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The undead do not drink coffee, they only desire BRAAIIINNNNSSSSS! ***** NECRO THREAD ******
- DaveSimmons
- Post #27
- Dec 2, 2018
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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10 of 30 new RX470 Asus Mining 4GB cards dead in just 2-5 days

Perhaps they will offer a replacement BIOS on one of those "2 TB" USB flash drives for $20? ;) Fake cards with who-knows-what GPU and RAM sounds plausible.
- DaveSimmons
- Post #16
- Nov 27, 2018
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Today I learned that Mark Twain's writing is too complex for modern students.

I agree. I find Twain easy to read but I've read thousands of other books. For a new reader having a modern translation makes sense since Twain intentionally gave Huck an uneducated and roundabout way of thinking and speaking. The alternative would be for each page to have a quarter-page of...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #15
- Nov 27, 2018
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Best Tablets in various price ranges?

Yes, no SD card slot and very high cost for extra storage kept me from considering apple. I wanted to be able to fit my 100 GB of MP3s on the tablet for listening without streaming.
- DaveSimmons
- Post #11
- Nov 27, 2018
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Is 8gb enough ram for general non-gaming use

I'm nearsighted myself. I picked a 1080p so that I wouldn't need to scale up text so much to make it legible. With QHD at native resolution, the size of text and user interface elements like buttons will be half as tall, half as wide and four times as hard to read. Moving up to a 27" will...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #10
- Nov 27, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Is 8gb enough ram for general non-gaming use

I just got the Acer R271 27" IPS 1080p which is currently $150 at Amazon and am happy with the image quality. The control buttons take some getting used to since they are context-based. You press one of them then look at the bottom-right of the display to see what each button does in the...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #8
- Nov 27, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Best Tablets in various price ranges?

I was shopping for a 10" tablet in the $100 - $500 range earlier this year, and after reading a bunch of website and owner reviews I picked up the Lenovo Tab 4 - 10" version from Amazon (currently $180 new). I've been using it for several months as an ebook reader, browser (including Seattle...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #9
- Nov 26, 2018
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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The GOG & Steam Sale Thread

Hmm, it's been too long and I've completely forgotten the first mission. It's a mix of landscape destruction, vehicular mayhem, gunfire, and using your parachute. That doesn't really change. I had a lot of fun until I got stuck at the mission where you need to stop a missile from reaching its...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #217
- Nov 23, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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I lost my Dragon Age Origins game

It might be in your Documents > My Games folder, but if it's years old you might have upgraded your video card or display since then.
- DaveSimmons
- Post #9
- Nov 22, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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The GOG & Steam Sale Thread

I'm replaying Fallout 4 myself, this time with the unofficial fixes and We Are The Minutemen mods. Meanwhile my backlog keeps growing, and I just picked up the Xbox Fallout 76 bundle (despite Fallout 76 being ... Fallout 76) since I wanted a 4K Ultra blu-ray player anyway and hey free Crackdown 1!
- DaveSimmons
- Post #207
- Nov 22, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Migrate Windows 10 to new SSD

I've used the Samsung software on Windows 10 and 7 several times without any problems. I just used a USB adapter to attach the new Samsung SSD to the PC, ran the Magician cloning software inside Windows, shut down, installed the new drive in place of the old one, done. Why? I didn't need to...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #12
- Nov 21, 2018
- Forum: Windows
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Wow. Bitcoin is almost $1,500

I've been in the Tulip Mania camp since day one, so I'm (Grumpy Cat) "good." Digital beanie babies have no value, unlike our "fiat currency" which is backed by land, courts, armies, nukes, and armies of tax collectors. Some of the tech might be useful (though often blockchain press releases...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #2,139
- Nov 20, 2018
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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PS/2 KB+Mouse Y-cable (2 x PS/2 to 1 x PS/2) for motherboards with 2-color single PS/2 port?

I could just buy one or two and try them, but it would be nice to know I'm not throwing away money. The motherboard manuals I've looked at don't discuss using a Y-cable, they assume you only want to attach one device. In my case the PS/2 cable is from an old KVM switch. I'm using those PS/2...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #3
- Nov 19, 2018
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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PS/2 KB+Mouse Y-cable (2 x PS/2 to 1 x PS/2) for motherboards with 2-color single PS/2 port?

Many motherboards, especially gamer-oriented ones, still include a single PS/2 port with it colored purple + green to indicate it supports both keyboards and mice. Of the several I've owned, none included a Y-cable for if you want to use both. Has anyone had luck using a Y-cable, and can you...
- DaveSimmons
- Thread
- Nov 17, 2018
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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So... Will a Chromebook Suit My Needs?

> download .mp3 Depending on what you mean by that, maybe. Streaming services will work. > Can basically anything I run on an android phone be put on a Chromebook and used? Some (not all!) chromebook models can run many android applications. If you're in the US, you can probably get an...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #2
- Nov 16, 2018
- Forum: Laptops
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PCI-E or SATA III SSD?

For many tasks there is little or no difference in speed. Think of the SATA as 10 times as good as a mechanical platter drive, PCI-E as maybe 12 times as good. If the price difference matters to you, you will be very happy with the slightly slower SATA SSD.
- DaveSimmons
- Post #9
- Nov 16, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Anyone here working as a courier?

It's a rough life as a courier in New Vegas. I was paid to deliver a package once and some hep cat in a Dean Martin suit shot me in the head. Later on I returned the favor.
- DaveSimmons
- Post #6
- Nov 13, 2018
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Trump hostage demand: gimme $5 billion or I shut down government!

It's probably the lame excuse he'll use, if he bothers to excuse making Americans pay for it at all. "We're going to be reimbursed by Mexico for the full $5 billion, right after I provide full evidence of those "5 million fraudulent votes" that I claim won Hillary the popular election."
- DaveSimmons
- Post #11
- Nov 12, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
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Trump hostage demand: gimme $5 billion or I shut down government!

He promised America the border wall would be free. Shocker: he lied. Now he's stamping his feet and demanding $5 billion in ransom money or he'll hold his signature until his face turns blue...
- DaveSimmons
- Thread
- Nov 12, 2018
- Replies: 28
- Forum: Politics and News
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Witcher 1 combat is terribad!

... and most of us got left behind, stuck in the ooze :)
- DaveSimmons
- Post #27
- Nov 12, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Sony STRDH590 5.2 receiver, 4K HDR, $179

Price drop on this receiver at Amazon, Best Buy, and Crutchfield.com to $178-179.99. Comparable receivers from Denon, Onkyo and Yamaha are $229 - $299. - 4 x HDMI with 4K support and HDCP 2.2, optical and coax digital in, stereo analog in. - Bluetooth - Night mode It does not have network or...
- DaveSimmons
- Thread
- Nov 8, 2018
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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PSA - Seasonic has announced $5-20 price increase in US starting Dec

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13567/seasonic-increases-msrps-of-psus-in-the-us Thinking about getting a new Seasonic (love my Titanium 650 watt)? Save a little cash by buying now instead of in December. Also from the AnandTech link above, other brands too: "One other thing to keep in mind...
- DaveSimmons
- Thread
- Nov 7, 2018
- Replies: 16
- Forum: Power Supplies
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If a flat tax (at ~35%) with all other deductions removed was proposed, would you vote for it?

False dilemma. The only choices are not 0% and 80%. Also, Trump's father engaged in massive tax fraud by undervaluing the properties transferred to Trump, and by forgiving no-interest loans without paying gift taxes. That was fraud, so that 0% does not even apply. Anyone can pay 0% taxes if...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #41
- Nov 7, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
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[ZDNet] Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

I haven't investigated contention or data retention for any of the shared resources, and perhaps they are all safely shared. But perhaps not, some clever researcher might find a leak via timing changes, or a sequence of operations exposing a flaw in the data sharing. Or something entirely new...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #51
- Nov 7, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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If a flat tax (at ~35%) with all other deductions removed was proposed, would you vote for it?

"Actual take-home profit" is harder than it sounds. There are immediate expenses like rent and wages, then a thousand "loopholes" that sometimes are not loopholes at all. Depreciation for example, because equipment wears out over time and loses any resale value. Many "loopholes" were added...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #35
- Nov 7, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
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If a flat tax (at ~35%) with all other deductions removed was proposed, would you vote for it?

No deductions? What about for businesses? Company A has $1 million in income, but it cost $900,000 in expenses to earn that income. It pays $350,000 in taxes and now has lost $250,000 for the year. It shuts down and all employees are out of work. Success!
- DaveSimmons
- Post #23
- Nov 7, 2018
- Forum: Politics and News
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[ZDNet] Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/microarchitectures/bulldozer "Bulldozer shared one 4-pipe FPU, one L1 I-cache, one set of branch-prediction hardware, one 4-way instruction decoder, and the L2 unified cache between a pair of cores, referred to by AMD as a module. In the FX-8100 series CPUs...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #49
- Nov 7, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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No DST complaint thread?

I'm not a morning person. Not having to get up an hour early is much better than having that blazing orb thing in the sky. Electric light is your friend!
- DaveSimmons
- Post #15
- Nov 6, 2018
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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The Intel Atom Thread

You, in comparing Atom to Core. Intel needed Atom to run x86 and x64 code not ARM code.
- DaveSimmons
- Post #5,097
- Nov 5, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[ZDNet] Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/microarchitectures/bulldozer If anything, CMT probably allows for its own more serious set of exploits because with it parts of the CPU are shared between multiple cores. Anything shared opens the door to information leaks. With it, you have to make sure the...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #45
- Nov 5, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[ZDNet] Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

CMT (cluster-based multithreading) is AMD marketing BS for a cluster of CPUs. (And Hyperthreading is intel's marketing BS for SMT :) .) I think you mean SMT = simultaneous multithreading = 2 threads running on one core. Is AMDs SMT safer? Not known. The researchers only developed the...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #43
- Nov 4, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The Intel Atom Thread

Depending on the motherboard, current and recent older Atoms support either 8 GB or 16 GB which is plenty for the use cases for a lower-speed and often passively cooled CPU. If you want to do heavy RAM-intensive processing using 32+ GB then you want a stronger CPU.
- DaveSimmons
- Post #5,091
- Nov 4, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Witcher 1 combat is terribad!

I'm waiting until after the first patch or two to the New California prequel mod before playing New Vegas again.
- DaveSimmons
- Post #13
- Nov 4, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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Witcher 1 combat is terribad!

I was hoping I could endure it on easy mode, but I don't think I can. I'm pushing forward for now. On the easiest mode the fact that half the time I trigger a swing it does nothing is OK so far since I don't take much damage. I wouldn't say no to an insta-kill mod so I can experience the...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #11
- Nov 4, 2018
- Forum: PC Games
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[ZDNet] Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

That's my understanding as well. Cloud services like AWS allocate resources by real cores not thread/virtual cores so my guess is they are already safe. I don't know whether typical VPS software keeps the VPSs on separate cores or not. If not, that is what needs to be fixed. Cheap shared web...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #39
- Nov 4, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[ZDNet] Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

I don't think they expect the assembly code written for those 2 CPUs to "just work" on anything else. Notice that they don't claim it works or does not work on any other intel CPU families either? " Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake chips and Ubuntu, worked by sending one logical core a steady...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #33
- Nov 3, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Witcher 1 combat is terribad!

All this talk of playing old Elder Scrolls games made me give Witcher 1 another try. I was in chapter ..3... ? with the swamp area when I wandered away from playing the first time years ago. I just finished the intro / tutorial and combat is even worse than I remembered, it makes me long for...
- DaveSimmons
- Thread
- Nov 3, 2018
- Replies: 28
- Forum: PC Games
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[ZDNet] Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

They have more than that, it's an educated guess by people much more educated on the subject than you and me. They think that it can be made to work on AMD and possibly anything else with SMT because it does not depend on speculative execution or on an intel-specific implementation of SMT...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #28
- Nov 3, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The Intel Atom Thread

That article says they may do it so they can use their own manufacturing capacity for more profitable i5-i9 CPUs, because the demand is so high. How is that a bad sign? ("We need to hire someone else so we make even more money! Oh no, too much money!")
- DaveSimmons
- Post #5,084
- Nov 3, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[ZDNet] Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

The Finnish researchers said they couldn't afford to buy a Ryzen setup to test. Many academics do not have million-dollar research grants. Associate professors without tenure get paid peanuts and can barely pay their bills...
- DaveSimmons
- Post #26
- Nov 3, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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