• CIPWTTKT&GC v0x24 (v36): That Ain't Thermal Paste
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It's what I did, but I'm getting memory related errors in the VM. I converted the cash register's XP copy to a VM, but I'm getting memory related errors for some reason. I tried to create a new VM from scratch, and imported the files made by VMWare converter, but now it's stuck on the advanced boot options.
Getting real tired of your shit, NVIDIA.. Drivers keep crashing. Never have I hated a set of numbers more than I now hate 353.06....
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;47870907]2/6, got MP3 320 for all of the rest bar that Katy Perry song which considering how badly mastered pop music apparently is these days is not too surprising. There is barely any difference (If any at all) between MP3 320 and lossless, that I can detect and I'm playing this over speakers from the early 1980s that would cost around £400 in today's money.[/QUOTE] I got 4 out of 6 on this test thing. I guess I don't need any external sound card to appreciate it but I'm no audiophile.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47870471]No. Most onboard audio is fine unless you're ASUS and your board happens to be a P8Z77V-LX. Then prepare for your worst nightmare. [editline]4th June 2015[/editline] Akasori bro my merge.[/QUOTE] I've always had an xfi xtrememusic in mine. I'm half tempted to remove it and see what the trouble is.
Well shit, right now I'm trying to run the VM on my own computer as well and it has the same problem. Hit enter to continue booting, and the VM stalls completely. [T]http://i.imgur.com/2Iq4dTG.png[/T] Oh never mind, I assigned it to run on two cores, and now it does work.
I indeed tried that, but turns out it requires Sybase SQL anywhere 5.0? The thing is, this antique piece of software USED to run on the computer in question before it got wiped to get rid of ransomware, but I just can't find the shit required. I'm running the VM now, and the cashier program does run like this. [T]http://i.imgur.com/Hxzb5At.png[/T]
[QUOTE=Digimutant;47870985]I got 4 out of 6 on this test thing. I guess I don't need any external sound card to appreciate it but I'm no audiophile.[/QUOTE] 0/6 on a pair of expensive-as-fuck Audio-technica headphones connected to the onboard audio on my top-of-the-line ASUS Z97 motherboard. 3/6 on a pair of 25-year-old Altec Lansing speakers blocked by my monitor.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47871058]how the fuck is a creative card from 2005 still running? my old Audigy 2 died a loooooooooooooooong time ago :v:[/QUOTE] Still a good card imo, they still make drivers for it too. I've got several that have been pulled from various prebuilts.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47870471]No. Most onboard audio is fine unless you're ASUS and your board happens to be a P8Z77V-LX. Then prepare for your worst nightmare. [editline]4th June 2015[/editline] Akasori bro my merge.[/QUOTE] P8Z77V-LK am i safe? Also explain.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47871573]I seem to have a lot of fucking issues with its realtek drivers. Not only exclusive to BF3 or BF4 but with a shit ton of games. It's also an incredibly quiet chip and the sound quality was just pure awful. It was also half the reason I got BSODs(including my HD7790) on Win 7. Doesn't seem apparent on Win 8 but still. It was an incredible bad chip. Could be just be exclusive to my motherboard only but I've had bad experiences. [editline]4th June 2015[/editline] TL;DR my computer hates me and this has been a thing since I built it.[/QUOTE] Want an x-fi? :v:
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;47866353][video=youtube;W1uascUBDM0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1uascUBDM0[/video] Corsair you crazy.[/QUOTE] look at their new keyboards, they got rid of the trampstamp logo
[QUOTE=meppers;47871826]look at their new keyboards, they got rid of the trampstamp logo[/QUOTE] People warned them about how trashy that tramp stamp logo looked like when they announced it, yet Corsair went all "no guys it's a totes cool idea". Guess they admitted they were wrong then...
Speaking of sound cards, How good is a Creative SoundBlaster Live compared to the generic onboard audio chips of the last 5 years?
I got a gift from Paypal, they placed a 21 day hold on my funds for an Ebay item which means now that I have to pay out of my own wallet and means that it reduces the funds available for me to use in the Steam sale. All this despite being a seller for at least a year and a half. The sooner these cunts disappear from view the better.
PayPal are a bunch of fucking criminals
[QUOTE=lavacano;47872731]PayPal are a bunch of fucking criminals[/QUOTE] did you only just realise lol
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;47871100]I indeed tried that, but turns out it requires Sybase SQL anywhere 5.0? The thing is, this antique piece of software USED to run on the computer in question before it got wiped to get rid of ransomware, but I just can't find the shit required. I'm running the VM now, and the cashier program does run like this. [T]http://i.imgur.com/Hxzb5At.png[/T][/QUOTE] Woah what, even XP has the EU browser choice thing too?
[QUOTE=kaze4159;47870544]My Xonar's sitting in a box because I didn't remember it was PCI, this mobo only has PCI-E It's the first on my cutting block, hate this cheap, port lacking, crashy-ass motherboard[/QUOTE] [img]http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v1/309041337/100-new-1pc-box-PCI-E-express-1X-to-PCI-32bits-adapter-card.jpg[/img] Your problem is solved. [editline]20150603[/editline] [editline]20150603[/editline] [editline]20150603[/editline] [editline]20150603[/editline] [editline]20150603[/editline] [editline]20150603[/editline] [editline]20150603[/editline] [editline]20150603[/editline] Or just go for the insane. [img]http://image.made-in-china.com/4f0j00HBnQyADFyioW/PCI-E-to-PCI-Bus-Adapter-Card-Dual-PCI-Riser.jpg[/img]
Typing from my new das ultimate, I'm already fucking good at it, only 2 mistakes I had to correct in this post.
Also, chrome dev now has that stupid profile switcher button in the upper right that ignores the about:flags to remove it [editline]3rd June 2015[/editline] It always says my first name in a terribly rendered font...
Either they chose bad samples for that audio test or it goes to show there really is no difference, but I keep taking it and every time I get a different score no matter what device I use to listen. But I know there's a difference because I've heard how shitty some 128kbps music can be but I couldn't hear it in those tracks even after knowing which one it is.
Sound card chat: [img]http://i.imgur.com/YPH0asf.png[/img] Onboard audio, Creative Sound Core3D. I sometimes have to reboot several times to get the device to start. Sounds great when it works though!
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;47858317]Speaking of Macs... [img]http://i.imgur.com/3GpU9tS.png[/img] Oops (but not really because it's the 2012 model and not the garbage 2014). No don't flip out I'm not throwing my current rig in the trash, I'm gonna be using this thing as a secondary machine for miscellaneous tasks I don't want to showstop my current machine for. 4 GB of RAM and a 1 TB HDD (currently in a space crisis, this'll be lovely for throwing a bunch of shit on), but I could upgrade both of those for far cheaper than what Apple wants for doing the same on a 2014 mini. But quad-core Ivy Bridge i7 hnnnngggg[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/jwbWtjc.png[/img] Tomorrow's the big day. I'll probably post a few pictures once I get home and revel in OS X without any restrictions from close to if not a decade of experience through school.
[QUOTE=kaze4159;47869781]My favourite part is the self proclaimed audiophiles in the comments saying "I only got 3/6 because your examples are bad"[/QUOTE] Some of the examples are in fact bad though. It's very hard to distinguish between artifacts on a bad lossless recording, and subsequent artifacts on a bad lossy recording. If the source material is very high end and clear, the differences are extremely obvious with decent equipment. If it's crappy, you need knowledge of exactly what types of sounds you are listening for, and at that point you aren't listening to music so much as focusing on tiny details in a swarm of sound. For particularly bad recordings, lossy codecs can actually cut out a lot of the random artifacts, and thus sound notably 'cleaner'. There weren't any real examples of that in their sample, but a handful were definitely of questionable clarity. There's also some types of music/sounds that compress far more cleanly than others. I did the test 3 times, and scored 5/6 6/6, and 5/6 again. I got lucky on a coin flip once, and lost the flip twice on one piece. Too much interference. Meanwhile, for clean recordings like the Mozart piece, I could easily tell within 2 seconds which was which. The first time I forced myself to listen all the way through, and for the other two times I literally picked correctly within the opening couple of notes. The only way I can really describe it is that the mp3s have a vague sort of 'resonance' in the background. It's not immediately noticeable, but it's definitely there, and since I was looking for it, it stuck out like a sore thumb. Even as an audiophile, I will flat out say that 24 bit 192 is a straight up joke. You need incredible equipment, perfect conditions, and very specific music to be able to distinguish between that and CD quality. Not to mention that you need to be a very gifted individual. I say this as someone who can still hear 20KHz tones in my mid 20s. I can't even pretend to semi reliably distinguish between CD quality and beyond, and I'm already leaps and bounds more aware of sound quality than the average person.
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;47868777][url]http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality[/url] god damn. i seriously need to buy a M50x when, in the distant future, i go to a first world country. G430s just don't cut it.[/QUOTE] I got 6/6 only because the uncompressed wavs were the only clips my shitty internet couldn't keep up with.
[QUOTE=Chubbs;47872939]did you only just realise lol[/QUOTE] Oh sure, ignore the fact that I've been openly advocating for some government to come along and give the legal smackdown to PayPal and their executives for ages now. I only [i]just[/i] now realized a company I have fucking despised for a long time is an extension of the goddamn Mafia.
The Italian mob? Do tell more.
[QUOTE=Van-man;47872258]Speaking of sound cards, How good is a Creative SoundBlaster Live compared to the generic onboard audio chips of the last 5 years?[/QUOTE] The inside of a computer case has all sorts of random interference going on, amongst everything else. Usually the interference isn't an issue either way. If it were, everything else in your case would have problems too. It's not like you can just magically shield a sound card with ludicrous amounts of armor. It's plugged into the PCI slots, and PCI slots are essentially a direct highway to every piece of random signal and power fluctuation generation device on the entire motherboard. Onboard or internal sound card doesn't make a difference here. If one can deal with the random interference, so can the other. Unless you have an ungodly shitty onboard sound card, there will be almost no notable difference. Either way the answer is, get an external DAC if you care, otherwise use onboard. Internal cards are mostly pure placebo. An external unit is a fair amount of placebo as well, but you remove a lot of potential sources of interference, and most DACs can drive high resistance headphones better because they have a lot more power behind them, amongst other generally less noteworthy perks. [editline]4th June 2015[/editline] Disclaimer* Some sound cards have fancier mixing capabilities than onboard cards. Things like multiple inputs, and the capability to generate loops for things like playing soundboards in teamspeak. Plenty of onboard cards lack the ability to do things like that, but that in no way reflects upon their ability to accurately play audio.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;47875444]The inside of a computer case has all sorts of random interference going on, amongst everything else. Usually the interference isn't an issue either way. If it were, everything else in your case would have problems too. It's not like you can just magically shield a sound card with ludicrous amounts of armor. It's plugged into the PCI slots, and PCI slots are essentially a direct highway to every piece of random signal and power fluctuation generation device on the entire motherboard. Onboard or internal sound card doesn't make a difference here. If one can deal with the random interference, so can the other. Unless you have an ungodly shitty onboard sound card, there will be almost no notable difference. Either way the answer is, get an external DAC if you care, otherwise use onboard. Internal cards are mostly pure placebo. An external unit is a fair amount of placebo as well, but you remove a lot of potential sources of interference, and most DACs can drive high resistance headphones better because they have a lot more power behind them, amongst other generally less noteworthy perks. [editline]4th June 2015[/editline] Disclaimer* Some sound cards have fancier mixing capabilities than onboard cards. Things like multiple inputs, and the capability to generate loops for things like playing soundboards in teamspeak. Plenty of onboard cards lack the ability to do things like that, but that in no way reflects upon their ability to accurately play audio.[/QUOTE] Yeah unless you're getting a bunch of noise, it's not going to make much of a difference. Now I don't have the best headphones in the world, but I can't really hear any diference between my onboard and my FiiO E17 on my desktop. (I did not get the E17 for my desktop)
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;47874051]Also, chrome dev now has that stupid profile switcher button in the upper right that ignores the about:flags to remove it [editline]3rd June 2015[/editline] It always says my first name in a terribly rendered font...[/QUOTE] Yeah I hate that thing with a passion too. No Google, I [I]don't[/I] intend on sharing my machine anytime soon. It really should default to off until you select to set up more profiles.
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