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Jordan Johnson-Verburg

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  1. Is the 3D visualization viewer broken? I only see it cycling through Demo snapshots and not what is currently being worked on. I don't need it of course, but thought it'd be cool to see what protein simulation was being worked on similarly to Berkeley's Boinc - Rosetta@home viewer/screensaver.
  2. Okay so turns out that it was the driver, but not that it was out of date as I had the most updated STUDIO driver. Switched over to the GAMING driver and is now running correctly after restart. Soooo much more estimated PPD! Exciting! Thanks again for your help. Salud!
  3. Okay thanks! Are you aware if it is better or even can utilize "studio" drivers from NVIDIA?
  4. Hey needing some help. I'm up and running Folding@home for LTT team finally instead of using Boinc for Rosetta@home. Folding@home is new for me but I want my GPU to be better utilized and I noticed it isn't getting any action currently. Everything is currently default. I see occasional Work Units downloading for my specific GPU [GeForce GTX 1070] Checked the log for the GPU slot # and it kept spitting out this error: "Failed to start core: OpenCL device matching slot 1 not found, try setting 'opencl-index' manually" After a series of fails and errors, it sends back the work unit, labels it as bad, then tries to find more work units only to repeat this process over again. I had the automatically generated slot ID as "1". Went to see what can be edited. My GPU-Index, opencl-index, and cuda-index are all set to "-1" (default). Would be greatly appreciated if I can get this error fixed and contribute more to the team and the cause. Thanks for being such a great community. Salud, Jordan PS I know it's a forum and I don't need to have this read like a formal email or whatever, but wanted to wish everyone good health anyways! EDIT: For now I've just paused the GPU to help by not congesting the servers with cyclical failing work units and downloads.
  5. Oh okay thanks! I'll have to figure out the F@H then. I've been using Boinc for years but want to help with the LTT team too.
  6. Is this specifically for Folding@home, or for Boinc Rosetta@home users as well?
  7. I miss Reddit Video... would see random shit like this Yip yip happy happy happy boing boing boing
  8. I understand not wanting to waste life away but sleep is friggin important. The National Sleep Foundation will tell you it depends on age. around college age it's supposed to be 7 to 9 hours of sleep but we all know what happens in reality due to the nature of college demands. I used to be this way too, wanting to sleep as little possible. Recently scientists have found during the REM cycle of sleep, spinal fluid seeps into your brain to leach toxins out from your brain which it them deposits to the rest of the lymphatic system to rid of the toxins. Unlike almost all other areas of the body, your brain does not have lymph nodes to clean the toxin build up from an average day. In adults only about 20% of their sleep is REM cycle and usually doesn't happen until roughly 90 minutes from the start of sleep. So if you're sleep is minimal by choice rather than by circumstance then you're likely doing more harm than good as far as quality of life and perhaps even duration.
  9. Instead of a body analogy I tend to use a city analogy. CPU - Town Hall where most important decisions are made and deligate tasks GPU - The creative arts center! Most visual tasks handled here RAM - Those circle roundabouts for traffic flow - I guess a better analogy could be billboards that have information on them that easily switches out Mobo - The roads routing to these different places PSU - Power supply "company" HDD - The homes of the civilians "stored" in the city, The whole city can only handle as many homes their are in the city to "store" people in it. I imagine using analogies like this for electronic components on the entire computer is how the concept of the movie Tron was developed back in the "grassroots" of computer technology in the 80s.
  10. I could see how it looks that way but in the work culture I was in we were just having a good bit of fun
  11. I know there is a TeckQuickie suggestion thread in the forum but this obviously doesn't apply to your idea. I could see something, perhaps not as long of a duration done for Channel Super Fun. Perhaps there's a suggestion thread there!
  12. And it's remarkable how many times it works lol. I would say that I love to make up parts of the computer that don't exist and bang it around a bit before actually solving the issue. Or make obscene comments before finalizing the issue and saying it likes to be talked back at.
  13. So I've encountered an issue where my AMD Radeon Settings crashes every single time I try to access the Display portion of the settings. The program crashes with this error and clicking debug does nothing: I have an AMD Radeon R9 200 series card which according to Device Manager is completely up to date for drivers. If I could get any help from this I'd highly appreciate it. Have been dealing with this for a couple months now.
  14. Slightly off topic but this isn't a continuation of the Intel Xeon Phi co-processors is it? If not what happened to those!? Wondered if it would be good to use for a render workstation awhile back and I don't see anyone doing that with them so I never bothered. Plus cost, whew!
  15. I literally LOL'd at this. I know your pain. Any ways, I have this weird obsession with trying to make media center streaming PCs with the littlest hardware possible. Whether it's a Pi, Pine64, or old atom thin client PCs. The dream would be to also stream Steam with the older hardware but I have not had a playable experience yet with the old intel atom thin client I have with nvidia ion graphics haha. Also want to incorporate having the LED backdrop setups like Lightpack which I have both a kickstarter version and a pre-kickstarter version sold off of ebay from the same Russian dude. Since it screen scrapes and averages the color per screen cap box to designate color to the LED array while streaming content it can be quite intensive for lower powered systems which I have yet to find my perfect balance but Raspberry Pi 3 has done the best per dollar performance of all of these I've used so far.
  16. Holy shit this thread is 4 years old and still going strong! Crazy. Any rate I'd say my worst tech mistake I made was letting my dad help me put together the family computer. Sounds harsh but hear me out. It was a HP HTPC back in the early 2000s that had a TON of self install things. After hours and hours of fiddling, finding drivers, installing the OS and all the initial setup and updating that comes with getting a computer, we were doing one of the many updates to Windows when my dad found the IR remote that came with the computer and hit the power button. Well it actually shut the computer down somehow. Perhaps a fluke but totally bricked the OS and had to start ALL OVER. Bless his heart though, he had to press the red button... the temptation was real lol.
  17. HAHAHA I could see a product like this with someone trying to get 20 external GPUs with 2 of the 10 3.0 usb hubs plugged into their Laptop... What? Can't hear you over these fans and bottlenecking and perhaps a hint of ignorance. https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerIQ-Charging-Macbook-Surface/dp/B00VDVCQ84/ref=sr_1_28_sspa?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1506583973&sr=1-28-spons&keywords=
  18. Back in the day in highschool I bought the OG Crysis because it looked amazing. Well guess what. The HP "HTPC" said nope, can't do it. So with this game I learned how to upgrade PCs and also editing game assets for various outcomes which ended up becoming useful when creating personal server rooms for this game. Before this I was scared to even open up a computer because I thought I could potentially break any of the "fragile" components and ruin the entire machine. It took me getting my hands dirty and a desire to game on a truly inspiring game which I wish had more traction back in its day other that "But can it run Crysis?" lol. That game had a great online gameplay style called "Power Struggle". Any rate this started a so far life long interest in all things computer hardware wise and tinkering to see how things work and watching countless videos and reading countless articles. Also helped being broke and trying to get the best out of what you can get lol
  19. Oh my misunderstanding. I see what you mean now. Wasn't familiar with the B350 series either.
  20. It's similar to the same reason you'd buy a power supply with higher wattage than your parts add up to because under load wattage spikes higher under operational load. At least that's my logic behind it. Obviously industry has gone FULL RGB FTW so whatever I guess. TUF is forever alone lol. I guess it serves it right with such a dumb naming scheme and branding. Why the frick does this board look like a bulldozer!? Bcuz its TUUFFF! SHUT UP WITH YOU'RE LOGIC. THE ONLY MILK I DRINK IS MUSCLE MILK!
  21. Does say mosfets and chokes as well but see your point. Listen I understand the general dislike of these boards. However I've had several boards over the years and decided to get a Sabertooth a few builds ago due to the operating temperatures that the components are rated for when military spec which is between -55C to 125C. When under heavy load (especially for the H265 video codec) I regularly reach past 70C which is already past the consumer spec at the range of 0C to 70C. Now I do have the notoriously hot FX series so I guess take it all in with a grain of salt (also the reason why Ryzen is on the horizon for me). Turns out there are also Industrial spec components too but no idea if any boards have those. All in all I still have 2 of these boards that still work over the years (the first from like 2010) compared to the numerous previous boards I've had or serviced that have popped caps or overheated mosfets which has made me a believer in this product line lol
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