What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)

[eran0004]

Modeled Silverstone, using my polygon-based Python course maker tool and a gps path from geocontext profiler.

 

[Grayfox]

Nothing major

Modded the favicons of GTP, Photobucket and a few other sites I use as the black icons clash with the black theme.
So I just inverted the colors.

 

[TB]

Going on the assumption that Tivos are computers, yesterday I set up the new Tivo Bolt downstairs to replace a Series 3 Tivo.

Tonight I pulled the TV off of the wall, velcro'd a Tivo Mini and a 5 port gigabit switch to the back of the TV, got everything connected up (power, HDMI, ethernet) then found out that the plug for the Tivo Mini was too big for the TV to go back on the wall mount. A trip to the hardware store for longer bolts and a pack of washers solved that. A quick test revealed that even with just a 100 meg switch by the Bolt, everything streamed beautifully to the Mini.

The Series 3 Tivo that was downstairs has now been moved into my bedroom to replace a Series 2. The S2 doesn't do HD so I have HD coming in over the antenna, being dumbed down to SD with a converter box, sent to the Tivo to record (and an IR blaster for the Tivo to change channels on the converter box) and then be displayed on an HDTV. Needless to say it looks a lot better going straight from the antenna to an HD capable Tivo then to the TV.

I'm quite pleased with the across the board upgrades.

 

[Punknoodle]

My motherboard kacked itself at Easter so I'm upgrading.

My old system was an Intel Core i5 4670k, Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z87 board, 8Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 1600Mhz DDR3, EVGA GTX780 FTW with an SSD drive.

I'm keeping the case, power supply, cooler, fans, storage and installing an MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon board, Intel Core i5 7600k, 16Gb Corsair Vengeance 2400MHz DDR4 and an EVGA GTX 1080 Superclocked 2.

How much faster should I expect this thing to be?

 

[Grayfox]

My motherboard kacked itself at Easter so I'm upgrading.

My old system was an Intel Core i5 4670k, Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z87 board, 8Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 1600Mhz DDR3, EVGA GTX780 FTW with an SSD drive.

I'm keeping the case, power supply, cooler, fans, storage and installing an MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon board, Intel Core i5 7600k, 16Gb Corsair Vengeance 2400MHz DDR4 and an EVGA GTX 1080 Superclocked 2.

How much faster should I expect this thing to be?

I had a i5 3750K. and a EVGA GTX680SC and now I have a i5 6600K and a GTX1080 both water cooled and 32GB of RAM
30% or so, not fully sure.

But does depend on how much you overclocked your old rig and how much you will overclock this one.
I added 32GB so I can have RAMdisk options for games, encodes and a few other things.

Man in games you just instantly load in.
It is a whole new way to cheat.

 

[Punknoodle]

I had a i5 3750K. and a EVGA GTX680SC and now I have a i5 6600K and a GTX1080 both water cooled and 32GB of RAM
30% or so, not fully sure.

But does depend on how much you overclocked your old rig and how much you will overclock this one.
I added 32GB so I can have RAMdisk options for games, encodes and a few other things.

Man in games you just instantly load in.
It is a whole new way to cheat.

I had the old CPU running at 4.0GHz, GPU was standard FTW clocks. I'm not a big overclocker, so I was very conservative. I'll likely only try out something like 4.5GHz on the 7600k, it seems most find it stable at 4.9GHz though.

As for the GPU clocks, it's factory overclocked so i just leave that as it is. It has the EVGA ipx cooler.

For CPU cooling I have a Corsair H80i water cooler.

As for RAM, heard 2400 ram is ideal. Faster has more latency? I have no idea, just saw that the 7600k only lists 2133 or 2400 as compatible. What's the point in going faster?

I'm not really bothered about pushing things to the limit for ***** and giggles, I just want stable >60fps on my triple screens on iRacing, Assetto and, if it turns out to be good, PCars 2, at Ultra settings. I think if the 1080 can handle ultra @4k it should be good with 5760x1080.

 

[Grayfox]

I had the old CPU running at 4.0GHz, GPU was standard FTW clocks. I'm not a big overclocker, so I was very conservative. I'll likely only try out something like 4.5GHz on the 7600k, it seems most find it stable at 4.9GHz though.

As for RAM, heard 2400 ram is ideal. Faster has more latency? I have no idea, just saw that the 7600k only lists 2133 or 2400 as compatible

I run 3Ghz RAM with my Z170/i5 6600K so you can go higher, but the only real performance is in high end applications.

 

[Saidur_Ali]

My phone started downloading latest security patch, took ages to download such a small update. Still Android 7.0. LG need to up their game.

My bluetooth on my laptop wasn't working so checked for updates. Updated to latest BIOS and Windows 10 version. Still didn't work so updated to latest Intel WiFi drivers and that fixed it. Interestingly, laptop updated quicker than phone but took longer in a way due to probably taking similar time to remove old build through disk cleanup as the update itself.

Decided to turn on Xbox One S and that needed a big OS update too. UI is still a mess IMO. Goat Simulator update size was bigger than FH3 update which surprised me.

 

[JakeMR2]

So I started scripting the basic HTML code that I want to use for the league I'm in, which is Legends of The Streets / Touge GT6. Barely have a start on it. However, I do have concept on my scrap book paper that I used in school.

Still a work in progress, but the whole concept is far from done.

 

[JohnBM01]

I tested out Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) in making a live stream. Except for a few hitches in trying to stop the stream when I really want to, the process turned out pretty well. One of my online creator goals is to make a live stream of some kind. I am still fairly learning before eventually starting my first true live stream. I am using OBS Classic because it's more efficient for me than OBS Studio. However, I am not ruling out possibly using OBS Studio besides OBS Classic. I even went ahead preparing everything from scenes to various graphics for if and when I do join the live stream circuit after years of making YouTube videos. Twitch actually allows you to set up a test stream so you can get an idea of the health of your stream before you consider doing a live stream. It was on Twitch I tested out the live stream feature.

My biggest fear in all of this is that I may start running out of PC memory attempting all of this. I sure have a 320GB external drive and a sometimes fussy 1TB external drive, but I may fear having to downsize a good bit of my content. I am running at my 1080p resolution but trimming it down to 720p in accommodating widescreen formats. I may possibly have to settle for maybe 1024x768 or 800x600 for memory sake. Again- this will all be a new learning experience for me if and when I start doing streams.

 

[JohnBM01]

Overnight, I attempted my first-ever live stream. Previously uncomfortable with OBS Studio, I somehow found a comfort zone that allowed me to make a proper live stream. Now I see why people have preferred OBS Studio over OBS Classic when it comes to streaming. I don't think I will be making too many live gaming streams. However, I will certainly utilize making some basic conversation-driven material in any such live streams I come up with.

As with anything, it was a learning experience since this is something I've never done before. That even included learning how to use both OBS Studio as well as Restream.io. I used Restream to try to put my stream on Twitch and on YouTube. The latter didn't work... initially. I was a good bit disappointed to know the stream didn't feed to YouTube. I was also disappointed I didn't provide links to my streaming sources so people could watch live and interact.

When I checked out my stream on YouTube, I noticed that my video was choppy and laggy though my voice sounded fine. This was especially after I put on the monitor capture. I am not sure if this was only a YouTube deal or not, but this was a rather disappointing thing for me. Something I am going to do is try different video settings. Namely, I realized I had bicubic filter. When I attempt another stream, I will go from bicubic filtering to bilinear filtering. This could be a better option for a faster experience. I even doubled the bitrate I had previously- 1000 to 2000 kbps bitrate. Other than this, I am pleased to attempt live streaming.

 

[Dennisch]

I've swapped my trusty Core2Duo E7300 for a Core2Quad Q9400 in my old PC to prepare it to be an old game machine. Stuff like GTA IV and such. Just need another Graphics card to replace my Radeon in the i5 machine.

 

[Punknoodle]

New parts arrived Installed it all tonight and performed a fresh install of Windows, installed new drivers etc. Didn't get a good chance to test it out unfortunately but the one test I did in Assetto Corsa was unbelievable. Very fast.

 

[Darla Starch]

*stuff I WANT*

Almost the exact same setup I have in the computer I'd build myself if I had the room and the sense to save up enough.

 

[JakeMR2]

So today I installed a GTX 1060 6 GB by EVGA.

The performance of the card is awesome! I can play my old PS2 games at a much higher resolution without sacrificing the good looks of the game. But, now it's time to download some Steam games, wonder if Watch_Dogs 2 is ok for PC, but who knows.

 

[Grayfox]

Tried a few versions of linux on my laptop and killing them before settling on mint, then I killed mint, reinstalled it again.

 

[TB]

I was working on updating all 3 Windows 10 machines in the house only to discover that one of them had both Security Essentials and Defender on it. Apparently it was hanging on from when it was upgraded from 7 to 10. Going into the Control Panel to uninstall SE, it wouldn't let me; it kept telling me I didn't need to install it as I had Defender. A bit of Google action, registry editing and command line execution later, SE is gone and Defender is no longer complaining that "another" AV software is running.

The 2 desktops have the Creators Update installed and the laptop is at 93% installed.

 

[BobK]

The 2 desktops have the Creators Update installed and the laptop is at 93% installed.

My sympathies.

 

[TB]

My sympathies.

All three are running beautifully so feel free to pass your sympathies on to someone else.

 

[Dennisch]

Ghetto usb powered cooling.

I noticed that the Atom runs a bit warm, hovers around 60c under full load. Too much for my liking, and since I had a spare graphics card laying around doing nothing I salvaged the fan, and a couple of those aluminium hedgehogs which I stuck onto the RAM chips.

Result? 43c under full load. Great success.

 

[JohnBM01]

I learned today that Open Broadcaster Studio has its own viewer for video capture devices. So that means I don't have to use some capture card software just to see what I am doing. This helps me to further consider trying to make a possible video or live stream from captured video from my consoles.

 

[Nexus]

I setup my laptop and tablet to act as extra monitors for my desktop using spacedesk. They're connected over the internet so the connection can be a bit laggy at times, but it's still pretty useful.

Don't mind the alignment, I'll sort that out later.

 

[Grayfox]

I setup my laptop and tablet to act as extra monitors for my desktop using spacedesk. They're connected over the internet so the connection can be a bit laggy at times, but it's still pretty useful.

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Don't mind the alignment, I'll sort that out later.

Cant you set them up on LAN so they would be at 10mbps or higher.

 

[Nexus]

Cant you set them up on LAN so they would be at 10mbps or higher.

There's only one ethernet jack in my dorm room, so I can only use one of them on a wired connection.

 

[Grayfox]

There's only one ethernet jack in my dorm room, so I can only use one of them on a wired connection.

LAN also includes WiFi devices.

If it is all connected to the same router it is a lan.
Upstreaming from the main PC and then downstreaming to the others is not efficient

 

[Nexus]

LAN also includes WiFi devices.

If it is all connected to the same router it is a lan.
Upstreaming from the main PC and then downstreaming to the others is not efficient

It's already operating over LAN, but it's still laggy (like in this video).

 

[BobK]

There's only one ethernet jack in my dorm room, so I can only use one of them on a wired connection.

Add a five port switch, they're inexpensive.

 

[TB]

Add a five port switch, they're inexpensive.

Exactly. Monoprice has an 8 port gig switch for $20.

 

[Grayfox]

It's already operating over LAN, but it's still laggy (like in this video).

You did say "Over the Internet" which implies it goes outside the Local Area Network and into the WAN

 

[Grayfox]

Hacked part of my ISPs crap router.
Once I can fully crack the root user password I will go to town on this thing.