[QUOTE=TrafficMan;52636769]Your best option is probably to move somewhere that's not 5000+ miles from civilization
[editline]1st September 2017[/editline]
The last criteria is really the one that's going to kill you :v:[/QUOTE]
What bugs me is I CAN find some stuff I like, like a ducky one or corsair lux, but for whatever reason [B]nobody[/B] has a non-tkl mx blue model in stock, they have every other variant you can imagine but not that one :v:
The 3G modem in my vita uses a non-standard screw compared to about 100% of other screws
So right now it's in two halves
took this earlier
[t]https://s3.wasabisys.com/tenryuu/astrid/2017-09/17-09-02_17-42-52-FX_Web_Access_-_Waterfox.png[/t]
[QUOTE=meppers;52638703]I want to take a moment and shill about this really fucking awesome usb 3 sata 3 external hard drive enclosure I found for $10
[url]https://i.imgur.com/ss2J5L8.jpg[/url]
it has an easy to open tool free door to quickly insert and pull out a 2.5 inch drive (there is foam inside the lid that squeezes the drive against the sata connectors)
[url]https://i.imgur.com/5x8tQ5X.jpg[/url]
and the best part is you can REMOVE THE ELECTRONIC BITS and use it as a 3.5 inch adapter
[url]https://i.imgur.com/oGsbAIp.jpg[/url]
god damn this vantec box is amazing[/QUOTE]
So how is it gonna supply +12v and enough current on the +5v line for badass big boy HDD's?
If any of you fuckers are in seattle or PAX, hit me up. I'm here filming for a buddy.
Also staying at the Grand Hyatt here, "high speed internet" is limited to max of 8/8mbps...
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52637584]Microcenter? Fry's?
Also what are you doing in terrorist land[/QUOTE]
The frys around here are garbage and the closest microcenter is 900 miles away.
[editline]2nd September 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Brt5470;52639646]If any of you fuckers are in seattle or PAX, hit me up. I'm here filming for a buddy.
Also staying at the Grand Hyatt here, "high speed internet" is limited to max of 8/8mbps...[/QUOTE]
I was supposed to go camping up near Seattle next weekend but work decided the rest of the month is locked down on vacations.
Thanks Amazon!
Went to a surplus sale at my college a few months (less than 3) ago with some friends and snagged like 12 desktops for $12 + some miscellaneous stuff like some relatively clean keyboards and a fuckton of Ethernet cable for less than $6 (got a crt toooooo!). After getting home I realized that the dudes in the IT department left a number of PCs with drives still in them and unformatted. Bonus points because my friend Tim got a cd someone left in there with a shitton of hiring info and contact info for a bunch of idiots in the SUNY school system.
Fast forward to today and now that classes started up again we stopped by the IT department to return that cd. Needless to say the low ish level IT people at the desk acted like we were returning some sort of priceless artifact to them. In addition to that we mentioned that a number of the pcs still had drives in them which led to the guy saying "Oh well how many did you get? We could wipe them for you.". Tim then said he had gotten only 1 drive, to which the IT guy responded "Oh well that's not too bad, how about you?". I then proceeded to tell him that I had gotten about a dozen of them and that I had already formatted them. Realizing that it would be a bit of a pain to do that and that we likely weren't up to any nonsense (which he said), he just said to format them and that we'd be fine.
All of this was thanks to the fact that due to weird degree program diversity quotas and what not that my college has regarding campus jobs, they've mostly filled the student section of the IT department with people who literally know almost nothing about computers and don't want to know anything about computers. Thanks to that all the hardware I got was fixed up with incredibly minor fixes (they had post-it notes on them detailing what they thought was wrong). One of them I got literally one of the ram sticks sort of half-crammed in backwards and another had nothing but a bad install of windows on it (which literally meant nothing as all the school stuff was run being run on virtual machines at this point).
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;52637584]Microcenter? Fry's?
Also what are you doing in terrorist land[/QUOTE]
As demache said, we really don't have those in SoDak. Afaik it's only a big city kind of thing.
And I'm making spreadsheets for the guys managing the guys building the bases for the guys training the guys fighting ISIS.
Funily enough, of the several ISPs over here, this is the first one to show the proper flagdog, and I'm only using it because I'm in transient housing.
[QUOTE=wingless;52637615]I dunno, man. The fact that places like Microcenter and Fry's even exist on the scale they do, whether or not there's one near you, on top of what you can buy even at just Best Buy (Regardless of their pricing) is an achievement rare in many other countries. Not to mention just how huge sites like Newegg are. Don't take what you've got for granted, because it still is mighty impressive.
In Australia, the best you can find is either a small local retailer that has only one location and a back room (As in, not a warehouse), or online retailers that either a) have good prices b) have a wide selection. Never both.
The fact that just the other day I saw a selection of Raspberry Pi's and accessory kits in the Denver Microcenter amazed me. You could never, ever, ever see something that niche (that isn't even all that niche anymore!) in a retail store in AU, without going to some speciality store which probably is no where near you.[/QUOTE]
I meant specifically brick and mortar retailers, I go for Newegg all the time and love it. From my (admittedly limited) exposure to that type of retailer, they've been condensed to be only operational in locations with very high population densities, which I want to attribute to online retailers (but maybe it's just always been that way, idk).
[QUOTE=Scot;52637443]PSA: if you sell old hardware on ebay, post it tracked. Sold my old mobo + CPU last week and the guy potentially tried to cheat me by claiming it never arrived. Messaged him back saying I had proof it had been and funnily enough the next day he replied saying it was delivered that morning. If I didn't have proof it was delivered things could have gotten extremely annoying.[/QUOTE]
This is more general advice really, you should always be sending mail as tracked or at least, signed for.
That way you'll always have proof and in the case of ebay, they'll side with you if you have either of those two, they even explicitly state to send items in those ways.
Does anyone else find when waiting for a parcel that every vehicle outside suddenly sounds like a delivery van?
[QUOTE=Leestons;52640416]Does anyone else find when waiting for a parcel that every vehicle outside suddenly sounds like a delivery van?[/QUOTE]
Thanks to Amazon and their same-day shipping, they send it off to contractors in their own personal cars to deliver stuff. So it's no longer as exciting.
Oh and I gotta love getting my packages past midnight but the tracking says it arrived before 9pm (which was Amazon's guarantee for same-day shipping). I'm pretty sure the contractors just scan all of them as arrived, then drop them off whenever later in the night.
[QUOTE=Levelog;52606421]Woo I've got an interview for a promotion next week[/QUOTE]
So I may have talked my way out of this position and into a more preferable promotion in a couple months.
[QUOTE=Levelog;52640658]So I may have talked my way out of this position and into a more preferable promotion in a couple months.[/QUOTE]
Did the same for the ARNG. Traded what was basically "radio bitch" for a cyber network defense position.
[QUOTE=WastedJamacan;52640704]Did the same for the ARNG. Traded what was basically "radio bitch" for a cyber network defense position.[/QUOTE]
I mean both of the positions are for network engineer, but with the current one I'm inheriting a team that will lead to some potentially weird office politics. If I wait a couple months I get to build my own team from scratch.
After hearing good things, I ordered this from gearbest [url]https://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_648196.html[/url]
I've never bought anything so expensive from China before so this is gonna be interesting. And I also need to learn how to use a US layout keyboard :v:
Among Chinese brands I think Xiaomi at least is pretty well known, but I haven't really looked into it enough to know whether or not to expect good things from them :v:
Xiaomi tends to be good. Except there's one catch people should know about buying things from China. Don't buy it [b]in[/b] China. PRC companies have different quality control for what they sell in country and what they export, and it is not good. This is true of DJI, Xiaomi, Huawei, etc. So in that case, be careful [b]where[/b] you buy the product from, website choice very much matters here, because the difference between Chinese and export stock can be substantial.
[QUOTE=wingless;52640992]Xiaomi tends to be good. Except there's one catch people should know about buying things from China. Don't buy it [b]in[/b] China. PRC companies have different quality control for what they sell in country and what they export, and it is not good. This is true of DJI, Xiami, Huawei, etc. So in that case, be careful [b]where[/b] you buy the product from, website choice very much matters here, because the difference between Chinese and export stock can be substantial.[/QUOTE]
That explains why I've heard that it's common for Chinese to grey market import products from western countries that's made by companies located and headquartered in China.
Good to know. Afaik Xiaomi is China's premium brand.. I guess you could say China's Apple, kinda..
I watched a review of it on YouTube and then followed the linked they ordered it from. TechTablets was the channel, he reviews a lot of different Chinese-imported products
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;52630567][I]Are you kidding me[/I]
[I]guess what my office just upgraded its APs to
fuckit[/I] I'm just going to be straight with the sales rep. Company just got a bunch of em and I wanted one too. Reading around online a number of people were saying they were straight up honest with their reps and they still got one.[/QUOTE]
In solidarity with S31-Syntax I now own a pair of Meraki APs (MR16 + MR18) for 30 kanuckistani koins. Openwrt here we come!
How much of a possibility is it that my 1080 Ti is bottlenecked by my motherboard?
[QUOTE=garychencool;52641173]How much of a possibility is it that my 1080 Ti is bottlenecked by my motherboard?[/QUOTE]
Is your motherboard one of those ones with a soldered Atom SoC on it? If yes, then maybe.
If no, no.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52641173]How much of a possibility is it that my 1080 Ti is bottlenecked by my motherboard?[/QUOTE]
Extremely improbable, because the only situations in which it could be, it would be extremely obvious and due to your own mistake. Like if you plugged it into a PCIe1 slot or an x4 slot, or underclocked your PCIe bus by a substantial amount.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52641242]Extremely improbable, because the only situations in which it could be, it would be extremely obvious and due to your own mistake. Like if you plugged it into a PCIe1 slot or an x4 slot, or underclocked your PCIe bus by a substantial amount.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't call it [I]extremely[/I] improbable or pile it on as the user's fault, though. Anything is possible when you slap a bunch of copper and sand together and put lightning in it.
Some bad chipset drivers sure will bottleneck a 1080Ti, and any number of settings with ambiguous names, malfunctioning cables or overheating components can slow or a stop a system to the point that it could be considered a bottleneck.
Only logs tell the truth, and sometimes the truth isn't.
[QUOTE=Hugg;52640882]After hearing good things, I ordered this from gearbest [url]https://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_648196.html[/url]
I've never bought anything so expensive from China before so this is gonna be interesting. And I also need to learn how to use a US layout keyboard :v:[/QUOTE]
I've gotten used to US layout keyboards pretty quickly, and find I can now switch between UK and US without any real trouble. I guess I don't know what Swedish keyboards are like, but it was the ISO->ANSI switch that I found a pain for a week or two.
[QUOTE=nikomo;52641184]Is your motherboard one of those ones with a soldered Atom SoC on it? If yes, then maybe.
If no, no.[/QUOTE]
Or if his motherboard only has Gen 1 PCI-E slots
[QUOTE=garychencool;52641173]How much of a possibility is it that my 1080 Ti is bottlenecked by my motherboard?[/QUOTE]
FYI I have actially tried running my 1070 on a 1x PCIE slot. It only took off about 10-15 % performance (in heaven benchmark). And that is on a PCIE 2.0 bus. So even if you run a 1080 TI on a 4x PCIE 2.0 I don't think you should notice much.
On that subject: Phoronix did some benchmarks on that a while ago: [url]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pcie-gpu-123&num=1[/url]
It is really interesting how Nvidia is not affected much, while AMD is hit hard(er).
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;52640955]Among Chinese brands I think Xiaomi at least is pretty well known, but I haven't really looked into it enough to know whether or not to expect good things from them :v:[/QUOTE]
I have a Xiaomi desk lamp, it's very well built and works great. Also a USB-C charger that will charge my XPS. Pretty impressed.
[QUOTE=drblah;52642962]FYI I have actially tried running my 1070 on a 1x PCIE slot. It only took off about 10-15 % performance (in heaven benchmark). And that is on a PCIE 2.0 bus. So even if you run a 1080 TI on a 4x PCIE 2.0 I don't think you should notice much.
On that subject: Phoronix did some benchmarks on that a while ago: [url]http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pcie-gpu-123&num=1[/url]
It is really interesting how Nvidia is not affected much, while AMD is hit hard(er).[/QUOTE]
Nvidia has data compression built into their drivers so they're less likely to be bottlenecked by a narrow bus.
That's also the reason for their eGPU popularity.
Trying to find out how to transfer my late grandfather's 5.25 inch floppy disks, he's got some of his BASIC programs and old AutoCAD drawings on them .Do any of the aussie members know a good place to look for one where they aren't charging some stupid retro rip off price like ebay?
[t]http://www.gigabyte.jp/FileUpload/Global/KeyFeature/699/img/product/01.png[/t]
Bought a meat tenderiser to go with the George Fermi.
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