Official Computer Talk Thread

[webby]

3+ minutes? I can't remember those days



People still use external drives? Cloud Storage FTW

People shuck the drive out of the external enclosure and use them as internals. There are a billion YouTube videos on the process for various brands.

 

[Flightmaster127]

People shuck the drive out of the external enclosure and use them as internals. There are a billion YouTube videos on the process for various brands.

I did this years ago when the power plug on an external I had stopped working.

 

[webby]

Updated stats on hard drive failure rates from various brands/models
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q2-2018/

 

[bootyluvr]

Updated stats on hard drive failure rates from various brands/models
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q2-2018/

Western Digital > Seagate

 

[webby]

Western Digital > Seagate

Ask me how I feel about wd right now

 

[bootyluvr]

Ask me how I feel about wd right now

I won't. #scared

 

[webby]

nvidia live stream

NVIDIA GeForce Keynote - IGN Live at Gamescom 2018


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG2wVjQUr3c

 

[webby]

 

[webby]

also released a battlefield 5 trailer with the new ray tracing -

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDhidhoHjjI

 

[Br3TT]

pre ordered 4 2080ti's

 

[webby]

I like how they advertised one price on their presentation, but then they had higher pricing for preorders.

 

[bootyluvr]

1080Ti here I come

 

[webby]

1080Ti here I come

only $1028 used

 

[stilletto]

****. I'll hold onto my 1080 FTW for a while.

Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk

 

[Br3TT]

im going to take two of our "old and used" titan xp's when the 2080 ti's show up

 

[Flightmaster127]

I’ll wait to see what the performance reviews look like once they start coming out. I did just buy and water cool a 1080 after all.

 

[bootyluvr]

Yeah never buy things before the reviews come out. Find good reviews. Not ones that people get paid to do..

 

[Br3TT]

i guess that is the beauty of working for my company, we get to buy all the new things and test for ourselves we literally have no budget when it comes to new tech

 

[FooBird]

The IT people at my company...

Hi Foo, you have an old computer. We're replacing your i7-6600U laptop clocked at @2.6 GHz, with 16 GB of RAM to the new machine. The new machine is an i5-7300U at @2.6 GHz, and 8 GB of RAM.
Uh...guys...can I at least get 16 GB of RAM again?

 

[bootyluvr]

Damn! 16GB. You asking for a lot.

We run i5 with 8GB RAM and a 250GB SSD.