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Have some 512MB RAM lying around somewhere...it's at my other house so I can't post a picture now.

Have some 512MB RAM lying around somewhere...it's at my other house so I can't post a picture now.

So the other day, I was at my French class at school. We got handed out laptops because we needed to do an activity. So, I was sitting next to this kid. He said, "HA, these laptops are so weak. They only have an i5 and 8GB of RAM. The i7 is the best and they should have at LEAST 32GB of RAM." I then explained to him that i7's are only useful for video editing and other CPU intensive tasks and that almost all games these days can't use the extra cores. In response to this, he said "Well I do video editing. I have 32 RAM, the most amount you can get. It cost a lot though." (Note that he didn't say the units, GB, he just said 32. I then asked him how much he spent on his computer. He said "$50,000." 
 
As Lanoi said, this is why I hate my generation. They are the most ignorant and mind numbingly stupid kids I have seen. They boast and lie, their primary motive is to be 'cool'.
 
And as Kurt Vonnegut said, "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
 
/endrant

A guy said to me that the better the graphics card, the better your eyes are protected.
wut?

When I was at school, this kid said he built a computer. He said he made the processor and the graphics card himself from scratch.

When I was at school, this kid said he built a computer. He said he made the processor and the graphics card himself from scratch.

I am back with more face-desking technical advice and overheard conversations from my school.
 
 
 
'Ughhh, my internet is so slow. I need to get a new router or change providers or something.'
 
'That's a pain. Have you tried emptying the 'Recycle Bin'? It usually helps for me a little bit. All the junk in your RAM is slowing it all down.'
 
'Ok, I'll try that.'
 
 
My reaction: -__-
 
 
 
'Oh, it's Megabites and Megabytes, NOT megabits and megabytes, you stupid dumbfuck.'
 
 
My reaction: -___-
 
 
 
(Overheard conversation about some people talking about building a new PC.)
 
 
P1: 'So I have a $3000 dollar budget. t's not much, but when I get a job, I'll have more money. I also like gaming when I have time, and also watching lots of movies, if that means anything.' [Rich guy]
 
P2: 'Okay, let's see...so, I think you should get a Xeon [Didn't catch the model number], and a GTX 750Ti. Since you said you watch a lot of movies, I think you should go with a nice capture card [WTF, they are completely unrelated], and a cheap monitor. Monitors don't really matter that much anyway.' [*Facedesk*]
 
P3: 'Don't forget to get a nice big case. I think a 21 hard drive case would be fine, and don't forget, he needs 4 gigabits [*Double facedesk*] of hexa-channel RAM [Don't think that exists yet.], and I think a cheap cooler for the processing unit should be fine. Coolers don't really matter; in fact, I once made a computer without a cooler. [This world is going to end.] Oh, BTW, don't waste money on the power supply. All it does it provide power, who cares? Besides, you can only provide power one way.' [wut?]
 
P2: 'Okay, so I have a 900D, a Maximus VI Impact, a Xeon [Again, didn't quite catch the model number, and facedesk, they aren't even compatible], a Palit GTX750 Ti, a stick of Corsair 4GB RAM [---____---], and to top it all off, a [can't remember the name] 1000 Watt power supply. You happy?'
 
P1: 'Yeah, I guess so.'
 
P2: 'Best of all, it doesn't even cost $3000! You can spend the rest on prostitutes! *Sniggers* [Really highlights their irresponsibility and immaturity.]
 
P1: 'Thanks!'
 
 
My reaction: [Too immense to put into words.]
 
 
And finally, a really, really, really stupid one.
 
*I finally met a person who I thought was knowledgable and didn't outright lie.*
*Insert beginning of conversation*
 
'Oh, my uncle helped me with building my PC. We even made the motherboard from scratch! He soldered it, and I placed all the components! It was really fun!'
 
 
[Needless to say, I broke off contact.]
 
 
 
 
And that concludes my latest drop of stupid advice and overheard conversations from my school.

When I was at school, this kid said he built a computer. He said he made the processor and the graphics card himself from scratch.

I know, but I'm asking on what the process is. What exactly do I do after checkout?

These drives are intended for enterprise, datacenter, and high density use. They are not intended for your typical everyday consumer applications.
With 1.8 DWPD, or 5.76TB of writes per day for the 3.2TB model, it's designed for high speed random IO, for example high speed databases etc. Coupled with high reliability with a guarantee for read/write endurance, this would be well worth it to companies where cost doesn't matter and they need mission critical reliability.
 
You or I would never be able to fully utilise this kind of performance; I guarantee the most demanding thing you do in regards to performance is booting up your PC or possibly playing a game. This class of drive has not, will not, and will never be marketed to or intended for consumers.

These drives are intended for enterprise, datacenter, and high density use. They are not intended for your typical everyday consumer applications.
With 1.8 DWPD, or 5.76TB of writes per day for the 3.2TB model, it's designed for high speed random IO, for example high speed databases etc. Coupled with high reliability with a guarantee for read/write endurance, this would be well worth it to companies where cost doesn't matter and they need mission critical reliability.
 
You or I would never be able to fully utilise this kind of performance; I guarantee the most demanding thing you do in regards to performance is booting up your PC or possibly playing a game. This class of drive has not, will not, and will never be marketed to or intended for consumers.

These drives are intended for enterprise, datacenter, and high density use. They are not intended for your typical everyday consumer applications.
With 1.8 DWPD, or 5.76TB of writes per day for the 3.2TB model, it's designed for high speed random IO, for example high speed databases etc. Coupled with high reliability with a guarantee for read/write endurance, this would be well worth it to companies where cost doesn't matter and they need mission critical reliability.
 
You or I would never be able to fully utilise this kind of performance; I guarantee the most demanding thing you do in regards to performance is booting up your PC or possibly playing a game. This class of drive has not, will not, and will never be marketed to or intended for consumers.

I assume you mean SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)...
 
they are more expensive because of their application. 
Wikipedia gives great information as to the differences/advantages of SAS compared to SATA:
There is little physical difference between SAS and SATA.[6]
Systems identify SATA devices by their port number connected to the host bus adapter or by their universally unique identifier (UUID), while SAS devices are uniquely identified by their World Wide Name (WWN). SAS protocol provides for multiple initiators in a SAS domain, while SATA has no analogous provision.[6] Most SAS drives provide tagged command queuing, while most newer SATA drives provide native command queuing.[6] SATA uses a command set that is based on the parallel ATA command set and then extended beyond that set to include features like native command queuing, hot-plugging, and TRIM. SAS uses the SCSI command set, which includes a wider range of features like error recovery, reservations and block reclamation. Basic ATA has commands only for direct-access storage. However SCSI commands may be tunneled through ATAPI[6] for devices such as CD/DVD drives. SAS hardware allows multipath I/O to devices while SATA (prior to SATA 2.0) does not.[6] Per specification, SATA 2.0 makes use of port multipliers to achieve port expansion, and some port multiplier manufacturers have implemented multipath I/O using port multiplier hardware. SATA is marketed as a general-purpose successor to parallel ATA and has become common in the consumer market, whereas the more-expensive SAS targets critical server applications. SAS error-recovery and error-reporting uses SCSI commands, which have more functionality than the ATA SMART commands used by SATA drives.[6] SAS uses higher signaling voltages (800–1,600 mV for transmit, and 275–1,600 mV for receive[clarification needed]) than SATA (400–600 mV for transmit, and 325–600 mV for receive[clarification needed]). The higher voltage offers (among other features) the ability to use SAS in server backplanes.[6] Because of its higher signaling voltages, SAS can use cables up to 10 m (33 ft) long, whereas SATA has a cable-length limit of 1 m (3.3 ft) or 2 m (6.6 ft) for eSATA.[6] SAS is full duplex, whereas SATA is half duplex. The SAS transport layer can transmit data at the full speed of the link in both directions at once, so a SCSI command executing over the link can transfer data to and from the device simultaneously. However, because SCSI commands that can do that are rare, and a SAS link must be dedicated to an individual command at a time, this is generally not an advantage.[7]  
 
TL;DR: SAS drives are for enterprise environments where more demanding hardware and protocols are required.

wow i feel so enlighted by this news acticle!

nope, thats completly separate from the fact there are superpositions due to the uncertainty

not the right thinking. Its bits can be 1, 0 or a superposition of the two. can explain futher if you want.
 
why did we need to research silicon transistors, i mean we barely were starting with electron tubes... Because technology takes time to develop, and not looking forward means you stagnate, which is never good. and literally every discovery in any branch of science will sooner or later be useful somewhere

If everyone had this mentality we'd all still be living in caves, eating raw meat, sacrificing virgins and hiding when God takes the sun from the sky at night.
Some of the biggest discoveries ever made were not properly understood until years after they were made and in most cases the people who made the discoveries are forgotten while the people who realised how important the discovery actually was are remembered.
Science is sometimes a strange beast.

NO! scientific developement is not something that should be left to wonder and decisions of yes vs no. we dont know what research will bring us. some seem irrelevant, others not so much, but if history shows anything, its that no research is useless in the long run. 
 
Did we need keplers laws ever really? no, we couldve done it all with newtons laws, but without it, the theory of relativity would be much harder to think of. and without relativity, no technology we rely on today would work at all

It’s high time to start shutting down some of these myths. There have been too many poorly written and misleading articles published on various tech “news” websites, generating hype out of nothing. Pascal is entirely focused on HPC (high-performance compute, a.k.a. supercomputers and servers) and NVIDIA hasn’t said so much as a word about gaming. But at every turn people keep trying as hard as they can to interpret every statement as "amazing for gamers!", and every time NVIDIA specifically says “compute performance” the words somehow turn into “gaming performance” in people’s minds, leading to a lot of false impressions and expectations. I'm not saying Pascal won't have amazing gaming performance. I'm saying we have no information about Pascal's gaming performance so far. Pascal might be great for gaming, it might be rubbish. NVIDIA has said nothing on the topic, basically none of what they've said so far is really applicable to gaming.

But anyway... let’s get busting!

"10× the Performance of Maxwell GM200!"

"NVLink!"

"8-Way SLI!"

"32 GiB of Memory!"

"HBM2 (3D Memory)!"

The things NVIDIA has actually claimed specifically:
NVLink will be useful as a replacement for PCI Express in supercomputers, and will have 80 GB/s of total bandwidth shared between the CPU and the number of GPUs in the system. (NVIDIA developer blog) NVLink can be used as a GPU-GPU interconnect without replacing PCIe as the system interconnect, which provides great benefit for HPC and multi-GPU accelerated computing algorithms. No word on what this means for regular desktop cards and multi-GPU gaming. (NVIDIA developer blog) 2× the power efficiency (performance per watt) in SGEMM operations compared to Maxwell GM200; that’s a bit out of my depth so I don’t know how relevant that is to gaming applications, but I do think it’s important to notice that NVIDIA was very specific not to claim 2× power efficiency just as a general statement, so it probably won’t be, otherwise they would have just said that. (slide from keynote) 4× FP16 performance in mixed precision mode compared to Maxwell GM200; not really relevant for gaming, though it could mean the FP32 performance of Pascal is 2× that of Maxwell, this is only speculation so I don't know why I'm even mentioning it in this section (slide from keynote) Very roughly 10× the overall throughput for deep learning problems compared to Maxwell GM200 (slide from keynote) Up to 32 GiB of 3D memory (HBM) in highest-end cards (and not necessarily highest-end GeForce cards) (slide from keynote) Up to 3× the memory bandwidth of Maxwell GM200 (so, ≈1 TB/s) (slide from keynote) 8 GPUs in a future Pascal-based deep learning devkit (SLI not mentioned) (end of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdNRqZSRgfA)
So, I don’t mean to dampen the mood or say Pascal won’t be great, not at all; the reality is we have absolutely no idea how Pascal will be for gaming, there’s been no information about that topic yet. It might be only a marginal improvement, it might be totally amazing. Everything we’ve heard so far is about compute capabilities. As much as the sensationalist “news” sites across the web want to make it seem like all these things are applicable to gaming, they simply aren’t. So far the Pascal architecture seems to be entirely centered around high-performance compute and accelerated computing.

We’ll see what kind of gaming performance Pascal brings to the table in due time. For now, just sit back, relax, and be careful of what you read on the Internet.

Full GTC 2015 Keynote:

GTC 2016 Update:
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/

NVIDIA has released specifications for the GP100 GPU ("Big Pascal"), as well as the NVIDIA Tesla P100, a compute acceleration module which will use the GP100 GPU.
 
Specifications of the GP100 GPU include:
3840 FP32 cores, 1920 FP64 cores (1/2 FP32) Cores are arranged in to 60 groups of cores called SMs, with 64 FP32 cores and 32 FP64 cores in each group 240 texture units (4 per SM) 4096-bit HBM2 memory interface (8 × 512-bit) 4 MiB L2 cache 15.3 billion transistors 610 mm2 die area Manufactured by TSMC on a 16 nm fabrication process Specifications for the Tesla P100 compute accelerator include:
A GP100 GPU with 4 SMs disabled (56 out of 60 enabled), for a total of 3584 FP32 cores active (1792 FP64 cores) A 1328 MHz base frequency and 1480 MHz boost frequency 224 texture units enabled Up to 16 GiB of HBM2 DRAM on a full 4096-bit memory interface 300 watt TDP 5.3 FP64 TFLOPs at boost frequency (3× compared to Kepler GK110's 1.7 TFLOPs, and 25× compared to Maxwell GM200's pathetic 0.2 TFLOPs) With FP64 = 1/2 FP32, this implies 10.6 TFLOPs in theoretical FP32 performance, which is 16% faster than the theoretical performance of a Maxwell GM200 GPU at equal frequency (1.4 GHz), and 72% faster than a 1.0 GHz Maxwell GM200 GPU (TITAN X stock frequency). Also keep in mind that this is with only 56 out of 60 SMs enabled.  

No, this is Nvidia making a custom interconnect specifically for supercomputers. It will most likely never grace the hands of the average consumers. We are still quite a bit away from when we will need to replace PCIE 3.0 just yet.

He's talking about NVLink, which is a CPU-GPU interconnect which will be used on next gen Nvidia GPUs built specifically for supercomputers.
This has absolutely 0 effect on consumers and even workstations at this point in time.

I think you can see a theme building here OP, you seem to have a lot of awesome stuff, more than most I think, and you are wanting more. I would relook at everything you have and make the most of it, enjoy and wait until you can earn your own money to build something new. Your Mum has bought you alot of very nice gear .... be grateful

We threw my step daughter out of the house when she got a bit demanding.
 
Be funny if your Mum did the same thing.

Hold the phone
 
Your mum has bought you your PC, an xbox, all your old consoles, smart watch etc.........
 
and you are complaining? dude you are 14,  you dont need triple monitors, you dont need (or have the right) to waste your mums money on stupid toys you dont need
 
be thankful she has done so much for you so far
 
   
this just here proves your are completely spoiled, and since "mummy" wont let you have your own way, you are having a tantrum
 
 
Why should your mum buy you triple monitors when you have a perfectly functional gaming pc already

The centered screw indicates an M.2 slot, looks like with E- and A- keys.