CIPWTTKT&GC v0x14 (v20): Turning it off and on all day every day - Hardware & Software

Man. Letting your inner nerd rage out with a box of old hard-drives + a hammer is satisfying as all hell. The old IDE drive that had Windows ME installed on it fucking exploded. The platters disintegrated inside of it. It was awesome.

[QUOTE=Lyoko774;37430869]Man. Letting your inner nerd rage out with a box of old hard-drives + a hammer is satisfying as all hell. The old IDE drive that had Windows ME installed on it fucking exploded. The platters disintegrated inside of it. It was awesome.[/QUOTE] That's an interesting idea. I've turned on hard drives with the cover off, and smashed hard drives with a hammer... but never both at the same time. :eng101:

[QUOTE=MTMod;37430932]That's an interesting idea. I've turned on hard drives with the cover off, and smashed hard drives with a hammer... but never both at the same time. :eng101:[/QUOTE] :science: [editline]27th August 2012[/editline] Probably a nice way to get aluminium shards embedded in your face.

Greatest idea ever.

you guys should pour glue or liquid soap on an open HDD while on. [editline]27th August 2012[/editline] the results are hilarious.

I'll have to smash a drive, then turn it on while it's behind a cement wall. Videos to come?

[QUOTE=MTMod;37431157]I'll have to smash a drive, then turn it on while it's behind a cement wall. Videos to come?[/QUOTE] If you guys want i'll grab an old drive and video me pouring wood glue in it. while on

With a side of microwaved CDs?

[QUOTE=latin_geek;37431297]With a side of microwaved CDs?[/QUOTE] Sadly i can't do that

[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;37431225']If you guys want i'll grab an old drive and video me pouring wood glue in it. while on[/QUOTE] do it do it do it.

[QUOTE=SweFox*;37429867]Is any stock cooler good? Why would anyone buy a stock cooler if they don't plan on changing it.[/QUOTE] I use the stock cooler on my 460 because I use headphones so I don't mind the noise and it getting to 70C when under Furmark load while OC'd doesn't bother me because it isn't going to last any great deal of time longer at 60C. [editline]27th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=latin_geek;37431297]With a side of microwaved CDs?[/QUOTE] Microwave a HDD platter.

I imagine turning on a drive with dented platters will be something like this. [video=youtube;8fPi8w4h-NY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fPi8w4h-NY[/video]

oh my god that's amazing

[URL]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1202746&p=37431385&viewfull=1#post37431385[/URL] He's gonna limit his CPU to 80% Edit: Turns out he's just changing power management.

[QUOTE=PyroCF;37431564][url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1202746&p=37431385&viewfull=1#post37431385[/url] He's gonna limit his CPU to 80%[/QUOTE] Actually, and I'm cross-posting this, but [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oC3JUdr68Eg/UDvZCgn9MHI/AAAAAAAAC4w/YpWCWfpgI_0/s0/Untitled.png[/img] I've actually had to do this before on my laptop, some program had a condition where it would needlessly max out the CPU (but still run as intended) and I needed to keep using it, so I set this to 40% and my CPU went from 70 degrees to about 45 and my laptop's fan went from almost max speed back to silent. Considering it's a sandy bridge top-end i5 (2540m 2.6ghz 2-core 4-thread), I still had more than enough speed. In fact, I forgot that I changed that setting until about a week later when I went to play a game and it wasn't running quite as smooth as usual, and remembered what I did. The whole week prior I had used the machine for work every day and never noticed.

[QUOTE=mblunk;37431677]Actually, and I'm cross-posting this, but [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oC3JUdr68Eg/UDvZCgn9MHI/AAAAAAAAC4w/YpWCWfpgI_0/s0/Untitled.png[/img] I've actually had to do this before on my laptop, some program had a condition where it would needlessly max out the CPU (but still run as intended) and I needed to keep using it, so I set this to 40% and my CPU went from 70 degrees to about 45 and my laptop's fan went from almost max speed back to silent. Considering it's a sandy bridge top-end i5 (2540m 2.6ghz 2-core 4-thread), I still had more than enough speed. In fact, I forgot that I changed that setting until about a week later when I went to play a game and it wasn't running quite as smooth as usual, and remembered what I did. The whole week prior I had used the machine for work every day and never noticed.[/QUOTE] Just underclock it and lower vcore, that's the best way to lower temps. You can leave that at 100%

[QUOTE=PyroCF;37431709]Just underclock it and lower vcore, that's the best way to lower temps. You can leave that at 100%[/QUOTE] It's an HP laptop, all of the fun settings are locked. I verified with CPU-Z that doing this actually did limit the frequency to about 1ghz.

oh jesus [url]http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/super-hi-vision-8k-standard[/url]

Make. It. BIGGER

I hate HD as a term. "High" is fucking vague and will eventually not be considered high anymore. Stupid.

[QUOTE=Warship;37431851]I hate HD as a term. "High" is fucking vague and will eventually not be considered high anymore. Stupid.[/QUOTE] We'll probably just start using greater superlatives. I'm actually totally fine with the HD buzz because it actually means something, a display that is at least capable of displaying a certain amount of detail being 720p, where any marketing buzzwords before the "HD" part can be ignored, except in the case of "Full HD" which usually means 1080p.

The next thing is UHD, what's after that? Super Ultra High Definition? It's already ridiculous enough as it is.

Mega Max Super High Definition To The Extreme 2

Resolution of the High Resolutions Most Extreme Detail of Extreme Resolutions to the Max

QUHD I guess. Quad Ultra High Definition. FIHD. Fucking insane high definition

Higher Resolutíon Definition Than Your Eyes Definition X2

Fucking High Ginormous Extra Wide Bigger Than Life Ultra Mega Huge Extreme Resolution Better Than Retina x4 Definition

I dunno, some actual resolutions have long names. For instance, WQUXGA is Wide Quad Ultra eXtended Graphics Array, or 3840x2400, which is the 16:10 version of QUXGA (3200x2400), which is four times UXGA (1600x1200), which is the ultra extended version of SXGA (Super eXtended Graphics Array, 1280x1024) which is the super extended version of XGA (1024x768) which is an extension to VGA (Video Graphics Array, 640x480).

[QUOTE=gman003-main;37432335]I dunno, some actual resolutions have long names. For instance, WQUXGA is Wide Quad Ultra eXtended Graphics Array, or 3840x2400, which is the 16:10 version of QUXGA (3200x2400), which is four times UXGA (1600x1200), which is the ultra extended version of SXGA (Super eXtended Graphics Array, 1280x1024) which is the super extended version of XGA (1024x768) which is an extension to VGA (Video Graphics Array, 640x480).[/QUOTE] WXGA is 1280x800? I'll take a guess WUXGA is 1680x1050

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