/
 

You realize that's an itx board right?

The number cruncher
 
73 cores and a Titan X in oil submerged and passiv cooled
 

 
 
Yes, my friend, it is as exorbitant as it sounds!
My last build was highly focused on single thread performance and it works perfect for this workloads: Link here.
However, I came across situations where I needed a considerable amount of compute power. As these workloads can be parallelized without a significant penalty, I developed a need for this number cruncher. Also I will use if for F@H during the night.
My first attempt was to use two E5-26xx v3 Xeons with the Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard. But it turned out to be way to expensive. Therefor I downgraded to two E5-2680 v1 Xeons on a Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard. As I saved a lot of money on the CPUs and the memory, I was able to include a Xeon Phi 31S1P. MATLAB is able to take advantage of the “automatic offload” feature to seamlessly integrate the Xeon Phi and boost the performance. I won’t write programs for the Phi by myself.
For the GPUs I will use one or two of the upcoming Polaris / Pascal line-up depending on the performance and price. I’m tending towards Polaris, but I have not enough information to decide.
 
This leads me to the part list:
CPU: 2x E5-2680 (8 cores, 2.7 GHz base clock, 3.5 GHz boost clock, 130 watts): used from Ebay
Coprocessor: Xeon Phi 31S1P (57 cores, 1.1 GHz, 8 GByte RAM, 270 watts): new from Ebay
RAM: 8x Hynix HMT31GR7CFR4C (8 GByte, DDR 3, 1600 MHz, ECC): used from Ebay
Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS: new from retail (no used once available)
PSU: Corsair RM1000i: new from retail (I don't dare to use a used PSU)
GPU: GTX Titan X: when the GTX 1080 hype peaked, you got them for very low price, I couldnt't resist to buy one
SSD 1: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB: salvaged from my first build
SSD 2: Samsung 850 Evo 2TB: used
SSD 3: Samsung SM951 NVMe, 256 GByte: used
HDD1: WB Red 8 TB: when the helium can't escape, the oil can't come in right?
WLAN: TP-Link Archer T9E: new from retail
 
As you probably know, I have an addiction to passive cooling. This time around I tried to get rid of the heat pipes. They are expensive and vulnerable. Also I'm lacking the appropriate tools to make a CPU block out of copper. Mounting the GPUs directly to the heat sinks proved itself as a good solution. Sadly, this is not feasible for the CPUs.
So I will use two Noctua NH-U12DX i4 cooler. But now I have to get rid of the fan somehow. This is certainly possible if you look at the definition of fan:
 
 
 
Source : http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fan
 
So be filling the box up with mineral oil, I’m not only getting rid of the noise. There are no fans left in the build by applying this definition
However, the build is not completely passive cooled, as the cooling used needs about 3 watts. But considering the total power this is negligible. So I will call it passive cooling. Also the oil itself is passive cooled.
 
More renderings:
 
 
 
 
Update 1: Super loud coil whine
 
Update 2: Design finalized
 
Update 3: Xeon Phi
 
Update 4: Vapor chamber
 
Update 5: 40 kg heat sinks
 
Update 6: 73 cores, 450 watts, 846 GFlops
 
Update 7: How to submerge a HDD
 
Update 8: It realy hurts doing this!
 
Update 9: Moved the build across a lake
 
Update 10: Assembly
 
Update 11: Filled the PC with 40 liter of oil!
 
Update 12: Finished: Pictures and summary!