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BTGBullseye

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  1. SLI/Crossfire has always had its own slew of problems, not limited to some games/programs not even being capable of utilizing more than 1 GPU. (that effectively makes the SLI/Crossfire setup a complete waste of time and money) The 1050 should be able to handle recording on most older games at maximum settings and 1080p resolutions. If you're wanting to do the same for newer games, I'd say to go for a 1060 or better. The 1050 Ti is in the middle between the 1050 and the 1060 for performance, it has about 5% better performance in benchmarks than the 1050, and the 1060 is about 33% better in addition to having better benchmarks than the best consumer-grade AMD cards. Also, there is usually a discount deal on Newegg for the 1060 that puts it down around $185. (it just tends to rotate between what vendor is doing the deal, but I have yet to see a single day in the past 2 months without a $185 or lower 1060 on Newegg) The main difference between the 1050 and the Ti is the number of Cuda cores. The 1050 has 640, and the Ti has 768. For reference, the 1060 has 1152 cores. Also, overclocking isn't what it used to be. All modern GPUs have a built-in overclocking ability, and they OC on the fly without any user input. (in reality they are all underclocked, and then switch to their full clock speed when they move into 'overclocking' mode)
  2. Nvidia has had native Vulkan support since the 600 series... (it's built into the regular Nvidia drivers) Whoever told you they didn't either doesn't know, or is lying. The 1050 or the 1060 would likely serve you well for the foreseeable future.
  3. Looks like a very decent board... I'd say get it.
  4. https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Z170-H170-H110-B170-Q150-Q170---What-is-the-Difference-635/ If you look at this, those two PCI-e slots on that board have to share 8 lanes. That means you can have a single GPU running at 8x, (depending on the GPU, that may or may not drop its performance) 2 at 4x, (4x will DEFINITELY drop the performance of all but the low-end GPUs) or 1 at 4x and something else using the other PCI-e 4x slot. If you want something that is going to have the ability to go to full PCI-e 16x, or run a GPU and something else, then you need to go for one of the *170 or C23* series chipsets. I personally would recommend grabbing from this list: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007627%20600567584%204814%20600567581%20601106742%20601107015%20601184500%20601189929%20600009017%20600456442%20600530942%20600533615%20601184735 Matter of fact, the first result on the list is almost the same board, just with the better chipset, and it's only $8 more expensive. I'd recommend going just a bit further and grab the Z170 chipset version though; futureproofing. (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157637)
  5. If you're interested, I have a non-paying project for a combination of win32 and Android mobile app with a very specific intention, and I don't currently know either programming language, so I could use some help. (if you're interested, contact me through Steam: BTGbullseye)
  6. Just on the off chance that someone into programming is interested in what can be done with as little as 100 lines of code, or possibly looking for inspiration, this is for you. This is a program my father wrote in 1983 for a computer programming class. It plays bingo, and then lists how many balls were played before a bingo, as well as what the card numbers were for the winning card. It can play as many as 150 cards at a time quite easily. The inventiveness of this program (something his professor has never seen anyone come close to producing before or since) is that it plays the cards in a 3D stack instead of a 2D plane like most people would think to do. By doing this, he was able to reduce the size of the program down from over 1500 lines of code, to exactly 100 lines. If more programmers did this reduction of the program (reducing redundant code) with modern programs, we wouldn't need an 8-core i7 processor with top-of-the-line GPU to do VR or AR gaming at high framerates, or terrabyte drives to hold more than a half dozen games. $JOB WATFIV 1 INTEGER BINGO (4,5,5), CARD, COL, ROW 2 INTEGER ARRAY (10), RANDOM, LAST, SEED /25/ 3 INTEGER CAGE (50), PICK, STEPS (4), /0,0,0,0/ 4 LOGICAL FOUND, DONE 5 DO 13 CARD=1,4 6 DO 12 ROW=1,5 7 DO 10 COL=1,10 8 ARRAY(COL)=COL+((ROW-1)*10) 9 10 CONTINUE 10 LAST=10 11 DO 11 COL=1,5 12 RANDOM=INT(URAND(SEED)*LAST)+1 13 BINGO(CARD,COL,ROW)=ARRAY(RANDOM) 14 ARRAY(RANDOM)=ARRAY(LAST) 15 LAST=LAST-1 16 11 CONTINUE 17 12 CONTINUE 18 BINGO(CARD,3,3)=0 19 13 CONTINUE 20 PRINT 91 21 EXECUTE LISTIT 22 80 DO 40 CARD=1,4 23 DONE=.FALSE. 24 DO 30 PICK=1,50 25 CAGE(PICK)=PICK 26 30 CONTINUE 27 LAST=50 28 WHILE (.NOT.DONE) 29 PICK=INT(URAND(SEED)*LAST)+1 30 EXECUTE MATCH 31 81 CAGE(PICK)=CAGE(LAST) 32 LAST=LAST-1 33 IF (LAST.LT.47) THEN 34 EXECUTE CHECK 35 83 END IF 36 84 FOUND=.FALSE. 37 END WHILE 38 PRINT 90 39 STEPS(CARD)=50-LAST 40 40 CONTINUE 41 EXECUTE LISTIT 42 PRINT 95,(STEPS(L),L=1,4) 43 PRINT 91 44 90 FORMAT('0') 45 91 FORMAT('1') 46 92 FORMAT(4(' B I N G O ')) 47 93 FORMAT(4(' --------------------------')) 48 94 FORMAT(4(6X,'|',1X,I2,1X,'|',1X,I2,1X,'|'1X,I2,1X,'|',1X,I2,1X,'|',1X,I2,1X,'|')) 49 95 FORMAT(4(' BINGO IN ',I2,' STEPS ')) 50 96 STOP 51 REMOTE BLOCK MATCH 52 DO 55 COL=1,5 53 DO 50 ROW=1,5 54 IF (CAGE(PICK).EQ.BINGO(CARD,COL,ROW)) THEN 55 BINGO(CARD,COL,ROW)=0 56 END IF 57 50 CONTINUE 58 55 CONTINUE 59 END BLOCK 60 REMOTE BLOCK CHECK 61 DO 101 ROW=1,5 62 DONE=.TRUE. 63 DO 100 COL=1,5 64 IF (BINGO(CARD,COL,ROW).NE.0) THEN 65 DONE=.FALSE. 66 END IF 67 100 CONTINUE 68 IF (DONE) THEN 69 QUIT3 70 END IF 71 101 CONTINUE 72 DO 111 COL=1,5 73 DONE=.TRUE. 74 DO 110 ROW=1,5 75 IF (BINGO(CARD,COL,ROW).NE.0) THEN 76 DONE=.FALSE. 77 END IF 78 110 CONTINUE 79 IF (DONE) THEN 80 QUIT3 81 END IF 82 111 CONTINUE 83 IF (BINGO(CARD,1,1).EQ.0.AND.BINGO(CARD,2,2).EQ.0.AND.BINGO(CARD,4,4).EQ.0.AND.BINGO(CARD,5,5).EQ.0) THEN 84 DONE=.TRUE. 85 END IF 86 IF (BINGO(CARD,5,1).EQ.0.AND.BINGO(CARD,4,2).EQ.0.AND.BINGO(CARD,2,4).EQ.0.AND.BINGO(CARD,1,5).EQ.0) THEN 87 DONE=.TRUE. 88 END IF 89 END BLOCK 90 REMOTE BLOCK LIST 91 PRINT 92 92 PRINT 90 93 PRINT 93 94 DO 20 COL=1,5 95 PRINT 94,((BINGO(CARD,COL,ROW),ROW=1,5),CARD=1,4) 96 PRINT 93 97 20 CONTINUE 98 PRINT 90 99 END BLOCK 100 END C$END C$ENTRY He did a test run of it for the class he was doing, and it took a total of 0.95 seconds to complete a run and play 4 cards to a bingo. When he first submitted it for grading, it was graded by a TA, and he got a 0. When he showed it to the professor and asked why it was failed, the professor took a closer look, and it resulted in a 100, a perfect A. Here is a scan of the original printout from the class. (it excludes the last page, which is a duplicate of the first page, except the timestamps say "6.56.59") Click to Enlarge
  7. https://hetzel.net/2014-01-29/youtube-videos-will-process-faster-encode-streamable-file-format/ You're using old info if you think YouTube doesn't work with MKV.
  8. Might want to try VBR instead of CBR if you can... It usually drops file sizes significantly. [EDIT] Looks like it also has an MKV format option, which is an objectively better container format than MP4. Too bad it can't do HEVC encoding. (or doesn't seem to want to show the option to on my system)
  9. Despite being on the opposite side of the political spectrum, I like his style. Too bad he's not the typical, or we'd have better political conversations.
  10. Also, if you haven't seen it, this is a good read about the mainstream media, and why they were so significantly wrong about the outcome. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commentary-the-unbearable-smugness-of-the-press-presidential-election-2016/
  11. 28,584,625 for all Republican candidates. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/republican_vote_count.html 27,834,835 for all Democrat candidates. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/democratic_vote_count.html Make sense to me that Trump should be in instead of Clinton.
  12. Trump is the new president elect.
  13. Questions for next time: Have you looked at HEVC for reducing the file size of your backup copies of your videos? Would you consider using it to provide the non-YouTube downloadable videos here on the site?
  14. 13-13-13-35 is 2 cycles (at 2400MHz, about 0.416ms) per operation faster than the 15-15-15-35. http://www.masterslair.com/memory-ram-timings-latency-cas-ras-tcl-trcd-trp-tras Depending on your motherboard, the RAM may default to the fastest it's rated for, or the fastest the motherboard is rated for. If the motherboard has overclocking capability, manually setting it to the default RAM timings and voltage is ideal regardless of everything else.
  15. If you're wanting a relationship, then you need to work to tear down the walls. If you don't really want a relationship, then you don't have to have one, though it tends to make people crotchety when they get old, like one of my grand uncles. I think he had 10 people at his funeral, (not one tear shed among them) and his own sister who was the closest person to him told family members that she "didn't want to bother them" with the fact that he died. (if you don't mind that, then that's your prerogative, and I won't judge)
  16. There aren't any dual mounting brackets that I know of. The don't "roast" per se, but they do run a little hotter than average since the racks are a mostly enclosed area. Even if it wasn't, the 5.25" bays aren't designed to be cooled by the system fans, as they are designed to be an enclosed area. (like a DVD burner, or empty space) The best option at this time for mounting 2 drives in a 5.25" hole is that Rosewill with the cooling fan. If you aren't going to use the drives that much, and are going to use the USB ports, then the Syba is better. Running cooler is better, running less is better, when it comes to HDD/SSD.
  17. Hell is spending an eternity in a room with a duplicate of yourself. It's inevitable that you'll start arguing, then hating each other if you're too similar mentally. There needs to be a moderation between your likes, and hers. Look for someone who likes the 3 or 4 things you like the most, but has other likes that just don't interest you that much. Trying to match the things you DISLIKE is a lot more important, as you'll never go wrong if you both dislike the same things.
  18. Honestly, the build quality of KingWin has historically been extremely lacking. I wouldn't be surprised if it broke on first use. If you don't need the USB ports, (either because you are already using the internal connector on your motherboard, or don't have USB 3.0 on your motherboard's connector) then you might want to get this instead. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817997070&cm_re=5.25_bay-_-17-997-070-_-Product (it also has an integrated cooling fan, which WILL prolong the life of your drives significantly) Syba is a pretty decent manufacturer. Buying the Enermax is going to give you the exact same thing you get with the Syba, so I'd say not to waste the extra money on it. If you really want to have tons of extra storage, you could always go for a 6-bay one... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817198068&cm_re=5.25_bay-_-17-198-068-_-Product Just a reiteration, unless you need those USB ports, (and they're worth the $13 extra to you) I suggest going for the $20 Rosewill docking bay.
  19. https://torrentfreak.com/police-confiscate-hundreds-of-computers-over-piracy-allegations-161024/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29 How about this, police in Poland effectively working for copyright holders instead of the people. Confiscating large numbers of computers that have the loosest possible evidence connecting them to a 'crime', and making arrests while advocating settling out of court.
  20. I suggest looking at this list... http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007583%20%20600545969%2050002177&IsNodeId=1 Look for one from that list that has at least 2 case fans, and you'll be good to go.
  21. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835200057 Rosewill RCX-Z775-LP $13 Interestingly enough, it's also the least expensive low profile cooler on Newegg, with some of the best reviews. That said, Noctua is the top-end for air-coolers. (if you can afford it, it will beat all others in it's category)
  22. Well, I personally am not well versed in all the electronic subgenres, so I can't really help you out with a specific single subgenre, but I can say that it is only partially Trance. If you can find somewhere that lists all the various subgenres, (that'd be a LONG list) with some example music, then I could help you, but I've been unable to find a site that does that. Keep making the music though!
  23. I wouldn't put it fully into the Trance category, but it does have many elements of Trance. Quite interesting.
  24. Personally, I'm much more worried about the state of affairs that Ross discussed in his Deus Ex video, and the corporate controlled and monitored 2016 election, especially in areas such as when the DNC colluded to push Bernie Sanders out of the election, and the actual criminal nature of the leading candidate, Hillary Clinton, along with the sometimes almost outright idiocy of Donald Trump, though I would much rather see him elected to the presidency than Hillary Clinton, as at least he's not completely controlled by the whims of corporations. You realize that you're quoting a post I made over 3 years ago, right?
  25. Honestly, I wouldn't get any augs. There are many reasons, but one of the main ones is the possibility of rejection. (I refuse to have to take drugs just to keep my system from killing me because it doesn't like the augs)
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