Tech Things You Dont Know But Are Too Afraid To Ask.

[Glenwing]

Return of Merchandise something something... Authorized or something... I forget.  Anyway, it means return under waranty for refund, repair, or replacement, basically.

[rashdanml]

and mail-in-rebate is a thing that you fill out and mail to them and they send you some money. 

Addendum: After about 6 weeks. MIRs take too long for it to be worth it (imo).

[joelthezombie15]

So I was talking to my cousin and she asked me, "I can go on youtube and watch games to play so why cant i play them? It is showing the same picture i would see i just dont have control over what is happening." and i felt dumb because i couldnt answer. so in short, why can my computer play a video of a very graphically intensive game but i cant play it on my PC?

[Godlygamer23]

So I was talking to my cousin and she asked me, "I can go on youtube and watch games to play so why cant i play them? It is showing the same picture i would see i just dont have control over what is happening." and i felt dumb because i couldnt answer. so in short, why can my computer play a video of a very graphically intensive game but i cant play it on my PC?

Videos are pre-rendered. The GPU is doing much less work than playing a game. When playing a game, your GPU actually has to build everything with polygons. Lots of polygons. It's the same way with 3D effects in movies. All the fancy robots are rendered through 3D effects. Even though your DVD player can play the movie with no issue. It's because it's already been rendered.

[joelthezombie15]

Videos are pre-rendered. The GPU is doing much less work than playing a game. When playing a game, your GPU actually has to build everything with polygons. Lots of polygons. It's the same way with 3D effects in movies. All the fancy robots are rendered through 3D effects. Even though your DVD player can play the movie with no issue. It's because it's already been rendered.

Well why cant we have like a mix between the two? make the world prerendered?

[Glenwing]

Videos are just a list of what pixel is what color.  Games are 3D simulations, and the computer keeps track of millions of objects and calculates in real time how they should look when you move around.  Then calculates the list of pixels from that, and then it gets displayed.

[Glenwing]

Well why cant we have like a mix between the two? make the world prerendered?

 

Because you don't know ahead of time what it will look like.  Walking down a path might look like some thing, but walking down 2 feet to the left would be a completely different image, in terms of what pixel is displaying what color.  A video is exactly the same, every time.

[Morfy]

There is the intel warranty thing though (Cant remember the name to save my life) that if your chip dies from OC they replace it.

 

(Linus' way) its possible but it is a bit harder and riskier.  http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?126707-Intel-IHS-removal...-Any-reason-boiling-water-couldn-t-be-used

 

 

In the US its a fashion store :P

Yes, it is possible, but why? You don't need it on sandy with a decent cooler.

[rashdanml]

Yes, it is possible, but why? You don't need it on sandy with a decent cooler.

People always want more. To squeeze as much as possible out of everything. People define "acceptable" in their own way.

[joelthezombie15]

People always want more. To squeeze as much as possible out of everything. 

And i am one of those people :p

[ivhyn]

In what way will CPUs be updated after manufacturing reaches the minimum transistorsize?

[Glenwing]

In what way will CPUs be updated after manufacturing reaches the minimum transistorsize?

 

Architectural and base material changes.

[Godlygamer23]

In what way will CPUs be updated after manufacturing reaches the minimum transistorsize?

Eventually, we'll have to move to a different material altogether because once you hit a certain level, silicon becomes unstable. Also, transistors can only get so small before they stop functioning as transistors.

[Godlygamer23]

Video on transistors

[rashdanml]

In what way will CPUs be updated after manufacturing reaches the minimum transistorsize?

To give you some perspective, current transistors are about 50 atoms wide. That's already very close to being difficult to control. When it gets down to 1 atom width, it'll be nearly impossible without fancier methods of controlling the transistors.

[Ghost]

In what situations is faster RAM truly useful?

Ram disks. :o

[Glenwing]

To give you some perspective, current transistors are about 50 atoms wide. That's already very close to being difficult to control. When it gets down to 1 atom width, it'll be nearly impossible without fancier methods of controlling the transistors.

 

Transistors are made out of atoms.  Everything is.  Transistors can't be 1 atom wide.

[NickyVida]

None comes to mind.  The Hyper 212 is a pretty good cooler.  Nothing else would really be a substantial upgrade until you get to like $70-80 class coolers

 

I see. At this stage.. is it better to get the $80 cooler or go water should i want more cooling performance?

[rashdanml]

Transistors are made out of atoms.  Everything is.  Transistors can't be 1 atom wide.

Sorry, should have been clearer.

http://www.electroiq.com/content/dam/etc/medialib/platform-7/solid-state_technology/articles/volume-53/issue-10/38146.res

I meant the gap between the two ends being 1 atom wide. Currently, it's 50 atoms or so (mentioned in the video posted above).

[Glenwing]

I see. At this stage.. is it better to get the $80 cooler or go water should i want more cooling performance?

 

A good air cooler will be good enough unless you really want to go nuts...

[Glenwing]

Sorry, should have been clearer.

http://www.electroiq.com/content/dam/etc/medialib/platform-7/solid-state_technology/articles/volume-53/issue-10/38146.res

I meant the gap between the two ends being 1 atom wide. Currently, it's 50 atoms or so (mentioned in the video posted above).

 

Right, thanks :)

[Morfy]

People always want more. To squeeze as much as possible out of everything. People define "acceptable" in their own way.

And i am one of those people :P

I understand and respect that, i like to believe that i am also one of those people that if they can get more, they go for it, but i was trying to explain that that method will be useless on sandy, for example mine can do 5.1 on air, we had a member here with 5.5 ghz on a noctua NH-D14, so my point was that you will hit the silicone barrier before the temp one. That's all.

[NickyVida]

A good air cooler will be good enough unless you really want to go nuts...

I see. Thanks. i'll try out and see how much i can get out of the chip. Are water coolers expensive?

 

 

Btw, dont mean to be that irritating >.< but in some liquid cooled systems, they can actually match the colour of the liquid in the rads to the colour scheme of thier rig. How do they do it? o.o

[rashdanml]

Btw, dont mean to be that irritating >.< but in some liquid cooled systems, they can actually match the colour of the liquid in the rads to the colour scheme of thier rig. How do they do it? o.o

Coloured tubing or dyed liquid. Dyed liquid may not look as good if you have too many air bubbles in the loop, but generally look almost neon-like. You can get pretty decent coloured tubing too.

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