• CIPWTTKT&GC 0x2F - Ironic Thinkpad Memes
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honestly with how slow graphics card progress has been, how long warranties last and how often i see gpus die i don't think i'd be 100% comfy buying a used card in these times i got a 1070 and 6600k to "tide me over for a year or two until the new gen" back in 2016 and it's been strongly justifying its continued existence ever since
It shouldn't do this. My Ubuntu server reboots just fine using that command.
it's 2014 again
With me soon planning on upgrading, what is the most bang for the buck GPU and CPU combo? This desktop I have is on its deathbed and I don't think the mobo is gonna survive in the upcoming months. Preferably something with dual pci express slots for dual GPUs or an APU so I can use several GPUs for more monitor outputs (Don't question why I need so many monitor outputs)
Mine did too before but evidently that's not the case anymore. Apparently before the reboot command took no options (so the now command was always ignored) but in more recent versions it can take options and now will cause it to enter into maintenance mode on reboot. Now overnight I had my roommate hard reboot the server and it still won't let me in which makes me think something else has happened in my case. I'm wondering if it's entering emergency mode for some reason or another. Regardless I'm without a server until I get home.
I had a spare camera that my mom doesn't need anymore but wasn't sure yet what to do with it https://u.lewd.se/vP77Uo_firefox_2018-09-02_16-59-40.png
What's your budget and use case for the machine? If you go with an AMD APU or an Intel CPU, you get a couple extra display outputs for free so you might not need to add a second graphics card depending on how many you need. If you really want to add a second low end graphics card just for the display outputs, you'll also want to check out the distribution of PCIE lanes on the motherboard you're buying. Many will divide the lanes between the x16 slots into x8/x8 when you have two graphics cards plugged in, but ideally you'd want something like x16/x4 so that your primary card doesn't get slowed down unnecessarily. It's only really a concern if you're buying a high-end GPU or want to be future proof for possible upgrades later on though, for midrange GPUs pcie3 x8 is plenty enough.
My motherboard and RAM have arrived. Amazon is claiming the 1600 will be here tomorrow but since it's a mail holiday, I doubt it. https://i.imgur.com/C0Ydd4G.png
Well, they're both the same price range, and if I decide to go with dual GPUs instead of a GPU and APU setup, I should probably go with the GTX 1060 if I stuff the system with GTX 950 as the secondary GPU? Or will I not get into any problems mixing the two brands of drivers together? I kind of want to go for the RX 580 8GB due of the VRAM alone. If I slap GTX 1060/RX 580 and Ryzen 5 2600x together into a single system, I should be relatively okay for the next 3 years or so?
I'm slapping a Ryzen 1600, RX 580 4GB card and 16GB of RAM together and I imagine it will be fine for a few years, but I'll till be buying a 1080ti once the prices drop.
The CPU should last you for longer than that, honestly. Whether the GPU will or not... depends on your use case. What games do you play, and what games do you plan to play? What's your target resolution, framerate, and settings?
Do you guys think the NSG s0 case is a gimmick or is it worth the $1000?
Until I see someone like JayzTwoCents get his hands on one and test it out under some pretty heavy OC and load's, I'll call it a gimmick.
Well I primarily play WoW but even at medium settings the 950 chugs extremely hard at ultra widescreen resolution (it's almost comparable to 4k gaming). Other games I play are Destiny 2, Warframe, For Honor and I'm planning on getting more demanding games in the future. Target framerate is 60 at medium/high settings. I also do 3D work but the renderers I use are retarded and refuse to use GPU processing power to render, so that's CPU only thing. I might invest into a VR headset in the future too possibly, but not that likely.
It's a gimmick but it's not a stupid one. If you absolutely demand a zero-noise system with that much power, it looks like the only way to go. But the only places I can think where you'd need fanless, you probably don't need that much compute power, so you'd be better off with any industrial fanless PC. If you've got the kind of cash where you can spend an extra $800 to go fanless, go ahead, but I'd expect post-release support to be spotty (I don't believe them when they say they'll keep updating GPU coolers and such). But note that unless you're in some kind of soundproofed room, you can easily build a system with fans that is below ambient noise levels (usually 30-35dB). My own build is inaudible at idle (PSU and GPU have 0RPM idles) and barely a whisper under full load, and I spent less than half that case's cost on my case and cooling.
Yeah, some large rads and low RPM fans + sound isolation would do 99.9% of the work for you.
Nvm guess I remembered incorrectly, thought there'd be a couple % difference between x16 and x8, but looks like that only happens once you go down to x4. The only thing you have to do then is plug the primary GPU into the correct slot
How well will a used i7-6700K last me compared to a R5-2600X?
Depends on how many more exploits need be patched at a performance cost in that chip.
I'm not a big fan of this test, it doesn't really show the effects on texture streaming, and especially if you're doing OBS or NEVD encoding, since you have to pipe that video from the GPU to the CPU, then back into the GPU.
Due to degredation the Ryzen chip will probably be more consistent over time, also more cores might be more useful. But the 6700k will be faster in games right now and for a good while due to clock speed.
I think I'm getting burned out on that MSP life again, time to go back to an ISP or datacenter. Too bad the two major ISPs near me are Comcast and CL since CL bought Level3, both of which treat their employees like shit. Maybe I'll find a regional office for a backbone provider or something. Only sizable WISP out here is absolute ass too.
Don't forget how Skylake is swiss cheese with all the vulns people found in it.
If you ever feel like moving to Canada...
What would you do with 4x perfectly good 2.5 SATA HDDs of varying sizes?
Make the world's shittiest NAS and use it for backups or porn or something.
Target practice.
I would say buy a bunch of cheap thinkpads off of Ebay without hard drives and bring them back to life, but those things usually don't come with caddys. I second duct taping them together and using them as a porn bank.
Well, one of them would error-out at somewhere 180th GB when zero-filling so I unscrewed it and tried to destroy the platters but the one underneath the top one wouldn't come out so I stuck a screwdriver there to pull it out and it somehow shattered all over the floor - miracle that it didn't cut me in the process. Apparently 2.5 platters are a LOT softer and easier to shatter than the 3.5 ones.
Probably use sputtered or electroplated glass platters. I think most 3.5 platters are solid metal.
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