Recent content by SmokeRngs

It depends on your banking institution. Every time I want to make a purchase from GoG I have to contact my credit union. They will decline the charge every single time unless I do so. It doesn't matter if I try to do a straight charge or if I use Paypal. At one time they didn't decline Paypal...

There are multiple reasons for these CPUs. The platform is mature, stable, low cost and popular. It's likely cheap for motherboard makers to continue to make the motherboards which will make them happy. The yields on the CPUs themselves have to be very high at this point in the product's...

It's not even about buying new boats. The freighters are massive for a reason; it's a hell of a lot cheaper to operate a huge freighter bringing stuff across the ocean than it is running multiple smaller freighters.

Same here. And I felt dirty.

Not really. This is the only way the thread could have gone. At least up until your post. The TV and projector stuff is definitely way out there. The OP had a good run with the system in question but it's well past the point of replacement for gaming and any upgrade would be "too much" for the...

About the total points for this year. Keep in mind that Ramanujan Machine has probably the lowest points of any project in BOINC. At least the lowest of any I've ever done. Also, only one event was GPU and it was short. The amount of points put out this year is quite astounding since GPUs were...

And we seem to be doing it with fewer people each year. I have to wonder where we'd be if the mainpage was still up. And as pututu says, it's time for a break. My hardware and the electric bill is going to get a break for several months until the fall. The Pentathlon is my last gasp before...

It doesn't matter. MS stopped supporting it years ago. They refused to backport important kernel changes and scheduler updates despite the fact the two OSes are practically identical under the hood. All the while backporting any additional spying. There is no point in AMD trying to support it...

What would be the point of AMD supporting it? MS stopped supporting it in a meaningful way years ago when 11 was released.

Less than a day to go. Time to drop any and all bunkers and hope most of the Milkyway tasks validate before the Pentathlon ends.

I'll happily accept help from the undead as well as long as they have CPUs and GPUs to add. Warm bodies aren't necessary in my opinion.

I know at least some implementations of the BIOS flashback require that the CPU not even be present in the system otherwise it won't activate/work in the first place.

Except for a very, very early BIOS the board shipped with, he's never had a problem with the system. That said, the Tomahawk hasn't been any "better" than the Gigabyte board I have and at least when I need to go into the BIOS to do something on my Gigabyte I can find what I need really fast...

I basically swore off Asus boards back in the Athlon days. I had an A7V-133, A7V-266a and an A7N8x-DLX. A buddy who usually built/upgraded the same time as me also had the exact same boards in his system. Every single one of them died within months. The system would either shut down when turned...

I was only asking because I figured most or all bunkers had already been dropped and at the time we were about 600k under the previous throw but that number would likely shrink throughout the day but possibly not by enough. As it is we've overshot the previous throw already so what I had would...