Computer Forum Chat Thread

[DeltrusDisc]

Remember: Fire has vision that is based on motion like a T-Rex. If you don't move then it can't see you!

lol well, my parents had an electrician come out this morning (good idea) and Mr. Talkative-tech discovered a loose wire.

All is well at the Deltrus Bunker.

[Remilia]

lol well, my parents had an electrician come out this morning (good idea) and Mr. Talkative-tech discovered a loose wire.

All is well at the Deltrus Bunker.

My bunker is switching from hot to cold every other two days! Welcome to Socal.

[apepi]

Like in your room or?

It is getting hot in Louisiana right now, and air conditioning is not working.

[Artorius]

It is getting hot in Louisiana right now, and air conditioning is not working.

26°C would be considered cold here =p

[apepi]

26°C would be considered cold here =p

84f has been the hottest this month, but it is looking to be even hotter year this year than the last. It was not even that cold this year.

[BicycleMafioso]

26°C is high summer and almost unbearably hot.

[Artorius]

26°C is high summer and almost unbearably hot.

28ºC is my winter temperature.

[Alindra]

28ºC is my winter temperature.

If it's 28ºC I'm turning on the AC... and spending a lot of time in the one room it covers. Though, it also depends on humidity.

I had a pair programming exercise where half was in cobol and it was actually pretty fun.

COBOL? Huh, I'm guessing either they have production code in COBOL or they were trying to test you in a (hopefully) unfamiliar language to you?

Broke my laptop this morning falling on my ass on the ice/snow.
Always bring 2.

RIP

[Artorius]

If it's 28ºC I'm turning on the AC... and spending a lot of time in the one room it covers. Though, it also depends on humidity.

It's 23:30 right now

[DeltrusDisc]

What's a good computational testing piece of software that tests both CPU and GPU intensely at the same time? Something that goes a bit longer than 3DMark is really kinda what I'm looking for.

[Remilia]

28ºC is my winter temperature.

Yeah, but you live in hell practically.

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What's a good computational testing piece of software that tests both CPU and GPU intensely at the same time? Something that goes a bit longer than 3DMark is really kinda what I'm looking for.

Just run fur mark and a CPU stress test at the same time. Watch that heat rise. Furmark isn't really good though so whatever >.>

[DeltrusDisc]

Yeah, but you live in hell practically.

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Just run fur mark and a CPU stress test at the same time. Watch that heat rise. Furmark isn't really good though so whatever >.>

I've heard enough horror stories about Furmark, so I'll pass. :P

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Ugh... so this kid at my job made a joke about another employee: who is half-black that accidentally broke out the window in a swinging door (think food service back-of-house to front-of-house swinging door)...

Well, let's just say he made a joke suggesting the kid needs to be on a shock collar... "like they had 'em back in the 1850s!"

There's some things you just don't fucking joke about.

[BicycleMafioso]

Using the Danish weather institute because they are both more accurate and closer than Stockholm. (I live <10min away from Malmö, a place those of you who hang around genOT probably have the wrong idea about, which in turn has the bridge to Denmark.)
This is spring weather. Rather toasty, too.

[DeltrusDisc]

I'm... confused.



That's the speed test for my Samsung 950 Pro NVMe m.2 256GB and instead of getting the 2200MB/s seq reads that Samsung quotes, I'm seeing 415? Slower than one of my SATA SSDs? The hell? And the case is really cool right now, just got finished installing a side fan, it's in the mid-20s Celsius in there atm... As you can see in the temperature monitors. Something's up and I don't like it. I've had this drive for not long at all. Might just reinstall Crystaldisk mark.

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And kids, what did we learn today? To always make sure to put cards in the right PCI-Express lanes!



The drive was installed in the PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot. :-X

Now these are the kinda speeds I'm talkin' about. 8)

[Remilia]

So we made this thing.


For reference...?
https://youtu.be/Kdh6k7XzlV8?t=80

[DeltrusDisc]

So who else is planning on buying a 1080 Ti? Know which aftermarket brand you're going for?

I'll personally, more than likely, be going for the 12+2 phase Gigabyte Auros Extreme edition.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

So who else is planning on buying a 1080 Ti? Know which aftermarket brand you're going for?

I'll personally, more than likely, be going for the 12+2 phase Gigabyte Auros Extreme edition.

I'm waiting for Vega and then I'll buy whichever is best.

[gegalfo]

I'm waiting for Vega and then I'll buy whichever is best.

going with this

[Artorius]

Judging by how huge one of the Vega lineup dies is rumored to be I hope it's at least competitive.

[Alindra]

So we made this thing.


For reference...?
https://youtu.be/Kdh6k7XzlV8?t=80

Hah, that's pretty awesome. I didn't recognize the unit, but I recognized the style. (I don't play SCII.)

Judging by how huge one of the Vega lineup dies is rumored to be I hope it's at least competitive.

While I've used an AMD CPU in the past (Athlon 64, I believe? It was competing the with Pentium IV) I've yet to use an ATI/AMD graphics card. I do hope Vega delivers, though. Like Intel, Nvidia needs competition, ASAP.

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On a different note, I'm trying to figure out the best way to sanitize my phone's screen. My first thought was an alcohol solution, but at least one article said it's not recommended because it could actually damage it. Hrm...

If you're wondering why - let's just say a bird landed a bullseye while I was outside using it. At least it was a small shit (maybe 1/8th the screen?) and it didn't hit any buttons. /sigh