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Ah, you mean throw away mainboard, sell CPU and buy completely new board and different CPU. And i'd need a new AIO as well probably, if i don't have the mounting stuff for different sockets somewhere . .
And probably new RAM, because, honestly, buying DDR3 at this point does not seem that smart to me anymore . .
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Stahlseele wrote:Ah, you mean throw away mainboard, sell CPU and buy completely new board and different CPU. And i'd need a new AIO as well probably, if i don't have the mounting stuff for different sockets somewhere . .
And probably new RAM, because, honestly, buying DDR3 at this point does not seem that smart to me anymore . .
At this point, DDR4 provides no performance increase over DDR3.
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hyzmarca wrote:
Stahlseele wrote:Ah, you mean throw away mainboard, sell CPU and buy completely new board and different CPU. And i'd need a new AIO as well probably, if i don't have the mounting stuff for different sockets somewhere . .
And probably new RAM, because, honestly, buying DDR3 at this point does not seem that smart to me anymore . .
At this point, DDR4 provides no performance increase over DDR3.
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Most programs aren't heavily reliant on memory speed and the increase in speed over DDR3 is very minimal. DDR4 is lower power and it can (will, maybe) reach much higher speeds that may make a bigger difference some time down the track.
It was the same when DDR3 was released and there was some time before speeds increased to make it a must buy over DDR2.
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*nods*
right now, most programs and games don't care about how fast the RAM is. just that there is enough. where there is no such thing as enough.
The ONLY thing where RAM SPEED actually makes a difference is if it's shared RAM for an on board GPU.
But i'd be switching to DDR4 for the minimal energy savings and to not be on the phasing out end of DDR3 again.
But i have chosen the ASUS P9X79-E WS as a replacement for my mainboard. it is, despite the rather steep cost of 400 to 500€ still cheaper than new board, new CPU, new RAM and new CPU-Cooler.
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Okay for one thing, any respectable company that makes coolers will let you order backplates for new sockets at a trivial cost, and I don't understand why the fuck you would be factoring in new RAM at all because, again, you already own that shit.

Secondly, I doubt the -E model is worth the extra money, just get the basic model.

And lastly, unless you actually have a reason (you almost assuredly do not) to maintain six physical cores (which is the only conceivable reason to be in socket 2011 in the first place), you should compare that money against i7-6700K and DDR3 motherboard for ~420€, or a i7-4790k plus mobo for less than 400, either of which would firmly emphasize the single-core usage, which is, in high likelyhood, the actual bottleneck on whatever you're using that PC for (spoilers: we all know it is 100% videogames and pornography). After liquidating the Sandy/Ivy Bridge cpu (which one do you even have??), you're ahead on performance and price.
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Oh and by the way, RAM speed absolutely matters on more modest platforms, like i3s and i5s. Considering the magnitude with which GPUs matter more than CPUs for games, that's absolutely a market that people should know and care about.
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CPU: 4820k, overclocked to almost 5GHz. NZXT Kraken X60 AIO Cooler to keep it happy.
i use it for experimenting with different OSes, i have 8x8Gigs of DDR3 RAM in here for work with RAM Disks as well. And of course i do some gaming with this monster too, because it'd be a waste not to.
i took the E-Model because i like E-ATX boards in an E-ATX case.

i work in IT, i do tech support for Vodafone, corporate customers, not home users.

I had my own hosted blackberry server running on here for a bit, right now me and a colleague are trying to wrap our heads around an Inventory Management System.

i have part of a virtual PBX running on this as well . .
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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You may remember me from tirades such as Computers: The solution to and CAUSE of many of todays problems! and Fuck Computers in general, but this one particularly!
Last time i amused you with tales of a broken temperature sensore on the actively cooled southbridge of a Mainboard.
I have, by now, swapped it out for a new board. Works just fine.
Had a buddy look it over before, including a laser thermometer to confirm that the fucking sensor was broken.
Had that buddy help me swap the board as well and gave him the board to do with as he pleases. He built with it and some other random spareparts a new system, had the same problem . . untill a few minutes ago, when the FUCKING SENSOR DECIDED TO FUCKING WORK AGAIN!
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Gotta love dodgy components that work *sometimes*. Makes IT people's lives hell.
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Trying to copy Comics from 35 DVDs.
The discs are, appearantly, years old.
So all of them are basically dead <.<
But SOME of the files still are complete.
Takes hours for one single disc to finish.
Quite annoying busywork x.x
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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I finally finished copying the defective DVDs full of comics.
Took me literally a day to do all in all x.x
Also:
FUCK MAX PATH LENGTH in Windumb! -.-
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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You can address long paths by prefacing them with '\\?\' as long as path components are fewer than 256 characters a piece.

Since you're talking about making a bunch of file dumps I'm gonna assume you butted up against the max length by dropping long directory chains into long destination directories? So you should be able to sort it out fine in powershell.
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Yeah, some of these file dumps seriously went over the limitations.
Probably made on a unix system or something like that.
Seriously. 300+ character path length including file name and extension x.x
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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i am back to complain more about that one computer i set up for windumb10.
i finally figured out, after spending a day in the bios and several different NIC drivers, what stopped me from activating it via WOL.
appearantly, there is, in win10, a function called quick boot.
why a function such as that would interfere with WOL is fucking beyond me <.<
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Alright, so I fix laptops as a side gig, buy em cheap/not working, resell on Craigslist. Most of the time, it's pretty easy money.

Someone gave me a Toshiba M300 for free. Like seriously, a Craigslist random was just like "Here, I'll leave it on my porch step for you, no hard drive." I installed Windows on an external hard drive and booted it from that to test it, and it works. Why did I install Windows to an external hard drive?

This is fucking why.

I have never seen this before, and I hope I never see this again. I need a tiny (~1.5 cm or smaller) SATA Extension Pin, something that I can't even find existing. I don't have any idea why anyone ever designs something like that, but apparently they do.
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It's a vestige of the transitional period when SATA and IDE were contemporaries.

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i have one of those adaptors.
not sure why you are upset.
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Quick boot killed my wifi and usb drivers. It's completely terrible and I'm not sure why they enable it by default.
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it is supposed to be an energy saving thing as far as i understand.
something like really deep sleep that can be booted up automagically for scheduled updates and reboots(yes, stupid i know) for laptops and the such.
it really does not work very well for stationary tower style computers i think.
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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@Eikre; there is no IDE port. Just a SATA port, backset. I've seen...probably 500 laptops doing this over the last few years, and lots of Vista era machines, and lots of machines by Toshiba. It's the only model that has done this. It's dumb design, and that's annoying. Though I do appreciate the link.
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Ikeren, I think I found the connector

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/2522553415 ... noapp=true


Found it

http://www.impactcomputers.com/a000026220.html


Apparently the M300/M300D L310/L310D Satellite models have this trait.
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I'd put in an SSD. Those do not care as much about being shaken around, make no noise/vibrations, use less power and speed up the whole system.
Then simply use a bit of two sided sticky tape to put a bit of wood or lego in there to keep it in place <.<
Yes, it is a botch-job. But a good one!
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Ikeren wrote:@Eikre; there is no IDE port. Just a SATA port, backset. I've seen...probably 500 laptops doing this over the last few years, and lots of Vista era machines, and lots of machines by Toshiba. It's the only model that has done this. It's dumb design, and that's annoying. Though I do appreciate the link.
It comes from a time period where IDE was still common. That laptop is one of dozen of different M30X models, and some of them were built with IDE, where it was common to use a ribbon cable instead of plugging directly into the bus seated on the motherboard. There are also examples of interim designs where the bus was physically compliant with IDE but some of the pins were variable and you could use a shim to employ a SATA drive in that spot. In whichever case, the chassis that your laptop is built around is designed so that the parts remain fungible and they could continue to use it for whichever design made the most sense on successive production runs.

It's only a bug up your asshole this time because the donor didn't give you a complete machine. Could have just as easily been one with a bunch of missing keys and you'd still be procuring proprietary parts.

Stahlseele wrote:I'd put in an SSD. Those do not care as much about being shaken around, make no noise/vibrations, use less power and speed up the whole system.
Then simply use a bit of two sided sticky tape to put a bit of wood or lego in there to keep it in place <.<
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So, LibreOffice is obviously fucking shit. What with it just being the next interation of OpenOffice, which can die in a fire. I would like something for creating web pages, and it needs to meet the following criteria:
  • WYSIWYG: yes I COULD just do it all in Notepad, if I felt like manually typing all the fucking tags then constantly opening it in FF to make sure I formatted it instead of just seeing the changes as I make them.
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  • Works on Ubuntu. Specifically, one easy process to install it and get it working in Ubuntu, I don't want someone telling me to just install four other dependencies and then custom-build a fucking install file.
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