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Volmarias posted:As a youth trying to play half-life mods on my PC, whose graphics card was like the size of a large postage stamp, I put ice in a cup inside the tower and pointed a fan at it. This was the peak of thermal cooling when your toolkit was Whatever's Laying Around, gently caress, What Can I Even Use Here. The russians used winter.
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Wild EEPROM posted:....................../´¯/) sick
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Wild EEPROM posted:....................../´¯/) looks even better in the reply window 
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polyester concept posted:one time the northbridge heatsink on my mobo just completely fell off by itself while i was gaming and i had to call around every computer store in the city to see if they had ~arctic alumina~ which was like arctic silver, except also an adhesive, because there was nothing else physically holding the heatsink in place northbridge fans lol I remember replacing one with a passive heatsink but then there was no clearance for the graphics card so I had to cut a load of the fins off and hope that the air being drawn through the GPU would pull some over the sink
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I saw a test in some pc magazine where all of the thermal compounds were within like 5% of each other's performance. They did one test with mayonnaise and it was only about 25% worse than the best thermal compound. It's all snake oil. Put on whatever, just apply it correctly. 
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:northbridge fans lol
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wtf kind of ryzen do you have with no onboard memory controller?
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The Leck posted:I stupidly did my last computer upgrade in the time when northbridge fans were coming back, so I have a slightly older mb that doesn't support the newer ryzens, but also doesn't have a horrible tiny fan. hopefully it will last as long as my 2500k did and i won't have to worry about it it hasnt failed me yet, but i was annoyed to learn that my x570 board had a lil fan and the downmarket b550 boards dont lol
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the fan noise on my pc was annoying the hell out of me. I took it apart to clean it. it was actually pretty clean, the thermal paste was just gone from between the cpu die and cooler. I guess modern cpu can be pretty hard on thermal paste due to how fast and frequently they can cycle between hot and cold.
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echinopsis posted:
tbf this looks exactly like a "I did this and immediately realised and thought what an idiot, then took a picture to post"
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this poo poo
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skipping back a bit, but:DamnGlitch posted:ClarisWorks, then AppleWorks also, intentionally hamstrung processors in performas also also, apple’s attempt at a walled garden internet, was it just called GlobalVillage or am I misremembering the modem name as also being the service?
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nurrwick posted:also also, apple’s attempt at a walled garden internet, was it just called GlobalVillage or am I misremembering the modem name as also being the service? 
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nurrwick posted:also also, apple’s attempt at a walled garden internet, was it just called GlobalVillage or am I misremembering the modem name as also being the service? the modem was global village, the service was eWorld and apple licensed AOL’s tech stack to operate it
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Sagebrush posted:i wish arduinos had a sine wave generator though. or hell an entire fm synthesis module. some of the kids really get fascinated by the idea of making music and it's kind of a bummer that they can only do square waves and a single channel is Arduino still 5V-compatible? if so you could hang an AY-3-8910 or equivalent (like an AY-3-8913) off the parallel I/O and use that plus a tiny bit of analog for audio output—and it’ll also demo how to interface with parallel hardware eschaton fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Dec 29, 2022 |
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force feedback joysticks it was totally awesome playing games like independence war and feeling the stick pulse when firing weapons or kick around when the ship started getting beat up, or mechwarrior 3 and feeling the stick rock back and forth with the mech's footsteps. not a whole lot of games put in force feedback stuff, and nobody would ever bother with that poo poo now, but i'm glad there was a time when it was cool
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related: that one ps/ps2 game where the guy on screen told you to put the controller on the floor and then he MOVED IT WITH HIS MIND
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people don't do force feedback anymore because there's a troll in san jose squatting on all the patents. most of them should be expiring pretty soon, though, so here's hoping
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Sagebrush posted:people don't do force feedback anymore because there's a troll in san jose squatting on all the patents. sony dropped it from the early ps3 controllers because of these dipshits lol surprisingly, my old sixaxis from my ps3 bought in 2007 still works. the battery in that thing is 15+ years old and still works just fine CainFortea posted:remember having to deal with IRQ conflicts? i never had a problem with this (sound card on irq 7 forever) The_Franz fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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Jonny 290 posted:related: that one ps/ps2 game where the guy on screen told you to put the controller on the floor and then he MOVED IT WITH HIS MIND metal gear solid, psycho mantis. my all time favorite video game.
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nudgenudgetilt posted:don't most high end steering wheels do force feedback? even the low and medium end ones do wheels are just gigantic controller thumb sticks without force feedback
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force feedback is table stakes for wheels, yeah. i'm guessing that licensing fees from fanatec et. al. for wheels are orders of magnitude more than what the patent troll gets from shaking down anyone who wants to build a force feedback stick.
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Sagebrush posted:people don't do force feedback anymore because there's a troll in san jose squatting on all the patents. loving patent trolls scum of the loving earth
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CainFortea posted:remember having to deal with IRQ conflicts? I had all these custom autoexec.bat and config.sys set up for different games, and a bunch of other .bat scripts to change it back to dad's work setup after I finished gaming. DOS with mouse and SoundBlaster was a chore. looking at YOU, Wing Commander 
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FMguru posted:several decades later i can report to you with full assurance that printers continue to suck rear end to use and maintain From several pages back, but when I worked as a teacher our district had a support contract for three full time service techs who would just go to different schools every day fixing the printers. Airplane gremlins are of course superstitious nonsense, but printer gremlins are 100% real. It’s the only way to explain why, even when paper and staple cartridges had been loaded into the hoopers completely straight, 100 copies into a print run some piece of copy paper will have been randomly turned sideways by the printer and then the whole thing would jam as 200 pieces of paper would get jammed into every gear inside. There was always some poor first year teacher who would wait until the morning-of to print copies of a test only to find out the whole thing was jammed. We also had a district employee responsible full-time for fixing broken chromebooks. He and the printer techs must have done some very bad stuff in a previous life. Edit: speaking of printers, the PS3 (and maybe the 4/5?) has network printer drivers. Used it to print out some of my GT6 photomode pictures. Pulcinella fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Dec 30, 2022 |
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