Purchased  a GTX 1080 last November and sold my GTX 970 cards.
Single  card instead of SLI. More of a sidegrade.

Finally got around to water blocking it and did a simple vLog style video of the changes.

not sure how to delete this. 

Hey Colton/Nick,

Few friends and I are really interested in getting these  posters.
However, the shipping to Singapore is approxiamtely  14usd and adds another 14usd for each additional poster as well.

I noticed that it's free shipping within the USA and I have a freight forwarding service(US to Singapore)  that we can use.

I need to know if we order about 5-10 posters to my US Address, would each poster comes separately in its own (tube?), or if they could package multiple posters into one container(tube).

If the posters can be packed into one container, I could have it shipped via a freight forwarder at a much cheaper rate instead of paying 14usd shipping per poster.

I am still holding out hope for Star Citizen.

Great experience so far and worth every cent I've spent so far.

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Samsung TVs will come with Steam Link integrated directly into them.

 

Valve has announced at Steam Dev Days a new partnership with Samsung that will allow Samsung TVs to have Steam Link integration built-in.

Steam Link is Valve’s in-home streaming tech that works by streaming games from a capable PC to a small box (Steam Link) you can connect to any TV in the house. Just like Xbox One to Windows 10 streaming, and other game streaming solutions, this depends on your network’s quality and the power of your PC.

You’ll still need a controller to play, but this removes the need for connecting the device to an HDMI port, not to mention buying it separately. The news was revealed at the conference, via Steam Spy, but Valve did not say when we’ll start to actually see models with Steam Link support.

This isn’t the first time a third-party streaming solution made its way to Samsung TV sets. Sony previously announced a deal to bring PlayStation Now to Samsung TVs, removing the need to own a PlayStation console to do this.

Steam Link costs $50 and has generally been getting favourable reviews since its release.

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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2016/10/13/steam-link-to-be-integrated-into-new-samsung-tvs/

I think this is cool, Valve should partner with more TV manufacturers to include Steam Link.
At the same time, TV manufacturers would consider PC gaming more seriously with Valve working with them and perhaps work on the input lag.

• Stomrborn
• Intel  5930k
• GTX 970 x2 (SLI)
• 32GB of ram

First Run:

On 2/4/2016 at 8:38 PM, bbqsauce said:

its hard to vote when we are simply picking from the lesser of two evils. lol

Horror stories of ISPs are abundant and i think that's what creates that barrier to jumping ship from a specific ISP.
I've thought of switching and then you hear about horror stories about others. I'm like "ehh maybe i should just stick with what i have, I don't want to end up with an even worse connection with a 2 year contract to boot"

If you can take a leap of faith into any other ISp other than Red or Green.

I had annual recontract on my main line and close to  25% discount on my mobile lines.
I gave it all up for better internet and I haven't looked back since. 

I wish this bot was available in English for us to test  out... 
But nevertheless, AI is taking huge strides.

P.S: Someone should test it on Dennis 


Source: http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/microsoft-xiaoice-turing-test/#DWeqzt.OMkqG


 

5 minutes ago, bbqsauce said:

just to clarify i have nothing against competition, but frankly there is so much more they should be doing instead of aiming for higher speeds. gigabit is pretty widespread today in SG. the current pricing is affordable and its only a matter of time when more and more are switching over from broadband as their contracts end.

Stuff like ensuring they provide the advertised speed 24/7 and not throttle speeds during peak hours. Starhub themselves have a disclaimer in their contract that as long as you receive above 60% of your contract speed everything is fine and dandy. like what.
Don't get me started on the amount of times their service goes down and how long it takes to restore connection.
Above all, their customer service, oh boy. I can go on for days on that. 

 

Having reached gigabit connection as mainstream imo is all we need for the next few years. You can pretty much get gigabit from any telco at around $50 a month which is pretty affordable given our standard of living. until 4k becomes even more mainstream then maybe we might move forward towards higher speeds.

As of now its easy to tell that most consumer stuff only caps out at gigabit speeds and anything above is really bleeding edge. I understand having this plan for business and what not. But pushing this as the "after gigabit" thing is kinda not the point, at least not right now.

I'm not saying that this isn't useful, i just mean from the perspective of the regular consumer they won't even come close to needing it. Why not push prices down instead of bringing out higher speeds. 

 

I imagine this was the response to the 2Gbps plan, telcos be like we need the top spot. bring out 10gbps.
Soon M1 and starhub will follow suit. 

 

So it goes back to my point of, there are so many areas in our telco's service that needs fixing and imo they should focus on that first.

If, by some miracle, Starhub is able to fix their customer service, ensure reliable service and at the same time provide the advertised speeds. In my eyes they will become the top ISP. Isn't this in itself competition? Since other ISPs will definitely try to follow suit. 

In the end this is just my own opinion. 

- A disgruntled Starhub residential and business customer

Haha, agreed. Starhub imo is and was the absolute worse. 

I had about 8 Months of Cable contract remaining with constant disconnections.
After 3 months of waiting for customer service to rectify it between daily calls, I gave up and subscribed to Singtel  200mbps then.

Paid for 2 internet subscriptions for over 6 months.

Hope on over to MR OR  VQ if you get the chance. I  don't really see Starhub improving.
 

8 minutes ago, Ex14 said:

like me and another member has posted its nothing all but a numbers race that only looks good on marketing material. So what if 1Gbps is commonplace? The actual performance of the world wide web is closer to what other countries experience (maybe just a slight bump) like i mentioned Youtube buffers at times even on a 500mbps plan. Gaming wise my performance over to a japan based server has dropped from a very nice constant 80ish ping to now 100-130ms complete with dropped packets. If this increase in speed brought about better performance or heck just better equipment to us or even their back end to all its services then yes i wouldnt mind the race. But in reality thia is just a marketing stunt, with no real world benefit outside of anything hosted locally.

What ISP are you on?

I used to be on Singtel 500mbps and yes WAN show/Twitch was unwatchable for me. Latency to my US game server was horrible.
I whole heartedly, agree with you that we don't need 500mbps to watch Youtube or Twitch and we shouldn't have such issues.

I got fed up with that and switched to VQ and I haven't had any speed issues since.(barring the network downtime they faced)
From Twitch 720p being an issue, I could watch WAN Show in Source.

In this, we as consumers have to vote with our wallet on the Quality of Service that they provide.
This would come down to each ISP's Peering agreements and capacity that they provision for their customers.

And that's where competition comes in and the ISPs will react to how we vote.
Unfortunately, most people are tied to their Multi Line discounts and don't like the hassle involved  with switching ISPs.

The US ranks 55th in terms of LTE download speeds

Report from OpenSignal compares country's LTE speeds and coverage

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/4/10905740/global-lte-speeds-coverage-opensignal
Open Signal Report: http://opensignal.com/reports/2016/02/state-of-lte-q4-2015/

33 minutes ago, bbqsauce said:

honestly speaking, there's really no need for that 10gbps service for residents except maybe a select few. i use gigabit fiber and i find it difficult to constantly saturate my network. unless you have a home with like 5 users constantly streaming 4k stuff on netflix and what not then probably this is for those people. I doubt there are that many people who can truly make use of that bandwidth
majority of the public uses wifi so yeah its already not very useful there. on top of that the way housing is laid out wifi is pretty shit if you stay in HDB.

 

upgrading all the hardware to make use of that speed? laptops, desktops, 10gb switches etc. man just thinking about it is off putting.

they should spend more time improving traffic routing, customer service and on top of that, better reliability. customer service across all the telcos are abominable. 

 

everything about this just screams numbers race, who is the one to have the highest speed. meh.

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I don't mind the race at all.

At the end of the day if there was no competition and a race,  we wouldn't have affordable 1Gbps access.
Tell people around the world you can get 1Gbps access for 22usd and they would not believe you.

I envision a future where 1Gbps becomes entry level access for everyone. With the introduction of 10Gbps plans from Singtel and Superinternet,  we have taken a step closer to reaching that.

At 189SGD/130USD it is still very much an enthusiast product and priced as such when compared to other plans in SG.

I am personally on  VQ's 2Gbps plan and don't see the need for 10Gbps as most servers are bottlenecked by their 1Gbit connection, but the 2gbps allows me to max out the US 1Gbit server(approx 123Mb/s) while 1Gbps used to restrict me at approximately 60Mb/s.

I saw Singapore, I came in.

That being said, I might get the opportunity to give the Singtel  10gbps a try
Will definitely drop a report here.

Final Piece of Stormborn is finally arriving.

Will install Windows 10 on this beauty and complete this project shortly. 

Installing NAO.......

Let's be honest: the LTE servers are congested as fuck over in the US of A.

Yup hence my conclusion that it's network capacity, (number of base stations etc) rather than having newer faster technologies.

honestly, with 4TB SSD programmed in early 2016, I'm not buying any HDD anymore, ever...

Agreed. I have more or less transitioned to using my OLD SSDs for storage now, and longer term archival data going into the NAS.

Downloads, music,  video clips, Documents etc are on my OLD Crucial SSDs now. 

With tthe price of SATA Based SSD dropping  $/gb and the introduction of affordable faster NVME SSD(950 Pro), the future is here.

We need MOAR  Speed.

I believe most mobile networks lack Capacity rather than Speed.
Most of them start crawling in crowded locations and peak hour.
 

 

OpenSignal's most recent report about the state of global LTE coverage and download speeds tells some familiar stories. As we've seen in previous years, it's Asian nations such as South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong that offer customers the best coverage (97 percent, 90 percent, and 86 percent respectively), while the US lags just a little behind (78 percent) and European countries like the UK and Germany pop up towards the middle of the list. However, when it comes to download speeds on LTE networks, some countries rank surprisingly high, reflecting the fact that it's sometimes better to come a little late to the party, when all the best technology is already in place.
 

New Zealand is a good example. The country only launched its LTE mobile networks two years ago, but in OpenSignal's speed tests it came out top, with average speeds of 36Mbps — ahead of both Singapore and South Korea, which were second and fourth place respectively. And which country took that number three spot? It's "relative newcomer" Romania, which already has access to LTE-Advanced and 4G networks on multiple bands.

The top portion of OpenSignal's chart showing LTE download speeds. Click here for the full report. (OpenSignal)

Meanwhile, some countries which introduced LTE relatively early on (including the US, Japan, Sweden, and Germany) are starting to see their data speeds suffer by comparison. The US, for example, despite impressive coverage for such a large nation, only recorded average download speeds of 10Mbps — taking a spot towards the bottom of OpenSignal's table, sandwiched between India and Indonesia.
 

"In part, these older networks are suffering from their own success," notes OpenSignal. "In the US, for instance, LTE’s introduction in 2010 resulted in a huge base of LTE subscribers in the country today. Those subscribers are all competing for the same network resources, slowing down average speeds. In comparison, newer networks in South America and Europe are more lightly loaded." This first mover disadvantage isn't a hard and fast rule, though, and countries such as South Korea have managed to keep up by expanding their networks into new frequencies and upping their capacity. The US can still do the same.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/24/9391031/lte-coverage-download-speeds-worldwide

Doesn't make much of a difference to me. I have always avoided WD Greens and went with Blue or Black either way.
Black's additional warranty is worth it imo.   

Current system using 4TB black as mass storage, and my is NAS on WD Reds   
 

 

Western Digital Corp. plans to unify its Green and Blue product lineups. The move will help the company to increase its profit margins. For end-users, the unification of low-cost HDD brands could mean increased performance of affordable hard disk drives.

 

Western Digital is set to unify its Green and Blue families of hard disk drives under the “Blue” brand, reports PC Watch. WD Blue HDDs will be aimed at mainstream personal computers, WD Black will be designed for high-end desktops and workstations, whereas WD Red will focus on network attached storage systems.

 

WD’s Green hard disk drives have variable RPM [revolutions per minute] performance, whereas WD Blue feature 5400 or 7400 RPM. It is unclear whether new HDDs will all feature variable RPM, or will stick to 5400 RPM, leaving 7200 PRM to the WD Black series.

 

For a limited period of time current WD Green HDDs will be sold under WD Blue brand, but with different product numbers.

 

WD reportedly claims that the unification is made to simplify HDD choice by consumers.

Update Comments from KitGuru:
KitGuru Says: In fact, cancellation of a low-cost hard drives brand makes sense for Western Digital from business standpoint. Increasing price of HDDs by $5 – $10 – a sum that many retail customers will never notice – will help the company to increase its revenues and margins. Any increase in revenue automatically means increase in research and development spending, which means additional performance and capacity.

Source:
http://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/anton-shilov/western-digital-to-abandon-green-brand-in-favour-of-blue-hdds/
 

so is this move attributed to Abbot's term of government or Turnbull ?

People who think Intel's iGPUs are unacceptable for productivity...

 

R7 M370X: 640 shaders at 800 MHz = 620 * 2 * 0.8*10^9 = 992GFlops

4950HQ Iris Pro: 384 shaders at 1.15GHz = 384 * 2 * 1.15*10^9 = 883.2GFlops

A downgrade, but not a bad tradeoff for a cooler-running machine

GT4e Iris Pro: 576 shaders at 1.0 GHz   = 576 * 2 * 1*10^9      = 1.152*10^12 = 1.152TFlops

                       576 shaders at 1.15 GHz = 576 * 2 * 1.15*10^9 = 1.3284*10^12 = 1.3284TFlops

An upgrade, and you get the cooler running machine!

Those numbers are interesting.

awesome looking forward to this...

I'm all for this.

Progress is good and every country should start doing this, even if it's the basics.

Something of interest as Linus was discussing about teaching kids coding and starting them off at an early age  in the WAN Show.
 

Coding has replaced history and geography in Australia's new digital technologies curriculum which was endorsed by education ministers on Friday.

 

As The Australian reports, it ensures that 21st century computer coding will be taught in primary schools from Year 5, and programming will be taught from Year 7.

 

It's as part of a slimmed-down national curriculum that was given the tick of approval by Education Minister Christopher Pyne in one of his last acts before being sworn in as Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science later this morning.

 

There's been a big push for a greater focus on coding and science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) subjects in schools from a primary level, and it seems a good fit with new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's heavy focus on innovation and preparing for the jobs and economies of the future.

 

The government will be pumping A$12 million into four separate STEM initiatives: the development of innovative maths curriculum, the introduction of computer coding, a P-TECH-style school pilot site and the funding of summer schools for STEM students from underrepresented groups.
 

"High quality school STEM education is critically important for Australia's productivity and economy wellbeing, both now and into the future," Pyne said in a statement. "We are restoring the focus on STEM subjects in schools and making sure our teachers get more instruction on STEM during initial teacher training."

 

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten signalled his support for coding in schools earlier this year but then prime minister Tony Abbott was not impressed.

"He said that he wants primary school kids to be taught coding so they can get the jobs of the future," Abbott said at the time. "Does he want to send them all out to work at the age of 11?"

 

Source:
http://mashable.com/2015/09/21/coding-schools-australia/?id=mash-com-fb-aus-link#uH8OJW4.5Gkl