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Ah. As you can tell, I'm not a coffee drinker so I'm rather ignorant. Thanks
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feedmegin posted:No need to do even that much, really, just disable them in firmware. Most people don't have the nous to re-flash their cards with hacked firmware, after all (plus firmware tends to be signed these days). A lot cheaper than adding an additional physical process step. Flashing a modded firmware in this age is trivial for the average person who buys a high-end card and/or is capable of using Google, mostly because it's been idiot-proof ever since the invention of dual-BIOS switches, so there's absolutely no way Nvidia would ever put a 970 into the wild if someone could make it a 980, or near-980, as they'd rather you just buy a 980 instead, probably for the same reason certain Quadro driver updates have gone out of their way to gently caress with Geforce-to-Quadro mods AMD is historically the place to go when you feel like playing the unlock lottery in the name of savings, since they tend to be an even split between laser-disabled and BIOS-disabled cores or features, depending on the model and what was rebranded, with the most recent being the ability to potentially-unlock 4096 working cores on a regular Fury, or at least 3840 or 3776 (I got 4096  ). The average GPU BIOS isn't signed either, and weird dump methods cutting half of the image off or weird UEFI implementations were the only hurdles to get modern card mods to where they are today
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Not GPU related, but I find some nice meth or crack to provide the pick me up that I need either to get motivated for work or for CS
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the last few posts or so posted:CAFFEINE FOR THE CAFFEINE GOD :gamers:
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xthetenth posted:Just mainline jet fuel.
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Captain Yossarian posted:Not GPU related, but I find some nice meth or crack to provide the pick me up that I need either to get motivated for work or for CS
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PerrineClostermann posted:I had a double shot of espresso and was stuck on a toilet for a day. The hell are you people? My standard daily coffee is an 8 shot jumbo takeaway. I don't have toilet issues.
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I bought a SodaStream specifically so I could make 1L bottles of basically knockoff RedBull to take to work with me. It's probably saved me $1,000 in the last two years.
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DrDork posted:I bought a SodaStream specifically so I could make 1L bottles of basically knockoff RedBull to take to work with me. Same, but for tonic water. Unfortunately most grocery stores have stopped carrying the tonic mix... The official cylinders are super expensive, you don't save much if anything using the official supplies. But you can get an adapter that you can hook up to a paintball tank. If you're concerned about contaminants, fire-supply places have high-quality stuff (but you may have to supply a filling station that fits their system). Something got hosed up with my unit when I moved - now when I screw on the tank it starts venting through the burst disc for some reason. I don't think it's overfilled, you'd think if that was the case it would vent even when the pin on the adapter isn't depressed. Not sure 
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Agreed that you don't save much if all you do is make cola and such, but RedBull/Monster/etc go for about $2/can. At $15 for a 60L refill, and $7 for a 9L syrup bottle, it works out to about $1/L, or 50c/16oz (Monster) or 25c/8oz (RedBull), so the savings are pretty significant.
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DrDork posted:Agreed that you don't save much if all you do is make cola and such, but RedBull/Monster/etc go for about $2/can. At $15 for a 60L refill, and $7 for a 9L syrup bottle, it works out to about $1/L, or 50c/16oz (Monster) or 25c/8oz (RedBull), so the savings are pretty significant. You need to take a good hard look in your (oversized) mirror before buying a 9L syrup bottle. Can we please go back to talking about GPUs?
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DrDork posted:Agreed that you don't save much if all you do is make cola and such, but RedBull/Monster/etc go for about $2/can. At $15 for a 60L refill, and $7 for a 9L syrup bottle, it works out to about $1/L, or 50c/16oz (Monster) or 25c/8oz (RedBull), so the savings are pretty significant.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Yeah, the only way anyone is ever dying of a caffeine overdose is if they do it intentionally by ingesting pure caffeine powder, which people have done, thinking it'd give them an extra 'jolt.' It's one of those things that's not illegal to buy, mostly because it keeps websites like The Darwin Awards in business. But they sell pure caffeine powder in the form of 200mg tablets on Amazon. I have a bottle. It's fine. 200mg of caffeine is roughly 1 mug of coffee. I drink at least 2 mugs of coffee every morning when I get to work in a 10 minute time span so that's 400mg right there. And you can bet that's not the only coffee I drink a day. Caffeine is classified as toxic by the FDA at dosages over something ridiculous like 10g. To put that into perspective that's like 50 cups of coffee or I dunno 75+ shots of espresso.
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I get my massive dose of caffeine exclusively through 18 cups of black coffee, energy drinks and anything remotely syrupy/sugary tastes like poison to me.
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GPU Megat[H]read - enthusiast barista discussion zone
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You think we give a gently caress about how our coffee tastes? We just want the most caffiene in the cheapest possible price! 
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How much energy is in a can of Monster, and can it power a 980ti?
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:You think we give a gently caress about how our coffee tastes? We just want the most caffiene in the cheapest possible price! On the contrary, I have very exacting standards when it comes to coffee. There are very few places I would ever buy coffee from.
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Setzer Gabbiani posted:Flashing a modded firmware in this age is trivial for the average person who buys a high-end card and/or is capable of using Google, mostly because it's been idiot-proof ever since the invention of dual-BIOS switches, so there's absolutely no way Nvidia would ever put a 970 into the wild if someone could make it a 980, or near-980, as they'd rather you just buy a 980 instead, probably for the same reason certain Quadro driver updates have gone out of their way to gently caress with Geforce-to-Quadro mods Dual-BIOS switches on GPUS? I'm talking about flashing the graphics card's firmware not the motherboard. Not to mention the actual 'this card has this features' bit could be (probably is, since different devices have different PCI device IDs) encoded somewhere non-flashable on the card; combine that with signed firmware and it's not nearly as trivial as you might think. And yes, signed firmware is coming - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc5ODA
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The secret to coffee is to buy green coffee beans then place them into your R9 290 reference fan, which will roast and grind them in one step.
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Apr 3, 2016 17:24
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I want some god drat coffee now
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I often read this thread when I'm sipping my coffee in hipster cafes.
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PerrineClostermann posted:How much energy is in a can of Monster, and can it power a 980ti? Apparently, a can of Monster contains about 200 kilocalories, or 836,800 joules. All sugar, I assume. I'm not sure exactly how much the 980 Ti draws but 400W seems like a good conservative number to make sure we're not overselling our can of Monster, which comes out to 35 minutes of high energy gaming.
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:You think we give a gently caress about how our coffee tastes? We just want the most caffiene in the cheapest possible price! Benchmarks are showing that last half cup of coffee isn't as good as the other three and a half though.
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feedmegin posted:Dual-BIOS switches on GPUS? Yeah on GPUs. iirc there was time people were flashing 6950 bios' to 6970 bios, because the cards were almost completely identical.
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Kramjacks posted:Yeah on GPUs. iirc there was time people were flashing 6950 bios' to 6970 bios, because the cards were almost completely identical. Same for 290s to 390s.
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HMS Boromir posted:Apparently, a can of Monster contains about 200 kilocalories, or 836,800 joules. All sugar, I assume. I'm not sure exactly how much the 980 Ti draws but 400W seems like a good conservative number to make sure we're not overselling our can of Monster, which comes out to 35 minutes of high energy gaming. So if I buy a case of Monster.... Hmm...
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Speaking of Nvidia, what's this I'm hearing about drivers bricking cards? I thought Nvidia was supposed to be the company with the *good* driver team?
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Speaking of Nvidia, what's this I'm hearing about drivers bricking cards? I thought Nvidia was supposed to be the company with the *good* driver team? Both sides produce equally terrible drivers. The internet is just an echo-chamber of anecdotes and people defending their purchases. From what I've read some people are speculating it's being caused by Nvidia trying to hack in async compute at the driver/software level since their hardware doesn't fully support it like AMD. But again, who really knows.
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SwissArmyDruid posted:Speaking of Nvidia, what's this I'm hearing about drivers bricking cards? I thought Nvidia was supposed to be the company with the *good* driver team?
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The latest info is that there were no bricked cards, just black screens and artifacts. I believe the offending driver (364.47) was quickly replaced by a version (364.51) that didn't have the problem.
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That was my experience with it as well. Happened twice then a new driver stopped it
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feedmegin posted:Dual-BIOS switches on GPUS? I'm talking about flashing the graphics card's firmware not the motherboard. Not to mention the actual 'this card has this features' bit could be (probably is, since different devices have different PCI device IDs) encoded somewhere non-flashable on the card; combine that with signed firmware and it's not nearly as trivial as you might think. And yes, signed firmware is coming - Yup, welcome to 2010. 
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Alereon posted:Probably just idiots making too much of coincidences, there's not really a way for drivers to damage the hardware. The closest that has ever happened is a driver screwing up fan control and causing overheating, but the card would throttle or shut down before damage was done. But new technology does seem to provide exciting new possibilities. In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System
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Reading a thread about the Acer refurb monitors - some people are speculating it's an insurance scam to destroy faulty units and get the shipping companies to pay for them.  Wouldn't be surprised, multiple people are reporting having to try several times before getting one that's not destroyed in shipping. They're apparently not packing them very well - two guys report having to try three times, one guy had to try 4. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Apr 3, 2016 |
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Hahahahaha I kind of hope that's true just for the sleaze Although FedEx does not play after a point
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Is there some goldrush for a specific Acer monitor going on right now?
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Paul MaudDib posted:Yup, welcome to 2010. Those boost buttons on any given XXXTREME gamer card (usually Sapphire) are also just a glorified switch that happens to have an LED, it just switches to a BIOS that has a higher voltage or clocks, and is one of many reasons why a handful of 7900 owners/miners fried themselves a high-performance 2D-only card
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Alereon posted:Probably just idiots making too much of coincidences, there's not really a way for drivers to damage the hardware. The closest that has ever happened is a driver screwing up fan control and causing overheating, but the card would throttle or shut down before damage was done. Maybe if it overvolted it hard. Paul MaudDib posted:Reading a thread about the Acer refurb monitors - some people are speculating it's an insurance scam to destroy faulty units and get the shipping companies to pay for them. My XR341ck came in just fine, but the front trim was flapping around. Box was plenty good for the trip though and the screen was basically immaculate.
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