Eh, while that coolermaster EE platform is solid the superflower is insane. Especially the platinum models. I've seen 2200w being pulled from the 1600w unit without a hickup.
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50693022]I wouldn't bother replacing a quality PSU just because the warranty ran out.[/QUOTE]
My thought process was that, I'd rather be safe than sorry, but along with that with my 3770k, mobo and ram, I'd make a second machine to play around with two PC streaming. This CM PSU is the only power supply I have on-hand. I'd be buying another anyways.
[QUOTE=BackSapper;50689011]That just sounds like torture tbqh.[/QUOTE]
i've noticed a lot of designers use a drawing tablet instead of a mouse so i guess it must have benefits?
[QUOTE=Rusty100;50693150]i've noticed a lot of designers use a drawing tablet instead of a mouse so i guess it must have benefits?[/QUOTE]
It's generally more comfortable and you won't get as much strain compared to a mouse. It could potentially feel more natural to you since it's just like using any other writing utensil. If I go to a specific portion of the tablet, my mouse cursor is always at the same spot on the screen so there's more hand eye coordination and memory for that rather than moving the mouse to where it would be all the time. Also it's pretty useful for After Effects when you need to draw masks, etc.
The thing for me is that I came from a Logitech G700s that has a ton of buttons on it. The drawing tablet (at least the one that I am using to test this out) doesn't have as many buttons as it should so all of the keyboard shortcuts I've set to my mouse, I now have to press it on the keyboard or do it the long way with context menus.
If I was using one of the higher end ones with way more buttons and functionality, then it would be closer to a mouse. Those high end tablets also advertise that it has a lot of buttons that you can use to map stuff to and use it as a pointing device. It's targeting people that have been using a basic mouse all along. Of course it would be more useful than a basic mouse. There's more buttons to map stuff to and there's more functionality overall. Now if you compare those high end tablets to a gaming mouse with a bunch of buttons, the differences decrease significantly.
Also you better have more desk space, otherwise it can be hard to really use the tablet properly.
Grandfather gave me an old Pavilion Slimline PC s5123w with a Sempron LE-1250 (single core, multitasking....not possible). He said it was slow, even for him and he just bought a different PC.
I noticed that HP had upgrade options though. You could upgrade it to almost any AM2 chip including the 95W Phenom II's, except they left the Athlon II series off that list. Gambled, bought a cheap Athlon II X4, and it works.
You can actually run more than one program now! Might get a HD 6450 (because the Nvidia 6150 sucks) and use it as an HTPC.
Thanks HP for not being a bag of dicks!
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50692547]Edit: Actually, Evga has an 80+ Titanium Line. Bit more expensive, but worth it for the efficiency for me I think. But it's only down to 850W models. So going from $119 to 199.[/QUOTE]
That efficiency won't pay for itself over the life of the product, unless you have a staggeringly inefficient AC unit that you need to use a large portion of the year. Anything past gold is gold is generally not worth the extra cost unless it's a product that will actually for 100% sure last longer.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;50693243]That efficiency won't pay for itself over the life of the product, unless you have a staggeringly inefficient AC unit that you need to use a large portion of the year. Anything past gold is gold is generally not worth the extra cost unless it's a product that will actually for 100% sure last longer.[/QUOTE]
Yea when I looked at the the stats I realized it went from 90% to 95% for double the cost basically.
But Looking at platinum it's the same price as gold on Amazon, So I'll just go with that. But my concern was with heat, and lowering waste heat in my room.
[QUOTE=Zephyrs;50693243]That efficiency won't pay for itself over the life of the product, unless you have a staggeringly inefficient AC unit that you need to use a large portion of the year. Anything past gold is gold is generally not worth the extra cost unless it's a product that will actually for 100% sure last longer.[/QUOTE]
Only real reason to go with a higher efficiency model outside of certain use cases is if the more efficient model is just on a better platform.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;50690988]Some of the "intelligent" flat-earther responses to things like this are actually pretty interesting. I think the best one I've heard is "the upward acceleration of the Earth combined with speed-of-light delay means that distant objects appear lower to the horizon because the Earth accelerates into the photons".[/QUOTE]
that sounds like fun
i want to go on the photon planet ride
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50693090]My thought process was that, I'd rather be safe than sorry, but along with that with my 3770k, mobo and ram, I'd make a second machine to play around with two PC streaming. This CM PSU is the only power supply I have on-hand. I'd be buying another anyways.[/QUOTE]
Ah, in that case it makes much more sense.
Seems the university backend system is only capable of enrolling people in Moodle courses, not removing them. Now that I dropped a class because the teacher is completely and utterly incompetent I get to watch on the sidelines as people vent their frustrations at the hack job homebrew software they have to use still not working.
Last semester it was a broken piece of shit that barely worked but now there's days of people all saying they can't even make an account to use the thing because he fucked up the login page (retroactively to all older versions that used to work too somehow :ok:) and everyone's email is coming up null.
I have never felt worse for someone else in my life. Kinda considering telling them to strongly consider whether they [I]need[/I] the class because my experiences with a similar class tells me it is not worth it. Every single assignment was extended for weeks because nobody could get the fucking thing to work. Any problem was just "works for me, try again," in one semester we went through like 4 new versions of the thing and they were only ever mentioned in one thread to one person and when people didn't know he acted all shitty about it. The course page had links to [I]3[/I] seperate outdated versions (because I guess putting a redirect in is too much effort), including a link saying it was the latest (4.6), linking to 4.5, and having a plain text link in brackets pointing to 4.4.
All the other lecturers know what they are doing though so that's nice.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;50690798]In somewhat tech illiterate news, someone on my Facebook feed called Pokemon Go stupid and said everyone should go outside instead of playing video games.
:huh:[/QUOTE]
What's the point the servers are down :(
Need to make sure those unconnected ethernet cables are secure.
[t]http://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20160712020341254.png[/t]
I mean if they aren't locked down you might end up with a honeypot situation and nobody wants that.
[t]http://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20160712022639102.png[/t]
I'm very torn right now.
save up and buy [URL="http://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/products/two-way-radios/project-25-radios/portable-radios/apx-7000.html#tabproductinfo"]this[/URL] or save up and buy [URL="https://pcpartpicker.com/user/papkee/saved/zJCfrH"]this[/URL]
both are fun things that replace older things and both are very expensive and I can't make up my mind
Just bought a Acer GN246HL 144hz monitor for 200 CAD to go with my new GTX 1070. Hope it's worth it!
I have never actually seen anything above 60hz, so it'll be interesting. Unfortunately doesn't have displayport, but that's fine with me.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;50690798]In somewhat tech illiterate news, someone on my Facebook feed called Pokemon Go stupid and said everyone should go outside instead of playing video games.
:huh:[/QUOTE]
But what if [url=http://www.jax184.com/adventures/gaming/gaming.html]you went outside [i]with[/i] the video games??[/url]
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50694287]Umm you do realize it'll be useless then right? HDMI has limited bandwidth for refresh rates[/QUOTE]
HDMI 2.0 can do 2160p at 60 Hz so it should be able to do 1080p at 240 Hz?
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50694287]Umm you do realize it'll be useless then right? HDMI has limited bandwidth for refresh rates[/QUOTE]
DVI-DL can handle 1080p 144Hz
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;50694287]Umm you do realize it'll be useless then right? HDMI has limited bandwidth for refresh rates[/QUOTE]
That's what DVI is for.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50693588]
Yay for 16GB of memory.[/QUOTE]
I don't think I can use anything that has less than 16GB of RAM, especially when it comes to video editing. I don't know what eats up more RAM, Chrome or Premiere CC..
[QUOTE=Demache;50694326]That's what DVI is for.[/QUOTE]
I didn't actually know HDMI couldn't handle 144hz! Luckily, I do have DVI-D.
[QUOTE=Te Great Skeeve;50694399]I didn't actually know HDMI couldn't handle 144hz! Luckily, I do have DVI-D.[/QUOTE]
It can with HDMI 2.0. Problem is, most things still only support 1.4, which doesn't, at least, not a decent resolutions.
HDMI 1.4 had stupid artificial refresh limits when the matching DVI standard could do it just fine. Honestly fuck HDMI, so much with it is artificial, proprietary, and limiting.
[QUOTE=Levelog;50694431]HDMI 1.4 had stupid artificial refresh limits when the matching DVI standard could do it just fine. Honestly fuck HDMI, so much with it is artificial, proprietary, and limiting.[/QUOTE]
It's also annoying as fuck to plug in in tight spaces.
[editline]12th July 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=papkee;50694124]I'm very torn right now.
save up and buy [URL="http://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/products/two-way-radios/project-25-radios/portable-radios/apx-7000.html#tabproductinfo"]this[/URL] or save up and buy [URL="https://pcpartpicker.com/user/papkee/saved/zJCfrH"]this[/URL]
both are fun things that replace older things and both are very expensive and I can't make up my mind[/QUOTE]
Why dual 250GB SSDs and not a single?
[QUOTE=papkee;50694124]I'm very torn right now.
save up and buy [URL="http://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/products/two-way-radios/project-25-radios/portable-radios/apx-7000.html#tabproductinfo"]this[/URL] or save up and buy [URL="https://pcpartpicker.com/user/papkee/saved/zJCfrH"]this[/URL]
both are fun things that replace older things and both are very expensive and I can't make up my mind[/QUOTE]
save up and buy both duh
[QUOTE=Levelog;50694431]HDMI 1.4 had stupid artificial refresh limits when the matching DVI standard could do it just fine. Honestly fuck HDMI, so much with it is artificial, proprietary, and limiting.[/QUOTE]
Too bad it's basically on every consumer device. I have yet to see any laptop with HDMI 2.0. Pretty much all of them are stuck with HDMI 1.4 and you kinda need HDMI 2.0 if you want to actually output to a 4K display or TV at a not shitty refresh rate.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;50694566]It's also annoying as fuck to plug in in tight spaces.[/QUOTE]
I honestly don't get this, I can blindly plug in a power cable, DVI, VGA, PS/2, even those fiddly as dicks threaded Coaxial cables
But HDMI just refuses to go in unless I stare at it
[QUOTE=kaze4159;50695040]I honestly don't get this, I can blindly plug in a power cable, DVI, VGA, PS/2, even those fiddly as dicks threaded Coaxial cables
But HDMI just refuses to go in unless I stare at it[/QUOTE]
Then there's usb cables...
[QUOTE=garychencool;50695051]Then there's usb cables...[/QUOTE]
I feel like I'm the only person who plugs USB cables in right like 90%+ of the time.
SCART never really took off here, we went straight from component/composite to HDMI
I've only ever used one device with it, and even then they only gave you a Scart > component cable in the box
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