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HalloKitty posted:If you want to bump it modestly, you literally head into the BIOS, find the setting that turbos all cores under load, and set the turbo multiplier to something like 42. 4.2GHz would be trivial for a 2700K. Keep going if you want to play, by all means, but basically with that, boom, you've upgraded to the CPU you wanted. I have a Coolermaster V8 cooler, so I should be fine. I'll try that today when I get home from work. Factory Factory posted:What on earth is making your chip feel slow anyway? Sometimes a little Norton thing pops up that says "High CPU Usage: Shogun 2" or whatever. Also the chip is apparently bringing my Windows Experience score down by like .2 or something. Yes I know those are probably stupid reasons to want to upgrade. 
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Get rid of Norton. e:f,b I guess I'll add that I've been really impressed how long my CPU has stayed relevant when previously I was upgrading every 2 years. I got my i7 920 a bit after they launched in some amazing microcenter sale where I saved a ton on the cpu and they made it up by charging a ton for the mobo because they knew once I had the cpu I couldn't wait a few days to order something online. I could probably live with it a little longer but Haswell seems a good a time as any to upgrade, and it'll be nice to finally have usb 3.0 ports I guess. davebo fucked around with this message at 17:13 on May 28, 2013 |
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Martello posted:Sometimes a little Norton thing pops up that says "High CPU Usage... That sounds really annoying and unnecessary.
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Bob Morales posted:Are the Atoms being used in laptops/netbooks anymore or just stuff like the Surface RT? [quote=""movax}With both companies having their sights set on ~10" tablets/portables and trying to compete against ARM, we'll be seeing movement towards the power corner vs. raw clocks/performance/etc I think (R&D dollars have almost certainly been targeted more towards thing that can bring down TDP vs. exploring architectures)[/quote"]I still think the tablet game is basically over though without a way for developers to port everything over to x86 quickly. Apple may ironically make x86 mobile rather relevant if they release a solid iOS for x86 tool suite something similar to Rosetta in pursuit of their "iOS ALL THE THINGS" strategy that's highly controversial. The big winning move that could be made with x86 tablets requiring minimal cooperation from the Android / Apple side is if a hypervisor could be started that lets users run iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, etc. on their 10" tablets. That's been awful quiet for a while when I last saw Xen making some moves to do it in 2009 for laptops. ARM virtualization is hardly something at the top of vendors' agendas it seems in favor of baking in user profiles instead while x86 virtualization is basically oldhat now.
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necrobobsledder posted:(I am not a believer that Intel has won from the cloud revolution unlike some writers / visionaries out there). necrobobsledder posted:I still think the tablet game is basically over though without a way for developers to port everything over to x86 quickly. Apple may ironically make x86 mobile rather relevant if they release a solid iOS for x86 tool suite something similar to Rosetta in pursuit of their "iOS ALL THE THINGS" strategy that's highly controversial.
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davebo posted:Get rid of Norton. So Norton isn't the industry leader or whatever? What's a better antivirus program?
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Martello posted:So Norton isn't the industry leader or whatever? What's a better antivirus program?
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I think actually getting a virus would be less obtrusive than running Norton after 1998, but yeah MSE.
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Does quicksync support video decode or is it just encode only? Right now I'm looking into solutions to decode/playback very large files without dropping frames. Stuff thats 3480x4320@24fps. I know display and transmission are another issue and for now we're going to scale the content back to 3480x2160 for 4K TVs over HDMI.
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May 28, 2013 21:30
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QuickSync refers specifically to the transcode engine, but chips with Quicksync support also have both standard decode acceleration and full video engines with color timing/deinterlacing/filters and such. I believe that Ivy Bridge/HD 4000 supports 4K (in the sense of 3840x2160) video. Earlier GPUs don't. Not sure about HD 2500. Not sure about higher-than-that res. What codec are the files in?
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Factory Factory posted:What codec are the files in? They can be whatever. The video files will be generated on my end from source material. For now I'm targetting IO heavy, processing lite. I can only buy so fast a CPU and writing a custom decoder/player is a tough sell. I can always buy fast(er) storage. I'll probably run out of CPU cycles before I run out of disk IO wrt this scenario.
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Might want to ask in the post-production megathread. Question: Can you encode to 4Kx2K res before it's displayed, or does the endpoint have to display the full 4Kx4K video and scale on the fly?
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Factory Factory posted:Might want to ask in the post-production megathread. End goal is to have 4k x 4k decoded and displayed when/if we can get the display hardware which is why I'm not 'demoing' 4k x 2k now although I could just to get things rolling. The reason why its 4x4 is that its actually 2 4x2 frames stacked for stereo. For interlaced stereo displaying, its possible to throw away half the data and pack everything into 4k x 2k but we are also targeting full res for both eyes.
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Ugh criminy. That's kinda bleeding edge. Can you skip frames? H.264 level 5.2 can do 4Kx2K at 48 FPS, and you can skip every other frame for single screens. And H.264 is widely supported for hardware-assisted decode.
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Factory Factory posted:Ugh criminy. That's kinda bleeding edge. Thats interesting, good to know. But how well optimized is level 5.2 hardware decode?
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Oh hell, I don't know. The real issue here is using a codec with DXVA support. H.264 is an excellent target codec because it can very thoroughly hardware-assisted. H.264/MVC also has inbuilt S3D support for your right-eye-left-eye shenanigans. Christ, download a test video and try things out. Here's a YouTube video where "Original" res is 4K. Try playing that on your target platform.
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Shaocaholica posted:Does quicksync support video decode or is it just encode only? Right now I'm looking into solutions to decode/playback very large files without dropping frames. Stuff thats 3480x4320@24fps. I know display and transmission are another issue and for now we're going to scale the content back to 3480x2160 for 4K TVs over HDMI. The real question for me is whether it supports applications I actually have or can have easy access to (Premiere Pro or After Effects CS6, Final Cut Pro X, SlySoft CloneDVD mobile, ffmpeg), not some obscure BS encoder or plugin that costs $10k. Otherwise it's the software equivalent of a paper launch: A nice feature, but you're not likely to get any benefits from it. I guess it depends on how accessible the feature is to compiler builders and whether they are taking advantage of it.
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flavor posted:The real question for me is whether it supports applications I actually have or can have easy access to (Premiere Pro or After Effects CS6, Final Cut Pro X, SlySoft CloneDVD mobile, ffmpeg), not some obscure BS encoder or plugin that costs $10k. I think its available in ffdshow. I saw a check box for it in the latest build.
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New supercomputer in China--27-29 PFlops sustained in Linpack, 48k MICs, presumably a similar number of Xeons. Definite #1 on next Top500 next month, and a huge win for MIC. For reference, the current #1 machine is Titan at Oak Ridge, with ~18k GK110s and AMD processors. Professor Science fucked around with this message at 06:52 on May 30, 2013 |
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Professor Science posted:New supercomputer in China--27-29 PFlops sustained in Linpack, 48k MICs, presumably a similar number of Xeons. So is it using the Xeon Phi?
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Alereon posted:Microsoft Security Essentials is free and doesn't cause performance impact or system problems like other programs do. I used to use MSE, but they've had bad catch rates in tests recently. I've been using Kaspersky, and I'm pretty drat happy with it.
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KillHour posted:I used to use MSE, but they've had bad catch rates in tests recently. I've been using Kaspersky, and I'm pretty drat happy with it. NOD32 is my AV of choice, and uses almost no system resources. Catches pretty much everything my users throw at it.
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There is only acceptable AV products and terrible AV products
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KillHour posted:I used to use MSE, but they've had bad catch rates in tests recently. I've been using Kaspersky, and I'm pretty drat happy with it. Does catch rate really matter to the personal power user? I could see it being a big factor for: 1)A computer illiterate friend or family member 2)A company Why would a power home user(I'm assuming people here) care about an extra few percent for zero day poo poo?
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I used to just run without any AV until I came across AVG and then MSE. Probably not the smartest thing but I still haven't gotten anything.
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For what it's worth: the best pay AV I have used was Nod32, though free I really like Avast!. It's worth trying in addition toAVG and MSE. Not using IE and not pirating poo poo though will take one a very long way.
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Yudo posted:For what it's worth: the best pay AV I have used was Nod32, though free I really like Avast!. It's worth trying in addition toAVG and MSE. Not using IE and not pirating poo poo though will take one a very long way.
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ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE I've had to clean viruses/spyware/malware off at least one computer with every AV package on it you can think of. AVG, MSE, NOD32, Avast!, McAfee, Symantec...every single loving one.
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Bob Morales posted:I've had to clean viruses/spyware/malware off at least one computer with every AV package on it you can think of. AVG, MSE, NOD32, Avast!, McAfee, Symantec...every single loving one.
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I almost recommended Kaspersky for our 100 user environment - it had great server side tools to push out the program, and uninstall our older not-Kaspersky AV silently. Plus the detection & performance rate was good. BUT if you performed a manual scan or if it found a virus, the popup title bar of the scanner was labelled "Luke Filewalker"  crazy loving Russians that's not a corporate product!
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dud root posted:I almost recommended Kaspersky for our 100 user environment - it had great server side tools to push out the program, and uninstall our older not-Kaspersky AV silently. Plus the detection & performance rate was good. BUT if you performed a manual scan or if it found a virus, the popup title bar of the scanner was labelled "Luke Filewalker" You didn't buy it based on that alone? I think it's hilarious.
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dud root posted:I almost recommended Kaspersky for our 100 user environment - it had great server side tools to push out the program, and uninstall our older not-Kaspersky AV silently. Plus the detection & performance rate was good. BUT if you performed a manual scan or if it found a virus, the popup title bar of the scanner was labelled "Luke Filewalker"
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Mr Chips posted:So is it using the Xeon Phi?
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Professor Science posted:yeah, MIC is Xeon Phi. (Larrabee -> MIC -> Xeon Phi, most confusing product evolution ever) I had to think about it for a second, because I initially read MIC as military industrial complex.
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Professor Science posted:yeah, MIC is Xeon Phi. (Larrabee -> MIC -> Xeon Phi, most confusing product evolution ever) I'm still waiting on the commonly accepted pronunciation to settle on fy or fee.
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Microcenter has some nice discounts on Ivy Bridge...$170 for a 3570K, $230 for a 3770K, but if you buy a mobo with them, you can get a P8Z77-V for $130, a Gigabyte for $65 and an ASRock for $60. Almost Haswell time 
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movax posted:Microcenter has some nice discounts on Ivy Bridge...$170 for a 3570K, $230 for a 3770K, but if you buy a mobo with them, you can get a P8Z77-V for $130, a Gigabyte for $65 and an ASRock for $60. Wow I guess thats cheap for a 3770K. I guess 4770K is going to cost at least $100 more than that? I'm itching to build a new rig with a Haswell though :/
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movax posted:Microcenter has some nice discounts on Ivy Bridge...$170 for a 3570K, $230 for a 3770K, but if you buy a mobo with them, you can get a P8Z77-V for $130, a Gigabyte for $65 and an ASRock for $60. Shiiit, and i'm gonna be in a city with a Microcenter tomorrow. My C2Q Q9400 is still chugging along just fine though, it's hard for me to justify spending the money even though I have some free DDR3 lying around. I'm amazed that I've gotten almost five years out of a processor/mobo, recent graphics card and SSD upgrades notwithstanding.
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