Andriko

So, in today's WAN Show, Linus talked about suppliers not receiving all the promised stock from the manufacturer, and that the V.A.G program would guarantee to provide all stock to V.A.G. However on an earlier stream Linus also mentioned that the middleman "misplaced" some of the gpus. Seems like the problem is with the contracted delivery method?

I only watch the NCIXcom youtube videos when Linus is in them

Phones I've owned: HTC Desire -> HTC Raider -> HTC One (M7) My favourite part about the M8 is the screen, volume buttons (M7's buttons are kinda hard to find) and bigger battery. Oh, and that new gunmetal grey *0* Man I'd love to get my hands on an M8 HTC MASTER RACE <3

I contacted mushkin, I still have a warranty, I tried it in another system and I don't wanna send my drive in. Does anyone know any hackish ways to factory reset the drive?

Hey, I did a firmware update on my Mushkin Chronos Deluxe because I didn't get the advertised speeds and I thought this would help. The update was fine and all, until I tried to log in to windows one day, it froze in the middle of logging in and I tried to restart, after that the drive is not detected by the bios in ahci mode and doesn't let the computer go past device detection before bios while the controller is in ide mode. System 1 specs: Intel i5 3570k ASUS Maximus 5 Formula Windows 8 Professional 64-bit System 2 specs: AMD Phenom ii x4 965 BE ASUS Crosshair 4 Formula Windows 7 Professional 64-bit I tried troubleshooting in both systems, different drive configs/controller settings/boot settings/cables/ports, nothing has worked so far. I've seen people with OCZ drives in a similar situation and flashing the firmware and fixing it, also something with unplugging everything for 10-15 minutes, I haven't tried these yet simply because there were none with my ssd and I don't want to mess anything up further. Also it would be great if I could recover my files because I had some schoolwork on there. Although it isn't necessary but nice. Please and thank you.

Earlier today I was logging into my computer when I had a very unusually long log-in time, more than a minute, so I restarted my computer and got the message that the boot device isn't bootable. I went into the bios and the ssd was no longer on the list of storage devices and it was trying to boot off my harddrive instead. Is there a way to troubleshoot or to save the files on the ssd? I have some very very important documents which I do not want to lose, I got the ssd about half a year ago. The SSD I have is a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240gb and my motherboard is an ASUS Maximus 5 formula. I should note that I recently upgraded my ssd to the latest firmware, about 3 days ago, it is the first time I updated my firmware and I have restarted my computer many times since then.

I personally woudn't, I mean it's basically the same thing as the cheapest mechanical pencil you can find, except it's "retractable" ooooo, and everything is top notch quality metal...I mean you want build quality if you worry about things breaking... you can easily replace mechanical pencils for like 50 cents or just steal one off a schoolboy, though I do not endorse that, mechanical pencils(the ones people actually buy) are dirt cheap and all function the same.

0_0 how did you cool it? And temps?

When moving to higher resolutions or multi-monitor setups, the VRAM is pretty much always the bottleneck. Everyone here apparently buys all the latest stuff and cranks their settings to ultra, with their GTX 680 for a single monitor 1440p setup... I made the mistake of crossfiring dual 5870s when they were new. I thought I'd be happy playing all the games on ultra but, man did I overpay. If this looks like just a phase for you and you know you'll grow up to hate yourself for wasting money, ESPECIALLY if you don't mine turning off AA or shadows, or other useless stuff, unless you record your games and stare at how nice they look, check out some 1440p benchmarks of various cards on lower-than-ultra settings and try and settle for 50-60fps.

The Vapor-X will probably sell at 110 and the reference at around 100

What? I thought the FX 8120 already has 8 logical cores, how could you possibly unlock more if there are no more on the die. Are you referring to the message at the beginning when you start up your computer on an AMD pc, says "press to unlock cores"? That was initially for the old athlon x3 or whatever where it had 4 physical cores but one was disabled. This won't work on processors where all the cores are enabled (but it will say it was successful). Onto the topic of disabling cores. A very few people would want to disable cores because well, there's a reason higher core count processors usually perform better, more multitasking because of the extra amount of data it can process at one time. Disabling cores will help achieve higher clocks on other cores because the power delivery system will have an easier time, and there is less heat from the disabled cores because they aren't drawing power. Games don't necessarily use cores, but if you disable your GOOD cores(remember, some cores may perform better than others, or may just be completely deffective, this is why some cores are disabled on the FX 4000 and the old Athlon x3s through the binning process) then you will see a decrease in fps obviously, so check which cores perform better than others before disabling. I would advise to keep as little as 4 cores on a 6-8 core chip and as little as 3 on a 4 core, or maybe just 2 for gaming, don't even try single cores, no amount of overclocking will help you there.

This is the wrong section, it should go here: http://linustechtips.com/main/forum/news-reviews-article-guides/guides-and-tutorials

You should look at the link Money posted to Linus's overclocking guide, and maybe after check other guides and other results to see what others overclocked to, the voltage, frequency settings, maybe look up memory controller overclocking and what it does etc. Also make sure you know the maximum safe voltage and temperature for your specific cpu architecture. Although don't enter the exact values of what other people got, even though the model and stepping is the same, each individual processor is made from a different piece of silicon, you can get lucky and get a good chip that may have been binned too low. Overclocking also depends on your motherboard, but yours seems good quality so yeah. Cheers.

If you are sure that the applications you use will use the additional 2 cores, and you need that extra horsepower, go for the LGA 2011, with a 3930k and at least 16gb of ram. Otherwise the 3770k would be great for minor video editing.

Plus the additional costs for the motherboard, will probably cost you around 280-500 dollars depending on what you buy