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cowboy elvis posted:AMD for the CPU is certainly an interesting choice. down this path lies regret
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cowboy elvis posted:AMD for the CPU is certainly an interesting choice. The bulldozer architecture was really, really bad, true, but the Zen architecture is pretty kick-rear end, especially with multi-threaded workloads of any kind, at least at its price point. I mean, you could get a 6/12 Intel processor but it's gonna cost you 1000 bucks. Basically, if you're going to play DX12 games, buy an AMD processor, because DX12 can actually deal with spreading computing loads out over all those cores. (Civilization and Rise of the Tomb Raider is noticeably faster on Ryzen than on any i5.) orange juche fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Jun 5, 2017 06:45
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I've got fond memories of the Athlon days
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Phenom II GET ON MY LEVEL Unrelated: cranking the sperg up to eleven.. and then going right past it to twelve. Warning: really spergy, no joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A
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The Athlon days back when they basically turned your computer into a portable space heater and the cpu cooler sounded like very small angry jet engine They were good days
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Some days I miss that old Athlon 64 space heater... And then I remember how often it overheated and shut down.
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Naked Bear posted:Phenom II "but to answer that, we need to talk about parallel universes"
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tastefully arranged labia posted:I've got fond memories of the Athlon days They're coming out with a new CPU in the next month or so called the Ryzen Threadripper. It's basically an enterprise server CPU. 16 cores, 32 threads, QUAD channel DDR4 memory (most midrange CPUs have single or dual channel), 64 PCIe 3.0 channels (the absolute best stuff Intel offers has 44 PCIe 3.0 channels, and it costs $2000+ for the CPU), and it costs less than half of what Intel is selling their Skylake-X chips for.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:I've got fond memories of the Athlon days The final days of the single-core processors were a good time to be an AMD fan. RIP 939.
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Jun 5, 2017 08:14
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Ahem Dirt 4 and wipeout coming out soon. Amazon says June 6th for both? Also Dirt 4 is $40 and has been on amazon with prime for the last week, it's always $48 for the discount, what gives? I thought I read something they were getting rid of the preorder prime discount? Wipeout I'll probably just want in the console
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behold the dumbest round of pubg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F22CYknu6Ww
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tastefully arranged labia posted:I've got fond memories of the Athlon days gently caress Athlon, and its anxiety filled cooler installation process. That poo poo was traumatizing.
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I'll consider AMD if they can string together several years' worth of competitive products. They're recent line up of video cards look great for the money but I remember aggravating incompatibility issues and weird driver behavior for all the previous ATI/AMD cards I've owned. I pay more for Intel and Nvidia but I know that they're going to be well-supported, good products.
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Missionary Positron posted:gently caress Athlon, and its anxiety filled cooler installation process. That poo poo was traumatizing. click click CRUNCH whoops there goes the corner of your core We've all been there. Also using my smallest pair of needlenose pliers to unbend pins that hit the socket. Pinless CPUs were like inventing fire.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:We've all been there. Also using my smallest pair of needlenose pliers to unbend pins that hit the socket. Pinless CPUs were like inventing fire. Frankly, I preffered the pins to the Land Grid Array poo poo, that if you hit it with the corner of the CPU and bent a couple of the array pins, it was hectic hours with a needle to unbend them.  For most of my server hardware, I stick with Intel, but for desktops, I generally use AMD. Granted, my laptop has an i7.
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Was it a video card back in the 90s or CPU that you could unlock the other cores by melting some lead onto the chip?
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tastefully arranged labia posted:click click CRUNCH whoops there goes the corner of your core Even better when you pop the top off the heat shield to seat the sink directly on the die. Pucker factor 9.5, easy. Wasn't it the Opterons that were sold for cheap as unlocked server chips? That was like AMD's moment in the sun before they (and Radeon, Jesus) got brakes beaten off them by Intel/Nvidia.
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Diarrhea Elemental posted:Wasn't it the Opterons that were sold for cheap as unlocked server chips? That was like AMD's moment in the sun before they (and Radeon, Jesus) got brakes beaten off them by Intel/Nvidia. Opterons were always server chips from the beginning. And generally, for the price, they are still the better budget CPU for servers especially if you need high core count for virtualization. cowboy elvis posted:Was it a video card back in the 90s or CPU that you could unlock the other cores by melting some lead onto the chip? The AMD Thunderbird Pencil Mod is what you are thinking of: http://www.ocmelbourne.com/tutorials/PencilTrick/  You also had the AMD Athlon X2s and X3s that could have cores unlocked with the right Motherboard/BIOS combo. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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cowboy elvis posted:Was it a video card back in the 90s or CPU that you could unlock the other cores by melting some lead onto the chip? Again, the Athlon days. More expensive chips that didn't pass QA had bridges knocked out so they could be sold as less expensive models. If you got one of these you could use a pencil to reconnect the bridges and have a slightly defective top of the line chip on the cheap. Diarrhea Elemental posted:Even better when you pop the top off the heat shield to seat the sink directly on the die. Pucker factor 9.5, easy. What heat shields? I'm talking about the days before heat shields. Before I switched to Intel and got my first multicore all the AMDs I bought had an exposed core sitting above the die. So wrenching down that required aftermarket cooler was always tense.
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I think I'm bottlenecking on system performance. I upped to 16 GB of RAM and dropped in a 970 about a year and a half ago. The motherboard and CPU are older- I have an i5 4570. Would it be worth it to swap out the mobo and processor for something newer?
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tastefully arranged labia posted:I think I'm bottlenecking on system performance. I upped to 16 GB of RAM and dropped in a 970 about a year and a half ago. The motherboard and CPU are older- I have an i5 4570. Would it be worth it to swap out the mobo and processor for something newer? You playing CPU-heavy games? Can you see what CPU utilization rate is during gameplay?
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cowboy elvis posted:You playing CPU-heavy games? Can you see what CPU utilization rate is during gameplay? I should probably boot up GRW to see something recent but MGV runs 30-60%. Less optimized games can run higher. I also use this system for work sometimes and that software is heavy data handling and computation.
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Well that processor is going on 4 years old. No harm in upgrading if the money is around for a new cpu/mobo
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Woo, preloading Wipeout. Amazon has codes for $40 if you dislike PSN. A physical copy is $32 on amazon via prime. 22gb btw 9PM tonight PST
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Any of you geeks nostalgic for Mega Man X? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl6U93ZG0FU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7JAjqNXwws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8NfRfDvuI8 http://store.steampowered.com/app/322110 orange juche fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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orange juche posted:Any of you geeks nostalgic for Mega Man X? I have played this game for awhile now in beta and it is really good. The net code was a bit bad but they have been doing continuous work on this. You can set the difficulty to how ever you want. Spikes instant kill? Turn that on or off. Also co-op internet play is great.
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Third World Reggin posted:I have played this game for awhile now in beta and it is really good. The net code was a bit bad but they have been doing continuous work on this. You can set the difficulty to how ever you want. the system requirements are great 
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on the topic of mega man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opADNvgeZYY
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Third World Reggin posted:I have played this game for awhile now in beta and it is really good. The net code was a bit bad but they have been doing continuous work on this. You can set the difficulty to how ever you want. I keep meaning to pick it up because I loving love MM and MMX series games (up to X3). One day soon I'll get after it.
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You may run into problems with offloaders like that but good poo poo overall.
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tastefully arranged labia posted:You may run into problems with offloaders like that but good poo poo overall. I need to tweak it so the trains will go to the leftmost offloader and only use the rightmost one if the left one is already in use. I think i have a clumsy solution if I use the "OR: X Seconds have passed" on the rightmost stop. But in the end I want 2 trains per stop for iron and copper each going to their own mines.
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Holy poo poo the shotguns in Rising Storm 2 are amazing 
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jfc the haru dungeon in persona 5 is a goddamn grind
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Wipeout Pretty much exactly what we should have been expecting, hits all the right spots. Do not expect anything new, it's just Wipeout on the big screen. If you've never played Wipeout, but are trying Omega, you're in for a treat. Once you get the feel down again and  into the music it's dope. I haven't dabbled with anything online yet, but largely seems to be something you'd have to coordinate beforehand. Seems to be one game but the three games campaigns are all separate? Or? Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Jun 6, 2017 |
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Capn Beeb posted:Holy poo poo the shotguns in Rising Storm 2 are amazing The duckbill is pretty laffo. Hip shooting with it works drat good.
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http://gematsu.com/2017/06/mega-man-legacy-collection-2-announced-ps4-xbox-one-pc mega man legacy 2 for ps4/bone/pc 7,8,9, and 10 included two of those sucked hard and 2 are cool i guess
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:http://gematsu.com/2017/06/mega-man-legacy-collection-2-announced-ps4-xbox-one-pc Sweeeet. I don't care if 7 and 8 are the godamn worst. Playing 9 and 10 without streaming is gonna be aces. I have all the roms but playing them on the PS4 is fun. Legacy 1 was a good time.
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Dirt 4 is lovely. The newly revised simulation handling is very cool. You would all be wise to pick up the game. And if the more demanding sim aspects are a deterrent, there's an equally capable and fun gamer handling mode available.
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