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About Zodiark1593
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Title
The Maiden That Never Was...
- Birthday Aug 27, 1991
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Zodiark1593
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Location
Placerville, California
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Gender
Female
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Interests
Computers, anime, games, 3D, writing, RC, Shooting
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Biography
Video gamer for entire life, albeit, not nearly so as of late. Transgender MtF. A skilled writer, and borderline insomniac.
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Intel Core i5-4590 @ 3.7 GHz
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Asus H97-Plus
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2x4 GB PNY XLR8 DDR3 1600 MHz
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EVGA GTX 960 SSC
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CoolerMaster N-400
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120 GB AMD R7 SSD + 2 TB WD Green
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Thermaltake TR2 430 Watt
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HiSense 1360x768 HDTV + Toshiba 1280 x 720 HDTV
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Stock Intel Cooler
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Logitech G710+ Cherry MX Brown
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Corsair Harpoon
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Sennheiser Momentum On-Ear
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Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
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With $200,000,000 on the line, guy had better get to brute forcing. Perhaps by the time the password gets cracked, the value will have multiplied again, and his grandchildren (not a chance he’d crack the password in his lifetime) will have a nice inheritance. I keep passwords in an encrypted container that is frequently accessed and backed up, so while it isn’t terribly convenient, I have the advantage of having written my lesser used passwords down, stored on my cloud drive, and encrypted to prevent even the cloud drive host from snooping. The downside (or upside), should I die,
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Isn’t RTX an Nvidia branding for their ray-tracing hardware? I’m rather conflicted. On one hand, I don’t really approve of referring to all uses of real-time ray-tracing as RTX. On the other hand, it would be quite amusing if RTX becomes so ubiquitous that it actually loses trademark protection. Ray-tracing is actually quite cheap at low resolutions. Getting into higher resolutions, cost increases drastically.
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Why is the computer parts market so screwed up?
Zodiark1593 replied to Kawsy's topic in General Discussion
Oh believe me, I’m not especially thrilled about it at all, being in the market for a card myself. However, you appear to be laboring under the delusion that complaining about it and claiming in foul play (you should probably cite evidence to support your claim of intentionally withholding supply btw.) will be changing anything anytime soon. So yes, I’ll have a brief laugh. Better for my sanity than screaming into the abyss of the internet. -
Why is the computer parts market so screwed up?
Zodiark1593 replied to Kawsy's topic in General Discussion
It’s called Supply and Demand have a big problem. -
Right now, I’d probably say don’t bother looking for a GPU, unless the machine makes you income (scalper prices are still much cheaper than comparable or slower Quadros). Even older stuff (including some Maxwell cards) is pretty inflated. Play some Stardew Valley and Minecraft for a few months instead, or look at some other lighter indie games that will run on iGPUs. I’m pretty inclined to pick up A Hat In Time myself on GoG.
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DDoS attack... oh... what are we on now?
Zodiark1593 replied to ragnarok0273's topic in Forum Bugs and Issues
Maybe one or two topics, in a seldom used sub-section of a tech forum with users that are aware and knowledgeable of these attacks. Not exactly exposure central. I have to question the intellect of the individuals that perpetrates these DDoS attacks. Surely, they could find some place more entertaining to bring down than LTT? Gross lack of creativity, really. -
Rural California here seems to be downright hostile to bicyclists. I’d been very nearly hit head-on by drivers swerving into my lane around blind turns to avoid hitting bicyclists that probably took the other driver by surprise. The speed limits are typically 45-55 MPH on the rural main roads, with many drivers on Highway 49 (also occasionally populated by bicyclists) going 65-75 MPH. If you go the speed limit, you quickly get a line of irate drivers lining up behind. To add the cherry, law enforcement is very seldom seen, so speed limits are effectively merely suggestions. Though i
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For most games, isn’t pre-ordering quite redundant anyway, especially with digital copies being a thing? I’d imagine supply of game copies is seldom a problem that one would have to worry about getting ahold of one. Random personal tidbit time: The only game I’d ever pre-ordered was Pokemon SoulSilver.
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Semiconductor supply shortages even effecting the auto industry
Zodiark1593 replied to Jet_ski's topic in Tech News
To provide faster performance, the design needs to crunch more numbers in a given time. You do this by either a) running the chip at a higher clock speed, which has well-known implications on power consumption and potential long term reliability (an important factor for automotive applications, and b) scaling up the design to perform more number crunching per clock, which requires more transistors. The designs used for automotive (engine management, sensors and safety) tend to be specialized real-time CPUs. The designs currently out are already highly optimized for their purpose. -
Semiconductor supply shortages even effecting the auto industry
Zodiark1593 replied to Jet_ski's topic in Tech News
Funny enough, there was a semiconductor fab that used to be close by where I work, and supplied chips to Renesas and directly to auto makers. It kind of went under a few years ago.