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- Chesterfield, MI
Upgraded from a Radeon HD 5850 1gb to a Radeon HD 6950 2gb.
What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)
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BobK
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Currently running Memtest86+ on my new machine. I was messing around with RAM clock speed last night, set the speed to 2200 MHz from the default 1333 (it's Kingston 2400 MHz) and it seems to be working. Can't figure out how to get it to work at 2400.
Takes a while to test 32GB though.
Takes a while to test 32GB though.
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- Birzai
i brought my computer threw airport security, bringing it to EU, they almost took my PS4 away 
i have the 7850 2 GB works really well! how is the 6950?
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- Chesterfield, MI
Haven't had much time to play around with it yet, but from what I'm reading it isn't a significant upgrade over my 5850. But considering how slow the rest of my computer is, I'll take what I can get.
My system originally had a pair of Quadro FX 3500's in non-SLI, then I switch to a single Radeon HD 4770, then the 5850, now I'm up to this 6950.
I'm running these on a Dual Xeon 5160 on an Intel 5000 chipset. So the motherboard is my major bottleneck (USB2, SATA2, PCIe 1.1).
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- Birzai
Well, you are getting up there, if your tower is big enough, i recommend slowly upgrading, or save up, and build a monster! i currently have a macbook pro, i7, and intel hd graphics 4000, which i use for programming, and work, and for gaming i built a decent computer.
Specs for gaming PC: Runs games very well! and very good budget
Motherboard: ASRock Extreme 4 Z77
GPU: Asus Radeon HD 7850 2GB
CPU: Intel i5-3570k 3.4 Ghz
HD: 1 TB
RAM: 8 GB
Case: Fractal design R4
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- Chesterfield, MI
Honestly, it runs good enough for what I need right now. I don't have any problems running the few games I have right now. I'd rather spend what little spending money I have on my other hobbies, mainly guns.
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- Birzai
Ahh, nice hobby, shooting is great!
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- neema_t
I started off today trying to get the Adafruit PiTFT working with my Raspberry Pi with mixed success; it works (I haven't gotten around to activating the touchscreen yet though), but I can't work out how to make the Pi launch the terminal on the TFT at boot; I can make it active at boot, but as soon as the booting finishes it switches to HDMI and displays the desktop. I can't be bothered to work it out now though so I may just wipe it and use the prepared image they have.
Anyway, the huge pain in the arse that is setting up my Pi so I can actually use it to do things got me thinking about OS X's terminal again so I could maybe SSH into the Pi instead of take my keyboard and mouse, unplug a network adaptor from somewhere, unplug my PS3, find an iPhone charger, find a micro USB cable... But anyway, long story short I'm now installing Ruby, Rails, Brew and who knows what else and I have no idea why, I saw a tutorial and thought 'yeah, I'll have that!', so.
In the meantime, I've zeroed and formatted the hard drive in my Mac Pro and I'm currently installing Snow Leopard updates, then Mavericks and then OS X Server for my Dad so he can take it to his office. I'll be sad to lose my Xeon workstation but a) I've hardly used it since getting out of graphic design, b) no man needs two desktops and two laptops (I'm writing this on my MacBook Air, and I have a 2006 MacBook behind me being used as an iTunes home sharing server) and c) it'll make it easier to justify upgrading my PC's CPU if I don't have my Xeon to hand any more, I guess. Not that I need that much power any more, but it was nice to know it was there... So maybe I will treat myself to an i7 at some point after all.
Anyway, the huge pain in the arse that is setting up my Pi so I can actually use it to do things got me thinking about OS X's terminal again so I could maybe SSH into the Pi instead of take my keyboard and mouse, unplug a network adaptor from somewhere, unplug my PS3, find an iPhone charger, find a micro USB cable... But anyway, long story short I'm now installing Ruby, Rails, Brew and who knows what else and I have no idea why, I saw a tutorial and thought 'yeah, I'll have that!', so.
In the meantime, I've zeroed and formatted the hard drive in my Mac Pro and I'm currently installing Snow Leopard updates, then Mavericks and then OS X Server for my Dad so he can take it to his office. I'll be sad to lose my Xeon workstation but a) I've hardly used it since getting out of graphic design, b) no man needs two desktops and two laptops (I'm writing this on my MacBook Air, and I have a 2006 MacBook behind me being used as an iTunes home sharing server) and c) it'll make it easier to justify upgrading my PC's CPU if I don't have my Xeon to hand any more, I guess. Not that I need that much power any more, but it was nice to know it was there... So maybe I will treat myself to an i7 at some point after all.
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I pulled the faceplate off of the phone jack next to my desktop. I was very happy when I found out that they did indeed use Cat 5e for the phone lines so after a trip to the store and $5 in parts, I now have my computer hard wired to my router. I'm very much hoping that will help with streaming video to the PS3 as I was getting ridiculous buffering issues over wireless.
I'm contemplating rewiring the phone jack by the TV so I don't have to use a wireless bridge for the other PS3 and TiVo anymore, either.
I'm contemplating rewiring the phone jack by the TV so I don't have to use a wireless bridge for the other PS3 and TiVo anymore, either.
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- neema_t
I have just SSH'd into my Raspberry Pi. It's probably the simplest thing you can do but I feel so accomplished, I've also been cding and lsing all of the things as I've been learning a bit about the OS X and Raspbian (and maybe all of Linux? I know nothing about Linux) command line interfaces. I have no idea what I'm going to use this for yet but I'm glad that it's a thing I can do. Maybe I'll make a camera.
Edit: Wow! So not only can I SSH to use the command line of the Pi directly (which is slick enough), I can also access the files and the GUI with Bonjour on my Mac. That is too 'cool'. I just wish I had an application in mind...
Edit: Wow! So not only can I SSH to use the command line of the Pi directly (which is slick enough), I can also access the files and the GUI with Bonjour on my Mac. That is too 'cool'. I just wish I had an application in mind...
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I did something similar last night. After getting my PC hardwired to the network, I was pinging IPs to make sure it could see devices. I then opened up the Network list and saw the TX-NR616. My receiver for the theater room and apparently I can make basic network changes to it (static IP, etc.).
I've tossed around the idea of buying a Pi but as I have no idea what to do with it, I haven't justified the purchase. Yet...
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- neema_t
A few uses I've considered include emulator/MAME machine, AirPlay client, XBMC/OpenELEC client/server, portable camera, sound-triggered network camera for monitoring what my dog gets up to when no one is watching... I have used it as a USB server in the past which was really useful back before I found a good game streaming solution; I could stream the video and audio to my TV and use the Pi to connect my controller to the PC remotely, but then Steam home streaming became a thing. Today is the first day I've used it for more than ten minutes and it's actually really fun to tinker with even though
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- neema_t
Yesterday I gave my PC an extremely thorough cleaning, I even unscrewed the fans in my GPU's cooler to get at the dust behind them. It feels good knowing the cooling surfaces and fans are no longer caked in dust...
Today I've discovered X forwarding with X11 so I can now SSH into my Pi and control the desktop remotely without VNC, which is nice because it reduces the load on the Pi but also kind of pointless as I've been using it almost exclusively with the CLI rather than GUI. Still, a good thing to have, especially for remote camera applications... Only I've also gotten the Adafruit camera program to work with Dropbox so there's not really any need to store the images locally anyway.
Today I've discovered X forwarding with X11 so I can now SSH into my Pi and control the desktop remotely without VNC, which is nice because it reduces the load on the Pi but also kind of pointless as I've been using it almost exclusively with the CLI rather than GUI. Still, a good thing to have, especially for remote camera applications... Only I've also gotten the Adafruit camera program to work with Dropbox so there's not really any need to store the images locally anyway.
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- neema_t
- 856
- Chesterfield, MI
Fixed, upgraded, and installed an Apple time capsule for my parents.
boiltheocean
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- Samoa
Installed the Yosemite public beta earlier. Risky move as I only have this Mac and I need it to work at Silverstone this weekend, still everything appears to be working well. I did have to upgrade to the beta version of one app and I have a couple of others throwing up errors at login, however when checked out they operate fine.
Not had much time to play with it yet but it seems quite nice.
Not had much time to play with it yet but it seems quite nice.
BobK
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BobK
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- Massachusetts, USA
I'm afraid I can't help you much in that area, since I'm not really into games. As I mentioned, RealFlight requires it but it's hardly inexpensive ($200 ballpark guess). Microsoft Flight Simulator X (aka FSX) requires DirectX 9 but I don't recall if it comes with it or not; you can find that for twenty five dollars or so. One of its three install disks does have DirectX 9 on it, however.
I'd think it's likely that someone can pop in here and suggest a better alternative. Hope so, anyway.
