Benajim117

I'm 17 and I came across Serious Sam a few years ago when I bought Serious Sam 2 for a friend on steam sort of as as a joke but mainly as repayment for a game he had gifted me. Turned out he loved the games and had played the first one. It was on his recommendation that I gave Serious Sam a try. I'm glad I did!

Can we just Have a huge discord and call just so we can stay connected for about 3 days because that is what we all need now

The error cant be fixed unfortunately. The problem is that the VMKLinux Driver Stack has been deprecated in VSphere 7.0 meaning any driver which is built from a linux driver such as those for the Realtek NICs will not work at all with VSphere 7. The only way to get these NICs going with 7 would be if an official driver was released I believe

Na google translate is saying oh one oh oh oh oh one one oh

Could be the country-wide rain and occasional severe flooding we've been having over the last week or so. May render any electrical items left outside a bit fucked up
 
Also stuck with the fucking WEEE regulations, electronic products need to be recycled rather than smashed for scrap. Nothing to do with a "nanny state" (unless you count the EU), and everything to do with the EU and their wonderful ideas.

In continuation........
 

Probably because they want to get people away from anything other than W10, why they keep it up tho, not sure, probably just in case.
 
I'll most likely DL many of these things to keep it on my own server if this shuts down in the future, you never know when some XP patch will come in handy

I don't have that board so I can't speak to it's normal operation, but if it's not behaving how the manual says it should then I'd contact support.

Uhmm, It's Windows XP laptop. There's no drivers for Windows 10.

Wiping everything will ... wipe everything. Format your drives and re-install Windows ad you'll be fine

So after watching the WAN show I thought why not start some sort of youtube creators' union to support channels that get copy right strikes (legal, and financial support). This can even become a business, copy right strike insurance.  

copy con filename.extension  means  copy what's entered in console window to a file - in this case as the batch file contents is sent to the console, that's being copied to file.
The following lines are copied into the filename specified until the "end of file" character is reached, which in DOS and Windows and other operating systems is Ctrl+Z
 
Basically to VBS files are created and then launched both using the start command.
&hAF  is hexadecimal code 0xAF , which is the virtual key code for VK_VOLUME_UP : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/inputdev/virtual-key-codes
 

Creates an object called oPlayer
Links oPlayer object to Windows Media Player control
Tells WMP to play rickroll
Closes when finished playing

This is how to write a forum post, well done.
 
I didn't see any attempt to run everything at stock clocks. Have you tried removing every and all OC and reseting the CMOS? That would be the first thing I'd try personally. I remember having the exact same issue, with a list of certain games (don't remember them anymore, was so long ago now) and for me, my system was all AMD. As it turned out for me, some how the AMD drivers were not installing correctly, no matter what I did. I ended up doing a whole fresh install of Windows (7), and that finally worked. But back to your issue, do try reseting the CMOS and removing all OC's. I don't suspect wholly that's the issue, but since it wasn't tried before, it's worth a shot now.

In the case of LTT merch, the DBH store is still up and while the t-shirts are $5(USD) more expensive the shipping costs are way less coming in at an extra $4 (USD). The DBH store doesn't sell the circuit board design but let's say you just wanted the classic LTT logo tee, the DBH shirt is a cheaper option though I would guess this store will be phased out in the first months of 2019.

Yeah I have to agree that the shipping costs are brutal, it is a new venture for them so hopefully they can become more competitive in the future. I'm guessing you want the circuit board design, correct? 

@Echo off
shutdown -f -s -t 5
echo "Loading new Drivers........."
sleep 2
echo "Done. Rebooting now"
 
/* Aewsome code needed to be censored. puts this in autorun via registry etc */

nothing special. the pc's I get are just dusty.

I used to work at a computer shop for IT support and service. Whenever something is wrong with the machine, they'll always ask if it's a virus or not. If the shortcut on the desktop is gone, they would think all of their data on the computer are gone.
My mum isn't non-techy but she just double clicks on EVERYTHING she wants to open. That includes links and buttons on the web browser. She would double click on the Google searches to open them too and I got really annoyed watching her using the computer at some point of my life.
I have another one but it's not really non-techies. My friend is a photographer but not much of a computer guy so he bought a netbook(yes, those 10-inches) and brought it to college. Apparently he actually used that netbook to edit photo and do his work. I remember him posting a comment which he thinks tiny computer are less powerful(true to some extent).

Banned for not knowing that with Palatine he implemented the "Rule of One"

That might be interesting.

Can't beat a VM

I see around lots and lots of cygwin, "which os whould i use, i need both" and bla bla bla, and it seemed to me like the entire world is not acknowledging that awesome feature Windows 10 gives everyone access too: Windows Subsystem for Linux. Why doesn't Linus do a youtube video about that, so people will know?
You can run natively on Windows most of linux software without virtualization or reboot, it's just awesome!

Hey there,
In the last year or so we have seen many improvements to the LTT testing methodology. Many of them were probably due to input by the new writers @LMG Ivan, @AlexTheGreatish and @GabenJr , but I am sure just having more man-hours available per review also helps
There are a few things though that could still be improved, some wouldn't add much effort, some a lot, some would straight up increase accuracy, some would make the data more applicable. If you, the reader, have any ideas of your own or want to tell me that I am stupid and my ideas wouldn't work, please comment, I hate it when the internet is just a bunch of people screaming into an endless abyss
 
The following list is just what came to my mind in the last few months since the forum was decoupled from floatplane (this reduced engagement in the comments so freaking much ).
1: Power Draw (please adapt this, if anything)
2: Temperature (nice to have, especially when comparing intel to AMD chips)
3: Copute/Science Benchmarks (nice to have, but only applicable for few chips)
4: Low End Benchmarks (not 100% serious, but could actually be great)
 
1: Power draw
This one is pretty simple: measuring power as drawn from the PSU is hopelessly inaccurate, and the first method adds nearly no work:
Current-clamp
Additional work: 10s in windows calc
How to: Just put a current clamp around the EPS or PCIe power cables and multiply by your PSUs 12V rail voltage (usually 11.9 to 12.1V) and boom.
Accuracy: over by ~10% for consumer CPUs with decent VRMs, more inaccurate for GPUs, over by ~10% again and under by up to 75W, so kinda bad.
Cost: Around 75bucks if you want a decent current clamp
Would I recommend it? Yes, definitely. Current-clamp + correction
Additional work: lots of maths and look stuff up, I'd guess an hour per board.
How to: Check the data-sheets of the controller and MOSFETs for efficiency (well, you can at least find the switching loss and the efficiency, but that maths shouldn't be too hard). For GPUs, it's also good to know whether they use the PCIe slot for the GPU, or just the other components, if the latter, perfect, your measurement just got more accurate with less work. Alternatively just use boards for which the VRM losses are known (I think Buildzoid includes them in his PCB breakdowns, not sure though).
Accuracy: My guess is that you should be able to get it down to a +/- 5W interval for pretty much every board/chip
Cost: Maybe 30 bucks in employee time?
Would I recommend it? No. This is way too much effort.
2: CPU/GPU Temperature
Software tools are pretty good these days, but you can improve upon them significantly with decent thermocouples.
Additional work: installing the thermocouple (~30min) once per board, plus 2min to get a multimeter when you start testing
How to: on the back of the socket, you will find several VCore connection points (eg capacitors). Attach your couple to that point (ideally with liquid metal or something similar) and hold it in place with silicone, plastydip, or whatever you like. This gives you a connection directly to the silicon with ~200W/mK over the entire distance.
Accuracy: you should be under by like 2K tops, probably significantly less
Cost: Less than 10 bucks for a decent thermocouple
 
3: Benchmarks for Compute/Sience Hardware:
Since you guys are the Top Gear of tech and that is where the insane hardware lives now, no wonder you have been testing this hardware in the last months. But I am sure you will agree that your reviews didn't always test what the things are actually made for. You do include some decent synthetic workloads since I think the Titan V review (?) but there aren't too many science/compute real world tests you are doing (I recall one video where you called in a scientist though...). Here are a few things I'd suggest (GPU and CPU loads are mixed here):
Neural Net training time
Get some LSTM Tensor Flow example code and measure training time for a given data set. Tensor Flow is widely used in the field, so this would be very applicable and means there is a ton of really good example code. Linear Equations
In theoretical physics, we often reduce problems to large linear equation systems with sparse matrices. The Pardiso Solver is decently common and very easy to use. If you want to go deep, try using different types of matrices. Database performance
Probably don't need to explain this one, I suggest SQL and generating a huge database first (filled with dummy accounts each having an RSA key if possible) then run some selects. JuPyTer
JuPyTer is awesome for science and thus used a lot. Luckily for you there is this awesome resource of actually useful JuPyTer notebooks you can use for benchmarking. And if all universities are operating like mine, you'd be suprised how much of that exact code is running on scientists computers (or uni compute servers) right now I would be really happy if you could include some of those benchmarks in your reviews, not only the high end compute stuff, but also higher end consumer stuff, for me and some people I know, stuff like that actually plays a big role in purchasing decisions and currently all we have to go by is guesswork.
 
I am (as you can probably tell) decently passionate about getting better benchmarks for those kinds of workloads into videos about that kind of hardware (the Xeon Phi video(s) made me a bit sad), so I would be willing to create some benchmarks for you guys (including the forum people), but only if anyone actually cares. For my stuff I just run whaever projects I am currently working on, so I always have a 100% applicable benchmark to hand, but I think I am not the only one who cares. What I'd make would probably come down to a bunch of example code in a package (maybe some of my projects, but I am 70% sure I can't use the two coolest ones because of uni IP stuff) with nothing added to each one but some code to measure and output the runtime. I am sure there are people at LMG who could do this just as well though.
 
4: Benchmarking Low End Devices
When you are testing low end  devices, you tend to focus at low end games (which is understandable) but I think you are missing a significant chunk of what people are actually doing with those things. Here are some really dumb ideas (that acually mean something to lay people and are fun for enthusiasts):
Google Chrome
Create a folder of random, downloaded webpages you open one by one, until the first one gets unloaded Power Point
Add rectangles to a slide until lag is noticable Photoshop
The smudge tool is notorious to cause people on laptops headaches, maybe measure the largest size smudge tool that can perform in real time (standardized background of course) Excel
On a large worksheet with tons of formulas, how long does the update take? (Maybe use one of @AlexTheGreatish 's old spreadsheets? I recall you mentioned one once)