Johnny K.

This is an Intel 8086.
 

 
I've got a lot of stuff, maybe i'll make a thread about them.
 
 

An advertising company pushing ads to their own apps??????? OH NOES!!!!!!111111!!!!!111! 
 
We are all aware that Google's main revenue is advertisement and they are an actual advertising company right (as in that's their primary business model)?

Nah man that's a top notch CPU you got there, it's perfectly fine!

I used a cloth used for cleaning camera lenses

It was removed in the forum update I think, for some reason. Now threads in the sub forum get a whole lot less replies right away, or even none if nobody bumps it. 
In my opinion that makes it less compelling for people to post there. I have thought a few times of posting in General Discussion instead of the proper Off topic, just because of this.
 
If you don't want to change it, it's fine with me.. but at least tell me why threads from one of the most popular sub forums don't get displayed in recent topics anymore?

Well, today is the big day. 
242,615,296 -  239,638,457 = 2,976,839
So there you have it.  
 
@Howlingwolf101 @Johnny K. @wcreek 
@levibaker88 @MrLomax @DESTROYER17
(It was changed to the 13'th)
 

You need to look up your platforms. LGA 1150 is limited to Haswell and Broadwell- The regular, consumer chips which don't have more than four cores. The hex-core CPUs are extreme edition CPUs, hence Broadwell-E and Haswell-E.

Broadwell-E will be on the existing LGA 2011-3 platform which current Haswell-E processors are on, while Skylake E and the next architecture (Kabylake E) will be on a new platform.
 
The Core i7 4790k and Xeon E3 1231 V3 are regular Haswell processors. They're quad-core CPUs and are on the LGA 1150 platform.
 
The Core i7 6700k is a regular quad-core Skylake processor, and is on the LGA 1151 platform. Kabylake will probably come to LGA 1151 too.
 
The Core i7 5820k is a Haswell-E chip. It's a six-core processor, and is on the LGA 2011-3 platform. Its big sister, the Core i7 5960x, is an eight-core processor that's also on the LGA 2011-3 platform.
 
The upcoming Broadwell-E CPUs, like the 10-core 6950x, will also be on the LGA 2011-3 platform.
 
Later, Skylake-E, the next generation of Extreme Edition processors, will come to a new platform which will succeed the LGA 2011-3 platform. After that, Kabylake-E will be on the same platform, until the next architecture gets a new one.
 
In both extreme-edition and regular platform, each platform gets two generations of CPUs. LGA 1155 got Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge. LGA 1150 got Haswell and Broadwell. LGA 1151 (the latest) has Skylake and will get Kabylake.

Similarly, Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E were on the old LGA 2011 platform (with the X79 chipset). Haswell-E and Broadwell-E are on the current LGA 2011-3 platform (with the X99 chipset). The upcoming Skylake-E and Kabylake-E after that will be on a new platform.

 

This is not a difficult dilemma to iron out here.
I do not know about France but in the US any property of a child under the age of 18 is considered the property of the parent, especially in cases when the child passes away the family is automatically granted all property of the child.
 
Apple does not face an ethical or moral decision. If the parent s are asking for the phone to be unlocked to extract personal pictures and other items from the phone then Apple should do so without any moral/ ethic backfire from anyone. 
 
This is an easy issue to resolve.

The silent cube
Pushing passive cooling to the limit
 
 
 
 
The vision
 

 
 
The build

 
The heat

 
 
 
After I could gain experience with my first passive build with a TDP of ~250 watts (http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/342534-finished-full-passive-powerful-workstation-gaming-rig-who-said-it-cant-be-done/) I'm building an even more insane system. It will be the ultimate passive build because it's the best I can achive with the current technology without going absolutely crazy. And with crazy I'm mean something like using two PSUs, more than 50 kg of heat sinks or something along thos lines.
 
The most powerful fanless PSU aviable nowadays is the Enermax Digifanless 550 watts, with a peak power of up to 605 watts (one minute). Under this power envelope I will fitt:
 
- CPU: i7-4790K (90 watts)
- GPU:  2x EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0 in SLI (380 watts)
- MoBo: Asrock Z97M OC Formula (15 watts)
- RAM: G.Skill Trident X 32GBytes, DDR3-2400 (10 watts)
- SSD 1: Intel 750 PCI-E, 400 GB (25 watts)
- SSD 2: Samsung Evo 512 GB in M.2 format (5 watts)
- HDD 1: 3 TBytes WD Red (10 watts)
 
The HDD can turned on and off with a switch and will only used for back-ups. I'd love to get rid of a HDD, but it's silly to make back-ups on a SSD and it will be hardly ever turned on.
 
As you can see the maximal power draw is around 535 watts and very close to the limit of 550 watts. But in normal operation it's very unlikely to push all components at the same time. For peak power draw I have a buffer of 75 watts, what I can feel comfortable with.
Thankfully the PSU has a very high build quality (it it also very expensive, but never cheap out on the PSU) and I can measure the load and temperature in real time.
EDIT: The measured peak load pulled from the PSU is about 510 watts.
 
Now I made sure the PSU don't blew up, I have to get rid of the heat somehow. The upper temperture limit for me is about 80°C with a max. room temperature of 30°C. As a result I have a temperature difference of 50°C to play with. So it's time for number crunching and it turned out I need three heat sinks of 400x300x84 mm, 12 kg each. So I designed the system around them.
 

 
More renderings:
 

 
The system has a size of 384x384x403 mm. Nearly a perfect cube.
And it will weigh ~50 kg!
 
This time I tried to use less heat pipes. They are fine, but quite expensive. Therefor I mounted the GPU directly to the heat sinks using a copper heat transfer plate.
 
Also I will use peltier elements as a thermoelectric generator by takeing advantage of the Seebeck effect!
I know the efficiency is only ~1%, but it's just for fun. Because of the low heat conductivity I can't mount the elements directly on the CPU/GPU, so I will mount them on the big heat sink on the front (hot side) and cool them with the two smal heat sinks on each side. Therefor I can only expect a smal temperature difference (5 - 10 °C estimated), so I will get an oper circuit voltage of 50 - 300 mV per modul. Since I'm useing cheap 3 euro peltier modules I have no information about the thermoelectric generator characteristics.
But since I'm useing 10 modules and a low power LED needs only ~2 mW (1,8 volt, 1mA) I'm pretty confident I can at least illuminate some LEDs.
When the final measurements shows that I'm able to harvest >= 600 mW, I could even charge my smartphone on a slow rate (5V, 100mA) useing a boost converter.
 
 
Now lets roll out the build log:
 
 
Update 1: Metal and heat sinks arrived
 

 
Update 2: GPU heat transfer plate
 

 
Update 3: GPU 1 assembly
 

 
Update 4: GPU 1 measurement
 

 
Update 5: Estimation thermal generator output power
 

 
Update 6: Energie harvesting efficiency = 0.0005%
 

 
Update 7: CPU block and PCI-E riser
 

 
Update 8: CPU cooler
 

 
Update 9: CPU cooler finally mastered
 

 
Update 10: Don't give up....
 

 
Update 11: Full throttle, no throttling!
 

 
Update 12: Final assembly part 1
 

 
Update 13: Stress test, 500 watts!
 

 
Update 14: Make the heat visible!
 

 
Update 15: Final assembly part 2
 

 
Update 16: Charging the smartphone for free while gaming
 

 
Update 17: Finished! (Lot's of pictures)
 

 
Update 18: <1dBa over the noise floor!
 

 
Update 19: Overclock the CPU
 

 
Update 20: Finishing touches
 
 
 
Update 21: Liquid cristal thermometer!
 
 
 
Update 22: Thank you all!
 
 
 
 
If you liked this build log, you may also like a passive mineral oil cooled PC.
Don't hesitate and look here: The number cruncher

The number cruncher
 
73 cores and a Titan X in oil submerged and passiv cooled
 

 
 
Yes, my friend, it is as exorbitant as it sounds!
My last build was highly focused on single thread performance and it works perfect for this workloads: Link here.
However, I came across situations where I needed a considerable amount of compute power. As these workloads can be parallelized without a significant penalty, I developed a need for this number cruncher. Also I will use if for F@H during the night.
My first attempt was to use two E5-26xx v3 Xeons with the Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard. But it turned out to be way to expensive. Therefor I downgraded to two E5-2680 v1 Xeons on a Z9PE-D8 WS motherboard. As I saved a lot of money on the CPUs and the memory, I was able to include a Xeon Phi 31S1P. MATLAB is able to take advantage of the “automatic offload” feature to seamlessly integrate the Xeon Phi and boost the performance. I won’t write programs for the Phi by myself.
For the GPUs I will use one or two of the upcoming Polaris / Pascal line-up depending on the performance and price. I’m tending towards Polaris, but I have not enough information to decide.
 
This leads me to the part list:
CPU: 2x E5-2680 (8 cores, 2.7 GHz base clock, 3.5 GHz boost clock, 130 watts): used from Ebay
Coprocessor: Xeon Phi 31S1P (57 cores, 1.1 GHz, 8 GByte RAM, 270 watts): new from Ebay
RAM: 8x Hynix HMT31GR7CFR4C (8 GByte, DDR 3, 1600 MHz, ECC): used from Ebay
Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS: new from retail (no used once available)
PSU: Corsair RM1000i: new from retail (I don't dare to use a used PSU)
GPU: GTX Titan X: when the GTX 1080 hype peaked, you got them for very low price, I couldnt't resist to buy one
SSD 1: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB: salvaged from my first build
SSD 2: Samsung 850 Evo 2TB: used
SSD 3: Samsung SM951 NVMe, 256 GByte: used
HDD1: WB Red 8 TB: when the helium can't escape, the oil can't come in right?
WLAN: TP-Link Archer T9E: new from retail
 
As you probably know, I have an addiction to passive cooling. This time around I tried to get rid of the heat pipes. They are expensive and vulnerable. Also I'm lacking the appropriate tools to make a CPU block out of copper. Mounting the GPUs directly to the heat sinks proved itself as a good solution. Sadly, this is not feasible for the CPUs.
So I will use two Noctua NH-U12DX i4 cooler. But now I have to get rid of the fan somehow. This is certainly possible if you look at the definition of fan:
 
 
 
Source : http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fan
 
So be filling the box up with mineral oil, I’m not only getting rid of the noise. There are no fans left in the build by applying this definition
However, the build is not completely passive cooled, as the cooling used needs about 3 watts. But considering the total power this is negligible. So I will call it passive cooling. Also the oil itself is passive cooled.
 
More renderings:
 
 
 
 
Update 1: Super loud coil whine
 
Update 2: Design finalized
 
Update 3: Xeon Phi
 
Update 4: Vapor chamber
 
Update 5: 40 kg heat sinks
 
Update 6: 73 cores, 450 watts, 846 GFlops
 
Update 7: How to submerge a HDD
 
Update 8: It realy hurts doing this!
 
Update 9: Moved the build across a lake
 
Update 10: Assembly
 
Update 11: Filled the PC with 40 liter of oil!
 
Update 12: Finished: Pictures and summary!
 

if they gave more percent of the payment to the modder there isnt really a big problem in fact i think it could be a good thing

I suspect that paid mods will be good for the gaming industry, and gamers. Paid mods will give opportunity to content creators to-be, and will allow content creators to work on their hobby and passion as a paid job. And for those who just work on it as a hobby, it will encourage many of them to aim for a higher level of refinement.
 
Paid mods will encourage more custom content, more support for custom content, larger custom content, and higher quality custom content. It will also encourage game developers and publishers to include mod tools with their projects.
 
Despite doubters' concerns, I think Valve understands that the greater health and benefit for modding and people who play using mods rest with making modding a more viable for modders, and more reliable for mod-users, part of PC gaming.
 
Valve sets the bar for gaming higher than any other company in the gaming business. It's thanks to Valve that gaming is where it is today, and that it's not still  dominated by publishers wielding a strangle-hold over every developer. Valve are why there are so many, and so many successful independent developers. They are also why massive sales occur for gamers every season. And amongst all the PC clients out there, Valve's is by leagues, the most refined, the most functional, and the most progressive.

in extreme cases such as yours, I would understand and I think many devs would too. If its impossible to pay they aren't losing money.  Just stay safe

Support good developers, pirate bad ones.
 
 
Ubisoft and EA wanna play dirty, I'll play dirty as well. Morals be damned. I really don't care. Alas, this is just my opinion and belief. When you have a really good game and you can tell the studio isn't trying to do you up the butt. Then yes, pay your hard earned cash because they worked hard to give you a COMPLETE game. When they don't, just pirate. I believe its a good way of getting cake and eating it too. Make them suffer and learn from their mistakes. NEVER PIRATE INDIES though. That's just rude....

IT's late and I'm both hungry and tired from shooting Scrapyard Wars (which by the way is an LTT series and will be airing ad-supported on YouTube very soon for your viewing pleasure).
 
But there are a few points to address and you've already been patient enough.
 
I said LMG content would always be free. This was poor wording on my part. There has always been content produced by me and my team that was not necessarily available on a free platform like YouTube.
 
These "The Boost" videos that we make on contract as a sales training resource for Intel, for example:
 
 
 
In much the same way, Vessel has contracted LMG the production company to create an original series for their platform. They bankrolled the whole thing, giving us an opportunity to make something that otherwise would have been too costly, and per the licensing agreement they own the right to exploit this content. It's their show until such time as they decide it's not anymore.
 
We played more of a "production company" role in this than we're accustomed to.
 
This could, and SHOULD have been communicated better, and for that I'm sorry. The community should have heard about this from us FIRST, and not from a random email newsletter, but I've been (and so has the whole team) absolutely busting ass to not only get Nerd Sports produced, but also make sure that we're keeping up with everything else that we've got going on including not having missed a single day of LTT uploads for something like 5 years..
 
With that said, quantity isn't everything, and I've noticed that not everyone has appreciated the LTT content as much as usual lately, but it's hard for me to tell if that's because they don't like our new direction (fewer reviews, and more exploratory or experimental videos) or if they just saw a video or two they didn't like and raised hell in the comment section - it wouldn't be the first time.. And I will say, too, that honestly if a couple of the videos felt rushed then it's probably because they were.. HOWEVER, the primary reason for the rushed videos was  the entire week we're taking off this week to film Scrapyard Wars Season 4, which will be premiering on Vessel sometime in the next few weeks or so, followed by a release on YouTube 1 week later, which is the standard agreement for OUR content that is paid for by LMG or our sponsors.
 
Nerd Sports was shot 40% during evenings and weekends with employees taking time in lieu later on when we hire some more staff or when things slow down a little. We were careful to avoid disrupting any of our other commitments because imo you guys deserve the best we can deliver.
 
Which is another point that was brought up in this thread - "How will LMG keep its commitment to maintain the pace and quality of the other content if they're making Nerd Sports or other contractual content?"
 
We couldn't. We're hiring.
 
I've never shied away from investing in more staff or better equipment or a better facility to make sure that we're doing our best for ourselves, each other, our sponsors and our viewers. If we play our cards right, absolutely everyone wins.
 
Nerd Sports has been a fantastic learning experience for us, and whether we continue the series with Vessel, create other completely different web series in the future, or just say "fudge it" and flip burgers from now on, we'll be able to do those things better than we could have without having done this.
 
So bottom line is this. I screwed up the way I communicated "LMG content", which was meant to be content funded BY Linus Media Group rather than content funded entirely by and licensed to a 3rd party, and I screwed up in a MUCH bigger way the LACK of communication about this project. Sorry guys.

Posts like these are why we wanted a downvote button

Well, another reason to not review my Vessel account. Fuck exclusive content and fuck you Linus for lying (or as you prefer to call it, "poor wording").
Just admit that you are a sellout. You can't compare it to the Intel training videos because those videos are not aimed at the same demographic as your regular LinusTechTips videos, but these ones are.

I have to say, I've been watching LTT for about 3 years now, and at each point of change I've always been skeptical, it's just who I am, never convinced until I see the results, and every time I've been pleasantly surprised. Linus and the crew really know how to produce great, informative content over 3 channels, when most people struggle to run one. I think I'm coming to the end of my free year of Vessel and I can honestly say I WILL be subscribing again, mainly because a video from Tech Quickie came out on Vessel just before I had an exam that included the topic of the video (Apple Pay) and definitely upped my marks by about 10%. Mightn't sound like much but in a degree you take all you can get.
 
I absolutely love you guys, if I ever met any of you (Yes, even you Dennis), I'd buy you a beverage of some kind as a token of my appreciation (I said ONE Berkel... but yes a double JD counts as one). I trust you guys to do what's best for everyone, you've always put the viewer first and I commend you for it. And if you guys ever need a man on the ground in the UK for whatever reason, I'll happily volunteer.
 
Good luck with the future, though I'm not sure you'll need it (unless Whonnock server dies again).
 
EDIT: Just watched the new Vessel episode, so I guess you won't need a ton of luck after all

I will not be buying vessel. Screw that. My year of free vessel was nice while it lasted but the last thing I see myself doing is getting early access to bufferville where by the time a vessel video has done buffering at 144p it's already available, in 1080p, on Youtube without buffer. I'm a massive CSF fan and frankly prefer that style content over the direction LTT's main channel has been going recently (I honestly appreciate that you do what you find interesting, and if that's experimental videos and networking then you do you. But every single workbench video of A vs B has turned out in the end to have no difference whatsoever). I've been a diehard LTT fan for about as long as I remember, and im probably going back to early 2013 area and LTT's forums are probably one of my biggest past times. The fact remains however that while I was against vessel to begin with, I was reassured that all LTT content was always going to remain free to access forever. And while @LinusTech and @nicklmg can bring up examples of sponsored videos either on their own channel(s) and on other channels, the fact remains these are free to access to most people (ad-supported). What gets me is that in the case of something like Nerd Sports, the target audience and the people who spend their time watching these videos are not the same as sponsored content or reviews for manufacturers. The people who watch CSF and Nerd Fights are the more diehard, long term, returning loyal LTT viewers and audience. The kind that would watch a 20 minute long video about a thousand dollar thunderbolt cable with zero intention to even buy the product. The real fanbase of the channel is the one that is ostracized by this decision to put content like Nerd Sports behind a paywall.
 
You may be gaining the income of running Nerd Sports through an exclusive deal with Vessel, but you need to understand that the audience you hurt most are the ones that watch every video you make, watch all your Wan Shows and take part in community interaction on the forums, social media and other platforms. This isn't a sponsored video on a CPU feature for Intel that appeals to an audience of people wishing to use this feature, this is a video series on Tech Youtubers playing sports, something that a viewer just interested in watching relevant reviews on a case they intend to buy would have no interest in. A last example I am going to give is someone like my brother who while he is a (console) gamer, could care less about every single LTT and Tech Quicke video you have ever made and most likely you will ever make. He subscribes and watches Channel Super Fun religiously. This is the following that you are isolating by putting certain content behind a paywall, something you clearly said you would not when you first started the vessel migration.
 
While I don't expect a reply from either Linus nor Nick. I feel better that I've had my say in the matter and hope that between LTT and Vessel, we may see a compromise on Nerd Sports. I'd rather wait a month later and watch the episode on youtube late than be that guy who pirates or watches youtube reuploader's Nerd Sports videos to gain access to the content I desire to watch. We want to support LTT but if I have no way to support Nerd Sports in an unpaid platform, I and probably many others would turn to watching stolen rips of the content.
 
A lot of content creators and consumers were wary of YoutubeRed and the inherit issues of content behind paywalls and pledged to not go down that route. I see LTT heading there as soon as Youtube catches glimpse of this Vessel Exclusive stuff. 

RE: Reviews

Have you seen new release landscape in tech recently? Just like every other Q1, it is pretty damn barren. As more interesting products come out through the rest of the year, we'll address them with videos.

RE: The How To: Basic video

This is a series that we should have created years ago, but didn't. While content like this may not be useful for you, it will be useful for thousands of others who are just starting their journey in PC hardware & tech. While it may not have been important enough to you to watch it, it was important enough to us to create it, and in the long term we believe it will be a very valuable tool for beginners. And don't worry - "Basic" is not the only How To level we plan to address. More challenging/"interesting" stuff will come (soon, I think).


We're doing a lot more experimentation here in early 2016 than we have done in the past, mainly to figure out what works and what doesn't in order to provide the most entertaining and informative content possible in the long term. That means that some days a lot of people will hate the video that we release - trust me, we see that feedback.
 
Think of this Q1 as a pilot season on a TV network - some ideas will be hits and will stick around for a full run, others will falter and die. Not every video series will be a "Scrapyard Wars" kind of home run. But, in the long term, this is how we create new, successful segments on the show, and how we can make sure we keep entertaining you guys for years to come. That's the plan, at least


I guess this is as good a time as ever to say this - "LTT is running out of ideas" is not helpful feedback. We have lists upon lists of ideas for shows and segments, at times we just need a little help figuring out which ones are awesome and which ones totally suck.

Next time you feel like posting "LTT is running out of ideas,"  "scraping the bottom of the barrel," or whatever other statement, instead take the time to figure out why you didn't like what you just watched, and let us know! It definitely helps us evaluate segments and plan for future content.

No, if im not wrong, those CPUs do not have a heat spreader on it and doing that can easily kill the CPU.

For gaming you would be better off upgrading the GPU. 

DO NOT USE OTHER THINGS
70% works fine
vodka does not
just go get some 70%

My question is : why a z80 cpu ?
 
They easily could've used a cheap arm processor which would have been more powerful and MUCH more energy efficient.
 
Unless they manufactured the z80 on a modern process node , this is the worst choice of cpu i have ever seen , even for a calculator.
Heck , they probably paid more money for the silicone then they shouldve , they could've made it cheaper.

Just though I'd share this tutorial with some people, this allows you to remove those terrible shortcut icons from your desktop forever  B)

Also have a nice day/night!