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    BenR31415 got a reaction from darcymccracken in Can I use an AIO?   
    Why do you want AIO? I used one as a first system builder, and kinda regretted it (somewhat).
     
    The good things about them is that they have fancy LEDs, cool really well, can be installed easily and can deliver heaps of cooling at reasonably low noise.
    The issue is that they're typically more expensive than a comparable air cooler, louder, more prone to leaks, less reliable, more easy to break.
     
    Let me explain: I have a top of the line (when I bought it) Corsair H115i because I wanted the best on the market, because I never wanted to worry about temperatures again, and wanted a really quiet rig. The first issue was that the corsair software broke all the time (most likely due to a USB hub, but still) meaning that I had no easy way to control the unit, and it reverted to its "normal" (uncomfortably loud) setting whenever this happened.
    Then the pump died, temps were over 100 degrees, and then the computer straight refused to boot. If it was on a day where a project was due, I would have been screwed. On the top of the line corsair cooler. I got it replaced under warranty, but I had to pull out my stock cooler, buy some extra thermal paste, it was a pain.
    After the replacement unit, it too was pretty damn loud and had the same issues with the Corsair software. Because the included fan leads were too short to reach my motherboard, I replaced it with some of the best fans on the market, and they are super silent (never hear them).
    Now, the pump is by far the loudest part of my whole system at idle, and while it's not too bad it does get annoying.
     
    Would I have bought an AIO if I knew what I did now for my own personal system? Probably.
    Would I recommend other people getting one? I'm not so sure.
    My pump died, I've had a lot of issues getting it to be as quiet as expected, spent twice as much as an air cooler all up, and it's still louder than a comparable air cooler. Granted, it does look very nice and cools really really well, but is that really worth it?
     
    @JDE is saying that coolermaster units are leaky. I haven't heard that many stories of happening, but I do know that coolermaster doesn't have the best reputation on the market on making reliable, quiet, easy to work with units. For example, cords always kinked, heaps of pump wine (especially on things like the Fury X using a coolermaster designed cooler), them breaking etc.
     
    Seriously reconsider this choice.
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    BenR31415 reacted to manikyath in Starting an ISP, how hard could it be?   
    the legalities and paperwork are more difficult than putting the infrastructure down.
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from deXxterlab97 in 144hz 5ms vs 75hz 1ms for gaming?   
    I have that exact monitor you are talking about. Honestly I haven't noticed any ghosting whatsoever, but taking a picture reveals a bit of ghosting:
    https://i.imgur.com/TU8EpJB.jpg
    Honestly I'm super super happy with it, colours are a bit washed out and the non adjustable stand is a bit of a bummer but for this price I can't complain whatsoever.
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from Jurrunio in Question about buying Vega   
    I wouldn't exactly say it's out yet then, but I see what you mean 
    It'll be with an R7 1700 OC'd to 3.8-3.9, 32GB 3200MHZ, S340 Elite, RM750i.
     
    The 1070ti here goes for $720 to $760, whereas the 1080 goes from $700 to $800. I hope the strix varients aren't too expensive, but who am I kidding we know that they will be, being the only custom card.
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    BenR31415 reacted to Jurrunio in Which is the best CPU for 1440p 144Hz Gaming and occasional video editing that is not the 8700K?   
    anything wrong? only requirement is "not a 8700k"
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    BenR31415 reacted to SCHISCHKA in Very easy to use Linux distribution for beginners with beautiful UI   
    have you tried debian 9? it is terrible.
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from Metalshark in Best priced 2TB SATA SSDs with 500MB/s+ r/w and ~5 year life   
    Haha we're basically on the same page (look at my edit)
     
    sounds like a good plan, hope you can find a good sale on them
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    BenR31415 reacted to Jumper118 in X99 for £99   
    it is orange therefore it is objectively better than all other boards.
     
    get 16gb of dual channel ram and a cheap £180 5820K and boom. cheap as ryzen 5 1600, but with a board that is better than most b350. 
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    BenR31415 reacted to Jumper118 in X99 for £99   
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    BenR31415 reacted to Jumper118 in X99 for £99   
    lol, speak for yourself
    http://hwbot.org/user/jumper118/
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    BenR31415 reacted to CookieTheLabrador in Phone taking 2 hours to erase in factory reset   
    Plug it to charge and leave it overnight to finish.
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    BenR31415 reacted to tlink in Phone taking 2 hours to erase in factory reset   
    if you haven't messed with the bootloader then it doesn't really matter because oneplus is a champ with unbricking support. they release a bunch of tools so people can unbrick it themselves with loads of guides to even recover from a hard brick. that being said just plug it in and wait.
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from Pickelhaube in bitcoin mining HELP   
    Heard good things about BFG miner (I think) and Cudaminer.
    Never heard of it, I've heard good things about Bitcoin Affiliate Network, if you're looking for alternatives.
    See above.
    A bloody long time, not to mention that you will burn through hundreds if not thousands of dollars of electricity doing this. If you solo mine, then you have an infinitesimally small chance of "hitting gold" so to speak, which on a typical GPU rig will take something like 10 years on average to do (not recommend, unless you like gambling, in which case, who am I to stop you). If you are smart, you would be mining in a pool, which you are doing.
    I'll give you an example (because I don't know what graphics card you are using). My GPU, the r9 280x (actually the most common mining card back in the day) can deliver somewhere around 25 Million hashes per second, whilst consuming around 250W, or around 100,000 hashes per second per watt. An ASIC miner, like the antminer S9 can deliver 14 trillion hashes per second, while consuming 1372 watts, delivering 10204081632.7 hashes per second per watt, being over 100,000 times more efficient at mining. This means that compared to someone with one of these miners, even though you are paying for 1/4 of the electricity of them, the effectiveness of your mining is 576,000 times worse.
    This means that in your pool, when someone in your pool hits gold, then you get 576,000 times less share of the bitcoins than the person who has the ASIC, which means you are basically getting nothing whatsoever, not accounting for the fact that some pools only give a portion to the top 10 or top 20 contributors, which you would certainly not be in.
     
    If you couldn't be bothered to read the last paragraph, this is what you need to take out of this.
    GPU mining for bitcoins has no place in the world today. It may have been all the rage 3 or 4 years ago, but you will get no rewards for it, except the highest power bill out of all your friends. If you do try, you will be hundreds of thousands of times worse off than ASIC miners in your pool.
    If you want to get into ASIC mining, then here is a useful video I found a while back, parts are outdated but similar principles. Also, don't give the "my parents are paying for electricity" excuse, you are just being a dog to your parents if you are doing this, effectively wasting their money, not to mention killing the environment.
    If for some reason, you really want to mine on your GPU, then you might want to look into litecoin mining, or even possibly dogecoin, but I haven't seen anything on those in a couple of years.
     
    Or, you could use your electricity for good to fight cancer with F@Home, with the LTT team.
     
    Also, I'm curious as to why you need $40 AUD in bitcoins.
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from kuki in bitcoin mining HELP   
    Heard good things about BFG miner (I think) and Cudaminer.
    Never heard of it, I've heard good things about Bitcoin Affiliate Network, if you're looking for alternatives.
    See above.
    A bloody long time, not to mention that you will burn through hundreds if not thousands of dollars of electricity doing this. If you solo mine, then you have an infinitesimally small chance of "hitting gold" so to speak, which on a typical GPU rig will take something like 10 years on average to do (not recommend, unless you like gambling, in which case, who am I to stop you). If you are smart, you would be mining in a pool, which you are doing.
    I'll give you an example (because I don't know what graphics card you are using). My GPU, the r9 280x (actually the most common mining card back in the day) can deliver somewhere around 25 Million hashes per second, whilst consuming around 250W, or around 100,000 hashes per second per watt. An ASIC miner, like the antminer S9 can deliver 14 trillion hashes per second, while consuming 1372 watts, delivering 10204081632.7 hashes per second per watt, being over 100,000 times more efficient at mining. This means that compared to someone with one of these miners, even though you are paying for 1/4 of the electricity of them, the effectiveness of your mining is 576,000 times worse.
    This means that in your pool, when someone in your pool hits gold, then you get 576,000 times less share of the bitcoins than the person who has the ASIC, which means you are basically getting nothing whatsoever, not accounting for the fact that some pools only give a portion to the top 10 or top 20 contributors, which you would certainly not be in.
     
    If you couldn't be bothered to read the last paragraph, this is what you need to take out of this.
    GPU mining for bitcoins has no place in the world today. It may have been all the rage 3 or 4 years ago, but you will get no rewards for it, except the highest power bill out of all your friends. If you do try, you will be hundreds of thousands of times worse off than ASIC miners in your pool.
    If you want to get into ASIC mining, then here is a useful video I found a while back, parts are outdated but similar principles. Also, don't give the "my parents are paying for electricity" excuse, you are just being a dog to your parents if you are doing this, effectively wasting their money, not to mention killing the environment.
    If for some reason, you really want to mine on your GPU, then you might want to look into litecoin mining, or even possibly dogecoin, but I haven't seen anything on those in a couple of years.
     
    Or, you could use your electricity for good to fight cancer with F@Home, with the LTT team.
     
    Also, I'm curious as to why you need $40 AUD in bitcoins.
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    BenR31415 reacted to 2FA in "2K" does not mean 2560×1440   
    I can see I'm not the only one that is annoyed by this.
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    BenR31415 reacted to Glenwing in "2K" does not mean 2560×1440   
    Terms like "2K" and "4K" don’t refer to specific resolutions. They are resolution categories. They are used to classify resolutions based on horizontal pixel count. "2K" refers to resolutions that have around 2,000 (2K) pixels horizontally. Examples include:
    1920 × 1080 (16:9) 1920 × 1200 (16:10) 2048 × 1080 (≈19:10) 2048 × 1152 (16:9) 2048 × 1536 (4:3) All of these are examples of 2K resolutions. 1920×1080 is a 2K resolution. 2048×1080 is another 2K resolution. 2560×1440 is not a 2K resolution, it is a 2.5K resolution.
     
    "2.5K" refers to resolutions around 2,500 (2.5K) pixels horizontally. For example:
    2304 × 1440 (16:10) 2400 × 1350 (16:9) 2560 × 1080 (64:27 / ≈21:9) 2560 × 1440 (16:9) 2560 × 1600 (16:10) All of these are examples of 2.5K resolutions.
     
    So why do people call 2560×1440 "2K"?
     
    Because when "4K" was new to the consumer market, people would ask: "What's 4K?", and usually the response was "it’s four times as many pixels as 1080p". Unfortunately most people misinterpreted this and assumed that the "4" in "4K" actually stood for "how many times 1080p" the resolution was, and since 2560×1440 is popularly known as being "twice as many pixels as 1080p" (it's 1.77 times, but close enough), some people decided to start calling it "2K", and other people heard that and repeated it.
     
    While it’s true that 4K UHD (3840×2160) is four times as many pixels as 1920×1080, that isn’t why it’s called "4K". It’s called 4K because it's approximately 4,000 pixels horizontally. The fact that it’s also 4 × 1080p is just a coincidence, and that pattern doesn’t continue with other resolutions.
     
    For example, the 5K resolution featured in the Retina 5K iMac, 5120×2880, is equivalent to four 2560×1440 screens. If 1440p is "2K" because it’s twice as many pixels as 1080p, then wouldn’t four of them together be called "8K"? (Well, technically 7K since like I said 1440p is 1.77 times not 2 times 1080p, but that’s beside the point). We don’t call it 7K or 8K. We call it 5K, because it's around 5,000 pixels horizontally. It has nothing to do with "how many times 1080p" the resolution is.
     
    In addition, an actual 8K resolution such as 8K UHD (7680×4320) is equivalent to four 4K UHD screens. A single 4K UHD screen is four times as many pixels as 1080p, so four of those together is sixteen times as many pixels as 1080p. But 7680×4320 isn't called "16K", it’s called "8K", because it’s approximately 8,000 pixels horizontally. Again it doesn't have anything to do with "how many times 1080p" the resolution is.
     
    So although 2560×1440 is around twice as many pixels as 1080p, it is not called "2K", because that isn’t where these names come from. Since 2560×1440 is approximately 2,500 pixels horizontally, it falls into the 2.5K classification.
     
    Examples of How the Cinematography Industry Uses These Terms
     
    "True 4K"
     
    "K" and "Ultrawide"
     
    "But what about..."
     
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from Carlos1010 in Want a prebuilt PC with a really good price? {US} {DELL}   
    Not necesarily. Depends on workload. For a gaming PC, definitely. There are some other workloads, that require a fairly powerful CPU, and a medicore GPU (eg Google Earth, heavy multitasking, VMs [I think]). If this is a gaming PC, not a great deal, however for other things it's a really good deal, especially for a prebuild that includes Windows.
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    BenR31415 reacted to don_svetlio in Razer Blade vs Razer Blade Stealth   
    Nah, 295 is not as hot as the GTX 480 - people managed to fry eggs on Fermi
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from Skullbunny in Big super comfy quality headphones? :/   
    For quite a bit cheaper, you can get the HyperX Cloud IIs. They sound better than anything else I've listened to (except for one pair of boses, but I haven't tried "audiophile headphones"). They are super comfy, have good bass and are great for gaming because of the surround sound (helps in things like CS:GO).
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from sgtrecker78 in Big super comfy quality headphones? :/   
    Fair enough, sorry I just read the title and first line, my bad.
    Sorry, i know like nothing about audiophile headphones, so I won't be able to help you out.
    Still, the clouds will sound dreamy
    JK
    GL with the decision, hope you find a good pair!
     
    P.S. HyperX Cloud IIs are best gaming headset in their price bracket, that's why I recommended them.
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from Skullbunny in Big super comfy quality headphones? :/   
    Fair enough, sorry I just read the title and first line, my bad.
    Sorry, i know like nothing about audiophile headphones, so I won't be able to help you out.
    Still, the clouds will sound dreamy
    JK
    GL with the decision, hope you find a good pair!
     
    P.S. HyperX Cloud IIs are best gaming headset in their price bracket, that's why I recommended them.
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    BenR31415 reacted to 79wjd in Dell XPS 13 vs Razer Blade Stealth   
    I wouldn't tocuh that XPS 13 solely because you'd be stuck with only 4gb of RAM. (I also wouldn't want it because it's only 1080p)
     
    So my vote is for the Stealth (or a different version of the XPS 13 with a higher res screen and 8gb of ram).
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from Tocsin_786 in (US - Amazon ) - Dell XPS 13 INFINITY [Microsoft Signature], All Models... $700 - $1400   
    Also, the XPS 15 also looks really nice, and a 960m is still quite good.
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    BenR31415 got a reaction from SansVarnic in Anonymous identity on Windows 10 Wi-Fi   
    Thanks for the advice.
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    BenR31415 reacted to Blackas_00 in In Dire Need of Help!!!!!!!!!   
    I am sincerely sorry for replying to your dire need of help...
     
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