What happened to idontcare?

[notty22]

HI, IDC. Wanted to post, to be counted with those that like to 'read' you And enjoy your presence. I'm finally doing a system upgrade to Haswell, and might try surround monitors with some old gtx 460's for driving games.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

^notty22 sig ^

Lets make sure history never forgets....the name..... 'idontcare' monkey out

 

[Xpage]

Still waiting on TSV and stacked memory. AMD had that back in 2011

http://semiaccurate.com/2011/10/27/amd-far-future-prototype-gpu-pictured/


Though it probably would have cost an arm and a leg to manufacture I am sure some people would have spent $ on it. Most likely HPC people though they don't have that on lockdown like Nvidia did with CUDA

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Even though idc's stuff usually went over my head, he seemed like a great member. Glad he still lurks.

 

[Tristor]

Hey IDC. I just wanted to say thank you for all of your informative research and threads on this forum. You were a primary source of information in my recent escapades into delidding (which went swimmingly well, I might add). I'm glad to see you're still around and happy to hear you are doing well at your new position in Taiwan. There's definitely some of us around during your daytime though, as I am just now waking up myself for overnight work.

Cheers.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Hi folks, a caring forum member happened upon this thread and emailed it my way to get my attention

Thanks for all your many kind words :$:$

I truly have missed the forums, or more specifically I would say I have truly missed my forum friends and the intellectually exciting discussions we held in the past.

But, as some of you mentioned, I'm now located in Taiwan which is exactly 12hrs time difference from the majority of you who live on the east coast of the USA.

I'm not prevented from posting here by technical "golden handcuffs" or any other compulsory requirements; rather, it simply became impractical to squeeze time out of what has been a crazy steep learning curve with acclimating myself and my family to our "chinese immersion" environment.

For the Zhōngwén speakers among you - 你好嗎? - and for the rest of us English speakers (be it first or third language ) - how ya been?

Regarding the present state of most things technology (or the end-consumer products as it were), is it just me or have we micro-iterated ourselves to the point of diminishing returns wherein the impetus for upgrading is practically non-existent?

My latest upgrade was to put a 1TB SSD in my laptop. Yawn.

IMO we need sub-20nm tech across the board (CPU, GPU, Ram, and SSD/Flash) to get things exciting again, we are languishing in these 2X-nm doldrums.

I hope you like it over there. Probably a lot better than Riyadh for overseas work, even if the income is less.

I still envy the technical precision of your experiments, and enjoyed your de-lidding excursions immensely.

You may have mis-diagnosed only one thing. Keeping in mind the economic interests people have in their promotions and arguments, an Innovation Cooling rep responded to my e-mail and thoroughly denounced the idea that diamond paste caused your i7-3770K to "go south." He said they had all sorts of customers using it for direct-die application for years now. Also thought the "copper-migration" idea was -- well -- baloney.

But in any possible sample of events, your experience with that CPU was only one observation of coinciding events, and I do that sort of thing myself too often.

Keep posting, Bro! You can squeeze in five minutes here or there! I know what you mean by a steep learning curve, though.