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atomicthumbs posted:I'm considering upgrading to a new CPU and motherboard because I've run out of PCI Express lanes. But in that case you're not actually upgrading, just sidegrading to a same-generation xeon that failed to make the proper bin and got i7 stamped on its lid instead. Atom on the desktop is p good because it lets you buy $50 motherboards with passively cooled 15W CPUs that make for a perfectly serviceable nas suck my woke dick fucked around with this message at 09:24 on May 1, 2016 |
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maniacdevnull posted:Good, lappy atoms are decent, I have an atom w10 tablet and it's nice and quiet cuz of passive cooling same its actually a very good chip
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The last passive cooled pc I owned was a 486sx, and prior to that would have been an apple iic clone. Passive cooling is loving great, no idea why they moved away from it aside from "more mhz = better than"
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it turns out computers create heat
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my G3 iBook was passively cooled.
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my surface 3 lte is passively cooled
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Bloody posted:it turns out computers create heat seems suspect. no moving parts but it creates heat? really? loving global warming all over again, nice try idiots.
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Bloody posted:it turns out computers create heat they create less heat if you build them well & adjust their performance to your needs
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Bloody posted:it turns out computers create heat They do not.
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computers don't create heat, they just transfer it from the power plant to your bedroom
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Can't wait for the tech bubble to pop. get hosed techcucks
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man i wish i actually understood cpu architecture stuff instead of just white noise posting 'amd make more cores lol'
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its not too hard, cpu moes things around and bitshifts alot more or less
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just read the source to a couple emulators or even the source code to a small CPU that can be run on an FPGA you could also read "understanding digital computers" by Forrest M Mims III, either the 1978 or 1987 edition, which among other things walks through implementing a 4-bit CPU
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and if you want to learn 3d modelling there are some really neat paleolithic cave paintings in the south of france you ought to check out
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Barnacle "Forrest" Jims III
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:and if you want to learn 3d modelling there are some really neat paleolithic cave paintings in the south of france you ought to check out this is a wildly inaccurate metaphor
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just get some sand and an xacto knife
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:and if you want to learn 3d modelling there are some really neat paleolithic cave paintings in the south of france you ought to check out I don't know, I usually find that as I learn more and more about a technology, the more it becomes apparent that all of the press about new advancements being groundbreaking and revolutionary is marketing hype and a lot of ideas are actually pretty old. So, old writings and references are maybe surprisingly often still relevant and not out-of-date. Maybe computer architecture is different--I'm not a computer architecture buff so I don't know for sure--but I'd be shocked if it were. silence_kit fucked around with this message at 15:58 on May 4, 2016 |
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learning how a cpu is made is fine and all, but for the purposes of understanding the tradeoffs between two relatively closely related cpu implementations it is a very very long route to take. also, really, i don't think the information necessary to *really* understand the performance profile tradeoffs in e.g. skylake or twister or such is even at all publically available obsessing over pointless isa details is notably popular, being a part that is actually available for public viewing, but it really is of rather limited actual relevance Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 21:19 on May 4, 2016 |
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ya theres one way to know whats going on inside an intel chip and it is to work at intel
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but unfortunately if you did work at intel you just got fired so lol rip
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Bloody posted:this is a wildly inaccurate metaphor it's not that long ago that the way to create the pretty pictures was: you'd grab a pile of dirt, mix into it your blood sweat and tears, then smear the mixture all over the fixed-function pipeline and hope to be eaten by a grue
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Max Facetime posted:it's not that long ago that the way to create the pretty pictures was: you'd grab a pile of dirt, mix into it your blood sweat and tears, then smear the mixture all over the fixed-function pipeline and hope to be eaten by a grue http://adriansampson.net/blog/opengl.html you always hear that OpenGL is a bit of a clusterfuck but mother of god you actually do runtime communication with strings?
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Max Facetime posted:it's not that long ago that the way to create the pretty pictures was: you'd grab a pile of dirt, mix into it your blood sweat and tears, then smear the mixture all over the fixed-function pipeline and hope to be eaten by a grue oh didnt realize it was a gpu metaphor
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DuckConference posted:http://adriansampson.net/blog/opengl.html there's also the hugely sprawling state machine that you poke with methods that is the driver ... and a complete inability to ever say no to vendor extensions
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Bloody posted:but unfortunately if you did work at intel you just got fired so lol rip what if u worked... at amd
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dragon enthusiast posted:what if u worked... at amd Your last payday was 3 years ago
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Constant Hamprince posted:man i wish i actually understood cpu architecture stuff instead of just white noise posting 'amd make more cores lol' what dont you understand
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JawnV6 posted:what dont you understand why won't amd make more cores??
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cool and good posted:why won't amd make more cores?? they did. in fact, they made too many.
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cool and good posted:why won't amd make more cores?? the bulldozer doubled the cores and kept on driving right through amd's bottom line.
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I think at the time they assumed people would figure out how to use more cores but we did not
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PleasureKevin posted:I think at the time they assumed people would figure out how to use more cores but we did not pretty much everything uses job systems now so software can scale fairly well. the problem is that amd's 8 core space heater chips can barely keep up with an intel i3 when it comes to real-world tasks.
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PleasureKevin posted:I think at the time they assumed people would figure out how to use more cores but we did not
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