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A year and a half ago I've bought a Z270 MB with G4600 to replace the latter with something more powerful later. But prices for top-tier Intel CPUs are getting ridiculous. I guess it's time to move on AM4, because AMD 1X00 + x470 MB will actually cost me less than a decent 7X00 and will last for a longer period of time. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

That's the dual core right?

Overclock that for the ultimate single threaded emulator, at least that's what people bought it for...5ghz+.



For a modern rig, any 6 core ryzen will do.

For a modern rig, any 6 core ryzen will do.

Very sound advice. Lots of people could learn from that.

Recently, I ran into a living example of the shortcoming of the average SSD and usefulness of TB disks: the video I wanted to watch (albeit split into several files) had a size of 256GB!!!

Recently, I ran into a living example of the shortcoming of the average SSD and usefulness of TB disks: the video I wanted to watch (albeit split into several files) had a size of 256GB!!!

Ran into a similar problem when I obtained a copy of the Star Wars 4K77 35mm film scan. Had to delete two VM disk images to make room.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 1 2018, 21:28

Nvidia PhysX will finally be going open source. No more hardware lockdown from now on hopefully.

PhysX is dead tech.

PhysX is dead tech.

Then Nvidia lied.

Nvidia PhysX will finally be going open source. No more hardware lockdown from now on hopefully.

Let me know when they do CUDA
Until then, HW lock is alive and well.

..We never really truly progressed past the 3dfx Glide days, did we?

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 5 2018, 09:10

That's the dual core right?

Overclock that for the ultimate single threaded emulator, at least that's what people bought it for...5ghz+.

Good luck with that, multipliers and stuff are locked on all Intels except the "K" versions. That's another thing that made me hate Intel after 1.5 years of using it (I've been "red" since 2009 before that). Also their habit to make a new socket every fucking six months. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

..We never really truly progressed past the 3dfx Glide days, did we?

We do have Vulkan

Good luck with that, multipliers and stuff are locked on all Intels except the "K" versions. That's another thing that made me hate Intel after 1.5 years of using it (I've been "red" since 2009 before that). Also their habit to make a new socket every fucking six months. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Skylake was very overclockable, and some kabylake ones as well.

You just need an old bios/mobo.

We do have Vulkan

Despite all the hype, a lot of people are yet to adopt it
Also Apple decided to "be a trailblazer" in proprietary vendor-specific API's again, so there's that.
Also Direct3D's still here

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Dec 6 2018, 08:26

RX3080 is rumored to be 15% faster compared to Vega 64 at the half the price & power consumption. Surely the new Navi archi isn't based on the old GCN. Nonetheless, this looks like something RX480 users like me can look forward to in 2019.

You just need an old bios/mobo.

Yeah fucking intel, so much effort to get around their locks on overclocking. Paying extra to be able to overclock technically defeats the purpose of overclocking.

food

Tha last thing I taught about is: "deliding my cpu"

I hate hearing noises that I find weird from my pc, it's so old anything could make me fear the worst now (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Ran UserBenchmark but suddenly the monitor went black (displayed "no signal" before went to sleep) and the GPU's fans whirred like crazy. This always occurred in the middle of the graphics benchmark. Something may be wrong with the GPU. Although, nothing weird ever happened when I play games.

Add: Updated Windows to version 1809, up from the Anniversary update. Then made a clean install of latest Radeon drivers (18.12.1.1). Same result. I hate MSI.

This post has been edited by Super-hujan86: Dec 13 2018, 16:33

This is Disgusting on so many levels.

[www.guru3d.com] Razer SoftMiner uses your GPU to mine cryptocurrency

Yesterday I had a total what the heck moment when I received a message from forum user Angantyr informing me that Razer partnered with a company called "GammaNow", their plans are this, they want you to use their mining software. You mine for it, and Razer keeps the coins.

You, however, would receive points in a loyalty program for some discounts. So let me reiterate, Razer wants you to dig crypto coins in exchange for a discount at the company. Users would use their computers to create digital coins, although they are not allowed to keep them themselves. The project is called Softminer. Users can download a program that uses the hardware of their system to extract cryptocurrency. These are coins that resemble Ethereum coins.

In exchange for the mining, users get Razer Silver. These are not crypto coins themselves, but points that can be exchanged in Razers own webshop. This allows users to receive discounts on new products. It is not clear how many Razer Silver points are worth and how many discount users can get.

Users react surprised at Twitter. According to Razer, consumers can generate 500 Razer Silver credits or more in a day over the SoftMiner app. Unfortunately, 500 credits isn't enough to obtain any gaming hardware from Razer's rewards program. You'll need 51,000 credits to get the vendor's DeathAdder gaming mouse. Razer's Huntsman Elite keyboard, on the other hand, goes for 280,000 credits. Assuming you generated 500 credits a day, that means you'd need to let the Softminer app run for 560 days to obtain the Huntsman Elite keyboard, which retails for $199.

The extraction of crypto coins is known to consume a lot of energy and to wear out hardware faster. Let's hope, that razer won't silently embed the SoftMiner into their hardware application software. What a hideous idea. No, just no.

[www.guru3d.com] Razer SoftMiner uses your GPU to mine cryptocurrency

Let's hope, that razer won't silently embed the SoftMiner into their hardware application software.

Oh yes they will. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) Another reason to not buy Razershit, though.