Robin88

If I understand this correctly, and you can absolutely correct me if I'm wrong.

But according to Toms Hardware, the entire card is pulling at peak, some 300W of power? And at that peak power draw, some 155W to 200W of that is coming from the PCIe connector on the motherboard? If that is true, then holy cow AMD, how on earth did that pass validation?

But here's the thing, I call bullshit on Toms numbers and here's why. The freaking motherboard would have fried with that much power being pulled through something only meant for 75W MAX. There is no motherboard on earth without additional power inputs that could cope with that kind of power draw, none.

Why do you think that some mobos have an extra molex connector next to the PCIe slots? Because PCIe by itself cannot cope with more than a peak power draw of 100W per slot, and definitely no more than 75W long term.
 
I'm looking at the numbers being thrown around here and the more I look, the more I think to myself that Toms either has faulty measuring equipment, or the GPU itself is faulty. 155W to 200W across a single PCIe slot should easily kill the traces on the mobo. 12V across PCIe for a max of 75W equals 6.25 Amps, 12V at 200W however equals 16.6 Amps, there's no chance a mobo can cope with that.
 
Having said all that though, if the GPU really is pulling that much power through the slot, then fuck AMD for either incompetence or malicious intent, whichever one it is, and if anyone can give me a reason for being wrong, then I'm all ears.

And by malicious intent, what I mean is the possibility that they deliberately lied about the RX480's power consumption and board design.

Screenshots leaked!
 

MakeMKV + Handbrake. 'nuff said.
Seriously though this sucks for AnyDVD users and for SlySoft, but we should have seen this coming, Hollywood are tossers for this kind of crap and were bound to win a court case involving this, they've got the money and the friends in government to succeed.

The hacker is a total prick, but really the website admins shouldn't have allowed this to happen in the first place, so shame on them.
I'm glad I stayed with 17.2 for the time being, as I was just thinking the other week that I might go with a clean install of the newest stable release, but until the Mint team get things under control I'll wait it out.

This shows unequivocally that even if you know a file to be safe, you should always scan it with a competent malware scanner first with no exceptions, because it only takes that one time for a compromised website to serve you a malicious file and you're screwed.

That's what I've always done, even with files from Microsofts own website, mostly because of paranoia and mostly because I don't want to get burned by complacency on my part, and touch wood very firmly (hehe) since I started doing that religiously, I've not been hit by malware on any of my devices, even on Windows XP that's connected to the internet (it is installed as a VM though, so it isn't on dedicated H/W)

I'm strongly of the opinion that you should always run anti-malware even if you think you're wise to the tactics malware creators use, because one day you will slip up, humans are not infallible and one day, when you're tired, ill, drunk or even just distracted by life, you'll forget, you'll not pay attention, you'll click the wrong thing, you'll type the wrong address, or you'll open an email attachment that's malicious, and there'll be nothing to stop the malware from wrecking your system and everything you hold dearly to you that's kept on it.

I should have been more clear. The BluRay standard is shit. The companies fought so hard to put insane levels of encryption on BluRays that in the early days it was possible to have a Bluray disc that would NOT play on certain BluRay players. 
It's not that it failed to rip, it through an error and then MakeMKV refused to work -- and when I did a google search for the issue it said something along the lines of you ran into some encryption that locked the software and is preventing it from working (the fix being to reinstall windows). 

Hmm, I searched for issues with that particular disc and there is nothing that matches anything you encountered at all, Star Trek 2009 afaik only uses AACS and should not cause the issue you describe, something else was screwing up your system as far as I can tell.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you a liar, I don't have that BluRay so I can't test it but I found nothing with that particular BluRay and most people have had success except for dirty/damaged discs or dirty lenses or ISO mounting software causing conflicts etc.
And you're right, BluRay is shite, they made it harder for legitimate purchasers of the films to enjoy the content the way they choose and killed BD's chance of ever truly replacing DVD before it even got released, but what do you expect? It was co-developed by Sony, it should have been obvious they'd fuck it up somehow

Hmm, I searched for issues with that particular disc and there is nothing that matches anything you encountered at all, Star Trek 2009 afaik only uses AACS and should not cause the issue you describe, something else was screwing up your system as far as I can tell.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you a liar, I don't have that BluRay so I can't test it but I found nothing with that particular BluRay and most people have had success except for dirty/damaged discs or dirty lenses or ISO mounting software causing conflicts etc.
And you're right, BluRay is shite, they made it harder for legitimate purchasers of the films to enjoy the content the way they choose and killed BD's chance of ever truly replacing DVD before it even got released, but what do you expect? It was co-developed by Sony, it should have been obvious they'd fuck it up somehow

I understand they're trying to stop pirating...
But at some point you need to stop screwing over the consumers who are buying their products in an ineffective attempt to stop pirating.. If anything their efforts are encouraging people to pirate their content. "I had this nice software that let me watch the content I bought wherever I wanted, but now if I buy it I'm actually more limited than if I pirated it."
 
ADDED: For example... I actually buy blu-rays because I like the much better quality (vs streaming or digital download). When I buy a blu-ray I rip the video file, put it on my home server so I can access it from anywhere, and then store the physical disc in a box in my basement. If I lose the ability to rip the video off the disc, that's a HUGE inconvenience for me. I have to go search for the disc every time I want to watch something, I can't watch it if I go somewhere and don't bring it with me, and I risk damaging the disc and never being able to watch it again.
 
If they shut down the program I'm using, I'm just going to stop buying and start pirating.

^^ You just know this guy bought a 4K TV to watch 4K Netflix and Youtube....

Optical media is still relevant if you want to watch high quality 1080p 5.1/7.1 content. I can distinguish between a native Bluray rip (30GB~) and a high quality encoding that's still 20GB~ let alone the crap Netflix streams.  

It's not illegal everywhere, there are a lot of countries where the legal status is unclear. 
 
The Belgian law allows me to make a backup copy of any software/movie/music I buy, regardless of the manufacturer's restrictions.  If I need to bypass encryption to achieve that goal, there is no law in place to stop me from doing so.
 
At best, the court has the authority to prohibit sales in the US.  However it looks like they are trying to police the world again.  

What discs are those? I never seen it lock up personally although I have seen it sometimes fail with discs the first time you scan a disc, but usually works the second time round.
I've used the MakeMKV + Handbrake method on over 200+ films and it worked on every one of them, including Disney films which are notorious for being hard to crack.
I tried AnyDVD and it actually was totally useless for me, it simply didn't work on many of the DVD's I then successfully copied using MakeMKV, but even so, it sucks for those who did use it successfully.
But MakeMKV is an option even if you feel it isn't perfect so we're not totally up shit creek right now, and if it's been a while since you last used it, you might find it's improved since then, it's getting fairly regular updates and is still free so maybe give it a go, it might be a viable alternative for you now.

What discs are those? I never seen it lock up personally although I have seen it sometimes fail with discs the first time you scan a disc, but usually works the second time round.
I've used the MakeMKV + Handbrake method on over 200+ films and it worked on every one of them, including Disney films which are notorious for being hard to crack.
I tried AnyDVD and it actually was totally useless for me, it simply didn't work on many of the DVD's I then successfully copied using MakeMKV, but even so, it sucks for those who did use it successfully.
But MakeMKV is an option even if you feel it isn't perfect so we're not totally up shit creek right now, and if it's been a while since you last used it, you might find it's improved since then, it's getting fairly regular updates and is still free so maybe give it a go, it might be a viable alternative for you now.

MakeMKV + Handbrake. 'nuff said.
Seriously though this sucks for AnyDVD users and for SlySoft, but we should have seen this coming, Hollywood are tossers for this kind of crap and were bound to win a court case involving this, they've got the money and the friends in government to succeed.

Hmm, I searched for issues with that particular disc and there is nothing that matches anything you encountered at all, Star Trek 2009 afaik only uses AACS and should not cause the issue you describe, something else was screwing up your system as far as I can tell.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling you a liar, I don't have that BluRay so I can't test it but I found nothing with that particular BluRay and most people have had success except for dirty/damaged discs or dirty lenses or ISO mounting software causing conflicts etc.
And you're right, BluRay is shite, they made it harder for legitimate purchasers of the films to enjoy the content the way they choose and killed BD's chance of ever truly replacing DVD before it even got released, but what do you expect? It was co-developed by Sony, it should have been obvious they'd fuck it up somehow

Sure, and I also have some leaked exclusive footage of the level of graphic quality you can expect
 
 

Putting the broken button back is by no means an "easy" process, especially not for the people who turned the phones in for repair to begin with. Stop defending Apple's incompetence. You might as well say it is "easy" to protect yourself from security vulnerabilities in Android (such as stagefright) by unlocking the bootloader and flashing a third party ROM. Gee, fuck all these "biased news sites" for bringing that up as a big deal, right? Just unlock your bootloader and flash your phone if you are affected. No big deal.
 
I have done a lot of digging already. I really don't see any bias in the articles here. If you install the update from Apple, the update which has no warning whatsoever, your phone will brick if you got a third party touchID sensor in it. In order to recover from it you have to disassemble your phone (which is very difficult to do) and also have saved your broken (who saves a broken button when they have gotten a new one?), then put the old button in again. That's retarded. Apple have several alternatives which all solve this idiotic situation:
1) Give the user a warning if it detects a third party button. Clearly Apple is able to check for it, so do that check BEFORE the update gets installed. Not after when the damage is done.
2) Let users downgrade the OS. So if you do end up getting screwed you can just plug your phone in and restore it.
3) Don't fucking disable your customers' phones just because it finds a third party touchID sensor. That function is something Apple deliberately put into the OS, and it really does not have to be there at all.
 
Do you not agree that Apple's current implementation is deeply flawed and stupid, and the three suggestions I came up with in like a minute are far superior?

My issue is not so much that they aren't allowing unauthorised repairs, I don't like it, at all, but I understand the logic behind it, they can't guarantee security on something they had no hand in doing, but the issue for me is that the user simply cannot recover their own data if this happens, sure they should always have a backup and more the fool them if they don't, but come on this is just cutting your nose off to spite your face and is not excusable.

They should warn the user before the upgrade process with something like "If you have had the home button replaced by anyone other than an authorised Apple repair center then please be aware that your phone may freeze with an Error 53 code on screen and this error is NOT recoverable, please contact a local repair center if you think you may be affected by this. Apple will not be responsible for any data lost or damaged during this process, enter your AppleID password and then click or tap Confirm to continue"

With that the user is aware of the risks and what can happen and Apple gets people to go to an authorised repair center before it becomes an issue, but instead the user is screwed over without any warning beforehand and no way to fix the damage once it's done and that is anti-consumer no matter which way you cut it.

The more i read posts on this forum about Prime95 and exploding CPU's, the more apparent it is that people have absolutely no idea what Prime95 is, what it does, and what it was even invented for x.x

The problem is two fold.  First, they barely understand what encryption is and how it is used in literally everything we do digitally.  And second, they literally don't care about being monitored, because it doesn't affect their day to day lives in any way that they can tell.  They don't see themselves as the bad guys, so they don't think the government will bother with them.  And they don't understand history, where who the bad guy is can change over night.  It's that whole poem from WWII, "first them came for not me, so I didn't say anything".  People don't understand technology, how it is used every day, and how all this data being stored now is truly meaningless to the powers that be.  But in the future, when the gov't can look back at all these records, and we can have a new "Red Scare", then they will understand, but it will be too late.

Are you using the correct mounting hardware for your socket? Looking at the pictures you shared it looks like it isn't the correct mount, you might be using the 1366/2011 socket mount instead of the 115x mount.
It's a long shot but have a look just to be sure, you never know

That is one of the most incredible things I have seen in computing yet, sure I've heard of nVidia's GRID, but to see something like this, that if I was rich enough (and mental enough) to buy is awesome, I just need $30,000 and 7 PC gaming friends and I could have a right giggle

That third screen though along the top row of monitors, wonder what happened to it? Cause in some shots it looked awful, and then in others it looked just fine, very weird.

I may have to show this to the lads in my CompTIA hardware class, they'd love it.

Also, happy new year to everyone, it's a few days late but oh well, and I hope you all had a great Christmas as well.

I agree with you on most things, but the comparison with the Samsung Note 4 is to be expected because the iPhone is thinner from side to side, making it easier to hold compared to the Note 4 which is wider by a not insignificant amount.
Having said that though, until someone big in mass media makes a stand and gives properly unbiased reviews, this circus of boot licking by media driving the average consumer into Apples arms will continue, but the chances of that happening are the same as me turning into gods left testicle.
Back on topic though, the iPad Pro has a beastly processor, it smashes everything Apple has released before it and the GPU performance is amazing, but I can't help but feel that the Surface Pro 4 is still a better product for people wanting to get actual work done on the go instead of playing Candy Crush like some trendy twat with their parents credit card details.

Wow! Maybe that can scroll a pdf document without stuttering.

Nintendo games might not be epic, 200h long, stunning visually, but what Nintendo understands, is: fun.
Nintendo games are games, where if you had time, without hesitation, for most people, pickup and play again. They are sadly few games like this on the 'third party world', compared to Nintendo. This is like talking about StarCraft, CS, Chrono Trigger, and so on. Passes the test of time. Nintendo mastered this for most of its games.
If we were a Nintendo forum, I can easily talk weeks on end Metroid Prime, or super Metroid with people, because they are just so darn good, and most importantly, fun games.
That is why they have high values in the used market, that is why the price in stores doesn't drop to near free after a few months.
And what many here don't get, is that 'Nintendo gamers', are also a PC gamers, or another console. That is why the lack of third party games on the console, doesn't kill Nintendo. Sure it hurts them, but not much, unlike say Dreamcast with SEGA. People still buy their console, to a level that makes it profitable. Sure it's not PS4 levels, but it's not to a point where they loose money (Dreamcast for example).