The "Quick Questions that does not Deserve a Thread"...Thread. V4
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Why does my monitor have/do this?
[t]http://puu.sh/cpdxF/236b386b52.png[/t]
[editline]24th October 2014[/editline]
Okay it didn't cap full screen, but you can see the resolution there, everything went tiny and kinda blurry.
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;46322744]Why does my monitor have/do this?
[t]http://puu.sh/cpdxF/236b386b52.png[/t]
[editline]24th October 2014[/editline]
Okay it didn't cap full screen, but you can see the resolution there, everything went tiny and kinda blurry.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure you get this if you have an 900 series cards and I think the latest geforce driver gives the DSR ( 4k res) support for the 500,600 and 700 series as well.
[QUOTE=xplicitt;46322675]follow some online guide for cleaning off the old paste from the cpu and cooler before you put it back on. wetting q tips or cotton balls with rubbing alcohol works well. don't take the cpu out of the socket, you don't have a reason to and that just increases the chance of something going wrong.[/QUOTE]
I use rubbing alcohol or non-acetone nail polish, which is some sort of grain alcohol.
water will also work if you don't slather it everywhere. moisten a lint free towel and rub it off
Is it possible to get monitors designed for movies (2.4:1) aspect ratio (what resolution(1920x1200))? If so what is the reslution of them? I cant seem to track them down since I don't know the proper name of them
Edit:
Managed to find it ( 2560x1080 )
Next question is:
Anyone aware of any 3D monitors @ 2560x1080 res? (120Hz)
120hz 2560x1080 does not exist.
[QUOTE=.Lain;46330573]120hz 2560x1080 does not exist.[/QUOTE]
Yet. There's a 2560x1440 120hz display already (Asus ROG PG278Q), only a matter of time before someone chops the bottom 360 lines off.
shame he didn't ask if it could theoretically exist
I think i've got some adware. When i click links i normally visit it redirects me to some bogus WARNING!!!! JAVA NEEDS TO BE UPDATED!!! and asks me to download a setup.exe
I'm usually fairly buckle down on preventing this stuff but i can't seem to get rid of this. I'm leaving malwarebytes to scan because after continuously looking for manual solutions (stop in task manager and then find the files then delete) but i can't seem to locate what's it specifically is..
CCleaner for your registry and Temp files etc. wouldn't be a bad choice once you have found and got rid of whatever is causing it.
[QUOTE=woolio1;46324851]I use rubbing alcohol or non-acetone nail polish, which is some sort of grain alcohol.[/QUOTE]
i used rubbing alcohol and even though i had some trouble with the push-pins (flimsy plastic shit) it all worked out fine in the end.
now it runs perfectly smooth and i get constant temps of 40-60c :smile:
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46349940]any way i can speed up ftp access or is it naturally slow?
this is to a local ftp server also using a usb disk
[img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9F5A6nZ44Ps/VE9XGHlsuPI/AAAAAAAAByY/RHXq5xSUMfc/s0/2014-10-28_21-43-06.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Wired or wireless? That seems just a tad slower than what I got on wireless G with meh signal strength. Normally, it should be able to use the full amount of bandwidth available, like 1 Gbit should be near 80-100 MB/s. 12 MB/s for Fast Ethernet.
Does anyone have a Kindle? I'm curious to know if there's a list of books with the X-Ray feature
So what's the difference between AMD and Intel CPU's?
Why is AMD so cheap?
[QUOTE=General;46351728]So what's the difference between AMD and Intel CPU's?
Why is AMD so cheap?[/QUOTE]
AMD's high end CPU's tend to be not as good as the current generation Intel high end CPU's. So in order to stay competitive, they aim for a lower price point, so they can offer more performance for the price than Intel's lower end CPU's. Traditionally, this has been the case.
I'm not sure if the situation has changed though since Intel is trying to aim toward the mobile market, which naturally has lower end CPU's.
[QUOTE=General;46351728]So what's the difference between AMD and Intel CPU's?
Why is AMD so cheap?[/QUOTE]
AMD isn't really "cheap". On most of their chips, they cost about as much as a similarly-performing Intel chip. They just don't have anything that competes with Intel's top-end, so Intel goes a bit crazy with the cost since they have no competition.
There's also the matter of production. The primary per-chip cost is in the amount of silicon needed. Since Intel uses smaller transistors (22nm vs 28nm) than GlobalFoundries (who produce AMD's chips), they can make more powerful processors at the same cost, or similarly-performing processors at a lower cost. They could, but the kind-of don't, because they can get away with charging similar prices for similar power, getting more profit from the lower cost. Intel is about to make that gap even wider, because they've started manufacture at 14nm while GlobalFoundries still hasn't spun up their 20nm plant.
As for the processors themselves, both AMD and Intel have two current microarchitectures, which are the general designs of the processor.
Intel has Haswell and Silvermont. Haswell is a very wide core - very powerful per-clock (eight-issue, IIRC). It's pretty power-hungry under load, but it idles extremely well for such a powerful core. Because it's such a big core, they generally don't put too many of them onto a single chip, but with hyper-threading they can run two threads on one core to get much of the benefit of more/smaller cores when needed. They also have a very beefy SIMD unit, which also alleviates some of the weakness in having fewer cores. It's starting to slide into high-end tablets, because if you underclock the hell out of it you get a powerful but power-sipping CPU. It's a very expensive tablet CPU though.
Silvermont is a low-power core (in-order two-issue, IIRC). It's actually comparable in performance to top-end ARM cores like Cyclone. It's mostly aimed at cheap tablets, netbooks and smartphones, but hasn't seen much uptake.
AMD also has two microarchitectures, Steamroller and Jaguar. Steamroller is their main desktop chip. It has a curious design in that it's built not out of "cores" but out of "modules". Each module has two decode/dispatch units, two integer clusters, and one FPU cluster. AMD presents this as two cores, but in SIMD or float-heavy work it acts more like one core. Each integer cluster acts like a four-issue core, so the basic effect is that each AMD "module" is roughly equivalent, clock-for-clock, with an Intel hyperthreaded core. Steamroller is also very power-hungry, despite not being all that powerful. Both under load and at idle, it's going to draw more power than a Haswell chip. Part of it is the 28nm issue (smaller transistors use less power), part is just that they never really designed it for low-power. They use it mainly in desktops because of this.
Jaguar is another weird little beast. It's four-issue out-of-order, making it much more powerful than Silvermont, but it's much weaker than Steamroller (partially because it just can't reach very high clock speeds). It's very efficient, and also a very small core so you can either get a few of them for cheap, or a lot more of them than you'd get with Steamroller or Haswell. In quad-core or dual-core configurations, it's been used in laptops and a few tablets, but the most prominent use is the eight-core configuration powering both the PS4 and Xb1. No ARM chip comes close to touching it right now, except *maybe* Nvidia's Denver microarchitecture.
The last thing to mention is the integrated GPUs. Intel's own design is very weak, and not very well-engineered (they also have a history of using PowerVR cores in mobile chips, which is even worse). AMD takes their video card chip designs and just scales it down to something you can fit on one die with a few CPU cores. They're still constrained heavily by the memory interface (128-bit DDR3 doesn't hold a candle to 256-bit GDDR5), but AMD's iGPUs are far and away better than Intel's.
AMD does have some bright spots coming. K12 is planned to be the most powerful ARM core ever made, and they're planning to replace Steamroller completely with... something new. They re-hired the lead engineer who made their awesome chips in the past, so I'm pretty hopeful they'll get their shit in order. Intel has basically been idling on the performance front - Haswell was more power-efficient than Ivy Bridge, but not really any more powerful.
Is there a way to flip the removable media bit on a flash drive?
I need it to show up as a local disk instead of a removable one.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;46352887]Althrough gigabit ethernet.[/QUOTE]
Then you need to find where the bottleneck is. No reason it should be that slow.
[QUOTE=/B/rother;46350180]i used rubbing alcohol and even though i had some trouble with the push-pins (flimsy plastic shit) it all worked out fine in the end.
now it runs perfectly smooth and i get constant temps of 40-60c :smile:[/QUOTE]
I've just realized that says nail polish... I meant nail polish [B]REMOVER.[/B]
Nail polish does not make a good thermal paste, I'd wager. Please don't try that.
how do i transfer about a quarter terabyte of data from a pc to an old powerpc mac
[QUOTE=WrathOfCat;46366951]how do i transfer about a quarter terabyte of data from a pc to an old powerpc mac[/QUOTE]
Very slowly.
Is there a Chrome extension of where you open a new tab from a page, and you can click back to close the tab and go back to the page you were on?
Sort of like how Android Chrome does it?
Is it possible to make Firefox behave more like Chrome? Right now every link I click on outside of FF just opens it in the current tab which is rather annoying.
[QUOTE=TheJoker;46370756]Is it possible to make Firefox behave more like Chrome? Right now every link I click on outside of FF just opens it in the current tab which is rather annoying.[/QUOTE]
middle click will open in a new tab.
Like I said... every link I click on outside of Firefox (for example Steam)... opens in the current tab that I'm viewing which is annoying and I want it to create a new tab instead.
Example.... Clicking [url]https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly[/url] via the Steam app makes it so that any tab I'm viewing is gone.
[QUOTE=TheJoker;46370928]Like I said... every link I click on outside of Firefox (for example Steam)... opens in the current tab that I'm viewing which is annoying and I want it to create a new tab instead.
Example.... Clicking [url]https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly[/url] via the Steam app makes it so that any tab I'm viewing is gone.[/QUOTE]
weird, if I click links in steam I get a new tab.
my hard drive is almost certainly dying despite being my newest hdd, how should I go about retrieving data for the replacement?
there's nothing absolutely essential, but since it was my 2TB storage drive there's a lot of stuff I'd rather not have to redownload
SMART displayed a couple errors and then completely stopped working, and now it seemingly just disconnects after a while and doesn't appear in the file browser anymore
[QUOTE=TheJoker;46370928]Like I said... every link I click on outside of Firefox (for example Steam)... opens in the current tab that I'm viewing which is annoying and I want it to create a new tab instead.
Example.... Clicking [url]https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly[/url] via the Steam app makes it so that any tab I'm viewing is gone.[/QUOTE]
have you tried all the tab options in firefox options? I have the first four selected and it acts like you want it to
So the speakers of my TV(Toshiba Regza) and PC(2.1 speakers from dell) make some noises from time to time, not sure how to describe it, but it sounds like humming that builds up and then ends abruptly and repeats like 5-10 times and then it stops for a while.
It's not anything like the sound you'd get when you place a mobile phone near them(actually I didn't experienced this for years now). Also my PC speakers got those ferrite rings on them, not sure about the TV though.
Now I'm using a WLAN router, but I doubt that it's EMI since ferrite rings would get rid of that, right? Also my PC is plugged into a different power outlet than the TV, could this be the case?
Edit: Oh forgot that I have another 2.1 speaker(Speedlink Gravity Thunder) setup for the TV, though I usually only turn it on for watching movies. However, with these 2.1 speakers I never experienced the sound and they're plugged into the same outlet as the TV. I also never experienced this with my headphones on the PC.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;46371838]have you tried all the tab options in firefox options? I have the first four selected and it acts like you want it to[/QUOTE]
Yeah. I also messed around with about:config since clicking a image link in FF opened in the current tab instead of a new tab.
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