Wayne Geissinger

Hi guys! OG user from forever ago who posted like once and disappeared. I'm doing a board repair for a guy whose graphics card had a little bit of a fire issue.
 
I do component level repairs every now and again, but a trace blew pretty well and managed to mangle an area well enough that I can't quite tell what goes where.
 
It's a GTX 970 (I know, he should just trash it) but he's pretty strapped for cash and I'm just trying to help a brother out. Does anyone know where I might be able to find some high resolution GPU board photos, or would anyone happen to have a GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0? The revision number (on the tail of the PCIE connector) is EVGA142 1.2
 
It's a bit of a stretch asking, but I can't find any good photos by googling. I'm pretty sure it's not a reference PCB, because there are a couple caps and chokes that aren't in the right place.
 
Thanks! :D

My experience was quick, i had a faulty motherboard that had a part fall off of it, I called them about it (6 months since purchase on a 2 year warranty) and they told me that they couldn't help me because the serial number of the motherboard was out of warranty because before i had bought it, the motherboard was sitting in a warehouse and they apparently don't count time of purchase for their warranty only time of manufacturing.

I mostly have good experiences with customer services but i rarely need help

jay is actually a fairly "default" source on video card information on LTT forums, as is dave (eevblog) for electronics, wendell (formerly teksyndicate, now level1techs) for the weird, excentric PC stuff, louis rossmann for rants about macbooks, and carey holzman for gaming pizza.
 
and you'd use jay videos just for the embed of the thumbnails

Under 100 lines... does that include comments?
 
This might be fun :)

This is no issue if you don't care about how readable it is! :P

No problem! Good luck with your project

Whenever you start a program, the OS provides some sort of preliminary input to the program beforehand called arguments. For example, say I want to run the command robocopy in Windows.
robocopy C:\Users\Foo\Documents C:\Users\Bar\Documents\ /MIR The first word is the program in question. The rest are arguments. If this were a C/C++ program, they would populate argc and argv[] in main, if you declared main to use said variables. argc contains the number of arguments, 3 in this case (it could be 4, but I'm a little hazy on this). argv[] is a 1-dimensional array containing the arguments, or ["C:\Users\Foo\Documents", "C:\Users\Bar\Documents", "/MIR"] (it may also contain the program name as the first entry... but again I'm hazy on this)
 
argc is useful for quickly making sure the minimum number of arguments have been passed, if required. Your program then has to ensure what's in argv[] is what the program is expecting.
 
Arguments are useful because you may need them beforehand to setup your program, or it's just faster to do it this way than to ask the user what the inputs should be.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that your program will have to be run via command line, and in that case the "flags" are really just parameters you pass to the program, such as "program.exe -d Some random phrase". As such, these "flags" are just strings.

Here's an article on how to use them: http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/DEN36Up4/

My build time was about 4 or 5 total hours the last time I rebuilt. I was very meticulous with my cable management at that point. I've built(or re-built while upgrading) my personal computer probably 7 or 8 times total, and each time the build time goes up because I get more meticulous. Installing windows last time took ten minutes (thanks, SSD) and after that I had all my drivers on a flash drive because I knew what I needed beforehand. If I didn't have drivers on hand, add another hour or two. Probably about 2 days download time for my steam library, because my internet is 3 megs/second.

5-6 hours. I build and rebuild my machine multiple times through the years and the last time was one of the first times i was finally happy with the cable management.
It's tricky with a lot of cables and extensions when here's not much room.

~8Hrs and most of that was fighting with windows update

30 years old, owner/operator of a small trucking business
 
Tech is a hobby to me. 

So I've been wondering... which I tend to do a lot, "Will there be another scrapyard wars episode series?". I've really enjoyed all of the scrapyard wars episodes to date and I've been sort of curious as to why there aren't even any hints of a new episode series to come based on another topic. 
 
If anyone minds here are some ideas which might interest the audience:
1. An extreme but budget enthusiast PC build on extremely high end hardware for workstations such as quadros or teslas on the cheap. 
2. A steampunk based scrapyard wars build which might also investigate cooling solutions incoorporating the steam punk vibe or possibly a fully steampunk based cooling system.
3. Build a supercomputer... I know it's highly related to the first topic but I would really like the tech team really going far into the world of enthusiast computing enough to make a supercomputer for the cheap and do benchmarks based on compute performance to see who can win for the best bang for the buck computer.
4. A scrapyard wars episode against NCIX tech tips and Linus tech tips. This has NOTHING to do with hardware ideas whatsoever but I would love to see both teams battling it out for possible esoteric ideas such as "Best budget multitask rig" or "Oldest computer you can possibly build" challenges and maybe loser gets to do bellyflops on the local pool?
5. Last but not least but covered in topic "4". Oldest PC you can build. Now almost ALL of the scrapyard wars episodes focus heavily on performance. But then what about age? I would personally love to see Luke and Linus battling out based on their pure experiences on PC gaming from their childhood and make a computer as old as possible which can also game. It doesnt matter if it's 2D or 3D games. 
 
This is concerning the extreme enthusiast based topics, as this is a scrapyard wars episode i think it is possible to buy old quadros or teslas for the cheap. That is why I suggested such ideas in the first place. 
 
I would love to hear the forum members thoughts on this.
 
Sorry For the long post?
Heres.... Nothing...

Moved to programming!
 
Again, sorry about mistakenly locking the thread! 

1.3V is what I call maximum on quad cores. Six cores have more cores and they're not as powerful as quad cores so the temps are lower, therefore I can go little crazier with voltage.
 
Overclocking allows me to match quad core speed, but with 2 extra cores, so multi threaded applications are 30% faster for me.

Well, it's important to know that a C string is an array. So you can do fun things like:
char greeting[6] = {'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', '\0'}; char * foobar = (char *)greeting; foobar ++; *foobar = 'a'; And that'll change the string to "Hallo". Of course you could just do
greeting[1] = 'a'; Anyway, make sure that the string ends in a \0, otherwise if you try to print it, it'll just barf data.
 
EDIT: However, this is a dangerous kind of C string
char *string_1 = "Hello"; This is treated as a read-only string. If you attempt to modify it, you'll get a segfault.

Ehh, California is going to give Hillary 55 votes. It will definitely be close.

No question who will win California. 

at 45:48 they talk about Dennis. It's quite a long story, so check the video

You have a $150 budget?
 
That kind of limits you to a Core i3. Ideally you should aim to buy a core i5 but if you can't stretch your budget then it's fine.
 
Core i3s have 2 cores and 4 threads. They have hyper threading but no turbo boosting (typically cost between $100-150)
i5s have either 2 or 4 cores with 4 threads and turbo boosting. They generally don't have hyper threading but have turbo boosting.  (typically cost between $200-260)
i7s have 2-10 cores with 4-20 threads, turbo boosting hyperthreading, better integrated graphics and SmartCache. (Typically cost between $340-$1700)

Funny that you mention the inspiron. I recently made a Linux Potato with a inspiron 530, q6600, 8gb ddr2, 60gb ocz vertex 3 ssd, wd 500gb hdd, and gigabyte gt 710. 
 
 
Nice clock on your 4690k! Your rad looks like it needs a cleaning though. You should do something fun with all your empty pci-e slots

Ive had the Pixel XL for about a week and I can say I love that I switched from the Galaxy S5 to this. Wireless charging is a gimmick IMO and I for one don't mind losing it.

Well, check to see if your case has a CPU cutout. Otherwise, I REALLY recommend a cooler with a backplate. It won't warp your motherboard or cause any stress that way. Hard to beat the Hyper 212 EVO

Dude exactly! or I try to tell them to buy a cheap laptop if they want to game, because they heat up easy and just build a PC with the money you would save from buying a gaming laptop.