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File/Streaming Server

So I decided I want a file/streaming server and thought I could ask people for input. The question is two-fold, I need new hardware but also have to decide on the software. General conditions: - Streaming movies to android devices (all running Kit Kat) - so enough power to transcode a single...
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- Oct 10, 2014
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Computer Building
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Mainstream Z75/77 Boards

So the H77 boards allows to increase the multiplier by 4 over maximum turbo? In that case yep I don't see what a Z77 board would buy me.
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- Post #4
- Jun 5, 2013
- Forum: Motherboards
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Mainstream Z75/77 Boards

So since Haswell turned out pretty disappointing for desktop PCs, I've decided to instead go for a nice cheap IB chip now that vendors are getting rid of their old stock. Not even planning to OC more (so no K CPU) apart from increasing the multiplier; good enough performance and quiet is nicer...
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- Jun 4, 2013
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Motherboards
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15" work notebook

The thinkpads look like a good deal. As a programmer I can easily live without the best color reproduction, so that's not a problem. Seems like the T line has all I need and while it's certainly not the same as the old IBM line (if that still existed I wouldn't have to ask what notebook to...
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- Post #4
- Jul 22, 2012
- Forum: Laptops
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15" work notebook

I need a new 15" laptop for work (which basically means programming). Non debatable requirements: 15"; 1920x1080 res Other things. Performance is nice, but not paramount (i.e. some ivy bridge i5 dual core is just fine), I don't need a gamer GPU, size and battery life are always nice but I can...
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- Jul 22, 2012
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Laptops
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Lifespan question on SSD

Several people already estimated the WA for x25 g2 drives on the forum. Personally my 160gb desktop drive got a WA of somewhere around 3 and I was at the upper end of the range there. So yep a WA of 5 seems a reasonable, conservative assumption for any normal client load (and I do run some...
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- Post #11
- Feb 13, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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external hard drive to be used on osx lion, xp, and windows 7 - what format

Not really, I agree with Nothinman write speed for NTFS is abysmal under Linux - at least with the default settings, maybe you can hack some config or whatever. I'd stay away from exFAT because those are certainly the least used drivers of the three and I'd be at least a bit nervous there...
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- Post #8
- Nov 14, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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OCZ is developing junk

I think if we asked the general community here who made more useful posts you or Wendy, the result would be well pretty obvious and you wouldn't like it.
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- Post #90
- Nov 9, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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OCZ is developing junk

Sorry if I miss one side sentence in half a dozen posts full of hyperbole mostly without facts :p So if say a MB chipset turns out to be faulty you will all enlighten us how crappy <whoever manufacterer that sells the most MBs> is, instead of pointing at say Intel? Yep that makes clearly...
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- Post #53
- Nov 7, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Yay. Had my first BSOD with Vertex 3 MI

"Yay I'm running an old firmware with known bugs that are fixed in newer versions and finally got one of those known bugs!" Umn yes congratulations - why exactly is this thread worthy?
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- Post #6
- Nov 7, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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OCZ is developing junk

No, you're just confusing SandForce (because as you'll note all of the above are firmware/controller problems) with OCZ which doesn't make any sense. Every other seller of SF drives has similar problems.. so yes, you irrationally focusing on only one - although the largest - doesn't show you...
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- Post #44
- Nov 7, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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OCZ is developing junk

Considering that the firmware doesn't have much to do with what flash is used, that doesn't make much sense. Case in point: Afaik there's no difference wrt to stability/compatibility between the different fw versions that's available now because of different flash.. b2t: 1k write cycles for...
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- Post #12
- Nov 5, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Short Intel and AMD! ARM servers coming in!!!

Well Intel has said that they bet on netbook/tablet designs when creating the first Atoms (in some of Anands old articles about the first atom I think) and I really don't see how that was a smart move in retrospective. Because quite clearly netbooks are a dying breed and the only successful...
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- Post #75
- Nov 3, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Short Intel and AMD! ARM servers coming in!!!

Well only if you assume everyone has infinite amount of work and cash available to them. Otherwise you have to prioritize your projects based on market projections (especially considering how long it takes to come up with an design and have the finished product ready to sell), i.e. not "What...
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- Post #70
- Nov 3, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Short Intel and AMD! ARM servers coming in!!!

I totally agree there - RISC doesn't say anything about the performance (or even about the size of the ISA). But I think the rest of his post is valid even without postulating that. Increasing performance hardly scales linearly with power increases - out of order execution does cost power...
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- Post #64
- Oct 30, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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64-bit ARM coming

public static BigDecimal compute(String x) { BigDecimal val = new BigDecimal(x); BigDecimal divisor = BigDecimal.ONE.subtract(BigDecimal.ONE.subtract(val)); BigDecimal dividend = val; return divisor.divide(dividend); } System.out.println(compute("0.000000001")); // "1" Guess what the...
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- Post #100
- Oct 28, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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64-bit ARM coming

And clearly to show your vast understanding of numeric algebra.. we go to finite fp representations, because that makes really sense :D And don't you worry, we can do the same for let's say 10^-10? Should be in the neighborhood of 0 good enough: In[3]:= f[x_] := (1 - (1 - x))/x f[10^-10]...
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- Post #92
- Oct 28, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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64-bit ARM coming

He's now mixing scientific notation with finite fp representations (whatever those two have to do with each other), you have to admit his "argument" is getting more and more funny ;) And then his formula is great - because let's see what my computer is producing for it: In[1]:= Limit[(1 - (1...
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- Post #89
- Oct 28, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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64-bit ARM coming

Ups sorry Ok not the best wording, yes. But there's no many to one mapping for base -2. Warren has a proof in his book where he shows that the 2^n bit patterns in a n-bit word uniquely represent all integers in a range. That's not necessarily true for rationals, but that shouldn't matter...
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- Post #70
- Oct 28, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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64-bit ARM coming

Depending on the problem area assuming base 2 isn't that far off actually. And orders of magnitude is most of the time only used to specify a much larger value without qualifying it specifically (because if you need exact values using such a imprecise term isn't the best idea anyhow). Now...
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- Post #62
- Oct 28, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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64-bit ARM coming

You may not be able to imagine it, but the mathematical definition for bases works just fine for -2. Personally base (i - 1) is more interesting though - that allows to specify all complex integers without signs and other irregularities. Since "order of magnitude" isn't really a mathematical...
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- Post #56
- Oct 28, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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64-bit ARM coming

I'm more astonished by how many people think the only possible base that exists is 10. "order of magnitude" without more context is completely useless. Could be base 2, 10, e, -2 - well take your pick. The actual definition (look it up) doesn't define one..
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- Post #53
- Oct 28, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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64-bit ARM coming

Does ARM now include cache and co in their power numbers? If not, well you can certainly add quite a lot to the 2w numbers.. And for servers performance/w is rather more important than just low power consumption - and even if performance/w is identical, space does cost money and who'd want 10...
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- Post #15
- Oct 28, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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64-bit ARM coming

Presumably Edrick didn't mean address space (well current Intel CPUs use what? 48bit? so not completely 64bit either) but register size for some computation. If he was thinking about address space - no idea why we'd need more than 16k PT RAM in the next few decades..
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- Post #4
- Oct 27, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Going SSD on the cheap? RAID-0 two SATA2 SSDs?

How much would a raid0 improve random 4k r/w? Considering that we can't even split such an access (although I assume for a deeper qd we see improvements) I'd wager it'd be more than minimal. So I agree with groberts and Co here: Probably not much difference, considering that you won't get too...
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- Post #8
- Oct 27, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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HDD "crisis" and speculation

Well, if you know where to look, you can get them a good bit cheaper Paying a handful euro more for 2tb disks is hardly a crisis, that's at most a minor inconvenience.
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- Post #16
- Oct 27, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Welcome to the dark ages

You're looking at this from the wrong direction. Does AMD compete with Intel's high end? Well no, but that doesn't mean that Intel doesn't have any competition. Intel's business is SELLING CPUs, just having 90% market share isn't really helpful if nobody is buying new CPUs and that's exactly...
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- Post #10
- Oct 24, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Why have hard drive capacities slowed so much?

Actually they do.. somewhat. They buy (presumably not only though) the HDDs that don't endure the manufacturers QC tests for a dime a dozen, so they're using consumer class hardware - which isn't that surprising considering how much space they need, redundancy and cheap hardware is cheaper than...
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- Post #59
- Oct 23, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Why have hard drive capacities slowed so much?

In both cases the solution he's offering is "Upgrade to a newer version" which isn't that different. Sure MS is demanding money for it, but that's their business and the only solution there seems to be "Give newer versions for free" or "backport all new features to older versions" (which is...
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- Post #56
- Oct 23, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Why have hard drive capacities slowed so much?

Which doesn't change the fact that no linux vendor does support 10 year old distributions either. The only difference is that MS demands payment for their new releases with which you personally have a problem, but that's about it. Also backporting costs money and it's a rather bad business plan...
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- Post #54
- Oct 22, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SandForce Identifies Firmware Bug Causing BSOD Issue, Fix Available Today

Well tell me one company with a better track record at backwards compatibility in general and hardware backcomp in special (not exactly sure what patching has to do with that, any complex software out there gets fixed all the time, linux kernel, java distributions, adobe programs about twice a...
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- Post #32
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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SandForce Identifies Firmware Bug Causing BSOD Issue, Fix Available Today

No, I'm sure there are dozens of small problems in lots of implementations. But know what? There's this little thing called "quality control" - you don't see MS saying "Sorry we follow the spec to the point, sure 80% of all MBs don't work now, but that's not our fault!", no they have...
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- Post #28
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Why have hard drive capacities slowed so much?

As long as I know what is meant by it, I don't care - seems like useless nitpicking. Also give me 720p every day over 1080i..
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- Post #43
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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The AMD FX-4100

Hmm I don't know much about Sparc, but it seems it still has one integer pipeline just 2 ALUs which isn't that special considering that Intel has 3 ALUs, AMD used to have 3 now has 2 (which probably also factors in to the bad single threaded performance) - nobody so far has used that for "core...
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- Post #44
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The AMD FX-4100

Hmm, the definition for core I'm used to would be: Frontend, integer (and for the last decade fp) pipeline, scheduler and backend. A module duplicates some parts of this, but by far not all. I agree that it's nearer to one than two cores, but calling it just one core undersells it a bit imho.
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- Post #38
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Why have hard drive capacities slowed so much?

So I can get support for UEFI boots from Redhat or some other linux vendor for a 10year old distribution? That'd be quite surprising (but who knows, I haven't looked it up) - or don't we have to apply the same standards to all?
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- Post #38
- Oct 20, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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i5 or X6 for programming (no gaming). Please suggest

There are extremely large differences depending on WHAT exactly you do. The conventional compilation process is rather easy to multithread and can for large projects take care of 6 cores or more. Now if you're using LTCG and its variants in other compilers it looks quite different: The linking...
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- Post #16
- Oct 16, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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ARM vs. Intel vs. AMD

I don't see how you come to that conclusion - especially after "ARM CPUs make lots of sense in tablets" is the FIRST sentence of the thing you quote. No the point is, that all the talk about ARM being superior to x86 in power consumption completely ignores the performance of the compared CPUs...
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- Post #31
- Oct 14, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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What would you choose 1090T or Bulldozer?

Because the 1090T is cheaper and performs better in basically any single-threaded applications currently out and can even best BD in several multi-threaded apps (eg games for one, but there are enough other examples) Now obviously if you run only one of those apps that run fine under BD - go...
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- Post #37
- Oct 12, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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ARM vs. Intel vs. AMD

Yep it's not as if MS completely focused on tablets for Windows 8, something where the current low power, low performance ARM designs do actually make sense. The simple fact is, that performance scaling increases power quite a bit and so far we haven't seen any ARM CPU anywhere in the same...
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- Post #10
- Oct 12, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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