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    Cracklingice got a reaction from BillBill in Battle.net using excessive CPU resources   
    You must have some really fast internet.  Pretty normal in that case.  It's download and decompressing the files as well as verifying their integrity.  The faster the internet speed, the more the CPU load.  It gets really nuts when there's a local cache and you have 10gig or faster local connection (and the cache has drives fast enough saturate it).
     
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from dogwitch in It’s Back and I’m SO Excited! - Threadripper 7000   
    You forgot about the W5s, but ironically while intel offers Lite Workstation W5s in addition to the Pro Workstation W5s, AMD does not offer Lite Workstation Threadrippers since they start at 24 cores.  It's a huge misstep IMO.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from dogwitch in It’s Back and I’m SO Excited! - Threadripper 7000   
    How did this video make it thru the ECC squad with the comment about W790 not being a direct competitor to Threadripper?  W790 is very poorly marketed, but just like Threadripper and Threadripper Pro; it is both Professional Workstation and Lite Workstation.  It just depends on the orientation of the socket.
     
    When the socket is facing the traditional direction, that is a board that supports quad channel memory and is built for the Lite Workstation market.  It is also built around the 64 PCIE lane configuration of the W-2400 line of CPUs.

    When the socket is in the rotated orientation, it supports octal channel and is built for the Professional Workstation market.  It is also built around the 112 lane configuration of the Xeon W-3400 line of CPUs.

    *Only used this brand for demonstration as they offer both versions.

    Both motherboards support both the W-2400 and W-3400 processors, but installing a W-3400 processor in the quad channel board does not allow you to utilize all of the features of the of the W-3400 CPU.  Installing a W-2400 in an octal channel board results in being unable to use 4 of the memory slots and some of the PCIE features.

    Here are the charts of the W-2400 and W-3400 processors and their features.



     


    (It is my personal belief that none of this stuff, including Threadripper, is HEDT.  Registered memory is not enthusiast nor are the prices.  The intel W-2400x starts at $1025 and Threadripper starts at $1500.  HEDT pricing would get both the motherboard and CPU for under 1.5k.  Honestly, the W790 refresh could potentially meet the pricing level, but it'd still require server memory.  Threadripper could also come out with a $600 12c and $900 16c and really impress me there since TRX50 boards seem to start at just $600 instead of the $800+ of W790.)
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from tilden in It’s Back and I’m SO Excited! - Threadripper 7000   
    You forgot about the W5s, but ironically while intel offers Lite Workstation W5s in addition to the Pro Workstation W5s, AMD does not offer Lite Workstation Threadrippers since they start at 24 cores.  It's a huge misstep IMO.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Ben17 in 11,500 RPM Fan!!   
    Motherboard header probably can't handle it.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from TechyBen in Scrapyard Wars 7 Pt. 2 - NO INTERNET   
    I just thought...   A. cute and B. she seemed to placed in ways that hid the camera from view a lot.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Kalm_Traveler in Trying to understand Broadwell-E OC   
    https://edgeup.asus.com/2016/broadwell-e-overclocking-guide/  I believe this is the one you were talking about and it looks like it is exactly what I was looking for.  No idea why this didn't show up the first time I was searching.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Damascus in now all gtx 1060 3gb are getting out of stock?   
    Yes it consumes more power, but my profitability calculations were based off the same 19 cents per kilowatt hour.
    [edit] I should also add that you can significantly downclock and lower the TDP of the Fury to lower the TDP to bring up the efficiency as the equihash algo that is most profitable with the Fury card is likely more profitable because of the memory bandwidth than the core speeds.
    Yeah, I am mining with the GTX 970 I already had - and I'm not an experienced miner, I only started 10 days ago.  I just understand basic maths.
    Yikes.  No reason for xeons, unless you can get cheap used low power xeons that can profitably mine CPU based mined crypto like monero.  (or you simply don't pay for power)  My 2500k @ 4.7ghz can mine about 43 cents per day thru cryptonite algo, but consumes about 33 cents per day of power.  If the power was free though, that would add 43 cents per day profit my way and would definitely be worth doing - although I'm not sure if I had 6 GPUs on the system if I could still CPU mine without effecting my GPU hashing like I can with my single GTX 970.  Another potential use case for a powerful CPU would be if you were making large CPU generated plots, but still that would take a while to recoop the costs of.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Damascus in now all gtx 1060 3gb are getting out of stock?   
    If you want to see what I've got going on, I made a thread about what I have going on over in the folding/mining community forum.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Damascus in now all gtx 1060 3gb are getting out of stock?   
    I wouldn't stop til it was no longer profitable.  lol  Get that 1070 paid off faster.
    And selling the cx450 would bring back at least 20 bucks too I'd think.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Damascus in now all gtx 1060 3gb are getting out of stock?   
    You ask the seller if they're willing to display it working when you go to buy it, or if the seller comes to you if they're willing to let you test it in your system before buying it.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Damascus in now all gtx 1060 3gb are getting out of stock?   
    That's the only real good thing about ebay.  If they sell the card as working and it's dead on arrival you can make a claim and ebay buyer protection will kick in.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Blackhole890 in now all gtx 1060 3gb are getting out of stock?   
    That's the only real good thing about ebay.  If they sell the card as working and it's dead on arrival you can make a claim and ebay buyer protection will kick in.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Zando_ in GPU prices sky-rocketing   
    1070s are also low stock from people that were selling their used RX cards for the price of a 1070 and getting a free upgrade.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Zando_ in Is this a good PSU ?   
    I recommend the Seasonic S12ii or M12ii if you want modular.  The 620 watt should be good.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Pietro Cau in Is this a good PSU ?   
    I recommend the Seasonic S12ii or M12ii if you want modular.  The 620 watt should be good.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Damascus in now all gtx 1060 3gb are getting out of stock?   
    It's really funny that the Fury x has a lower bidvoy average sale than the RX 580 considering it's almost a dollar per day more profitable than an RX 480 and the 480/580 are so similar that an OC on the 480 basically is a 580.  Some people just not thinking I guess.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from DocSwag in now all gtx 1060 3gb are getting out of stock?   
    Yes it consumes more power, but my profitability calculations were based off the same 19 cents per kilowatt hour.
    [edit] I should also add that you can significantly downclock and lower the TDP of the Fury to lower the TDP to bring up the efficiency as the equihash algo that is most profitable with the Fury card is likely more profitable because of the memory bandwidth than the core speeds.
    Yeah, I am mining with the GTX 970 I already had - and I'm not an experienced miner, I only started 10 days ago.  I just understand basic maths.
    Yikes.  No reason for xeons, unless you can get cheap used low power xeons that can profitably mine CPU based mined crypto like monero.  (or you simply don't pay for power)  My 2500k @ 4.7ghz can mine about 43 cents per day thru cryptonite algo, but consumes about 33 cents per day of power.  If the power was free though, that would add 43 cents per day profit my way and would definitely be worth doing - although I'm not sure if I had 6 GPUs on the system if I could still CPU mine without effecting my GPU hashing like I can with my single GTX 970.  Another potential use case for a powerful CPU would be if you were making large CPU generated plots, but still that would take a while to recoop the costs of.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from rodrosenberg in My PC of Theseus (a running build/rebuild blog)   
    Hardly even notice the hidden rainbow front panel wires after putting everything in the case.  Maybe things will be cleaner when I finally get a semi modular PSU so I don't have all the unused wires tied to the bottom.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Taf the Ghost in 11,500 RPM Fan!!   
    Motherboard header probably can't handle it.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from JoaoPRSousa in Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   
    http://www.web2carz.com/autos/news/6595/the-fisker-emotion-ev-claims-a-400-mile-range
    Strange doors.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from 8uhbbhu8 in Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   
    No idea if this starts at the right point or not but I found from 4:40 to like 5:00 hilarious.  The rest was meh.
     
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from RevoltTrain in Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯   
    The 3 cam sound mix was great.  I just think the intake volume could have been a little bit lower and the camera could have been higher.  Don't see much of the course with it that low on his helmet.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Cela1 in CPU-Z changes benchmark code (Ryzen suffers)   
    Not really - they were accurate for the workload, but the workload may have been flawed and not real world indicative.
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    Cracklingice got a reaction from Qub3d in CPU-Z changes benchmark code (Ryzen suffers)   
    Not really - they were accurate for the workload, but the workload may have been flawed and not real world indicative.
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