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    AncientNerd got a reaction from rukspuks in Why buy threadripper when it sucks with video editing?   
    Software and database development, large parallel data-set development. Simulation and simulation development - when I simulate an emergency that impacts all of the mid-west on software that detects critical infrastructure failures I absolutely kill 8/16 machines and wish for higher core counts. Clock speed doesn't matter as much when you have several thousand parallel tasks happening at once. That's just debugging, when we run we run on high end server hardware, but I have been pushing for TR workstations to develop on to cut down on the wait times and cost for shared VM space. Our cloud bills are ridiculous to try to run all of this I have been working up a proof that the cost of TR workstations for developers would cut cloud support costs by enough to pay for itself in a few months.
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from whoisjaya in What was your first computer?   
    First computer - TI-99/4a with a whapping 4k of memory and a cassette tape drive for mass storage.
    First custom build - IBM PC "clone" 8086- 640k of memory, 2x 5.25 floppy drives and a CGA card. Later upgraded to a 5MB hard drive, then a 10MB HDD and a EGA video adapter.
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from Beef Boss in What was your first computer?   
    First computer - TI-99/4a with a whapping 4k of memory and a cassette tape drive for mass storage.
    First custom build - IBM PC "clone" 8086- 640k of memory, 2x 5.25 floppy drives and a CGA card. Later upgraded to a 5MB hard drive, then a 10MB HDD and a EGA video adapter.
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from Beef Boss in Did you ever have a problem so specific nobody could help you with it?   
    All the time, it has been a revolution to be able to lookup/ask questions and actually get answers. For the first 25+ years of my computer existence it was either find the solution on your own or hope that the 2-3 other people in town actually had run into it. The last 20 years have been wonderful! before that it was lots of experimentation and learning the underside of software and hardware from a very low level - both in my hobby and my work. If I never have to write an Ethernet driver for some obscure board to run under a custom OS again it will be too soon.
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    AncientNerd reacted to S w a t s o n in Intel's 28 Core 5Ghz CPU is misleading at best   
    it's not misleading cooling, it's a misleading product pitch as a whole.

    "Poor Volta" was never a real thing. It's a fan created meme based on a poster in the background of a youtube video. Not quite the same thing as saying "Oh we have this 28 core cpu running at 5ghz, and btw available Q4."

    All companies do misleading things but you can bet if AMD showed off a 5ghz, 32 core threadripper using a fucking water chiller and said "Available Q4", they would be getting shit on too.
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    AncientNerd reacted to Mira Yurizaki in 4.6ghz vs. 4.7ghz   
    BCLK overclocking may not be available on anything other than a Z or X board. It's up to the manufacturer.
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    AncientNerd reacted to beersykins in 4.6ghz vs. 4.7ghz   
    You can still BLCK overclock
     
    Kids these days not even familiar with bus overclocking, back in my day all we had was bus overclocking!@*#1
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    AncientNerd reacted to leadeater in Intel's 28 Core 5Ghz CPU is misleading at best   
    During a press conference talking about current and future products at a trade show about current and future products I think Intel gets zero leeway on lack of disclosure, if this was at a side event at Computex during one of the normal OC events then it wouldn't need to be stated as it's already been done by context of the event at that point in time.
     
    Intel spent over 50 minutes presenting and talking about real products coming to market or already on the market then goes in to this:
    "I wanted to give you a preview of something we've been working on"
    "I would like to present to you a new 28 core processor"
    "When we have 28 cores running at 5 Ghz"
     
    Then they proceed on more about how you can get the best of both worlds with 5Ghz and how amazing it is clearly implying anyone can achieve this, still no mention of overclocking.
     
    "We are going to take that product to market in Q4 this year"
     
    So would I be wrong based on the information presented that Intel is going to release a new 28 core 5Ghz CPU in Q4 2018?
     
    Misleading doesn't only require giving of information it applies to the withholding of it, to mislead you only have to give a false impression or wrong idea and the news articles speaks volumes as to if this meet the criteria of being able to be called misleading.  
     
    Now I'm not blind I can see the pipes running out the back of the computers and I instantly know something is fishy, for that reason and what I know Intel CPUs of that core count are actually capable of doing.
     
    And as quoted above they did indeed make real claims, not false but still misleading.
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    AncientNerd reacted to asus killer in Intel's 28 Core 5Ghz CPU is misleading at best   
    Steve point out the problems. Old CPU pretending it was a new CPU. Below ambient not disclosed. And the lack of critic thinking by the media.
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    AncientNerd reacted to leadeater in Intel's 28 Core 5Ghz CPU is misleading at best   
    Car manufacture A at car show:
    Company A: "Look at our amazing concept car, we see this as the future of cars and will bring this technology in to our cars as we develop them further."
     
    Intel at Computex:
    Intel: "Look at our amazing 28 core CPU running at 5Ghz with an amazing Cinebench score."
     
    Car shows state it's a concept, Intel did not. Unless you say it then it is not a concept, unless we are to assume everything at Computex are concept and not real products coming to market soon?
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from SpecterComments in Pc restarts while gaming   
    In my experience there are a few things that can cause this kind of non-random restart.
    Heat, if your MB or CPU is getting significantly hotter while gaming than while rendering then it could be a heat shutdown. This would be if you are running right at the edge of thermal shutdown all the time, which seems unlikely since you said that you get to 100% CPU while rendering. Low or fluctuating   power situation from the 12v line on your PSU, basically if the PSU can't drive the voltage as high as the MB expects it the whole thing will shutdown to protect components. I would guess this is what is happening, since as I recall the 470 has a higher power draw than the 1050ti. I would guess that your old PSU is failing and it is showing up when you start stressing it in game. Bad drivers crashing, but I would expect to see this prior to running the game since Win10 and browsers actually use the GPU which is unlike earlier versions of both.
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    AncientNerd reacted to RollTime in Ethernet run nonfunctional   
    oof my bad *facepalm*
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    AncientNerd reacted to Christophe Corazza in Ethernet run nonfunctional   
    Bad connection inside the wall plate?
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    AncientNerd reacted to Crunchy Dragon in Ethernet run nonfunctional   
    -Moved to Networking-
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    AncientNerd reacted to RollTime in Ethernet run nonfunctional   
    I guess so.
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from Anghammarad in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    Yea it's an old, old joke. I think I heard it for the first time in the mid 1970's and it was old then.
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from soldier_ph in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    There are 10 kinds of people the the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.
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    AncientNerd reacted to RollTime in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    This is an XKCD comic I love:

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    AncientNerd reacted to moderategamer in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    well now I have to change my signature
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from KingLuvely in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    There are 10 kinds of people the the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from Lenovo1984 in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    Yea it's an old, old joke. I think I heard it for the first time in the mid 1970's and it was old then.
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    AncientNerd reacted to Lenovo1984 in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    I've seen that on a shirt somewhere. 
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from TacoSenpai in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    There are 10 kinds of people the the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from Lenovo1984 in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    There are 10 kinds of people the the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.
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    AncientNerd got a reaction from NelizMastr in Search: Your BEST IT Joke   
    There are 10 kinds of people the the world, those that understand binary and those that don't.
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