You made your slow computer also unstable?

yes

:likecat:

GHz isn't everything, AMD's usage is mostly workstation. Intel zips by on instruction per clock for single thread. I like both :dunno: I plan on using the 1800x in the future.

I'm surprised it can't do 4k, I have a weak 6 core AMD compared to yours and load 4k just fine.

http://images.anandtech.com/old/cpu/...rd/cpu800.jpg?

i never tried was the thing.

Oops...

I would have to wear a brown racing suit for that event.

Also, googling brown racing suit yields interesting results.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f6a8b9b74f.jpg

reminds me of my drive from Sorrento to Positano:

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...6646ae0261.png
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Brain, you made your processor smoke some ganja?

On a more srs note, did it help at all? Or does it just stutter now.

i cant really tell.

So, totally serious for a moment here...

This is what mine looks like:

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...ba06e2097f.png


I built this PC in 2010, and recently maxxed out the RAM at 16 GB. My i5-750 is three years older than your 8320, and wasn't even the hottest thing on the market back when it was new. It Passmarks at less than half of yours, and even scores very slightly lower in single-thread performance (historically Intel's strong suite).

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...fc24b57c5a.png


Right now, I have the following running:

• Chrome, with fifty-one tabs open, many of which contain Java / Silverlight / etc elements.
• Opera, with eleven tabs open, all of which are YouTube.
• AutoCAD 2014, with three drawings open.
• Jasc Paint Shop Pro, with four images open.
• VLC media player, with a big .mkv file paused.
• Oracle VirtualBox, running a virtual Windows 7-64 machine inside with 3GB of RAM committed to it. That machine is running:
  • Chrome, with nine tabs open.
  • uTorrent.
  • PIA.

Memory use is extremely high (this is one thing I wish I could upgrade further, but I'm at the limit on this board:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...afbcd74fc7.png




But CPU load is hovering around just 50% total with none of the cores maxxed out:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...490550526b.png




And my machine is not sluggish or slow.


Something is wronger with your PC than just the weak-sauce processor.





Also, Erat, I might hold off on that AMD buy order. GPUs aren't a large enough portion of the total processor market to negate this, especially since Intel and Nvidia are both growing in the mobile market, where AMD does not play:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...28f8a9da58.png




(puckering sound)

There are some great roads up and down Palomar Mountain near San Diego where the cliff looks a lot like that, except no guard rail. They have to send out the mountain rescue team pretty much daily in the summer to sweep up bits of motorcyclist from the bottom. Combination of awesome roads and a huge Marine Corps base with kids returning home from their first combat deployment, feeling invincible, buying liter bikes, and then learning that they're not.

Shifting back up into 3'rd for a moment...

The Dutch are fucking crazy, and I love it. I visited Groningen briefly about 7 years ago, and I really want to go back.



Seriously, you gotta watch the whole thing. I literally* LOLed at 2:00.

I loled.


I also find myself seriously coveting this Piper Arrow: 1977 PIPER PA-28R-201T Turbo Arrow 3 Aircraft for Sale at FlightPlanet.com


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...dd65d51437.png

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7b265e2ea6.png

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$60k, low airframe hours, recent overhaul, IFR-capable, and it has ALL the nav/comm. Can't help but wonder what's wrong with it at this price...

This happened just down the street from my work. Paine field is where we fly our new planes away. Guy walked away from this.

^ Yeah, I see the problem there. The pilot shouldn't have hit those power lines and then crashed into the ground.

(But seriously, what's all all the drivers changing lanes suddenly? Are they deliberately trying to block access for emergency vehicles?)


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...9e95a236f7.png

I've been a resident of all three West coast states. Here's my impression of the driving culture in each:
California: impatient and competent
Washington: impatient but incompetent
Oregon: patient and incompetent

Given the above traffic scenario, the Californian would have gunned it and driven through the fireball to avoid the traffic. The Oregonian would have gotten out of their car and walked away, and the Washingtonian obviously tries to pull a U-turn, making things 10x worse.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...6eb0fe2b95.jpg

I can attest from personal experience that the above is true.

Unless it was in Oakland, in which case they'd have gotten out and fired a few rounds vaguely in the direction of the crashed airplane, for the inconvenience, before peeling out to head to the next drug transaction.



Unrelated to Oakland and airplanes:

Joe, what is your impression of Chicago traffic?

It reminds me of driving in Brooklyn or Queens, but with a lazy, Midwestern flair. All of the confusion and anger, none of the sense of urgency or purpose.

My morning commute is 2.3 miles, and takes about 20-25 minutes. If it weren't for my back being fucked up, I could literally make it faster on foot.

Sometimes, the light turns green and the car ahead of you just sits there until you lay on the horn.

Sometimes, the light turns red, and the cars crossing the intersection just keeps on going until they feel like stopping.

I see drivers stop and yield to pedestrians who are still 2-3 steps or more away from being in the path of the vehicle nearly every day.

The bus drivers don't give a shit about humanity. They routinely stop a foot or more from the curb, blocking traffic to their left.

WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH ALL OF THESE DIAGONAL ROADS? SIX-WAY INTERSECTIONS DO NOT WORK!

Chicago PD is quite good about setting cones AutoX style (with one at each end laid down on its side to indicate the path you're supposed to take around the obstruction) and yet some people have no idea how to interpret this, and wind up in the berm, causing traffic to come to a halt while they slowly, gingerly back up.

There are many, many speed cameras. Drivers here don't understand that it's OK to drive past them at 30 MPH if the speed limit is 30 MPH. This causes massive tailbacks.

Don't even get me started on evenings when the Cubs are playing a home game. I have to drive past Wrigley Field every night, and lemme tell you, these baseball fans are like New Yorkers on acid, with no sense of self-preservation.



Still, it's better than San Juan, where I first learned to drive (and with a 4MT in my cousin's Tercel, no less.) Things like lane-markings and hard shoulders are considered to be purely aesthetic there (the sidewalk is a perfectly good passing lane, after all), and they never bothered to put up signs at freeway off-ramps indicating which road you're about to exit onto. You just have to know.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...2f716bfeac.png

If you ever decided to wonder up to Detroit, i'd love to show you around. Diagonal roads are the best.
Maybe even buy you a beer.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...5da0096b19.jpg
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