Krolic
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I've really consider the newer macbooks, but they are just too much out of my price range if I want to spec them appropriately for what I need.
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Looking for a descent 14-inch laptop. Not for gaming, so don't need a dGPU. Main criteria are minimum 16GB memory, 512 GB storage, usb-c charging, and good build design. Looking to spend ~1500 CAD (~1200 USD). Been looking at Asus zenbook 14, Dell inspiron, Acer Swift X and 5, Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro, but not at a loss at this point and not sure what to look at. Don't plan on doing any intense computing on the device, so care more about battery life than raw power.
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Have you guys thought about looking into the high performance computing available for free to university researchers throughout Canada through Compute Canada? One of their servers is located at Simon Fraser University (server is called Cedar, https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Cedar). My self and many other researchers I know of in Canada use Compute Canada a lot and their services have made research much more accessible. Would be nice to high light the domestic services available, and why they are so much better than paid cloud computing services, since, well, money.
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Thanks. That's what I thought, but I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a simple option I didn't know about
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As the title suggests, I have a hard drive that was plugged into with a PSU sata cable from a different and incompatible PSU (even though the bag for that PSU was right behind and the fucking idiots didn’t realize it and just grabbed a random cable from no idea then called me saying they lost my data and fucked up my work, sorry I’m still salty about it). Anyways, no the drives obviously are dead. My question is other than expensive data recovery (which may still be the best option since not my money) what are some other options to get the data off the drive? Would it just be the controller that got fried? I haven’t opened up the drive so I’m not sure how much visible damage there is, if any.
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So I tested another monitor and it still had the same problem. However, I noticed that it only seems to happen on the maximum refresh rate available.
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I hope its the monitor. Do you have any suggestions on how to test it? I dont have access to another monitor or gpu to test with easily.
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I can still see the image when it flickers, like the monitor is just dimming, so it may just be the back-light. I guess what worried me was that immediately after I sent the one monitor back the second started acting up (like literally just coming back from FedEx). Also, it only seems to be happening when the computer is doing something. For example, I was just in Diablo 3 and alt-tabbed out to write this (it is running in the background) and the monitor is flickering badly as I type this.
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I currently have two Acer 24 inch 1080p monitors. I noticed that one of the monitors had this screen flickering issue (but not the second one). I just sent the monitor back to the manufacturer after trying the usual tests (using DDU to remove graphics drivers and reinstall, swapping cables, resetting monitor settings, etc.) as it was under warranty. Now the second monitor seems to have issues and I'm not sure now if it is the monitor or the graphics card or another part of my PC. Obviously I don't want to send anything back to the manufactures as I wont have a computer to use in the mean time but I have no idea how to test what the issue is. I dont have another computer to connect the monitor to (at least not one that can use display port to test it under the proper refresh rate). I'm not sure how or why but it does seem to be related to 3D rendering or activates when the GPU is doing more work. I attached a video of it happening immediately after I opened a game and alt-tabbed back here. It shows up in the video, but not as bad as it happens in real life. Any help would be really appreciated to help me figure out what the issue may be. 20210406_195032.mp4
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I was watching some tear downs of the GPU currently own and noticed that there are no thermal pads to use the backplate as a heat spreader. If I wanted to modify the card and add-on some thermal pads, what would be a good one to purchase?
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Thanks. I'm not totally sure about this stuff, so maybe I'm oversimplifying it. From the research I did it seems like the Adobe RGB space is an expanded sRGB space. And from what I saw any Adobe RGB calibrated monitor was 10-bit as a standard. I think I need true 10-bit but I'm not sure if 8-bit + FRC will work as well. Honestly I'm not very versed in this area so I appreciate the input.
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Thanks. I am more thinking about getting a plane 4k 10-bit monitor and calibrating it myself.
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The monitor I'm using for work is dying. I need it for professional color accurate work. What I'm wondering is rather than paying $1200 > for a new monitor, how hard would it be to calibrate it myself? Specially I use Adobe Illustrator and need the Adobe RGB color space coverage. What would be a recommended calibration tool and would there be anything specific in a monitor I would need to consider (other than size, resolution and 10-bit).
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Actually, I'm not using the 1070. I literally just put in a 3070.
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With a GPU with dual bios features, I'm considering utilizing the dual bios feature and flashing one with a custom bios. Two main questions. Where and how. Where would I find a custom bios from a reputable source and is there a good guide (by like GN) to actually do it without completely breaking my new toy.
