SubJeff on 10/12/2012 at 11:39
1. Spells zombie incorrectly.
2. Starts post with a puerile freak out about something he is ignorant of.
3. Thinks ethics committees are akin to The Ministry of Truth, a department from a dystopian novel. Hint: ethics committees exist everywhere, and for good reason.
4. Grudgingly accepts his own twittery.
Conclusion: we got a live one here.
zombe on 10/12/2012 at 15:00
What's your problem?
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
1. Spells zombie incorrectly.
2. Starts post with a puerile freak out about something he is ignorant of.
3. Thinks ethics committees are akin to The Ministry of Truth, a department from a dystopian novel. Hint: ethics committees exist everywhere, and for good reason.
4. Grudgingly accepts his own twittery.
Conclusion: we got a live one here.
1. "zombie" has absolutely nothing to do with "zombe" you ignorant fool (yes, i did not make up "zombe" - it is an actual reference known to many at this side of the globe who are old enough [mainly people in IT]).
2. I disagree. It is cringe-worthy, but as i said - it has its uses. True, perhaps having to endure CCCP long enough has made me too sensitive about such marketing ... which is why i mentioned what it reminds me.
3. Ah, could not remember the actual name of the commission at the time, so it got lost in translation. Anyway it is actually "Tõekomisjon" => lit. "The Commission Of Truth". An no, i do know the difference - stuff just got lost in translation.
4. No idea what you are blabbering here.
Al_B on 10/12/2012 at 15:10
TTLG Experience Index is currently about -2.0 in this thread. Please keep it civil and on subject (which is very little to do with Zombies vs Zombes :))
zombe on 10/12/2012 at 16:14
Actually, my experience with TTLG is that most threads deviate to some odd place at least once - so, +1 to TTLG experience right there :p.
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Anyway, wanted to comment OP GPU yesterday, but it was getting late ... and as the saying goes: tomorrow is also a day. Hm ... now, that is one awkward situation. Oh, well, I'll drop my succinct 2 cents:
GTX 460 1GB is a fine card - as in: it should not be an limiting factor yet, but likely will be after a year or two depending on what 3D applications one uses. Its raw computation power is quite weak (games with complex shaders will suffer the most). Bandwidth on the other hand is fine. I would not bother getting a new one if all my current 3D apps worked fine. All of which is moot if the current GPU has overheating issues.
Speaking of new GPU ... i am not an expert, but have researched quite a bit recently. I am, for technical reasons, biased towards NVIDIA - so, can not comment AMD side sufficiently.
I would recommend Geforce GTX 660 (price/perf sweetspot) ... Ti variant if the price diff is reasonable (I got non Ti variant only because the local price difference was NOT reasonable - whereas the non local providers DID have reasonable price diff). Immho, GK104's are the best there is atm (I got a GK106 tho [GTX 660], which has an really odd die conf).
Best gauge of what you get is here (ignore all 40 nm GPU's):
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_600_Series)
* look for "core config", "Fillrate/Bandwith", GFLOPS ( "core config", A:B:C => A ~ shader processors, B ~ texture sampling, C ~ render target. )
And for comparision for your current card (for some indication of how much your choice is better ... or worse):
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_400_Series)
voodoo47 on 10/12/2012 at 20:44
can't say I like what nvidia did with the memory controller(s) on the 660, but according to the tests, the solution is not causing any anomalies, so whatever works.
hd radeons are not a bad choice either,
unless you need to run the card under linux or use opengl for pro stuff (or so I'm told). currently, they are the best choice in the mainstream/value segment, where nvidia cards are overpriced or outdated. do note that some manufacturers are offering (
http://www.alza.sk/gigabyte-r667d3-2gi-d325696.htm) "trap" cards with large amounts of very slow memory - these are best avoided. most of the hd radeon family cards were designed with the ddr5 memory in mind, and while they are backward compatible with ddr3, the performance will suffer greatly, should the manufacturer decide to use it for whatever (dumb) reason.
SubJeff on 11/12/2012 at 11:56
Well it's in a running - new Primary SSD, an OCZ Vertex 4, with fresh Windows 7 and Windows 8 upgrade.
At the moment all that is installed it AVG, Chrome, Steam and Office.
My Windows experience index is still 7.0 determined by
* CPU - 7.2
* RAM - 7.4
* GFX - 7.8 (both categories)
* HD - 7.0
Ha ha. I think I need to switch some SSD cables.
I'm DLing the Steam games I want to play (12) so not tested everything yet.
With this fresh install, and I like the fresh feeling of it, I want to establish a filing system that works with instead of against Windows. I've always had a bunch of my own folders on the desktop that are actually on the desktop and these are nigh on impossible to find in explorer.
I have 2x250GB SSDs now. The large folders will be Steam, which I want on the primary drive, and Spotify and other audiovisual media.
SubJeff on 11/12/2012 at 16:44
No crashes so far. Gave CoH and Planetside a whirl. Both a lot smoother on the new card.
What to do with the old one?
bikerdude on 11/12/2012 at 19:45
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
* I think I need to switch some SSD cables.
* I want to establish a filing system that works with instead of against Windows.
* I have 2x250GB SSDs now.
* Whats the make/model of you motherboard? if your board has Sata3 ports you will need to upgrade the cables to get the most out of the SSD.
* If you have an old mechanical driver, move pagefile.sys and all the temp folders for windows and all the various applications to that driver as it will cut down on the amounts of writes to the primary SSD drive.
* Good man, in windows 8 TRIM is now supported when you raid two SSD's in RAID-0. This will double you sequential read/writes and make a small/medium improvement to your 4K read/writes (which is where windows spends most of its time etc)
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Both a lot smoother on the new card, what to do with the old one?
* If its out of warranty, pop the coler of and clean and reapply the heatsink paste. Then you can either use the card as a backup, or if you have a spare PCI-E slot use its as the physx old card. And thats pronounced "physics", not "Phizz-X" like some twat reviewers seem to be doing online atm.
SubJeff on 12/12/2012 at 19:24
I'm trying to copy my personal files from the old SSD to the new one (it's fast!).
But I had folders on the desktop in a Rocketdock and the only way to get to them is to search. They aren't under User->Desktop.
Any ideas how to find them?
